Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Snapshots Across the Pond :.f-1lf JrEA-SICKNESS is normal anil proper on the sea. jt5 Mothersil. gauze in the ears, and Christian Science are all equally ineffective against this inevitable re- action of the nervous system. What would tourists in Europe do without Henry VIII. Louis XIV, and Frederick the Great? Their accumulations of magnificence and beauty are now the property of the world. How can any one who has lived in England ever make up his mind to leave that lovely country? Intensive farming — there isn ' t any except in France and Belgium and Germany At Moere is Big Bertha ' s sister, the fourteen-inch gun which dropped in one year 260 shells in Dunkirk 35 miles away. I jumped astride it and shouted ridicule down its spider-threaded throat. There is a lace shop in the apartments of its eight-foot wall emplacement. Out from Ostend long rows of reinforced concrete pill-boxes still mark the British and German battle lines. But they hardly frown at one another, for the rank wheat reaches well up their sides: on top of one of them a great Holstein lies chewing her cud while another standing on the same odd resting-place surveys placidly the plain lately red but now grown green: and one of them lifts up a flaming torch of poppies. Mother Nature bandages up and heals all wounds, give her a little time. The European situation is disheartening. Disorganization and revolt, the rancor of old hatreds, the suffering of poverty and disease, the spectre of another war — I wonder if the morning waits beyond the rim of such a night? A ship met us near midnight in fog and a rolling sea, and we picked up her wireless message: Fair weather forty miles ahead! An elementary lesson learned in a visit to Europe is the simple one that there are others: other people no less gifted and attractive than one ' s own, other ways of doing things quite as efficient as one ' s own. A wholesome discipline to national pride. W.M. Lofis P0TE. T.

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Officers of the Sliulciit liotkj L. E. Andrews President J. E. HiLBUR.N Yiir-President J. B. S.MiTu Secretary Members of flie S u len ( ouncil M. G. Stamky Senior V. H. H(iHAHi) Seninr O. D. Anderson- Senior li. B. Edwards Junior R. G. Ty.ndau Junior W. S. JcixES Junior C. R. Holmes ftophoinorc C. P. Brooks Edueation S. W. Pkrry . [l■,li ■illl ' E, Z. Stixes Mhii.sfiridl S. S. WooDi.Ev Laiv Members of he SFiitlciit LcfjislciHire J. R. White Senior J. L. Yen .NG Senior J. W. King Senior T. B. Falls Senior J. B. WiNEcoKE Senior R. H. Reitzel Junior W. C. Howard Junior J. A. WooDW ARD Junior R. K. Newton Junior E. O. BiRROUGiLS tioi)homorv T. L. Caidle Sophomore C. B. Eari ' Kophomori- And Members of the Council 44.