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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., April 12, 1945 Cap' s Caprice It Says Here By Don Capobianco By Harvey Buck The resolution found on the third page of make but a slight dent in the numberof six Time! Nothing more wondrous, After the college's first spring re- nothing so little understood, nothing this issue of the Gold Bug voices the attitude to twelve million unemployed anticipated af- oasa in four years, campus opinion of a group of some seventy-odd young Amer- so desired, nothing so eternal. Naught icans who have considered both sides of the ter t~e war. Also, those men in service would seems definitely to favor more and is done without Time. And yet, What be engaged in destructive, rather than con- biggEtr vacations. H;aving made a is time? I will not try to answer, for conscription question and have voted to structive, work. Most of the billions of dol- rather inexhaustive study of student I am merely reflecting. My reflections make public expression of their disapproval lars spent on them would literally "go up in reactions (but a more or less valid one are inspired by that period of time we of compulsory peacetime military training. smoke". Such a situation does not look to a in our opinion), we've gleaned the call Spring. Spring! another ambigu- The reasons cited are logical and valid. sound national economy. evidence that many are in favor of ous term. Far more appropriate For the United States to build a conscript In matters of health, there is really little observance of such holidays as would be "Life". The third day of cre- army would imply that she has no hope that that the Army can do. An estimated sixty- "Groundhog Day," "Bastille Day" and ation must have been the first Spring. a world organization can secure and main- eight per cent of the Selective Service rejec- Founder's Day at the "angel fac- • Built and Destroyed tain peace. The Dumbarton Oaks proposals tions were attributed to such things as tooth tory." ... To the joy and astonish- The arrival of spring always comes all for an organization of "peace-loving" na- and eye defects, mental and nervous disor- ment of all, NOT ONE milk bottle as an electrification of Nature. All tions. Just how much love of peace is evi- ders, heart trouble, etc. None of these de- has met its fate since vacation which her latent beauty becomes miracu- denced when a nation plans to spend between ficiencies can be substantially improved at certainly sets a record for something lously dynamic and majesticaliy won, one and two billion dollars in training over the age of seventeen or thereafter. Glasses or other, just exactly what we're not derful. Poor and prodding man can a million young men each year in the art of and bridgework can be supplied, but this sure .. ; Then there was a certain but feebly imitate the loveliness ere- warfare,-training these young men to fight would not necessitate a whole year of mili- student who included a Moron joke .uted by her. Far more capable is he the very war that an international organiza- in the middle of a term paper just to of destroying it. Thankless creature, tion is-supposed to be trying to make impos- tary training. relieve the monotony a bit. "That's with care and deliberation, he not sible? Somewhere there is a tremendous in- Disease rates in nearly every field are a thought! !!" . There's talk of only lays waste to the works of 'Na- higher in the Army than outside. Venereal renaming the road by Old Main "The ture, but with fiendish delight, demol- consistency. Then, too, it is well to remem- disease rates, even in peacetime years, have Pre-Flight Speedway"! Appropriate, ishes his own. ber that after the proposed disarmament of been from six to forty-two times higher in eh1. The kudos go to Mick Scho- Who can deny that it is the. essence the vanquished Axis nations, the only pos- the Army and Navy than in civilian life. In bert for ridding Old Ward of one of of stupidity, to labor for centuries sible aggressors will be the Big Five-Eng- the First World War, venereal diseases ex- its uninvited guests the other night. and build an inhabitable world and land, Russia, China, the United States and. ceeded all casualties---deaths, wounded, and The rodent population is officially de- then get about to destroy it with the France. Now a world organization, to be at missing,-by nearly' 160,000. Mental cases, creased by one!. Campus defi- suddenness of a flood. Time, spent, all successful, must be based on mutual trust too, take great toll among members of the nitions: "Moochability"-thing hav. time wasted. How wondrous is time! and respect among the participating na- service. In the first twenty-one months 'of ing necessary qualifications making .Man and Nature tions. Would not conscription in the United this war, the Navy discharged 14,000 men it worthy of being mooched; e. g., Man has tried to imitate Nature States look like a sign of our distrust of the because their "minds .and nerves broke I cigarettes "Hearts and Flowers" and failed miserably. How could he other great powers? Would we not be enter- down" -perfect physical specimens turned -1945 perversion of 1944's well re- manufacture anything having such ing a world partnership while declaring our into wrecks in twenty-one months! Does this membered, "It's love and kisses any- infinite perfection as a blade of total lack of faith in our partners? indicate. that compulsory military training way you look at it, etc., etc." . grass? His paintings, his murals, his Numerous arguments have been broached would 'improve the health of America's "The Maladjusted Circle" will hold its prints can never surpass the aesthet- reorganization meeting Saturday ic beauty of a Spring evening's sun- pointing out possible advantages of peace- young men? . night at nine at Earl's. All candidates set. He can only behold the panorama time conscription for the youth of America. Vocational training as a goal seems a very with necessary qualifications invited! of colors and hues and acquiesce to a Among these are: immunity from attack by feeble plea for compulsory military training, AN OLD ONE. Mastery greater than his. aggressor nations because of a strong stand- when it is recognized by educators and labor Nature fails to surpass man in one ing army; alleviation of the anticipated post- men that equivalent and better training It's old as the hills but still worth re- which The incident aspect alone; and even here man is war unemployment problem; improvement could be secured in civilian life. It would be repeating. took place on a large, mid- putedly not without aid; that is in the repro- of the health of the young men of the coun- rather foolish to have to spend a year in the west campus involved a whimsical duction of himself. It has been con- try; provision of vocational training. Army to learn to be a cook or bookkeeper. professor whose forte was cracking tended that this is the greatest crea- A standing army has never been a guaran- Conscription is certainly not the best way to tion of all. The most highly prized, tee of freedom from attack. Poland, Nor- provide training in vocations. jokes in the middle of a lecture and apt the most perfect, for it alone can be way, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, T1._1us,the merits of peacetime conscription one of his least marvelous students who of possessed the faculty beautiful and appreciate its own Greece, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia all appear very slight in comparison to the sleeping through the entire fifty beauty. had conscription, but it brought them no im- problems of domestic and international rela- minutes without once falling off his e Crtes for Time munity. Conscription rather breaks down tions posed by .such a system. It seems to us chair. The prof trying to stress a Yet how careless and impersonal the first line of a nation's defense,-the trust that thoughtful Americans must think long point in logic asked his class: "If man is toward this, his own work. He of other nations in her peaceful intentions. and hard about this question and make their the United States is bounded on the spends years to nourish it, to protect The one million men taken off the labor own decisions, unswayed by emotionalism east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the it, to safeguard it, so that he might and irrational fears, but guided by a knowl- west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the destroy it. Strange, t.hat. this crea~re market by compulsory military training, or edge of the true facts. north by Canada and on the south by should be oblivious of h1S own crime. even the two or three million concerned if Mexico, how old am 11" The brighter Strange is it too that he should be those in refresher courses are counted, would ---'71u, C,u,. students sat dumfounded but the oblivious to the self-deprivation of dopiest of them all spoke up: "You'd that which he most highly desires .. be 44." Dumfounded lin turn, the time. Always he is crying and beg- prof said, "That's right. young man. ging for it. "Give me more time!" is But how in the world did you know?" his plaintiff plea. He robs himself and Campus Personality Buckingham The student answered: "That's easy. is most penitent. Time, so desired, so I have a brother that's half nuts and longed for, and when obtained, so he's twenty-two." desperately clung to, but in vain; is ended for him by a product of his GUEST REGISTER own hand. By Chari•• G. Brook. The 'hill had a brief glance not long After man has effectively destroyed ago of "Rip" Engle, grid great here himself in part, laid waste to his ill the time of Dick Harlow and more works and has successfully debauched Probably, because it hs the usual h'all, waiting on tables, Buck's activ- standing, his sympathetic attitudes, recently head basketball and assistant and prostituted the works of Nature, procedure, we will take note of the ities range from holding offices to and his self-possession are all excel- football coach. Rip in his brief stay he seeks to make reparations. He facts. Harry Buckingham was born in being the greatest "mooch" in ward lent qualifications for the position. here won the respect and admiration grieves at his past misdoing, he 1925, lives in Towson, and attended Hall (1895). He is now President of of one and all and was much lamented mourns for the dead he killed, he City College, a Baltimore high .·Rising Cost of Living when he left to take up coaching du- sorrows at the devastation he school. By way of digression, one will note ties at Brown University. Carrying wrought. He now becomes the idealist .Dormitory Hablts that Bu,ck's l-(ai1', somewhat un- on his old tradition of winning teams, he turned out another championship and desires the attainment of noble Perhaps Buck's most distinguish- combed, has not yet received its tra- clip yearly (Continued on page 3, column 1) ing traits are his modesty, his sym- ditional every spring. which used the to basketball team for Brown this year Perhaps occur .. Wilbur "Cap" Kidd, '42, just back pathy, and his technique of convert- price of peanut butter has risen. iently dropping in, just in time, wher- (Continued on page 3, column 2) THE GOLD BUG boy who perpetually wears the least Noted as the ever food is to be had. [~~i~~i;;'~;~~J~~~f1~~~ii~g amount of clothing while in the dor- mitory, he presents an amusing sight, his mouth doorway, in a standing smile upon his ter, and a benevolent Po.t..,lllce, under the Act of March S. 1879. stuffed with his beloved peanut but- By Mary F. Davie. Subscription Price $2.00 a Year face. Here it should be mentioned Beginning before breakfast-nearly that one of his acquired powers is number quippily offered her solution heavy- Editor-in-Chief Virginia Voorhees, '46 that of determining, by taste, any two hours before, in fact-a be-curlered to the room problem, "I'm signing up eyed, blanket-bear-ing, News Editors Fred Morgan, '46 brand of peanut butter made ill the stream of freshmen and upper class- for the second floor of Science Hall- Margaret Statler, '47 United States or Canada. Ask him; men stumbled sleepily to the regis- on Tuesday and Thursday 1 won't Feature Editor .... Charles Brooks, '48 he'll tell you! trar's office on Monday morning, hop- have to leave the building at all, and r can get up for breakfast at 7:15!" Copy Editors ....Enrique Lamadrid, '46 e Interesta and Achievements ing that they'd be close to the front Mary Davies, '47 Harry has been preparing for the of the line. Contrary to the usual procedure, Business Manager ministry during the past few years Harry Buckingham unrestricted registration is being al- Josephine Bove, '46 Since rooms are registered for ac- lowed in Blanche Ward and McDan- Advertising Manager but he also has a great interest in the the Sunday School, a member of the cording to the numbers on the regis- iel ; that is, upperclassmen third may regis- on the for rooms ter of the member and a floors, realm of sports. He has been a mem- Wesleyana, r..Hndelle Seltzer, '46 ber of the Wesleyans' "all star" foot- Preachers Fraternity (now inactive). tration slips, the object was to get Cireula tion Manager ball team and has played intercol- While considering his achievements, there first and get as Iowa number as which had formerly been reserved for alone. The incoming rresh, freshmen Fred Brown, '48 legiate baseball for Western Mary- one will note that he never admits possible. Seniors are given first choice men who cannot be taken care of in Contributors: Don Capobianco, Thel- land. This year he has occupied a accomplishment. He has refused, up- for rooms, then juniors and eopho- Blanche Ward and McDaniel will ma Evans, Fern Ray, Mildred prominent place on our basketball on occasion, to occupy space as room in Albert Norman Ward. Lloyd, Doris Hines, Pat Donovan, team and, we might add, has played Campus Personality, which has neces- Registration for seniors took place rooms may be A preview of what Jack Neville, Harvey Buck, Don a very good, unselfish game. Wrest- sitated that this be written without on Wednesday, juniors today, and for like after the war is being shown in Fedder, Lucy Jane Stoner, Arlene ling also constitutes a major field of either his knowledge or his consent. sophomores tomorrow. There is a one of the second floor rooms in Mc- Chen, Mary Elizabeth Todd, Earl interest for Glautz, as he is known Harry is majoring in philosophy great demand for rooms in Blanche Daniel. The floor is covered with lino- Morey, Dorothy Anderson. to many of the boys. However, he and religion. His minor is occupied Ward and McDaniel Halls, but few leum, there is a double decker bed, Student Advisory Counetl: Peg has found the practice, when done in by psychology. It is the opinion of students seem anxious to live in Al- two bureaua, and two desks. It is Thompson, Gloria Mathias, Bob his room, to be detrimental to both those who know him that his am- bert Norman Ward Hall. hoped that these improvements will be Adams, Warren Roberts, Vernelle his shins and his furniture. bition to become a Methodist pastor One Albert Norman Ward Hall available all over McDaniel after the Ports, John Dorsey. To be seen every day in the dining is a good one, for his natural under- resident with a high registration