Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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CAMELS HELD THEIR ASH FAR LONGER than the average time for all the other brands. In Camel cigarettes you have a case where choice quality and exlra IIIEKZJIIVE go along together. Better smoking-and more of it. Turn to Camels and enjoy to the full those long-burning, costlier to baccos-so mild and tasty! MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF MORE PUFFS PER PACK! Pemzy 01 P67111-jf your best cigfzrefte buy LONG BURNING COSTLIER TOBACCOS f 151 X 23 1 l 3' THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. FIEDLER ICATIIERINE FEASER RICHARD CUNNINCHAM CIIIARLES GROSS CIRCULATION MANAGERS Esther Royston Margaret Heek Virginia Roop Norma Gainbrill ADVERTISING MANAGERS Elizabeth XXIQCIHS Tillie Gold Ieanette Iones Margaret Lowry BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt Iohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Art Dorothy Snoops Alice Trott Miriam Kolodner Andrei' Pranrsehufer Marguerite XVIISOII Humor Katherine Iaeob Frances Shores Scieu ce Lee 1XIeCarriar Iohn Chileoat IHIIICS O'Connor Athletics Henry Steekler Service Station Ieanne Kravetz General Literature Nannette Trott Irma Sennhenn Patricia Herndon Music Sydney Baker Exchanges Mildred Hainent F ash io 115 Marie Parr Dorothv Sisk LBLLIALIJ Vol 11111 1 OCTOBER- 1939 1 111-1 C 0 N T E N T S ON HUBIAN FREEDOIXI Z PACE To THE FRESHBIEN . 3 CHANGES . . . 4 IYIEET THE NEW FACULTY 5 IXIOTHERS FOR RANSOINI . 7 A CUBAN XVEDDINC 8 TRIOS OF TEACHERS . 9 CALIFORNIA AS I SAXV IT 10 THE BEST TRIP EVER 10 lXIARTHA,S V INEYARD 11 XZAGABONDING BY BIKE 12 I SHALL TEACH . . 12 IVIAN WITHOIIT NULIBER 13 XRIALKING lX'lUSEU1XI . 1-1 VVOIXIENlS HATS . 1-I POEEXIS . . 15 EDITORIALS .... 16 THE LIBRARY-AT YOUR SERVICE . 17 rl'IIE CLUBS .... IS SNICIcS 21 So YVIIAT . . . Z1 IN OUR IXIAILBOX .... 23 IDICRIOCRACY IN THE CAIXIPUS SCHOOL 2-1 IIO-I-IUM ..... 25 CAN IT HAPPEN HERE? . 27 Cafhcfmc Paula 5111111611 511811111111 FASHION FLASHES . ZS N11 Cl' 1 '1 ,, O lu llpmm College Events ILPHAPHS ' 33 Library Helen Picek ADvER'I'ISExIEN'rS 30 Elizabeth Zentz Elizabeth Melendez .-Xuclrev Horner Howard Stottleinever ., 3 , H N Doris 'Klank Mary Brashears ' DESIGN ON P11111 J - 1 LUC11 Elm MMF' D1 PCPPC N1111C5'Mfff2E6f SNAPSIIOTS ON PAGE 21 . . LCC BICCQIIIIQII Editorial gfmfgiggflgffw TIIE TOXVER LIGHT is published monthly - October Samuel Hofflim, through Iune - by the Students of the State Teachers College 11111105 ICH at Towson, Maryland ......I.. ALICE MUNN - - Managing Editor 551.50 PER YI-:AR . 20 CI-NIS PIER CKTIFX' 012 gfumcuz gjqeedom I 4 LENA C. VAN BIBBER A, ,fx i' v I V1 I ll i I -1 TH E AVO R D freedom embodies an inspiring thought. It has been the theme of poets as well as of patriots. XVe lovingly call our country the land of the free g and when internal strife tore us asunder. both sides held that they were fighting for freedom. Even dictators, whose nationals know no kind of liberty but the liberty. of obedience. conduct their attacks on other nations on the pretext of freeing I I their blood brothers from oppression. Germans must be freed from the cruel tyranny of the Czeehsg XVhite Russians from wicked Poles! Yet freedom cannot be an absolute termg and it behooves us at this time to giver some thought to this abstraction. and to ponder our own attitude toward freedom. XVhat is freedom? XVhy do I want it? For whom do I want it? Can real freedom ever be attained? Can all men ever be free? And if so. can man be free in both body and spirit? A little heartsearching concerning the above questions can do us no harm.- Wfbat is freedom? Ir it a path or a goal? It becomes perfectly apparent, when one talks of freedom. that one can do so only if one makes mental reservations. For in-j stance. one yearns for 'tfreedomu to pursue some train of thought unhampered. Re- move all external interference. but there still lurk within the citadel, intangible obsta- cles that still hinder success - ignorance. prejudices. enslaving habits! uXArfCtCll6ClI man that I am. exclaimed Saint Paul. desperately realizing that his own traitorous weakness held him bound. 'Awho shall deliver me from the body of this death? Wfby do I want freedom? Freedom from what? It is plain that this idea of free- dom. unaccompanied by promise of concrete satisfaction. leaves one in a vacuunmli Shall I ask freedom from pain? Simply being without pain is a negative eonditiong 'A ' r it. in itself. cannot mean happiness. Shall I demand freedom from work, from stress ' and strain, from ill treatment? Granted these releases. do they not merely lead one to an open door? But what is beyond? T For whom do I want freedom, liberty? Can real freedom ever be attained? Can A all men ever be free? The question, for whom is even more vital than for what. 5 j. Perhaps the noblest cry for liberty ever uttered came from the French. who in thei if days of revolution demanded not liberty alone. nor liberty for only one class. They 3 asked for liberty accompanied by equality and fraternity. Patrick Henry's Give me A liberty or give me death! would not have lived on had not this slogan been uttered as the rallying call of a whole aspiring people. After all. just a negative appeal for one's own rights. onc's own release from un- just burdens is not enough. We live in a world in which humans press one upon '7 another. Many thc world over suffer injusticeg many souls are dcadened by fear. and!- hatred and prejudice. Everywhere. a cry goes up for freedom from all these destroyf A ing forces. But mere release will signify little. even if it is spiritual freedom. For freedom can only be the beginning. It must lead on to constructive happiness for alfl classes. For the attainment of this exalted liberty there must be leadership. Carj A education provide it? f i TOWER LIGHTQ C , 4 4.451 I T ,J nf l 49 if-i ty ru. l'reshmen. and to all other new students. We, the uppereclassnien. extend a warm and sincere wel- come with the hope that your college life shall be a great success. l T The Freshmen l FRANCES SHORES -i1'HE TIN E has now come when we Sophomores can iaettle down to the peace and comfort of normal liying. Zllhis time last year we were a bunch of rather giddy Freshnien who. in the quaudary caused by new sur- oundings, did things that often changed the shades of pur coniplexions. But now. so we think. time has left its Quark on us. You may not agree but be tactful when you yell us so. Howeyer, it must be admitted that one of our aumber overfstepped her bounds when she approached Si staid Senior and asked her if this was her first year in pur institution of learning. Being a Freshman is really food for one's ego. You are -ii a sense the center of the stage. whether you like it pr not. First of all, you are contiually assailcd by an in- izstimable number of questionnaires which giyc you ,nental eruptions froiu figuring out how many hours ffou spend on the street car, how many hours you study, laid how many hours you spend in the library. Some- times you tell the truthg sometimes you dou't. 'l'he:1 ihere are those innumerable deyiccs for getting ac- EJCTOBER . 1939 , , S QT o -xii i: . fi AWW x 6116553 'I f , 2 - 3 N i 8 V 7: AEN y E.R.E1-STE quainted. You shake hands, smile. and balance teacups until it becomes mechanical, but all in all it is a lot of fun. For awhile yet you'll probably be running into the wrong places at the wrong time. Your intrusions will bc tolerated. We did the same thing. ln your Hrst few days of Library use you probably wondered what kind of night preceded the dawn of Deweyk decimal system. Perhaps you still are wondering. but it won't last forever. So. when all is said and done, we hope you lireslnnen haye a grand and glorious year. We did. but now we must settle down to obscurity. And. on the side. we proltably will be a little jealous because we cant blame our future mistakes on new adjustments. 3 lfft. Qvttlfi FUTILITY BIARGUERITE SIMMONS, '34 VVIICII the sky shall be filled with brittle wings And the sun slant back metallic rays- hlan, like all former humankind, Shall lift tremulous, aching arms To embrace beyond the empty sky And know not why his dull machines Do not suiiice to case or still The spirit's ancient hungering for home. T HIS ARTICLE is written mainly for those who have come and gone. They should know how the place has changed. Perhaps it will lessen the shock they will receive should they return. Therefore, I dedicate this guide to S. T. C. with - The old order changeth . . . Do you remember the scramble for books in the Li- brary at threeg the tight squeeze in getting through to Miss I-Iolt's magazine dispensaryg the skimpy desks in front of the Libraryg the crowded highways and byways in Dr. VVest's Science Lab.g the bang of lockers on the third Hoorg the crowded Cafeteria? All that has changed! But, before you drop a tear. consider the change. Indeed, S. T. C. has done itself proud. Our Library is vast and overpowering. The spaciousness of our mag- azine rooni, which is ensconced on the third floor, is sini- ilar to the wide open spaces. A new desk l and what a deskllj for checking books adorus the hall. The stacks of books are rearranged in excellent taste. CNote: I won- I A Q I I W i .C .i li 'il ' i P . I J der if even Miss Yoder knows where the 3ZO's are?j The ll entire Library is now conducive to quiet reading andl intensive study. The Science Lab. has moved down the hall to the Cafeteria and there, with wide-Hung splendor, assails the eye. Surely Dr. VV est will need a niegaphone in or- der to have his words of wisdom heard throughout the room. Because of the upheaval caused by the general im- provements, rooms long identified with certain teachers are theirs no longer. Miss Bader and Miss Van Bibber, i A E I .- I 'P 'I lil -V s, . l Dr. Crabtree and Miss Munn have picked up their be- I M will longings and moved to diiiferent realms. No longer are lockers on the third floor: they are ar-I ranged neatly along the walls of the ground floor. Thus, the vista is enlarged and the classrooms and halls of the upper Hoor take on an added dignity. 'ri ,Li ,ll i I XV e eat amid the beauty of Tudor Gothic architec-, i ture. County and city students may now enjoy the pleas- ure of eating together in the dormitory. This brings about a closer feeling of unity in spirit among the stu- dents. New faces are seen in every room and two new faculty members have joined the throng. True. the place doesn't seem the same. yet a saineness is there-that steadfastness of purpose, sincerity of be- liefs, friendliness of atmosphere. and a genuinely whole- some outlook on life. TOWER LIGHT J. I l r IW L. I r 0 MEET THE NEW EACULTY 1 l 5 coMProN N. CROOK KENNETH MILLER r jTH E S TA E F of the Towisiz Lrer-rr, in requesting that il prepare a summary of my background and my impres- L sions of the State Teachers College, has unwittingly I . jzommitted an act of cruelty that should be reported promptly to the S. P. C. A. However. the following may, berhaps, show it the error of its ways, so that it will ivrite its own summaries in future. I was born a mimber of years ago down in the exten- :ive swainpland country of western Tennessee. This en- j1lfO1l1HCHtlCflf a lasting mark. From the woods, swamps, jrnd mountains I have since acquired the greater portion if my education, regardless of the fact that six years in lleorge Peabody College for Teachers netted me two jlegrees and a respectable start on a third, the privilege pf working with a truly great biologist and teacher, and undry information about the world of books. L As a teacher I now have a personal alumni group of oerhaps a thousand students. Many of these are now Quceessful teachers. At least one is in jail. I have taught jn the Appalachain State Teachers College in North Car- jilina, the School of Education of XVestern Reserve Uni- hersity, Cleveland, Ohio, and in the laboratory school jrf the College of XVilliam and Mary in Virginia. In all lit these I have been concerned with the teaching of sci- jznce in the grades and in high school. In addition, I rave served the National Park Service for six summers s ranger naturalist, in the Yellowstone and Rocky jxflountain National Parks. I..eeturing, hiking, mountain ilimbing, museum preparation, and ecological research jre some of the duties of the ranger naturalist. In ind studying that very interesting biological phenome- ddition, he has unparelled opportunities for observing anon, the American Tourist. Iyly impressions of the State Teachers College are jrniformly pleasant. Faculty and students have united jo make me feel a part of the institution from the day arrived. I have never been in a school atmosphere more jonducive to good work. XVhat better inducements can fre found to make Environmental Science as useful, jleasant, and applicable as possible? l!CTOBER - 1939 An Interview IT IS A pleasure to meet some people. Mr. Miller. our new English teacher, opened his interview in such an informal way that immediately I felt he had been with us for a long time. His cordial manner encouraged me to ask many, many questions, and all were answered freely. Our conversation covered many fields - international affairs, current literature, our friendly college academic freedom, professional ethics and the Tutor System at Harvard. The interviewer discovered a variety of things about the instructor. Ile has studied in the XVest at Ohio XVes- leyan University, and in the North at Syracuse Univer- sity and at Harvard. Mr. Miller has travelled in England and Germany. Creek literature has been a subject of extreme interest to him. He has spent a great deal of time pondering on professional ethics and has high standards in regard to teaching. Certainly the State Teachers College welcomes Mr. Nliller and hopes his high standards are realized. HARRIETT WELLS XV O U L D YQ U like to have some help in developing better study habits? XVhether you're a Freshman or an upper-classinan. just take your woes to Miss XVells. the new staff member in the Dormitory. Miss XVells is as- sisting with staff duties and acting as a counsellor in study problems. CI understand that themes and home- sickness seem to be the greatest problems thus farfl Miss XVells has spent several years teaching English. and at present is working for her Masters degree in ed- ucation at the johns Hopkins University. This academic background makes Miss XVells well qualified to help solve the study problems of all students. Besides her work at the Dormitory. our assistant likes all sports, particularly tennis. golf, badminton. and swim- ming. She comes to us from our rival peach-producing state, Michigan, and we're willing to admit that the com- petition is keen. YVC welcome Miss XVells to the Dormitory, and we hope her stay will be a joyous and successful one. 5 Richard Yardley An Interview IYIADELINE CABELL Y O U INI I O H T say that I have a very untidy office. remarked Mr. Yardley. l'his will give you an idea of my personal habits. On the floor were bits of paperg empty ink bottles could be seen almost everywhere. the desk was so littered that its top did not present one small patch to the air above it, and a coat was draped over the window sill. A few months ago I had a visitor who put me very much to shame by telling me that the condition of my oflice was hopeless. I was so ashamed of my untidiness that I set to work immediately and house-cleaned vigor- ously. I put papers in the cupboard, threw away all the empty ink bottles. cleared my desk of its debris, and hung my coat on the rack for nearly a week. The funny part about it was that I didn't even miss the things on my desk which I had spent weeks in collectingf' Alas, much to Mr. Yardley's sorrow, no one has come since, and his oflice has now become as cluttered as ever before. A'Six years ago I drew two maps of Maryland for the Sunday Sun. I decided to have some fun with them. and, in this way. I started cartooningf' Ever since. he has been working on the Sunday paper and for four years on the morning paper. I draw a cartoon and then hope and pray that the public will accept it. The next morning, I look at the paper and shudder to think that I could have ever produced such a thing. There is usually a wealth of material in the daily news. XVhen there isn't, I take a very insignificant hap- pening and play it up. Then. too. I like to poke fun at my friends, Harry Nice and Mayor jackson. Mr. Yardley has been working on the newspaper ever since he began to earn his living. He has always written or drawn for the editorial page. I like my work because it offers a great deal of freedom in that I can express my own ideas and work on my own time. He has had such interesting experiences as spending two or three days with the Oyster Fleet, viewing the Yankee Clipper, and attending meetings of the State Legislature. Legion parades, and national political conventions. His main objection to his vocation is night workg this fault he at- tributes to himself. His wife's chief objection is that he never gets home to dinner on time. I have always lived in IXIaryland, more or less. and went to Friends School and the Maryland Institute. I went to the Institute three times and did about one weeks work during my entire stay there. He closed his eyes and leaned his something over two hundred pounds back in the chair. HI wish I could tell you something in- 6 teresting that I'vc done, but I have never rescued any- body or explored the wilds of darkest Africa. I have led the life of an average citizen. although I have had a few more opportunities than most people. One of Mr. YardIey's hobbies is traveling. I especially enjoy going to Europe but one can't just pick up and E dash over during a week-end. Consequently. I haven't I been there for two years. One of the most trying ex-I periences which I have had was missing my boat train to Paris. I had to hire a car and race the train from Cher- 1 bourg. I made it. This may not sound hair-raising to you, ' but it was a trying experience for me. and I gained quite I a few gray hairs. Mr. Yardley has been to Cuba. He likes Florida and goes there often. He likes to travel any- where. even such short distances as to New York. XVash- ington, and Annapolis. ' I go to New York frequently, and I have the typical yokel's idea of the big city - that one should see every- thing of interest and all the bright lights. I have many' friends who live out on Long Island. and I usually end up spending the evening with them. listening to the ra- dio. This I could easily have done at home. I like cats. This explains why Mr. Yardley always has a cat following him in his cartoons. I have two: one, a white cat with one brown eye and one blue one, and the other, a black cat. The black cat is from Ruxton, while the white one comes from the slums. The white cat from the slums has a very expensive appetite. It turns up its nose at oysters which are bought at the store in a carton and insists upon the best. fresh from the shell. I am proud to say that all my editors are kind to ani- mals. remarked Mr. Yardley. UA stray police dog came I into the yard of the editor of The Morning Sun. It was Thanksgiving Day and the family prepared to sit down to a dinner consisting of turkey. dressing. and all thc things that go with such a dinner. There stood the dog' outside in the cold, looking in longingly at the window The dog came in and has been in ever since. As he ran his lingers through his hair. Mr. Yardlej said that he usually needed a hair-cut when people came to see himg but he had it done in a forty-cent barbe I shop in New York City. He also remarked that wheil I he got up, I would notice that his suit needed pressing .. His only regret was that he couldn't think of any r thing interesting which he had done. I wish I coulf I. flatter myself by thinking of something out of the ord' I nary which I have doneg but I just can't. If you don, have enough. give me a ring. and I'Il make up a goo.. story for you. TOWER LIGH' 0 others For Ransom CATHERINE GRAY j Qlld. Note: This story is based on actual facts.j l jj' A S O N G U E R LIC K stared back over the widen- jing stretch of water at tl1e docks where stood his mother. xl-le waved a thin white hand in answer to a wisp of handkerchief and a grey head behind it. lt was a noble ihead, erect and stately, set delicately upon a gentle body. ,It was a head that had seen much trouble, much sacri- fice, many joys and now. disaster of a sort. jason was going to America. He was born in Bohemia, a place later to become a part of Czechoslovakia, and because of a 'job that led him to Germany, had taken his widowed mother to live in Emden near the sea. Several months ago a German friend had told him that the depression was not so bad in America. There was a depression, of course. but wasn't it all over the world? The standards of living were higher over there and it had been hard jsinee he had lost his job. There was no reason to go back to Czechoslovakia - no work - and both could not live on his mother's pension. That night he and his mother had talked. Many emotions came close to the surface during that conversation, but only cold facts Jroke through. So today, jason strained his eyes to get 1 last glimpse of the woman who must remain behind 1I'lCl wait: wait for money from America: wait for a son to come back with money enough to take her back :O her homeland. In the years that passed jason was not a brilliant suc- cess. but he had a S25 sales position in a downtown dc- oartment store. He lived alone: ate littleg enjoyed no lux- jiries. and banked the larger part of his salary. Gradually. sie became accustomed to the liberties in America - free jzpeeeh, free press - and his letters to his mother re- jilected the change. He became sensitive to the fact that iihe new ruler of Germany controlled the press there hnd that the German people learned only what they j.vere permitted to learn. He felt himself a privileged per- jzon every time he bought a newspaper or turned on fthe radio. Because of his mother's great desire to know pow he was and what his new surroundings were like. jie wrote letters telling her more and more about the lljtlnited States and gradually more and more about what ,ire had learned of Europe. One day a lightning bolt struck. A man sent thousands bf soldiers into a tiny country called Austria. lt seemed to climax a series of Germany's internal social rearrange- 'HDCTOBER . 1939 l'llC1lt El1lCl consequent expulsion of certain peoples. ja- so11 was shocked! hllusie by famous composers was burned! Books by immortal authors were destroyed! Diseoverers of great seientihe principles were driven from their l101'l1CSl jason wondered that his placid Ger- man friends could do such things, lt was impossible! Then came the crowning blow - his mother country absorbed! Poor jason and his American-German friends! He could contain himself no longer. Obviously his friends abroad and the great mass of people were being deceived. Their press and radio must be government- eontrolled. lt's too bad he forgot that censorship ex- tended over inore things than press and radio! The same night that found tl1e Slavs struggling, found jason and a Bund leader in a blistering argument. lm- mediately following this, he wrote to his mother in paf thetie tones - - - Dear Mother, VV hat has happened to my friends? XVhat are Fritz Humber and Otto, the butcher doing? ls the foot of this power-crazed man 011 their necks? Do you not know what is going on? Here in America. the German people are de- spised and it is because of one man .... Days passed. The ship that should have brought his mother's reply, returned to Germany. No letters. But. one day a large white envelope was delivered to jason. It was postmarked Germany. XV ith great curiosity jason ripped open the flap and read. His eyes fell on one sentence. 'Unless payment of S323 in American money is re- ceived. Mrs, Gerlick will remain at the ljmden Conf eentration Camp - indehnitely - for espionage. Espionage - an undiplomatie letter from abroad, jason fell into a state of semi-consciousness. His mother behind barbed wire: whipped: driven: subject to countless indignities: coarsely clothed: coarsely fed. He must get the money instantly. lt was simple. llc had saved much more than that. llc could have sent a thou- sand dollars - S25 was nothing. But wait. If it was nothing to him. it would be less to the German Govcrmnent. The Bund leader would know. Perhaps he would tell him something. They 7 fought. yes. but in a situation like this. the Nazi would know what to do. The Buud leader was amused. The German Govern- ment stoop to S25? Impossible! However. the govern- ment was not responsible for the action of its oflicers. If the censor received Iason's letter and letters of others like him. it would be a mere matter of cooperation with a Gestapo oticer to do a little profitable collecting. Then. that was worse! In a small place like Emden. the oiiicials ruled. Twenty-live dollars went back on the next boat to Emden. At Emdeu greedy hands took in many twenty- iives and sums in larger figures. There was a split of the loot and a check was placed by a name for that month. W .-. .r. ... -.- an -.- -Q- England declared war! German citizens refused passage on ships back! ... .i. .., .-. as -v- -.- -f Iason could not get back to Gemiany. He could not find out why there had been another white envelope. He could not understand why he had not heard from his mother again. uban Wedding IUANITA GREER OUR FIRST visit after arriving in Havana via Pan- American Airways was to Mercedes Church. an artistic treasure. famous for its age. lovely archways. pillars. and exquisite paintings. A monk spent eleven years of his life decorating the church with murals and frescoes. Vforkmen were busily shining brass. removing pews and making an improvised hedge on either side of the central aisle which extended the full length of the mass- ive church. When we inquired the meaning of all this. our guide explained that a very fashionable wedding was to take place there at 9 P. M. The daughter of a banker was to wed the son of a fabulously wealthy brewer. Our great enthusiasm prompted our guide to speak to the priest concerning the possibility of our attending the wedding. The priest was delighted at our interest. and we were shown to a side entrance where our guide told us we were to meet the Father at 8:30 that evening. Before the appointed hour our car was parked as near Mercedes Church as space would permit. which was blocks away. Vfe hurriedly followed our guide along narrow winding streets until we reached the designated entrance. Throngs of excited people gathered near the church. Scores of policemen milled around in the crowd trying to maintain order. XYe were escorted in great style into the interior of the church. An orchestra played soft music from a distant balcony. There were no pews. The green hedges were banked on the inside bv a solid mass of white flowers. Near the 8 hedge were gladiolas. next shaggy chrysanthemums, then a single row of gardenias lining each side of a grassy aisle. The altar was lighted by candles from twenty candel- abra arranged to fomi a cross. Soon the orchestra began to play the familiar wedding march and a maid of honor appeared beneath an arch at the rear of the church. Slowly she and the bridesmaids walked down the magniiicent aisle. Each was gowned in a chartreuse pen de lis frock. of a slightly deeper tone than the preceding one. and each carried a bouquet of orchids and wore a diamond necklace. Following them came the bride whose gown was of white crepe rosolba. Her long tulle veil was caught with a halo of brilliants. She. too. carried orchids. but white ones. and wore a diamond necklace, Almost miraculously the groom, the witnesses. and the parents of the bride and groom ap- peared. The audience gazed and moved about in the space on either side of the central aisle. In about twenty minutes the music became more lively and the figures began to descend from the altar. XVe realized that the wedding was over. I simply must add that we went to Sans Souci. very smart night club. immediately following the wed ding and were delighted to ind that the reception was being held there. Then. two days later. when we Hey back to Miami. Mr. and Mrs. lose Rionda were among our thirty-three passengers. - TOWER LIGHU Trios of Teachers y ruins G. IETT AT A TIME when established thoughts are being changed by new thinkers, education and consequently teachers seem to assume an air of radicalism. Three such periods are outstanding in history, and the present- T day effects of the last of these periods are so tremendous as to make it logical to consider this the beginning of a fourth era in the evolution of education. The slow drift toward civilization and the search for knowledge culminated in Greece, first of all. That search was long characteristic of mankind. Various schools of philosophy had been established in Greece by 500 B. C. These were, for the most part, philosophies of material- ism. The physicists, Demoeritus and Leueipus. were con- , cerned with the atomic structure of the universe. Others .wrote their theories of the clockwork of the universe. Into the midst of these thinkers came Socrates, the father of Greek Idealism. It is not the universe, but our- fselves which we must study, said he. Plato, his most ,brilliant follower, took the hint of the great teacher. iThe material universe became merely a concept in the minds of men. The idea was responsible for everything conceived-an extreme idealism, and far too extreme for the unready masses. So great was the hatred of change that Socrates was condemned to death because of his teachings, which, the Sophist said, had poisoned the minds of the young men of Greece . Change must come slowly. Plato pub- lished The Dialogues years after Socrates had gone. This T publication was followed by The Republic. an expository T treatise on a Utopian form of political state. Meanwhile, Aristotle came under the influence of Plato's teachings. . The last of the great trio of Greek contemporaries, Aris- ' totle became an omniscient teacher - a physicist, biolo- r gist,zoologist, rhetorician, mathematician, and physician. i Even after Christ, the works of the great Greek teacher were the basis of science and literature. He had modi- . fied, standardized, and firmly established the new school 2 of thought which had woven its way into the Greek so- i ciety of his time. in The greatest teacher of them all was Christ. Christ, ,the psychologist, who had based his religious teachings ion an universal human emotion-love. And because he ijunderstood human nature, he was successful in upsetting 'tithe Old Testament standards of Iudaism. Thus he won g,Lnot A race. but RACES, of people. This was the second iiigreat period of upheaval in basic thought and affected fthe peoples of Asia Minor. The resultant changes spread i'lOCTOBER 1 - 1939 throughout the world. The teachings of Christ were seized upon by the Ro- man authorities and molded into a single body of thought - a religion. From then on religion fostered education. Christianity throve in Europe, where it found confused pagans, ready to accept so pleasing a philosophy of life after death. They adopted Christian- ity, and Christianity, in turn, adopted them. Learning and education became the two principle functions of the Church. Today the governments of the various coun- tries have assumed this responsibility. XVhat finer thing could religion have done than to have stimulated a desire for truth through knowledge? The smooth-working machinery of the Church was interrupted by the Renaissance - the third revolution of thought. Out of it emerged the heretics, Luther, Cal- vin, and Zwingli. The new learning found a way into the monasteries of Europe. Martin Luther, a German monk, was the first to grasp the importance and logic of some of the revived doctrines. He at once took advan- tage of a dissatisfied people and the intermittent absence from Germany of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Ro- man Empire. Charles moved frequently between Spain and Germany. attempting to control the affairs of both nations. At the same time. his sympathies were with the Pope, at Rome. Under such circumstances. the Reforma- tion took root in Germany. In France. Iohn Calvin, father of Puritanism. an- swered the roll call of heretics. He was driven from France to Switzerland and it was from there that his teachings, which show the infiuence of Luther. spread through an already infected Germany, into Holland. and thence to England. Peter Zwingli, a native Swiss, spread similar doctrines - alike in general thought. but dif- ferent in detail. He studied Luther's works. picked what he thought was good. added some original ideas, and won followers. Another trio of contemporaries had up- set established beliefs! The revolutionary trends in education today probably mark the beginning of another era. from which pure science and logic will emerge as the final way in seeking truth. How can there be a known truth when there are doubts? The fact that changes occur. and are accepted and refuted shows that men arc not certain as to what the truth is. Let us be happy. then. to go forth as be- ginning teachers in a beginning era. Perhaps we shall find what others have sought and fought for. 9 13-'citfti califblllia. AS I sAw rr State Teachers College Monday night Dear Luise, Yes, I'll tell you before you ask me. California was wonderful! Treasure Island was stupendous! And the most beautiful things I saw were sunsets on the prairie and on the desert. They were absolutely gorgeous! Now that I have staved off your most natural curi- osity, I can really let myself go, and tell you all about it. You know, of course, that I went with my uncle, aunt, and cousin Herb, who is just a year older than I. You can imagine that he made things quite lively for me. More of that, tho', some other time. But. really, the most spectacular event of all was the anmial Fiesta held at Santa Barbara, California, to com- memorate the building of the VV est. 'LAre we still in the present time, or are we back in the old Spanish Mis- sion age? we asked ourselves early one morning. People of all ages, dressed in vivid Spanish costumes. walked sedately to High Mass at the lovely old Church. Later in the day we saw the same dark-skinned men and women - padres, noblemen, explorers, cowboys. No cars were in this parade, but some of the most mag- nificent horses I have ever seen. Can you picture a shiny, ebony horse, decked out in a gleaming. diamond- studdcd silver saddle, prancing along beside a cream- colored horse with an identical Sl0,000 saddle? It's really a beauty treasure. Guitars strumming and accordions playing led us, that night, to the Courthouse, where accomplished chil- dren, men, and women sang the old Spanish songs. and executed the intricate dances with superb skill. Hand- some Mexiean families performed on the streets. VVan- dering around in this town of Spanish architecture. we, too, danced to our heart's content on some of the streets roped off for that purpose. XV e were much chagrined when we found that the lone car in the midst of a crowd of merry youths and maidens on such a street was our own. Many other wonderful things did I see. Luise, but you must come down and visit me to hear about them. Imag- ine trying to describe the Boulder Dam, Zion National Park, or Grand Canyon in a letter! Come soon and we'll compare notes on our two f'XVorld Fairs. Sincerely, MARY. The Best Trip Ever CATHERINE PAULA 5:30 A. M. - No, I wasn't dreaming - those strains of hffaryland, llffy Nlaryland were coming from right un- der the window of the Queen lNfIary, in other words, the girls' dorm, suddenly they stopped, someone began to pound on the wall. and then there was a shout. Come on, Paula, get those big feet on the floor. So began my first day at the Audubon Nature Camp. Br-r-r-r . . . was this Iune or November? Early morn- ings in Maine are cold, but a nice hot breakfast was all that was needed to start one off on a busy day. At 7:15 A. M. assembly we received our program for the day. YVe were divided into thrcc groups. according to our major: marine life. insects, or plant life. I was an Insect Everyone took birds and nature activities as minors. 10 Every day there were new and difierent things to do, new fields to explore, new plants to find and new birds to see. How you were envied if your group happened to be the one to go on a boat trip Iusually an all-day onej to one of the many little islands in the ocean along the Maine coast on which were found hundreds of birds, nesting. On one island we found herring gulls, and com-- mon and arctic terns. and corinorants. On others, pe- trels. great blue hcrons and osprey. Each bird has its own peculiar habitat. How thrilling it was to walk about, great precaution being taken not to step on the nu- merous young hiding in the thick grass, and to see hun- dreds of nests, to hold in ouc's hand a cormorant's egg and see a little one come out IContinued on page SOI T O WE R LI G H 'I I 'I ,I 4 'I . i. II II I I I I I I I I I I 4 I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I is I I Ii YI I I :yi OI ' Martha' s Vineyard 1 1 l I I i r I i Q IANE E. 1osL1N D I D Y O U ever think of a vacation in the midst of the sea? That is what the Indians called Martha's Vineyard - 'tNoepe, meaning In the Midst of the Sea. It was named Vineland by the intrepid Norsemen when they landed in the year 1000 A. D., because of its luxuriant foliage, and finally Martha's Vineyard by Gosnold of England in honor of his mother. The largest island in the group. about six miles off the coast of Cape Cod, is twenty miles long and nine miles wide, but it is so hilly, its shoreline is so indented, and its roads are so numerous that it seems much larger. As many as fifty thousand people come to its shores for the summer months to enjoy the salt bathing, the fish food, and the beautiful breakers from the open sea. Pleasure boats dock at the three ports several times a day, and the many iishing smacks attract much atten- tion. Yawls, ketches, and motor boats are much in evi- dence, and at the time of the regatta at Edgartown this summer the sailboats dotted the skyline like huge white butterfiies in a blue sky. The first house and fort in New England were built on the island in 1602. Governor Mayhew of Massachu- setts received the right of ownership from the English Crown and sent his son. who was an Oxford graduate, to occupy it. The son befriended the Indians there and established a school for them in 1651, the first ever to be provided for Indians. Their first teacher. Peter Fol- ger, grandfather of Benjamin Franklin. found them very quick to learn. Mayhew compelled all his com- pany to purchase their lands from the Indians and many of the records are written in the Indian as well as the English language. The pioneers built saw mills, erected houses with large chimneys, catwalks, and fine doorways. and planted pear and cherry trees. In the meantime, Mayhew learned the Indian language and would spend half the night telling the Indians and children Bible stories. By 1700 dip candles were used and molds were made there. After that sperm candles, followed by sperm oil lamps, were used for lighting the homes. From 1820 for forty years Edgartown was one of the great whaling ports of the world, at one time owning nineteen vessels. The women sailed on the long sea voyages, and there are still those who can tell of their experiences with pi- 'rateS. In ISS-f a whale was caught that yielded 168 barrels of oil. A candle-making firm was organized in the town, lOCTOBER - isw which for years supplied the United States Government with oil and candles. The Indians were wonderful fisher- men - one man could go out in a small boat and cap- ture seven or eight whales a month. The fishermen have for a long time supplied sword- fish, herring, bluefish and shell fish to the great markets. Martha's Vineyard is famous for its lobster stews and lobster sandwiches. In 1773 an English transport of eighty-two sails made a raid upon the island, carrying away swine, cattle. oxen, and ten thousand sheep. During the Civil XVar. two hundred and forty soldiers and sailors gave their lives for their country. Long before 1651 there was a school for the English children. Every town with fifty families was required by law to establish a public school. For years there was a moving school that stayed from two to five months in a place. A child could attend for the whole year if he could manage to follow it. Latin was studied at the age of seven. Many famous people have loved the island - Alex- ander Graham Bell, Daniel XVebster, Madam Nordica. but none more than Emily Post and Katherine Cornell. who own fine homes on the island. TEARS LEON L. L12i1Nr:R Cover your face and glut the tears that drain From deep inside those sensitive young eyes. Stifie the wounded tones, the broken sighs, And end the shedding of this liquid pain. Such pure wild sadness is a useless spout Of feeling: passion, in a wasted form: An aimless fit. a vicious, raging storm Knocking against the world and soon blown out. Go put a finger to the lips of tears. In the eternal mnteness of your soul There will be time enough: long, endless years For crying. and the tears will fall and roll Deep. deep inside of you. roll down the face And fall. seas that go rushing into space. 11 Vagabonding by Bike GORDON V. SHULES NO MO RE teaching at camp! Our bicycles were packed with blankets. clothing. pots and pans. At ten o'clock. just ten minutes before we were to leave, Charles received a telegram offering him a job in Quebec. That's how I came to take a 700-mile bicycle trip alone. XV ith perfect weather, I made good time. My first night was spent in a field belonging to two spinsters who had quite a time trying to decide if it would be proper for me to stay. Their final aflirmative decision resulted in a splendid crop of aches and stiffness the next morn- ing. Cutler. Maine. a small fishing village, was the next pause. Near this place I stopped at a farmers house to ask permission to sleep in the barn. He referred me to the second selectman, who in turn referred me to the Hrst selectman. Now we were getting somewhere! This man, a Mr. XVallace. not only gave me a room with a real bed. but also insisted that I share his supper and breakfast. Eastport, Maine, was next, that being the eastern- most city in the United States. A ferry took me to un- spoiled, beautiful Deer Island. The people here have what is known as local time, which is regulated by the flow and ebb of a thirty-foot tide. The night was spent in a boathouse. A dip in the ocean next morning turned out to be much colder than I had expected. Later that day I visited St. Iohn's N. B.. and saw the famous reversing falls. Always game for a new experience. I applied at the jail for a cell in which to sleep. The police chief gave me one look. I don't think you'll like itfi was all he said. I was locked in a cell with French-Canadians for prison-mates. About midnight one of the men had an attack of delirium tremens, and stopped screaming only when a bucket of water was thrown on him. I loaded grain on an ex-rum runner in exchange for a passage across the Bay of Fundy. Great piles of pulp- wood were awaiting export to Germany at XVadesport, where we docked in Nova Scotia. At Annapolis Royal stands Fort Anne. settled by the French in I6l0. Here an old gentleman invited me to join him in a beer, It wasn't until the next day that I learned he meant soft-drink! My ride up the drought-stricken Annapolis Valley was uneventful. Hospitality here was extraordinary. Halifax was full of soldiers. and many of the bridges, due to war conditions abroad which were reflected here, were controlled. Such were some of the high spots of my trip that made me realize that Halliburton really had some- thing when he took up the career of a professional vag- abond. I Shall Teach HENRY ASTRIN A FEXV months before the completion of the recent school term, I was asked by a fraternity brother to work for him during the summer in XVashington. It must be said here that my position was obtained not because I was a A'brother to my employer, but because I had proved my worth as a salesman some time previously. Starting work immediately after graduation exercises. I realized I knew little of business life. This did not last long. however. In a few weeks a complete metamorpho- sis had taken place. I was no longer a kid wanting a lot of knowledge for my future life as a teacherg instead I was a cocksure salesman. bickering and fighting with 12 other salesmen and polishing my yet ragged technique on my poor prospects. I was no longer interested in be- coming a bespectacled young man teaching a lot of little brats. Certainly. I was an ignorant youngster! I was wilc with ambition! I was almost mad about the idea that z' good salesman can make more money in one week thar. a good teacher can make in a month! XVith these ideaz' my brain was tortured for weeks and weeks without Ulf contiding in anyone. when suddenly. a new experience challenged me. It was August. I was in the City of Brotherly Love' with my local fraters and others from different parts o TOWER LIGH' the country for a convention. The three-day affair was Hlled with festivitv. Com Janionshi J. and u Jon reaching t . I I I e Maryland I realized that through a seventy-two hour I . . 1 b I . I period of companionship with scores of fellows, my hfe I i had been enriched. XVhat a wonderful feeling it must be to lead such a i swell bunch of fellows, I thought. XVhy couldnit I be y the one to lead them? I felt sure I could do it if I tried ihard enough. First, I should be Grand Blaster of the ,Baltimore Chapter, then get on the Executive Board. work myself up to the top of the Council, receive the David L. Mark Key, go to the Grand Council and, after ,Serving a year there. give up my position to a younger i frater, and rest on my laurels. All this would be hard iand take a long time. true enough, but it would be easy ifor me. I would . . . r Suddenly my train of thought was broken by the real- ization that I was. at the present time, going to college. I had another ambition. I wanted to work hard to be the best of teachers, to do extra work. to rise in the school system, to teach math. later on, to do - oh. God knows all I wanted to do as a teacher! But how could l do all these things? lrlere I wanted to be a leader of men! I wanted to receive prestige and glory and friends through a national organization. And yet, I also wanted to be- come entrenched in business, to become a super. ultra air-inflated salesman. rushing here and there in my super- charged auto. filling out super-orders for my employer. receiving a super-salary and commission. But how could I do all these things? I had to choose. Bly head ached severely and my eyes seemed afraid to close at night unless they saw three objects which symbolized three different futures. XVould I ever have peace of mind? Wlhich career should I choose? I pondered. I despaired. Then it ea1ne! For no apparent reason at all. I suddenly made up my mind! XVhether I realized the security of a teaching position or the disadvantages of the other careers. I cannot ex- actly say. I think it sufficient, however, to say that I shall teach. Man Without umber EVELYN A. FIEDLER THIS IS dedicated to the vociferous Order of M. O. IP. P. tlvlath is Our Pet Peevej of which the author is a charter member. The purpose is to depict the glorious state of a society upon which the studied shadow of I number has not yet been east. So here we excurse into the Numberless Land, where figures don't lie on any- ibody's mind. l lXflr. Numfree. who shall be our business-man hero, lis awakened on a glorious morning-not by the raucous lsound of an alarm-but by sunlight streaming upon his ieyes and leaking beneath the lids. I-'Ie arouses his wife lifwho sleeps in the shadowl to have her prepare his peapaeity of eggs and toast tfor. remember, he is in- gtinocent of the ability of telling the munber of eggs he lrywants for breakfastj. VV ith breakfast hastily swallowed and with a hurried gglance at the height of the sun in the sky, Mr, Numfree pwclashes to the corner to wait for the trolley. I-Ie gives :Mthe newsboy there a piece of candy for what he hopes nas the paper of the day fit has no date, of course. and. winyyvay. nobody knows what the date isl. The trolley comes bumping along on its unscheduled route. The veyeonductor hefts and serutinizes Mr. Numfree's prof- 'KETCICCI lump of metal. which he eventually accepts as HVLDCTOBER . 1939 l A'retribution for the ride. Our friend grabs a strap and opens his newspaper. Does he turn to the weather re- portg financial sheetg stock market quotation: race sheetg A'Sale advertisementsg itemized casualties on Eastern. XVestern, or automobile fronts? No. he is con- tent with a numberless Short Story tcontinued on the page after the page with the picture of the gla-oomph girll. Arriving at his oflice. Mr. Numfree settles down to read the mail Caddressed to Numfree Clothing Com- pany, The Storied Red Brick Building with the Green Roof, on Main between Oak and Ashnl. Ile rejects an order for a horse-sized box of stout mens suits: terms: lump of gold size of an apple. at the next lunar eclipse -for who would take a chance on the event of another lunar eclipse? tAnd, too. apples are small this seasonl. Mr, Numfrees secretary reminds him of his appoint- ment to call Klr. Smith when the sun shows above the roof of the bulding across the street. Central responds to Xlr. Numfrees telephone receiver-lifting with Let- ters, please . Give me X X Q Z A XY. Smith . While A'Ccntral trial-and-errors for Mr. Smith. Nlr. Numfrces secretary slips in a reminder that she tContinned on page 31 I 13 Walking Museum QCondensed from Science Digestj IAMES o'eoNNoR IUST AS man's clothes show buttons that do not function and buttonholes that do not open, so in our body there are structures which are the dwindled relics of organs once actively in use. These obsolete human organs so necessary to early man. are in most cases small. and familiar only to the anatomist. Their persistence shows us that the past lives on within us, even in trivialities. In the corner of our eye there is a little fold. between the eyeball and the red caruncle at the inner angle of the eye. Now there is no doubt as to the origin of the fold which anyone can see in the looking-glassg it is a dwindled relic of the third eyelid which is present in most mammals, and in birds. You have all noticed, no doubt. a horse standing by the side of a street moving its ear-trumpets or ear-pinnae, perhaps to locate the approach of its master who has been delivering some goods. Many mammals do this. and the movements seem to help in the localization of sounds. Man at one time was able to do this. but now his ear-moving muscles are typically vestigial. tThink of the advantage of such ears in listening to the almost whispered announcements during the asscmblyxl In the human body there is also evidence of a certain sense organ, called the organ of lacobsen which would enable us to detect more easily some odoriferous in- gredient. say a poison in the food. that we take into the mouth. But in man it is a vestige often disappearing altogether: and the openings to the organ, which would normally be located far forward on the roof of the mouth. are closed. Many of these obsolete organs appear in the embryo alone. others are present through out life. They are nour- ished by the body but are quite functionless. As Osborn has put it: They are mere pensioners of the body draw- ing pay. for past honorable services without performing any corresponding work . It is interesting to note that the number of dwind- ling human organs is slowly but surely increasing. How far can modern civilization go in throwing into disuse the functions of organs of the human body? At present, wisdom teeth and little toes are on their way out. After these-what then? omen' s ats DOLORES STROBLE IN THIS present day and age. there seems to be a hilarious uproar when the dusty old family album is dragged from its secret place and the solemn, but comi- cal pictures are thoroughly scanned. Modern debutantcs and sophisticated maidens are simply frustrated at the mere idea of wearing a complete battleship. guns and all. on their crowning headsg and so they scoff at their grand- mothers and kin for adorning themselves with such implements. Nevertheless. I. a member of the female species, am going to reverse the tables, so that the old family album may have the last laugh. No. modern damsels. don't turn awayg nay. stay and try to visualize how ridiculous your twentieth century head-garb appears. To begin with. it must be clearly 14 understood that a hat is used for protection. to attract the eye of masculine passcrs-by. and to reveal the traits of the wearer. Now. with that dehnition embedded in your mind, we can proceed to discuss the most popular topic of the day. womcn's hats. First of all, let us examine the fruit- covcred pie plate with its delicious and juicy grapes, pears, and peaches that makes one's mouth water: with this type it seems dangerous to twist the head because the action may produce a sudden torrent of scattered fruit just like the wind disperses apples from a heavily laden branch. This sort of head protection. although not worn with confidence, does arouse a sense of hunger. Included in this group is the QContinued on page 3Ol TOWER LIGHT MAN'S CLOUDS OCTOBER ELLEN ANNE ELSTE Wfhen our Creator stood on lofty plains And dreamed of skies and eyes which would behold I-Iis spacious heav'nly empire of white trains, . I-Ie did of magic, pearly pillows mold. Ile dreamed of shaping fleeey forms which would Tell brilliant tales of joy and woe of life. lThese come in lives of men in all the worldg These may be clouds of happiness or strife. The happy feather fluffs all lightly play, And like the loves of youth, they disappear. Unseen by them an old man's sky may gray And bear impending doom, unbidden fearg 'But when our final cloud shall drift along Wfe pray the wrath of nimbus be not strong. VESTIGIA TERRENT IAIXIES G. IETT As shades of war, like evening's own. grow long, i And like a blear-eyed moose it lingereth V To drink by some wild shore in the still breath i Of night, then bellows forth a challenge strong I r 7 I wonder if I write my even-song - I For time is frail and soon surrendereth, l And all things have their dawn and all their death, , All, all are east into the ghost-like throng. The sun has fallen from its evening perch I Into oblivion from the skies. f Long after it had gone and others thought ig It dead, I walked abroad to see it rise - A fixed event that frightened minds might search i And find a pleasant hope they had not sought. REVERIE SIIIRLIE DIAMOND if I heard the sound of a woman's tears. Ii More desolate than the sea, xi Sigh through the chambers of the years Into eternity. And in the darkness of the night Wfith the gray dusk astir. L' I waited for the first gold light I l I . . f To guide me straight to her. 5 IOCTOBER - 1939 I 've The The The You hII..1z.fxBif:'1'1r M. Lewis grown to love the greenness of the trees. diamond-studded grass. the summer sky, blue bird's call, the sweetly-laden breeze. sunshine, and the robin. Answer why must destroy my summer friends eaeh year, October. with your red, and gold. and brown. Oh, dOn't you understand. or can't you hear My heart's pierced ery. when autumn comes around? For once. October, grant this humble plea: Spare just one blooming bush, one fiower, one tree. Please leave at least one summer friend for me. - - NOR MAN FRANCES ROBISON A startled yelp pierced the silent night. I rushed to the window, Beneath, On the smooth green of the moon-washed grass Two dogs were fighting - But Twisting Tearing Lashing Shrieking Snapping Lips curled Ears tightly pressed Against fight-maddened heads. I looked again. - One dog is Billy! No not Billy. who so often had pleaded Wfith doggy brown eyes To uplay ball with a well-chewed stick - Not Billy, who had always wakened me By thrusting a wet. black nose On my face. Not Billy. who chased the old dilapidated tom eat Up the peach tree. No, it couldnt bc Billy. For he is at rest under that same peach tree, A yictim of a fight IIE hadn't started - Tears turn a fat moon into a cross Then silence P- So peaceful and still - That perhaps ONE prayer reached its destingif tion - t'PIease. God. don't make dogs hghtf' I5 EDITCDRIALS Oil for the Wheels of Student Government Do you know that our Student Council is the one unifying agent in this college which directly or indi- rectly fosters. after a democratic fashion. the work. the play and the extra activities that characterize our col- lege as a progressive institution? To maintain such a policy it is imperative that each and every one of you make a personal contribution in word or action. Have you read. and do you fully understand the na- ture and purposes of this organization? If not. you should then investigate these points in order that you may frilly participate in the meetings of the Student Council and be assured of the proper action at the proper time. S lust at present there is a decided movement afoot to further centralize all our activities by incorporating into the executive board. representatives from each organiza- tion of the college. Since this will mean smoother Stu- dent Council meetings with both a saving of time and a more efficient and polished type of business. we are re- lying upon you to give the new movement your con- stant attention and support. Service Station to Students There is a new department in the 'TOXVER LIGHT - a department which will help you. the students of this college. This new department is called Service Station to Students. Have you ever written to Aunt Ada for advice on your current affair? lf you have. perhaps she has helped you. But this Service Station is different! Suppose you want to find some good pictures on Eski- Inos. Colonial Maryland. trains: or an experiment prov- ing a gas is heavier than air: or some samples of wood to make an exhibit: or how tall the Empire State Building is. Do you know where to look? Ask our Service Sta- tion. lt will try to help you. Any questions regarding illustrative material. good motivation. culminating activ- ities. or even how to get along with your practice teach- er will be cheerfully answered. Freshmen, are you wor- ried. perplexed? Could you use some help in getting or- ganized. finding assignments. learning the habits of the college? We want to help you. Send in your questions to leanne Kravetz via Senior 6's mailbox. 16 A New Year--A New Attitude CALVIN PARKER XVITH THE start of a new school year. the State Teachers College finds that its official magazine has a completely new exterior. The enlargment of the Toyvizrz LIGHT to its present size has been achieved only after a great deal of hard work and endless negotiations on the part of the faculty adviser. lt is felt that this change will meet with the approval of most of the student body because it makes possible a magazine more physically at- tractive than hitherto. But a more important change yet remains to be ae- complished - the improvement of the contents of the Toyviarz LIGHT. Last year the publication asked for sug- gestions as to how improvements could be Inade. All the suggestions made were obviously sincere. but showed for the most part the need of closer coordination with the staff and its work. The magazine receives 51.50 from each students activity fee. which does not even begin to pay for the cost of printing and publishing nine issues. The rest is made up by advertising and by the proceeds from the FFOXVER LIGHT Dance. The word surplus is not in the vocabulary of the business managers. Every one agrees that the Toyvrsn LIGHT should have more pictures, cartoons. etc. But how can they be paid for? By your efforts! The problem of financing the issues is a serious one, but it is not the only one. XVe publish the best articles that are handed in. so give your products more thought- ful attention. XVe are delighted with the response for our first issue. Keep it up! There are well over SOO people in the college. If each and every one of these would contribute just one article, short story. poem. or joke every month. certainly enough good material could be drawn from these to guarantee an interesting and well-written magazine. Thats not too lTlLlCll to ask. How about trying these suggestions for this year and sec if it doesnt help? Seven Critical Questions l. ls this college a Normal School? 2. Can teachers be trained for the elementary schools at any other college in Maryland? 3. Do we have high scholarship standards? 4. Do young men and women prefer to come here? D. Do you have an active loyalty for this institution? 6. Are you an advertisement for the institution? ,. Have you helped your brother or sister ? T O WE R LI G H T 'u I I J 1 I I r A w I r. ! Z I I 4 I 4 'I I 4 'x 1. '4 'I 1 v.. It TIIE LIBRARY - - AT YCUR SERVICE Cryptic Comments On The Library E. ZENTZ AFTER SOME judicious eavesdropping and point- blank questions, the following statements were assem- bled and presented as being a cross-section of student opinion on the new library arrangement and system. mls it really true that we can keep books a whole week? fGlory hallelujah tone of voice.j HI eouldn't finish the assignment - the books haven't come back yet. f'This is a break - not to have to wait around until three o'clock for a six-page pamphlet in the three hun- dredsf' 'tVVith these week book privileges. we can budget the time on a long period assignment. uReturning books at any time in the morning does away with the mad scramble and thronging mob at ten minutes of nine. t'It's swell! This Library system is a mess! UI want to know why people can keep books out for a week - I never can find what I want. f'Ditto. A'VVhy don't they use some of the money the Student Council hands out so generously for duplicates and re- placements and ease up on the veterans of twenty years' A'The new shelving system is grand. XVe're all for it! The new arrangement deserves a fair trial. Let us have 5' your suggestions as freely as you have given your com- ia fx is! siege? li' fl! m If plaints. Our Magazines DORIS KLANK jjj MAGAZINE S I journals! Digests! Periodicals! News- I papers! - there are over one hundred and fifty different , publications in our new Magazine Room for your read- ing information and reading pleasure. Do you have a course in current events? There is a ,Q small magazine, The American Observer, which is pub- IL! ilished every week in XVashington, devoting two pages i. to A'The XVeek at Home and Abroad. It tells. in concise I form. the outstanding news of the week in many fields. .HIOCTOBER . 1939 I The Christian Science Alonitor, a daily newspaper with a weekly magazine section. supplies world news with- out sensational detail. Are you making lesson plans? Both American Child- hood and The Grade Teacher give helps for introducing and conducting lessons and suggest activities in connec- tion with each study. In recent issues of these there are plans for teaching social studies, nature stories, and art and English lessons. Do you enjoy the news in pictures? The Illustrated London News is composed almost entirely of photo- graphs and drawings of subjects of current interest. Do you like to read for recreation? For you there are Readers' Digest. Fortune. Good Housekeeping, and Cor- onet. New among our magazines are the New Yorker, Sat- urday Evening Post, and The Nations Business. XVith such a variety, there is surely a magazine to suit every taste and every need. TWENTY - FOUR TREATS AUDREY HORNER Parker, Dorothy: Here Lies - The Colleclefl Stories of Dor- othy Parker. New York, The Viking Press, 1959. 562 pages. S3.00. Here Lies - The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker! Even the title of Miss Parkers latest volume reveals the ironic humor for which she has become famous. Here. in one collection, are twenty-one stories taken from two books published previously and three new pieces never before put out in book form. To many of us. just the name of Dorothy Parker brings to mind delightfully humorous monologues. dia- logues, and stories. Although we may be familiar with many of the stories contained in this volume. they re- main as effective when read and reread. A Telephone Call. Big Blond, and IIorsey are but a few of the sketches that well stand this crucial test. A new Dorothy Parker is revealed in the three sketches that have been written within the past few years, Now we see an author grown more serious, whose characters are treated with sympathetic tenderness and whose sit- uations are drawn from modern life. Soldiers of the Re- public brilliantly illustrates this new attitude. The story is a glimpse of war-torn Spain in which the horrors of guerilla warfare are clearly brought out. .X group of sol- diers who have just returned from the trenches enter into I7 a conversation with two visiting Americans who lend them cigarettes in a Madrid cafe. The soldiers speak of their families whom they have not seen for months and whom they will probably never see again. Granting that the sketch is not of the propaganda preaching type, the simply told tale of these soldiers. who at the sound of an alarm, march away to another attack. vividly fulfills its purpose. I To those of you to whom a single story by Dorothy Parker is a treat. this collection of twenty-four stories will be enjoyable reading throughout. THE SWORD IN THE STONE DIARY D1 PEPPE J. H. White: The Sword in tbe Stone. New York, G. P. Put- nam's Sons, 1939. To all of you who are continually looking for some- thing different, new, out of the ordinary. I present a newcomer upon the shelves of the Library Hction de- partment - The Sword in the Stone. Here is a book in which humor, fantasy, and adventure are the ingre- dients of a delightful story. The locale of the story is England in the days just pre- ceding the reign of the famed King Arthur. King Ar- thur himself is the principal character, but. unexpected- ly. you find him in the story not as a king or even as a young man, but as a youngster. More surprising than this, you discover first to your bewilderment and then to your amusementj. that the medieval knights. inagi- cians, squires. and witches all converse with one another in very modern dialogue. The plot consists of a whimsical account of the child- hood of King Arthur who is introduced to you as The XVart. The XVart is tutored by Merlyn. the magician, who, among other things, conjures up at will such arti- cles as the daily newspaper, a fountain pen, and cigar- ettes. Due to his magic powers, Merlyn changes The XVart into various birds. fish. and animals so that his young student may obtain his education through first- hand knowledge. The young King Arthur, again with the help of the magician. pays interesting visits to the fairies and to Robin Hood. However, we End that the queen of the fairies fits the description of a modern cn- chantress, while Robin Hood typifies, in speech and action. the athletic young Englishman of today. A very droll incident occurs when The XVa1't falls into the clutches of a witch whose cottage displays a brass plate warning the public that she will not tolerate hawkcrs, circulars, or income tax. For your own pleasure and enjoyment, I heartily urge you to place The Sword in the Stone on your reading list. 18 The Glee Club MARGUERIT13 XVILSON 'AV I E NNA XVOO DS are cool and green. chorused a group of students from the Auditorium. O, soldier, soldier. won't you marry mc? Those voices were fa- miliar. at least to some of the students at S. T. C. It was 3:lS on Monday afternoon and that could only mean one thing: a C-lee Club rehearsal. Miss VVeyforth was there. The group responded en- thusiastically to her direction and we began the year with a good rehearsal. The vacancies left by the gradu- ates were noticeable, but we knew they would soon be Hlled. However, it is not all work and no play in the Clee Club. Parties and picnics are on the schedule as well as rehearsals. The annual Clee Club picnic was held in the Clen on October 9. Our supper was cooked by Norris XVeis, the official chef, and tasted one hundred per cent. good. After supper we sat around the campfire. Lee Mc- Carriar and Mr. VVeis, now in another role. led the group singing. Aside from old favorites we sang a new version of The Old Mill Stream. At seven o'clock. although we were reluctant to leave, the Tower clock told us that it was time to put out fires, fold the blankets, and say good-night. On September 20 the upper class Clee Club mem- bers sang for the Freshmen for the first time this year. The songs selected for that assembly were: The Lord's Prayer - - - Malotte Tales from the Vienna Wfoods - - Strauss Choral from Die Meistcrsinger - XVagner It is not certain whether it was our performance or a previously acquired love of singing on the part of the Freshmen that caused so many to try out. At all events, this year the competition was very keen, there being many who are good Clee Club material. About fifty have been selected thus far. They will become full fledged members at the next rehearsal. A Singing Need IVREDERICA BIEDERM.-xNN CONS I DE R I NC thc age of our Teachers College, and the emphasis that is laid on the study of music, we should certainly have more college songs. Our Alma Mater is one song of which we can truly be proud. Its lovely original melody and words place it in the ranks of thc Encst college songs. But after all. this is a college of over five hundred students! NYhy can't we have songs for various occasions? YYhy not express TOWER LIGHT I that college spirit in music? paniment might each be written by indiixidnals work- l Do not feel that you must master the job by your- ing cooperatively. self. The words, melody. harmony, and pianoaccom- I-Iere's to a melodious answer to our singing need! Opera and The Radio KATHRYNE PETROFF It is Saturday afternoon, Beside the radio is a chair Q and a table. On this table lies Ernest Newman's book, Q Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers. At 1:55 p. m., with expectation. I turn on the radio, pre- pared to listen to the presentation of Georges Bizet's colorful opera Carmen by the Metropolitan Opera I Company. From the first gay notes which are heard in I the introduction to the tumultuous tragic ending of this ii' fast-moving opera, I am held enthralled by the beautiful 'l music which is sung by the Metropolitan's ablest artists. Witlr Ernest Newman's book before me, I follow the 4 l I lg, action of this opera, which, between the acts, is inter- spersed with pertinent remarks by the announcer, Mil- li ton Cross. Besides listening to 'ACarmen, other Saturdays are re- , served for the presentation of the operas Siegfried, La I Traviataf' 'fManon, Lucia di Lammermoorn and oth- li er favorite dramas dear to all music lovers. There are 1 millions who turn to their loudspeakers on Saturday aft- il ernoons and with this vast multitude I feel a friendship. a common bond - the love of fine music. i The presentation of operas over the radio offers many I advantages to the public. People who would never be able to hear or see a full-length opera have the opportu- I nity to listen to a great variety of musical dramas. XVe are able to hear Milton Cross. the renowned music com- mentator, who enlightens us with interesting informa- I 1 I . Q gtion and sidelights on opera stars, conductors, compo- Sers, and their works. Frequently between the acts Mr. Cross has celebrities who enliven the program with amusing and informative anecdotes of their careers ap- pear with him. The listener is able to concentrate on the . music and to give his full attention to it. If he wishes to hear only the music and is interested in the melody I alone, the radio is the most satisfactory medium through which to hear an opera, for there are no scenery nor peo- ple to detract from his attentiong thus. he may hear the good and the weak parts of the opera with a keener and if more appreciative nature. 'I On the other hand, one misses the beauty and majesty ,of the setting. whether it is the elaborate scenery of Carmen or the simple surroundings of Die XValkure. YVhen one listens to a radio presentation. he does not ri have the opportunity to witness the performers in their capacity as drainatists. Finally, there is another attrac- XOCTOBER - 1939 V l tion which the unseen audience misses. that of seeing the conductor lead his orchestra which creates the back- ground and the mood for the players and for the listener. The radio has opened a new and a more prosperous field for musicians, for since the advent of Saturday aft- ernoon performances there has been a definite increase and appreciation of good music experienced by the pub- lic. This nation-wide audience is demanding more and better accomplished artists. There has been a definite change in the attitude of the public toward opera. From the time of the VVorld VVar there had been a decline in its interest in classical music. Since the advent of the opera on the radio the trend has led to a greater degree of love of the fine music of the masters. Perhaps the person who regards this type of music as uhigh-brow may turn to his radio while a Saturday matinee is in progress and may hear an aria, some dance music. or a martial air which catches his fancy. His in- terest is arousedg he decides to listen further. comfort- ably settles himself and prepares to enjoy to the ut- most, this heavenly music. As hc is not present at the Metropolitan. his imagination must be his sight and he finds himself transferred to a far-away land of which the singers are a part, and lives with them the lives which they are portraying. In speaking about opera on the radio. one must not forget Mr. Edward Iohnson, General Manager of the Metropolitan Gpera Company, whose untiring zeal and love for music have led him to work so that the mass of people may develop a keen interest and appreciation for that which is closest to his heart. Ile has acquired talent froni all corners of the world: Lilly Pons is Frances gift to us, Marjorie Lawrence is a native of Australiag Kir- sten Flagstad, the superb heroine of the XVagncrian cy- cle. hails from Norway, Iussi Bjoerling is from Sweden: Ian Kiepura. from Poland: Gailiano Xlassini. from mu- sical ltalyg Bidu Sayaou comes to us from Brazil. By ex- tending the opera season in New York he has rendered a great service to the American people in that more op- portunities for hearing the Saturday afternoon perform- ances have been possible. Mrs. Belmont. president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, has done much to stimulate interest in the opxgi by urging the vast radio audience to send its I-piinwiis and criticisms on any aspect of the Metropolitan Opera 4 That her eltorts have been successful has been proved by the fact that many times Milton Cross has read to us some of the letters sent by the listeners. The radio has become the most important medium through which are presented to the public world news. comedy. tragedy. and. most frequently. music. XVhen the Metropolitan first broadcast its operas several years ago. music lovers hailed this iimovation in the hope that it would stimulate a desire in the people to cultivate a taste for fine music. Thus far, these hopes have been amply rewarded. This renaissance has extended its scope to include the symphony and chamber music. The glorious works of the most eminent composers are being presented to the public and are becoming increas- ingly important because people are demanding to see and hear operas which have gone into obscurity such as Beethoven's Fidelio and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoorf' One week we hear a German music drama by XVag- ner, next an Italian opera by any one of Italy's illustri- ous composers. such as Verdi. Puecini. Rossini. Then we have a setting in France. lapan. or Russia, as in Prince Igor. or in America. A'The Girl of the Colden XVest. To go beyond that, we have presented on the American stage the opera Aida, composed by the Ital- ian. Verdi. which opera's locale is in Egypt. The Metropolitan Opera Company recognizes no dis- crimination in race or creed. It adheres to the policy that music is for everyone to hear and to enjoy. This exten- sion of the musical sphere is another proof of the free- dom which is the very essence of music. Music is essen- tially universal - any who endeavor to restrict it by raising national and racial barriers serve only to place a death sentence on creative expression. Opera on the radio has enriched the cultural experience of the Amer- ican citizen and is of definite value as an instrument of music education. International Relations Club IEANNE KRAVETZ YOUAIE READ of renovations and face liftings. XYell. we've changed our name! Perhaps you have heard of the League of Young Voters - of its interesting meet- ings and pleasant social affairs. The same will continue. We have the same setup, the same purpose. However. we are now the International Relations Club. XYith a new name. we want many new faces. So Freshmen. join now and learn about the world today, meet well-known speakers, join in interesting discussion. Xliiden your horizons by joining the I. R. C. 20 The Orchestra AT OUR tirst rehearsal. Orchestra members had the feeling that it was the Orchestra of 1938-1939 with the calendar turned back to lune. All of the chairs were in- tact with familiar faces at each desk. But with a second look we saw we were welcoming new members, some of whom we saw at new additional desks in the violin sec- tion and one. a new organist. Besides those of us re- hearsing now, a number of students are trying out for the instruments owned by the college. These students will come into the Orchestra as fast as they succeed. YVe'll tell you the winners in due time. Our new music stands are most welcome: and we do need them, with the largest Orchestra ever. The upper- elassmen remember that sudden shower which fell as we played last Commencement. It dampened us then, but the new stands are our reward, so let bygones be by- gones. and we will hope the new ones are never in a rain! Seniors. join your wishes to ours when you think of May Day and Commencement. Our work for the year is under way with rehearsals for the assemblies. a broadcast. and a program for the State Teachers Association claiming attention. XVith so many students learning instruments. the director hasn't had time for our group ensembles, but before long we hope you will hear them practicing as now you hear some of the brass section, if you come to school before nine. XVe have some plans for our part of the Towrzn LIGHT also. Perhaps you would like to know more about what it takes to be a good Orchestra member, so we are going to try to tell you. XVe hope you like it. NVatch this space in your next issue! EVOLUTION OF A FRESHMAN ESTA B.-xBL.-iN Terrific trouble it is indeed To make a plant grow from a seed. Every farmer knows 'tis so - And yet, the little seedlings grow. In the same manner we may note That a Freshman is but a tiny boat. If you Seniors acknowledge that as true Some day. perhaps. t11ey'll be ocean liners . too. A young husband was trying to teach his nervous wife to drive a car. They were on a narrow country road and she had been driving only for a short time when she ex- claimed: Take the wheel quickly. darling, here comes a tree! TOWER LIGHT 3. L . un.. -4.4 . ..'..A,- ' ' S N I C K S ' ' HENRY N. STECKLER With the beginning of the 1939-40 soccer season, Coach Minnegan finds himself faced with his usual hard task of building a soccer team from limited material. Regardless of the final outcome of the season, the stu- dent body may rest assured that Towson will again place a fighting team on the field. Although this year's team will contain many hard- running, fleet-footed boys, we can hardly expect it to top last year's record. As you remember, Towson went through the 1938 season undefeated to win the cham- pionship of the Maryland Collegiate Soccer League. Such line booters as UVVindy Cordon, Paul Massicot, Tom Coedeke, Robinson, Bennett, Cox, McConnell, and others will be difficult to replace. Teachers College will again use the simple formula of outrunning its opponents. The returning veterans, Calder, Cernik, Shock, Hart, Lauenstein, and Captain Lou Cox, together with other seasoned players and like- ly looking Freshmen, will help considerably to offset our graduation losses. State Teachers will shoot the works in every game. The team will be hard to beat. The soccer menu looms as an attrctive one. The following is the 1939 schedule as complete as I have it: Date Friday, October 13 Friday, October Z0 Monday, October 23 Friday, November 3 Tuesday, November 7 Friday, November 10 Team Location Blue Ridge ......,. Towson Salisbury T. C. .,,.,. Towson U. of Virginia ...... Towson VVestern Maryland . .Towson Iohns Hopkins ..... Towson U. of Maryland.College Park VV. NORRIS WEIS SURPRISE! Once again t'So VVhat greets ye olde September Observations upper-classmen and ye newe Freshmen. The thought of your not having someone to report to you the various sundry and obnoxious bits of news that otherwise would not get into print fwith apolo- gies to L. M. MJ so overwhelmed me that I thought it my bounden duty to return and serve you in the aforementioned capacity. fEd. Note - Seems as if this guy took a course in etymology this summerj I know you are delighted with the prospect. Heh, heh, heh! I am, so far as my business is to find monkey- business and report it to you, and I should appreciate any student enlightening me as to the incidents and ob- servations that would be of interest to my many read- ers, both of you. But after all is said and done, So Wfhat? Now to get on with this month's heckling: OCTOBER . 1939 The topography of the Freshman girls is quite up to standard. This is the general consensus of opinion of the upper-classmen and the gentlemen of the faculty. The new Cafeteria system would be an overwhelming success if everyone's lunch period were 120 minutes long. ' It is obvious that the Freshman girls are much more familiar with various spots in the Clen than with thc location of their classrooms in the Administration Build- ing or the books in the Library. Could the Freshman tours with the Iuniors and Seniors have been respon- sible? The girls of the entering class are all inquiring as to the whereabouts of The XVhitey. Can anyone in Sr. ' help them? I Did You Know That - Miss XVeyforth is seriously studying the theory and philosophy of hula dancing? The hand gestures should come naturally. Mr. Crook was offered a position on Admiral Byrd's expedition to the South Pole? Ruth Nizer. Freshman girl, is the first logical candi- date for the college Lu-lu group? Nice work if you can get it. Ruth. Because of her excellent qualifications. we have agreed to crown Marie Parr as Queen of the Play? L. L. L. has originated a sure-fire method for obtain- ing quick dismissals in the elementary school? He mere- ly says. Children, the last one in the cloak-room is a monkey. Twice he was trampled in the rush. One of the newcomers asked if Mr. Miller were a Senior? . XVillie Ranft is still a single man? lsn't that good news. girls? O O Dorm Notes XVhat Senior girls were repaid with a box of Martha XVashington fnot an advertisementj candy and Nether- land stamps for the loan of two umbrellas on a rainy night? Some Seniors fl suppose I should say only onej re- ceived two dozen red roses this week-end just for the heck of it. Confidentially, the Mgang would appreciate candy more! Hats off to the men of the dorm! XV hy? They treated all the Senior girls of the dorm to pretzel-sticks. coca- colas, sundaes. and nickleodeon music at the Arundel. Senior privileges really have their advantages. Another one of our group received a U. of Md. brace- let. C-uess why? Maybe C-. I. can help inform us. XVhat engaged Senior, while dancing on one of our nights out lhave you ever danced on a night out? lt's better than most dance Hoorsj turned her ring around? lt was really fun! Bercha' - Beteha' we'll have hamburgers in the Cafe this year. 120 to 1.1 Betcha' Miss XVeyforth will not have 7.500 miles on her Chevrolet by Christmas. C100 to 1.1 Betcha' Coach will find at least ten Fancy Charlies among the Freshman lads. I5 to Z.j Observe the foyer at noon. Betcha' Luther Cox will have ample motivation for his soccer this season. 115 to 1.1 Betcha' Dr. XVest doesn't miss more than two college dances this year, C3 to Z.j Beteha' Kitty Hepburn will find something definitely lacking from her Senior year. 1500 to 1.1 Betcha' I can tell when I've seen Marie Parr's brown eyes turn green. I 12 to l.j Betcha' Fred Tiemeyer won't shoot off any more Bre- craekers around a certain psychology professor's house. 190 to 1.1 Betcha' Harry Russel1's English marks will soar to un- known heights this year. fl0 to l.j At least he's trying hard, eh what? . . Freshman Retorts Mr. Crook: XVhat is the name of an animal whose main diet is made up of cellulose? Another Frosh: I know, teacher. XVoodpecker. O I Finale And at last we come to the most enjoyable paragraph of this bibulous conglomeration of alleged writing. XV e close with a contribution for joe Miller's joke Book fCopyright l886j which came to us by our consistent I-I. R.: Our brilliant jokester. passing. cast a reflective eye into the sky and drawled, 'AXVell. I guess it's going to be tough sledding today. 'tVVliy? we answered. kicking ourselves for biting. No snow, said he. going immediately into its of laughter. So. until next mouth - So Long and So VI'hat? ATTENTION ! !! Students: XVouldn't you welcome the opportunity to have one of your most pointed letters to a faculty member made public and be assured of a solid stu- dent backing? XVon't you share with our gullible readers just a bit of that personalized pen prattle that drifts from hand to hand. unknown to most of us? Of course you will. XVe'll save a place for you in the next issue of the Towna LIGHT under the heading. Scriptopia. 22 Faculty: XVhere is the letter from that bewailing student teacher at his rope's end, that informal note sent in the greatest of haste with those peculiar errors so unbecoming to a teacher and your prize antiques written in Old English? XVe hope you'll also want to have published one of those regular letters to another faculty member. YVe're counting on you to do your part. N. B. - You've always wanted to read your neighbor'S mail. Heres your chance. Feel free to write to whom- ever you please in the college for publication. TOWER LIGHT. i r IN OUR MAILBOX luly 30, 1939 - The S. S. President Roosevelt carried our former President, Dr. Tall, to France last Iune. Dr. Tall toured the continent, first going to Paris and then to the Alpine Republic. From Lucerne she went to the German capital, Berlin. Evidently, she was in Ger- many while secret military preparations were be- ing made for the Polish war. XV e are thankful she was not there at the outbreak of military operations. Dr. Tall left Cermany and visited more neutral-minded countries. ln Finland she attended a meeting of the American Association of University VVomen. This was the real purpose of her trip. Dr. Tall was in Stockholm. Sweden, when war was declared. lt was here that her plans were changed and, like other Americans abroad. she began to arrange for her passage home, She arrived safely on board a Nor- wegian ship on Thursday, September the fourteenth. August 15, 1939 - Ponca City, Oklahoma - Mary McClean, graduate of 1938, B.S. degree, spent the summer visiting oil wells and Indians in and around Oklahoma. August 25, 1939 - Mammoth Co., Kentucky - Ethel Troyer. graduate of 193-1 and Gladys Troyer, Class of 1931. enjoyed a third tour of the South as far as Nashville. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEXIISNTS luly 5. 1939 - Anna Marguerite Schorr, graduate of 1936, to Stan- ley R. 1Vhipple. luly 14, 1939 - Massey. Md. - Mary Evelyn Peacock. graduate of 1939, B.S., to Lee Clifton Clark. Chestertown, Md. luly 20, 1939 - Helen Alma Taylor, graduate of 1937. to XValtcr Ernest Uebersax. graduate of 1937. August 10, 1939 - Ruth Regina Chrest, graduate of 1926, to Charles S. Dennis. A Prunetta Kopp. graduate of 1925, to Charles E. Caltrider. August 12, 1939 - Eileen Carvan McHale. graduate of 1937, to XVar- ren Collier. August 13, 1939 - Louis Cox. graduate of 1939. B. S.. to Bernice Eileen Klemm. August 19, 1939 - Olney, Md. - Katherine Lansdale Riggs, graduate of 1933. to lohn Iustus Meyer, lr., graduate of 1936, B.S. CALENDAR ITEMS N. M. M Sunday. September 17 - The lirst vesper service of the Student Christian Association, the Y. YV. C. A.. that has enlarged to include men students. was held in , Newell Hall foyer. Dr. XViedefeld spoke to the stu- , dents concerning religion as a means of preserving de- . mocracy. Quite appropriately. she turned the search- lights on a group of future teachers, advising them to l . . r take stock of themselves in the light of a moral code basic to religion universally. 1 O O l 1 1 Tuesday, September 19 - XV ith violin meditation For yOCTOBER . INS l the Beauty of the Earth. the Student Christian .-Xsso, ciation assembled for morning devotion in thc council ring in the glen. Singing of hymns. Bible reading, and prayer made the sanctuary a fresh. living impression. O O First 1Veek - Study hours ended and selected groups of pajama-clad Freshmen gathered in Miss Crccris room. lt's a most attractive room with fnrnisliing of blue. rose and tan. Punch and cookies added nnwli to the half-hour of fun and chatter in our ilornntory direetor's room. J Democracy IN THE CAMPUS SCHOOL KATHERINE IACOB TODAY democracy is being questioned. XVC are won- dering what kind of education has brought about Fas- cism and the other L'isms . But in the Campus School there is no question of democracy. Here the children are working together and cooperating with the other factors of the school organization. The Student Council, whose active members are the children from the third grade to the seventh, inclusive. is most important in seeing that the responsibilities given to the children are carried out. Each class has du- ties to perform and their various committees make re- ports at council meetings. Complaints are heard and suggestions are given by the children themselves. Miss Steele is the faculty adviser of these meetings. The duties of the grades vary. The first grade dis- tributes and collects the absence slips from each of the classrooms. Every afternoon the third grade sees that the tops of the pianos and phonographs are closed and that the plants in the hall and Auditorium are watered. The Lost and Found Department is in their charge. The Campus Committee of the fourth grade is com- posed of conscientious workers. The students of the Col- lege have had to be reminded by them of their responsi- bility. The mail is carried between the Campus and the Administration Building by the fifth grade. In the Cam- pus School there is a milk fund for children too poor to buy milk. The lifth grade has charge of this. A most democratic gesture is being carried on by the Student Council. Visitors are invited to the Council meetings. The fifth grade issues the invitations. This pre- vents the meetings from being 'tclosed-door affairs. The author suggests that other Student Councils should note this. The playground is divided into sections and grades are assigned to the various sections. The sixth grade set- tles complaints that arise from this. They also care for the playground equipment. In the seventh grade are the committees for general safety. They have charge of posting radio schedules and assembly announcements. A duty new this year is that of being cashier for the lunchroom. XVith everyone working together. discussing his own problems and solving them, they are building a better school organization. More important still. they are de- veloping an appreciation for democracy. 24 THE BIG FOUR P. HERNDON XV hen you see a girl who's walking In a daze and also talking Ot the boy she met this summer at the shore, Of how Cable always thrills her - Of how working nearly kills her - Of the skirt she can't get into any more, You'll know she's a Freshman. W' here you see a girl who's walking Rather briskly, and is talking Of the Math test she will have sometime next week, Of the mysteries of Science - Of the German-Russ. Alliance - Of the Freshmen, who are anything but meek, You'll know she's a Sophomore. Wfhen a girl looks somewhat worried, Rather flustered, tired, hurried. And she talks of Student Teaching all the time, Of a lovely desert island Vlfhere she'd rest and play a while and Vlfhen there'd never be a Unit - lhow sublimell You'll know she's a Iunior. If you see a girl rvho's Walking Rather languidly and talking Of examinations - tnothing need be said Of her natural elation At her coming graduation And the hope that all her marks won't be in redj You'll know she's a Senior. So I'll close this, budding students. tVVhoni I've told about with prudencej This last I have to say won't take much time - Heres a fact: land well I know itj I shall never be a poet For I've had one awful time to make this rhyme! The Foreign Situation Probably the shortest book ever written would be W'ho's W'ho in Germany. -The Evening Sun. .-. .-, 4, The Awful Truth Never ask for second portions: Always show you are well bred. Youll be known for your gracious manners, But you won't bc well fed. TOWER LIGH'I t I it-HCIDSHQUM Three Little Words These were voted tops as the three sweetest words in the English language: l. I love you. 2. Dinner is served. 3. Keep the change. 4. All is forgiven. 5. Sleep till noon. 6. Here's that five. And the saddest were: l. External use only. Z. Buy me one. 3. Out of gas. 4. Dues not paid. 5. Funds not sufficient. 6. Rest in peace. -College I-Iuinor. :,. :,. ,,. In drv cleaning shops the work is hard only in spots. 12: nk 1,2 American men look at women when Qthey thinkj the women are not aware of it: Englishmen do not look at them at all: but Frenchmen look at them with such thoroughness and intensity that you half expect them to approach and ask dubiously. HIS it washable? -QVV ith Malice Toward Some-M. Halsevj s:: sg: sg: Question: XVhat is a waffle? Answer: A pancake with a non-skid tread. Ever hear the one about the bed nine feet long? XVell, that's a lot of bunk. Would You Say - That YVashington said wc should have no entangling alliances? lt was Iefferson who used this phrase. VVashington, in his Farewell Address, used Upermanent alliances. That umpires watch the plate? I Umpires do not look at the plateg instead, they see an imaginary rectangle, I7 inches wide, extending from the batter's shoulders to his knees. That the poinsettia is a red flower? 1 Only the leaves are red. The flower is yellowish, 1' That Mont Blanc is in Switzerland? I Mont Blanc is in France. l Orville A. Lindquist - Sunday Sun. gOCTOBER - 1939 I P I XVillie: Can I have any sea food I like? Mother: Yes. dear. XVhat shall I order for you? XVilIic: Salt water taffy. YV arm breath on my cheek. Soft touch on my shoulder. Little face. pressed close to mine. Eeek! XVho let the cat in? at sg: sg: The poor man was eifusive in his thanks to his rich friend. This five dollars will help me out of a tight hole, and I'll send it back to you in a few days. By the way, what is your address? The rich man looked solemn. Fairview Cemetery. he replied. UO, nonsense. Thatls not your address. UNO, said the rich man. abut it will be before you Send this Eve dollars back. sg: sg: 11: They call her lX'Iussy Lena 'cause she's the fascist girl in town. Dear Tom: Come tomorrow evening sure. Papa is at home, but is laid up with a very sore foot. See? May. Dear lXfIay: I can't come tomorrow evening. TM laid up on account of your father's sore foot. See? Tom. The girl who does everything under the sun always has shadows under her eyes. Two convicts managed to get a few minutes of con- versation. Hello, mate. said one. How did you manage to get here? 'Tm a victim of my unlucky number. thirteen. I'Iow's that? Twelve jurymen and one judge. -Evening Sun. In darkest Africa two natives were watching a leopard chasing a large fat man. A'Can you spot the winner? asked one. The winner is spotted. replied the other. -Evening Sun. sz 1, sg: Teacher: Name a great inventor and his chief invcnf tions. Pupil: Thomas A. Edison. Ifirst hc invented light bulbs. Then he invented the phonograph and pcrfct't'.zl the radio so people would stay up all night and use his light bulbs. Soph: I can tell how much water to a quart goes over Niagara Falls. Fresh.: I betcha you can't. How much? Soph.: Two pints. .-. .-. ic ,,. ,,. ,,. A disgruntled shareholder rose from his seat at a company meeting and shook an angry fist at the chair- man. Sir. he said fiercely. I regard you as a liar and scoundrel and the biggest rascal unhungf' The chairman looked at him scornfully. Sir, he said with dignity. you forget yourself. .-, .c .-. fy- 4- vs- Young man to his friend while horseback riding: A'Shall we take the bridlepath. Pamela? Pamela: Oh, George, this is so sudden! XVhen I looked out of the window, Iohnny, I was glad to see you playing marbles with Billy Simpkinsf' XVe weren't playing marbles. XVe just had a fight and I was helping him to pick up his teeth. Teacher: Now that you have read the story of Rob- inson Crusoe. XVillie, tell me what kind of a man you think he was? XVillie: A contortionistf' Teacher: WV hat makes you think so, XVillie? XVillie: Because it says that after his day's work, he sat on his chest. Mrs. Iones: HI wonder if I could borrow your rug- beater? Mrs. Smith: UI am sorry, he doesn't get home until six o'clock. .-. .-. .-. .,. .,. ,,. Father fto infant son sucking his thumbl : Hey. son! Don't do that. You may need it when you get old enough to travel. Can you type? Yes, I use the Columbus System. XVhat's that? 'AI discover a key and then land on it. 1,1 1,2 13: Iones: Ants are supposed to be the hardest working creatures in the world. Smith: t'Yes. but they still have time to attend pic- nies. .., .-. .-. .,. ,,. ,,. Son: Pop. what is heredity? Father: The force. my son. which arranges that all your good traits be inherited from your mother and all your bad ones from me. 26 Friend: Did you get any replies to your advertise- ment that a lonely maid sought light and warmth in her life? Spinster: Yes. Two from an electric company and one from the gas company. .-. ... .c Teacher: XVhat did the Federal Government do with Negroes who fled to thc North during the Civil XVar? Student: They put them in Union suits. .i. .-. .-. ,,. ,,. ,,. The Governor picked up the phone and called long distance. I want to speak to Killer Demoll, at the State pris- on. he said excitedly. Sorry, a voice answered, but your party just hung up. The gum-chewing girl And the cud-chewing cow Are somewhat alike, Yet different somehow. XVhat difference? Oh. yes. I see it now. It's the thoughtful look On the face of the cow. Movies Are Educational Don Ameche invented the wireless. Tyrone Power built the Suez Canal. Things We Can Do Without Bag rattlers in the movies. Popcorn eaters at the movies. XVe have an American school teacher staying at bed and breakfast with us. She is a small. dynamic woman whose manner suggests very clearly that life had better watch its step. or she will take down its little pants and spank. -gW'ith Malice Toward Some - AI. Halseyl. Fresh.: You said the composition I handed in was both good and original and yet you gave me zero. Teacher: 'tXVell. the part that was original was no good. and the part that was good was not original. Teacher: 'Allhat is meant by 'shining raimcnt'? Student: An old blue serge suit. My wild oats wercn't sown. They were raised in flower-pots. -1VI'ith Malice Toward Some - AI. Halseyl. TOWER LIGHT Can It Happen Here? KATHERINE FEASER SCIENCE, THAT stairway to progress, has added one more to its list of phenomena. Recently, I read of the creation of invisible glass. which, if used in the win- dows of department stores. would eliminate glare. Regardless of its virtues, think of the complications invisible glass might bring about even in the day of an ordinary person, were it used generally. Let's follow Lucy Brains, an average college girl, through a day in a World where invisible glass is used. On arising Lucy wants a drink of water so she goes to get a tumbler from exactly where she placed it last night for just such a time as this fbut then just where was that place?l . Lucy gropes around for a time. because, remember. the glass is invisible. Smash! The glass, how- ever, was not unbreakable. Lucy runs down the hall to the fountain for a drink. Lucy wants to comb her hair. This time her difficul- ties are not so numerous. She walks up to the mirror frame. Alia! That piece of glass is bounded by four vis- ible pieces of board. Noontime! Lucy dashes from assembly to her room in the dorm where she finds awaiting her a call for pack- age slip. Cracious! VVhat a charming bouquet! Though Lucy had forgotten that today she turned twenty, he had not forgotten. Bounding up the steps with her arm- ful of flowers. Lucy thought. That glass bowl Mother gave me will be just the container for these. But where is the glass bowl? Lucy searches the cupboard shelf and the bottom bureau drawer in a futile attempt to locate the bowl. She places the flowers in the tile sink fvisible, by the wayj. Lucy goes to science lab. The prof. announces to the class that here on the supply table are Hasks and test tubes made of new invisible glass. The college is so for- tunate to get a supply of these so soon. The class looks at the prof. in blank astonislnnent and little twitterings break out here and there because. remember, all the stu- dents can see are a couple of test-tube racks. apparently empty. Lucy, thankful for that bell which marks the end of the last class. Hees to the dorm to repair her war paint for her date with Manny Muscle. of football fame. Too bad it's raining, but then. what's a little rain? Manny has a smart new convertible coupe. Once in the car Lucky asks, XVhy the windshield wiper. Manny, and no windshield? OCTOBER . 1939 Manny beams proudly. Oh, my dear. haycn't you heard of invisible glass yet? Lucy reaches out hcr hand cautiously. Yes, it's hard and it keeps the rain out. It must be invisible glass. Before returning to the dorm. they stop for a soda. Staring at them in bold print is a sign, Please hold your glass in your hand until the waiter collects it. XVe use invisible glass. That night, Lucy. weary from the whirl of the day. sinks on her bed and yawning. mutters. lf we must have invisible glass, please let's have it colored. SENIOR SORCERY On Friday, the thirteenth, Put your worries in the ditches - Come to our dance And be bewitehed by witches. They don't wear tall hats Or have crooked noses. And ride on broom-sticks, As everyone supposes. They wear stiff shirts, And shoes that hurt their eorns. The broom-sticks are strings Or maybe brass horns. Billy Isaac is the brewer Of potent melodies. So come and be enchanted By his rapturous rhapsodies. The Senior Benefit Dance In the Auditorium. Friday. October thirteenth: Billy Isaac and his Connnandcrs. P. S., To all ye lads and lassies Wfhdye no reason to buy thc passes Copy this to make ii show And send it to your very best beau. Four ages of man: Xlother spanks him: girl makes tool of himg wife bosses him: daughter works hun. Fashion Flashes 1XlARlE PARR A UT U M N FAS H I ON S have now taken their place in the style parade and eoeds at S. T. C. are keeping right up with them - college days have just begun but already the following hits in wearing apparel have been noted around the campus: . . Those new long. sloppy cardigan sweaters are all the rage. girls. You must have at least one included in your wardrobe. M. YV. has a most attractive one in soft green. . . Plaid skirts are very popular again this year. Scar- let is the favorite color. H. 0. looks quite bonny in her pleated all-round one. . . Socks and saddles are still holding their placen of tops in footwear, but inoecasins are swiftly rising in popularity. . . Hjunk iewelryn of all types has been seen a great deal, too. Bells and shells have taken the place of charms. . . Never before have so many angora sweaters filled the halls at the college. Pastel shades are mainly chosen for this type sweater. . . Have you seen A, Ffs knee-length woolen socks? They are supposed to be the height of fashion this season. . . Snoods are also becoming quite popular - per- haps you have notieecl R. K. wearing one. Very in- dividual looking. . . 1X1en's clothes are also very smart this season. Green seems to be the color and anything sporty goes. - . . XV. R. has a very ehie sport jacket - quite eolle- giate! . . H. R.'s socks are getting louder each month. XVhere does he get them? . . Bow ties seem to be coming back. lust ask A. S. . . Then. of course. a white sweater with the college MRI proudly displayed on the front is a necessity for every boy. Better enter sports right now so you can join the ranks, Freshmen. So you see how fashions are changing gradually. All this has been seen in a few days. Next month we are going to devote this page to the Freshmen and see how they rate in the fashion parade! 28 Epitaphs Thomas Klulvaney 1724 - 1795 Old Thomas Mulvaney lies here. His mouth ran from ear to ear. Reader. tread lightly on this wonder For if he yawns you're gone to thunder. .-, .-. J. ,,. ,,. ,,. Here Lies the Body of Susan Lowder XVho Burst XVhile Drinking Seidlitz Powder Called from this XVorld to Her Heavenly Rest She Should Have XVaited Till it Effervesced 1793 In Memory of Anna Hopewell Here Lies The Body of our Anna Done to death by a banana lt wasnlt the fruit that made her go But the skin of the thing that laid her low Sarah Seroggins Gone to meet: Her 18 children and Three husbands Beneath this stone A lump of clay Lies Arabella Young XVho on the Zlst of May 1771 Began to hold her tongue T O WE R LI G H'J Adam Betts 1827 - 1846 The Lord saw good I was lopping off wood YV hen down fell me from a tree I met with a check And broke my neck, And so the Lord lopped off me. In Memory of Mr. Peter Daniels Born Aug. 7, 1688 Dyed May 20, 1746 Beneath this stone, A lump of clay Lies Uncle Peter Daniels VVho too early in month of May Took oit his winter flannels Ieremiah Zilpah of Mercy and Patience Zilpah Here I lie with my two Daughters Brought by drinking mineral- XVaters If we had stuck to epsom salts VVe wouldn't be lying in these Here Vaults Y is Here lieth the remains of THOMAS XVOODHEN The most amiable and excellent of 1nen. N. B. His real name was XVoodcock, but it w0uldn't come in rhyme. His XVidow. OCTOBER . 1939 Beneath this stone and not above it Lie the remains of ANNA LOVlj'l l' Be pleased. dear reader. not shove it For twixt you and I, no one does covet To see again this Anna Lovett. Left us May 17, 1769 The New Time FOR YEARS educators have been waiting for the opening of a news-reel theater in Baltimore to aid in the teaching of current events and history. News-reels are of great value to teachers because they present his- tory in the making. Around the tirst of October, Baltimore will join the ranks of such metropolitan centers as New York. Boston, Philadelphia, NVashington, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Newark, when the Time Theater, the na- tion's number one news-reeler, opens its doors in the 1700 block North Charles Street. YV ith the opening of the Time. Baltimore will be able to see the truly great and magnilicent achievements in the photographic, electrical and other technical devel- opments in the art of motion picture exhibition. The Time Theater will be the lirst in Maryland to offer the newly-perfected Mirroplionic Deluxe Sound System. the latest accomplishment of the XVcstern Elec- tric and Bell Telephone laboratories. Mirrophone gives you the Hnest, fullest, most lite-like sound reproduction you've ever heard. Artistically, the new Time Theater will be a revela- tion in intimate charm and beauty. Nationally-knowrr Paul Roche, who did the murals at the Enoch Pratt Library, will do a series of ten wall murals in the theater auditorium, These illustrations will graphically portray the various exciting phases of news-reel subjects, Every detail of acoustics. air-conditioning. seating. decoration and projection at the Time will be the latest known to theater engineers and architects. 29 . . the Best Costs Less! GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR 'Neills Charles Street at Lexington Called For - - And Delivered Greetings TO THE MARYLAND STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE You All Know Confectionery MARTHA A. ANDERSON YORK ROAD, opposite Linden Terrace Compliments of . . TOWSON THEATER The Sunnah jliatinnal Bank nf Zltintusun, jllllh. People with Discriininating Tastes Prefer Esskay Quality MEAT PRODUCTS WOMEN'S HATS QContinued from page I-H flower decked or garden type of hat. which is strewn abundantly with every kind of blossom from sweetpeas to daisies. XVhen a sunny day arrives and sends its rays on the decorative plants, one can imagine that he is in merry Italy in the midst of a fertile valley blessed with a huge covering of these fragile flowerets. Secondly, let us consider the beret that resembles an ice bag. which is used for raging headaches. There is attached on both sides of the beret a piece of ribbon which serves as a chin strip and which ties into a perky bow at any convenient spot. In order to save this unruly piece of ribbon from slipping, the wearer must keep her neck craned on one side so as to balance it. This style gives the owner an appearance of one who is in pain, and if worn too often, results in a bad case of neck cramps. Next, let's become acquainted with the head cover- ing that is ornainented with both wild and domesticated creatures. Indeed it seems at times as if the entire vicious animal kingdom is shoved on one brim, and instead of attracting the male generation, only tends to frighten them. However, the milliner's favorite animal is the bird with its pompous feathers and bright coloring. It is not an unusual sight to see perched on an inverted- bowlfshaped crown a scarlet cardinal whose beak is opened and whose wings are spread wide as if ready to soar into a flight for a juicy worm. Indeed, it seems as if thc bird should, at some interval, rise. and in a lofty flight take with him the flimsy crown, leaving the owner standing in awe at the fleeing feathered bullet. Yes, there is without a doubt much fun in watching a woman promenade down the street with an odd ob- ject resting dubiously on her head. However ultra-mod- ern these new-fangled hats are supposed to be. I main- tain they are just as silly, if not more so. than those of the past decade. On the other hand, you'vc got to credit the fair damsel with courage to sport a piece of head wear that even the strongest of men fearg in short, thc phrases that women are the weaker sex is obsolete. THE BEST TRIP EVER LContinucd from page lily of the shell: to stop anc pick up a mother petrcl or one of her young: to watcl Mr. Cruikshank climb an immense virgin spruce ani lift a baby Osprey from its nest. while the mother an- father bird screamed overhead. XVC were told that nat uralists who devote their whole lives to the study C TOWER LIGH'. i I i ,i birds, have really never seen the things we were able to see and experience in two weeks. This was something to think about. In the evenings, after supper, we all attended lectures given by various faculty members or classified our day's collections. Supper out-of-doors around the campfire called for an evening of entertainment. Dressed in our warm clothes, we gathered around, sang old songs, and learned new ones. Each one who had something to contribute gladly volunteered. There were campers from almost every state and they all sang their hoine-state songs. I was proud to sing Maryland. My Maryland with the Camp Director and his family. Camp lasted for only two weeks, but its memories will last forever: so also will the many friendships made. I feel that I am greatly indebted to the Natural History group of S. T. C. for making this experience possible. MAN WITHOUT NUMBER ' fContinued from page l3j hasn't been paid since the moon she went canoeing. The day at the oflice is ground to a close at the sink- ing of the sun. Mr. Numfree's wife is waiting anxiously at home. for they have a theater engagement. It is es- sential to arrive there early to get a good seat. since seats are designated by such appellations as Balcony closest Ito the roof. the row without a brass rail in front of it, the seat next to the seat with the broken arm-rest. The theater orchestra tunes up to the UA of the lpiano at hand. It does not matter that the lights in the pit, as well as the house lights, are being dimmed, for of course, musicians must play by ear. They render a warm- ying selection. as the unregulated theater air is some- ywhat chilly. The play to follow is A'The Night after lthe Night after the Night fand so on for some more lNiglitsj by Shakeshere. supposed no longer living-but iwho knows. since there is no record of his demise? l The taxi-beg pardon. the cab ffor taxi implies taxi- I fmeter, and who can imagine a meter without number?l ithat takes our friends from the theater finds it necessary Qto stop for gasoline on the way. There being no fuel igauge to indicate the state of the tank. the station at- Hendant ceases pouring when the tank overflows. After lthe consequent haggling about payment, Mr. and Mrs. iNumfree are sped Crclatiyely. that is. for speed cannot lbe measured herel to their lovely modern home 3, But wait. Perhaps lovely homes. taxis. theaters. offices. rnewspapers. and all are a bit too ideal for our Number- lless Society. XVc had better start over and make that lhome of the Numfrees a cave. lOCTOBER . 1939 A Deposit of .ffi'I.0U Opens ez Clwrkizzxe ,'IC'F0llllf in the CHECKMASTER Plan uf Ulibe Zlliutnsun jiatinnal Malik TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is five cents for each cheek drawn and each deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment TIRES BATTERIES Texaco Service Station Phone, Towson 1094 YORK RD. and BURKE AVE. You Wfill Be A Wfelcome Depositor In Ulibe Bank of ,Baltimore Qllnuntp YORK ROAD . . . TOWSON, MD. Deposits Guaranteed to 55,000.00 pzfee A Cowie In hopping Af HUTZLEK BFQTHEK3 BANKING SERVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL Personal Loans -i Q, Investment Certilicates issued in multiples of of S50.00. Interest payable january lst S100 to S1000 and July lst At Fair Rates. IVE INVITE YOUR INQUIRY Citizens' Industrial Bankers, Inc. 104 ST. PAUL STREET ---- BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Pertinent Points From XVill Cuppy's How to Tell Your Friends from the Apesfw: Orang-outangs have solved the problem of work. They do not work. They never worry. And yet they have wrinkles. So vvhat's the use? Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. Baboons have flat feet. 'The Howling Monkey is confined to South America but seems to escape. MAH Modern Men are descended from a XX'7OI1'1llllCC creature, but it shows more on some people. :The call number, dear reader, is S17 C. Signs Spotted Saratoga, N. Y.: Bartholemew's Tank and Tummy Station. Crown Point. N. Y.: Buy a bird house and rent it for a song. Greenville, Tex.: A'The blackest land. the xvhitest peo- plefl Pocahontas. Ark.: 'Yon can spend both sides of your dollar at Kings drug store. Wfhat signs have you spotted? CLASSIC CADIPUS STYLES . from HCCIISCHILD K 0 ll N 8: C 0. 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' F -PG I. :L ,IK in ,,.,. f, I , vw 4 K ,-W-kr fore v P 6 FUR HEAI. NIILUNESS f Hes Si?-6-ef Chesterfields take the lead for mildness . . .they take the lead for better taste. YVith their right combination of the World's best cigarette tobaccos they give millions more smoking pleasure. ...watch the change to Chesterfield W0 VEWZAZI' 1 9 60 WET .Elqkf 4 M Famou Yacht man calls amels lrllhe AND rl HAI' S IMPORTAN I' best Cigarette bu 774 I'HEYl3UR1?I LONGER, Coclma, fi. 'fa ,,.awmf 'fd V, Q t 'X .f 'W'- ,.r .,..,,sm .. b X . f i , 1 . . affix., I.. ATl.'RALl.Y. a rigare-tte noted for its generous rontent of bet- ter tobacco gives you hetter Ciga- rette value. docsnit it? Espevially when that same lvrantl smokes longer. slower-gives more smoking-than the average of all the othcrl5hrantls 1-oniparetl in lahoratory testsl Yes. tlit-rc is surh a vigarette. Its name is Camel. Full details are told at right - tht' results of recent searvhing te-sts hy impartial svientists. These tests t'0Ill'll'lIl what many smokers have long ohservetl lor tlwnisvlves. Cnpvrisrht, 1939, R. J. Reynolds Tohn--f-u Cnmnnny, Winston-bnlnzni, N. C. For instanvc. uJZl4'lin Divkerson labove,lcftJ. prominent in yachting circles of the Eastern seahoarcl. says: Yavht racing is one hohhy of mine :mtl you might vall Camel cigarettes another. l turnetl to Camels hevause they hurn longer, smoke milrler. They go farther-give extra smoking antl always have il fresh. appealing llavorf, Camels are mellow. fragrant with the aroma of vhoire tolnavros in a matchlcss hlencl. Turn to ClllIll'lS.. the cigarette of costlier luhaa-1-ns. for more pleasure. more smoking. SAYS JOIIX S. DIPKEIISON. JR wllateveg- pl-ice you pay per pack 1t's important to remember this fact ., By burning 2571 slower than the av: , era e of the 15 other of the llrgnq ef-llmg hrlnds tested l0XVf'l th m am of them CAMELQ gne -1 Gmok mg Pllw equal to EXTRA SMOKE PER PACK 'flux fn HIMIQL rzaxvwg U 0 BLFNDMEMIC d Ci - Y t E-'arettcs ws ere coniparf-.1 n-C,.,,tly.uSiX- een of thc largest-selling hrands...under 1 -nn. x rg I ,r . , V, -S. , Z , ' 'f V 1 , '- V17 r '- lt e.,-,,ng, ' Y, V Y I V -1 4 , Q A v Y' +-' 1 ' s 7 a t U R . A t. . t. U . 5 - 1 0 l Cfru :hc searching tests of impartial labora- Gry scientists. Findings were a nn as follows: ounccd 1 Camfvls were found to contain more tl inbacco by lfelglll than the avora gr, for ie 5 other of thc largest-selling brands, 2 Eslnlgls lrurncd :wlozwr than any other an, teblfd-2595 slower than the aW'.f1 JC llrllc ofthe I5 other ofthe larw:-51. scllmg brands! By bU nl .2' 25'Z1 Sloliver on the average, Cangpls gin. Smokers thc: equivalent of 5 atlra smokes per pm-1,-1 3 521125 33319 legit fgumels held :heir S , 'onlvrtz - ,..,,,- for an thi' other braggst I4 aura,-4 time MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF. MORE PUFFS PER PACK! PENNY FOR PENNY YQUR BEST CIGARETTE BUY -.- Wy- l 'L2L5 THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. 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THERESA XVIEDEFELD HE EVOLUTION of the state teachers college has been a very gradual process which has kept pace, sometimes a lagging one, sometimes in the lead, with the de- velopment of the teaching profession and the growth of the public school system. In the early days when qualifications of teachers were expressed in such terms as 'Amoral character, moral and civil breeding, and discreet ladies, training for teachers was not thought of. Later, when the tenets of faculty psychology, the transfer of training or mental discipline, were more widely known and accepted, good drill masters were needed. Persons who knew how to read, and write, and whip, how to drill and hear the lessons, were recognized as the best teachers. One who could read a textbook could teach the pupils what was in it. He could assign the pages for study and then hear the pupils recite, sometimes verbatim, what they had memorized. Many stories are told of pupils who missed the lesson and were duly punished because they left out a word or changed the order. Training was scarcely necessary for such a method of keeping school. There have always been certain professionally gifted teachers who developed procedures and methods of instruction which were imitated by their own scholars, so that good teachers have always done a kind of incidental teacher trainingg and there has been a transmission of educational philosophy and practice from one teaching generation to the next. The demand for the establishment of state school systems and for normal schools where teachers might be educated in the Science of Education. Art of Teaching, and the Mode of Governing Schools. began to be seriously urged in the early part of the nineteenth century. At that time Froebel was living and advancing his theo- ries: the philosophy of Pestalozzi was at its height in Americag faculty psychology was still widely accepted. Hartley and Hume had formulated the laws of associationg lohn Stuart Mill had proposed his theory of mental chemistry and C-all had per- fected his system of the specialized cortical areas. The experimental psychologists had begun their work. In 1860 Fechner wrote his paper on mental measurements, and Francis Oaltorrs new methods of research and studies of individual differences were known. Herbert Spencer. the first of the evolutionists and the Hrst to develop a concept of heredity, was conducting his experimentsg and Herbart, known as the father of scientific pedagogy, lived and died during the first half of the nineteenth century. ln addition, the experimental laboratory of XVundt, the German pliilos- opher, and his group of physiological psychologists were attracting world-wide at- tention by the Endings of their experimental investigations. Surely the time was ripe for the establishment of normal schools where such in- formation could be disseminated and at least a beginning made toward translating it into classroom practices. A long period of time is required to ettect such a transfer of knowledge: however. it serves as high motivation and the best of the students are stimulated to action. fContinued on page 3Oj TOWER LIGHT PERHAPS YOU are one of the many who enjoy the magazine covers which make our distinctive American tourist seem perfectly absurd. If not, you do like the popular cartoons of them, don't you? lt is one of our pe- culiarities that whereas all of us rejoice in travel almost without exception, we resent being placed in the Utourist class. VVell, regardless of caricature, cartoons and popu- lar derision, l like to be a tourist and choose to be one whenever opportunity permits. This summer l travelled for two whole days, and if that isn't sufficient to enroll me as a tourist, just classify me as an ambitious kin- dergartener. Give me time, and I'll do my best to become one! Our party of congenial friends had little time or money for travel, but plenty of urge to go Somewhere. So we planned a three-day motor trip which had to be condensed at the last moment into two days. XVith no attempt to hurry, we reached Monticello, jefferson's home, before noon of the first day. Very attentively we followed the guide around, finding special interest in noting facts and details which had escaped us on pre- vious visits. The Historical Society, now owning the shrine, is continuously working toward complete res- toration and had, since my previous visit, restored the ice-house, stables, carriage house, and bath-house. VVe wondered if a house so far removed from the living- rooms could serve for our notion of a bath-house, or whether this term had once meant laundry Driv- ing down the mountainside we were tempted to make a hasty visit to Monroe's home, but instead, continued on into Charlottesville. where we dined in leisurely fashion at the Green Tea Room, a distinctive Southern home which is capitalizing upon its historic associations. Along with dessert we considered road maps and the best route to Skyline Drive. VVithin an houris drive, someone remarked irritably, 'AWhat can be the matter with my ears? Others agreed that their ears felt funny, too, and then we realized that we were climbing rapidly up the mountain. A change of temperature was becoming obvious. also. and those wraps which had seemed so superfluous in the morning were used with genuine appreciation. Almost as seon as we had passed the entrance to Federal Park, we came upon a most inviting CCC camp. and when we stopped in a few minutes at the first lookout point to register forever in our memories this first panoramic view of Shenandoah Valley, the CCC boys made them- selves our well-bred hosts. They pointed out best places to stand for widest eye-sweeps, and gave interesting information when requested. They were gentleinanly in every way, wherever we stopped, and gave us real pride NOVEMBER - 1939 A Tiny Tour M. CLARICE BERSCI-I in some New Deal ventures. There were three camps, each of them models of neatncss, and in appointments, equal to that of the better mountain resorts. Trav- eling along the Skyline affords in miniature all the thrills of mountain travel anywhere. Looking to the west, over the Shenandoah, one gets a vividness of impression far beyond that to be gained from the top of Pikc's Peak. Then with a brief turn of thc road, one looks to the east, over evergreen, forested slopes, rivalling in beauty the Switzerland of the Rockies. Again the speed with which one changes from looking endlessly toward the Atlantic to an equally far sweep toward the Pacific is strongly suggestive of the C-rand Corniche, as it wriggles around the Italian and French Riviera. Completing the Drive was enough for one day so we drove on to Luray. a typical tourist town which feeds upon visitors to the Caverns. XVe preferred to digest our mountain-top experiences over night before com- plicating them with underground wonders. so we merely drove around Luray for general impressions and inci- dentally to find a restful hotel for the night. Pleasant prospects for our second day were dimmed by a heavy mist which turned into a steady downpour before noon. VV e were disappointed in not seeing from the Valleys bottom. that which we had looked upon the previous day. However, Endless Caverns were our first major objective, and we promptly forgot weather in the absorbing underworld. l entered the Caverns with remembrances of a visit to Kentuckys famous lvlammoth Caves. There, in 1920. each of us had been fitted with a miner's cap in which was set a burning torch, we had followed our guide in almost pitchy dark- ness. at times, crawling through passages three feet high, squirming up winding board ladders from one level to the nextg and finally, boat-riding on Echo River where we had to lic Hat in the boats, while we propelled ourselves along by pushing with the palms of our hands against the over-arching earth. SVC emerged from the Caves muddy and weary from a five-mile jaunt and sooty beyond recognition. l expected something similar in the Endless Caverns. l could not have been more delightfully surprised. The Caverns are fully lighted by electricity. The walkway is everywhere gradual. clean and spacious. The natural, underground colorings are beautifully varied from warm browns through greens, sky-blues. snowy whites to sparkling rainbow crystals. The Fairies' Pool is a gem of exquisite light refraetions and the Fairies' Palace so dainty that only a fairy could have dreamt it. Xlost inipressive of all, though. just before wc emerged. we stood in total darkness. wlulc the guide touched electric tContinued on page 1' W 'J A rreigmer 'nip FROM BALTIMORE TO SEATTLE DR. ANNA ABERCROMBIE NYE DECIDED one Sunday afternoon. Dr. Aber- crombie and I. that we wanted a vagabond voyage-free from conventions. but on a safe boat. Friends had spoken of trips on freighters. but many of these carried only men passengers. Through the New York Times we learned of the Nelson Line. travelling between New York and Seattle-stopping at other Atlantic ports to take on safe freight. Our travel agent. Miss Einstein. was consulted and through her we made a fine contact. So on Iune 30th we boarded our vessel at Port Coving- ton. Baltiinore. among the eight passengers and thirty- one crew making the voyage. Having less than hfty on board the vessel carried no radio operator so we occupied his quarters on the boat deck. Our first stop was at Norfolk where electric refrigerators were taken on. Here it was our privilege to learn what a truly great business freight carrying is. and how each hatch and its contents is blue printed and put in charge of a ship's officer. At Charleston, S. C.. we made another stop. I was so interested in seeing the old city again that I forgot about freighters. 'XYe bought some peach leather. a de- lectable sweet made of peach marmalade. Ne:-:t came Savannah.-going up the Savannah River we were greeted by the lady with the lantern and the dog. The vessel had to make three landings to take on naval stores for Cristobal. This would take the entire time. so the day was ours. The captain gave instructions to meet the vessel at a special wharf at a specihed time. Savannah is a quaint city with its old plantations and its courteous people. A school-house two stories high and occupying an entire city block attracted our attention. XVhen ready to sail. we missed our second cook. so we left without him. Vlfhen we reached Iacksonville the next morning. standing on the wharf waiting for us was our second cookg he had come down by train. Leaving lack- sonville. I noticed engine trouble and was promptly called a back-seat driver. It was not long before every one had a chance to experience the trouble. for the en- gine stopped. The captain said. The engine has split her condenser-head. The anchor was dropped and we were thus held until repairs were made. XVe made no more stops till we reached Cristobal. but oh the beauty of the trip, We did not go through the C-ulf of Mexico. instead. we went through the Caribbean. between Cuba and Haiti. It was like travelling into a land of gold: the sea was green or blue in turn: the sky a scintillating gold. red 4 and blue. The marine life was of great interest, the Hy- ing Hsh were numerous: the huge turtles insisted upon accompanying the vessel: at sundown. great schools of porpoise frolicked nearg some said they were shedding marine parasites: others guessed they were simply play- ing. One morning. the first mate. who was on watch at four bells. came hurriedly to us. exclaiming, A dol- phin is leading the boat. and this bespeaks a safe voyage. One evening. at sundown, we saw in the dis- tance two huge water spouts. XVe were near enough to see them clearly. but far enough away to be perfectly safe. XYatching the constellations one night. we saw the Southern Cross. It is difficult to tell which is more beautiful. the sea. the sunset. or the heavens. The crew, practically minded. put out lines and first caught a young shark. then a barracuda. The barracuda. with its great fangs. was formidable looking: he was promptly butchered and eaten by the family. Vie entered the harbor of Cristobal at four in the morningg the sight was heavenly. All were up and dressed. unwilling to miss anything. This was the only time I saw the captain disturbed. Folks, he said. you cannot go ashore until the health authorities give per- mission. I have often wondered since. where he really thought we would have attempted to go ashore. since we were anchored out. Cristobal is an interesting plaeeg the meeting place of vessels from many nations. XVhen we were trying to find the dividing line between Cristo- bal and Colon. some one came to our rescue: it is simply the other side of the street. XVe wanted to buy everything we saw. including the cute little marmosette monkeys. Vfhen we left the boat. the captain said that we would sail at three-fifteen. and when the captain says: 3:lS. he means just that. The vessels had to go through the locks by day. At Cristobal we took on a special crew. who took the freighter through the locks. The Panama Canal is a marvelous feat of engineering, and it is carefully protected. The crew that takes a vessel from Cristobal to Balboa returns. and another crew takes a vessel from Balboa to Cristobal. During our passage three companies of infantry guarded it. YVe sailed at the appointed time. but without our mess boys. At Gatun. a sentry called. Have your captain come on deck. we are holding two men on the reserva- tion who say they are members of your crew. Sure enough. coming toward us. under guard. were our boys, looking very sheepish. A ladder platfomi was laid across. It was said that they were given Mlrish promotion. whatever that may mean. From Balboa. we sailed thir- teen days without landing. These were wonderful days, full of interest. The crew cleaned and painted the vessel inside. The passengers spent the time in reading and watching the coast-lines of rContinued on page 82 TOWER LIGHT s The Twig Is Bent - - QUITE FREQUENTLY today we find a few par- ents and even some teachers who disagree one hundred percent with the fairly recent activity movement in the school system, charging the directors with wasting their ehildren's time and the taxpayers' money. Fortunately, we have reached a point where such views are in the minority, for the great number have come to appreciate the inestimable value of first hand experience and a reasonable amount of wholesome mental and physical activity. If. for the benefit of the dwindling opposition, we could but turn back the pedagogical diary to I879, for instance, it is possible that a new light might be brought to shine upon the strict, meaningless disci- plinary standards, the rigid adherence to tradition and formality, and the teacher dominated situations: in the hope that the glaring contrast with present day trends Awould condemn, in no uncertain terms, the futility and impraeticability of the Hold school. Upon examining some of the old records in Crime and Punislnnent in the Schoolroomf' we are at first moved to laughter over the absurditiesg but we soon realize the effects of such conditions, and our sympathy goes out to those poor, unnecessarily handicapped, I children. Apparently the teacher must have been Argus- I eyed, and gifted with the hearing of a super-watchdog. It seems that nothing, either in or out of school, escaped j her observation and that such actions as were contrary Ito accepted rulings of the day were duly recorded in the rather weighty volume specifically reserved for this purpose. Familiar lapses from juvenile grace included impudenee, inattention, stubbornness, and tardiness: all of which were judged somewhat on a sliding scale. lim was recorded as 'ttalkingf' while jones committed the graver wrong of constant talking. Then there were plain 'Aordinary disorder, constant disorder, per- sistent disorderf' and, finally, the maximum wrongdoing - gross disorder. fNIiss Yoder would have to have a private secretary during library hours.j Along the in- terminable list we find one who was put down for forging a note, another for pulling a boy's nose and bringing combustibles to class, and horror of horrors. one who had imitated a cat-cry in music class. Idling and indolence were also punishable offenses, however, j it seems that the boys who rated a mere idling must hhave missed a lot of fun. The roaring coal stove that j heated the room was a tempting target and the cause j of many a boy's downfall. Spitballs, you know, make a lively sizzling sound when they come in contact with jlNOVEMBER . 1939 jf j 1 v i l . i CHARLES GROSS a hot stove, and perfumed crayons will scent up the whole room if but allowed to melt a few seconds. .Xe curacy was developed in hitting that little hole in the door every time. Qutside the schoolrooin the children were no less determined to satisfy their craving for activity and real experiences. Lunches were taken, caps were snatched, sling shots were cleverly manipulated, and fences were climbed. Red pepper and itching powder were in com- mon use. and sin of sins, Horace went down in the book for hallooing to the girls. This brief sketch may appear as a decided extreme, and rightly so. Nevertheless, it presents a true picture of the habits, skill, and attitudes built up in the schools of our grandparents and even of some of our parents. Those mischievous, energetic youngsters of a former day were not basically unlike our children of today. The same lust for excitement, and constant seeking of some new physical activity is just as prominent in our time. However, we have just cause to feel that we have climbed to a much higher level on the ladder of edu- eative methods than that reached in the schools of yesterday. Our educators have guided and directed those same emotions of the child to develop real initia- tive. courage, leadership, and responsibility through a genuine interest in, and recognition of, the individual needs. One may visit nearly any one of our schools of today and see this process in action. The child is fast becoming the center of the school system. The trend is definitely toward the development and encourage- ment of young ideas and tendencies, rather than toward their inhibition. D U S K S. DAVIS D A R K N E S S so soon? Father just left for work .... XV hen will people leave me alone? Everyone is so sol- emng they weep so silently. furtivcly, as if I were not to know .... Queer how suddenly night approached. It almost seems that I might be blind .... Impossible! I - why day before yesterday v- or was it last week? I went swimming with the gang .... john dared me to dive from the point: it was low tide .... Everyone is so solicitous, so eager to do things for me .... Why is if eternally dusk? Life seems to go on as usual . . . Cllil dren are playing outside: people are coming and gi-ini. the phone keeps ringing .... Diary of H ad MuSiCia.n CATIIERINE GRAY RICH IXIAN, poor Illllll, beggar-111an. thicfg doctor, lawyer, 1ne1'cl1a11t. chief. l ortunate individuals. No o11e to stare at tl1e111. No OIIC to say, Now, wait a11d sec. she will make a mistake a11y n1i1111tc now, or, ushe will never make a good modclg look at tl1e way she walks across the stage. And tl1c way sl1c Hops i11to that seat. lXIy dear, it is simply disgraceful. YVhy must the 111usicia11 suffer this embarrassment? XVhy has cruel fate destined l1i111 to almost unbearable ill-luck? The lawyer faces the jury, b11t the judge keeps them quiet. The doctor faces his patients, but they're afraid thcy'll bc poisoned, so they keep quiet. The chief faces his squad, bllt they're afraid they 111ay lose their jobs. so they keep quiet. But what hold has the musician over his a11die11ce? How can he threaten them? They figure that they are doing him a favor by liste11ing to him. Besides, cve11 if we of the fifth estate could master our audience. we are bound to have some un- pleasant experience. It is Kismet. Let me explain. I do 11ot claim to be a musician, but occasionally I'm permitted to appear at recitals and on various programs. The fact that I'm 11ot a Chopin does not keep the afore1ne11tio11ed 'tmusician's curse away from me. For example, n1y first recital is at l1a11d. Strange, I feel so cal111. XValking across the stage is nothing. At last I'm seated. The rollftop stool is too low. Simple, I'll just screw it 11p a little. Better do it quick, that audience won't wait forever. One good jerk ought to-Oh-my. The top is off tl1e stool. Never will I forget the waves of heat that swept over my face. The audience tittered. To this day, I do not re1ne111ber how I got the stool back on, played. or how I got off the stage Flllfl back to my seat. But llly diary is Lll1COI1Vl1lCCCl. He does not feel that this proves that a curse hangs like the sword of Da- mocles over tl1c musician's head. XVell, let me tell you what happened at the second performance. I wore a gorgeous taffeta dress. The colors changed in light from d11ll red to blue, to purple. Somehow, I forgot that the footlights at the hall were multi-colored: yellow, orange, grec11, brown and red. No piano stool troubled me this time. but about half-way through 111y selection, I 110- ticed 111y ha11ds for the first ti111e. They were spotted with horrifying colors. Did I have the 111easles? My Ull1DlDCCl IDFQIIII was pierced by the thought. I bet my face looks like 111y hands. I forgot the c11di11g of the music, and wandered vag11cly. Franticallv, my teacher signalled. End witl1 the 'f' chordf, Unconsciouslv HIV fingers slid to the c11di11g and I exited sideways from the stage. 6 The thought of a recital makes goose-pimples play tag up a11d dow11 1ny spi11e. But we 1n11sicia11s uncon- sciously feel for o11r fellow-victims, also. My friend a11d I walked down the aisle toward the stage. Gur teacher, Miss Howard, told us that klllOlIllCf pupil played before us. The wi11gs were dark, and as Marion a11d I edged toward the stage, someone said, Now, Iosephine, you 1n11st do well. That overbeari11g Miss Howard is just waiting for you to make a mistake, so l1cr pupils can show you up. It was tl1e first player's teacher. Marion a11d I tried to get away, b11t just as we moved, the teacher came from the side and bumped i11to us. In doi11g so, we came nearer the footlights a11d she saw who we were. Marion's name had been called. The people were waiting. The woman was blocking the way. Marion stumbled around her and walked unsteadily to the piano. Neither of us ever mentioned the incident to HIIYOIIC and although we have played at the hall many times, we never saw that teacher again. Perhaps it is now clear that the 1n11sicia11 is under a curse. I have tried to overcome it, but it is impossible. 1 At one recital, I purposely arranged for a piano bench to be used instead of a roll-top stool, wore a neutral colored dress, had my teacher bring the music fonce I forgot ith, and wore shoes with straps fat a previous recital, I had caught the high heel between the fioor and the loud pedall. I11 spite of all of these precautions something happened. A precocious problein-child who had long si11ce finished playing amused himself by pull- i11g the hair of a girl in front of him. Before I reached the piano, the darling child pulled Ollt a bean-shooter, and we11t i11to actio11. The psychology of children as taught in Psychology and Education were gone with the wind. It was living a nigl1t111are to stay calmly seated at the piano and play as though nothing were 011 my n1i11d except the music. Anticipation, however, is ten times worse tllilli actuality. Halfway through the piece, I heard a snap. The boy had caught the shooter in the back of a girl's chair, a11d she had leaned back suddenly a11d broken it. Bless her. Are you convinced that the 1n11sicia11 has his share of trouble? Do you thi11k that you would like to go from recital to recital, dreading what is bound to l1ap- pen, and, hoping that, whatever it is, it will 11ot be too noticeable? The SUSPCIISC is a terrible thing and yet, OIIC keeps on playing. XVhy? I do 11ot IQIIOXV. Perhaps it is because the 'fcurse provides a thrill, and adds zest to tl1e evening, or perhaps it is because one is al- ways trying to beat Fate to the punch, and live for the evening wl1en everything will go perfectly. TOWER LIGHT 1 r 3 l The Death of Nature ELIZABIETIHI M. LEXV IS DEATH TAPS each limb sharply, young and old alike, and the dry leaves fall softly to the ground. Some are clad in scarlet while others are arrayed in tawny gold and deep purple. As I walk, brown leaves, crisp with age. cry out under the pressure of my feet: and the dry twigs snap. The wind moans and sighs in the dry branches and an icy breeze sends cold chills scam- pering up my spine. The smell of the earth and the wild scent of the cedar trees till my nostrils with a strange, deathly odor. Death hovers over all of the flowers and the tangled bushes. Not one blade escapes its cold touch. Xlfhcre once had been soft moss and green turf, I see but the brown stubble' of autnnm. The distant hills. robbed of their summer beauties, stand out bare ren and brown against the pale haze of the autumn sky. XVith its deep reds and sombre purples, autumn is scattering death over all the land. I look far out into the barren fields, and a feeling of sadness comes over me. The blood-red moon creeps up into the sky and shines like a lamp up in the trees. An icy feeling spreads over my soul. XVrapping my coat closely about me, I shiver and pass on. Forty-Nine: MILDRED HAMENT TOO OFTEN people allow talents and abilities to lie dormant, and are content to drift along without ever contributing their ideas. Therefore. when it does come to our attention that some individual has recog- nized a special gift through previous training in a school organization, and has used this knowledge, our faith in the value of such extra-curricular activities is restored. The Towrsiz Lrer-IT staff is able to point with pride to YVilliam Podlieh as an outstanding example of one whose successful literary work with children was inspired through his work as editor of the Towiiiz LIGHT in 1935 and 1936. Mr. Podlich's work began when he suggested to his Seventh Grade class that they publish a paper about the interesting things the whole elementary school was doing. The children evidently became very enthusiastic over the ideag for it has resulted in a school magazine. edited, illustrated, and mimeographed by the children of the class. The magazine has a complete staff, and each child has a position in the department of his own choice. Children from all classes in the school contrib- ute to the magazine. They are given opportunity to express themselves in poetry, fiction, true stories. re- views. essays. etc. Freedom of expression is one of the keynotes of the magazine. Views on foreign affairs are presented, and the children are thus given an insight into the problems which confront the world today. The common interest in the magazine furnishes a link be- tween the grades of the school, and brings the children into closer contact with one another. They are learmng how to work harmoniously and to respect each other's opinions. It is a progressive step for children to be NOVEMBER - 1939 The Taunting Refrain BARBARA HAILE A DULL GRAY, dense, impenetrable fog overlaid the land. Headlights on cars, man's guiding force. could only push it ahead two feet. VVhat was beyond? No one knew. It shut in the world, defying the people and their electrical toys to overcome its power. It was de- pressing: yet it was conquering. Men groped aimlessly, always conscious of the illusive Fog's taunting refrain, A'You are alone, helplessg you are afraid. The misty cold drops obstinately pressed down on the creeping cars and pedestrians. all helpless. There was no place to go except to Death, or whatever lay beyond. And to Death some did go-the Fog's meaningful warning! VV hy should it have to bother humans? Humans have enough to worry themg they're always in a hurry. They have to do things. The Fog calmly settled down to stay for daysg it obliterated one man from sight of anotherg and drew its cloak together still more tightly. lt was the master. Man was helpless. given complete supervision of work that is literary in character. where they are encouraged to express their own ideas freely. The children showed by their selection of the title of their magazine that they realize the values of their work. The name Forty-Nincr was chosen to show that they are following in the footsteps of those pioneers who were seeking gold by seeking knowledge and ideas equalling the value of thc precious metal. Mr. Podlich merits congratulations on his line accom' plishments. YVe hope his work may bc an ineentixc to those people who have original idcas to develop skills and capacities in the children with whom they rwrk. A The Relation of Semantics to Modern Education JAMES G. IETT TIIIL YVAY A person thinks is vitally important in this life. and everyone thinks in terms of a language. A language can be abstract or it can be concrete-accord ing to the way it is taught to the individual. If thoughts are based on definite facts and not on abstract concep- tions, the person who thinks those thoughts can ob- tain all the truth and beauty there is to be had in life. The foremost educators and educational theorists have recognized that meaning is the essence of a language, and that words, which make up a language, are the essence of thought. Modern progressive education stresses the importance of having the child know the relationship of words and objects. The work carried on is especially noticeable in the reading courses. The children are supplied with various experiences during which they come in contact with material things-animals, trees, flowers, birds, and various technical instruments. These last are met when the children are taken on excursions to a dairy or per- haps soine factory, The procedures which follow ex- cursions and walks tie. the classroom procedures in teaching the child to readj bring forth and show the concreteness of language. Educational methods in the teaching of reading lead to clear thinking. Dchnite work in this direction is be- gun immediately in the primary grades. The children, as previously stated, are given experiences about which they later read. In reading of their own experiences, interest among the children is inevitable. The reading is made easy because the children know the things, the words about which they read. Cradually, however. the reading becomes a little more abstract in so far as actual and direct contact is concerned. This is offset by the development of the children's minds. They can apply geography, history, and science to their reading as well as they can apply reading to their geography, history, and science and thus make the ideas more real and meaningful. An important aim of the newer education is to help the child understand and adjust himself to the world in which he lives. IIis world changes in his conception as his experiences increase and accumulate, and so also does the outer world change as facts and misjudgments are re-aligned. NV e perceive, therefore. that a good wav to increase understanding is to be analytical. The pro- gram of analysis of subject-matter content is included 8 in nearly all the subjects of the curriculum. In reading classes, stories are analyzed, and in history or social stud- ies, govcrmnents and total organizations are examined. The procedure of going from the whole to the parts is reversed by the putting together of experiences to gain conceptions and ideas. The relationship of fact to fact is brought out during this process. Meaning is empha- sized and meaning is obtained. Semantics, the science of meaning, has found a place in the modern philoso- phies of education. The importance of meaning in thinking is evident, the importance of thinking in life has been established on a high standard. Modern edu- cation reaches the roots of thinking when it teaches zneaning to the children of the nation. A FREIGHTER TRIP TO SEATTLE f Continued from page -fl Central America, Mexico and Lower California. Up the Pacific we saw a total eclipse of the moon. On the morning of the thirteenth day we docked at San Pedro, where we were to spend two days. XV e left the vessel as early as possible to go to Santiago to visit the Exposition. The great oil-derricks seen everywhere interested us very much. The next day we spent in Los Angeles. Leaving San Pedro, we were compelled to put on warm clothes. In due time, the vessel docked at San Fran- cisco. The strikers took care of the crew. Here the crew declared the end of a perfect trip. Because of the strike, the freighter remained in San Francisco. VVe stayed with the vessel until the last. XV e, the passengers for Seattle, were sent up by motor-coach through the redwoods, and then along the forty miles of highway. skirting the coast from Crescent City to Portland. Wfe reached Van- couver, our destination, five weeks after the day we started. The life on shipboard was fine. Among the crew, many nations were represented. Our captain and second mate were Danes. The first mate, a Swede, third mate, a German, the engineer and officers' mess boy were Americans, his assistant, a Norwegian. The steward was Chilean, the first cook, an Irishman: the second cook, Italian, crew's mess boy a Spaniard, and we all lived together so peaceably that I concluded, surely all men are brothersf, I must not forget the gull which met the vessel, perched herself on the top of the Hag staff, and, like a queen, rode through the Colden Cate into the harbor. TOWER LIGHT Fizfesidea Com anion., PICTURE A Cold and blustery winter night. Outside a pale moon struggles breathlessly with madly rushing black clouds, while faint and frosty stars blink their consternation. VVithin, where the wriggling lingers of flame wave merrily in the fireplace, and a softly glowing lamp sheds its comforting rays upon a well-worn easy chair, the stage is perfectly set for an evening of musing. It is said that any good thing is most enjoyed when it is shared with someone else. Still, one hesitates to exchange the perfection of such an evening by choosing any human companion. There are few people who have the gift of harmonious silence. Scarce, indeed, are those who understand the needlessness of words and who see the beauty of an evening spent in absolute quiet and repose. Yet, the evening can be satisfactorily shared. The perfect companion to the iireside world of dreams is none other than the cat. How well he blends with the surroundings. The soft- ness and warmth of his long silky fur symbolizes the comfort of the room. and makes one conscious of its pleasant contrast to the cold without. Hold and stroke this warm, fuzzy fellow, for he is to a great extent re- sponsible for the cozy atmosphere which prevails. Hear his drowsy, intermittent purr. How it lulls and soothes one, and invokes dreamy reverie. XV hat a balm for nerves worn ragged by the wearisome tasks of daily life. Now quiet rules. As one drifts gently on the sea of his thoughts, he feels a light. dry scraping along his hand. A lazy, downward glance reveals kitty busily at work with his pink tongue, tendering his welcome af- fection in a pleasant and unobtrusive way. Now he decides to rise from his place at his master's side. Note the graceful arch of his back, and the rippling of the lithe muscles under his velvety fur. He yawns, and a pink tongue is seen curling upward between tiny. pointed white teeth of needle sharpness. VVatehing him, one muses about many things. There comes a vision of his ancestors, the giant saber-toothed tiger, and the sleek black panther. padding silently through primordial jungles. Or perhaps one thinks of Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs and pictures the cat watching with aloof dignity as the ancients reverently bow before her in worship. Again. there may arise in j,the mind's eye a scene from the Middle Ages. the time l of black magic. Here the cat appears perched upon an old hag's shoulder, watching as she stirs a cauldron and mumbles strange words. TINOVEMBER . 1939 P IRMA SENNHENN Ile arches his back. and his eyes become green and malevolent. As one sees the changing scenes of the ages in the fire, there comes the realization that thc cat has seldom been regarded as an ordinary creature. Ile has either been hated. feared. or highly exalted. XVhat sub- jects for thought he offers! XVhat scenes concerning him can be conjured up in the fire! Now he walks about the room with inincing step and gently waving tail, his steps making less noise than a falling flower petal. Ones dreams are not in the least disturbed. Thus the evening passes, full of associations and pic- tures in the tire, while the stately cat, whether moving about or curled up by the easy chair, fulhlls his duty as an amiable companion in a way no human being could hope to do, Noble animal! No one can say that he does not justify his existence! To my own cat, a lovely white Persian with huge yel- low eyes, I offer my most heartfelt thanks. To your genial companionship, Thomas Percival, I owe some of the most enjoyable moments of my life. VVinter nights and crackling iires and cats-here in- deed is a formula for comfort and contentment. W H Y ? SHIRLIE DIAMOND Hath Earth's fair soil again been stained Vffith crimes that shamed the deeds of Cain Have black greed's slaves-the kings of men Invoked that demon Vlfar again? Oh. distant. silent moon so white. Eternal sovereign of the night, In sailing o'er the universe. Wfliat late disturbs thy wonted peace: 7 Oh. moon. what of the sordid scenes. The ruthless deeds of vandal fiends, The slaughtered hosts. the wasted land 'Neath Victory's baneful crimson brand? Oli. moon, in thine ethereal sphere. hlidst myriad stars with heaven near, lXIethinks that God Ilimself must bc Guarding the world up there with thee. And. moon, when telling Iliin tonight. All thou hast seen-the ruin. blight. The sin of war-wilt ask Ilini why This bitter curse is on usw-Wliy? OF COURSE. Matilda wasn't beautiful. But then. not many girls in joncstown were. Klaybe that was why Myrna Loy and Carole Lombard always drew a large audience at the Main Street theatre. Still, as Matilda examined herself. first in her vanity mirror, and then in the full length mirror on her bedroom door. she was rather wistful. Rosemary jones did have fine black curly hair while hers was coarse. and brown and unruly. And Lillian Rogers had a sparkling smile and white hands with perfect finger nails. while she, Matilda Squinch. wore a gold brace on her teeth and could not adequately conceal her clumsy hands with their stubby fingers and brittle nails that broke every- time that they had managed to grow a little. She envied petite Betty Lawrence with her slim waist and small feet and groaned inwardly every time she had to order a size seven shoe. If these girls weren't such good friends of hers. she would have been insanely jealous of them all. Tonight. as she sat in her small quiet room working out math problems. which she would good naturedly give to the girls in the morning, her girl friends were all having a good time at the Country Club dance. At this very moment. they were no doubt laughing and joking and drawing a flock of admirers to them from the stag line. Matilda tried to draw her mind away from these heart-rending thoughts and back to the half-finished math problems before her. but she knew that school work was not sullicient consolation for one who was so lonely. Although she probably had the ability. she did not excel in hcr studies simply because she found it too hard to concentrate on something that did not appeal to her when other thoughts were always present and renewing themselves every day. So she let her mind again wander and dwell on her friends claims to popularity. As she sat thus engrossed. she did not hear the first very faint tapping on her door. Mrs. Squinch tapped louder and Matilda jumped as she realized that the tapping was NOT being caused by her own pencil. She quickly disposed of her paper of doodlings and as- sumed a studious attitude. before she asked quietly. 'tYes? Mrs. Squinch opened the door and entered the room apologctically. I'm sorry to disturb you. dear. but Dad- dy and I have just been discussing your application blank for the university next year. I'Iave you decided what you'rc going to major in? Not yet. Mumsy. I really don't think I have any talent for anything. But there must be something that interests youf' 10 areer Woman IEANETTE ULRICH 'tXVell, the home economics course sounds inviting. She flung her arms about her mother's neck with an affection- ate gesture. Oh, Mumsy, she said. do you think I'll ever be as good a manager and housekeeper as you? XVhat she really meant to ask was whether she'd ever be a wife and housekeeper at all. Mrs. Squinch, pleased at this bit of flattery, ex- prfgsed herself as delighted at her choice, she wasn't especially anxious to have a career woman in her family. Matilda met Lillian and Betty and Rosemary on the usual corner the next morning. before the four of them trudgcd reluctantly off to school. As she had expected, they all were a trifle late and each one had forgotten something in her haste to leave the house. They chat- tered gayly of the preceding evening and felt delight- fully sinful when they told Matilda that they did not get home until 1:30. Matilda chided them with mock severity. praying silently that some day she might be able to tell of foolish and mildly startling escapades. After they had rehashed all the important and incidental items of another thrilling episode that they would re- cord in their high school days Memory Book. there occurred a brief silence. Unwilling to have the con- versation lag. Matilda told the girls that she was enroll- ing in the university. Not really! Oh, you lucky thing! exclaimed Rose- mary with a trace of envy in her voice. Imagine you at the university while I'm going to have to slave away at business college. and then in a stuffy old office! Lillian tried to express joy at Matilda's good fortune and at the same time indulge in a bit of self-pity. Betty was thoughtful a moment and then exclaimed, Oh, I knew there was someone at the university that I knew! Of course! My cousin jack goes there! Tildy, you'll have to look him up for me and keep an eye on him. I haven't seen him since last summer. jokingly Lillian added. Tildy isn't going to spend all her time chasing after the male population. Betty. She'll have trouble enough trying to keep them apart when they fight to carry her books from the library to the dorm. 'ASure. supplemented Rosemary. Hire a private de- tective if you're that interested in shadowing your long lost cousin! He probably isn't even worth looking up. He is. too. said Betty defensively. and I'll prove it to you by inviting him down for the next Country Club dance. But just because you two have been so Smart. I'm going to date him up with 'Tildyf' Klatilda. who had been cringing under her friends' words. even though they had 1 Continued on page Z8j TOWER LIGHT Gray Day GORDON SHULES TODAY I gets up and I am very sad. It is a gray day and I am having to cook my own breakfast. Sadie, that is the wife, she has gone to visit her mother. So I chokes on half-cooked oatmeal, and leaves for work. I am working for Hyinie Blumberger now, and I have got to get me to work by eight. VV ell, I am feeling very, very low as I get in the car, I find an empty seat. I looks twice, yeah, it is really empty. I make very sure. I should not like to sit on anyone like Aunt Susie did onet. Auntie Susie is deaf and cannot see. This makes me ve1'y happy . . . this seat being empty. I picks up a paper on the Hoor and this makes me happy, also. By now I am feeling very lucky, and give the world a big smile. A young lady in an ad gives me right back that come hither, but buy YVrigley's look. Those two bottles of beer next to her certainly make me homesick for the time I worked at Flanagan's brewery. Then I thinks to myself, I must buy me a toothbrush to see if I have pink toothbrush. I am very worried that I might have. lust like Uncle George, who had tubercu- losis from not brushing his teeth. XV ell. I starts to read the paper which I have found and which has made me very happy. It is Called the Daily XVorker. This Mr. Hitler sure imist be a fright- ful guy. I guess he is like the teacher I had in the Hrst grade. only she did not have a moustache. I am thinking I am going to like this paper. It bawls Mr. Chamberlain out even worse than Hymie bawls Iohn Sullivan and me out. tlohn is the one which has a wife that is very bald and who wears a wig that does not Htl I am surprised when I turn the page. Mr. Chamberlain is an old man with an umbrella. It is not fair, I am thinking, to call such a very nice old man names. I am very deep in reading what Mr. lXIussolini is do- ing. when suddenly I am unable to read any longer. First, there is not light anymore, and. second, there is beside me what looks from where I am jammed. like Madame Bulbo, the fat lady I saw at Ringling's circus last year. Except this lady is wearing more clothes and is chewing what smells like garlic. So it cannot be Mad- ame Bulbo because she would not eat such a thing as garlic on the street ear. She is a very nice lady and it is not her fault she is so plump. Anyhow. this lady's face. I cannot see. I hear her say. 1'lX'Iay I? as she takes the paper from my hand. Of course. I do not mind because I have read enough. I have only room to breathe in garlic. I-Iave some? she says. UNO, thank you, I says. holding my NOVEMBER - 1939 b nose and being very polite like my brotlicr taught nie to be. hly stop is the next one. I do not know Iexaetlv how to let the lady know I must get off. I do not seeiii able to reach the bell because of the way I am squeezed in. I am getting desperate because I know how verv angry Hymie gets at lohn Sullivan and me when we are late. Uohn is the one which has the wife that is very bald.j I give a very gentle shove. But she does not move. I shove a little harder, and again she shoves a bunch of garlic in my face. I very politely hold my nose. and say, f'No, thank you. It is lucky for me she gets off at the same place I do. I am very much surprised when she follows me into Hymie's. A'Isn't it lucky? says Ilyniie in his best voice. I'll give you not a cent more. You can ride to work with my sister every day. Isn't that nice, Tina? I am feeling very sad today. It is a gray day. and I am wishing Sadie fthat is the wifel was home. I-Iow Do You Spell? RICHARD CUNNINCHAM HAV E YOU ever felt the urge to spell words just as they sound? I have, many times. although I have never been able to figure whether an inborn lazy trait or a desire for greater efliciency spurred me to it. Recently I made the discovery in the XVorld Almanac Qthat great. little bookj that many attempts have been made during past centuries to simplify the English lan- guage in spelling and grammatical formg but all have failed because of the conservatism of the people and press. Again and again those few individuals advocating reform have denounced the English language as one of the most inconsistent languages in the world. They claim that it is one of the most diPricult languages to learn chieliy because the spelling and pronunciation of words are contradictory, and assert that phonetic spelling would enable one to learn spelling merely by learning the letters of the alphabet and their basic sounds alone. On the other hand opponents claim that thc new sys! tem would force one to learn spelling all over again and adjust to the strange appearance of the written forms. Probably one of the first outstanding attempts at simplification took place in ISIS. when a coniniittee. appointed by the American Spelling .Xssoeiation to con' sider certain spelling reforms which had been advot-.itcil by Noah YVebster. reported that iminedi.ite rcforin yi is Il urgent, including thru and catalog. Following this lead of the American Spelling Association, the National Education Association proposed tho, altho, 'pro- granr' and thoro. The movement spread, particularly because it was championed by President Theodore Roosevelt and the renowned Andrew Carnegie, the latter donating 3515,- 000 a year to the cause. Ilowever, when Carnegie died, in 1919. there was a split in the ranks and the movement died a natural death. Today. despite the twenty-year period which has elapsed, we still find some vestiges of the forgotten cause, Among the words commonly seen are nite, thru, 'tthof' and altho. Obviously, no one has made a study of phonetic spelling which has proved to be of lasting value. If you write nabor instead of 'tneighbor because you can't remember whether the i comes before or after the ue, why not help the many like you by evolving a prac- tical scheme of phonetic spelling. Soilless Gardening IOHN CHILCOAT The Pan American Airways recently employed Lam- ory T. Laumeister, aged twenty-three, to grow fruits and vegetables on XVake Island, a barren lump of rock in the mid-Pacific. This island, a thousand miles from anywhere else, is without soil. Yet as one of the stepping stones by which the China Clippers bridge the Pacific, it is an important depot for passenger traffic. Therefore. fresh lettuce, ripe tomatoes. new potatoes and the like were badly needed on XVake lsland. To most of you, l know it sounds like a waste of money to hire someone to grow fruits and vegetables on a barren rock but some of you may have guessed that it turned out to be a very good piece of business, for lXlr. Laumeistcr did go to XVake Island and he did pro- duce erops. The secret of his success lies in a knowledge of hydroponics or water culture of plants. By the end of last year, he had produced two hundred forty pounds of vegetables by the use of some forty pounds of chemi- cals valued at Sl7.00. The method used by Mr. Laumeister is based upon the use of tanks built out of wood. A convenient size for one of these tanks is ten feet by one foot bv one foot. This prevents excessive shading. Y Upon these tanks, wooden trays not more than five inches deep and bottomed with a wire mesh such as Hue chicken wire, are placed. These trays are filled with excelsior, wood shavings, or similar material. Seed- ling plants are placed so that their roots dip down into the nutrient solution and their stems are supported by the blanket of excelsior. The solution should be poured in almost to the level of the tray and then inaintaiued with fresh watcrg while every ten days or two weeks, de- 12 pending upon growth, the solution should be siplioned off and after a washing with fresh water. a fresh batch of solution should be run in. The following rules are to be observed in all water culture: l. Tanks or trays should be of wood, not concrete or metal, and should be watcrproofed with a paint which does not contain coal tar or other toxic materials. Z. Strict cleanliness is especially necessary. Failure is certain to follow upon the heels of careless and slovenly habits. 3. The solutions should be maintained at proper de- grees of concentration. Too great strength is more dan- gerous than too weak a concentration. Only observation and experience can dictate the need for changing the solution, although it does no harm to change it often. 4. Rain water is ideal to use because it is free from carbonates and injurious metallic salts. 5. One common thing to watch for is yellowing of leaves caused by lack of iron, lack of sun, or too crowded growth. 6. The water temperature should be maintained at 75 degrees by rise of a thermostat. There is little expense connected with the work. As for types of plants to use, expcrimenters have yet to find something they cannot grow. ln almost every case, the flowers and fruits have been larger in size and su- perior in quality to those grown in soil: and have re- quired from a third to a qrrarter less time to mature. Soilless gardening is new and thrilling: and has in- finite possibilities for the development of agriculture. TOWER LIGHT Stamp Collecting-- A Hobby DON MERRYMAN STAMP COLLECTING is truly an educational and fascinating hobby, There are stamps from every part of the world, of every color and shapeg and each tells a story. Some of these stories possess intense hu- man interest. The best one I have ever found is that of The Fiery Throne, concerning Gyorgy Dorza, who rose up against the aristocrats of Hungary. Dorza had wanted to be king. Therefore when he was captured his captors made an iron throne for him to sit on, a crown of iron to be placed on his head, and a seeptre of iron to be placed in his hands. These materials were to be heated red hot, and Dorza was to ascend the throne and reign as king until the life was scorched out of his body. This barbaric sentence was actually carried outg yet the revolutionist endured the tortures with unparalleled heroism. No cry of anguish nor plea for mercy escaped his grim set lips. Dchantly he grasped the flaming sceptre. Proudly, for the fraction of a minute. he sat upright on A'The Fiery Throne, Then. crumpling from terrific heat, he fell silently forward, face down upon the cool earth. Thus ended Hungary's first revolutionist, Gyorgy Dorza, who had tried to overturn the social system of his time. There are other fascinating stories concerning rare and invaluable stamps. The world's most valuable stamp is a one-cent ISS6 black-on-magenta stamp of British Guiana. In appearance it is ugly and insignificant, its condition is poor, for the corners are gone. Yet this apparently trifling scrap of paper sold, at an auction in Paris, for S-l0,000. Many rarities have been discovered accidentally. An old Philadelphia bank, ready to move to new quarters, called in a junk dealer, and sold him an accumulation iof aged and apparently worthless paper for fifteen dol- lars. The junk dealer found stamps valued at 575,000 l Such discoveries are occurring in a larger or smaller .way all the time. Hiding away in old desks, old letter boxes, attics, in correspondence files in old banks, and wherever mail has accumulated for a number of years. .many rich treasures in postage stamps are still to be ffound. Maybe you have some rare stamps in your posf ,session and don't know it. , President Roosevelt says. 'fl can ahnost say that I owe my life to my hobbies-espeeially to stamp collect- ringf' He started saying stamps as a schoolboy, and now Xhas a collection that fills thirty volumes. lt provides :NOVEMBER - 1939 r r l l happy periods of relaxation in the midst of strenuous ofhcial duties. Many other famous people hare collected stamps, ina cluding the late King George X' of lilngland, Ilcrbcrt Hoover, and Ilarold Ickes .... NVhy not you? The Fairy Ring A lifiushroom Phenomenon tlfrom the Chapel Hill QN. C.j Wfeeklyj PERSONS VERS ED in mushroom lore are familiar with the fairy ring but for others the finding of one of these ghostly circles on the damp turf or on the forest Hoor is a rare experience. Sometimes a ring is many yards in diamcterg scores of mushrooms posted in single file on the circumference of a great circle so perfect as to lead the uninitiated observer to believe they were planted in that design by a lmman hand. Botanists tell us that the circumference of the fairy ring is simply the outer edge of the zone of the my- celium of a mushroom which once stood in what is now the center of the ring. The mass of threadlike mycelium has passed outward in all directions from the parent mushroomg and from its fecund outer edge, there have sprung up the mushrooms which form the ring. Such a ring appeared last week. after the wet weather, on the lawn in front of the Hill Music Hall. It was not a perfect one, its symmetry being broken by a sidewalk, but there was enough of it to attract attention, and many of the passersfby stopped to look at it. ON LIFE AND ATOMS rattles e. IETT Ah, life. thou'rt vague to me, and all too soon I'ye pondered o'er thy dull philosophies. Thou givest each generation only these: A night, a morn, a cloudy afternoon. Thou movest like a great Sahara dune. In all thou art the crown of subtleties That rules the hmnan mind till dcatlrs soft case Recalls the flesh, and minds forever swoon. United atoms break apart and fall. And moving atoms yield new minds and lioncs. Though individual lives may fade away As failing day fades in the western wall, The life that all have known still chants the lriiiw That vibrate in the rooms where atoms stzy. y THE LIBRARY Coininonest of all Excuses: I'm sorrvg I never got around to reading that! Here is a list of books widelv talked about. Have vou read even one or two or three of these best sellers? Subtract the negative answers from the athrmative ones. to find vour L.R.Q.-library reading quotient. Intended To I Did Rear! Read Inside Asia ,ee,.,e. ..... I ohn Gunther Grapes of W'rath, . . . . . Iohn Steinbeck The Yearling .,..a.. , . .Marjorie Rawling Vuiekford Point .,V.,.. .... I ohn Marquand Reaching for the Stars ......,,r...,.. Nora YValn Autobiography' VI'ith Letters , YYilliam Lvon Phelps The Web and the Rock c,a..,.,c, Thomas YVolfe Seasoned Timber .,,.r, Dorothv Canfield Fisher A Peculiar Treasure c.acY l.a,..,c.. E dna Ferber The Sword in the Stone ..... ,.., T . H. Yvhite All This, and Heaven, Too ..,..,ere Rachel Field Youre the Doctor! r.r,.,a.,..,.., Victor Heiser Davs of Our Years l.,,. r,a..f P ierre Van Paasen Huntsman. VI'hat Quanjv . Edna St. Vincent Millav The Horse and Buggv Doctor, Arthur E. Hertzler The Iznportanee of Living ,.,.,,,. . .Lin Yutang HAVE YOU READ? DORIS KLANK Fiction Seasoned Timber Dorothy Canfield Fisher This is the storv of Timothv Hnlme. principal of a poor academv in rural Yermont. who is stimulated into action when one million dollars is left to the school provided that it adopts certain undemocratic policies. A!! This and Heareu Too Rachel Field Henrietta Deluzv-Desportis lives as a governess in the household of the Duc and Duchess de Praslin and becomes innocentlv involved in a notorious murder case. lt is actually the storv of Rachel Fields aunt. II ifkf0rd Point John P. Marquand Life in the Brill home at XYickford Point. somewhere north of Boston. is depicted in this storv. The tale is told bv a cousin, Iim Calder. who tries to keep clear of the familv's strangling affection and dependence. 14 I I I' glad I 'I I ' ig , I XX I 'LL 3 Z3 gif .I I I X- ' sb I I 'I ' w f' I I ' T TI J I if I ,- T.-Ei T iff y ' T 'D f .f bex E5 Q I Q 2. - I TP- --J '53 i ' T I E -' 5 X TM I P+: Z Q dlgmier journey of Tapiola Robert Nathan A pampered Yorkshire terrier belonging to a pub- lislierswife is stirred to action and a desire for adven- ture bv a critic's remark about heroes. He and his companions, Richard, the eanarv. and Ieremiah, the rat, jonrnev to hnd some adventure. Tree of Liberty Elizabeth Page The lives and adventures of Matthew Howard and his familv from ITS4 to 1806 are related in this historical novel. Of the manv historical figures who appear in the storv. the most outstanding is Ielferson. The Patriot Pearl Buck This is a fictional biographv of twelve vears in the life of a voung Chinese who sojourns in Iapan, marries a Iapanese girl, but iinallv returns to China to fight for Chiang Kai-Shek. Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier The heroine. who narrates the storv. becomes the wife of an English aristocrat. Maxim de XYinter. Though thev love each other, there is a constant tension in their home because of the mvsterious presence of de YYinter's first wife. now dead. When the storv of her death is revealed. the two begin a new and happv life free from the haunt of Rebecca. And have von examined: A Short Hislory of Religious E. E. Kellett In this comprehensive and vet highlv readable vol- nine. the author writes about the nature and origin of religion, and discusses with a tolerant and svmpathetie approach the manv great religious beliefs which have made their mark on various ages and peoples. He begins with Iudaismq then goes through the Creek. Roman, TOWER LIGHT I I i 1 I I I I- and Germanic religions to the various later divisions and growths of Christianity. The seven great religions of the Far East are described, as well as various divisions and sects of Occidental origin, like Christian Science and Mormonism. Homes in America Ethel F. Robinson, Thomas P. Robinson The story of housesf, say the authors, is the story of the people who made them. The history of a coun- try could be written from a study of its houses. This book tells how all the settlers-the Spanish, English, French, Swedish, German, and Dutch-came to the New VVorldg how they brought with them their different traditions in houses, and how they adapted them to the conditions and materials which they found here. This book is written in informal, personal style, and in non-technical language, but behind the infor- mality are knowledge and authority, for the authors have gained wide recognition in the field of colonial architecture. A Book of the Symplaouy B. H. Haggin This is a book that can be read with understanding and profit by the person who has not studied music, as well as by the person who has. lt explains in simple terms how musical thought proceeds and is organized in musical forms-an example of which is the sym- phony. This explanation is illustrated by musical exam- ples which can be heard on phonograph records. This same method of illustration is used in an analysis of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. Schubert, Brahms. Tchaikowsky. and Franck. The book also in- cludes a section on the instruments of the orchestra and the conductor. DESIGNING WOMEN A. HORNER Byers, Margaretra. and Kamholz. Consuelo: Designing ll o111e11. The Art, Technique, and Cost of Being Beau- tiful. N. Y.. Simon and Schuster Publishing Company, 1958. Q76 pages.J XVhether or not you agree with Margaretta Byers' assumption that women dress to please men. you will admit that every woman in the world wants to know how to make the most of her appearance. To fat women. thin women, tall women. short women, young women. old women--Miss Byers gives sound advice. Even to attempt to give such advice presents a terrifying prob- lem. However. it is one which the author is frilly capable of meeting. Margaretta Byers knows women, she also knows NOVEMBER . 1939 clothes. She does not merely say that a fat women should avoid horizontal prints. Instead. she goes into a searching analysis of clothes as to fabrics. lines. colors. cost. and suitability. Since she is also an authority in the beauty business, she advises women expertly on' the subject of make-up. ' Twenty pages of the book are devoted to a question on which all women crave information-'AThe Cost of Clothes. Miss Byers oiiers good suggestions concerning general budgeting and planning. She tells women to budget their wardrobes, to get to know about the quality of clothes, to plan a year in advance, to buy things that will change their costumes, and not to be fooled by pass- ing fads. Emily Post has made us conscious of table etiquetteg Margaretta Byers makes us aware of the etiquette of dress by rules that help us to determine what to wear on all occasions. If you wish to read a fascinating book about fashion, and pick up valuable hints at the same time, f'Design- ing YVomen will appeal to you. MEET THE AVERAGE RURAL TEACHER N. TROTT YVHAT YV ILL a rural teaching career offer you in the way of a home, an automobile. life insurance and support for a family, and advancement? Since half the nation's teachers work in farm and rural schools. the average teachers college student will be interested in what the future as a rural teacher holds for him. Because the National Education Association was also interested in this question, its survey board asked ll.OOO teachers in rural communities throughout the nation the what. where. and how of their existence. They found the average teacher teaching a one room school about two miles away from his boarding house for S675 pcr year. On this salary he supports a dependent and saves for summer school. Small wonder that he neither owns nor is buying a car: that he sleeps in a cold bedroom in winter. without the existence of running water: and that he is able to save only S300 after seven years of teaching! Because he stays in one position only three years. he is a comparative stranger. XVill you as a future teacher be a willing partner to such handicaps? Read the lf page report of this surf vev. entitled Teachers in Rural Communities and find out how you may crcatc educational opportunii-. for teachers as well as pupils in thc country scliool- i the United States. Kaltenborn omments EVELYN A. FIEDLER Tbose who beard Mr. H. V, Kaltenborn speak at the Stale Teachers Association meeting ou Friday evening. October 27. will not soon forget bis sincere, intelligent message, and the fluent brilliance with u'lJiclJ be afterward answered siguijfcant questions from the audience. fl romlensatioll of bis speech follows: Tnn BACKGROUND OF THE XVYAR LLOYD GEORGE. in his Memoirs, gives four reasons as to why there must now be another war: 'l. The nations that dictated the peace treaties lFrancc and Englandl refused to carry out the pledge that once Germany would disarm, they would follow her example. '2. In case after case of wanton aggression against weak powers in the League, the great powers failed to come to the aid of the smaller powers. There was a liberal, democratic govermnent in Germany after the war. F tance, however, was never cooperative in recon- structing Germany, thus paving the way for Hitler. But Britain and France surrendered to Hitler. '3. The Treaty of Versailles stated that the rights of minorities were to be respected and guaranteed. France and Britain were indifferent to minority prob- lems. A+. A provision of the treaty that when any member of the League Ends itself burdened by the treaty, it may bring its problem to court for a hearing and possible rc- vision, was ignored' Lloyd Georges viewpoint, then, is that it was not so much the treaty that was bad as it was the way of carrying it out. l agree with Lloyd George's four points, but I think the treaty itself was bad, too. And Britain and France are to blame for letting Hitler reach the point where he was certain Britain and France would not iight. A few days before outbreak of hostilities, l talked to foreign ministers of France and Britain, to End out why those nations had signed the peace of Munich. Re- sistance could have been overwhelming to keep Hitler from taking Czechoslovakia. The British minister said: 'XVe felt we could have peace by concession. NYC visualized peace for Europe. The German entry into Prague transformed this con- ception .... XVhy did we guarantee Poland? Poland is a barrier to Hitlcr's pushing to the Black Sea. That is part of our Mediterranean problem. XVe were still will- ing to negotiate-if Hitler were the kind that would negotiate. lt was a question. not of Poland, but of the Mediterranean, Britain's life line. v Thus, Britain went to war because she felt hcr interests meuaccd. Countries only go to war where their 16 own interests are involved. Americans must get over assuming that there is an ideal purpose-such as saving someone-in war. XVe are a rather young, idealistic peo- ple, not particularly shrewd in foreign relations. VVe went into the last war with all we had and came out with a great deal less than we had. VV e got nothing- while other countries got much. f'Paul Bonet, the French foreign minister, said in an interview: 'Danzig is not the issue. The question is, can we permit Germany to go on using force to get what she wants? France cannot live under perpetual menace. If Germany conquers Poland-then Hungary-then Roumania-then France! That is why we light when Poland lights' fb 'AAgain it is the interests of France, not of Poland. 'Fighting to save Poland' is good propaganda, but it is not statesmanship. America needs to be skeptical about 'another war on behalf of democracyf As yet there is no guarantee that there won't be another Versailles, with hatreds and bitterness developed. This is not our war-we are not directly concerned with it. To avoid misunderstanding, however, it must be stated that it would be stupid to make peace with Hit- ler. Hitler lies without knowing that he lies. which is the worst kind of lic. Mussolini has brains, but Hitler has only emotions. The philosophy of the Nazi party, as explained by Hermann Rauschning. a prominent self-exiled Nazi, in The Revolution of Nihilism, is the doctrine of force as the basis of power. So there is a real distinction between Hitler. and France and Britain. But the mistakes of France and Britain in the past are to blame for the present situation. As to the war today. the defense is stronger than the offense. The Siegfried or Maginot lines cannot be broken through without a tremendous loss of life. The way to win a war is by revolution. Britain and France do not want to pile up casualties at the front with no visible results, for fear of opinion at home. Neither side wants to rain death on civilians as yet, for, as the war in Spain showed, this only stiffcns the morale of the peo- ple.-It may be said of the war at sea that defense is generally stronger than attack also. TOWER LIGHT As for the aid of Russia: shortly before the treaty was signed a prominent German denounced Stalin in most emphatic terms. That man was Adolf Hitler. Stalin's domination of the Baltic countries constitutes an economic defeat for Germany. Hitler's soldiers en- tered Poland, but it was Stalin's soldiers who got to the desirable Hungarian frontier in Poland first. Stalin has won the war so far, and no one knows it better than Hitler. He sees the menace-for he talked about it for ten years-yet he brought it about with the stupid treaty to bluff France and England. It is the worst di- plomacy in the history of Germany. Its further effects are to alienate Iapan and Turkey, and to keep Italy neutral. From the diplomatic point of view, Hitler has al- ready lost the war. From the military point of view, I don't see how he can help losing-even if it takes a long time. Now for the United States. In travelling through twenty states very recently, I have found the people practically unanimous in their determination to keep out of war. There can be no fear of the United States being attacked, for, should the Nazis succeed in defeat- ing Britain and France, they would be far too worn out to come three thousand miles across the .Xtlantit-. .Xnd in the last war they got a taste of what the United States can do. Still, we cannot be entirely indifferent, Vie know there is a difference in ideas, policies, and purposes- force vs. free people working out their own destinics. But we are not convinced that Britain and France know enough to make the right kind of peace. The way to get the right kind of peace is for us to keep ourselves aloof from hate and passion. XVhen the time comes for reconstruction, we will then have the strength and will to work out a decent solution. That will not be easy--but it is not impossible. A foundation for thc solution might be the League of Nations and the XVorld Court. But we can build peace only by keeping aloof- and then making a real contribution. This is the true course for the United States. If you, the people of America, who are its public opinion, continue to insist on the course of peace, then peace it will be, as it should be. Ailuropus Melanoleucus VIGLET DEPUE AILUROPUS MELANOLEUCUS - to most of you, this is an ''unpronounceablel' unrecognizable item, but to me, it is a reality because it is a term which merely means Giant Panda. Besides its rarity, the panda is a most interesting and extraordinary animal. At close-range it looks very much like a medium-sized bear, with a parti- colored body of black and white. Its face is most unus- ual and beautiful, perhaps due to its extreme rarity in coloration. The general background is a dull white, with tiny black ears, and a large, black circle around each eye. By nature, the panda is good-humored and lazy, spending much of its time sitting in a position much like that of a toy teddy-bear. It is more interesting because of its peculiar diet. Its food consists of bamboo, and bamboo only. It is spe- NOVEMBER . 1939 cially equipped with teeth and claws that are ideal for handling the bamboo shoots. Watching a panda satisfying his inner demands is divert- ing, not only be- cause of the degree of skill and deft- ness necessary for devouring his food, but more because of the small quan- tity of the tough, hard, dry. unpalatable substance hc consumes. This summer I was fortunate enough to visit Forest Park, the St. Louis Zoo, and the Giant Panda thcrc oc- cupied inost of my attention. The picture was taken during the eating process, described above. although it is practically undistinguishablc. Ile was brought to America from China in 1933, and was nick-nanitxl Happy by his keepers. ll' EDITCDRIALS A Portrait- - Of You? MARION CUNNING1-IAM, '37 I APPROACH the editorial staff of the Towniz LIGHT with some tcmcrity. since, in view of their most recent issue of the magazine, I should have something of real worth to offer. I say this sincerely, for I felt the October Townn LIGHT was' a far cry from the magazine which we were so proud of just three years ago. May I con- gratulate those who had part in publishing it. The first offering a graduate makes to our college pub- lication generally concerns itself with his personal re- action to the profession of teaching. This is not illogical, since it is the career for which he has prepared himself and which, since his graduation, has become a daily feature of his life. Unfortunately, I must make certain reservations to the statement, for I have long since ac- customed myself to the cryptic remarks of all too many of my classmates who do not wish to make teaching a vital part of their lives. Furthermore. I am fairly confi- dent tliat there are those attending teachers' colleges who have the same attitude prior to graduation. I do not think we should underestimate this condition. Let's not make it one of the unmentionables, a thing only to be whispered about by teachers of education. People who feel this way about the whole thing shouldn't pre- pare themselves to be teachers and should get out of the field before they harm themselves and have oppor- tunity to influence others. VVhen I was in college I felt that there were many students whom I knew who should never have been there. and now that I am teach- ing I am of the same opinion still. If my words do not reach the readers of the Towniz Lieirr. I trust it will be because they did not seem of any real merit. rather than because the editors were unwilling to put such a situa- tion before their readers. If any of those to whom I referred as not belonging get a chance to know who penned such words I fear that I shall be branded as a hyprocriteg for I rarely offer any rebuttal to their remarks and admit, a bit guiltily, at having encouraged them on several occasions. One doesn't get very far by trying to give such individuals a new slant on life. They must build a philosophy of their own. Perhaps those with a more erusading spirit than mine can do something for them, although I am of the opinion that it should be done before they ever stand before a group of children. l know there are many things about every adininistra- 18 tion that one finds irksome. The children may not be the ideal specimens that you anticipated, and the life may seem routinized and confining. Need any of these things give you mental quirks? Your theories of educa- tion wcre not sound ones if you expected a bed of roses. Furthermore, where can you find any career that does not involve certain adjustments to reality. If you ever find yourselves in teaching, as I am beginning to, after two years of it, there are many returns which will make up for all the personal inconveniences and ad- justinents. Don't consider this the cry of one who stays in the classroom eight hours a day and thinks about teaching every other mimite that she is not asleep. I am not like pedagogues of story book fame who were labeled from the first day they entered the classroom. If you don't want to be a teacher and have no enthusiasm to bring to your job, then get out of it now! But if you are one who loves teaching, don't miss it! A Literary Challenge N. TRQTT DO YOU wonder each month, as you eagerly scan the pages of the new Towi3R LIGHT, what sort of material your compatriots in other state teachers colleges throughout the country are writing and publishing? If you do. perhaps you would be interested in Milwaukee State Teachers' The Cheshire. a quarterly containing the literary contributions of undergraduates there, with occasional contributions from Alumni. The cover of this SEQ x ll inch magazine is strangely like the Towan Liei-IT. containing the name of the publication, an abstract design in black and white, and the date of the issue. The subject matter varies from a serious article on Fascism, to a humorous essay on the Hpocketless sex. The editorial page. Muse and Mews. urges the students to support an art project being spon- sored by the city. Aesthetically, the publication is extremely pleasing. The wide page margins create a pleasant sensation of rooininess and impress one with the importance of each article. There are no advertisements in the magazine. which probably accounts for its limited issues lfour a year, as compared to the Towicn LICIITVS ninej and for its fewer number of pages lihftcen. compared to our tliirty-fivci . The quality of The Cheshire presents a distinct chal- lenge to the students of our college. Are we at Towson meeting it? NOTL1:-The Cheshire will be on file in the magazine department of our library. Read it this week! TOWER LIGHT Moments of Silence NOX'EhIBER ll, 1936: My first Armistice Day at Towson. l'm used to a holiday .... Had an Armistice Day assemblyg woman speaker, music, ll :OO o'clock silence .... lxlOVE1XIBER 11, 1937: School. In assembly, Gerald johnson spoke on The Constitution. The usual moment of silence .... NOXfEL'IBER 11, 1938: School trio, no holidayl. Observed the Armistice silence in class. Good assembly program of poems, readings, by students. NOVEMBER 11, 1939: Armistice Day again - no school, but not because it's a holiday. lt's Saturday. No assembly speaker to remind us of the poppies in Flanders Field. lf l'm to keep quiet at 11:00 A.M. somebody will have to remind me when it's time. XV hy keep on observing Armistice Day anyway? The treaty of peace whose acceptance is the occasion for celebration is today, in effect, null and voidg everybody realizes that in it were the germs of today's war. How naive we once were-rejoicing in the end of war, in the new era of peace! rc: 1: :: And yet-that moment of silence each year hasn't been what l'd call celebration or 'Arejoieingf' Strangely. l've never experienced it once without a slight pain in my throat, and the sound of Taps played in still air echoing from somewhere in my memory .... 1Vhy should the recall of the signing of a treaty cause me to close my eyes tighter to hide an unwanted moistness there? . . , Somehow l've always seen rows of white crosses shining, gleaming, in the sunshine of renewed hope in the brotherhood of man .... And now there are clouds affain darkening. dark- D ' P3 Clllllg .... Democracy DEMOCRACY CAN no more survive the eficects of totalitarianism in schools than Fascist or soeialistie government can survive the teachings of democracy. The schools of a democracy. like those of a totalitarian state, must sustain and support the society that supports them. The attempt observed in some places to exclude from the schools of this country even the mention of other forms of government is. of course. as ridiculous as it is futile: but that American teachers should be NOVEMBER . 1939 democrats-and not socialists or inonarchists, or coni- munists or Fascists-is to my mind an axiom of the first order. Teachers comprise the one great organ of the democratic state that creates and purifies its life blood. Surely democracy has the unqualified right to assure itself that this vital organ does not pump it full of poisons. From The Teacher in the 1l'I0lIa?1'l1 School, by B. F. Pittenger, Dean of the School of Education, University of Texas: in The Elementary School jourmzl, November, 1938. Let Us Have Peace MARY BICKEL XVITH THE cheers of thousands, the tunes of stirring national anthems, and the blessings of the church still ringing in their cars, Americas 1917 crop of youth landed in France to fight for democracy. The allies called it a war to make the world safe for democracy, a war to make the world a better place in which to live, a war to end all war! The young men believed and fouglitg when they had effectively completed their job of slaughter, their leaders stepped in and finished the farce with the Treaty of Versailles. These young men had marched away with straight. whole bodies and high ideals. Many of them had shown promise of brilliant futures. They lived and fought in France like swine in mud. and hobbled back with crushed, crippled bodies and no ideals. That was twenty years ago. Today there is another war in Europe strangely rc- sembling that of 191-l, lt seems that democracy is still being endangered and that the last war didn't settle the problem. lt seems that Germany won't play the game as prescribed by the democratic Treaty of Versailles. and that the whole world is maddened by the behavior of her self-styled saviour. Thus. the awful struggle has begun again. Once more the patient people of liuropc resign themselves to years of privation. tear. and defeat. inquiring timidly. perhaps, what all this sacrifice is really for. And once more the United States stands as a neue tral observer, its people wondering how long she can remain neutral. The question is: Do the people of the United States will that we keep out of 1'fnrope's perennial harvest of men? At present, every person in the United States is clamoring for peace: yet every person is yocifcrons in giving his opinion of the foreign situation. l'Iaeh person has his own view as to who is right and who is to lilame. and each person most certainly has a right to his fr 'r.r. -1 viewg but on what evidence are we to take sfrltsf . XYe don't know what causes wars nor what great powers plan and execute wars. XVe do know that the average person docsn't want war. cloesn't start war. and doesnt gain by war. Let us keep out of war. Let us not bc fattcncd and conditioned on clever propaganda for thc slaughter. Lct us not draw conclusions and say, l'his country is wrong and this country is right. Let us bc neutral and peaceful. Changes RUTH MCCARTY A SUPPLEMENT to last month's article. Nothing is constant but change. By this time. all the students of S.T.C. have accepted the above as a law of nature: therefore. I will proceed with some more of these changes. l. The identity of this Uinstitution of learning may now be known to all passersby on York Road. A bronze marker. located on the front lawn near the south drive- way, a gift of the Class of 1939. eliminates the possibil- ity of mistaking this college for other nearby institutions. 2. The campus and the glen have become scientific laboratories for the study of natural enviromnent. The new botany course and the project work being done in the glen have renewed interest in the plant and animal life found there. 3. The boys on the soccer team need no longer fear that the fair spectators will come out of the experience scarred. The white-belted policemen li with great dig- nity l look after the safety of all. -l. Students may now feel sure that they will eat sometime on Monday. The new schedule arranges class periods and lunch periods to the satisfaction of CYCl'yOllC. 5. In the Administration Building, work on the Mary- land Room lformerly Miss Birdsongs classrooml is progressing rapidly. XVithin a few weeks' time the ex- hibition of maps. pictures. and books will be ready for visitors. 6. Practicums and seminars are the new words heard in the college vocabulary. These terms are the names of the courses that aid in the preparation for student teach- ing. T. A new club has been formed for those who like mathematics either for practical purposes or as a means of mental gymnastics. The first meeting of the Math Club proved very promising. Best wishes for its con- tinued success. S. ln the dormitory. there is change. Rooms in Rich- 20 inond and Newell Halls have been repainted, and nearly every rooin is being used. There is a new reception parlor in Newell I--Iall for the use of the students in entertaining their families. 9. And lastly. as a means of bringing to the attention of everyone outside the college what everyone is doing in the college, a publicity campaign has been started. Any students participation in the college activities is of interest to his or her family and friends at home. The community papers are willing to publish news items of local interest. The college furnishes the opportunities. You participate and furnish the news. N EWS ITEM The recently formed safety patrol has asked us to notify all drivers that the car to watch is the car behind the car in front of you. PS. And the fellow driving it. Resident Projects Explained UNDOUBTEDLY, AMONG the most used words of our college year will be. 'tSorry, can't go with you now. Have one of those resident projects to work on. t'Now what in the world is a resident project?', Hence. we shall try to explain. XVe take it for granted you know what the N.Y.A. is - a federal arrangement giving money to colleges to employ students who otherwise would be unable to at- tend college because of financial straits. The resident project is a branch of this admirable organization, and the reason why a few more people have become eligible to the dorm gossip column. l. It is highly desirable for college students to live at the dormitories. It schools them in social amenities: educates them to live independently with others: and throws them on their own -giving them the oppor- tunity to depend on themselves. 2. Secondly. these projects not only will benefit the students, but also the college. Consider the projects themselves for the answer to this. a. Naming and labeling trees on the campus. LXYon't this be a help to the botany students. but it's about a month too late for juniors -t and TJ b. Patrolling the school grounds. 4' Have you seen those white belts walking around? XVoo-woooll TOWER LIGHT c. Completing the Alumni rolls. CPeople have graduated from here, you know.j d. Starting the advertising campaign. fThe Sports paper is part of this.j e. Making models for history, and period costumes. f. VVriting a history of the college. Now to the actual rules and regulations involved. Dr. Dowcll is in charge and before anyone can start work, he must file application and certify that he is an Ameri- can citizen. The projects differ from the N.Y.A. in that the hours are longer and the students participating must live at the college. The student is allowed to work no more than one hundred hours a month fsay it quieklyj for no less than 530.00 fworth while, don't you think?j. He may deduct 322.00 for board and keep 58.00 for himself or pay all of it on his board. He keeps track of the hours he works and turns in a record every week. Then at the end of the month-ahhh-he receives his check. Many of us are as enthusiastic over the resident pro- jects as we were over the N.Y.A. Young people can now attend schools of higher learning, train for a profession by doing work they like Qeducative employmentj and enjoy as many benefits, if not more. than the wealthiest person in the state. So. regardless of our divergent opin- ions on the present administration, we all give a vote of thanks and praise to the people who brought such a twentieth century miracle into existence. PRESERVING CHILDREN A'Take one large, grassy Held, one-half dozen children, two or three small dogs, a pinch of brook and pebbles. Mix the children and the dogs well together, put them into the Held. stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebbles. sprinkle the field with flowers. and spread over all a deep blue sky and bake in the sunshine. XV hen brown. set away to cool in a bathtub. A Tbmzlesgiviizg Prayer Oh. Thou who didst the Pharisee condemn, VV ho sent to Heaven on the wings of prayer These words of blind conceit: I thank thee, Lord, That I am not as this poor publiean, A sinner , Lord of lldight, forgive us now Be we not right. but wrong in thanking thee Our land is not as many nations are: By conflict, ruthless and distressing, torn, VV here hearts do weep and cannon thunder loud. Attend our prayer, who art our God alway: Oh, King of Peace, show us the bloodless way. NOVEMBER - 1939 Times Review BALTlMGRl'l'S NEW' amusement venture. the Times Theatre. was somewhat disappointing to the writer. He was not allured by thc telegrams of the va- rious motion picture stars posted without nor the blink- ing lights in the seventeen hundred block North Charles Street. His pass. it is true. was an incentive. as well as the desire to spend an hour seeing what had happened and what was happening in Europe to aug- ment the newspaper and radio comments on the current war. The Fight for Peace. which might have been called The Roads to VVar. was a pictorial epic? narrative? synopsis which included a chronological history from the tyranny of the Romanolfs to the present military rule of the dictators. XVe saw King George V and Queen Mary Qthe four-iifthsj receiving troops in the XVorld XVarg the Kaiser hid behind the skirts of Queen XVil- helminag Hitler and Mussolini gathering followers from the lower classes Q with support from the steel baronsl, and their sweeping rise to power, the abdication of King Alphonso and the civil war in Spaing Germany taking the Saarland and later withdrawing from the League of Nationsg Mussolini conquering Ethiopiag Haille Selassie pleading in vain to the League: Dollfuss murderedg Nazi troops purging Austria. and peasants there voting for Hitler 9921, for else . . . japan over- running Manchuria, sit-down strikes taking place in Paris. and Leon Blum heading a new government. The German and Italian Dietators meet, exhibit military strength, and treaties are made Chow soon to be broken J . Germany steps into Poland: France and Britain mobi- lizeg the Panama Canal is fortified. and President Roose- velt proclaims America does not like war. The Fight for Peace should not be missed by any student of history nor any youth of today. The theatre itself is rather plain in its appointments in contrast to the gaudy movie palaces. This is to bc admired. Either the writer was misinformcd. or he was carried away by unfounded expectations. In the larger cities news theatres are the answer to an idle hour and a place to see the Upictorial events of the day. Not so here. we regret to say. The hour or so expands into two hours and current news deteriorates into Betty Boop. and coming distractions -the Five little llstlllmx . . . beginning Friday. Go and decide if the Times is an ideal theatre for Baltimore. If not, how can it be unproxcdf Cl Calendar jury 1, 1939, XV1-1un1Ne Br:1.r.s Form: May t'l'ootie1 Love, Class of '40, and james Miner. Blanche Dorsey. Class of '38, and Nathan Butler. OCToR1-:R 2. 1939, IASSEIXIBLY- 'Today a mighty rolling thunder sounded through the halls before assembly time, Many students won- dered what it was. That mystery and many others regarding the Irlammond Electric Organ were solved with the aid of Mr. Stieff of the Stieff Music Store, Baltimore, and Mr. john Eltcrmann, an emi- nent organist in Baltimore. A concert followed which employed Usound effectsf' Those who were free and those visiting music enthusiasts remained to be borne away to different lands, accompanied by the strains of Strauss' L'Vienna XVoods. OCTOBER -1, 1939, AssEixrBL1'- Peace Day Observance. Appropriate songs and prayers were rendered after the C-overnor's proclamation, Let There Be Peace. 0C'I'OBER 9, 1939, ASSEMBLY- Art in Our Time, an illustrated lecture given by Dr. Nathan. ls there room for the architect in this troubled world? Instead of constructing the fancy classical buildings as of former days, our modern ar- chitects have switched to a pleasing, simple, flow- ing. strong, clean-cut, and efficient style. Typical examples of modern American building shown were the Rockefeller Building, the Norris Dam, and the Boulder Dam. Modern architects take advantage of all known factors for better building, such as the location and seasonal construction. OCTOBER 12, 1939, ASSE1XIBLY- Columbus Day Celebration. Members of the student body volunteered to take part in the Mr. Quiz contest. Questions concerning the historical, social, cultural, and economic background of Columbus were asked. Acting judges settled doubtful answers. OCTOBER 16. 1939, IXSSIZBIBLY- Relation Between Museum and School Systems was the title of the lecture given by Mr. Lynn Pool, of XValters Art Gallery, today. Explanations of the many educational values which may be derived from a planned program, collaborating with the art museum, were discussed. History and social study Z2 lessons as well as art itself lurk in these magnificent- ly adorned walls-to be had but for the asking. Teachers stand between the public and the art gal- leries, said Mr. Pool, as he admonished us, as future teachers, to make use of all the educational oppor- tunities which the art galleries aiford. A.C.E. NEWS. They were all there-both the old members and the new-for the Hrst meeting of the Association for Childhood Education. Tea was served and new acquaintances made before the important business of installing officers. The officers for this year are: President, Kathryn Emmartg Vice-President, Helen Pieekg Secretary, Kathryn Peltzg Treasurer, Ca- therine Shipleyg and Miss loslin, Faculty Adviser. Tentative plans were made for the winter. concern- ing outstanding speakers, and a visit to A.C.E. head- quarters in VVashington, D. C. Dorchester County Alumni Unit THE FALL meeting of the Dorchester County alumni unit was held on Tuesday evening, September 26, 1939, at the home of Mrs. Louise Harper Smith, 1-lurloek, Maryland. Dr, VViedefeld was the guest speaker and brought greetings and news of interest from the College. She expressed her delight in being invited to the meeting and extended a very special invitation to the members of the unit to visit the College on Founders' Day. Miss Mary H. Scarborough, Held secretary of the Col- lege alumni, was also present and made a short talk suggesting that a worthwhile project for the unit would be to interest more of its members in joining the Statef Alumni Association. In pursuance of this suggestion, a committee was named for this purpose. This com- mittee will sce that the Dorchester County unit does its share to attain a goal of 500 new members each year for the State Alumni Association. Election of the officers resulted as follows: Mrs. Granville Hooper, Chairman: Miss Evelyn johnson, Vice-Chairman: Miss jeanette Carmine. Secretary- Treasurer. The following members were present: Mrs. Laird Bramble fEtta Bradshawl 1927, Mrs. Iohn Brueil flluth XVoollenj 1930, Miss Ethel Brinsficld 1923, Mrs. james Bruminctte tLillian Ionesj 1907, Miss Ieanette Carmine 1923, Mrs. Calvin Dean CMary E. Cooteel 1930, Miss Mary V. Cootee 1923, Mrs. Cranville lloopcr f.Xnna B. Musselmanj 1916. TOWER LIGHT 1 I I I 2 1 5 1 A 1. r A 5. i. j. ji ji In 14 f ti I1 1 I 1 i 1 4 .1 1 i Miss Margaret Hubbard 1923, Miss Evelyn Iohnson 1918, Mrs. Lloyd Langford Chflary D. llodsonj 1926, Mrs. Roland Layton fNellie Reedj 1911. Mrs. Clarence LeCompte fCeorgia Pearsonj 1900, Mrs. Frederick Miller fEloise Henryj 1922, Mrs. Iohn Shenton fLola Parksl 1926, Mrs. llarry B. Smith fLouise Harpcrj 1920, Mrs. Leon Spicer fMary Bradshawj 1923, Miss Myrtle Stack 1913, Mrs. Iames P. Swing fEthel C. Bradshawj 1925, Miss Lois XVilling 1925. Mrs. Wfoodrow XVilson QEvelyn Maeej 1927. Echoes of '39 MARY DAY AND ANNE XVILLIAMS ARE YOU wondering what has happened to last year's graduates? Here is what we know. Can vou add anything? The following people have been placed in Baltimore City: lane Kimble-Kindergarten and departmental work in music and physical education, grades 4, 5, 6. Helen Freitag-Two kindergartens, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Paul Massieot-2A and 3B. Iohn Schmidt-3B, EIA, 4B. Betty Smiley-First grade at School No. 62. Marjorie Cohen-First grade. Those who are teaching in Baltimore County include: XV alter Gordon-Sixth grade. Wfilliam hflcConnell-Grades 5 and 6. Louis Cox, Ir.-Fifthgrade. Roger XVilliams-Grade 6 at Randallstown. XVilliam Cox-Crade 5 at Randallstown. Helen Gill-First grade at XVestchester. Hazel lvloxley-Fourth grade. Anna Smith-Grade live. Richard Cook-Sixth grade at Cockeysville. Esther Bull-First grade, Seventh Consolidated. Evelyn Searff-Grades 3 and 4. Arthur Bennett-Grades 6 and 7. Sarah Hatton-Grades 2 and 3, Riderwood. Ieanne Cumming-Second grade, Seventh Con- solidated. Mildred Lippert-Grades 3 and 4 at Hebbville. lane MeElwain-Grades 1 to 3 at Dover Road School. Dorothy Vogel-Grades 4 and 5 at Towson. Virginia Morgan-Primary Grades at Dundalk. Louise Firey-Hereford. Iohn Klier-Parkville. john Owens-Edgemere. D NOVEMBER - 1939 Other graduates who have obtained teaching posif tions are: Dorothy Anthony-Crades 5 and 6, Anne .Xrundel County. Ruth Dudderar-Crade S, Anne Arundel County. Virginia Barnes-Departmental work in grades 5, 6, and 7 at Anne Arundel County. Doris Eldridge - Primary grades in Klaplesville School. YVashington County. Evelyn Clark-Grades 4, 5, 6, and 7 in a two room- prineipal school of Kent County. Agnes Carpenter-Grades 2 and 3. Charles County. Emily Armour-Cvrades 4, 5, 6. and 7, Colora School in Cecil County. Margaret YVebb-Grades 4 and 5, Howard County. Two of our former students are working for the Cas and Electric Company in Baltimore City. They are Evelyn Medicus and Ruth Ann Morganthau. ln addition to the above mentioned graduates, there are many others who have been substituting in the Baltimore Citv Schools. Have You Heard? KATHERINE L. IACOB ALL OVER this country there has been much dis- cussion concerning the advancing of the date of Thanksf giving Day. The Campus School, however, had a real Thanksgiving Day when the new lunch room opened on October nineteenth. Since the opening of school there has been a feeling of great impatience at the delayed delivery of the new tables ordered so long ago for the children's lunch room. Needless to say there were shouts of joy when the truck carrying the tables drove to the rear of the school and delivered them. Four of the carpenters. under the direction of Mr. Richardson, lost no time in setting them up for immediate use. A lunch room in the elementary school has its :Id- vantages in that only the children have to be considered. ln many ways this is a room for children. The tables. chairs. and service rail are of sizes that promote comfort and elhcient self-service. The menu is planned for chil- dren. The children are learning to select their lunches wisely. The 1TlOt1lCl'S of every class in the Campus School have held grade meetings. lu thesc meetings there is opportunity for mothers and teachers to become ac- quainted and to discuss common problems concerning 23 the physical. mental. and social development of the children. This brings about a wholesome and coopera- tive feeling between teachers and parents. An exhibit was held in the Campus School during National Book Week. Books were lent by some Balti- more department stores and book shops. Students and children found great pleasure in visiting the exhibit and browsing among the books. Miss Joslin is working with those children in the Campus School who have some speech difficulties. The teachers recommend the children who need help. Plans for the Christmas celebration. which will not be held with that of the college. are already taking shape. Do you know how many of the former Campus School pupils are now students in the college? The Chimes Guild NEAL GALB REATH DID YOU ever wonder why the Chimes ring before breakfast and dinner each evening? There is an organi- zation responsible for playing the chimes. the Chimes Guild. Last year. the membership of the Guild reached the peak of fifty dormitory students although the chime- sters of the Guild number about ten. XYhat do the other forty members do? YVeIl. have you ever noticed a group of girls standing beside the chimes each evening? Did you ever hear them sing? Ah-h-h. Not only do they sing grace each evening. but also for special occasions. such as the Alumni banquet. the Te The Language SNAP! THE radio made the same sound it always docs when I turn it on. I had no special program in mind. but turning the dial I experimented hopefully. What sounded like jargon. with a little twist to the right. proved to be a voice pealing forth the wonders of Clean-XYelI Cream. Spots and blemishes disappear like magic -bosh! XYith a quick jerk the indicator moved to 220. Take advantage of Moore's sale. buy your fur coat -well. I've no use for a fur coat. I'll have to wait until I earn sorne money for that. XYasn't there anything worth listening to? A womans shriek pierced my ears. I looked around. half fearful. It was only the radio exploding with a drama. I turned the dial further. almost ready to give up. As if to try deliberately to exasperate me more. I heard a man ticking off words. as a clock ticks off sec- onds. I paused to listen. Nothing I could understand. I listened more closely fearing that my ability to hear was failing me. No. it was just a man speaking in a foreign language. Trying to distinguish some familiar words and listening more intently to the intonations. I endeavored to understand what it was about. Having 24 Pa Chi Club meetings. Presidents luncheons, and fomial dinners. That isn't all they do. Before the big vacations at Thanksgiving. Christmas, and Easter. they get up at 6:30 in the morning and. clad in robes and carrying candles. sing appropriate songs through the dormitory, to add to the splendor. Usually the Guild goes to Dr. XViedefcld's home, and, occasionally. even ventures as far as the cottage. Did you ever see fifty girls get together with such cooperation? Truly this group offers many thanks to Miss MacDonald for her excellent advice and direction. Without Words MARY BKASHEARS decided it was war news. I was about to turn the dial when the man stopped talking. XYhy? And then. like a gentle shower of sparkling rain drops. the strains of a string ensemble flowed over my spirit. Such beauty of tone and grace of movement soothed and calmed my troubled mind. Now. the music led my thoughts to children playing. and to a light and happy dance of nymphs and spritesg swiftly the mood changed and the dull heavy rhythm made me feel the weariness and despondency of those who are not free in their hearts and thoughts: again in contrast to this came the lifting and rolling spirit that reminds one of riding on gentle swells in quiet waters. Suddenly the music began to run. until its heart was pounding and its blood pulsing: but iust as quickly it ended as though it had given life itself to that great glorious ending. Nothing was left but a fading. ebbing life. expended for one moment of utter abandonment. I sat very still, and soon heard the foreign voice again. Now. Voice. I thought. you are my friend. You speak the language of music. and that. all can understand. TOWER LIGHT Orchestra Events AT THE assembly program on October 26, au ex- cellent performance was given by the orchestra. There are several reasons for this show of excellence. Foremost is the sharpness quot in the musical sensej of the or- chestra, i.e., the orchestra was well conditioned from thc hard work at practice sessions which Miss Prickett holds. Secondly. the orchestra was conscious of its two big events of the year which were in the immediate future, where we were to be most critically judged. The one was the program for the State Teachers Association on Friday, October 27. YV e attracted much attention because our orchestra is symphonic in so far as it has a variety of instruments properly proportioned, and bee cause of the better than average ability of many of our members. XVC have also introduced the novel violin duet from our first desk of violins. XVhen the radio program was given. we felt certain of its success because of our previous successful engage- ments. That it was can be attested by the favorable reaction of the listeners. P.S. The orchestra picnic in the glen was an occa- sion for the expression of the friendliness that prevails among our orchestra members. Upon returning from the glen we sang songs to a gathering in thc lodge, YVC were happy that Dr. Lida Lee Tall, our beloved former president, was present. Fashion Flashes MARIE PARR THIS MONTH we promised to dedicate this column to the freshmen-so, freshmen, it is all yours. Some of the most striking styles have been noted among these newcomers to college life and they are certainly worthy of mention.-Here goes!- . . . S. Hfs pastel sweaters are lovely. VVhere does she tind such pretty colors? . Unique jewelry is really the fad. Have you noticed M. H.'s necklace of aeorns? XVe hear that pumpkin seeds make interesting bracelets and necklaces, too. . M. Sfs nubby woolen socks have rated many an envious eye cast in their direction. . P. C. is right in style with her red and black outfit. Red and black have become leading shades this season. . Long, sloppy eardigans have been seen throughout the freslnnen class. You can't keep those girls Clown. . M. S. has taken the honors from H. R. for sox appeal. . G. H. always looks so neat without being over- dressed. . VVhere does D. H. get all his ties? VVe hear he is going to open a shop soon. VVe could go on and on but the bottom of the page is getting closer all the time. These freshmen are not going to let the upper classmen outdo them in fashion hits. Sophomores! Iuniors! Seniors! You'cl better watch these freslnnen or they will be setting the style standards for the college. NOVEMBER - 1939 WHAT'S NEW 11115 is me 991 mai Jak n.,1. I I - Cl? ADMITYEOUPLE 5 Thi: ir 1Ze,fijkZ1 lbpz 1l1i- 99: 111.11 :TUWER LIGHTF 1. 1 4, Jn: .nu 01131 ' qqg - 1.1 .-. gy 5ie ':Li'f , I Tbis ir the gm 111.11 01,110 01, 111.5 ' 'f Il- 1i.:kiA1 1b.11 me 99: 111.11 lark l vp: b.z11I1o11gl11. M, T bi: is lb: 1l.n1rr- 111.11 111114.1rmt 1111- girl 111.11 1-.n11u 1111 :lie 111-Lvl 111.11 my 99a 11111 ,lurk lm! lzonglzl. J This ix ilu' lu-lim' T01i'rr5 L1gl11 lv ' marie pwmlf by 11,1 11..1,.f., 4160? 111111 .1111-in-1i-11 :bc S11-If 10.11 5,1 gf mme an llae 1i:Lrf1r 1b.11 rm h ti, 'fun 99: ilu! curb J-lik bail NPN! bouglll. kqkvb V 3Kl X ng T I - THIS ir 4 nolc lo the wise . Q dia. 'Lvl-1.,l ' Af Have you heard this one? A midshipmau was standing outside a dentist othce singing The Yanks are Coin- ing. XVhat is a diplomat? A diplomat is a man so cleycr that when he strals your coat and vest you give him your watch and chain. N USNICKS' HENRY N. STECKLER THE SOCCER season at Towson is over. State Teachers College has once again produced a successful team. Strange as it seems, the higlispot of the season proved to be the opening l-0, overtime, loss to VVest Chester Teachers College, probably the best team Tow- son has ever played. Unfortunately. many students know very little of soccer's glorious past. The game is almost as old as or- ganized sports, and dates back to the days when the ancient Spartans played a similar game called Harpas- tonf' England took soccer for her own at an early date. There, even in the twelfth century, the game had reached such popularity as to incur royal disfavorg and King Henry Il banned the sport because he felt that it interfered with the national and compulsory sport of archery. It is estimated that, at present, some 5.000.000 Eng- lishmen play soccer every Saturday from September to May, and that on Saturday nights three out of every four Englishmen are gathered around the radios to hear the results of the games. Besides having many amateur teams they have over five hundred major and minor league professional teams. It can be truly said that soccer is the most popular sport in England. Re- cently, the sport has spread from England to her colo- nies with magnificent success. Several years ago a young doctor organized a native soccer team at N ombara, East Africa, and coached by movies. Visiting liners sent teams ashore, but not one, so far. has beaten the natives. In keeping with his policy of playing first-rate teams, I wonder if Coach Minnegan could arrange a game with them for l940. Of course. we know that in this country, Maryland is a great soccer stateg but did you know that in Chicago and Milwaukee soccer is played indoors in winter? The field for the indoor game is necessarily reduced to one- third the regulation size, and there are only nine and sometimes only seven players on the indoor teamsg otherwise, the new game is quite the same as outdoor soccer. S 0 W I-I AT LEE MCCARRIAR FLASH! So Vlfhat is still slipping by the eyes of the watchful editors, all four of themfl How they miss it every month, especially when NVeis writes it, is beyond me. That reminds me. l heard a few days ago that So Wfhat was put on the pan by a Senior student in a psychology class. She claimed that it broke up friend- ships. Let me assure you, dear readers, that it is not the policy of this column to do that. P.S. The rest of the class voted her down. llfditors' Note - Thats what some people think. There are times when every editor has to write for his public.l 26 Now to get down to the business of the month. Open letter to Mr. Harry f Butsie j Russell: Dear Sir: You have been recognized as a champion jokester and we all appreciate your humor, but look to your laurels. young man. A rival has appeared on the scene. His jokes are commonly referred to as puns. lf he can't make his living any other way, he can eat puns with a cup of coiftee. His name? Oh, yes: Dave Nelson. Respectfully yours. L. MCC. TOWER LIGHT W I l 5 1 I r l One day, coming home from Montebello, someone asked Leon Lerner why an Indian wore a hat. The obvious answer to the joke t?j is to keep his wigwamf' Leon then went up to a group of girls and said, f'XVhy does an Indian have a wigwam? The girls bit. so Leon said, A'To keep his hat on. I don't get it. Mr. VValther said one day that teachers could not stand sitting because they are not contortionists. XVillie Ranft is still a single man. I know that was in last month's column. but a lot of water has passed under the bridge since. A lot ffour, to be exactj of fellows who went balmy during the first month. have returned to normal. One got a crane to lift him out. another turned a certain girl's eyes brown again, and Norris XVeis is back with his gaze turned toward XVestern Maryland College. lfishcl is picking up where his brother left off. Xkln. do you sit by the piano when you can't play? One of the number eight street cars caught tire re- cently. l,Vas it the rezl-hot personality of the Sfl .C. girls aboard? Bernard fpronounccd Ber-nard r Phelps told thc spon- sors of the Senior Dance that it was the best dance that hc has been to, XVC might add that it was also the first he has attended. Next month brings forth the old sage, Norris XVcis and So Wfhat? Miss Munn, when talking about the Queen in Ham- let, said, 'iShe looked as if she were on her last lap. P.S. lim Iett should save his poetic abilities for something other than the classroom. It Wasn't Told To Me, I Only Heard . . . THAT THE Bells of St. Marys are calling a certain senior special: distance no obstacle. That freshman girls do enjoy being walked back from the library at night. However, the following suggestion has been offered: that a new library be erected directly on the other side of the glen. That some girls we know are still getting letters from the boys at home. but are having a grand time here. VVhen asked about the situation they replied. VVell, it's a long winter. That a few freshies would like to know: a. If a walk in the moonlight is just routine. b. How to get used to the library system. c. XV hen the .ripper classmen are f'ragging them. d. VVhy they are treated as guinea pigs. That the dorm girls. first floor, want to know who killed Ivy. That even though it was Friday 13th, the goblins didn't get a soul. Everyone was enjoying himself at the Senior Benefit Dance. Perhaps the black cat ac- counts for its howling success. VV ho would have guessed it Q or: f'Have You Hearduj The other night. Henderson had two Hat tires-one on a rim. Do you think that the radio will ever take the place of the newspaper? No, you can't swat the flies with a radio. johnson: A'XVell. I always throw myself into every job I undertake. lessie: Did you ever think of digging a well? NOVEMBER - ine ,ffm aff' xl Our little Lilly is the sweetheart of the Loyola boys. Mr. Moser: '1Now, if I subtract 25 from 34, what's the differcnce?', Pupil: Yeah! That's what I say. XV ho cares? The Devil sent the wind To blow the skirts knee-high. But heaven just sent the dust. T0 blow in the bad manis eye. Lauenstein: XVho gave you that black eyc?' Cox: Nobodv! I had to iight for it. HCJ-HLHW Husrori Enrroizs Foreign Affairs Hitler believes that he and Stalin are going to get along Hue. They have agreed not to make dirty cracks about each othcr's ideologies of mustaches. -The New Yorker The map of Europe has been changing so fast that one Board of Education is considering the teaching of geography with motion pictures. is 15 131 A doctor had an urgent phone call from a gentleman saying his small sou had swallowed his fountain pen. All right! I'll come at once. replied the doctor. lint what are you doing in the meantime? A H Came the unexpected answer. Using xr penfll. I Career Woman jContinuecl from page 103 been in fun, started at this last remark. Trying to suppress the hope that she knew was in her shaky voice, she said, YVhat? I said, wouldn't you like to go to the dance with a college man next Friday night? It'll give you a chance to get acquainted, since youll probably see each other next year. XV-why y-yes, I'd love it, she starnmered in reply, not trusting herself to say more. After she had managed to break the news to her mother, Matilda went on a grand shopping spree that changed her from a drab. listless individual to a spark- ling-eyed. radiantly happy girl. She went first to the den- tist and insisted that the brace be removed from her teeth: it was unsightly and she didn't really need it anymore. In the beauty shop, she had an expert mani- cure that did wonders for the appearance of her hands and she chose a wave that would be as becoming as possible. Trying on dresses was her greatest thrill. There were many and varied styles and colors of youthful evening gowns, but she looked especially for one that would make her appear short and slim. The silver san- dals she bought were high-heeled and toeless so that no one would have guessed they were size seven. Never had she been so happy and excited before. There was a red ring around the date on her calendar, and she marked time, so many days before the dance. Very promptly, at eight o'clock, Matilda took one last look at herself in the mirror. before turning out the light, and going downstairs to wait for the arrival of Betty and her cousin jack. She wasnlt displeased at the reflection she saw there and prayed a last fervent prayer that she might be liked and admired, just for one night. At eight-thirty. she heard two cars stop in front of the house and excited voices chattering. She had often heard them stop at Lillian's house across the street, but now they were stopping here. in front of her house, and tonight she was going to be one of the merry crowd to dance and enjoy herself at the Country Club! Betty gave a squeal of delight when she saw Matilda. 'Tildy, you look lovely! Matilda, this is my cousin, jack. Listen, honey. I'm in a hurry because Bob and I are going with Rosemary and Bill. jack'll take care of you . . . and we'll see you at the dance. She was gone before Matilda could utter a word. Trying to stay calm and serene, Matilda looked at lack and tried to read his eyes to see if there was any hint of admiration in them. However. she was quite unaccustomed to reading peopleis thoughts, especially boys'. and found herself blushing with embarrassment, Z8 as she realized she had been staring at the tall, hand- some man before her. A'Shall we go? he asked politely. She thrilled at his nearness and remained silent as his skillful hands guided the car out of the town traffic and into the country. It was about ten miles to the Club. So you're going to the university, he ventured brightly. A'Yes.l' she replied softly. She didn't tell him that she was glad to meet someone from there so that she wouldn't be a total stranger and hoped that they would be good friends. She was content to sit quietly and listen to his description of the university, its professors, fra- ternities. club, dances and so forth. XVhen they reached the Club, they sought out Betty and her friends and strayed in their direction between dances. After the first dance, Matilda realized that in her preparation for the evening she had not included learning the latest dance steps and the rest of the dances were simply variations on the two-step. waltz, and fox- trot. Matilda noticed that Betty was quite popular with the stag line and never danced all the way around the room with the same partner, while she changed part- ners only when Betty expressed a desire to dance with her cousin. After waltzing once around the floor with her new partner, Matilda excused herself and made her way out on the veranda, where she found an empty seat near some large, potted palms. Quite unaware of it at first. she was suddenly startled into the realization that Betty and jack were quite near. though hidden. The music had stopped. and she could hear their voices. XVhy in the world is she going to the University? She'll be as popular as the measles at the rate she's going now. She acts as though she had never had a date in her life. Matilda could not hear Betty- s reply, but is was evi- dently in her defense. XVell. no, I don't suppose it is her fault, but why' use me for a guinea pig? Right now, I feel like a walking eatalogueg I didn't know I knew so much about the University. After tonight I won't laugh at jokes about women talking so much. Betty again said something and Matilda sat petri- fied, hardly daring to breathe. 'Cf course, I'll stay with her and try to show her a good time. But, for goodness sake, Betty, if you're a good friend of hers. take her in hand over the summer and see what you can do before you wish her on me at college. I promise you I'm good at evading people. so if you don't want her feelings hurt . . . The voices died away as they walked off and the music started. He'd be looking for her so she walked around TOWER LIGHT r 1 l s l i i l the veranda and went in another door, where he'cl have a hard time finding her. Mrs. Squinch w'aited up to hear how her daughter enjoyed herself and to help her with her clothes because she knew she'd be tired and sleepy. Matilda went about her preparation for bed slowly and refused to talk, pleading 'headache and fatigue. Her mind, however, was active and she drew a mental picture of her assets. or perhaps her liabilities. No beauty. no personality, no accomplishments. no social experiences, no charm. A home? V ery doubtful. Mumsy, she sighed as she snuggled clown in the blankets, and reached up her arms to hug her mother good-night, 'AVVould you mind so awfully much if there was a career woman in the family? A TINY TOUR tContinued from page 31 buttons. which lighted first from a dim distance and gradually ever nearer the hang- ing splendor of the Cathedral and somewhere a tran- scription of Beetlioveifs Sonata swelled in the proces- sional of color and sound. In awe and reverent humility. as in the presence of the mighty God of Nature. we were silent. By ones and twos. we gradually returned to day- light and reality. For an hour, we idled in the twilight of the Lodge. held by the spell of a sanctuary and then were off for the V. M. I. chapel at Lexington and on to the Natural Bridge. True to our human natures. we anticipated all the disappointments which weather could provide at Nat- ural Bridge. And we wasted so much worry! YV hen we drove up. a young man bearing an enormous sea-side sunshade. came up to our car and we stepped up under its tent-like protection. 'Twas such fun walking under that thing through puddles and rushing rivulets! Once inside the spacious administration building. we were outfitted from crown to toe in water-proof garments. and for fifteen cents were taken by bus to the open-air auditorium where the crowd enjoys exquisite music reflected from the Bridge while one looks at it and won- ders. There was ample time to walk along the stream and gaze in open-eyed curiosity, according to inclina- tion, and when all eyes and necks were tired. then to return to our starting point perfectly dry and elated. The journey's final lap took us awinding up circuitous roads again through narrow gaps between mountains whose tops were completely swallowed up in clouds. From these crests, we coasted to thc east over rolling grazing lands and still on to a gentler coastal plain. By eight o'clock, we were home again, our wanderlust satis- fied for a season. and our hope alive for the next time . . . V' NOVEMBER - 1939 HARRY C. LANGGOOD -P02 YORK Ro.-in. Nr-:xr 'ro C1i11s.iP11.xxi3 Avi.. Towsox, Xln. Skilled Wfzztcb, Clock, Jewelry. 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LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 COXYIQNIEXT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New XVella Hair Treatment People with Discrimimlting Tastes Prefer Esslqay Quality MEAT PRODUCTS 30 THE AMERICAN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Gjl Qenzocrafic .qzsfifufion fContinucd from page 23 Massachusetts established the first normal school in lS39 and other states followed in close succession. These normal schools had to adjust their standards to meet the achievement level of thc students who came to them. Students from such elementary schools as then existed. taught by poorly equipped teachers. open for only a short time during the year. having few books and little or no opportunities for cultural enrichment, were not prepared to do the work which had been planned for them. The first normal schools were little more than high schools. They claimed to teach the same subjects as the high schools but to present them with a different pur- pose. As the elementary schools improved and high schools became more general. schools for teachers were able to raise their standards They became two year schools requiring high school graduation for entrance. Their curriculum was planned to give the students the professional training needed to teach in the elementary school. A ln the meantime. the curriculum of the elementary school underwent changes. New psychologies devel- opedg new findings in the field of biology gave new and different understandings of individual differences among the pupilsg new philosophies of education resulted and a science of education slowly developed. At the same time cultural patterns underwent striking changes. The increasing complexity of life. social and economic, added greatly to the problems which beset the Ameri- can family and community, and changed the needs of the pupils. thus necessitating a shift in the aims and objectives of education. The realization of these goals brought about a general expansion of the whole field of education reacting on the normal schools and challen- ging them to effect a different type of education for teachers. Normal schools became three year schools and finally four year schools granting the BS. degree. During the period of transition from normal school to teachers col- lcgc the purpose emphasized was to increase the num- ber of subject matter courses. Klany of the teachers colleges recognizing thc need for additional academic courses imitated thc curricula of the liberal arts colleges. Several types of organization have resulted. Thcrc is thc tcachcrs college which is organized as a two year junior college plus a two year professional school. There TOWER LIGHT :and Colleges. At the spring meeting of the American l is the four year teachers college which organizes its courses so that the students have opportunities for in- tegrating the academic and the professional subjects during the entire four years of study. The State Teachers College at Towson is organized on the second plan. The philosophy is, that personality patterns are not built stepwise. nor in layers, but are interwoven like a seamless web. Experience would indicate that those who become the best teachers are men and women who as children lived in homes where they imbibed from well planned. highly systematized, everyday experiences and wholesomely happy family re- lationships. the beginnings of those personality char- acteristics which in later life are recognized as teaching aptitudes. liiteracting with those beginnings are those school experiences which leave their impression indeli- bly tixed. Other life experiences are woven into the fab- ric already showing some completeness of design. The teachers college continues the weaving. adding to and continually strengthening the warp and the Woof, work- ing in the color, providing for balance, caring for the harmony and the high lights. and enlarging the per- spective. All this the teachers college does by selecting the students carefully and by affording them curriculum opportunities which develop many-sided personalities and which condition the students for exercising that type of leadership which meets the demands of the school system in which they are to teach as well as the needs of the individuals who are to be their pupils. Teachers colleges have their own accrediting associa- tion-the American Association of Teachers Colleges. Our school is the only one of the Maryland State Teach- ers Colleges accredited by that Association. Several of the largest teachers colleges have been accredited also by the Eastern States Association of Secondary Schools Association of University XVomen a motion to admit to their membership graduates of teachers colleges was passed. This is considered quite a victory for the teach- ers colleges. Our own college was one of a group of colleges selected for study by the committee which made the favorable report. F rom this brief history. we may see how our professional education came to be, how we have grown, and the direction in which we are ad- vaneing. , Q COMPLIMENTS OF l, il A FRIEND l i. y'NOVEMBER . 1939 ll. I A Deposit of 51.00 Opens a Checking .flfmllzzt in the CHECKMASTER Plan at The illintnsnn Hatiunal itiank TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is five cents for each check drawn and each deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 Mason's Service Station Betholine - RiCbjield Gasoline Official AAA Station 24-Hour Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 All State Teachers College Students Are Cordially Invited To Pt1f1'01IiZ6 The T O 'W S O N D I N E R Best Food and Sandwiches At All Hours 61 1 Y O R K R O A D TowSoN. MARx'i,.-xxii Come To Hzaqlwff For The .fmawarf anal Best Looking Cafifpzzf ana' Dale Clothes HUTZLER BFQTHEIQ GI BANKING SERVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL Personal Loans -FQ, Investment Certificates issued in multiples Of of S50.00. Interest payable january lst S100 to S1000 At Fair Rates. and July lst. IVE INVITE YOUR INQUIRY Citizens' Industrial Bankers, Inc. 1 104 ST. PAUL STREET - - - - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Service Station To Students IEANNE KRAVETZ October I6. l939 Dear Aunt Ieanne. I hope you can help me. but I don't think you can. I loyc S.T,C.. but I am rather lonesome. All of my friends from high school went to the University of Maryland or Coucher. and I just can't seem to hit it off so well here. I am in an all-girl class. and I don't like that so much. The work out here isn't too hard. but I just can't seem to make a go of it. They say the place is friendly. but the upper-classmen seem to stick to- gether. Maybe later, I'll get to like it here, but right now I'm in a fog. l'm sorry if this nut is too hard for you to crack. Loyingly, A Freshie All of us at some time or another feel at loose ends. The problem then is to find something to which to cling. Everyone of us is different. and so, to everyone, is his own answer to this problem. Our interests help determine our personality. In order to examine your personality and thereby solve your problems, you must analyze your interests. Certainly in a college with so many clubs, you will find a place to realize your apti- Give A Gift Uvitb A School Or Lodge Seal The Iohn Trockenbrot Co. xr.-xNUF.-xCTURERs OF School, College, Club, Lodge, RINGS and PINS See Our Display In The Book Store BANQUET FAVORS -:- TRCUPHIES 310 N. Paca Street VERNON IOSZ 32 tudes. Perhaps you are afraid that you will not find a friendly atmosphere there. Here is an answer to thatg join a club, and offer to work on some committee. All arms will be open to you. You will find a place for your- self. learn to know people, and be in a group with upper- classmen. Ineidentally, if you choose your club well. you will come in contact with men students. XV ith your in- terest in people and things, you will find your interest in class work begin to grow. I do not believe that joining a club is the sole solution to your problem, but try it and I'm sure you won't be lonesome. You will be identifying yourself with some- thing within the college, and thereby associating your- self with it. This bond of being a part of it will strengthen your liking for S.T.C. NOTE: If you have any other ideas to help our Freshie to enjoy college life more. send them in to the TOWER LIGHT office in care of this department. If the law of gravity keeps us on earth, what made us stick before the law was passed? i X il-' The easiest way to drive a nail without hitting your finger is to let someone else hold it. Teacher Iafter lengthy explanationj: Now, did I make myself plain? Voice from Rear: No, Nature did that. XVhat does the yellow signal mean to the waiting Scotchman? Time to start his engine. ii IF i Sweet Young Thing: Don't you think that it would be foolish for me to marry someone who was intellectu- ally my inferior? Not-so-Sweet Ditto: Not only foolish - in fact, I'd say impossible! T O WE R LI G HT PLEASE PATRGNIZE OUR ADVERTISERS V, A A 45 ,L MQ? ' I - ik ix H , S i R They do the job they're meant to do Chesternelrls are like that . . . they go about their business of ffivinfv K D U you more smoking iq ' - f fe ' pleasure...1vilh a taste, aroma and mildness i 'ii-ax. .- K .i,ip,ifj, ' 5 . . 4 Qillxfk A 1 thats all their own . . . the kind that only the A U right combination of the world's best ciga- rette tobaecos can give. X. sl Q K 'wh' xi! , Q N kj :- iQ!Egi?:qfz,je'... QGAPQTTEQ u uocuv a mms mancco C0 Cupyrlgln IU W, LILVLA 'Fl N fXiYlKS T 1 C0 C ZHZLZI' 1 I...-.. 939 ower .gigkf I ' I fiiglif I I I XX Have you ever noticed that Camels burn longer and give you fl . more smoking? l , 4 asks VAN CAMPEN HEILNER ' . f muuus carve .mn FISHING AUTHORITY I fe- -4-sf i .- C ' A Ab ' I .41V waiting in the duck blinds for the zero hour. Explorer, or e, Sportsman, scientist, conservutionixt, author ofthe authoritative, new ' A Book on Duck Shooting, Hrilner knows the waterfowl flyways from California to lllaine, Alaska . . H I8 ars. lo zllrrica, and those of Europe too. Van has been a Camel smoker for yr OU can tell 1 lot about a cigarette bv whether it burns fast or slowly. M Camel cigarettes are noted for their long burning, In fact, they burned lon ver, slower than any ollivr brand, in recent scientihc tests fre ri lit . 5. , I , Van Campen Heilner, the famous American authority on wild game, points out an interesting angle to this. Camels give more .vniolcmg because they burn so slowly. he says. And I think the way they burn is a very good way to judge the quality of ciga- rettes too. I notice this about Camels-l can smoke them steadily and they mil cool, and mx' mouth feels fresh-not dry-with no throat irritation. Camels are mild, tlaw Irv. They give more genuine pleasure still taste smooth 1 er pug and more pulls per pack. Turn TimCLllT1t'lS. Get extra smoking per p -. . pack-topped otT with the delicate taste ol choice quality tobaccos. l'or con tentment-smoke Camels! MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF. ..MORE PUFFS PER PACK! , 1a. Whatever price you pay pe, Pa-ck, 1t's important to remember this fact: By buming ZSZ slower than the average of the 15 other of fhellargesr-Tiling brands tested -s ower t an any of them- CAMELS give a smoking plug equal to EXTRA sMoKEs PER PACK! , Q: QW QL: J i c X .-:,- 9 I x . , 5 I Tifgms - i N r, no . C. ?.5fNn fb 'f V in :ri-E, '--1-.mga Im Z:-J, .?,L Cigarettes were compared recently ij S'xteen of the largest-selling rands ...under the searching tests oft impartial laboratory scientists Ilmdmgs Were announced as follows: 1 CAMELS were found to con- tam MORE TOBACCQ BY WEIGHT than the average for the 15 other of the lafgest-selling brands. 2 CAMELS BURNED SLOW- ER THAN ANY OTHER BRAND TESTED-2592 SLOW- ER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER OF THE LARGEST-SELLING BRANDS! By burning 2575 slower, on the average, Camels give smokers the e uiv EXTRA SMOKESqPEl1JelPiXgfKT In the same tests CAIXIELS 3 HELD THEIR ASH FAR LUNCER than the average time for all the other brands, D011 deny yourself the pleasure of smoking Camels, the quality ciga- rette sony Smoker can aiibrd' PENNY FOR PENNY YOUR BEST CIGARETTE BUY! CAMEL -Long-Burning Cosilier 165515605 X 5 ,W THE STAFF CYWER BEET Vol X111 ff DECEMBER xx No. 3 CONTENTS PACE BELLS . . . 3 EDITORS 1 CHRISTAIAS - 1939 . . 4 EVELSN A. FIEDLER KA'1'11H111NE PHASER YE GLDE ENGLISH DINNER 3 RICIIAIlD CUNNINGHAINI CuARL1as GRoss COLIE, ALL YE NATIONS . 5 CIRCULATION ADVERTISING THE SPECTATOR ---- 6 MANAGERS MANAGERS - Esther Royston Elizabeth YVeeIns OBEDHLNCE TRAINING FOR DOGS I hlargaret Heck Tillie Cold LETYS TALK TURKE1' ' 1 . 8 Virginia Roop Icanette Iones Norma Cambrill Margaret Lowry ETERRY CHRISTMAS . . . 9 BUSINESS MANAGERS lVIAKE YoUR CIIRISTLIAS CANDIES . . 11 Y1'01mC B611 STREET CRIES or DAYS OF YORE . 12 Iohn Edward Koontz NV HO Is SANTA CLAUS? . . . 13 DEPARTMENT EDITORS . . ON AN ERA IN HUMAN HISTORY . 1-l Art Service Statzon DOfOfl1y' SIIOOPS 153311113 Kfglygfz TOT LOTS ..... . Alice Trott Miriam Kolodllcf General Literature EDITORIALS ' 16 Audrey Pranischufer , w Marguerite WVilson THE LIBRAR1 ' ' lf Humor Patricia Herndon NIUSIC - ' 30 Katherine Iacob SPORTS l . l 21 Frances Shores Music Elizabeth Melendez Sydney Baker ASSEIXIBLH' CALENDAR , 23 Svieflfff FASHIONS . . . 23 Lce McCarriar Exchanges . 101111 Cgigoaf Milclrccl Hanicnt SO VVHAT ' ' 26 ldmes mmol ALUAINI NEWS . ZS Athletics Fashions ADVERTISFXIENTS -,O Henry Stcckler Marie Parr A h Catherine Paula Dorothy Sigk Nolan Chipnian C U E DESIGNS: Library 0 939 Vent-1' . . . . 1 . A - . it -1 - rr Elizabeth Zentz llclcn Picelc Fronllsplcce ' Ulu lui Audrey Horner lloward Stottlcmyer Fashion Cut . A. 12. llrainscliutcr Doris Klank Marx' Brashears . Mary Di Peppi Nancy Nletzgcr SNAPSHOTS - 1199 3'lC'C111'11l11' Editorial gf1mg,ifZg11'gEj1x, THE TOXVER LIGHT is 1mb1R1iQa mimuiiy - mruitf 5111111101 1111111111111 through Iunc - by thc Students of thc Statc IliQLlL'llL'lN Collfslf 11111105 lm at Towson, Marylaricl. . . . . . . . ALICE MUNN - - Managing Editor 31.50 PICR YEAR . 211 Q3ilfX.l'4 V511 ll iluttle Ghrwtmas wash To every heart a little fire, To every hoard a little feast, To every heart al01Vf To every child a toy, Shelter for hird and beast. - ROSE FYLEIXIAD' ,fthe elevation of the host. THE HISTCRY of bells and their influence on the life of the masses is indeed a romantic one. For ages bells have exercised an almost magic power over human affairs, rousing, frightening, summoning- cheering, eonsoling, inspiring. Not only have they been intimately associated with all kinds of religious and social uses, but with every important historical event. In fact, they have even exerted a remarkable influence on architecture, for to them, indirectly, we probably owe most of the famous towers of the world. In their religious capacity bells Qand particularly church bellsj have performed, in days gone by, a vast number of important duties. They have summoned folk to services, marked the various divisions of the :hureh service, announced important church days and anniversaries, designated the hours of the day, and told of important community events. i In Old England, where bells found their greatest use, the C-abriel bell wakened the people of the parish, while the Mote bell or f'Common bell summoned them to the church service, The ringing of the 'Sermon Dell was an indication that there would be a sermon, ihe ringing of the Pardon bell just before and after 'he service was a reminder for the worshipers to pray for the pardon of their sins. During the service the 'Sanetus bell called the attention of the eelebrants '0 the more solemn parts of the mass, while after the service was over the f'Pudding bell gave the cook notice to prepare dinner. The Sanctus bell is still used in flatholie churches at the point of the mass known as Births, weddings, and deaths have all called for ap- iropriate peals. It was I and still isj customary in many ilaees, to ring the 'AChristening peal when someone vas being baptizedg and the 'APassing bell and Death :nell when a person was dying or dead. The Passing :ell was supposed to drive away the evil spirits wait- ng to pounce upon a dying soul, while the Death :nell was considered a way of showing respect for a merson who had died. ln many places the uPassing bell S still rung at eleven RM. on Christmas eve in the be- Nief that the devil died one hour before Christ was born. This bell is known as the Old Lad's passing bell. y Before the development of clocks, bells were ex- lremely important tiine-tellers. The Angelus, com- iemorating the visit of the angel who told Mary she yas to be the mother of Iesus, was rung every day at ix in the morning. at noon, and at six in the evening. yt took its name from the Latin: '4Angelus Doinine nun- iavit Marie . . . which young and old reverently re- i i :JECEMBER . 1939 B E L L S RICHARD CUNNINCHAM QQ cited when this bell bade theni kneel. lxlilletis .Xiigcliis vividly portrays this beautiful custoni. 'l'he Curfew bell, begun by .Xl- fred thc Creat in the ninth cen- tury. and revived by XVilliani the Con- queror two hundred years later, was rung every night as a signal for the townspeople to cover their fires. tlfrenchz eocvre-fcu, cover fire.j Although the curfew was origi- nally meant to avert the danger of the then highly in- Haniniable houses burning while their occupants slept, VVilliani found the custom helpful in checking noe- turnal gatherings of dissatisfied subjects. After thc ring- ing of the curfew no adult was allowed to go from one place to another unless he carried a light in his hands, under threat of imprisonment. It is not unnatural that such an important bell has been the subject of many poems. Almost everyone is acquainted with the lines: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day or Curfew shall not ring tonight. Still another important time- telling bell was the f'Paneake bell, rung at eight P.M. on Shrove Tuesday Cforty days before Easter Sundayj. This bell stopped the eating of pancakes and formally ushered in the Lenten season. Before this bell rang, each family prepared and ate a tremendous meal of pancakes, knowing full well that it could not eat butter again for forty days. Other important bells of this type were the f'Harvet bell or f'Seeding bellf, calling the laborers to work at five in the morning, and indicating at seven in the evening that their work was to eeaseg and the A'Cleaning bell, rung at nine in the morning and five in the evening, to mark the time when the gleaners might go over the fields to get what the har- vesters had left. Countless are the other unique services which bells have rendered, They have guided travelers on the wild and pathless moors safely to town, and have enabled seamen to avoid dangerous reefs and slioals. The lneh- eape Rock by Robert Southey, tells of a bell of this latter type. They have sounded the alarm in time of fire and storm, and have said You may bargain to merchants and customers in many a medieval market or fair. ln fact, so important was this market bell that forestalling, or transaeting business before the bell rang was, in olden times. a punishable offence. The A'Oven bell gave notice when the lord of the manor was ready for his tenants to use his oven in baking their bread. As Poe so admirably expressed their story in The Bells when he said: Brazen Bells! XYhat ii tale of terror, now. their turbuleney tells .... bells ligne announced many dreadful doings, including uprisings. revolts, and even massacres. lust such a bloody chapter of history was rung in at Messina. Sicily, in IZSZ, when eight thousand French settlers were slaughtered while the Vespers were ringing. Since then these Vespers have been known as the Sicilian Vespersf' A similar gruesome event occurred in 1572. when the tolling of the bells backward ushered in the massacre of one hun- dred thousand Huguenots in France. Again, when Nel- son triumphed and died at Trafalgar. bells tolled the great victory and the irreparable loss. Perhaps the most beautiful use to which bells have been put. and one which has been for ages most beloved among all Christian-speaking peoples, is the ancient custom of ringing joyous peals at Christmas and New Year. How desolate this glad season would seem with- out children singing everywhereg or without the church chimes swelling the air with familiar Christmas hymns like O Come All Ye Faithful. How the merry bells herald the wonderful tidings of the birth of Christ! It could not possibly be the thankful season Longfellow had in mind when he wrote his immortal lines: I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men. QiwfilgriligliglggdgSQEQQEHWQQQQESJHEQPQeilgglgglggliiglggjge Upristmas 1 1959 CHARLOTTE M. HURTT CHRISTMAS-IQSQ! No Christmas dinner in the dormitory. No packing to go home. No good-byes to friends at school. No Christmas assembly. No rehearsal of Christmas carols. XV hat is there to make this year as happy as last year? XV here are the friends we have lived with for four years? Thus my mind idly wandered as I sat midst the great throng in the Cathedral. The organist played Christmas carols. and a thousand voices were raised in honor of this great time. Suddenly I thought of Rose. I wondered where she would spend the cold days since school had closed. There was nothing at home but cold and hunger for her. No warm Ere. good food. nor Christmas tree to greet her. Her holiday spirit would come from peeping in windows after dark to see the bright lights and toys that Santa had left. Perhaps her chimney was too small for Santa to find. And then there was Gilbert. who would hate Christ- mas because it would mean no papers to serve. His seven years of life had taught him that food and clothing came from hard work-serving papers in thc cold, misty mornings, and at the fast-falling twilight. Would Gloria have the dinner finished by the time 4 her mother returned from work? After scrubbing office floors, there was little energy left to feed six hungry bodies. But, as usual. Cloria would manage and have things ready. In less than a decade she, too. had learned that food means life. December twenty-fifth would mean just another day as six little tired bodies were tucked away in bed. Away in a manger, No crib for a bed. The little Lord Iesus Laid down his sweet head: The stars in the sky Looked down where he lay The little Lord Iesus Asleep on the hay. These words sung by a choir boy slowly brought me back to reality. Voices again were raised in songs of praise as this refrain filled the air. But my head was bowed with one simple thought: Cive me the strength to fan each tiny spark to life, that some day each will do his part to light the flame of the world. 3 Christmas, 1939-TIIE BEST CHRISTMAS EVERi TOWER LIGH1 s l Ye Olde English Dinner Ye Yuletide Feast will be holden on Thursday ye Zlst Daie of December atte one-halt after five by ye Clokke in Newell Hall of ye State Teachers College at Towson. It is ye Wfisshe of ye Lady of ye Manor and hirllenehmcn that ye share ye goode Cliere ye Vitalle and ye Musick. A written Vlforde will keep ye a Place at ye Board. Wfeare ye olde English Garments rather than ye outlandish French styles. ONCE MORE we shall turn the dormitory into a feudal castle, and Merrie Olde England, in all her I pomp and revehy will live within our portals. The Lord of Newell is holding open house to all the villagers of .the manor this Yuletide season. He and his noble lady lwill welcome to their castle all their vassals and their il retainers, all the masquers, mummers, minstrels and mierrymakers, all who would share the bounty of lordly jhospitality at this great festival of joy and good will. lThe gentry of the castle will make merry in traditional style. The dukes with their wives, the barons and their ybaroncsses, and the knights and their ladies will cele- lbrate with him amidst great pomp and ceremony at the jGrand Feast. jubilant Hourishing of trumpets will her- Pie, and the Plum Pudding. Then all will sit down to partake of the rich feast. After the noble repast, Father Christmas will remember all the faithful servants of the Court. Following the feasting and merriment, the doors of the great hall will be opened wide to welcome rich and poor alike, and laughter and holiday festivities will reign! The Court jesters will bring in the Yule Log, and give a toast to Christmas. YVeary pilgrims from Canter- bury and strolling minstrels will be guests under the roof of the castle, dancers from the village, inuminers, mas- quers, wrestlers, tumblers, and other professional per- formers will show their skill. All will make merry till the Great Fire in the hall has xald the processions of the Boar's Head, the Peacock burned to ashes! RUTH DURNER ilEgfggjgilggligtgwifgilgrgjfgiilfgilingtgwifiislirglfiwifgriliiligstfigtgfi?-'ing l ome, All Ye Nations KATHERINE IACOB WO NATIONS, come ye, and let us walk in peace. This is from the Christmas program of the Campus jSehool. Can anything be more appropriate, a thought more hopeful, a desire greater on this unpeaceful Christmas? i VVith this beautiful thought the Campus School is jputting on its own Christmas program in its assembly jroom. The story of the program is about a family of ishepherds who learn of Christ's birth. The sons, who fare herding the sheep at night, hear the angels sing their jpraises unto the newborn Infant. The shepherds take jtheir gifts to the Infant. VV hen they rejoin their family, they tell about their visit to the Christ Child. I The Campus School hopes that their new curtain lwill help them do things with scenes that they have 'FDECEMBER - 1939 l not been able to attempt before. The chorus, as they did last year, will furnish lovely Christmas music for the drama. You who saw the program last year know how perfect the setting was. Outside praise was tremendous. Mr. Velie referred to its perfection of setting in his summer school courses. This year the program will be just as perfect and every effort will be made to improve upon it. A problem this year, that did not enter last year, is speech work. Good enunciation must bc stressed. The program typifies this lovely scripture message: And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation. neither shall they learn war any more. The Spectator XVILLIAM IETT IT IS Christmas Eve. and the light snow sifts down past the dim street lamp near the doorway in which I have taken refuge. Steeped in thought. I am aroused by a sudden whoop of young voices as a laughing troop of merry children dash along the street. stopping only long enough to snowball a shabby hound across the way. Ah. thoughtless youth. thinking only of the mor- row and its gay festivities. how little you realize the misery you make for this poor cur. Soon. however. my thoughts are turned from this wretched outcast to the steady crunching of snow approaching my shelter-place. It is a pompous. contented looking man. laden with bundles that suggest pleasing sweetmeats. turkey. and Christmas gifts. Over one ami are strung several holly wreaths. Surely this gentleman. garbed in beaver hat and fur-trimmed coat. must be a prosperous merchant of the city. His homecoming will be sweet. attended by affectionate kisses. a wami Hreside. festive decorations, and abundance everywhere. But not so with this de- crepit old lady shuffling behind our prosperous friend. Perhaps she is a charwoman-her bent shoulders and flimsy shawl bespeak it. XVhat is your destiny. Madame? But hold. she stops. purchases a hard loaf of bread at a bakers stall. and trudges on her way. XVhat a gloomy day the dawn will bring for her and hers! Unhappy lot that lies in store for thousands like her. for no Christmas joys will brighten their drab routine of existence. Almost in a reverie. I start as a two-horse shay comes jingling down the misty street. A pair of lovers. mayhap married. are the sole. but all-important occu- pants. Such love upholds the hope of such a night, and through the love. I reflect. comes inspiration. ambition. and the crowning triumph of achievement. Indeed. this would be a happy land if every man bestowed upon the next the same consideration that these lovers give each other. In the distance. a solitary bell strikes midnight. and tradesmen close their shops to wander homeward in the deepening snow. They proceed at different gaits. for home offers varied things to them. To some. it is a haven. a place of rest and warmth: to some it is merely a place in which to eat and sleep: to some it is a barren. cold and bitter room. where no one waits to greet or comfort them: and to some it is a goal. a beckoning milestone. by which they may greedily count one more day's addition to their hoard. As I step from my vantage point. the last late straggler slips along the opposite 6 side of the quiet street. No doubt he has celebrated the occasion. and is rather intoxicated, since his course seems a bit unsteady, and he has much difEculty in carrying a brightly-ribboned package under his arm. Iust as this merrymaker seeks his bed. so shall I seek mine. and there enjoy sweet slumber: for the rich, the poor. the oppressor. and the oppressed find one thing. at least. in sleep-oblivion. DEAR GCD . S. DAVIS DEAR GOD . I thank Thee for another day of grace .... Do you think daddy will remem- ber me? He left so quickly, so quietly, that I scarcely saw him go .... Please. Cod, protect him from stray bullets and shrapnel. For health and strength and daily food .... I never knew cows were so large, or that gardens, you know, where they raise vegetables. took so much weeding. Lord. I am so stiff from bending over that I am standing in front of the window, look- ing up at You. Outside. the endless moor stretches for miles in front of me. The moon has turned the heather to silver. and the night bugs are making a terrible racket .... XVhy do people always talk about the stillness of the country? Oh. yes. God. protect my mother: guard her well. She's all alone now. with daddy at the front. and sister in Glamorgan. and me here. And God. lead others into the paths of righteousness and truth. that they may extend the Kingdom of Heaven and light the way for those who are to follow. Amen. TOWER LIGHT 'OBEDIENCE TRAINING FOR Dogs REBECCA C. TANSIL DOC TRAININCH to the majority of people means teaching a dog tricks, usually of the aerobatic type found in the vaudeville dog act. Here the handler tliinksfin terms of pntirtainingl the apdience rgther tian o educating tre cog. In tie last ew years, iow- ever, a new type of dog training has developed. This ,training is based on psychological principles, and its ipurpose is to make dogs better companions to human ibeings. A dog trained in obedience is protected from -.aecidentsg the well-inannered dog ceases to be an an- ,noyance to the non-dog lover. 1 The group sponsoring this modern training is the iObedience Test Club, a national organization formed rin March, 1936, by a group of eight people who were yiinterested in developing the brain power of the pure- ,libred dog. The movement has spread until there are. lat present, about 400 members scattered over 16 differ- yent states from Maine to California, from Canada to lHawaii. I 1 . . 1 The Dog Owners Flraining Club of Maryland, the yseventh to be organized in the entire country, was Q-formed in the early spring of 1938. The Training Class lot the D.O.T.C. is held regularly twice a week-on 1Sunday morning, at the C-allopmg Field of Druid Hill y'Parkg and on Monday evening, at the Richmond Mar- iket Armory. This gives the dogs the experience of both ioutdoor and indoor training. Each September you will llind a group of dog owners trekking to the Park or to 'Lthe Armory to enroll their dogs in the training class, ,which regularly follows the calendar of the local public lschools and colleges from September to Iune, with Graduation Test Matches occurring the last week in June. The only holiday during the year is at the Christ- ymas season. 1 It is interesting to watch handlers and dogs arrive from various sections of Baltimore and its suburbs for irlasses. Coming in every type of conveyance, from lim- pusine with liveried chauffeur, to station wagon, the trainers are young men and women or oldish men and women, while the dogs range all the way from Dober- man Pinchers to Spaniels. The training of the dog is based on progressive steps, Livhieh any good dog, regardless of breed, can learn if handled correctly. When first enrolled, the dog enters ,Zhe beginner's class, which may be compared to the kindergarten or primary grades in our educational sys- iDECEMBER - 1939 i i 1 1 i tcm. Here he learns certain fundamentals and simple exercises such as to heel on leash, to sit stay, to come when called, and Uto down stay. The first thing he must learn, however, is how to behave in a group of his fellow students. He imist pay strict attention to his handler at all times, and must not sniff at his neighbor even though he is only a few inches away. As the dog masters the exercises offered in the bcginncr's class he is promoted to the advanced class, where he attempts more diflicult feats. Here he must learn to heel freef' to retrieve dmnbbcll on the Hat, to retrieve dumbbell over obstacle, 'tto drop on recall, and to perform Uthe long jump. XVhen the handler feels that his dog has reached a certain degree of proficiency in these feats, he puts the dog through an Obedience Test Match qualifying him with points toward his degree. The first degree offered is the C.D., meaning Dog Companion. To receive this degree a dog must qualify in three test matches sanctioned by the Obedience Test Club and judged by an authorized examiner. To A'qualify means the dog must make the high standard of 85 out of a possible 100 points. After a dog becomes a CD. he passes from the Novice Class to the Open Class, and begins to compete for the C.D.X. CDog Companion Exeellentj. The exercises in the Open Class are more difficult than those in the Novice Class, and the dog must perform the exercises with a greater degree of perfection. To earn this second degree a dog must 'Aqualify in three Open Class Test Matches in a sane- tioned show. This means that each time he must make 200 out of a possible 250 points. The third and highest degree, is the U.D. fUtility Dogl. A handler looks upon this degree with a great deal of pride and hopes that some day his dog may become the proud owner of a UD., for only a limited number of dogs in the country have achieved this distinction. To earn the U.D. the dog must compete in three sanctioned shows where other dogs are competing for this same degree. and must receive high scores C160 out of a possible 200 pointsj. To successfully pass the U.D. examination, the dog must, among other things, speak on eommandf, ex- ercise scent discrimination, useek back for lost articles. stand for examination, and take the rigid 'ATracking Test. To train a dog effectively the handler must exercise a great deal of patience and apply certain psychological principles of habit formation. Some of the suggestions given to new handlers are: Q11 Always use the same word and motion for a given exercise, so as not to get the dog confused by a sudden change in command: Q25 Use simple language at all times: L31 Correct your dog at once when he makes a mistake, because it is difficult to change an exercise once learned wrong: i-ll Y Give frequent rcst periods between practice exercise so that the dog will not become borcdg LSD Praise your dog when he performs the exercises correctly. but do not punish him when he fails. The teaching of dogs through fear, trainers claim, belongs to the hickory stick era and retards rather than advances a dog. Q65 Above all. try to keep your dog interested and enthusi- astic about his training. Training dogs for obedience has become quite a fas- cinating scienceg the full significance of which can only be appreciated by seeing a class in action. XVhy not come out some Sunday and see one? HOW TO MAKE YULE TREES LAST LONGER ACCORDING TO the United States Forestry Service. early shedding of the needles of the Christmas tree is easily prevented. Usually this is accom- plished by merely setting the Christmas tree with its butt in the watery by paring the butt with a sharp knife before the tree is put into the water, so that water absorption will be pro- moted, or by storing the Christmas tree in a cool damp place before it is set up in a warm room. A still better home method for keeping the Christmas tree fragrant and green over the hol- idays, say the foresters, is to set the Christmas tree in a wide-mouthed container which holds about a gallon of water. Mix five grams of citric acid, and six grams of inalic acid or pectin with three quarts of water. VVhen the tree is set up. add fifteen grams of calcium carbonate to the acid solution and pour the entire mixture into the container. As the tree uses up the solution, add more water. Since this inexpensive solution works espe- I cially well with balsam and spruce, our chief Christmas trees, and to some extent with all the evergreens except hemlock, why not try it? The added enjoyment which the non-shedding A tree furnishes us should certainly be worth the small amount of work which the needle-fixing requires. 8 LET'S TALK TURKEY NORMA E. CAMBRILL N o IN THE late twenties the turkey was, as al- ! ' ways, considered the Thanksgiving and Christ- mas bird, but economically he was a failure. There was no money in turkey raising and consequently no turkey raisers. Suddenly a great demand was felt and the turkey industry rose like a giant mushroom. This year turkeys will probably bring thirty-one or thirty-two cents a pound. To raise a full grown turkey costs about seventeen cents a pound. Feed companies make up estimates as to what a bird should cost and they estimate fourteen cents, but the owners of turkey farms disagree with this. This price includes initial cost of the turkey, feed, heat, and other items of overhead. Feed bills will average about one and seven-tenths cents per turkey per day. For about eight hundred fifty turkeys a ton of feed a week is needed, The arrangement and care of the grounds on which the turkeys are housed are very important. One item to consider is the erection and use of electric light poles. These keep the entire area around the houses and roosts light. Thieves are much less likely to take turkeys from grounds thus illuminated. Turkeys are very sensitive creatures. If small turkeys get wet in cool weather they will catch pneumonia I which is almost always fatal. ln any weather they mavi crowd together and smother. 1 VVhen turkeys are large enough to feather out, real worry starts for the raiser. A mysterious, deadly disease, blackhead, often sets in. This malady, strikes silently and quickly. There is no way of telling that a turkey has it for rather has had itj until he is dead. Fortunately, a pellet has been concocted which if administered once a week will prevent blackhead. Another preventative measure is the building of raised wire runs if chickens have ever been raised on the same ground because they leave germs of the deadly blackhead disease. Humorous incidents occur too. Day old turkeys when placed under a heated hover will drag their wings and spread their tails in infant miinicry of the gobblers. Though they can hardly walk they can strut. How like human nature! Often when little turks sleep, two oil them will lie with their necks crossed. Seeing this the others will take a running leap and land on the necks of the sleeping babes, They repeat this until the young sters give up sleep in disgust and walk away. Farmer Hendrix says, 'Turkey raising has its ups ant downs but America must have turkey for Christma: dinner, l'll have a druinstick. please. TOWER LIGHT, i v W 1 l l F I j l, I. ii 11 1 v 1 E1 ti jr I I I T1 I j r l f C 1 i 1 1 ju 111 1' il' 1i' fl kt ! 0'1 I hu ,j1 I E 5 tit ' l ,r 1 111 I I 12- 4 1 A WEEK before Christ- Q Q I .' Xlary took off lie 'shabby mas! The genial holiday l I coat and outinorleff but and spirit had invaded even the crowded seven o'cloek street car. Large, bulky, white packages tied with red and green cord and covered with brilliant seals were tightly clasped in the arms of those for- AUDREY HORNER threw them on the bed. .X1 she was about to fall inte the chair, she saw the white envelope flutter to the floor. XVhy, that's the envelope that fell from the beautiful limousine that al- 469' 45? wit tunate passengers who had secured seats. Weary men, imbued with the spirit of good-will and chivalry, stood cheerfully aside to let the women rush to the vacant places. Everywhere the atmosphere seemed happier, the hot. stifling air, less oppressing. Several loud Merry Christmases echoed through the car as the tired riders heartily greeted one another. Slowly pushing the button as she neared her small, dis- mal street, Mary Hunter was reluctant to leave the noise and confusion of the car. Once out in the bleak, dreary night, the young girl stood staring at the vanishing trolley until a sudden wind, penetrating her thin coat, caused her to shiver. Cone was the Christmas spirit and the gay, jovial air. In the dark street no wreaths adorned the doors, no brightly-colored trees were gliinpsed through half-closed curtains. Shaking with cold and fatigue, Mary did not notice the large, shining limousine which was Hying past the narrow street. Only the raucous honking of a horn and the loud voice of a chaulfeur saying, Why don't you watch where you're going? made her jump aside. Looking with wondering eyes at the disappearing ma- chine, Mary noticed a white envelope which had been dropped in the middle of the street. She ran to pick it up and, without stopping to open it, fled from the pierc- ing cold. The smell of boiled cabbage and the suffocating odor of stale air greeted her as she hastily closed the hall door to keep the gusts of wind from entering the house. i'Cood evening. Merry Christmas, Mrs. McGrath! she called to a bent, dour-looking woman who came from the direction of the kitchen. 'AHuh, and what's merry about it, I'd like to know! With jim out of work and Tim sick, it's a line holiday I'll have. Christmas is all right for the rich, but it ain't so merry for us poor folks. Too tired to answer Mrs. McGrath, and beginning to have doubts herself about the joys of Christmas, Mary hurried to her own tiny room and closed the door. The familiar objects were all in their usual places - the narrow iron bed, the battered bureau, the chair covered in faded chintz, and the thread-bare carpet. YVearily. DECEMBER - 1939 442',AS'4+ most ran over me before. lt must be wonderful to be rich and have a car like that! They must be very rich, for Q the back of the envelope says: Q UMRS. THEODORE XVARRI-LN 62l Park Avenue Oh, look! A ticket - a sweepstakes ticket. The number is 0114. So that's what was in the envelope. Mary murmured. half to her- self and half aloud, as though she were speaking to a friend. Gosh, I've always wanted a sweepstakes ticket. I like to imagine what I'd do if I won. There would be no more getting up at six-thirtyg dressing in the cold. dark roomg and rushing to work to stand in Brown's basement until six-thirty. I'd no longer have eleven hours of monotonous selling and endless bickering over a few cents' change. Why, with the money, l'd buy a warm coat with a soft fur collar. I'd leave this room, this dismal street, and Brown's basement store forever. I'd go to a business school and then I could get a real job. l'd send Tim McGrath to Florida to the sunshine and fresh air so he'd get well. But - Mary broke off and looked at the ticket with a smile bordering on tears. But the ticket isn't mine, and l didn't win any money. l'm just Mary Hunter, making eight dollars a week. Oh, well, I'll put the ticket on the bureau. It's probably no good, anyway. 'tAw, Mary. Here's yer paper. An' you owe six cents. Remember? screamed Lenny McGrath. the pride and joy of the McGrath family. All right. Lennyf' said Mary, going to the door. I-lere's your money. Merry Christmas. Gee, yer gave me fifty cents. Huh. ain't yer splurgin'? It's fer Christmas? VVell. if ycr want to be a sucker. Thanks fer the dough. You shouldn't have given him that money. Mary Hunter. He'll only spend it for cigarettes and. besides. you need it yourself. Mary sternly reproached herself. But it is Christmas. and he probably won't get any presents ..., Oh. the usual headlines - a murder case and an elopeinent. YVhy. herc's something about 'flu sweepstakes. It says, 'Those people having tickets li' ing the following immbers win Sgllflil 1 '1s1 'l chance at the grand prize. The niunbers 0980. 6160. 011-f. 8020, The people having these tickets must stop at 919 XYcst -l0th Street by noon tomorrow in order to claim the moncyf My. some people are lucky. Imagine winning five thousand dollars. meditated Mary. XYhy - Suddenly a thought came to her. She jumped from her chair and ran to the bureau. 0ll-l. 0ll-H XYhy, that's the ticket I foundg that's the ticket that belongs to Mrs. Theodore XVarren. It has won five thousand dollars! Mary sank into the chair and clutched the ticket in her hand. She stared at the small printed paper for a long time. Then, as though scarcely daring to put her thoughts into words, she whispered. But I have the ticket. I found itg I can keep it. I can take it to that of- fice and get the money. No one will ever know. Mrs. XVarren can't need the money with her Park Avenue ad- dress and a town car, She won't even remember the mimber of the ticket. Five thousand dollars. all my own. It will be wonderful. No one will ever know. I'll be able to do all the things I've always wanted to do. I can keep the ticket. It's mine. I need the money so badly. Mary stood with her slender body tensed with sudden determination. Then her figure assumed its usual lines of weariness as she said aloud. Yet struggling with her- self. 'Alt really isn't mine, even if I did find it. Finders, keepers: losers, weepers. But this is a serious matter. A fortune is concerned. How could I wake on Christ- mas morning and know that I had kept something that wasn't mine? I can't do it. I'll return the ticket: I'll return it tonight. Tomorrow. I might change my mind. Mary put on her coat and hat, placed the ticket in the envelope. and tucked it securely in her bag. All the way to the Park Avenue address her thoughts were in a constant whirl. for she was still fighting herself. Once she rose from the seat of the bus and started toward the door. but stopped and slowly made her way back to her place. The bus finally stopped near an imposing brown mansion. Mary walked to the door. stood for a second not knowing what to do, and then lifted the large. brass knocker. Swiftly, the door was opened by a uniformed maid who. seeing Mary. cowering and shabby. said harshly. YVhy don't you use the back door if you're selling something? Mary no longer cowered near the door. She stood upright and in a splendid voice said, I'm not selling any- thing. I have some personal business with Mrs. XVarren. My name is Mary Hunter. Grudgingly and with a swift backward glance. the servant made her way to Mrs. XVarren's room. In a few minutes she returned and said condescendingly. XVhy. Mrs. VVarren doesn't want to see you. But if you'll 10 hurry, she will speak to you for a second. Here, up the stairs. Mary was ushered into a boudoir as large as the entire house in which she lived. A tall. sophisticated woman in her late thirties was seated before an enormous mir- ror. She didn't turn as Mary entered but said in a high affected tone. f'Come. what do you want? I warn youg I'm not giving any more money to charities. Come, come. Mrs, XVarren, I found this. lt had your name on it. Mrs. NVarren took the envelope from her and opened it gingerly as though expecting it to be contaminated. Oh, the sweepstakes ticket. I'd forgotten that I'd bought it. But Mrs. XVarren you won five thousand dollars. You have a winning ticket, I saw the number in the paper, Really. How nice! I did so want to play roulette to- night. lt really is surprising that you returned this. Mrs. VVarren cast a disdainful look at Maryfs coat and hat and said aloud, 'fMost poor people are so ungrateful for what charity does for them. I suppose you returned the ticket for a reward. Here. take this. You only did your duty in returning the ticket. Mary rushed from the room and out of the house, without looking at the money or even saying thank you. She had had a difficult time refraining from an- grily telling Mrs. VVarren her opinion of charities. Slowly, she opened her hand and looked at her reward. A single dollar bill lay in her hand. Tears sprang to Mary's eyes. I didn't return the ticket for a reward. I didn't have to take it to her-but with all her money to give me a dollar. Blindly. Mary stepped into the street. The screeching sound of brakes being quickly applied rang through the quiet night. The crumpled figure of Mary lay still in the street. A liveried chauffeur jumped from the limousine and stood before Mary's motionless form. It's beyond me why poor people don't stay in their own side of town. VV hy I believe it's the same girl I saw in that small, dirty street a while ago. I suppose I'll have to take her to a hospital. It won't do any good. She's dead. Mrs. XVarren will probably bawl me out for being late. XVhy don't poor people stay where they belong? XV ith that he thrust the lifeless body into the back of the car and sped into the darkness. In the distance. Christmas bells began to chime merrily. A tree. brilliantly lighted, shed a dazzling glow on an adjacent street. Voices were heard singing. Silent Night, Holy Night. The feeling of Peace on Earth. Good XVill to Men. fioated through the night. TOWER LIGHT I I v I 4 1 l I i l ll ei Confectioner's sugar is a good base for yother uncooked candies. Soften sugar with il li. MAKE YOUR Christmas Candies ALICE TROTT Making candy for Christmas is one of the happiest ways of entering into the holi' day fun. It is one answer to the question: VVhat shall I give? and a delightful one, lZ0O. Fudge is an all-around favorite if it is made well. The secret of good fudge lies gin cooling the mixture over a low flame aand in beating it mightily afterwards. Re- lmember that nuts added to a standard re- lcipe, are liked by many. Here are some favorite fudge recipes: Ruth Tapman's Fudge Lump of butter. size of a nut 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla , l cup condensed milk -4 squares of chocolate Shave the chocolate, add the other in- gredients and cook over a low flame in a saucepan about twelve minutes or until a soft ball forms when the mixture is dropped in cold Water. Remove from tire, add 2 'teaspoons of butter, and beat until con- coction thickens. Pour into a square pan, and when slightly cooled, mark in squares. . Many of us like the cocoanut peaks we buy in the bookshop. It's more fun to make them. Try this recipe: Cocoanut Peaks M cup cold mashed potatoes -l cups confectioner's sugar -l cups shredded cocoanut lVz teaspoons vanilla Ms teaspoon salt 4 squares foal of unsweetened choco- late Mix sugar and potatoes. Add other in- gredients and blend well. If mixture is too stiff, thin with a few drops of cream. Form . in peaks on slightly greased surfaceg allow to stand uncovered 20 minutes to dry. h1VIelt chocolate over hot water and dip the base of each peak in it. Allow to stand on cellophane or waxed paper until choco- iate is firm. fMakes about 2 lbs.7 cream, add butter, and cream well. Add lnint flavoring and vegetable coloring, and shape, and we have our favorite mint pat' ies. Use the same base and this time add liDECEMBER - 1939 l shredded cocoanut and vanilla. Form in balls or roll into desired shape and roll in cinnamon, Another delightful way to use this base, is to dip nuts. or fruits into melted chocolate. V Pecan nuts are one of the Christmas favorites. They may be added to fudge or other mixtures, but here is a featured pecan recipe: Pecan Pralines 3 cups granulated sugar 1 cup thin cream Speck of salt 1 cup sugar feooked to caramel stagel 3 cups pecan nut-meats Chalvesj Stir the sugar and cream over the tire until the sugar is melted, then boil to soft- ball stage. In another saucepan have ready the cup of caramel syrup and pour the first mixture into the caramelg let boil up once, remove from the fire and beat until slightly thickened. Add salt and nuts and drop by spoonfuls on to marble or waxed paper. Miss Greer has given us some of her favorite recipes. She says about them, These candy recipes have been used re- peatedly, with success. Chocolate Fudge 2 cups granulated sugar M tablespoon cocoa V+ teaspoon salt l cup cream Butter the size of an egg l teaspoon vanilla Mix dry ingredients in saucepan. Add cream. Cook over slow iire, stirring con- stantly until it begins to boil. Do not stir after boiling point is reached. Boil slowly to soft-ball stage. Remove from fire. Do not stir or agitate. Add vanilla and butter when cool enough to hold hand on bottom of saucepang beat briskly and pour into buttered tin. Mark into squares. Sea Foam 2 cups brown sugar l tablespoon vinegar l cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 stifily beaten egg white l cup nut-meats fif desiredj Boil sugar. watcr and vinegar together until it spins a decided thrcacl tilicn dropped from a spoon. Pour ycry slowly onto egg white. beating constantly. .Xdd vanilla and nuts. Xklicn stiff enough to hold shapc, drop from spoon on oilcd papcr. Plain Caramels Z cups sugar 34 cup corn syrup pinch of salt 2 cups crcam 1: cup butter l teaspoon vanilla lfi cup nut-meats For chocolate caramels use Z squares of chocolate or 6 tablespoons cocoa. Cook sugar, syrup, butter and 16 the cream. Stir constantly. XVhen mixture boils add remaining cream, a little at a time. Use spoon-path test fpass spoon through it, and if spoons path does not close at once. it is donej or cold water test to ob- tain consistency desired. Remove from Ere, add vanilla and nuts, Pour at once on greased tin. As soon as firm, mark into squares with sharp knife. Dip knife into hot water to facilitate cutting. Drop Fudge CMM. McNally5 2 cups granulated sugar 4 squares chocolate KM lb.j 55: cup cold water Combine sugar, water and chocolate and let melt over slow fire. XVhen thoroughly melted, turn burner on full and cook for about Zlfi minutes, or until it forms a soft ball in cold water. Remove from stove and pour into bowl to which butter fsize of walnutl has been added. Let cool. Add few drops of vanilla and beat with spatula or electric beater. Drop on waxed paper. Note: Do not stir after mixture begins to boil. Penoche CCatberine Scbeibleinl Z cups brown sugar 2 tablespoons butter V2 cup nut-meats lblack walnutsl l small can Pet milk l teaspoon vanilla Boil sugar and milk to softball stage when tested in cold water. Remove from fire, add butter and vanilla. Cool. beat nn- til creamy and thick. Add nuts. pour into buttered pan and cut into squares wlicn cool. TRY OUR RECIPES. XYONT YOUT BE SURE TO LET US KNOW' IIOEX' YOUR CANDY TURNS Ol'li ll STREET CRIES OF DAYS OF YORE CATHERINE N. COOK IT IS a gray afternoon and that melan- choly cry drifting in through the window carries one back through the centuries. into a thousand streets of America and Europe, The itinerant vendor of wares is many times a business genius in disguise. The modern invention of the chain store and the quick-delivery delicatessen have dealt the vendor of wares a serious blow. As the years pass. he becomes a less fre- quent visitor. XYho would think of buying pepper- pot soup from an old negro mamrny. who trudges along with a steaming caldron, crying peppery-pot when a soup of the same name can be had in tins? The most interesting of all the soup-calls was the one which boldly declared the curative value of the potion: All hot, all hot. all hot Make-a-back strong Make you live long Come buy my pepper-pot. Pepper-pot, Among other singing soup-salesmen, there is a negro whose legend still exists, although he disappeared in 1894. During the great days of steamboat trade he oper- ated his little soup-pot and his fried-Esh stand on the levee at Cincinnati. Ohio. He attracted his trade with the following call: Soupy, soupy, soupy, soupy, Soupy of de little white bean. For some unknown reason. most oyster- men sing their wares in the major keys in a most unsentiinental manner. Oystees salt, oystees salt, oh salt oystees. oh. Then. the devil crab man: Crab, crab, debil, debil crab. The famous old negro honey man of Charleston died a short while ago. He could he heard saying: I'se got honey, yes ma'am. I'se got honey. Honey right from de comb. 12 The honey man in Knoxville was more poetic: Honey. honey-wild. tame. light or dark Sweet as de juice of de hickory bark. Honey! Honey! Then there is the rag man who drove a dilapidated mule hitched to a rickety old wagon, and cried a quarter-tone rag cry: Rags, ole iron, and copper and brass, and copper and brass, Oh rags. and iron and copper and brass. Ugh, huh. oh rags! A poetic charcoal man of Philadelphia is always identified by: Charcoal by the bushel Charcoal by the peck Charcoal by the fryin' pan Or any way you lak'. Here's the skillet call you've often heard: Heah come dat pore ole skillet man, Skillets wif lids. Skillets wif two handles. Black ones. shiny ones, Long-handled forks. Tin-spoons. Heah come dat pore ole skillet man. A colored man named Black Tom was a horseradish man. As he pushed a little grinder before him, he sang: Horseradish, horseradish Ole Black Tom never lies Grinds yo' horseradish fo' yo' eyes- Horseradish. horseradish. The hot corn man had keen competition as he screamed out his wares at the upper end of the piano: Hot corn, hot corn, Heah's your lily-white hot corn. 1Repeatl The plaintive, melodious cries of Negro street vendors still prevail in New Orleans. The clothes pole man's familiar cry: Clos-poles-long. straight. clo's ----- poles. Many times a week the buttermilk man comes around crying: Butter ---- milk ------ butter ---- milk. In early May, the blackberry woman comes to town with her basket on her head. The juicy berries are artistically, covered with sprays of elder and sycamore leaves, to keep the fruit from the hot sun. Her cry, a bit melancholy, goes: Black--ber--ries.-fresh an' fine I got black--berries. lady, fresh from de vine : I got black--berries, lady, Three glass fo' a dime I got black--berries I got black--berries. black--berries. The charcoal man usually visits the resi- dential sections twice a week, crying: Mah mule is white, mah chah-coal is black, I sells mah chahcoal two bits a sack- Chahcoal-Chahcoal- Since 1500, street cries have been used as musical material: piano suite, sym- phonies, and operas. The well-known opera, 4'Louise, written by Charpentier, pro- duced in 1900, is an example of the latter. The earliest record that we possess in English is that given in the New English Dictionary of a cry of 1393: Kokes and here knaues crieden hote pyes hote, which, with but slight variation, was preserved to the close of the eighteenth century. The cries of New York are sometimes so dis- torted that they are unintelligible, except to the initiated. Familiarity helps the hearer to recognize I cash clo as th cry of the buyer of old clothes and wux- try as the newsboys' version of extra. In Maryland. no doubt, these cries are familiar to you. There is the rag-bone man who calls as he wanders down the street: Rag ---- bones ---- rag----bones ---- any ole rags? In many communities. you hear th strawberry man calling: Straw--berr--ies ---- Straw--berr--ies----. Straw--berr-ies. Anne--Aran'l Straw--berr-ies Then, in summer. the plaintive cry o. the watermelon man: YVater ---- melon ---- water ---- melon ---- Red to the rine ---- red to the rine ---- Pluck 'im ebery time ---- right off de vine I am certain that there are many morn that you have heard from these picturesquf vendors in Maryland. XVhy not help to make a collection of these for our inter ested friends? TOWER LIGH !Who Is Santa Claus? CALVIN PARKER OF ALL the customs eoimected with the Christmas season, perhaps the most interesting one is that of giv- ing and receiving gifts from friends and relatives. The personage associated with the receiving of gifts tin the hearts of little ehildrenj is that of our Santa L i Claus. Santa is always Nm! awa pictured as a fat, chub- 5 if by, rosy-cheeked old man who, on Christmas an is L Eve, visits little boys and girls and leaves presents. The stories about his big sled, pulled by reindeers, and his many brownie helpers are familiar to all boys and girls, And what parent, on Christmas Eve, doesn't still remember the days when he looked forward to a visit from Santa? Of all the things associated with the Yuletide season, the legend of Santa Claus and his doings is the most wholesome and de- lightful. But just who is Santa Claus? He is not known under the same name the world over! ln England can be found many people who have never heard of him under the name of Santa Claus. In the United States we know him under three names: il Santa Claus, St. Nicholas arid, more rarely, Kriss-Kringle. As far as can be determined, the original patron saint of the Christmas season was St. Nicholas, who was Bishop of a town called Myra, in Asia Minor. He is supposed to have died in 3-IZ A. D. Stories abound in every coun- try of Europe about him, because almost every country is interested in St. Nicholas. He is called the patron saint of children. Because legend has it that he once calmed 1 storm he is also the patron saint of sailors. Oddly enough, although he is now thought of as a giver of gifts, he was at one time the patron saint of thieves. This :ame about because he was supposed to have converted 1 gang of robbers and made them restore their booty to the people whom they had robbed. Through the years the name of St. Nicholas has become so associated with acts of charity that he has merged into our modern Santa Claus. The name Santa Claus comes from the Dutch who Drought the Santa Claus legend to America with them. Klaus or Claus in Dutch is a short term for Nicholaus, Jr the English equivalent, Nicholas. In America the iame Kriss-Kringle is looked upon as another name for Santa Claus. Such is not the case, however. Kriss-Kringle ,S simply a 'tcorruptionn or mistaken pronunciation for the German word Christ-Kindlein which, in English, DECEMBER - 1939 means Christ Child. The two terms lin the popullr imaginationl have been welded into one and will prob- ably always remain so. The evolution of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, into our modern Santa Claus forms but one of many stories and facts about the Christmas season which should be familiar to everyone. Persons who are really interested in learning about the origin of some of our Yuletide eus- toms should read a book entitled The Story of Santa Claus, by Xvilliam XValsh, obtainable either at the Pratt or the college library. Now would be a good time to read the book in order to recall the Christmas mood of long ago, when there was Peace on earth and good- will toward men. SPECIAL EDITION BARBARA PIAILE 'APA-PER! SPECIAL e-di-tion for Christmas Eve! Pa-per! Yes. sir-Here you are, sir. Pa-per! So lim, clad in clothes neat but ill-suited for the falling snow, danced about at. the corner in an effort to keep warm and at the same time to sell his papers to the rapidly thinning crowd. jim was working overtime in order to earn some extra money. He had secured enough to buy a simple gift for his mother, who usually worked, but who now was sick in bed. But he had nothing as yet with which to buy gifts for the kids. ln almost feverish excitement, jim tried to dispose of the last few papers. But everyone hurried on his way, each intent on his own thoughts, just as he was reluctantly preparing to leave in despair. a young man and a girl dashed up breathless. but joyous. Hiya, Sonny! How about a paper? Hurry! YVe're on our way to celebrate. XVC just got married! jim gave them the paper and automatically started to pocket the coin, when he realized with a start that it was not a nickel, but a quarter. Hey, Mister. he yelled to the now distant couple, 'tYa forgot your change! jim, with a few papers under one arm, and his bundle under the other, let himself quietly into the house so as not to disturb Mom and the kids. Then hc set to work. Yes, there was thc tree on the porch. looking very forlorn. But he would tix that! So, awkwardly. but with a loving touch, jim decorated the little tree with its strings of popcorn, its shimmering, laccy tinsel, its candy canes, its tufts of snow, and its crowning glory of light. Then, with a secretive smile and a feeling of exultatioii. he bade the world a Merry, Merry Cliristniiisn he framed the window with the light of a Hit-lrering, gl 'i,1 - ing candle. on AN ERA IN Human History j.-mms jma' HISTORY IS. in itself, pragmatic. During the years of human progress, ideas have occurred to meng and the testing of those ideas has resulted in the point of civili- zation from which we view them today. Our present culture is the effect of previous ideas. One phase of hu- man history. in particular, has affected the entire hu- man race. but our conception of that era lies not in the era itself. but in the conditions that existed in centuries following the period. Those conditions, which interest men today. were caused by the era - the lifetime of Christ. Little is actually known about this man whom the Gentiles accepted as a Messiah and the jews rejected as an imposter: only one thing is certain - he was a great man with a great mind. He possessed the ability to see and know those things which are beautiful and noble. His great mind functioned in his technique as a teacher for, during his short life. he indoctrinated his disciples so well with his philosophy that they were able jas twelve minds functioningj to initiate more and more potential teachers. Soon after his birth, his work was done: still there was much more work to be done. The opposition to Christi- anity was not weak tit is not weak todayj, nor was the Christian philosophy weak, In Europe it absorbed those aspects of continental paganism which promised to strengthen it. Here was something which offered Euro- pean pagans their own religion in a more colorful and more appealing form. It was dogmatic. but so were the pagan beliefs. It was monotheistie. and yet the Trinity suggested a plurality of gods to be worshiped. Including the thoughts and beliefs of the day. it naturally found favor among such peoples. The unity of Christianity was broken by the Renais- sance. The teachings of Christ. as taught by the Church fathers, were at first doubted. then challenged and at- tacked. Consider, then, what Luther. Huss. Calvin and others thought about the philosophy of Christy consider why they disputed the teachings of the Church. The effect of ideas. alien to Christianity, guided the thoughts of the reformers. Scientific facts, reasoning and logic be- came the chief elements in the argument for the rejec- tion of specific codes basic in Christian philosophy and beliefs fe. g.. transubstantiation was refuted bv Luther because it did not conform to scientific factsl, Those men, too. were influenced by the ideas of Christianity still adhered to by the Church. Ideas at work thus pro- duced a new conception of religion and. consequently. of Christ himself. YVhat then can we say we know about the man or his religion? Our conception of Christianity 14 is pragmatic - it is a conception of the effects that the religion has workedg it is a conception of the ideas of men at work. During the Christmas season it is the common inter- pretation of Christianity that matters. Its material phil- osophy is one of beauty and truth. Its living spirit is a giving spirit. All sects recognize this at Christmas time, when the birth of Christ is celebrated. To give and to share joyously that others may be happy - that is the most noble of the ideas of Christ. TRAINS GORDON F. SHULES IN A week it is going to be Christmas. This makes me very happy. It is going to be a very nice Christmas on account of how we are buying junior a train. It is very cheap, this train. You pay one dollar down, and they will collect fifty cents a week. I am hoping it is not going to be like Uncle Fritz. Uncle Fritz is the one who bought a piano in IQZS. He is still paying for it. He is very smart. my Uncle Fritz. He says a piano looks very nice in a living room. He did not buy a piano with strings because he cannot pIay a piano. He says it is very crazy to pay for something he cannot use. So you see. he is a very smart fellow. Sadie. that's the wife. and I went to Hymie Blum- berger's brother's store. His name is Blumberger. too. 'tSadie. I says. we shall go up to 'Toyland' on account of how I want to get a present for junior. So we go up to A'Toyland. I am feeling foolish on account of all the kids are looking at me. I hear one kid say, Mother. is that man one of Santa's reindeer? I am hoping I am not looking like a reindeer. Sadie, I says, am I looking like a reindeer? Sadie says, No, and this makes me very happy. I am so happy I asks a little boy if I may help him run his train. Scram. he says, And I am so surprised, I scram. Shopping makes m weary. and I am just going to sit down on a box. when I see that it is a box full of trains. My brother raced one in a Ford, and lost. So I very carefully opens this box, which says. Trains I sets it up to see if it works. Mr. Blumberger, that is Hymie Blumbergcr's brother. walks up and says, 'Alf you will get off your knees. I will tell, you how you can buy this lovely train very cheap. I am not kneeling: I am sitting on the floor, I gets up and the next thing I know I End myself shaking hands with Mr. Blumberger. Only one dollar down. he says, and fifty cents a week. Your son will have lots of fun letting you show him how to run this fine train. I gives him a dollar. and he says. Thank you. Sadie says junior is going to like his Christmas present very much, XVe are giving him a train. TOWER LIGHT 7 lBalt1more's First Tiny Tot Tor Little Folks to Play Kiwi-IERINE SCARBOROUGII lPrintecl through the courtesy of the Baltimore Sunday Sunj AT M CHENRY and Norris Streets. in southwest Baltimore, there is a three-dimensional illustration for a fairy tale. streamlined to suit a modern world. Sur- rounding a small plot of ground, taken over by the city for non-payment of taxes on four houses which formerly occupied the site, a high wire fence, strong as they make 'em and surmounted by barbed wire, eneloses a new land of make-believe. Entrance to it can be had only through a door VValt Disney might have designed and -no one who is unable to walk upright through the wee gate enclosed in it can come in. Inside there's a real ,house, just 5 feet square and built for pretending. Near- by there's a fleet of bright green swings and some see- .saws and a sandbox, all scaled down for use by little ipeople. On the ground theres a layer of nice, soft earth. about ten inches deep, to take the hurt out of a tumble. lAnd next spring, when conditions are right for such 'things, a big tree that will give a lot of shade will be planted on one corner of the lot and a lot of vines will be started to cover the fence and make a solid wall of green leaves all around the place. First Tot Lot Add these things together and you have Baltimore's first Tot Lot. officially designated by a bronze plaque .over the door. Sponsored by the Maryland State Teachers College, the Lake Roland Carden Club, the Tot Lot is a new thing under the playground sun. Only a few cities in the country have them and Baltimore's pioneer move in this direction is due to the initiative and persistence of Miss Ieanne Kravetz, a student of the State Teachers College, who got hold of the idea from H. S. Callow- hill. director of the Department of Public Recreation, and pushed it along for more than a year before enlist- 'ing the cooperation of the Carden Club and the Child Study Association. A Patrolled Streets A To secure a suitable site - one which would be avail- able to large numbers of small children who had no iplace to play and which was sufficiently conspicuous in 'its location to attract attention - the State Teachers 'College girls patrolled mile after mile of city streets where municipally-owned land was available. Armed with a map furnished by the City Planning Department. MDECEMBER - 1939 Lot Provldes ew Place from which they had obtained various statistics on pop- ulation. they conducted their survey in a highly scien- tific manner, examining the character of each neighbor- hood, noting its assets and disadvantages for their proi- ect and studying its people. The lot at Melrlenry and Norris Streets met all speci- fications. Cut off by the railroad tracks from Carroll Park, where larger children can go to play, it was sur- rounded by a closely built-up section from which there has been little or no migration over a period of years. The streets in every direction were filled with children of pre-school age. One block alone had sixty youngsters, all in constant danger of being killed or injured by traflic. Great Excitement During the past few weeks, while workmen have been putting up the fence, hauling and spreading dirt and building the swings, the playhouse and the see-saws, ex- citement in the neighborhood has reached an all-tiinc high. Mothers have left their household chores to come and watch the progress of the work. At Hrst the Tot Lot will be opened only during the afternoons. A director has been picked to supervise the play and see that nobody gets hurt. Later on arrange- ments may be made to have it opened during the morn- ing as well. with the mother of some of the patrons in charge. but this plan is still to be worked out. Next spring the Carden Club plans to lay out some small plots at the back of the lot to initiate the youngsters into the fun of raising their own vegetables and flowers. sg :gt sk sg: Note: Because of the length of the original article, it was impossible to include it as a whole, The part omit- ted is devoted mainly to the bestowal of much praise upon Miss leanne Kravetz and her colleagues in this movement. lf you care to read the full article. it may be found in the Baltimore Sunday Sun of November l9. 1939. section Z, page 3. Autumn' s aradise Ani-11.12 h lI'I'ZliI. THE DAY started windy and cold with a very weak sun, but the farther we traveled the more cffulgent be came that sun. The brighter the sun became the won vivid became the trees. Reds. yellows, and greens st 'i.i iiatwl to vie in brilliance, So greatly did they siivec-,'d ili if when we finally reached the LContinued on VJ, A E D I T Q I2 I A L S An All American Christmas K. FRASER FIVE SERENELY happy chimes floated through the open bedroom window and seemed to call all in the house to reioice. It was the Yuletide morn! Outside the window. the stars shone brightly. One by one the lights flicked a Merry Christmas from one house to another. Soon windows closed. and small bare feet pattered through the hall and down the steps - another pair of excited bare feet and a hushed whisper from the top of the stairs. Has Santa been there yet? Yes. came the exultant reply. Come and see! Mihen the two boys met at the bottom of the stairs they joined in a lusty. Merry Christmas. everyoneg come. see what Santa has brought you! No more sleep for the rest of the family until another Christmas had passed. Soon merry greetings echoed from room to room. In one corner of the room stood a pungent pine tree, covered with brilliant balls and gaily illuminated by electric lights. On the floor beneath the tree was a Christmas garden showing the Christ Child in the man- ger. All around were stacked packages. the element of the unknown rapidly disappearing. Each window held a wreath of holly or an electric candle and. yes. just over the doorway hung a sprig of mistletoe. Suddenly, the merry hubbub ceased and all the family gathered at the window to listen as the carolers sang The First Noel and then. O. Come All Ye Faithful. Inst a typical American Christmas. you say. But wait! Ilas it always been so? Indeed. Christmas has not always been so celebrated. It was not always a legal hol- iday. In fact. Massachusetts did not make it a legal holi- day until ISS6. Nor are our Christmas practices original. The use of holly. mistletoe. the Yule log. and feasting were all parts of old Druid practices in England. but they were adapted by the Christians in England. and later by Americans as a part of their Christmas celebra- tion. The Dutch brought us St. Nicholas. and the dec- orated Christmas trees came to us from Germany. The English and the Scandinavians used evcrgrcens for dec- orating. All nations send us Christmas carols. Thus America has mixed the customs of the Old XYorld with the spirit and vitality of America and has given us our American Christmas. 16 Sensing Human Needs Howann S'ro'1'rLEx1'fizR EVERY HUMAN being seems to have a load of some sort to carry. People in general manage to keep a calm countenance and for the most part do not trouble their fellows with their problems. VVhen something happens that brings to light our neighbors' load or han- dicap. we are amazed to End that he had such. VVe are inclined to think so much about our own problems that it seems to us we are the only folks who have them. All the time our neighbor may be carrying fully as heavy a load as we are. The essence of the Christian spirit is ability to sense the need of others and to be moved to helpfulness by it. This spirit was manifest in supreme fashion in Iesus. XVhen He went into a home. company manners did not hide from Him the anxiety that was present there. YVhen I-Ie met a person. He immediately sensed that persons need. It must have cost Him much to have had such a sen- sitive spirit. Perhaps our callousness is a protective meas- ure to save our feelingsg it may well be a measure for self- preservation. Iesus had little regard for self-preservation. His purpose was not to save Himself. otherwise He would not have cultivated such self-sacrificing a spirit. It was. rather. to serve others. And for service to others a sensitive spirit is imperative. 1 H llbfzlyef ELIZABETH M. Liswis Dear Father. take your children by the hand And show them all your mighty works of love. Your restful hills. your silent pasture land. Your quiet stars. your peaceful skies above In spotless purity. your shady lanes. Your lilies. Lord. their snowy banners furled. Your bow of shiny colors in the rain. Your tranquil lakes at peace with all the world. Then. when the sunset spreads its pink and rose ln peacefulness across the fading west. The robin goes to sleep. the blossoms close. And all the world is quietness and rest. Please. Father. ask your children why they killg Then leaye them weeping there. ashamed and still. TOWER LIGHT 2. F' b' d ,., I For children up to 8 or IO: Ire lr S Tl-IE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE ELIZABETH ZENTZ EVEN THOUGH you did your Christmas shopping early, fearing that Tomorrow may be Christmas, per- haps you will welcome a few suggestions for the solu- tion of the VV hat shall I give? problem. The Library staff submits a limited list of books designed for giving, even if you, yourself, are the recipient. Here is a chance to enrich your library and the bookshelves of your friends - and age is no drawback, for there are books for all! l. The famous Petersham Story Books e. g.: The Story Book of Things VVe Use Houses, Clothes, Food and Transportation 2. Stories from the Old Testament- The Petershains Stories of loseph, Moses. Ruth, and David told simply and reverently, with many full-page il- lustrations. 3. All About David ,..,.. Elizabeth Iklifllin Boyd A real American boy - his school fun and ad- ventures. 4. One Day with Manu . . . , Armstrong Sperry A day in the life of a South Sea Island boy. For children 9 to IZ: I. Merry Tales from Spain. . . ..., Antoniorrobles A gay collection of modern fairy tales by Spain's best-beloved ehildren's writer. 2. The Silver Llama ....., r , . . Alida llflalkus The exciting story of a Peruvian shepherd boy and the good luck animal of the Andes. 3. One String Fiddle ..,.,...,...,... Erick Berry Includes real music for children to play. and tells how Irby won the fiddlin' match with tunes he made up from melodies he heard. 4. Unii, the Hawaiian Boy XVho Became King - Robert Lee Eskridge One of Hawaii's oldest. most beautiful legends. For children I2 and older: . . I. Drums Beat in Old Carolina - I Albert Leeds Stillman I The story of lainie Hill, who made gunpowder for the early revolutionists. 1 'DECEMBER - 1939 I i 'YZ N I 'I ' can i it ' . rrfilfafb f I X wx, .5 . f l xx -Gail! Q ' 1 1 Y A X 4 ,Z I: X an All -:.f Q I H-elif' 1 ,N ij' :gd ' T-F f SX A.s.E.I:f.L..fff l .Donald E. Cooke The romance of Ivan and Maiya, set against the background of Stravinsky's musical suite. . Leif Erikson the Lucky . r .Frederic A. Kunnner One of the sea's most powerful sagas - thrills the heart of every boy over twelve years of age. . Swift Flies the Falcon ,.., . . Esther M. Knox An unusual tale of the First Crusade, and of a boy and his sister who journeyed on it. For adults of every taste: l. Captain Abby and Captain Iohn - Robert P. Tristain Coffin Here is the story of a man and wife of Casco Bay, Maine, who spent their entire wedded life on the seven seas. rearing their children at sea or in strange ports all over the world, sustaining tidal wave and hurricane and wreck. It is built from actual logs, letters, and diaries, and is illus- trated with pictures of old sailing ships and sea scenes. . Sometime - Never, . . , . Clare Leighton Sometime - Neyer is liyed on a transatlantic liner one New Years Eye. within the bonus hour of the westward crossing when the clock is put back one hour at each midnight. . Hitler's Germany , Karl Laewcnstcin This book answers many questions which have been puzzling Americans as to exactly how the government of Nazi Cermany actually works. . Live and Kicking Ned. . Iohn Nlrzscficlil A prize package of thrills - the further adven- tures of last seasons t'Dead Ned. . Kitty Fayle . Christopher ll: '7 ' t'Kitty has a wide-open heart. a capacity lf. ir -I ing something out of herself. and ll salt' ' She talks a sound vernacular. tart, natural. and American as apple pie. - The New Yorker. 0. The Nazarene . , , . , . Sholezn Asch A novel based on the life of Christ. . Country Lawyer . ,, . Bellamy Partridge The true story of a country town and the man who knew more and told less about his neigh- bors than anybody else. S. XYherc the Rivers Meet . ,W'ard Dorrance The fascinating. unconventional. and eventful record of a canoe trip along ports of the Mis- souri. Mississippi, Ohio, Wabash, and Tennes- see Rivers. These titles are merely suggestive, but they are in- tended to serve as a guide and a standard for compari- son. They are representative of the great variety of avail- able subjects and interests treated in the newer books. The old favorites are always acceptable in their new bindings and varied treatments, so don't overlook them. But do consider age. taste and outlook before you buy a gift book - it's a good, safe. pleasure insurance! HAVE YOU READ? DORIS TCL.-KNK The Middle W'indow, by Elizabeth Goudge. Coward McCann Co., New York. 1939. Are you looking for a book so absorbing that once you begin it you won't want to put it down until you have read every page? Then let me recommend this fasci- nating story of a modern English girl, Iudy Cameron. who finds the answer to her problems through The Aliddle Vi'indow. The book is unusual in that it is divided into four parts: namely. Prologue-The Search, Book One-lndi- viduality, Book Two-Union. and Epilogue-The Find- ing. Although Indy is engaged to Charles, she is not sure of her love for him. She insists that he and her family spend their vacation in a remote dwelling, Clen Suilag. in Scotland. in which she is strangely at home. Here she meets Ian Macdonald. the lord. and they fall in love at first sight, each feeling as if they had known the other before. To explain this feeling, Miss C-oudge tells the story of The Middle XYindow. which is so significant to Indy. This comprises the two middle chapters which could easily be read as a story apart from the rest of the book. It is the intriguing story of Iudith and Ronald Macdonald, occupants of Clen Suilag some two hun- dred ycars before. ln the final chapter. the modern Indy and lan find that they feel as they do because they are the people who had lived and loved there many years ago. 18 B O O K W E E K AT THE CAMPUS SCHOOL SOLOBION Cimncix NOVEMBER l 3 to November 17 was designated as Book XVeek. In connection with this occasion, the Campus Elementaiw' School, with the aid of students and teachers of the college. made a very attractive dis- play of children's books. The books ranged from the hrst-grade picture books up to and including those for seventh-grade children. On the piano in the exhibit room were attractively il- lustrated books dealing with music. The childrens favorite seemed to be A Christmas Carol. by Charles Dickens. This was a new. revised edi- tion. bound with a bright red leather cover. The type was rather large and the illustrations. of which there were plenty. had many colors. Most of the children have expressed a desire that Santa Claus bring them a copy. Book YVeek has been recognized as an event which is beneficial to both the students and the faculty. By means of this exhibit, the children may display their tastes and widen their knowledge of the various types of books, and the teachers may become acquainted with the books which the children like. POPULARIZING POETRY N. TROTT LAST MONTH a small group of people were priv- ileged to hear Dr. Helen K. Mackintosh. Assistant to Dr. Iohn Studebaker in the Office of Education of the United States Department of the Interior. and a na- tionally known figure in the field of ehildren's poetry. give a short but dynamic talk on her subject. Poetry she said, should have a more important place in the elementary schools. An average teacher. if she utilized her available re- sources. could provide for many of the essential experi- ences a child should have with poetry. Besides using poetry in classroom situations. the teacher could place volumes of POCIHS around the room and give the child a chance to browse through the books. Dr. Mackintosh recalled the following statement she once heard Dr. Leonard make: Begin with children whcrc they arc. Too often we teachers tend to begin with children lparticularly in poetry! where we are or TOWER LIGHT where we think they should be, instead of starting at their level. What poems are best for children and how shall they be selected? The simplest and best criterion is this: The poem is best that carries the largest number of interest- appeals. At all levels, from the cradle to the grave, the elements of action, surprise, and humor are favored in poetry. In the primary grades, the children choose poems about animals, poems about personal experiences, poems that have in them conversation, repetition, strong ele- ments ot rhytlnn and rhyme and. traditionally, fairies. In the intermediate grades, the child wants realism in animal poems and stories that replace the fictitious ones of the primary grades, and realism in science and other factual materials. I-Ie craves excitement, adventure. inys- tery stories. heroism, and patriotism. Dialect poems, particularly the ones in Negro, French-Canadian. and Norwegian, hold an immense interest for him. Strangely enough, the elements of sadness and beauty of thought hold an equally strong appeal. Poems of this last eate- gory must be balanced by those of a great many other types. After reading and discussing a wide variety of poems. Dr. Mackintosh concluded by suggesting some practical ways in which poetry could be used. She mentioned poetry memory contests, creating poetry, dramatizing poetry, and matching poems with pictures. YVe must first share the poem with the child, so that he may like and enjoy itg memorization will grow naturally out of this. Poetry is not a subject to be dreaded or despised for its boredomg it is an interesting, vital thing that can and should become an integral part of the child. YV e, as teachers, should see that the child meets poetry eagerly and leaves it with a feeling of pleasure and relaxation. The Congressman's wife sat up in bed, a startled look on her face. lim. she whispered. 'LThere're robbers in the house. t'lmpossible, murmured her husband sleepily. In the Senate, yes, but in the House, never! :Ir :Sf is Laura: Bob, how were your grades last month? Bob: Iulcs Verne. Laura: Howzat? Bob: Twenty thousand leagues under the C. vi: 121 wk . lim: YVho was the hero in the play you went to sec last night? D l Iam: Every person in the audience who stayed until the end. 'DECEMBER - 1939 l l CHRISTMAS EVE ALI-Ln.-x Ilnnxicia The moon east shadows o'cr the town The old church clock struck one: Two tiny tots crept from their beds, As you and I have done. They padded to the large window, Stuck out two little heads, Beheld those moving shadows, And scrambled to their beds. Pl LG R I M AG E N. TRo'r'1' There is a king a few leavues hence b 1 I heard a wise man say, XV ho is bedded in a stable shed And lies among the hay. A king born in a stable? No king that . . . but a serfg Iehovalfs son would never come Of such a lowly birth. I did not go to Bethlehem Although the star was bright, But made my way where torches gay Emblazoned all the night. The palaces were spacious. They shone by night and day, Yet though I looked in eyery nook, No king among thezn lay. My feet were sore and weary. lyly heart was sad . . . but then Me thought me I would go and see The babe at Bethlehem. And now the road is rocky In every nook a thorn, The Eastern star seems yery tar, My boots are seufied and torn. But something draws me onward. I stumble in the door. The angels sing, This is your King. Draw near I-Iim and adore. Dear Little Baby, fesus. I kneel content at last: Oh, in my heart Your loye iinpart. I'll ever hold You fast. GLEE CLUB NOTES IXIARGUERITE XVILSON CHRISTMAS AT State Teachers College means as manv different things as there are organizations and stu- dents in the college. To the Glee Club it means an ex- tensive praetice program, a radio broadcast and. this year. participation in the Old English Dinner. to be held De- cember Zl. The date for the Glee Club broadcast has not vet been dehnitelv decided on: however, it will come during the first partlof December. The leanie Group and Girls' Chorus will also have a part in the program. This year, the leanie Group will sing a song, the words and music of which were written by native Baltiinor- cans-Lizette XVoodworth Reese and Franz C. Born- schein. It is The Little Iesus Came to Town. The men's double quartet will sing a very old Christmas song of unknown authorship, The YVassailer's Song. The Girls' Chorus will sing a Christmas Carol. set to the tune of an old English folk-song. It will be especially interesting to us, since two of our own faculty, Miss XVeyforth and Mrs. Stapleton, are responsible for the arrangement and words. The tentative program is as follows: Psalm 150 ---- Cesar Franck Vienna XVoods - - - IOIIHHH SYIHUSS Salvation is Created - - - TSCl1CSHOli0H The Sweet Nightingale Arranged by Alfred Wfhitehead The Glee Club The Spirit Flower - - Campbell-Tipton Arranged by Reigger Land of IIeart's Desire - - Thomas-Kountz The Little lesus Came to Town - Bornschein The leanie Group XYassaiIer's Song AA--' Davis AIen's Double Quartet The appropriate songs from this group will be sung at the Old English Dinner. OUR ORCHESTRA-WC AO HELEN C. S'rAPLi3'roN TIHIE FACULTY and students listened with pride to the tine performance of our Orchestra when it went on the air on November first. From the stately elegance of the Minuct to the delicacy and grace of the Ballet of the Flowers, the music presented a pleasing variety of moods. In thc third movement of BIozart's symphony, the clarinet solo was sustained by a well-modulated or- chestral accompaniment as the music soared in rhythmic and lively tempo to the grandeur of the closing meas- ures. XVe are fortunate in having two such excellent vio- 20 linists as Sydney Baker and Eugene VVebster, whose H- nesse in their team-work is a tribute to their individual artistry. The strongest imaginative appeal of the con- cert came in the Ballet of the Flowers, through the con- trasts of the Red Rose and the Heather. First the lan- guor of the South and the warm play of sunshine upon green and red was conveyed by the flowing measures. Then, in sharp contrast, the nimble bagpipe effect in- troduced a Scottish vigor which played upon the inner eye in a strong silhouette of wind-swept hillside. The artistic quality of the concert should be a matter of great satisfaction to its director. Under her ten years of guid- ance, a fine attitude has developed for conscientious ef- fort and high aims. The college is proud of these young people, who, to quote the words of our President, are giving us Uthe full and free expression of their personali- ties, as they 'Agrow musically. THE PROGRAZXI Menuet from the Opera, Berenice - Handel Klinuet from E Flat Symphony ltlozart Orchestra In Modo Religioso ---- Glazaunow Brass Ensemble Address ----- Dr. Wfiedefeld Finale from VI Sonata of the Viennese Sonatas for Two Violins - Sydney Baker. Eugene W'ebster Orchestra R IR N Higthgrse Ballet of the Flowers - - Hadley THE ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL THIS MONTH initiates our new plan of writing about the Orchestra members. YVe present the two young men who share the honor and responsibility of the Hrst desk of violins - Svdnev Baker and Eu ene XVebster. XVhen his elders spied l him with a ruler under his chin, supported by his left hand, and anoth- er ruler in his right, they decided that Eugene XVebster was destined to be a violinist, and lessons began forthwith. Four years later. he attracted the attention of a church organ- ist. who suggested that Gene should try for a scholar- ship at the Peabody Preparatory Department. Gene ap- plied for the scholarship, and won it. This fortunate in- cident meant his acquaintance with Kliss Celia Brace, who is at present his teacher and friend. Gene has played in thc Baltimore City College fContinued on Page 305 . . 8 Il 'r'lu'Irr' Baker T O W E R L I G H T iii N A 7' 7 ' .J ... u Q., dl THE FORGOTTEN MEN OF SPORTS DONALD MINNEGAN SPECTATORS applaud the man who scores. Often the men who make the set-up which makes scoring possible are obscured by the scorer. Here is a newspaper comment which reHects this point of view: Sophomore Bosh Pritchard, V. M. I. backfield speed- ster, who entered the game at the start of the second period as a sub for Captain Paul Shu, produced a 'home run' touchdown when he took Pershing Mondorff's kick on his own 26 and ran 74 yards untouched to the goal line. Pritchard, the scorer, was known to all. His glory was chanted in rousing cheers, radios blazed his feat, the printed headline shouted his name. Probably ten excel- lent blocks made the score possible. But not a single blocker was mentioned. This spectator and, frequently, player point of view, is prevalent in most sports. High scoring is the specta- tor's measuring stick in basketball. The soccer player who boots the goal is clapped on the back and every teammate shakes his hand. Yes. to the spectator, and to many players, the scorer is the man of the hour. The blocker is the forgotten man. To what extent do experts agree with this viewpoint? Here another illustration will serve: Red Grange of Illinois was the world's greatest colle- giate ball-carrier. He made every All-America team. After graduation he was hired to play profesional foot- ball - but what a reversal he met. Five yards were hard- er to make in pro ball than a touchdown in college ball. When the coach discussed Red's failure with him, Grange said, USend for Britton. the blocking back. When Britton, the blocker, came, Grange, the runner, could score. This incident represents the expert's point of view. He places emphasis on the man who makes the score possible. Shall we apply this different viewpoint to basketball, our seasonal sport? Here are speciiic points which will help you develop this appreciation. DECEMBER - 1939 Basketball has three vital parts: jlj Get that ball. j2j Keep that ball. Oj Make that shot. The first requisite of a player is his ability to get that ball. The greatest shots in the world could not score it they did not get that ball. That player who crouches in the milling swirl of twisting bodies and springs like a tiger head and shoulders above all others to snatch a rebound from the board has secured the ball. His pow- er and timing and spectacular drive started the tirst and most vital step toward the score. The rebounder. the jumper, the player who intercepts, the good defensive player - all get that ball. In your expert score book. give one point to a man every time he gets the ball. The second characteristic of a good player is his abil- ity to keep the ball. This means that Eve players run, pass, and block to keep the ball away from the other team. The man who breaks to the open, and passes to the open, ranks high. The man who can handle the ball quickly and accurately is good. The player who never loses the ball is a jewel. The player who is tied up, throws it away, and takes bad shots is a liability. Even after getting the ball. unless players can run. pass. and block to scoring positions - they can not score. So. in your expert scorebook, take one point otf the score of the man who loses the ball. Give credit to the man who runs, passes, and blocks to scoring position. And now for the scoring, which is the Enal step in a process, a final step which would be impossible without getting that ball, keeping that ball. Position and percentage are vital in scoring. A scoring man should shoot only when in position. A scoring man should be judged only on the percent- age of his shots. Say that jolm made four baskets in eight tries - not that john made four baskets. If john made four baskets in eight tries he is very good. but if john took Z8 shots to make four baskets. john is indeed a dull boy. In your expert scorebook write scoring per- centages, the only fair method for evaluating a scorer. In shooting, too. we must remember to subtract one every time a player loses the ball. This year. and every year - let us all be experts in appreciation. Give credit to the man who makes the score possible as well as the man who makes the score. Spectators and players, let us all work togcthen let us all make a new and fair scorebook based upon: jlj Get that ball. Q25 Keep that ball. Q31 Make that shot. SNICKS I-IENRY N CQACH MINNECANS I939--IO basketball charges will play fifteen tough games this wintcr. Eight of these games will bc played on foreign courts at the beginning of the season. Activity on the hardwood floor returns to Towson late in january, where it will remain till the close of the season. Shenandoah and Mount St. Maryis are the newcomers to Towson's schedule. XV ith the graduation of Danny Austerlitz, best basket- ball player ever to attend State Teachers College, Coach Minncgan will be forced to depend on such veterans as lXIarty Brill, Bob Cox, Luther Cox, and Stan VVax- man to carry the major burden. Legs Russell, Aaron Burr Seidler, Stan Sussman, Henry Snicks Steckler, and Frank Dorn, a newcomer, as well as likely looking freshmen will probably also see action. Since most of the games will be played before the February practice teaching begins, the team will remain intact. I wonder: XV ill Towson develop a freshman ace? XVill Russell continue to check the time? NV ill XVilson Teachers put water into their swim- ming pool gymnasium? XV ill Brill ever forget to order fried oysters before out-of-town games? XVill Snicks Steckler again injure himself falling off the bench? XV ill Towson give Hopkins a shellacking? XV ill Bob Cox bump his head on the basketball hoop? XV ill Towson be admitted to the Maryland Inter- Collegiate Basketball League? The following is the I939-40 basketball schedule: Date Team Location Friday, Dec. l-Salisbury T. C.. . . , Salisbury Thursday, Dec, -Y. M. C. A.. ,.,.. Towson fpendingj Thursday, Dec. -XVestern Maryland .NVcstminster Tuesday, Dec. Iohns llopkins .... Homewood Saturday. Ian. XYashington College Chcstertown Friday. Ian. -Callaudet . . . XVashington Friday, Ian. -Mt. St. lXIary's. . . . Emmitsburg Saturday, Ian. 20 Blue Ridge . . . New VVindsor XVcdncsday. Ian. -XVilson T. C.. YVashington Saturday, Ian -Callaudet , , Towson Friday, Feb. -XVilson T. C. . Towson Tuesday, Feb 6-johns Ilopkins ,,.. Towson Friday, Feb. Elizabethtown . Towson Thursday. Feb. 22-Blue Ridge . Towson Thursday, Feb. -Shenandoah . . . Towson P. S. - Several fans have asked what Coach Minne- gan says to the players just before they return from half- 22 STECKLER time. I listened closely the other day. He said, That's all I have to say. And that's all I have to say. SOCCER REVIEW NOLAN CIHIPINIAN OFFICIALLY, unoflicially and otherwise, the 1939 soccer season at the College has been completed. Frank- ly, it seems like ages since we first saw the team prac- ticing in early September. Of course, we remember the opening game with Wfestchester, the Salisbury skirmish, the Hopkins battle, the Maryland melee, and others that preceded. VVliat we always remember is that Tow- son did enjoy a quite successful season. Short of return- ing veterans, hampered by injuries, and playing impor- tant and difficult games in successive weeks, the team compiled an enviable record of five wins, two ties, and two losses. VVe know now whether or not Coach Minnegan's team booted home the State soccer championship. Re- gardless of this final outcome, the color of the '39 team will stand out. The fans saw good soccer when Hart trapped and passed that ball. when Cernik booted one far up the field, when Cox stopped the opposing for- wards in their tracks. Remember Thompson skimming down the sidelines, Calder aiming one at the goal, Shock dribbling past the enemy, and Lauenstein making a per- fect center. Then there's VVilde's groping hands, Tie- meyer's driving legs, Herold's shifty footwork, and Stot- tlemyer's steady, efficient kicks. It all adds up to a col- orful, skillful winning team. Tliat's what Towson had this past season. SOCCER IAMES CERNIK SOCCER IS the most interesting and popular inter- national sport. European teams excel our American teams because of their more centered interest. The main skill in European soccer is the pass, which is highly developed. This pass isn't long, nor is it lofted through the air, it is a short, accurate, and ef- fective pass on the ground. fContinued on Page 311 TOWER LIGHT ASSEMBLY CALENDAR OCTOBER Z3- Today Mrs. Roberta F raneke and Miss Celia Brace of the Baltimore Music Club delighted all present with selections on the piano and violin. Mrs. Francke is a concert pianist and Miss Brace is a violinist of much ability. We left the assembly feeling that it was a great privilege to hear such renditions. OCTOBER 26- ' This year the State Teachers College Orchestra marked its tenth anniversary. Since its inception the Or- chestra has grown from twelve people to the present group of twenty-seven. On October Z6 the Orchestra, under the able direc- tion'of Miss Elma Prickett, gave a portion of the pro- gram to be presented at Baltimore Polytechnic Insti- ftute on Friday, October 27. The selections played were as follows: Menuet from Berenice - - - Handel Andante Cantabile. First Symphony - Beethoven Orchestra A In Modo Religioso - - - Clazounov Brass Ensemble Minuet from E Flat Symphony - - Nlozart The Andante Cantabile was written bv Beethoven in the early part of his career It reflects in its moods the troubled and often unhappy thoughts of its composer. In Modo Religzoso was particularly sombre in char- acter and was played very effectively by the brass en- semble In this number the plavers were Norman XVilde, David Shepherd Richard Cunningham Williani Kahn and Louis Henderson The Minuet from Mozart s E Flat Symphony, which is the Orchestra s signature concluded the program. OCTOBER 28 Chi Alpha Sivma Luncheon 1 Mrs F Kaylor of Ilyattsville was the speaker at the fall luncheon meeting of the fraternitv, held at the Blackstone Apartments She told of the mountain bal- lads and folk songs of Eastern America and sang some Jlarntive sentimental melodic examples. thus delight- ing fifty members and guests of Chi Alpha Sigma. OCTOBER 30 Mr. Compton Crook an instructor in our science de- Jartment spoke on his adventures in the Rocky Moun- 'ain National Park of central Colorado. Colored films hat Mr. Crook has made very beautifully supplemented iis talk. Conducting tours for mountain climbers has lgiven Mr. Crook a command of knowledge regarding 'hat region. For example, Mr. Crook told the Assembly that willows in the area approaching the tundra grow I Q . ' . ' l . . ' N f i 1 ' ' ' ' 1 B 7 1 ' 7 -1 . , . l 1 v 4 . . l U, Q . . ' Q . . . 5 J l ' ' Y 7 A 7 ii C ll 'DECEMBER - 1939 only two feet in twenty years. The marmot of this mountain region is a veritable watchdog, XYhen he whistles, all of the animals hide from oncoming ene- mies. Mr. Crook has seen a mountain lion sunning himself and watching passcrs-by on the highway. Ile, with other hikers, has heard the coyote sing at the end of the day. The call to the trail seemed to be upper- most in the spirit of every listener. NOVlSB'IBER 6- Dr. Vlfiedefeld - Democracy in the School Before creating a democracy in the college, we must establish a functioning democracy in the home. Chil- dren, when very young, have little respect for the rights of others. but they should gradually acquire that respect at school and at home. Democracy is the medium be- tween the extremes. VVe can never achieve this goal if prospective leaders of our children do not adhere to the rules or standards set up by the college itself. NovEMBER I0 - An Armistice Dav Celebration Program Lovely Appear Qsung by the student bodyj Special Prayer for Peace The Lord's Prayer Orchestra Selection The Next Peace - Fredwin Kieval The program was in charge of Miss Ieannc Kravetz. Mr. Kieval spoke on the reasons why nations light, how this present war is a direct outgrowth of the peace treaty drawn up at Versailles in l9lS, and how the next peace must be made, not between the victor and the vanquished, but between the vanquished and the yan- quished. DIOVEIVIBER I3- Ridgely Hill, a senior, gave an illustrated talk on f'Photography at VVork. She explained the use of the x-ray for many problems, from surgery to crime detec- tion. Preserving our records for future generations by the use of films will certainly advance education. NOVEAIBER ZO- Thanksgiving Proclamation - Stanley Sussman Violin Duet- In Colonial Days - - Sinnhald Miss Mary Reindollar, lXIr. Eugene W'cbster Accompanied by Miss Elma Priekctt The Origin of Thanksgiving - Cwcndolyn Felts The Spirit of Thanksgiving - - Audrey Mercer A'Thanksgiving Qpoeml, by Iamcs lctt Si'211llCf'SllSFlNJlIT Psalm ISO, by Francke --ff Clif! Cl'-Flt Responsive Reading CPsalm 2-ll - Student Both: I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD B I.-IIieuI':1tI'I'n XVII,soN A CROXVD was gathered in the auditorium at State Teachers College on Tuesday evening, November 7. lust after S o'clock, the mellow notes of about one hun- dred Inale voices rang out in the familiar I'ye Been Vlforkin' on the Railroad. It was the Baltimore and Ohio Clce Club. opening a concert sponsored by the Te-Pa-Chi Club of the Campus Elementary School. Mr. Ivan Servais, the conductor, seemed able to 'fplay his group as one would play an organ, with feel- ing and perfect control, By the slightest nod of his head, or movement of his arm, he could change a forte to a murmuring pianissimo. The precision of the chorus was striking, especially at the endings when, with a down-swing of his arms. there was a complete silence. The moods of the program were as varied as the selec- tions sung, and the contrasts were surprising. VV hen at the end of two melodious hours, the curtain closed, the audience, still eager to hear more, applauded enthusiastically for encores. The Glee Club was very obliging, and rendered a B. and O. version of the pop- ular Heigh-Ho, from HSnow White. THE FRESHMAN SOCIAL OLIVIA WILSON ON VVEDNESDAY, November 15, at three-thirty o'clock, the auditorium was a scene of merry-making for the freshmen. Everyone seemed to be enthusiastic about the program because no section knew of the other's part. At the instant the curtain opened everything be- came clear. WVilliam Iett, Inaster of ceremonies, amused everyone by his gay apparel with bell dangling in one hand and his speech in the other, All of the sections were represented except number one. The program was as follows: Section 2-Dot De Carlo and Betty Ahny sang, South of the Border. Section 7-A mixed kick chorus, representing some of the animal life seen by Mr. Crook in the Rockies. Section 5-A piano solo, In a Monastery Carden, by Dot Traut. lean VVebb sang A Russian Lullaby. Section 3-A Spanish dance, by Esta Bablan, Urner Talbot, that famous tenor, sang The Vlforld is Vlfaiting for the Sunrise. 24 Section 6-That great melodrama, in 1, Z, 3, 4 time. Section 5-Betty Letzer gave The Indian Love Call. Mary Ethel Stanley, the jitterburg, did a comedy dance to An Apple for the Teach- er. lShe hopes the audience liked her apples.j Phyllis Cohen sang Naughty Marietta. Section 4-Presented Tliisbc and Pyramus. The pianist was Helen Taylor, Section 5. As a grand finale there was punch fto drinkj while dancing. FRESHMEN MOTHERS' WEEK-END ESTA BABLAN THE STANDARD calendar of our land circles the first Sunday in May as Mothers' Day, in tribute to all mothers everywhere. Here at Maryland State Teachers College a desirable custom is presented in even a more fitting manner, that is, by the observance of Freshmen Mothers' VVeek-end. These few days are designated by the president as a visiting time for the parents, as a time for them to become familiar with our College and its ways. November tenth was the beginning of this year's occasion, and was greeted by the arrival of women from all parts of the countryside, the mothers of our dormitory students. Friday night saw a dining room full of friendly parents, but the big day of the week-end was Saturday. At two o'cloek the foyer of Newell Hall was comfortably crowded with faculty, freshmen, and parents. This was the moment looked forward to by all, for it furnished an opportunity for the teachers and the mothers to get acquainted. At times apprehensive, at- times proud of past achievements, the freshmen intro- duced their parents to their teachers. Entrance records' were available and a spirit of approval and encourage-I ment prevailed. In the afternoon. tea was served. and for a moment the group posed on the steps of the hall? for a picture. Q- At four o'clock the informal, individual discussions were abandoned for a talk to the Inothers by Dr. NViede-. feld. Many phases of college life as well as ideals and customs were explained. Later. parents. teachers and students came together for a supper by candle-light. The pleasant clay was brought to a close by an entertainment given by the freslnnan class and by the College C-ler Club. All comments from freshmen and their parents comb bine to form a unanimous opinion: namely. that thi week-end was a success and should be repeated yearly: TOWER LIGI-Ii I A i 4 I i l i l l 1 I a il li li i 1. 5. 1 B i 1 l l i ,l .1 r Musa!!! '- -'L-'2 Z ' -xl P .affi- T u I- PERSONAL APPEARANCE hflARIE PARR 1jDlD YOU ever stop to think, 'tjust how do l look to other people? Most of us have not. and yet per- sonal appearance is most important. Last week. Hoeh- yjjschild, Kohn 81 Company's Elizabeth MaeC-ibbon, ,li the author of Mazniers in Business, ave her opinions , 8 l ,flon the subject, 'Appearance, Your Greatest Asset. ,lMrs. MacCibbon is the Emily Post of the business j. jworld. Certain views were expressed by her on the sub- jjeet of personal appearance for business girls or teachers. jj Bad taste in choice of costume is alwavs a quality to li: l fs .il ll iz if E. jbe avoided. A frilly dress and extreme hat certainly Qaren't suitable for the office or schoolroom. A basic dress lof black or brown. with detachable collar and euifts. jworn with a matching sport hat, is a better choice. fCertain colors. such as red, yellow, and green, do not jblend very well. A plain, harmonious outfit is much jmore suitable. l An over-dressed person has no place in the school- -jlroom. Too much jewelry is always a distraction. Gaudy Tjtrimming and beaded jackets should be left off dresses. j,jDangling bracelets are in the way for teaching. Leave ljf iff' them for after school hours. QDECEMBER - 1939 'l'l1e importance of cleanliness and iieaizic .ire f forgotten. XVrinkled hose. run-down 'sliritiy f- lars and dresses certainly do not add to pci .mill gs.,- pearance. Carelessness is a very had habit. .Xlwa. i Junk fresh and neat! i W Some make-up should certainly be worn. livery girl needs a little powder to keep the shine off her nose. Even lipstick and rouge, within reason. are not objec- tionable. llowcver, eye-shadow and mascara should never be worn by the teacher. lleavy perfumes may be omitted with profit. A very simple hairdress is appropriate for the class- room. No upsweeps! 'l'his is entirely too severe for dav- time and not very flattering. either. Those long. glam- our-girl locks are not appropriate. either. for they are apt to make the teacher look rather young and detract from her professional manner. A simple, average-length eoilfure is the most suitable. C-ood posture is an asset to personal appearance. Never slump while sitting or standing. Proper clothing for the classroom is another feature to be considered. A basic silk or wool dress is favored. A suit. or skirt and sweater are permissible. but not pre- ferred. Saddle shoes and anklets, of course. should never be worn while teaching. The most suitable style shoe is the tailored pump or oxford. with Cuban heel. Favored colors are black. brown. blue. any green but Kelly green. and wine. No bright prints. plaids. or cheeks should be in evidence. Naturally, red fingernails are taboo! Natural or pink polish is allowed. How many of us. when we are out teaching. live up to Mrs. MacGibbon's standards in personal appearance for such a profession? . . . l wonder! MEN'S FASHIONS DOROTHY SISK ALL l'VE been hearing about for the past three months concerns college girls' cardigan sweaters. plaid skirts, saddle shoes, long socks. and snoods, But what about the college men? Do they go around clad only in loud socks. tics. and mystery? Lets consult Esquire to find out what the smartest men are wearing. You just simply arcn't it , unless you have chic new two-eyelet shoes of wild toh. definitely wildl boarskin. Or are the Norwegian model shoes with crepe soles and heels and floppy, overlapping tongues more your type? fRemember. girls. when we wore floppy tongues eral years ago?l And your socks and tics simply slioutf 'Wifi shirts. the color scheme docsn't make -'rr arwllf difference. But if you are just too, too fastidious. buy your shirts, ties. and socks to match. And remember, boys. it takes a genius to wear more than six colors at one time. with anything less than the air of a lunatic. The socks problem is further aggravated by the wearing of above-the-ankle length trousers. They're very smart, especially with finger-tip length, three-button suit-coats. That combination, which tends to elongate the torso. and shorten the legs. is all right on you tall men: but sometimes thoughts of what will happen to the short men worry us. Do you suppose - if this trend keeps up - that they'll disappear altogether? lVhat about your hats? Perhaps the one that suits your personality best is a felt snapbrim. Or is it a pork- pie or Tyrolcan? Oh, just solve the problem by going bare-headed. I almost forgot the classic reversibles. But there is nothing to say about them, anyway. They speak for themselves on every college campus. S 0 W I-I AT XV. NORRIS VVEIS VV ELL, VVELL, well! The holiday season is upon us once more and so is USO What! Now, without more ado and what have you, let's get at it, students, let's get at it! Fan Poem l. VVanda Genuine for love of life And half the men in the college Z. Betty Ann Something they can't resist VV ill take her more places than knowledge 3. Mary Ethel Sweetness and frankness and a smileg Perhaps the world's appeal 4. Shirley Any excitement at all is fun But 'specially a new heart to steal VVhat will it get them? Don't you see at a glance? Their name's in the ToyvER L1eH'rg A date for each dance! O An Extensive List for M. S. T. C.'s Santa 1. A crook to enable the Shepherd to look after his little Cray sheep. Z. Lee McCarriar: A display case for his jewel. 3. A Storm Troopers uniform for a rotund junior. 4. Cordon Shules: An oil can for his shoes. 5. Harry Russell: A new technique for turning brown 26 eyes green. 6. Mickey Sharrow: Another play to show his Iohn Barrymore and Robert Taylor abilities. f. Kitty Hepburn: Nothing. I have all I want. O Faculty I Wants for Santa 1. Mr. Moser: Acknowledgment for the Student Council, 2. Mr. Minnegan: Sometimes more inertia for the student and sometimes more initiative. fPlease be more definite, Mr. Minnegan.-Santa Claus.j 3. Miss VVeyforth: A complete explanation of swing. fShall I put her hep to the jive so as to be in the groove?-Santa Clausjl 4. Miss Birdsong: At least three bulletin-board read- ing students. 5. Mrs. Clark: A revised price list for the book shop. 0 Christmas Gag Did you know that this time of the year has a peculiar effect on girls? This is the season when girls forget the past, think nothing of the future and remember only the present. QI-Ia, ha, hall I The Romantic Touch I. It seems that lack has lost his Hart. VVell, maybe Iesse will see he gets his Shearer. Z. jimmy flames, to youj Cernik has a stenographer. Betcha Maxine knows the score. 3. Late flash: Did you know that Sydney Baker had a preview of the freshmen girls even before school opened? Ask him about Hillen Road. 4. VVas I right, or was I right? In my last article be- fore eollege closed last Iune. in the Betcha depart- ment of my column, I predicted that Betty Smiley would be the first one of the june grads to hear the wed- ding bells peal. The odds were 50 to I. I win. Last eve- ning I went to the church for a rehearsal. Of course, she's going to marry Bud, I only went to play the organ. I Freshman Gag Did you hear the one about the pawnbroker who wanted to open a delicatessen? He hung out three meat balls. fOuch!j I In Conclusion So as to stand a chance of breaking into print again in january, I guess I should spell FrNrs before I run over my page. Therefore, in our serviceable spirit, the So VVhat columnizer wishes all a very enjoyable holiday season. May I see each of you during the holidays so as to gather material for the january issue. So long, and So VVhat! TOWER LIGHT r r Hard To Believe, But It's True fCwen' the moon comes over the mountains, Every beam is a dream, 'Syd', of you. iff 2:2 :f: Iimmie O'C. 'festeIle going strong! 131 if wk 'I'hat self-same 'Alove-bug has hit Iohnny S. wk wk if Quoting Mr. Stottle: How are your t'Hocks today, Miss C.? I You know, shepherds have them!! Miss C.: Fine! I-low are your kittens ? QAp- paula - ing.j W J In Question: Why hang around the dorm ? Answer, a Ia Mac: Not for the heck of it. I assure you, but because I have the Uwrightn idea! ICI lk 122 Extra .... IThat Max Personality! For the past years Iimmy C. has been faithfully de- voted to the Maxwell, but . . . this year, he has be- come definitely attached to Maxine QEditor's Note: He made the TOWER LIGHTID I -R. I. G. QRight in the Croovej. 121 121 if iWhat would happen if - Miss Bersch ever got excited? Mrs. Stapleton were ever in a bad humor? Mr. VValther had his hands tied? Ruth Durner were at a loss for an apt expression? B. Cox ever hurried? Faraino lost Sennhenn for two minutes? Cox ever left the soccer held unharmed? Miss Cray had a moment to spare? That microphone were placed before Coach's lips at the games? Doc VVest lost his accent? Dr. Lynch left S. T. C. promptly at 3:05 P. M.? M. H. objected to having her skirts neatly pressed? Marie P. lost her poise? Miss Cook refused to be collegiate? Miss Blood had a lapse of memory? Miss Bader gave up her search for truth? Charles made a Hgrossl' error? The Amos, Barker, A'Foo, Lord, Pula quintet were impaired? -R. I. G. DECEMBER - 1939 , I i , I I , I I ' , I . 4 J . I YVhat would we do if - Betty Steuart forgot to smile? Iohnny S. refused to play soccer? Margie Owens lost control of hcr hockey-stick? Audrey M. were not available as fullback? Hart refused to vocalize? Dr. Crabtree lost track of the fashion page? Mr. Moser lost his sense of humor? Miss TribulI's fingers were not nimble? E. VV. were not congenial? Iett, Ir., laid down his pen? D. N. did not believe in composing music? Stanley S. lost his sense of rhythm? -R. I. C. fRight in the Croovel. Towson State Teachers College The Room Under the North Chimney of Newell Hall December IO. 1939 Dear Santa: If we aren't 'fsnowed in before December 25, I cer- tainly wish you'd come around. I'm not procrastinating about this letter, so maybe you could come before the snow falls. I've been so good! I've gone to all the compulsory as- sembliesg I haven't been notified that I am failing my mathg I paid both of the Library fines. even that tre- mendous faculty reserve fineg my term paper was in on time, and I wrote home to my parents once last month. If you can find any unique stationery that is self-ad dressing and directed home at intervals. please send me some. In addition, I should like to have some library books that return themselves on the date due. Do you think that you could find some comfortable seats for our auditorium? It would be rather pleasant to listen to our speakers if the seats were cushioned. I should like to have a radio and an easy chair in my room. Really. if I had the two latter conveniences. I would read suggested and supplementary history references instead of falling asleep on my bed. And dear Santa. if you can't bring me anything else, please bring me a charm that will make me immune to childhood diseases during student teaching. After December 22, I shall be at homcg you remember where you used to bring me dolls when I didn't suck my thumb. It's asking for a miracle I know, but anything you can do will be appreciated. Cratefully yours. A Iuxion. ANNE ARUNDEL ALUMNI UNIT MEETING ONLY T XYICE a year does the Anne Arundel Coun- ty Alumni unit of thc Maryland State Teachers College at Towson get together. but always the meetings are en- thusiastically attended. Through the generosity of sev- eral of our group we are spared the cold reception of a school room or auditorium. and enjoy the Ereside of some lovely house. This fall we were invited to meet in the friendly home of Mrs. Ruth Parker Eason in Glen Burnie. About fifty gathered to hear Dr, Reuben Steinmeyer of the University of Maryland speak on the present European situation, as well as to hear news from our college Pres- ident. Dr. XYiedefeld. who gave us some very pertinent facts about our alma mater, which graduates, in their ab- sence from the college. are prone to forget. Miss Scarborough always delights us with interesting sidelights about her work in promoting the alumni groups. After the meeting we enjoyed delicious refreshments and friendly chats with each other. HAMMOND C.iYrwELL, President. INSPIRATIONMDR. WIEDEFELD RI. A. REED ACCORDING TO an address delivered by Dr. XViede- feld in a recent assembly. There is a certain artistry in shaking hands. One realizes this observation to be all too true when thinking of such unique handshakes as: :ll The pump shake. which involves vigorous up- and-down movement, originating in the elbow. 123 The sleep-'n-eat shake. which is readily recog- nizable because of the absence of any voluntary motion whatsoever. Since Mr. Defenders ami and hand are often completely relaxed at his side. it is necessary for Mr. Attacker to lift them to a level adequate for shak- ing hands. 4313 The trombone shake. in which Mr. Attacker slides his hand up to Mr. Defenders elbow. thereby preventing any response from Mr. Defender. Hb Dead-fish shake. l Sl The Ioe Louis shake. characterized by the frac- ture of at least two metacarpi. 163 The pay-check shake. in which Mr. Defender's hand slips through Mr. Attacker's fingers. lf! The Zazu Pitts shake, easily identified by a Happing hand. dangling from the wrist. These various types of greetings sometimes are given interest and originality if simultaneously accompanied bv: Z8 gli Smiles ranging from a spasinodic twitching of the lips to the exposure of innumerable incisors, and many molars. Q21 Vocal expressions of happiness, whose scale rises from a titter to a guffaw. 13p Looks, which vary from coquettish glances to goggling stares. XVere it not for the peculiar tactics employed by each personality. the correct form for shaking hands would not be appreciated. APOLOGIES, MR. POE lXI.iRG.iRET CARTER Once upon a Thursday dreary While I pondered weak and weary Over many stupid titles I had often seen beforeg XVhile I searched for books of hist'ry, Seeking to explain the mystlry Of the lives of feudal folk of yoreg XVhile I paged through Brown and Breasted, Thumbs worn out and patience tested, Suddenly I fell to thinking Thoughts I'd never thought before: History is vain and useless Planned especially to bore - 'XVhich it does and nothing more. Ah, distinctly I recall me How this great thought did befall me. And I sat and dreamed about it - Dreams I'd never dreamed before. I should write a book about it. I should dare a man to doubt itg I'd abolish tales of yore. Plans leaped high, a spark was kindled - But I gazed on Krey - and dwindled. Dwindled all that event before. I must face a recitation. I must make a revelation Of the feudal folk of yore. So I fell to reading hist'ry, Reasons for my act a myst'ry. So I've dreamed. and nothing more. COMPLIMENTS OF A FRIEND TOWER LIGHT I i AUTUMN PARADISE fContinued from Page ISD base of the Blue Ridge, the trees on the nearby mountains appeared subdued in color. The autumn brown seemed too prominent. This supremacy was not theirs to enjoy for long, however. Each mountain side soon became a mass of color. The red of the suinacs and the yellow of the maples made the new coats of the evcrgreens more outstanding. Each ray of the sun had but one apparent purpose - to make each tree, each hill more appealing. VV e would approach a curve with bated breath only to have that breath com- pletely taken away by the immediate view. Valleys beau- tifully diversified with autumnal signs - buff-colored fields dotted with haystacks which appeared only as reg- ularly spaced black dots, emerald green fields, tiny white and red houses, a light blue stream, the Shenan- doah River, surrounding one clump of color as if to preserve it, dividing another - all provided a continu- . ous picture. Nothing was blnrredg every detail was strik- ingly distinct and, although so tiny, stood out boldly as if to challenge one to forget it. Opposing all this stood hills thick with trees blazing with color - every leaf blending with another to make one unbroken, burn- ished flame. XV hen we reached the hilltop we remained there until the sun was lost, the glamour gone. The brown leaves on the ground had left their trees old and gaunt and bare. It was as if all day the sun had tried to camou- ,Hage the dying of summer. Now we. looking behind the scenes, had become aware of her purpose. Yet. the sun had not iinished for the day. The trees on the surround- ing mountains still reflected its light - not as brilliantly as before, but just as beautifully in their calm way. One ymountain would throw its shade half-way up another. lThe shadow would be topped by a band of new nuances iof reds, yellows. greens, and browns which in turn were foutlined by the light blue hazy mountain summits. The lsun, now an immense deep red ball, threw mountain lshadows on the valleys, slowly becoming indistinct. Sud- 'denly the sun was gone, leaving the sky bordered with :the delightful pastels only it can produce. 1 4. i t fy Tender-hearted people were shocked by the brutal 'Qefliciency of the Yankee Blitzkrieg The Reds were ylucky not to come out third-like the Poles. -The New Yorker yy Young husband: I wish I could get some bread like 'fmother used to bake for me. XVife: I wish I could get some clothes like father lbuscd to buy for me. i,lDECEMBER - 1939 4 HARRY C. LANGGOOD 402 YORK Ro.-xo. Nicxr 'io CIII'lS.'xI9Il.XKIf Ayii. 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LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Discifiminating Tastes Prefer Esslqoy Quality' MEAT PRODUCTS 30 THE ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL LContinned from Page 2Oj Orchestra, and in the All- Maryland High School Orchestra. besides sharing in public and private rccitals and broadcasts. Sydney Baker also early played make-believe violins so persistently and so cltectively that he has been al- lowed to carry on serious study for nearly hfteen years.i During these years, Eye different teachers have been his instructors, the last being Mr. C. Van Hulsteyn, under? whose tutelage Sydney won in a competitive scholar-E ship examination. Like Eugene XVebster, this young man has played innumerable times as a soloist, sharing in public and private recitals and broadcasts. He has had, too, a unique experience with the social service of the' Norwegian Government. ln addition, he has sampledi the drudgery of playing in night clubs as a professional until the early hours of the morning. Bliss Prickett says that the State Teachers College Or- chestra is particularly fortunate to have two students with such wide experience to carry the important jobs of concert-master and assistant concert-master. The stu- dent body will hear duets played by these two musicians in the near future. HALLOWMAS WISH N. TRorr l'd like to have a little broom To sweep the pavements clean. l'd brush the gay confetti up That's left from Halloween l'd tidy up our tiny town From Vlfaverly to Spree, My broom would be as busy As it possibly could be. At every little house I'd stop And knock at every door. l'd wait till Andrews aunt looked out - Shed know what I carrie for. l She'd smile lthc lady wouldl. hly broom T Wfith bristles new and bright, Wfould dance a little jig and leave That walls all clean and white. 'F And when the shining sun went down And we were through at last. Broom and I would say goodbye - Goodbye to Hallowmas. TOWER LIGH',' 'Sports - - - soccsn tCo11tinued from Page ZZJ That which makes the short l ground pass highly ctfcctive and efficient is the position lplay of the team in possession of tl1c ball. The ball is inot just passed into space. but to an A'open man in a iposition to receive the ball. XV hen the ball is passed, fthe passer does not try to kick it for distance nor for ipower. His chicf concern is to pass it into the open un- iguarded space whcrc an anxious team-mate is waiting. The ball is kicked by the instep or the side of the foot, lthese two ways being the most accurate means of pass- jing the ball, The ability to use effectively the side of tithe foot and the instep involves much practice and ex- jpert timing. Almost every beginner has the tendency to jj kick with the toe and, at first, he executes this tendency j- but not for long. Toe-kicking is only successfully em- i ployed when kicking for distance. This is not the object irin intelligent soccer playing. ii Europeans use a rather harsh method of discouraging ihtoe-kicking. Youngsters are forced to play barefootedg ynatiirally, they begin to use the side of the foot or the Sjjinstep in preference to the toe. lf the young soccerite jbegins his career by using the side of his foot or his in- ljstep, he develops a skillful use of that particular part. 11 Accuracy in goal-kicking is practiced in a clever way. 15A cord net is placed in front of the goal uprights. The inet has a hole in each corner and several others near the j3enter. This may seem ridiculous to some people who lare not acquainted with soccer, but it is quite a prac- jtical method of developing deadly accuracy. If a player jacquires the skill of kicking the ball through the holes jjiluring practice, he will undoubtedly be superior in a jregular game when there is only a goal-keeper blocking jhis chance of scoring. HHeading'l is another important part of the game. For hccuracy in heading the ball, soccerites gain efliciency jay juggling a soccer ball on their foreheads and con- ljctantly balancing the ball at different angles by means ipf the head. Contact, a very bad feature and a major cause of tl1c i-ilecline in soccer participation in the United States, is jilinost mythical in European soccer. Few players in Eu- jope are ejected from a game because of their having pomniitted a serious or even a minor foul. lf such an oc- l:asion arises, not only do the opposing players voice con- jernpt of thc culprit, but his fellow team-mates as well. l The aim of each team is to outsmart, not to outrough, julie opponent. This is the selling point of the soccer games in Europe. Soccer there holds tl1e same position ln the esteem of sport lovers as does baseball here in America. HljDECEMBER - 1939 l A Deposit of 51.00 Opens tl Checking .'1Cl'01lIIf in the CHECKMASTER P11111 al Ghz Ulintnsun aaattunal Zfiiank TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is tive cents for cach thcck drawn and each deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 1VIason's Service Station Betlaoline - Riclajfeld Gasoline Official AAA Station 2-I-Hour Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 Civic Clubs, Churches, Fraternal Organizations. and All Social C-athcrings XVill Proht by thc Sifisemr. 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Each chap that I see Is a talkative ladg His shoes aren't shined, Or his grammar is bad. Or he uses bad words, Or he drinks too much beer. Sister. you take the lads. And I 'll take a career. The story is told of a well-known man who, not lind- ing his wife, went into the kitchen. where the laundress was busy with the family linen. and inquired: Bridget, do you know anything of my wifes where- abouts? Yes, sarf' replied Bridget, I put them in thc washf, A school teacher sought to reproye a boy who had failed to solye an example. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. said the teacher, XVhcn George XYashington was your age he was a suryeyor. XYell. came the quick response. when he was your age he was the President of the United States. 32 CALVERT C670 - C671 WM. BECK 8: SON MZOZQSCZIG 3-FllifS ZIIIIZ AIQgE!C16!eS 416 W. LEXINGTON ST., BALTIMORE XVife: 'Alf the worst comes to the worst. I could keep the wolf from the door by singing. 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East, South, West. you'll hear the same story: One true yardstick of cigarette pleasure is slou' burning! Kenneth E. lNickD Knight Ibelozu, left! confirms the experience of millions of smokers when he says: One of the first things I noticed about Camels was their slow burning. I figure that's why Camels smoke so much cooler, milder and taste so much, better. Camels last longer, too. Howard Q -ff ' 'QA .THQ T 'E 34 14-fu is A 0' Q5 3 Q KA. McCrorey agrees on Came1's slow burning, and adds: To me that means extra pleasure and extra smoking per pack. Yes, the costlier lobacros in Camels are slower-burning! And of course the extra smoking in Camels free right! is -just that much more smoking pleasure at its best- Camellv costlier tobaccos! Enjoy extra pleasure and extra value in America's No. I cigarette...Camels! A - ' -in M -. I - - 3 - ' lr -- ., MQ- ? lv 1 -Q. ., i . , 4 SL I , Whatex'er price you pay per pack, it's important to remem- ber this fact: By burning 25'2 :lower than the average of the I5 other of the largest-selling brands tested-slower than any of them-CAMELS give a smok- ing plux equal to EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! Q gl Me, : it w - . . I ,LEW 5 37' WL ' N4-N x 5 4 , -'3 1' -Q ei 5 mRxLgaLt,Ei:g-lnrrrig ' ' cieagu--,U 1 ,,,AW Y V Cigarettes were compared re' cently...sixteen of the largest- sellingbrandsmunderthe search- ing tests of impartial laboratory scientists. Findings were an- nounced as follows: 1 CAMELS were found to contain MORE TOBACCO BY XVEIGHT than the average for the 15 other of the largest- selling brands. 2 CAMELSBURNEDSLOIV- ER THAN ANY OTHER BRAND TESTED-257 SLOW- ER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER OF THE LARGEST-SELLING BRANDS! By burning 25'7 slower. on the average, Camels give smokers the equivalent ofi EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! 3 In the same tests, CAMELS HELD THEIR ASH FAR LONGER than the average time for all the other brands. MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF. . . MORE PUFES PER PACK! PENNY FOR PENNY YOUR BEST CIGARETTE BUY '.il.tiwlvl, 154119, R .l. Rt-wnvilwls Ttmnfnl I'-vnitfn I 'N 35 FN y t wg HWIEN p-.,,,.4Vh'.- I THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. 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SO XVIIAT? .... If Mary Di Peppi Nancy Metzger Editorial Calvin Parker Catherine C-ray Saniucl Hoftnian Iaincs jctt ALICE MUNN - - Alanaging Editor QUO'I'A'I'1ONS ZS TTUIXIOR . . I9 1ADV1iR'I'ISElXIlZN'I'S 30 PI-IOTOCRAPIIS . l,cc N It-Carri.u' THE TGVVER LIGHT is published nionthly H Octohcr through Iune - by thc Students of the State 'lcachcrs College at Towson, Maryland ..... S150 PER YEAR . IO CTPNTS P1111 Com' M fha LIAELLWZ- - A LABORATORY LYNN D. PooLE W'altcrs Art Gallery EVERY SCIENCE teacher has in his mind the perfect laboratory in which to teach. That laboratory he would use to bring to life. by illustration and experi- ment. the cold facts expounded by the textbook. He would use it to stimulate a lasting interest in those who just can't understand this stuff. His colleagues who teach academic subjects fall into two classes. There is the group which thank their lucky stars they need no laboratory and let it go at that. Then there is the con- stantly growing minority who realize they do need a laboratory and have one at their service. The reference is to those who recognize the advantages offered by mu- seums and use them. The museum is a working laboratory. a place where one gives one's students visual and tactile proof of facts extracted from textbooks. lt is the laboratory to be used by the history teacher to bring life to the pages of history. The museum is the test tube in which he mixes the various historical elements. fires it with his enthusiasm to establish a direct contact with the polit- ical. social. economic, religious. and artistic background of every historical epoch. The English teacher has a great beaker into which he can pour the illustrations of novels. essays. and plays. Languages are there in abun- dance to illustrate his verbal story of the evolution of writing. Practical application is of vital importance in a labor- atory. The attempt to translate, from monuments. the Latin inscriptions is a practical application of the hard- learned bonus-a-ums. Many laboratories have grown fa- mous through research. many teachers of costume and drama have enhanced their teaching abilities by mu- seum research. These have made students feel that the school stage productions are their own by having them do the research for decor. props. make-up and costume. Before the illustrations of the museum as a laboratory grow tedious let me mention its worth to the art teacher. lt is here that he introduces his students to productions that are the results of centuries of serious artistic experi- mentation. There the aspiring young artist contacts the great. and sees the good and bad use of the elements which go to make up the science of things artistic. The science teacher knows that laboratory work ac- celerates the classroom work. because exciting discovery 2 and proof are the foundations of learning. Likewise, teachers in every department say that the use of the mu- seum has a stimulating reaction when the class returns to its school. Through this medium one of the teachers' problems is solved-that of how to arouse and hold in- terest in a subject. They also have the satisfaction of do- ing more than is expected of them and having broad- ened the horizon of pleasure for their students. XVhat of the adult? Must he return to school to work in the museum-laboratory? No. The best of modern ed- ucators say that formal education is merely the skeleton for life-long learning. The museum scientifically ar- ranges its exhibitions with the spectator in mind. Iti further fosters the science of learning and appreciation for adults through many carefully arranged courses, lec- tures and gallery tours. No longer is the museum a mys- tic shrine for the long-haired aestheticg instead. it is a H living institution for the education and pleasure of all, administered by a staff trained in museum science andi well grounded in the social sciences that are the bulwark T of all modern institutions. A '1 ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO KD . onmf l alomar Q PAUL S. XVATSON j Curator of Astronomy. hlaryland Academy of Sciences' TH I S PAST summer it was my good fortune to visiti U a number of the great XVestern astronomical observa-- tories. including the Mount Wilson Observatory and Mount Palomar. where the giant 200-inch telescope will go when completed. My travelling companion was Mrf Arthur Moore. mineralogist at the Maryland Academy of Sciences. So. besides visiting the observatories, we stopped at a number of mineral localities and obtainedf some fine mineral specimens for the Academys collecv tion. V The observatories wc saw were: the Yerkes Observa i tory of the University of Chicago. located at Lake Geny eva. XVisconsin: Lick Observatory. near San lose. Caliy forniag Mount YYilson Obseiyatory. Mount Palomar and the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Arizona. T Our visits to Mount XYilson and Mount Paloma I were perhaps the most interesting part of the wholly trip. The Mount Milson Observatory. the astronomica center of the universe. is perched 6.000 feet up on th- ,, TOWER LIGH5. mountain top outside of Pasadena, California. In our hurried trip we did not see nearly as much as we would have liked to, but we did see the great 100-inch Hooker telescope, at present the largest in the worldg looked through the famous 60-inch telescope: saw the two tower telescopes for observing the sun. one of which is .75 feet high and the other lS0 feet high, and saw also the peculiar Snow Telescope which looks like a Noah's ,Ark stranded on the mountain top fthe odd shape of Qthe building is to prevent the heating of the interior jduring the daytimej. L Later we visited the California Institute of Teclmol- fogy in Pasadena, where the giant 200-inch mirror is fbeing ground. This is housed in a large air-conditioned jbuilding, especially built for the purpose. VVe were ad- grmitted to the gallery to watch operations on the floor jbelow. VVe observed through a thick plate glass parti- jtion, something like the visitors' gallery in a radio broad- ieasting station. The purpose of this is to keep out as jmuch dust as possible. An optical shop must be kept Every clean so that dust and dirt will not cause unneces- lsary scratches on the surface of the mirrors. Everything lavas spotlessly clean and all the technicians wore white gtizoats and pants. At the far end of the hall lay the 200- l A- nch disk. truly a mammoth affair. A small polishing tool :ay on top of it going slowly round and round. Nuiner- :Jus other disks smaller than the 200-inch one were be- 'jng ground on other machines. These will be used as .econdary mirrors to the 200-inch. Opposite to the 200- nch and right below us were various testing devices and .imong them the ordinary Foucault knife-edge test. 'Q A telescope mirror must Hrst be made sphericalg that ls, its surface is the depressed section of a sphere. Later ft must be parabolized. This is done by depressing the .jenter by a very small amount. That is the tedious part Tvf the job and requires great skill and patience. The A 500-inch has just about reached the spherical stage. ll About four o'clock that afternoon we left for Mount jhalomar, about eighty miles away. VV e stopped at Hotel r?'alomar in a town called Temecula. This town is not ijar from Mount Palomar. Before retiring, we took a jllance at the sky. The beautifully clear sky was simply ljlled with stars and the Milky VVay sparkled with a ijjrilliance never seen here in the murky East. ff NVe left early for Mount Palomar which could now. in the morning light, be seen a good way off in the dis- juice, just a purple blur on the horizon, XV e got direc- ons and were assured it was only about 30 miles to ' ie top. but after we were there the speedometer on the r jir showed we had traveled SS miles. It seems that r nuntry people never do have any idea of distance. : The country around Palomar proved to be very hot. lry, barren and rough. No trees were visible. just sage Eg il-SNUARY - 1940 brush. ln fact, when a site was being hunted for the present Mount XVilson Observatory, Mount Palomar was rejected on the grounds of the rcmotencss and in- accessibility of the region. Moreover. we were told the place was long a hide-out for stage-coach and train rob- bers and bandits. Further, it was reputed to have been a great rattlesnake area. XVhcther or not all these reports were true we had no way of knowing. XVe finally found the road to the top - steep. wide, unpaved and so of course very bumpy. As we ascended the air became cooler and trees, especially pine, made their appearance. As the road twisted up and up, the car began to get balky and the engine showed signs of getting hot. XVe had to stop to allow the engine to cool. VVhile the higher parts of the mountain were cov- ered with pine forests, the vegetation did not seem nearly as luxuriant as on Mount XVilson. Even at the top we found considerable bare areas covered only by grass and shrubs. A long way off we could see the brilliant aluininum-painted dome which will house the 200-inch telescope when completed, but it was a long time be- fore we came up to it. VVe thought the dome of the 100- inch on Mount Wilson large, but this was really colos- sal. As we came up, we saw that the shutter was open and through it we gliinpsed part of the telescope mount- ing. The building is all finished and the mounting nearly so, except for the mirror at the base of the tube and the cage which will hold the various secondary mirrors. lo- cated near the top. The two great drum-like supports for the tube in which staircases wind and the great horse- shoe, as high as a four-story building. were really impres- sive. The open cage-work tube was upright and on one side of it was scaffolding. At the lower end of the tube, where the 200-inch mirror will go when completed. someone, probably a workman. had written, Here is where the giant lens goes. The word 'flens was scratched out and above it was written Ueyef' And then the word eye was crossed out and above it was written in large handwriting the word A'MlRROR. Among as- tronomers, you know. to call a lens a mirror. or vice versa, is a sin of the first order. Mr. Moore said. XVell. l'ni glad they finally found out what really is to go there. After spending considerable time in examining the mounting and the dome and taking pictures wc visited the dome of the new Schmidt Camera. under construe- tion. This is a new type of telescopic camera. After talking for a while with some of the gittciidmits. we looked at our watches and found that thc time war getting short. So we got into the car once more .inf were off, rattling and bumping down the Illl?'.'l'i.i road. ature Keeps Her Records Evizux A. FIEDLER SO-ME CALL it sheer madness to occasionallv inter- rupt a leisurelv drive along the highwavs to go tap. tap. tap on the geological formations with a hammer and chisel. Others become annoved at having to take special precautions in walking through a living room in which the hundred pounds of rock specimens collected on a vacation trip are displaved on the floor. Still others will stare at people who stop at Hlling stations or countrv stores to ask. Can you tell me where to find some mag- netite around here - vou know. black rocks that are natural magnets. The mineral text books sav thev're found in this eountvf' Despite the public headshakings and frowns about these procedures in the hobbv of rock and mineral col- lecting. the collectors aflirm that if vou haven't thought seriouslv about gathering bits. of Mother Nature's frame. vou don't know what vou're missing. Have von ever seen the sparkle of a pure quartz crvsf tal. miraculouslv formed in a perfect hexagon? The greenish velvet surface of malachite in contrast to deep rose quartz? Dull red garnets in a mica schist setting the appearance of flakv silver? A golden crust of iron pvrites? If vou have thought of rocks and minerals as dull. dirtv things. bv all means give vourself the thrill of a visit to a good mineral exhibit. such as the one at the National Museum in XVashington. D. C. Anv rock lover will challenge the scofter to view such a displav without catching his breath in amazement at their beautv. Their appeal to one's artistic taste mav provide an incentive for collecting them. Have von ever discovered remains of shells and sea- lilies imbedded in solid limestone high on a mountain top? Have vou heard vour footsteps ringing on hard. black. porous rock that was once lierv flowing lava? ln an ordinarv pebble from an Ohio Held have von seen lavers distorted bv tremendous pressure ages before that pebble was worn to its present shape and deposited in that Held bv a glacier? lf von have, then vours has been the diseoverv of that in which Nature keeps her rec- ords. The slate of a blackboard to the geologist is more than slate: it is shale in its previous existence. and long before that it is loam. Babvlonian clav tablets and Creek potterv are museum pieces chiellv because of their antiquitv - vet in an afternoons walk vou mav gather a pocketful of rocks that were old before there were nations. XYhat are rocks to me? I walk on cement and pave- 4 , ments all clav. Yet, in walking along the pavements, have vou seen green store fronts of polished serpentine? Have vou walked up granite steps to enter halls of pink, . black. white. or vellow marble? Perhaps vou live in a house of rock exterior. Have vou noticed the brown 1 stains that generallv indicate the presence of iron. or! observed the tinv glistening particles of mica in those . walls? Have von seen that the flagstones of vour walk are ' composed of lavers. indicating that thev are of sediment- 1 arv origin? Even the citv is more meaningful to one who 1 studies the rocks. Suppose. however. that vou're simplv not aroused by the scientilic or aesthetic approaches to rock and min- eral collecting and studv. Do von like historical things?j Again rocks can enrich vour interest. Is there not some 1 significance in a grav-green granite pebble that nestledi next to Plvmouth Rockg in a piece of the purplish sand- il stone of which XYashington's Vallev Forge headquarters 5 are builtg in a bit of black slate from the Heights of, Abraham. scaled bv the British to take old Quebec? Or are vou a geographv enthusiast? In that case. isn't geographv made more tangible bv samples of Coconino sandstone and Kaibab limestone from the Grand Can-i von. fragments of the rock-bound coast of Maine. stalac-3 l tites from Carlsbad Caverns. limestone from the Nat-5 ural Bridge of Virginia. sulphur from Texas? . lf vou have no Specialized interest. wouldnt vou stop? for a minute to look at - and wish vou had - a pieceg of the oldest part of the National Capitol? a bit of amber from the Baltic Sea region. chalk from the Cliffsi of Dover. or granite from Blount Sinai? T Rock collectors will tell vou of the lasting friendships thev have made through their hobbv - friendships be-Q gun perhaps in 'Arock-swapping or in mutual admira-, tion of collections. lf the collectors are teachers. they mav tell vou how their collections have enriched their teaching. lf the collectors have taken their hobbv serir ouslv. thev will tell vou that the more thev learn about rocks. the more thev End there is to learn: the more specimens thev have. the more thev want: the more time thev spend on the hobbv. the more fascinating in becomes. f' How do l know? l'm a rock collector. XYon't vou joirr: ni e? X l 1 1:Obtaincd. not bv vandalism. but bv permission. at the tim!!! an air-conditioning svstcm was installed in the Capitol. ll' TOWER LIGH'l5i 'A v Science As e Live It COR, SO YOU DON'T SEE THE USE OF SCIENCE! C:IIARLO'I I'E SCIIXVARTZBIAN HO - - HUIXIM - - - I guess it's morning because Ilm awake. No, it's still dark . . . those rattling pipes! It's nice to have automatic heat Qelectricity does it, my dearsl, but that delightful water pressure in the pipes causes most uinnusical vibrations upon these sensitive ears. Ooohh, it's far too . , . early . . to .... Ohh!!! The alarm clock! God bless electricity! QOh. yeah?l They say we have science to thank for the innurner- able conveniences of modern American life. Guess I should commend the wonders of science instead of dis- paraging them. Glad the day has come when we can serenely swallow our toothpaste tif so inclined! and drink the water di- rectly from the faucet Qvia glass. of course, but minus boilingj without any fear of catching anything. Hastily I whisk my toothbrush over my teeth. Aha! science again - action of a lever .... My clothes - all on the desk chair - all . . . except those pink anklets. 'XVhere ARE. they? Sorry, little sis- ter - asleep or not, the electric light goes ON. Yes, under the desk are those socks. Must have rolled off that top-heavy pile of feminine apparel . . . laws of grav- itv .... Tummy, ye uncoutli bit of personal anatomy, stop growling! I know it's time for my breakfast . . . my nose informs me of that as well as you. The pcrcolator bubbles away while I use the electric orange rcamcr. Ummm . . . up pops the toast in the electric toast- master. The scrambled eggs sizzle teinptingly on the gas range. How glorious is a hot breakfast on a frosty morn. Tempus fugit . . . so must I scurry to college. College . . . a long. long walk, had I to make it by foot. Fortunately, the electric trolleys and buses relieve me of that ---- . Come on. Towson S! The whirl- ing hands of my watch inform me of the Heeting mo- ments. Here comes the Number S. Up York Road . . . up the hill we speed - those eternal laws of gravity de- creasing our speed. And so I streak down the corridor toward Dr. YVest's geology lab. Even here I have my science, actually as well as theoretically - for my trusty fountain-pen is re- liant upon a scientific theory of vacuums. Oh, stuff! Wfhether I appreciate it or not. I may as well resign myself to the fact - that science controls every phase of our daily lives. QUESTICNNAIRE CHARLES GROSS and KATHERINE FRASER DO YOU KNOXV: I. The differences between a thermometer, a hydrom- eter, and a hygrometer? 2. VVhether or not the Indian population in this country is increasing or decreasing? 3. Where and when to look for the planet Mercury at the present time? 4. Any rivers in the world which flow uphill? XVhich ones? 5. VVhich of our months is known as the month of ineteorsn? 6. How fast an object would have to travel to escape from the earth's pull of gravity? . How quickly the 200-inch telescope was cooled? 8. The ratio of the birthrates of mice and men? 9. Where in the world a wound which requires stitch- ing will heal faster than a wound which does not require stitching? 7 5JANUARY - 1940 IO. If men's or women's bodies produce more heat? ll. In what part of the world frozen ish regain life after they have been eaten? IZ. YVhen tires lose air faster. in the summer or in the winter? I3. VVhieh are the only two countries in the world which produce maple sugar and maple syrup? I-I. How warm-blooded animals have been made to hibernate? IS. XVhat disease of human beings is a common cause of death among wild animals? 16. XVhat color a topaz is? I7. YVhich contains more calories. a cantaloupe or an orange? IS. XVhat is the greatest length of time a child can stand still without fatigue? f,'flF,fl!'f'I',i' on PM-gr' If! 5 A PREFACE TO OBSERVING XYITH SUCH a title one would ordinarily expect a lengthy exposition concerning the wide possibilities, the frequent limitations and the real thrill in astronomi- cal observation. There might also be found some men- tion of the proper attitude necessary for good results. I-lowever, the nature of this article is not quite so gen- eral nor comprehensive, yet no one can doubt that the subject treated is an absolute essential. Certainly he who has telescopic eyesight is indeed an oddity. But of what value is any extensive stargazing without some means of bringing far-distant objects into close range? Of course. one may easily distinguish the various constellations visible from this point, but will he be satished in merely knowing that here and there he is seeing what seems to be one star but is, in fact, really two? ls he to be satisfied with a description of the Milky XV ay as a great mass of stars and other heavenly bodies. having never really distinguished them as such? Any clear night will reveal the stately planets marching across the sky in the ecliptic. but with the naked eye who is to actually know that around Saturn there exists definite rings of gaseous material. distinctly separated from the planet. yet remaining in a circle about it? How can we be sure that there are moons revolving around the planet jupiter in an orderly fashion? YVhere is he who was satisfied this past summer to take some pho- tographers picture as full proof of the appearance of Mars. and who is ever content with some text book de- scription of the Moon? Fortunately, we are an inquisitive lot and have exert- ed ourselves no end in attempting to feed this inquiring attitude. The scientific endeavor of the past generations devised that instrument which we know as the telescope. XV ith this ingenious device man no longer is concerned with such questions as those in the above paragraph. Upon first examining a telescope it appears as some highly expensive, machine made. optical brain child. Most of them are rather precise in their construction and are really a marvel of the mind of man. But they need not be expensive, nor need they be turned out in some machine shop. ln a recent telescope-making class in the city there were a Government agent. a machinist. an engraver. a teacher. a bartender. a dentist, and a jun- ior high school boy. All started out knowing practically nothing about the process involved but were assured that their results would be in some measure satisfactory. None have yet been disappointed. The reflecting type. using a mirror to bend the light to a point, and which has been found to be most effective. was the exclusive type produced. 6 The Heavenly Bodies CHARLES Gnoss Before starting such a project it is understood that the only requirements are a strong will, a great deal of pa- tience, untiring effort and a small amount of ready cash now and then for necessities. llncidentally, a reflecting telescope can be built for less than thirty dollars.j Every good instrument is comprised of an illuminized concave mirror, a perfect triangular prism, a finder. a perfect eye- piece. a tube eneasing these. a mounting to hold this up and possibly a slow-motion gear for convenience. In beginning. two circular disks of pyrex are obtained from some optical company. plus a supply of grinding compound, usually carborundum. One disk is held sta- tionary on top of a stool anchored in the fioor. The re- maining disk is to be the future mirror and is rubbed back and forth 1 with a good supply of carborundum and water betweenj across the top of the stationary one. As one proceeds he moves around the stool, never grinding in any one place too long. This task is continued until the middle has been ground out of the top disk and it begins to assume the shape of one small sector of a great sphere. This has been the purpose. since such a shape will cause parallel rays of light to converge when re- fiected. Possibly the laws of refraction and reflection have heretofore been taken for granted, but if they did not function we would be without telescopes. After the proper curve has been established the next step is to smooth this curved surface by polishing it with jewelers rouge since it is still very rough, when observed under a magnifying glass. ln this stage one no longer works on the other piece of pyrex, but pours a hot pitch covering over this and as it cools forces it to conform to the exact curve of the mirror that has been hollowed out. fl say hollowed out. but actually upon even close observation one can hardly see a curve at all since it is so very slightfi Following hours and hours of polishing, the mirror is put through a number of light tests. These are administered for the purpose of deter- mining the exact point at which to stop polishing. After all distortions have been removed from the extremely smooth surface a very slight hollowing effect is produced in the very center by means of further polishing of this section exclusively. This step is the parabolizing. and is absolutely necessary, since light refiected from a per- fectly spherical surface will not converge at a single point, This is an especially trying period as one is near- ing completion and often requires many trials before perfection is reached. A few millionths of an inch too deep or too shallow calls for another period of polishing. TOWER LIGHT ln some cases hand-made mirrors have been com- pletely ground and polished in a day, whereas others have required ovcr a hundred hours. XV hen the proper curve has been reached and the surface made free of all irregularities the mirror is sent to some reputable optical company to be illuminized. In this process the mirror is cleaned of all foreign matter and placed under a high vacuum, together with a bar of aluminum, which com- pletes a circuit between two wires led into the vacuum chamber. XV ith the current turned on the aluminum i boils away and is deposited in an even, tissue-thin layer on the surface of the mirror. This is the reflecting sur- face by which the scattered light is bent to a point where the human eye is able to receive it. The glass is now ready to be placed in the end of a tube of its own diameter. C A six-inch mirror usually re- quires about a four-foot tube.l At the other end of the tube is placed a triangular prism which bends the light out to one side, thus keeping the observer out of his own -light. The light has been bent to focus directly into an eyepiece mounted just outside the tube, VVhen in use the mirror is at the bottom of the tube catching the :light from some heavenly body and reflecting it back up the tube only to bc caught near the converging point by the small prism and turned at a right angle into the eyepiece, where thc observer looks. This whole tube lr balanced and revolves from a point on its side where it is attached to the mounting. The complete mounting is built in such a way as to permit movement across the skies to follow the apparent path of some star or planet and also to provide a change in latitude. In other words, from one stable position of the base the tube may be aimed at any point from the southern to the northern horizon as well as from any point in the East to any point in the XV est. Such are the essentials of any good reflecting telescope. They are certainly few and far between who. after their first opportunity to gaze through a telescope. would not run to take their place in line to get one more look at the rings around Saturn, to try to distinguish the features of the Moon, or to watch one of the moons of Iupiter come out of eclipse. There is a certain something about the incredible power of this instrument, although entirely reasonable, which can command your undivided attention for hours on end. You who have had your first experience with one know this is true. The Circumpolars LEE MCCARRIAR BACK IN the time of King Henry the Fourth, people ilsed the eircumpolar constellations for the purpose of telling time. This is shown by the conversation be- fween two wagoners in Shakespeare's play King Henry ITV. One wagon-driver says to the other: 'Heigh ho! an' it be not four by the day, I'll be kiangedg Charles' VVain is over the new chimney, and Jet our horse is not packed' JANUARY - 1940 'AThe meaning is clear at once when we learn that the term fCharles' WVain' is the English equivalent of the Big Dipper. The wagoner was thinking of a definite hour of the night when the Big Dipper was over the new chimney - four o'clock at the season of the year during which he was speakingfml But even though the art of telling time by the stars is no longer needed. due to our modern profusion of timepieces. still the study of the stars is an interesting one for amateurs and professionals alike. Of course, the Big Dipper is not the only eircnmpolar constellation. As you know, the two end stars of the dipper point toward the North Star. which in turn is the end star of the handle of Little Dipper. A straight line from the end stars of the Big Dipper through the North Star and extending an equal distance touches thc XV-shaped group of stars known as Cassiopeia. lf this last line is extended we locate the line which forms one side of the Creat Square of Pegasus. The other side of the square is formed by extending the line from the Big Dipper's pointers through the pole star. This also passes through the end star of Andromeda, which leads to the curving row of stars known as the constellation. Perseus. Enough of the constellations themselves. Let ns con Iohnson, Caylord: Discovering the Stars. sidcr the picture which accompanies the article. At a mere glance it appears to be nothing more than a mass of white lines arranged in some circular fashion. How- ever, it is a picture of the apparent rotation of the stars and of the true rotation of the earth. For example, if you see the Big Dipper almost overhead at eight o'clock, by two o'clock it will be on your left almost below the northern horizon. Of course, the stars are not really moving, their movement is only apparent. Taking the picture is an interesting experience, if you don't mind having your sleep interrupted some night when you are especially tired. On some bright, clear evening, about eight o'clock, set your camera in a dark place and put it on a tripod. XVhen the pole star is lo- cated in the finder, focus the camera for infinity for l0O feetj, open the iris diaphragm as far as it will go, set the shutter for a time exposure, and open it. After six hours, or at two o'clock, pull yourself out of bed and close the shutter and there you will have a picture sim- ilar to the one reproduced here. A picture taken of the southern skies will reveal a streak of lines across the film. These stars are in the equatorial region and thus appear to move in a straight line. This article has only touched the possibilities that can be reached in this field. I might add that a picture such as this one would be a valuable aid to any teacher who is teaching the circuinpolar constellations and the ap- parent motion of the stars. What Is Time? WHEN A fellow comes up to you and says f'I'm just killing timef' ask him what he means by the word: Time. Unless he is a genius, he cannot very easily answer that one. Perhaps the most practical and intelligent at- tack on that problem was set forth by H. G. VVells in his Time Machine. Mr. VVells thinks of time as an extended dimension comparable to length, width, and height. His best argument lies in the fact that any ob- ject cannot exist without lasting for a certain period of time. Thus, the great scientist has very neatly defined time as the fourth dimension. But here the layman must be careful, for time cannot exist by itself, for that matter, neither can length, width, or height. XVC can draw a straight line and call it one dimension, but ac- tually we have the thickness of the pencil-point, and the depth of the graphite-particles as well as length, all contained within the so-called line. And, if we accept Mr. VVells' hypothesis, the line certainly was made in measurements of time, probably seconds, and certainly will endure as long as the paper and itself are not de- stroyed. From all this, anyone can deduce that time is not mere space or mere duration. lt must contain events within that duration. Time nmst be a movement of events, successively progressing, or regressing, according to some unknown reason. just how time seems to flee with the speed of light when we are with our best girl 8 friend, or why the cursed dimension seems to stop and mark time', during a class period, we may never know. Yet, this idea, of time's being relative to the emotional state of mind, is very important. In fact, we are forced to confuse ourselves even further, by saying that time itself must progress or regress according to some regu- lator outside of itself. Else, how can we explain the speeding-up of minutes which we enjoy, and the slow- ing-down of minutes which we dislike. To make this problem even clearer, we may say that time does travel, things have happened in the past, and things will hap- pen in the future, and only at the present do we expe- rience things. These experiences which we have had, are having, and will have, are all measured by time's own dimension. But time itself, to have traveled over these events, must have some speedometer of its own. There- fore, the appalling spectre of a fifth dimension must be added. This newcomer is hailed by the teclmical term: Timeg, while our older friend is known as Timej. ' All of this eventually boils clown to the following scene: You, a fifth dimensional creature, are excited over' your new girl friend. As you move your length, widthf and height into the exquisite duration of a lengthy kiss' in the dimension of Time, your ecstatic, rapidly-fleeing moments are being measured and bounded by Time22 The question of time thus becomes fascinating. j TOWER LIGHT i u 4 M 1. 1 li if in l 1 L 1 ,v u 1 1 stars, Etc. FRANCES SHORES LISTE D UNDER the courses of instruction in our catalogue for 1939-40 is a very inconspicuous item which reads Science 202-Physical Science As Applied to the Elementary School. It sounds very harmless but that is as far as it goes - no farther. Suffice it to say that Shakespeare did not realize the real truth of his words of wisdom when he said, 'fVVhat's in a name? Science 202 is all that the catalogue says, but there is more to it. Time was when many of us thought about the stars in the poetical sense - Twinkle, twinkle, 'little star, if you remember. But, now the stars don't seem quite the same when you see them on a piece of polar coordi- nate paper in the form of little dots which are made with a magnitude stencil. However, there is always the consolation that all star gazing isn't done with polar eo- ordinate paper and that Science 202 makes the stars look like something more than heavenly hash. Then there was the meteor shower that found our alarm clocks primed for action. About every hour some of the braver souls rallied to the sound of the bell, opened one eye and staggered to the window to see what MRS. MERRICK OUR COLLE C-E is extremely fortunate in securing the services of a nurse who is so experienced and capa- ble as is Mrs. Paula M. Merrick. Born in Mt. VVashington, Maryland, and a graduate of Church Home and Infirmary in Baltimore, Mrs. Merrick began her globe-trotting career in 1918 by join- ing the United States Nurse Corps. From that time hence, here are some of the positions which she has filled and the locations at which she has been stationed: Chief Nurse at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Mary- land, same position at the United States Military Acad- emy at VVest Point, a member of the supervisory staff of the Navy Nurse Corps at San Diego, Californiag Hono- lulu, Hawaii, the Philippines, and an industrial nurse at the United States Government Printing Office, VVash- ington, D. C. Mrs. Merrick spent six weeks in China and Iapan, and returned home from her duty in the Philippines by way of the Suez Canal through Europe. VVhen asked as to how she felt about accepting the position at the college, our new nurse replied, UI feel as if l'm going to be very happy here. ln fact, it has always been something l've wanted to do - to be able to work with young people. To have as a member of our staff a person who has had such a wide and worthwhile experience as Mrs. Mer- rick has had is, indeed, an honor to our college. D JANUARY - 19N was going on. The after impressions were too yarier.l to be condensed to a single statement. The obvious result was a supplement to the usual yawns. Probably the high light of the course comes when the various projects are in a period of construction. lt is dur- ing this tiine that the male element over-indulges in ridieuling feminine tool handling. The Hnal output con- sists of things that are suggestive of genius and things that collapse with one hard look. Some of them could be used by children but some of them need an Einstein for interpretation. However, when all is said and done things are not as bad as they sound. lf, in future years, we find that the course has been a scedbed for some great scientist, wc shall change the wording in the catalogue to Science 202-training course for future scientists-Chances: one in a million. THE SCIENCE OF Living Things K. FEASER TO MANY people science is synonymous with lab- oratories, test tubes, and microscopes. To very few does that word bring to mind an all-day hike in the woods with time out for a picnic lunch and discussion of the findings of the various members of the group. lust such a group of amateur scientists may be found on any Natural History group hike. YVith practice. the group observes more keenly and often makes quite interesting discoveries. I The leaders, Dr. Dowell and an alumnus now con- nected with the Natural History Society, make available much information and help the members develop skill in identifying objects through the use of printed keys. Mr. Crook, one of our new members, has already proved an asset. Learning such terms as ealyx. stamen, and pistil is inhnitely more interesting when the terms are applied many times in the discussion and examina- tion of a plant than when one reads the definitions from books and studies diagrams. The relationships between various members of the plant kingdom are often surpris- ing discoveries to manyg for example. consider the many wild flowers which belong to the same family as the common pea. By recognizing some characteristic of this family, one often obtains a clue to the name of an cn- tirely new plant, and that, to the uninitiatcd. provides a rare thrill. There are some in our college who prefer a laboi'atory in the Patapsco Forest Reserve or in the Catoctin Mountains at Thurmont to one in a room in some build- ing. Laeking the formality of test tubes and microscopes. natural history is. nevertheless, a fascinating phase of science. 9 Blessed Assurance BIARY BRASHEARS TH E G I RL' S troubled slumber eventually gave way to a dull consciousness. XVhy had she wakened? Through the silence of the night she could hear the beat- ing rain that had lulled her to sleep just a few hours before. Then. as if to answer her question. a streak of lightning rent the sky and the thunder answered with a mighty shudder. Again and again the lightning Hashed. and again and again the thunder burst in deafening roars over the rain-drenched earth, This, then. was what had awakened her. This wildness had grown. like the imp released from the bottle, out of the soothing. benev- olent rain of the evening before. Footsteps sounded on the rough. wooden Hoor be- low, Evidently her father was making the cottage more secure. She heard the screen door open as he went out to tighten the awnings. Lucky I brought in the beach chairs and the hammock yesterday. she thought. A minute passed. and the door shut again. A'All will be well now. and with a sigh she turned to resume her disrupted sleep. But with renewed efforts the thunder demanded en- trance to her thoughts: the rain beat on the roof until it seemed to her to be actually pounding its way into the paths of her brain. XVould it never stop? She sat up in bed and looked out the little window which was framed by rough-hewn sills. All was smothering black- ness until the lightning made a jagged stroke across the sky. For a moment. she sat looking at the awful glory of the storm. Those weak mortals who call themselves sea- men - how helpless they would be in all this fury. The lightning flashed again, and this time it revealed the little boat which was moored at the wharf. It was tugging at its leash as if to say. The storm is calling me. I must go! I must! I must! XVith every splash and swish it repeated. I must go! I must! The girl shook off her imaginings and turned over so that the storm was at hcr back .... She awoke to find the rain still a drenching down- pour. The first gray streaks of dawn told her that some- where above the rain. thc sun was shining. But all she could see was a gray sky. an angry sea. and slanting lines of rain. A voice called her from below. Suddenly. she realized that everyone was astir but her. XVhy? And then in haste. she drew on the heavy beach pajamas which had seemed so hot only a short time before. but which made her shiver now as they mockingly refused to cover 10 her shoulders. She shoved her feet into the straw san- dals and hurried down the rough, steep steps to the cozier room below. Here the aroma of hot coffee greeted her, but her father and brother were wet to the skin. VVhat's all the trouble? she asked. Has the mighty Neptune got the better of us? She gave a short. half-hearted laugh, which died away when she saw no spark of mirth in the grave faces before her. Captains boat has broken its moorings and crashed against the wharf over on the other side of the cove, her father said. Come on and help Tom and me bring some of that stuff outside up to higher ground. The girl thrust her arms into a heavy. moth-eaten coat. and went through the door ahead of them. Outside. the rain bombarded them. By the time the girl had carried up a basket of crab-lines and a tin buck- et. she was drenched. The others had been wet before and did not seem to mind this extra dose. She rushed onto the porch and snatched her bathing suit from the line. In the little bedroom off the kitchen- living room. she hastily changed. and dashed outside again. At least. she thought, this bathing suit was intended to be wet. The rain continued to make a gray curtain outside the window. The girl's father paced the floor, trying to think what else could or should be done. Once he re- marked. 'The tide has come up over our breakwater. That's the highest it's ever been. Once he suggested to Tom that the car had to be moved up to that little knoll. Once he called to her mother to look at the waves on the other side of the point on which their cottage stood. I hope the bank holds them. The girl went over to look. The upreaching spray spread like smoke as it was shattered by the wind. The girl shud- dered and went back to her chair. She picked up her book. but soon laid it aside. YVlio could read. with that wild drama of nature outside? She picked up her knit- ting. its bright blue reminiscent of skies when they are clear, The click of the needles. though. were trivial and exasperating in the presence of such awful magnificence. This work she put aside. also. and restlessly walked to the window. The four of them watched the wind and the rain and the waves as if fascinated. And then. a giant wave crashed over the frail wall! Another and another came! The point was being eaten away gradually by the churlish waves. Directly below the window the gray water swirled TOWER LIGHT X i r in angry little whirlpools. The railing, like a splinter, was all that could be seen of the sturdy little wharf. Here and there wooden boxes and pieces of cork floated, following the dictates of the current. A'Come on, let's get out of here, her father took com- mand. Mom, pack up some of the grub and bring along some water. Tom, you and I will roll up some blankets. The girl went to the cupboard and got some coffee and an opened package of cereal. She put a few potatoes in a cloth bag and piled some tomatoes on top. Her mother packed some sugar, salt, a little flour, lard. but- ter, and an unopened can of milk. These they put in the tin bread-box along with a loaf of bread. The men came with the bedding. Tom picked up the little white terrier and, without a word, they walked to the porch. Hesitating but a moment, they stepped into water waist-deep and waded to the ear, spurred on by the pellets of rain which. driven by the wind, struck painfully into their faces. Uneeremoniously they dump- ed in the provisions and blankets and piled in after them. Her father stepped on the starter. Nothing but a dy- ing groan resulted. He tried again. This time the groan was weaker. Let's not waste time, we'll have to walk. They stepped down into the middle of what was now a churning lake. The swirling, muddy water swept over the porch, carrying every loose object with it. That meant that the water was inside the cottage! Holding the provisions high. and with the dog tucked under Tom's arm, they ploughed through the water to- ward the mainland, and higher ground. The farther they walked toward the high ground the farther it receded. The girl stumbled on a rut in the road and almost fell. Her mother walked gingerly. not sure of her footing. Together they followed the men up the water-covered road bed. They paused in front of the only two-story house on the point and waded up to the porch. It had only a little film of water over it, but as they ascended the steps, they could see where the wind-blown rain had wet the furniture and walls thoroughly. The girl's father struggled with the lock and then. as he lurched against the door. it opened, creaking on rusty hinges. How wonderful to be inside. the girl thought. It's damp and cold. but anything is better than the blasting fury outside. The family found its way to the kitchen and there ate a hastily prepared meal of cereal with condensed milk, fried potatoes, and sliced tomatoes. A cup of hot coffee gave them all new life and lighter spirits. But, like a creeping. sneaking. slith- ery snake. the water crept under the door. The girl eyed JANUARY ' 1940 it with fascinated horror, and then shrieked. 'ALookl I-Ier father looked at the water. 'ADon't worry, dear. This house has a second story. The water won't come that high! On the upper floor they seemed nearer the rain than before. There it was, elattering. swishing, dashing against the roof. The waves rolled and splashed like the undertones of a mighty organ, the rain playing at times a deeeivingly light melody. The thunder rumbled like the symphony of a distant battlefield and the lightning flashed with a painful brilliance. But now, a new note, shrill and piercing, sang a threatening obligato. It was the rising wind which drove the falling drops straight against the window-panes like shot, and there, flow- ing down, curtained almost the last of the meager light, so that the room took on an eerie dimness, like twilight. Tom went down the steps and reported that the wa- ter had risen to the third step. The girl fondled the dog as it leaned against her and then went over to the win- dow and looked out. She thought, Is this really going to be our end? . . . There are so many things I should have done . . . so many I shouldn't have done. It will seem queer, just waiting for the water to rise. It will take so long . . . so long . . . and there's nothing I can do but wait. Mother and Dad and Tom don't seem to mind so much. But you can't tell what they are think- ing .... Oh. dear God! Give us another chance at lifell' No one could tell what she was thinking. They thought she was just watching the gray sea and sky. They didn't know that every fiber of her being was crying out for life! - rollicking, golden, joyous life - yes, even life with tears and sorrow, but life! They didn't know her heart was beating. beating. as if by its surge it could overcome this creeping. inevitable. un- eonquerable death. They didn't know that she feared death because she was young and had hardly begun to live. Feared death? t'Yes. I do! I do! I can't help it! Oh. God - give me courage and strength! And then. from somewhere. maybe from the rain. maybe from the sea, from somewhere, a peace settled down on her spirit. From a childhood poem came words that calmed and soothed her. and banished all her doubts. No one knew when she turned away from the win- dow. that she had been reborn. No one knew when she sat down in her chair that she was no longer afraid. No one knew that hers was a new. a different. a sweeter, more mature spirit. No one knew that now she had a faith stronger than all the force of thunder. light- ning, wind, rain, waves. and sea. No one knew but her and Cod and, perhaps. the little girl who first said the lines: lsn't God upon the ocean. just the same as on the land? ll Selling One' s Wares IEROME KOLKER HAV E YOU ever worked in a store? Have you ever sold anything? VV hat did you sell? To whom did you sell it? Selling is almost as old as history itself, and is as interesting today as it was thousands of years ago. XVhen you read the above questions you probably thought. There are thousands of things that can be sold. Surely, even if I did not sell merchandise, I have at least sold plans and ideas to others. This is abso- lutely true, for selling might refer to the transfer of almost anything. As a part of the curriculum of this College. the ripper classmen spend eighteen weeks doing practice teaching. NVhile in the throes of this so-called ordeal, the writer was forcefully struck by the comparison of teaching with commercial salesmanship. Let us see how they compare. Every successful salesman knows his stock. He knows what he has to sell and what he wants to sell. The better he knows his stock and the facts about his stock, the more he can sell to each individual customer. Cbviously, the stock might quite easily be compared to subject mat- ter in teaching. The more the teacher knows, the more he can impart to his pupils. YVhile stock and subject matter in salesmanship and teaching are not the only things of importance in these two fields, they are both quite necessary. Any good salesman will tell you that he cannot handle any two customers alike. One must usize up his cus- tomer in a pleasant way, and employ a selling person- ality which is adjusted to the personality of that partic- ular customer. Some times high pressure is needed. other times cold persuasiveness, and on other occasions hardly anything need be said other than to mention the price following the presentation of the article to be sold. Now back to the classroom and the teacher. Each pupil, like each customer, must be treated as an indi- vidual. Since there are from thirty-five to forty individ- uals in each class to be dealt with at one time. the task becomes a greater one. Let us take a typical sample of the condition in the classroom. johnny is slow. He needs more individual attention. He needs to get a few facts well learned. He needs much drill upon these facts. Then there is Tom in the same class. Tom is a keen, alert student. The presentation to him of large ideas and movements is more important than plain and sim- ple facts. Toni should be the target for thought-pro- voking questions, while johnny can answer the fact questions. Since many, many types of questions are nec- essary in each lesson. each type may be allocated to the 12 particular pupil to whom it is best suited. Thus it is evident that the distribution of material by the teacher to fit the pupil does not deviate very far from the task of the salesman, Suppose that you went into a store where the lone salesman was unpleasant. XVould you purchase anything there? Probably not! You would walk out and buy where the atmosphere was pleasanter and where you were stimulated and motivated to buy by a good sales- man. The salesman in the first store did not excite you to buy. He did not make it pleasant for you to buy. In short, he gave you no added incentive to buy. A con- dition similar to this is also present in the classroom. Unless the child is in a classroom where the teacher maintains the proper atmosphere for learning, he will not learn properly fif at allj, or, commercially speaking, the sale will not be made. lt has been the experience ofthe writer upon numer- ous occasions while working in a store to have custom- ers say to him, t'You are new here. If you do not mind, l would rather wait for Mr. Howard. l have been buying from him for over ten years. The reason they say this is perfectly clear. This particular salesman who has been serving them for several years is trusted. respected, and admired by his customers. Each of them is confident that the salesman will not take advantage of him, and will do all in his power to give them a fair deal. He has won their confidenceg in turn, they have made his po- sition more secure and more pleasant. How does this fit in with the situation in the class- room! Anyone can make the application. If the teacher can win the confidence of his pupils - make them feel that he is doing all that he can to help them - and treat them fairly, he will make the work a joy for him- self, and the learning more agreeable for his pupils. Even at the College the students often say, lt is a pleasure to go to Mr. ---- 's class: you can tell he is pulling for you. Thus. it is quite evident that in teaching. one is sell- ing his wares in a manner which is very similar to that in which the salesman plies his trade. Both the salesman and the teacher must know their work, and be keen and alert to all conditions existing in their fields if they wish to be successful. Note - lf one wishes to go more deeply into the com- parison and emphasize other aspects of the two fields, it might easily be done. In fact, this subject will fur- nish enough material for an over-stuffed volume. Still, for our purposes and for the enlightenment of those who look upon practice teaching with anxious antici- pation, this short comparison may be of value. TOWER LIGHT Whither Are We Drifting ? gon, YoU TELL EM, POP!j Reported by LYDIA ZIEFLE Sing a song of chromosomes, Sing a song of genes, And hark while Dr. Popenoc Dilates on what it means, He paints a lurid picture Cf the future of our species, A race of super-morons ls the burden of his theses. For marriage, based on sentiment, Convenience or greed, Does nothing scientific Toward Himprovement of the breed. Haphazard biochemistry Results in human flukes. Tomorrow we'll be Kallikaksg Tomorrow you'll be Iukes. Poor homo sap will be a chap Completely void of reason, And some of us, as usual, Are rushing the season. -Ethel Iacobson From the Saturday Evening Post. Sonnet IAINIES G. IETT As Petrarch found in golden poetry A verbal vestment that would fit his thinking - Like to a swallow at a fountain drinking, That sippeth long at first, then happily It pauseth on the rim to breathe the free Removed air, the while his thirst is shrinking, Then sips again, this second one a-linking The parts - a sonnet's perfect symmetry, So Newton found within a space of spaces How Science kept her order and her statcg Saw how each force was met with force and how The spinning worlds were stayed and held their places - A thought and beauty so proportionate That songs cannot repeat its praise enow. JANUARY - 1940 Problem IRMA Sizxxinpxx I stood upon the broad seashorc And watched the waves roll in, The breakers leaped toward the shore VVith never-ending din. The hungry waves licked at my toes, The breakers toward me curled. And then I thought, 'AAre things the same Away across the world? I have a book at home that has A picture of Ling Fu. He stands and watches waves roll in - They curl toward him, too! And now I cannot figure out, If my home's over here And Ling Fu's is across the world - Another hemisphere. VV hy both of us should see the waves Always toward us roll, Does ocean somewhere split itself And each half take its goal? Tomorrow morning I shall see VV hat teacher has to say. Perhaps she can tell why it is The waves go either way. The Trees ot God C. lXfIAR'1'iN Codward grow the arms of the trees in heaven And earthward reach their pleading roots That are twining into bitter pools, XVhich nourish lonely hearts of men. The roots are piping pcppcrminty rills To take the place of brackish streams Befouled by soots of soddcn tcmpcr. Here the souls of men in fragrance swim, And ugly things are only dreams. Soon the clean and prcttyfsmclling fools XVill become divine as they climb and climb The arms of the grccn trccs that Cotlwanf gnu January NAxer M. KIETZGER The old year is past. The new at last Comes madly forging ahead. The wind wails a tune Toward the cold moon The autumn days have fled. The glare of the sun Snow finely spun Give light and cheer to the dayg Resplendent new togs All sledders agog - XVildly they fly away. Hard Work Is Always Rewarded BIARGARET CARTER Your hair falls down and hides your eyes. Your breath comes out in pantsg You offer prayers to the skies And give your plans a glance. You grip the hammer sure and firm, You hold the nail just so: You know its nearing end-of-term. And strange forebodings grow. You make secure one little nail. It's bent! You pull it out. And when you get the next nail in You shout a lusty shout. You paint the thing with careful stroke. And chortle in your glee. You tell your friends this things a joke - And hope they won't agree. You beam UPO11 your finished job: You're in a merry mood - And from the center of the mob There comes a ciy How crudelu Quandary NANETTR TRo'rr Oh dear. oh dear, it seems so queer, So dreadfully untrue, That I'm a distant cousin of The monkeys at the zoo. XVhen teacher told us so today. I thought it wasn't fair That I should be related To a beast thats full of hair. After school I walked about The park. There, in a cage, Twenty chattering monkeys XVere in a furious rage. They hopped about upon the boughs. They gripped the iron spokesg They looked at me and fussed and fussed. Till I was sure they'd choke. One jumped down upon the floor - I almost heard him talk. And when I'd learned just what he meant. I hurried down the walk, XVould you explaiuf' he said to me. XVhy the notion maddens you? In spite of your clothes. it's plain you owe The apology to the zoo. Poor Polyhymia G. F. S, Poor Muse a'standing in the hall astarin' at the floor: Do you always think so hard and find your life a bore? Blayhap you are a'thinkin' deep au' workin' on a plan To lose your plaster stiffness an' go lookin' for a man. Does your elbow trouble you. a'leanin' on the bricks? Or is the fancy pillar another of your tricks? One says you have a pallicl look. an' are a doctor's caseg Alaek. e'en if you'd leave us now. another'd take your place. T O WE R LI G H T EDITCRIALS The Recognition of Science CATHERIN13 CRAY DO VV E appreciate the struggle that science has made for recognition? VVe doubt it. If you appreciated it, so many wouldn't regard science classes as stumbling blocks to their progress through college, Thousands of years ago science started - when the caveinan lifted his head from the ground and gazed up- ward, and noticed that when things grew dark, tiny white eyes appeared above, when lightning struck a tree a gloriously blazing monster craekled before startled savage eyes. Man early adapted science to his needs. He early relied on animals and plants to feed him, and trees to furnish a shelter for him. Through the ages, man used science and when a person named Aristotle lived, science stepped up to claim his rightful throne as a basis for civilization. But barbarians came from the North and man bit the hand that fed him. The Church pro- hibited science teachings and men were imprisoned for their studies. Apples fell to the ground and people ate them - albeit gratefully - but not with gratitude to science. For some fifteen hundred years, science languished ignominiously, until a day referred to by many names- Renaissanee, The Awakening, The Age of Invention, The Scientific Movement - came into being. Then science did ascend the throne. VVe began to acknowl- edge that our dyes, our clothes, our food, our shelter, our luxuries and even our wars were products of the great scientific movement. VV hy it has even cloaked ed- ucation! VVe proudly brag that education is now ob- tained through the sensesg that it is based on our prac- tical needs, that it is based on N ature, that schools from the first grade through the universities teach science as required subjects! VVe live in a wondrous age! YVC should realize this. Everyone needs to know the history of the reigning kingg needs to know his deeds. So next time when you go to your science class, whether it be botany, astronomy, ge- ology, or biology, remember that you are privileged. You are receiving knowledge that has accumulated and grown through centuries upon centuries? that men have spent their lives gathering: that men have given their lives for, Don't throw away a single moment. Each is a treasure unequaled! JANUARY - 1940 Reflections on Dr. Hartman' s Survey I IARR1' KI. Loxnox HERE IN America, and specihcally at State Teachers College, we have always assumed a firm belief in thc doctrine of evolution. Moreover, we are believers to the point of maintaining a stern intolerance toward those of our colleagues who deny the validity of the Darwinian uthcoryf' Now, remember. No large number of us can be stu- dents, even dilettantes, at ontogeny, phylogeny, paleon- tology, or any other branch of biological studies which have made evolution the fact that it is. fXVe can never emphasize too strongly the point that evolution is not just a theoryg that it is a fact, known to us through the researches of men who are more than tyros at the afore- mentioned sciencesj Therefore, not many of us base our credos on scientific method in its strictest sense fas outlined in Science-lfllj. ln this one division of ma- terialistic belief, 1nost of us have granted ourselves the privilege, non-extant in science, of accepting a series of A'book and 'fteaeheru conclusions. Perhaps all this is for the better. Yet, most of us view with disdain all in- dividuals who profess belief in origins of man other than that emphasized by Darwin. ln this connection, it becomes vital to note that in a recent survey faccording to Dr. George Hartman, pro- fessor of psychology at Columbia University's Teachers Collegel it was found that no less than 5692, of all American public-school teachers do not believe in evo- lution. VVait, now! Don't go on yet. This requires some contemplation, for the statement is much more than mere words to be read, and then glanced over. Understand this: More than oneahalf of the teachers in our public schools do not believe that man, for ex- ample, along with other species of organisms. is but a branch of one common family-treeg is but one of many evolvements from a common pristine stock. That is, there are hundreds of thousands inasters-and-marins, each responsible for a goodly number of students of ya- rious ages, who are unwilling to admit the truth of cyo- lution, and who, if called upon to teach evolution. would do so quite uneinphatically, and half-heartedly. Their paychecks only would stand between them and pointf blank denials of evolution. fDr. Lynch has said that it is possible to lecture an entire course on evolution, without mentioning the word. Here, however. we may assume that the in , hold as little respect for the fact, as for the word which is used to designate it.l l 5 It should go without saying, I believe. that an orienta- tion with regard to evolution spells educational and sci- entific progress. both in teachers and in their students. Fifteen years ago, in 192-f, not many progressives could have foreseen that wc would still have in 1939 a perfect setting for repetition of thc 'Z-f Scopes .case, in which a Tennessee court enjoined the teacher. Scopes, from repeating words to the effect fthe farmers and mountaineers thoughti that man was descended from thc apes. Of course. the setting is here. surveys or no surveys: but its heralding is analogous to the waking of an insomniac to tell him something we might have men- tioned ages ago, just when the poor fellows fallen asleep. Yet. even if we were certain that no harm might arise from that 562, there is still the disconcerting teaser that there are too many public-school teachers who don't fall in line with the evolution theoryg teachers who probably would just as leave erase evolution,' from our black- boards: who won't line up even though we believers know we're right, If Dr. Hartman is correct, and for the sake of argu- ment I shall say that he is, there are half of America's public school educators who have a large-order scientific lesson to learn. XV hat makes the matter sadder is the fact that, even though there can be but one possible answer to the question: Is there evolution, this is one time when intolerance on our part will not force the issue a quarter-inch. Scientists XVILLIAM IETT A SCIENTIST is a person who spends his lifetime finding out that what he studied yesterday is all wrong. He insists on adhering to the old saw that nothing is constant but change, in spite of the fact that he has been poor for the past thirty years, and has no data at all to prove that he will ever be anything else for the next sixty years. No one can be a true scientist unless he can forget where he left his hat. or what his telephone number is - this tags one as eccentric or absent-minded. which are but synonyms for a scientist. If you repeat a question or statement to one of these persons five or six times with no reply, have patience, for he probably didn't hear you. and any way it is a bad thing to startle people. Incidentally, when speaking to a scientist, choose your words carefully, Never try to make conversation by saying. for example. that Nature is a wonderful thing, and that you suppose he must be an authority: for he 16 This May Mean You! I R Ii S O LV E : I. To pay library fecs. 2. To walk to first fare. 3. To attend all Orchestra and Clee Club rehearsals. -l. To avoid Mary lanes, Tootsie rolls, and pea- nut chews. 5. To wear subdued hosiery - likewise shirts. 6. To whiten those saddles !!! 7. To brush the wool, mop, hair - or what you will. S. To avoid ang0ras jgirls. this is merely the male point of view! 9. To at least appear interested during those four o'clock classes. C Our sympathy to those blessed with two.j IO. To know MYSELF it I have to live with myself and so I want to be fit for myself to knowg Always to look myself straight in the eye. I don't want to stand with the setting sun And hate myself for the things I've done. I want to go out with my head erectg I want to deserve all mens respectg But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I am a bluster and bluff and empty show. I can never fool myself, and so XVhatever happens. I want to be Self-respecting and conscience-free. -Unknown. will respond by asking you what Nature is and tell you there is no authority in science. and in addition will stare disdainfully at you the rest of the evening. There is also the question of requirements for col- lege scientists. Everyone of them should have a D.Sc., or some doctorate, so that students may affectionately call him, out of class, Doc, He should never appear on time for class. and should, on occasion. forget to come in at all jthough precautions should be taken to let stu- dents see him wandering about the campus at the same time. absorbed in meditationj. It is also a good thing to get a reputation for never reading notebooks or lengthy TOWER LIGHT expositions, in spite of the ironic story that tells of a student inserting several blank sheets of paper in a theme to test the professor, only to find comments about the waste of paper written on them. when the theme was re- turned. Then, too. every reputable scientist should have some literary work or accomplishment to his credit, in order that his students may boast of the education they're getting, and add that they are studying under quite an authority. However, students should be wary, and never make the mistake of copying themes written by their professors. If a scientist is to gain the full re- spect of his pupils, he must, in addition, be able to sneer nonchalantly in the laboratory as students squinch their eyes in microscopes, or cut their fingers as well as frogs' legs. These are criteria for the better understanding of, and classification of scientists, as everyone knows. VV hen one thinks of a scientist, these earmarks automatically come to mind - it is a matter of tradition. Strangely enough. however, it is perplexing to find that all the scientists whom you know are quite like normal beings, and even address you by name. Lumbricus Terrestris AN EARTHY CHILD GORDON FORRER SHULES TH REE S HORT weeks ago he had been deposited as a tiny cocoon by a careless parent. Two feet deep in the soil he was now awakening from a period of rapid growth. The air felt cold and damp as he slowly pulled himself forth from the net which encompassed him. The cool sides of the burrow felt good to his damp body as he ate his way to the surface. He sensed an instinctive urge to hunt for food. His inch-long body was lean but fully developed. Digging out was slow work - each bit of tunnel was gained by swallowing the soil in front of him and then painfully forcing himself upward, ever upward, leaving a trail of debris behind. Eventually, he emerged. The sun shone brightly and although he could not see, his sensitive skin was hurt by the light, He quickly withdrew and spent the remainder of the day half asleep near the entrance of his tunnel. Not through eyes and ears was the universe made apparent to the worm. To him the world was a region not of things seen and heard but of temperatures, stress- es and subtle vibrations detected by the nerves which encased his body like a fine web. His delicate blood ves- sels were continually fed by five hearts. He didn't have JANUARY - 1940 to breathe for his entire Outer skin was always moist and acted as a lung. I 'fHis being hermaphroditic makes it difficult to say if he was he, or shcf' or it, But for the sake of clarity and facility we shall continue to call hc-she he. fDo you follow?j Night had come. Ile instinctively inched his way to the surface. Once again his head reached fresh air. A quarter of an inch, a half-inch of his length came hesi- tatingly out Of his burrow. Suddenly, he withdrew. Ilis sensitive nerves had detected a hostile movement. Per- haps it was a toad. The danger had ceased and again his moist body emerged, aided by the cilae which stud- ded his sides. For the remainder of the night he foragcd, never quite leaving his tunnel. Deeayed animal matter and bits of leaves made up his diet. As morning dawned he withdrew for the last time. His meal had not satisfied him so he commenced an- other tunnel - extracting nutriment from the soil he swallowed. Sometimes he became conscious of a craving which leaves and dirt could not satisfy, Then through the un- derground labyrinth he would search for another of his kind and they would lie in a cold embrace, held tight together by two bands which would later develop into cocoons. VVhen the rains came and the ground became satu- rated with water he found the obtaining of oxygen in- creasingly difiicult. Then he would partially emerge from his hole and, lying in the watery mud. wait for the earth. like a giant sponge. to soak up the flood. And so, for the rest of his short life, the worm would lie cold and moist in his smooth tunnel by day and emerge at night to feel the chill dainpness and to feed: instinctively never quite leaving his domicile: so. for- ever held the prisoner of the earth. All This and Plaster, Too P. PIIQRNDON YO U S IMP LY haven't lived until yOu've made plas- ter of Paris casts, There is nothing quite like it: it has a distinct characteristic that entirely separates it from all other forms of indulgence. I know: I made casts of leaves for my Science activity. but goodness only knows why. One thing I must say for myself - I entered into it with the right spirit fthe do-or-collapse attitudelz and. although I didnt end with the same feeling. I do feel that I gained something from the experience: I know better than to fool qContinued on page 30 a 17 Tl-IE LIBRARY F.. A. ZENTZ IN E V E RY lield of development in every-day life, we find evidences of the influence and the application of science and its principles. This is no less obvious in the realm of authors and their books. Feeling for and Hud- ing the pulse of the times. these workers in words have made great contributions to our libraries by means of analysis. research, and simple comment. Since this vari- ety of material is characteristic of both books and sci- ence, the Library staff presents herewith a representa- tive list of the new things in this field. VVhether science is your hobby or your avoeation, there is something here for your particular interest. Atoms in Artion: The Wforld of Creative Physics. George Rus- sell Harrison. Morrow, 83.50. Science made dramatic through its bearing on practical prob- lems such as glass manufacture, farming, and climate control. The Flowering Seed. Donald Culross Peattie. Putnam, 32.50. Plant life on earth from the primordial jungles of the sea and the fern forests down to modern research. The Glass Giant of Palomar. David O. Woodbury. Twelve years of labor and research that resulted in the world's largest telescope. Magic Highways. Norman Bel Geddes. Random House, 53.50. The shape of roads to roam in the future. a forecast of en- gineering marvels to serve safety and speed in coming decades. Turtles of the United States and Canada. Clifford H. Pope. Knopf, 55.75. llerpetology for everyone - a complete invasion of turtle privacy, with many photographs. Science for the Wforld of Tomorrow. Gerald Wendt. Lippin- cott, 52.75. All too often science has been considered a vast body of knowledge isolated in the laboratory. Taking the modern viewpoint that science is a method of solving the problems of man, the author portrays scientific progress in terms of human values. Modern Miracle Men. J. D. Ratcliff. Dodd, Mead, 55.00. XVhat scientists are doing today along many different fron- tiers of research to make a better world. The book explains the iron lung, frozen foods, vitamins and hundreds of new discoveries. Flash. Harold E. Edgerton and James R. Killian. Hale, Cush- man and Flint. 53.00. Seeing the unseen by high-speed photography. ,if Seasoned Timber. Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1939. Reviewed by IXI.-my D1 PEPPIC This has been another prolific year for the literary world. Outstanding new authors have been discovered. while here and there on the intellectual horizon a mas- 18 ljjj :LIN f K lr., Xf -' X NN J, - js ' ,, lr, gfiiw-...rg-fv I il 'j Fix? .X ' : W ck X. ' Clll gfllj 'll ,. 45, 3 Q . we X 1 ,, L-- X Q 1---' -A j .-Q-ff -1- i -T4f'-- -' 17 4-5. 5-:mxlwfer j l terpiece of thought, wit. or humor has appeared. The com- majority of these new books have one thing in mon - the general theme is that of social protest re- garding economic conditions, especially in relation to the underprivileged classes. There can be no denying that these books are worth-while. absorbing, thought- provoking. But how refreshing it is to pick up a book like Seasoned Timber and lose yourself in a story which makes no demand upon you other than pure enjoy- ment! Seasoned Timber is primarily a story about a school and a sehoolmaster. Author Fisher ushers us through the halls of Clifford Academy amid the confusion ae- companying the first day of school. VV e meet the teachers, applying to the situation their experience or bewilderment. and then proceed to the hub of activity - the office of Principal T. C. Hulme. Here our journey ends, for we have now been intro- duced to the principal character of the story. Through Mr. llulme's eyes we see the inhabitants of the small college town in Vermont. There is the wealthy trustee who wishes the school to take up a policy of racial dis- crimination. As a contrast to him there is Mr. Dewey, another trustee, a beautifully portrayed character, who thinks only of the honor and traditions of the academy, I 1 r 1 Another deeply convincing character portrayal is that of f the Principals Aunt Lavinia. peculiar in her old age be- cause she had been a victim of tragic circumstances in her youth. There is also the story of Timothy Hulme's unrequited love for Susan, a young teacher. Susan falls in love instead with Canby. his dynamic cousin. How Mr. Huline overcomes this emotional upset makes in- teresting reading. Mrs. Fisher, in Seasoned Timber, tells a tale of Amer- ican ideals. More graphically than if she had sat down to 4 write an essay on American life and customs. she has 1 A + TOWER LIGHT.' l i pictured them here in her book. The people and events she tells about are familiar to all of us because we know similar people and have experienced similar events. Make a date to read Seasoned Timber if you have not as yet had the opportunity to do so. ,er Caribbean Treasure. Ivan T. Sanderson. Reviewed by DORIS KLANK The little liner splashed along over the sparkling sea toward a green streak on the horizon. Soon I should once more be in the shining, whirring, struggling mass of animation that is the jungle . . . It is with boyish enthusiasm and excitement that Mr. Sanderson approaches South America, a new continent, a new conquest, where he will continue his expeditions. Although he is collecting animals for an English mu- seum, his chief interests are in the living animal, not the stuffed one. VVhen he first makes it known that he wishes to buy specimens, Mr. Sanderson is so Hooded with all kinds of living creatures that everyone in his household is engaged in making temporary living quarters for the animals. To add to the original confusion, the feeder carelessly leaves all the doors unlocked while he goes for food, and all the animals escape. However, they evi- dently like their homes, because they return without protest, and sometimes voluntarily. Thus, the turmoil in Noah's Ark is again restored to peace and order. This fascinating book tells of the explorer-collector's experiences with many forms of high-and-low animal life, and is supplemented by thirty-two life-like sketches. It is by no means a teclmical description of the animal species, but furnishes a delightful visit with the won- ders of nature. A Mere Observer CATHERINE MILETO A PC UT I NC mouth, a grimace, two feminine voices in a hushed whisper. two pairs of eyes glancing in one direction, one pair of eyes intent on the printed page in fronts all this and more are easily discernible as an ob- server casually glances around the Library during study hour. VVhat is more interesting is an attempt to penetrate into the minds of thc studious ones and understand their reason for working as they do. Can it be Miss ---- wants us to read about the government of the ancient peoples. Now to End Government in the index. Ah, here it is - yes. page --1 good, and so on. Or it can be Now where can I End anything about Iapanese education? I have looked high and low, and still noth- JANUARY - 1940 ing. XVell, here goes again, or can it be Practitums. praeticums, practicums-everywhere I turn they stare me in the face. Music, psychology, art praetieumsf' and 'Al could never play the piano and now not only do I play, but I sing . . . yes, actually sing. XVhcn I get out, I shall be so accomplished in at least one thing - that is, hold- ing a tune, then to top it all, I shall know how ships and planes plot directions and distances, 230 south, 230 north! I hear from Mr. XValthcr's class that at the end of the term, we shall be termites. YVhat can I think? Included in all of these thought-provoking assump- tions are those interesting nuisances in the Library who consider the place one for a Round Table discus- sion, only to be interrupted when the Librarian glances menacingly in their direction. But then what is their topic other than lessons for the day? The most evident topic is 'tBoys with a capital All points favorable and unfavorable are discussed. The outcome - a sup- posedly good idea of the character of the boy. The actual outcome is overlooked! On the top of it all there are a few who actually do their work, and they work without lifting their heads. unless it is necessary. They are the Librarians' delight, because they do not cause a disturbance. VV here does all of this get us? Nowhere, except that watching people is one of the most fascinating pastimes ever experienced, and one of the most satisfactory places other than the terminal, street-car, bus. or train, is the Library. Program of Education of Teachers in Science N C V E M B E R T H I R D and fourth witnessed a memorable event at the State Teachers College at Tow- son. The Fifteenth Conferenee on the Education of Teachers in Science was held here, Dr. XV est was the official host for the College. Professors of science edu- cation and authorities in the field of science from vari- ous colleges and universities of the Eastern and Middle Atlantic States were-inlattendance. -Some of the impor- tant people were Dr. Gerald S. Craig of Teachers Col- lege. Columbia University, Dr. E, Laurence Palmer of Cornell University, Dr. YV. L. Eikenberry of Trenton State Teachers Collegeg Dr. I. Iewell Simpson. :Xssistant State Superintendent of Education of Maryland: several of the county superintendents and county supervisors of schools of lvlaryland, and high school teachers of sci- ence from nearby high schools. Vital problems concerning the part of science in thc preparation of teachers, methods of teaching science. and the new techniques being developed in special Helds of science were presented and became the subsc- 19 quent points of discussion. Most discussions were ani- mated because the problems being presented were of concern to all of those present. One of the most stimu- lating talks of the Friday morning session was given by Dr. Thomas Smyth, Professor of Science Education, State Teachers College. Indiana, Pennsylvania. He at- tacked the present sequence and content of the science curricula in high schools and colleges, and as was to be expected. his remarks led to lively discussion by mem- bers of the group, A paper was presented by the presid- ing chairman. Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, on the Back- ground for Sex Education in the Elementary School. He presented and explained his thesis through a discus- sion of a recent publication. The Cornell Rural School Leafiet. Members of the conference were disappointed that the outstanding scientist, Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, the speaker for the dinner meeting. could not be present. However, the chairman and several of the speakers of the day's program entertained the group with clever im- promptu talks. All things being considered. the dinner meeting was a decided success. The Saturday morning meeting was devoted to prob- lems dealing with science teaching in the high school, to newspaper and magazine attempts at popularizing science, and to a report of the sub-cominittee of the National Education Association on Science Teaching. The College at Towson is very fortunate to have had the privilege of being host to this distinguished group of visitors. MUSIC Our Orchestra Leader Composes SEVE RAL YEARS ago for the Old English festiyi ities. Miss Prickett rearranged for the Orchestra Sir Iohn Stainer's organ arrangement of the l6th century mel- ody. Unto Us a Son is Born. This year. in order to give unity to the wandering minstrel scene, Miss Prick- ett wrote a part for solo violin which is in the nature of an improvisation entering. as it does. after the entire Or- chestra gives out the ten-measure original theme. This solo part was played by Mr. XVebster at the Old Eng- lish Dinner. The violin obligato for Cantique de Noel also was written by Miss Prickett. It has been played several times: the last occasion being when Mr. Baker played it at the Campus School program this year. Our Orchestra Assists Thursday morning those of our College group who are early risers were drawn to the hall by the strains of familiar Christmas carols. Members of the string ensemble. under the direction of Miss Prickett. led the singing of many of the favorite carols. According to legend the beginning and the end of a program are considered the best. The Orchestra was proud to have the honor of both. As the lord and lady of the castle, accompanied by their guests, entered the hall. members of the Orchestra played carols. During the entertainment the Strolling Minstrel elaborated on an old carol. Unto Us a Son is Born. as played by the 20 Kimdrl Sulnlfilzil Dill'Ii! Gizllircuth Rcifldollizr First Violin Players XVITHOUT A sufficient number of players able to carry with a reasonable degree of success any part that might be required, any orchestra. regardless of the ex- cellence of its soloists, would be lacking in depth and quality. One may give an adequate perfomiance with- out brilliant solo players. but an absence of good. de- pendable players often means the breakdown of the cn- tire orchestra. The State Teachers' College Orchestra is fortunate in having a large number of first violin players upon whom Miss Prickett can depend as willing workers. Three of these. Neal Galbreath, Sibyl Davis and Marie Sabatini, are from the counties, while the remaining two. Evelyn Kandel and Mary Reindollar, are from the city. All of these girls have played in their respective high school orchestras and several of them were members of the All-Maryland High School Orchestra. It is from this, and a corresponding group among the second violins that our leader makes up the membership of the string ensemble. Orchestra. After the revelry of the evening. the Orches- tra left the audience with the true spirit of Christmas as it played The Angelus by Massenet. TOWER LIGHTl i l 1 l i Thoughts on The Glee Club Christmas Broadcast VACOME AGAlN,'l said Mr. Girard, Director of Pro- 'grams of VVBAL, as we were taking our leave last Mon- lday, after our Glee Club broadcast. i 'tWe will, we said. Then, thinking of our struggles to learn so much dilii- icult music early in the year, we added: But perhaps next year we'll wait until May, when Awe have a whole year behind us. T Mr. Girard and Mr. Linthicum, our announcer, look- Qed rueful. l, But we like the carols, said they. 'A Well, so do we, and I daresay we shall manage an- ii other carol program another year, even though broad- casting might be easier in May, for the appeal of the ycarols is so great. As Dr. Wiedefeld in her brief ad- ,dress said, There is a refreshing hint of spontaneous fjoyousness and freedom in the idea expressed by the liword tcarolingf We are reminded of earlier days when lmen lived more leisurely and had time to note the lbeauty of the green earth and to join in the celebration fiof the festival days with song and dance. And then, too, though it was difficult to get the pro- gram ready, what of it? Work we did, early and late, trying to boost that dull bully, Flatness. Such an enemy is he as Antaeus, elod-born giant, with his feet firmly .planted in the mud, growing stronger with each muddy contact. We, like Hercules, had to hold him aloft. and give our song a chance to soar. Now, when we have had as successful a flight as our friends kindly say we achieved, are we not thc stronger because of the diffi- culties oyercome? ls not our satisfaction proportionate to our effort? Surely, the art of singing will mean more to us all. henceforth, for we have served it. Surely. these songs and carols, in particular, will mean much, for we have made them ours. Think of them again, and of Dr. XVic- defeld's message, as you read our program: Psalm 150 ..... Cesar Franck The Glce Club Betty Tribull at the piano In Vienna VVoods .... Strauss The Glee Club Address - Dr. Wficdefeld Salvation ls Created . . . Tschesnokoii The Glee Club The Christ of the Snow . Hungarian Carol The Glce Club A Christmas Carol VVords by Mrs. Stapleton, set to an English folk song The Girls' Chorus A Christmas Folk Song Words: Lizette VVoodworth Reese Music: Franz Bornschein The Ieanie Group VVassail Song . . Gloucestershire Carol Mens Double Quartet Lo, How a Rose Ffer Blooming . Praetorius The Ieanie Group I-low It Began SYBIL DAVIS IN SPITE of the desperate struggle for existence, primitive man must have found occasional free mo- ments in which to express his emotions. Probably the first attempts to express these feelings were in move- ment and sound. Some authorities have gone so far as to say that song actually preceded speech. Certainly music began with birds, before the appearance of hu- mans. Other authorities, notably Spencer. felt that song was first a reflex action of the vocal chords following va- rious seiisations. From still other authorities we have the theory that songs originated from hunting calls used by early man. As soon as he ceased to use the calls for any useful purpose, they became music in the strict sense of the word. Possibly song may have begun as an ,JANUARY - 1940 accompaniment to rhythmic movements which later were formulated into dances. Even as primitive man drew upon nature for mate- rials and inspiration, so he turned to nature for his music. The roots of music - rhythm and song - are very evident in nature. Rhythm, which dominates sav- age music, is to be found in the ebb and How of the tides, in the rotation of the seasons, the movement of the stars, in the very heartbeat of man, From birds and animals, the sound of wind, water, and thunder. man had a variety of sounds to imitate. From nature, too, man no doubt received the inspira- tion for making instruments. The wind whistling thru hollow reeds is highly qCoutinued on page il l 21 A Visit from The Glacier Priest tAn illustrated lecture by Father Bernard R. Hubbard, the clifl-dweller of the Far North. j FATHER HUBBARD. the Iesuit. has been given the designation of t'Glacier Priest because of his many trips among the King Island Eskimos of the North Ber- ing Sea. The speaker stated as his preamble. the fact little- known. that there are but 2.000 or so pure-blooded Es- kimos in all the world. The physical characteristics of these. he said. are dark. straight hair, dark eyes. and no hair at all on their faces. These people, Father Hubbard added. are blending with many Asiatic peoples, even though the Alaskan mainland is but 54 miles from that of Asia. By way of explaining the difficulties of their lan- guage. the speaker said. that let alone prefixes and suf- fixes. the Eskimo tongue has infixesf' The Eskimos. said the priest. are a progressive. peace- loving people. They do not Land here Father Hubbard proceeded to blast away a time-honored popular errorj live in igloos, but dwell rather in shelters built off the ground beside clilis, constructed of walrus-skins and poles. The weather on King Island. he said, is not too cold and disagreeable. as Americans would expect, but is at times warmer than ours in Maryland. They use a mail-order system similar to ours. Father Hubbard said. In fact, they have become part of the same universal system by which 'Aeveryone of them looks forward to his Montgomery XVard catalogue. The Eskimos. Father Hubbard stated. are an intelli- gent. loyal. altruistic people. and their moral and social standards are very high. The Eskimos are a great deal more thrifty than many other groups. The walrus being of greatest importance for food, every part of that animal is put to some im- portant use. The walrus tusks are used for ivoryg the blubber for food. and the skin for houses. These people. he said. are very skillful climbers. since a great part of their food is to be found high among the rocks. for example. the atpak penguins eggs. Although one. only. is this bird's annual output. she is able to lay several eggs, if previous ones are in any way destroyed. Then. if several of her eggs are gathered up. the atpak incubates an egg internally. and then lays a precocious offspring. Beside the wealth of interesting subject matter which Father Hubbard presented to his audience, his keen sense of humor and his excellent delivery delighted everyone. His appearance certainly was a step in the di- rection of bigger and better assemblies. Unanimously. we vote Father Hubbard's talk the best of the year! 22 QUESTIONNAIRE ANSXVERS A thermometer measures heatg a hydrometer meas- ures specific gravity. and a hygrometer measures moisture content. Increasing. In the west early in the evening. Yes. The Mississippi and the Nile Rivers. November. At a rate of 22.228 miles per hour. One degree per day. In 6,000 years, 24.000 generations of mice are born, but only 200 generations of men. XVounds incurred by persons in the Russian Arctic are said to heal more rapidly if they require stitch- ing. but more slowly if they are left open. Para- doxically. both effects are credited to the germ-free Arctic air. Germs in closed-up wounds cause in- Hammation, but on minor open wounds. they stimulate the healing process. Up to 810 F.. heat production is the same for men and women. Above that. women show a decrease in heat produced by their bodies. In Alaska, black fish caught through the ice freeze instantly when brought to the frigid surface. Sled dogs gulp them down only to have the fish revive from the dogs internal warmth. Tires lose air faster in summer due to expansion of pores in the rubber. The United States and Canada are the only coun- tries which produce maple sugar and syrup. XVarni-blooded animals can be forced into hiber- nation if insulin is injected into their blood stream, and if they are kept in a refrigerator at about the freezing point. This experiment was performed on European hedgehogs. Pneumonia is a common cause of death among wild animals. Real topaz is not always a yellow crystal. but may range from almost colorless to red. yellow. brown, or green. T here are about as many calories in an orange as in a cantaloupe - l00 calories in each. Twenty minutes is as long as children can stand without fatigue. This was found to be true during the measuring of American children for standard- izing clothing sizes. TOWER LIGHT F H i i i 'A j. i l ju .v li I ' 1 i il l I l i 1 SCIENCE INVADES SPORTS N OLAN CHIPIXIAN ATHLETIC PERFORMANCES are steadily improv- ing each year. VVorld records in every field are being constantly broken. For example, not a single one of the present track and field records for men in the Olympic Games dates farther back than 1932. The events today are the same, the rules are substantially alike, and the physical equipment of the athletes has not changedg so Why are there new records? The answer is, SCIENCE. Motion studies with high speed cameras and ingenious applications of scientific laws are enabling athletes to secure top performances. The introduction of the Western roll in the high jump was a mathematically designed action to lower the jumper's center of gravity. Today a certain scientist claims that it is possible for an object to pass over a bar while its center of gravity passes beneath. Perhaps a top-notch jumper will catch hold of the trick and shatter the existing record. The 120-yard high hurdle event record is exactly four- teen seeonds. This achievement sprang from the scien- tific fact that the runner travels faster on the ground than in the air. Today, a hurdler goes straight-legged over the barrier, whipping over his trailing leg with a snap to get back to earth as quickly as he can. New records are the result of techniques and teehniealities such as this one serves to illustrate. In 1935 Ralph Flanagan learned a new swimming stroke. invented by his coach. Two years later he be- came America's champion swimmer and had broken scores of records, The new stroke, a modification of the Australian crawl, reduces arm movement. gives more perfect balance and relaxation, and keeps the wimmer on an even keel. , Most outstanding coaches make frequent use of mo- tion-picture films to point out flaws in playing or to il- lustrate correct form. College and pro football teams study the films of their opponents in action before each game. After the game. they study films of it in order to learn how they may improve their play. Boxers diligently review slow and fast motion pic- tures of their opponents and of themselves. By this method they learn to adopt suitable defenses and can devise new offensive tactics for certain opposition. Other athletes. such as swimmers, gymnasts, basketball play- ers, baseball players, all study films of expert performers in order to learn form and technique. Science aids sports in developing new equipment as well as by suggesting changes in method. There are nie- clianical targets and receivers for practicing baseball pitchers. By means of light beams focused across the plate, electric eyes signal balls and strikes. Racing crews JANUARY - 1940 practice on revolving mechanical platforms. Scientists have found that diseuses will Hy farther if the grain of the wood runs horizontally along their faces. ln addi- tion. they have found that a discus actually travels farth- er when thrown against the wind than with the wind. The head wind tends to push the projectile up into the partial vacuum created by its flight. Physicists point out that better records in throwing or jumping can be made nearer the equator due to grav- ity's lessened force. For example. a Scandinavian shot- putter can expect a fifty-foot heave at home to travel over two inches more at the equator. Furthermore, weights thrown in an easterly direction fas the earth turns, remember?j will travel a fraction of an inch further. ln addition to the science of technique and the sci- ence of making equipment for sports, there is the science of coaching, the science of treating injuries. the science of training. and the science of team play. D0 you still wonder why performances in every field of sport are being improved every year? SNICKS HENR1' N. STECKLER DOE S A good athlete make a good teacher? How can we tell? The Alumni basketball game of December nineteenth brought back to us six former star athletes. They are all in some branch of education. The score, 48-40 in favor of the Alumni, apparently shows that success has not gone to their heads. XVhat they lacked in physical condition. they more than made up by experience and ability. In conjunction with the new intramural sports ac- tivity movement, Miss Eleanor XVilliamson, president of the Student Council, was particularly fortunate in procuring the services of Mr. Maurice Schwartznian. Mr. Schwartzman was formerly a tennis star in Mary- land athletic circles and is today instructor of badmin- ton at the Gilman Country School. This school is. in- cidentally. the hotbed of badminton in Maryland. Mr. Schwartzman not only gave an excellent exhi- bition of playing the game, but also gave appropriate comments as to the rules and intricacies of the game. The sport has already met with much delight in many sections of Baltimore. The equipment is here! Try it for yourself! lt is the sincere desire and hope of the college that Mr. Minnegan is fully recovered from his recent illness by the time the student body will receive this edition of the Towiziz LIGHT. XVith our most capable mentor back at the helm, the basketball team will undoubtedly steer more evenly toward a successful season. 23 Science Is Life AT THE CAMPUS SCHOOL CONSTANCI3 Rmzsoiz and BARBARA I'IAILE E DUCATORS H A VE coined the phrase, f'Educa- tion is life. Yet we may break this significant word, ed- ucation. into its component parts, one of which is sci- ence. Science is life! Such life is strikingly portrayed in the Campus School - life that is active and rich - a life of science. From the seventh grade to the first, sci- ence is being challenged, studied, discussed, and experi- enced. If you could see a pageant of the work of all the grades, you would see the following well-represented and related phases of science. The seventh grade work is based on the question: of what is this earth of ours composed? You may see evi- dences of the pupils' realization that the earth is ever- changing, moving, and is being built up and torn down by elements and forces. The sixth grade is considering the plants that grow on this earth. Plants are a vital and complex part of this world. How do they live? How do they manufacture their own food? VVhat means do they have for main- taining life and reproducing more of their kind? VVhat influence do plants have on man? These questions are vital to the children. They have an experiment station for seed analysis and seed growth. They have a collec- tion of fifteen kinds of fungus growth from the Clen. VVhat is the ocean of air around us. and how does it work? This is the theme in the fifth grade. You find in the room apparatus for studying air and its characteris- tics of weight, pressure, and its importance to all living things, its reactions to heat and cold, and lastly. the moisture it contains - why it is there, how it reacts to heat and cold. and the various forms it takes as clouds, rain, etc. The children are working in small groups of five or six. performing their own experiments, discuss- ing them thoroughly - illustrating the concept that a scientific point of view requires that one seek for the reasons underlying natural phenomena. Once this is done, the children become busily occupied in interpret- ing natural phenomena in the light of the experiments. In the fourth grade the children are becoming weather conscious. VVhat is snow? XVhy is there fog? they ask. As a result of these questions. there has arisen a need for a weather station so that the children may make their own observations of the weather. Now they are busily engaged in making a wind vane, and a rain gauge. Soon the weather man will have some compe- tition. XVhilc they watch the weather by day. the children of the third grade will be watching the stars at night. 24 Soon they will realize that our world is only a small speck in this vast universe, and that it, too, is suspended in space just as are those glittering spots called stars. 'tVVinter birdsn is the first grade interest. Pictures of the slate-colored junco, the chiekadee, cardinal, hairy woodpecker, and tufted titmouse adorn their bulletin board so that the children may have a close-up view of their winter friends. The children have become greatly interested in the welfare of these birds. They have made shelters and feeding stations. They feed their birds suet and different seeds. just this morning the nut hatches and juncos came to the window sill to eat their breakfast. In all the grades, you will find the same basic founda- tions. All the children are experiencing science. They are finding out about things. The universe is complex, but it can be interpreted and partially understood by in- telligent children who experiment, think, and read. Sci- ence is everchanging. So the children must constantly adjust or change their ideas as they learn more about things. and as they themselves change and gain more efficient control of their enviroinnent. Science - life! For Those Who Aren't Familiar With, .... BOB Cox ON THE second floor of the Campus School, oppo- site Miss Kestner's room, there is a small space - en- closed ancl set aside for science, which is a veritable room-of-all-trades. In this room, first, is a group of science textbooks, which are much used by teachers and pupils alike. In ad- dition, an assistant is present for an hour each school day. He acts as intermediary between the two science departments - that of the College. and that of the Campus School. It is this assistant who, when student or practice teachers need science material, rounds up the material. or gives advice as to where it may be found. XVhen construction activities are planned, this science room becomes a workshop, and a well-equipped one it is, what with tables, vises. and other tools essential to activities requiring handicraft. XV hen teachers use films to enrich the value of the science-units, the science room becomes a theatre. As such, it holds a movie-projector. a lantern machine 1 with a device for projecting book-pictures onto the screenj, dark curtains. and a projector-stand. If one is pressed by messy or unwieldy experiments, this room becomes his laboratory. A very complete lab- it is, too. for there is a full stock of every imaginable. chemical K for elementary school usel, splints, beakers, TOWER LIGHTj 1 l l n Q test tubes, lab table, Bunsen burners, thermometers, wa- V Q ter supply, etc. XV ith these examples the services of the 11 I , f science room are summed up. lt will be seen that thcsc 11 . . . . . ll21Ct1V1t1CS are all directly correlated to and inseparable 1' ' 'Q from the science program. l However. aside from these inside uses, the science i l 1 l ll 1 1 ' Arm.. IN CUE MAILBCX MM... 1 Q ' DID You know that - 1 5 Edward Cersuk, class of '33, is acting vice-principal y of NO. 59? 1 Iohn Horn, class of '30, lerome Denaburg, class of 30, and Nelson Valentine, class of '29, are now in Senior High Schools? 1 Augusta Hillman, class of '29, lolm Keczmerski, class 1 of '28, Wfilliam Seeinan, class of 32, and Margaret Spel- lissy, class of '30, are now in Iunior High Schools? Sidney Chernak, class of '28, is to be principal of night school No. 70A this winter? Ineidentally, his wife, Helen Chernak, '29, gave up the profession for her own family kindergarten. Milton Bergen, class of '32, has left the profession for the business world? Lorelle Headley, class of '37, is still ill? Edward MacCubbin, class of '36, B.S., underwent an operation, and though he is now home, will not get back to work for some time, because of his phlebitis? Ruth Koch. class of '34, is now Mrs. Donald M. VVhite, the wife of a naval ensign, residing at San Diego, California? ,bf A MARRIAGES 'November 26, 1939 - The marriage of Miss Edith Eleanor Bortner, class of 1931 to Mr Ex erett Andrew Tolley of Wfilming- ton Del iware took place November the seventeenth in Coxans Methodist Church. A reception followed at the home of tl e bride on Hilltop Road. Mr. and Mrs Flollcx are spending their honeymoon in Miami, Florida ind on their return will live in Upper Darby, Pennsx lx ania November 30 1939 hun M Lottes 'lhe marriage of Miss Carolyn Blaekmar Rogers. class of 1939 and Mr. James Bernard Marshall, Ir., JANUARY 1940 Mildred Elizabeth Melamet, class of 1937, to VV il- i 'e f . . ' December 3, 1939 - 1 Ar rv I 'C V room is put to serve other needs. Bj, some teacher -, it is used for free-period work, and also for special work with individual students. lohns Hopkins men were using it a few days ago to test the fatigue-quotient in the Cam- pus School children. NEWS took place last evening at St. Pauls Lutheran Church, The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Em- erson Hotel. fff' ANNOUNCEMENTS December 3, 1939 - Mrs. B. Hoffman Knatz, of Delight, Maryland. has announced the engagement of her daughter. Miss Iaequeline Alvery, class of 1932, and Mr. Robert H. Riley, Ir. The wedding will take place Christmas Day. Sports Review - Fairfax Brooke, class of 1933, is identified with many sports and her name has come to be expected every time a contest is held. In addition to tennis. hockey, and lacrosse, she plays badminton, too. In fact, she ranks fifth in the State as a singles player and number one as a doubles player! Cecil County Normal Club KA'rHi3RrNE M. BRiv1 1'oN, Secretary THE CECIL County Normal Club of the Towson State Teachers College was held at the home of Miss K. M. Bratton in Elkton, Saturday, November eigh- teenth. Mrs, Pippin, president of the club. presided. The club had for its project compiling a list of Cecil County graduates, this list was completed as far as it was possible for the committee to do so and was pref sented to Miss Mary Hudson Scarltorougli, Held secrca tary of the Alumni Association. 'l'he speaker for the afternoon was Dr. XVicdefcld. ln an informal talk Dr. VViedefeld told of the activities of the College, its needs. and ways by which the club could help in preparing for the celebrations to be held in 19-10 and 19-tl. Miss Scarf borough told how the club could assist in writing the history of the College. Mrs. Carroll and Nlrs. Croshans brought greetings to the club and suggested how it could assist them in their various duties. A social hour followed, during which refreshments were served. 25 SERVICE STATION FOR STUDENTS lriax Kiuvnrz l. There is too much homework at State Teachers College. 2. Each teacher expects us to do only her assignments. 3. The courses are too intensive for the small amount of time devoted to them. -l. The courses are not balanced. 5. Everybody is different. yet everybody must take the same courses. There should be some elective courses. 6. Some clubs take up so much of our time we can do little else. The above points were sent in to this column for dis- cussion. Heaven help me. though. I think they have me stumped. It is true. many of us have at certain times of the year felt overburdened by the amount of work that seems to pile up all at once: however. we can look at these problems calmly and objectively and perhaps End the cause for our dificulties. Here are some questions we may ask ourselves. If you can answer them honestly. the path may be opened and a feeling of satisfaction for work well done may follow. l. Do we just waste time by worrying about all our lessons instead of sitting down and doing them? 2. Do we know how to study so as to get the best from our courses? fp. Are we taking ourselves too seriously? 4. Have we set up a standard for ourselves that is too high? Do we realize we are no longer among high school students but in a college? 5. Do we understand the purpose of our courses and see their relationships to teaching? 6. Did we come to a country club or to a college to prepare ourselves for teaching? , . Have we undertaken more than we can accomplish? Have we joined too many clubs? Have we under- taken too many activities at the expense of our les- sons? S. Are we merely hopping onto the band wagon of the Evening Sun's Forum? 9. Do wc realize that earning college credits means that for each hour per week of class instruction. a specified amount of study is required? This amount varies from a minimum of one and one-half to two hours of study to each hour of class instruction. depending on the course and the college. Classes which do not carry study assignments cannot give full credit. NVhat is the value of a credit which has no exchange value in a standard market? IO. Do we know how to budget our time? Have we sufficient will power to stick to a schedule? 5 26 Answer these questions truthfully. Here is an open- ing. XVhat do you think about it? Both students and teachers feel that these are questions warranting serious consideration. This column welcomes all suggestions and comments. Editors Note - Points S. 9. and I0 are those of the president of our College. Dr. XViedefeld. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG P.aTRrcLx TIERNDON C U R I O S I TY IS the root of human nature. So. as- suming that we are all human. we have endeavored to satisfy some of that curiosity by bringing to light some of the experiences of our leading citizens. when they were about 3' 2 in height. unsteady of limb. and pow- erful of voice. Edgar Clopper. towering a mighty two feet six. was three years old. Airily attired in a little red dress. his hab- itual costume at that ripe age. he was bravely tottering up the stairs. when the sickening sound of a rip pierced the air. His foot had caught on the hem of his dress. and had sadly torn it. Pausing. and peering thoughtfully at the rip. he muttered defiantly: Oh. well. I never did like the old dress. anyway! lAll I ask is a five-mile running start. Mr. Presidentl A small girl of five and her mother were heading South on the train. The proud parent. turning to say something to her very young daughter. found that the latter had mysteriously disappeared. She was nowhere ' in sight. But after an extensive and rather anxious search. the mother found that her already commercially- minded small daughter had collected the old magazines from amused passengers in her car and was selling them to the passengers in the next car! And even though her first business attempt was halted rather abruptly. thus began the official career of our Student Council vice- president. Betty Steuart. The dolls were hungry - the candy dirt wouldn't stick to make mud pies - the young lady had an imaginative mind. So. what could be simpler than for by her to collect all the eggs she could lay her hands on to f make the pies stick together? Recipe: Stir sand. water. and several dozen fresh eggs together in a container: until it reaches the consistency of plaster of Parisg then put into cakes and - . But there was no need for anyri more of the recipe. for the young chef was sadly inter-lx: rupted by the investigation of her suspicious father. P. S. - Katherine Feaser ate her supper that nightigl standing. : TOWER LIGHT? ' 7. Russell: Resolve to keep from the So XV hat col- I l l r 1 il HATII r S 0 XV. NORRIS XV131s W E LL, A N OTH E R yearg another So XVhat spasm. Guess the editors didn't put a resolution on their list to eliminate our pretentious contribution - so hold fight: here we go again - I yi And the New Year finds a return of our dalfynition de- faartment. Any accepted contribution from our many .readers Qma and mel will be rewarded by the usual :rip to Bermuda or 5.29. So get your offering in early: Q 1. Eskimos: God's frozen people. . 2, Hie-cup: Echo from departed spirits. 3. Drizzle: A drip who is going steady. Q Students' New Year Resolutions 1. Cernik: Resolve not to have Love in Bloom for number one theme song. Z. Hillyard: Resolve to find out what Marguerite wants for next Christmas. 3. Lerner: Resolve to use terminology that will be comprehensible to all students and freshmen. 4. MeCarriar: Resolve to get new glasses. lust when everything seems to be all Vxfright, someone Clog- ged up his spectacles. 5. Shules: Resolve not to kiss any more young ladies' 1 hands in the hallway. QAre you listenin', Margy?j 6. Margy Owings: Resolve to adopt and execute a bigger and better sneeze. uinn this year. lHa, hall I Freshman Caper Miss Blood fto Freshman Section - Geography 102D : Who can tell me from your extensive readings what lay is the longest day of the year? Bright Frosh fwho read VERY widelyl: The day Adam was born, for on that day there was no Eve. I Of course, that isn't as bad as Adam's return when, to his embarrassment. he found that Eve had made a dorm salad out of his Sunday suit. I might add. if l ihad the nerve, that while the salad was well dressed, .Adam was not. F il ' Student Suggestions for Faculty Resolutions il 1. Miss Bersch: Resolve to investigate and find the meaning of nbookief' 2. Miss Birdsong: Resolve to build biwer bulletin boards for students not to read. bb V-'JANUARY - 1940 3. Mr. Crook: Resolve to wear Rangers uniform at least once a week in response to numerous requests. 4. Miss Greer: Resolve to let dorm students have two desserts every meal. J. Miss Wleyforth: Resolve to keep up on all new waltz steps. CSee Dotty De Carlo for ultra new waltzesj 6. Mr. XValther: Resolve not to say SO YVHAT after each pertinent fact in class. 0 Screams lDedicated to Curley Martin, with apologies to the authors There are screams that make us jumpy, There are screams that make us grave. There are screams that make us scared all over, As the scream which A'he-mann Tarzan gave: There are screams as horrible as can be, That come from frights that we have had in dreams: But the scream that lingers in our mem'ry ls the scream that Ruth Nizer screams. O VVell, another spasm is concluded fthank goodnessl: but we must get in our latest gag: Lady fto drugstore elerkl: Do you have any Life- buoy? Clerk: Set the pace. lady. set the pace. 0 XVe'l1 resolve to give you better write-ups if you'll do more things for me to write about. XVe1l, l'll count on you, but Hnally - So YVhat? ll oaps ! ll R. I. G. A Bouquet to Santa For taking the hint about Shepherds Crook ! Perplexing Problem And where do you think she 'Awill soon surrender- in the yard, on the 'thill -or at Reads? Qlust callin' 'ttentien to 'dvertiseincnts We need 'em. bv the wav! sg: sg: s,-1 Merely Inquisitive lust what has Senior T to do with B. Sfs alban com- plex? Does she have the 'Awhitc idea? If Dave H. enjoys playing peg, tell nie-is it the property he craves or her heart? QUOTATIONS If wc represent the period of all life on this planet by one revolution of the minute hand of a watch, the period of human life is covered by one-half minute, and recorded history by two seconds. The most important part of living is not the liv- ing. but the pondering upon it. -Arrowsmith, by Sin- clair Lewis. HThc unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates. They never want to die, because they are always learning and always creating either things of wisdom, or at least dreaming of them. -Back to hlethuselah, by G. B. Shaw. Only he who has failed to perceive the immensity of the universe and the insigniticance of man will dare to say AI knowf Ignorance is always dogmatic. -A Book of Wfisdom. in a Student in Arms, by Donald Hankey. There was no strength, no grace, no knowledge that Martin Arrowsmith did not covet . . . he was hungry for every skill. -Arrowsmith. p. 43. by Sinclair Lewis. A man could take a chance and find out. 'AT rue Science is the experience of man with the ma- terial world. True Religion is the experience of man with the spiritual world. They can never conflict. -Dr. George Schuster QPittsburghj . XVhen we theorize we give our Gods an airingf, Hset The obligations incumbent upon science . . . seeing to it that the sciences which are taught are themselves more concerned about creating a certain mental atti- tude than they are about purveying a fixed body of in- formation to adopt into the very make-up of their minds those attitudes of open-mindedness, intel- lectual integrity, observation, and interest in testing their opinions and beliefs that are characteristic of the scientific attitude. -john Dewey. Teachers talso Parentsj : Teachers in two large cities were asked to list the misbehavior problems encountered in their classrooms. The result showed that lack of respect for authority was of all bad behavior considered most reprehensible. XVhispering, inattention, disorder in class, speaking out of turn. acting smart, were bad conduct. Shyness, suspicion. temper outbursts, eowardiee were rated of less importance. Thirty mental hygienists of the child guidance clinics of Cleveland, Philadelphia and Newark were then asked to give their opinions on the relative importance of the behavior disorders reported by the teachers. Their End- ings indicate a widely different interpretation of what is undesirable in classroom behavior. -Children's Behavior and Teachers' Attitudes, The Commonwealth Fund, 41 East 57th Street, New York Citv. up our Gods. -tGreck 'ATheory - procession of the f'Physics is the endeavor of science to solve the mys- Godsfj tery of the universe. -Einstein and Enfelcl. Facts About Science I. Since 1910, over 3.000 minor planets have been dis- covered by astronomers. tSomcthing else to learn in Dr. XV.'s coursej 2. An aviator made a flight in Alaska Ianuary, 193-l. when the thermometer was 7l degrees below zero. tAnd we howl at gym outside when it is 71 above.J 3. For eight years the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens have given a course to student nurses. teaching such sub- jects as the care of cut flowers. tXVhy not to student teachers also?j 4. .X Hsh can be drowned! Take the oxygen out of water and the fish will 'tdrownf' tDrowning is really a form of strangulation, so therell D. If you want to know whether the girl friend is a blonde by destiny or desire, take her down to the 28 beach. A true blonde. according to an anthropolo- gist, is one who dees not tan when sunburned, but blisters and peels. 6. One person in 3,000,000 has seen a meteorite fall to earth. tGosli. I almost said meteor. j f. China's daily newspaper. the Peking Gazette, was issued regularly from T13 A. D. to 1911. fAnd we call ourselves civilizedj S. XVarning to Mr. Mosers class: According to Mayan' Indians the Hreflv once exercised his brains so hard, he began to glow! 9. Cutting a hole in the head was an ancient cure for sinus. tThe operation was slightly marred by the fact that the patient died.l ' TOWER LIGHT. p OT TIONS 'Lifez A bird half-wakened in the lunar noon i Sang halfway through its little iiiborn tune. Xl -Q Partly because it sang but once all night And that from no especial bushls heights Partly because it sang ventriloquist T And had the inspiration to desist l Almost before the prick of hostile ears, 5 lt ventured less in peril than appears. 4 It could not have come down to us so far, T Through the iiiterstiees of things ajar On the long bead chain of repeated birth . To be a bird while we are men on earth If singing out of sleep and dream that way Had made it much more easily a prey. -R. Frost -- On a Bird Singing in its Sleep. l V. ll i i i I VFreedom of Speech: Y VVithout free speech no search for truth is possibleg ivvithout free speech no discovery of truth is usefulg with- out free speech progress is checked and the nations no fionger march forward toward the nobler life which the l l future holds for man, Better a thousandhfold the abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day. but the denial slays the life of thc people and entombs the hope of the race. -Charles Brad! laugh Qlinglish refoimerrl. 'L . . . how little science has done to clarify the essence and character of man .... lt was as though the older feeling of angelic overtones in human nature held man could be objective about anything except this lofty crea- ture made according to celestial modes. Turning his new appliances and techniques upon himself, he felt a difli- denee, a certain sense of impropriety, And on the diffi- denee thrived . . . the mischicfs of . . . all the . . . architects of chaos. YVays YVC Cheat Children: Giving them patronage without partnership. knowl- edge without understanding. punch without power, and education Without eharacter.''-Ralph Socknian, pastor of Christ Church, Methodist Episcopal. of New York. Ch. Ed.. September, l938. l RVATIIERINE Lxeoiz and ELIZABETH lX'IELENDEZ TXVO CENTLEMEN who. for several hours one night, had been assuaging their thirst at a club, left together to go home. As they were meandering down the street laughing and singing, one of them suddenly became serious and 'poetieally remarked to the other, 'She the ben'fnl 'moonf' The other indignantly remarked, A' 'Tainlt the moon, 's the sun. The retort came back, 'Tain't, 's the imoonf' They argued back and forth for some time and finally decided to leave the decision to the next passerby. Shortly a figure appeared coming down the sidewalk ion a zigzag course similarly to that which they had followed. As he came abreast of them they stopped ,ihim and lengthily explained the subject under discus- sion and asked him to decide it for them. The stranger gazed thoughtfully at the heavens for :several minutes and then, turning to the two sports, he lisaid, A'Pardon me, ge'men, I really can't tellg l'm a stranger here myself. ,JANUARY - 1940 Mistress: Did the fisherman who called here this morning have frogs legs? Servant: 'fSurc, mum, l don't know. He wore pants. Romantic young lady, spending the summer on a farm: lust hear those old trees in the orchard moan and groan in the storm, like the crying of a lost soul!'l Small boy: XVell, I guess if you were as full of green apples as they are. you'd make a racket yourself. A farmer who went to a large city to see the sights engaged a room at a hotel and. before retiring, asked the clerk about the hours for dining. XVe have breakfast from six to eleven. dinner from eleven to three. and supper from three to eight. exf plained the clerk. VVa-al. say. inquired the farmer in surprise. what time air I goin' ter git ter see the town? 29 GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR , a Neills Charles Street at Lexington Compliments of . . TOWSON THEATER The Secunia ,Rational Bank uf Ulutnsun, jllflh. LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Diseifiminating Tastes Prefer Esskay Quality MEAT PRODUCTS 30 All This and Plaster, Too qContinued from page IT! with the stuff again. XYCII, the day I started the casts, I entered the work- room prepared to turn out something that would make Michelangelo blush for shame. Ah, ignorance! But it wasn't that my procedure wasn't orderly - oh, no, My materials were all ready - all, that is, except a can in which to mix the plaster. But after a fierce battle with three wild-eyed individuals, who were evidently doing the same thing I was, I secured a dented tin can and calmly proceeded with my work. Brother, I stirred that plaster of Paris until I thought I'd see my arm lying on the Hoor by itself, and still it wouldnt get the con- sistency of thick cream. And that is where my iinagi- nation started to work - and that is also where trouble gave me the old utwo-three. I discarded the stick with which I had been stirring and began to mix with my lingersg I was rather proud of that thought - until the plaster of Paris hardened around my hand! It was really a rather nice cast of a hand. too, after I got the can off. In fact. it was the best cast I made. The second job I turned out was as heaxy as pig iron and twice as messyg I ended its career by dropping it on my foot, thereby nearly ending my foot's career. The third cast never hardened - it is still in the soup stage. although I am very optimistic about it. I shall not discuss the other difficulties I met with. I shall only say that live of the creations are resting in Mr, Crooks room. awaiting a verdict. But I am very' calm about the whole thing now. I feel no violence whatever toward the inventor of plaster of Paris. al- though I did when making the castsg and I no longer look up ancient torture methods to use on the aforesaid inventor. But I have resolved one thing: neither fire nor flood, earthquake nor Science will ever move me to make an- other plaster cast: never, brethren. never! ,rf Mr. XYood, a man very fond of playing jokes. met his friend, Mr. Stone and at once inquired jocosely: Hello, Stone, how are Mrs. Stone and all the little pebbles? Fine, said Mr. Stone. all well, thank young and then, with a twinkle in his eye: MI-low are Mrs. YVOOE and all the little splinters? A Isle who can, does, llc who cannot. teaches. Tim: What is untold wealth? lfathcr: 'Ilhat which is not revealed to the Income Tax man. TOWER LIGHT l I-low It Began lContinucd from page Z1 H suggestive of thc flute. The bumping of a branch against a hollow trcc might well ihave led to the drum. A rudimentary harp may have been suggested by the twanging of a bowstring. Although man was able to reproduce sounds from nature. he was content with the mere imitation. making no effort to combine the iinitations into melody or to make new ones. For innninerable centuries music made no further progress. Even today among the lesser civil- ized peoples of the world one may hnd those who are content to continue their portrayal of nature for time 1 without end. r I 'gy' 1 XVould you like to join our football team? I don't know enough about the game to play, but 5 l'm willing to referee. ze st -4: l ln the legal world, what's right is right, and what is iileft is the client's. :tr 1.2 if Tea and coffee are the only two drinks never asso- ciated with the toast of the town. 4. .-, .-, ,,. ,,. ,,. English prof.: Mr. Gish. correct this sentence. 'Girls y is naturally better looking than boys. Ioe Gish: Girls is artificially better looking than boys. .-. .v. .L ,,. .,. .,. Frosh: Transfer, please. Conductor: XVhere to? Frosh: Can't tell you. lt's a surprise party. sg: 13: 4 FIGURE IT OUT If a train travels 45 miles an hour, how old is the en- gineer? fThanks, Mr. Moser.l Foreign Feat Help! Help! cried an Italian laborer near the mud iflats of the Harlem River. i XVhat's the matter. came a voice from the con- yistruction shanty. 'Queeckl Bringa da shov! Bringa da peek! Giovanni's T Stuck in da mud! l K ' Y 1 How far in? ' li Up to his knees. gg Let him walk out. UNO, no! Hc caima walk! 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PAUL STREET - - - - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND To Be Read In a Minor Key BIARGARE1' CARTER l play the piano right sadlyg l sing. but l'ni always off key: l draw. but my pictures are lousy - And nobody pities poor ine. I jest. but niy jokes all are pointlessg I run, but l eoine in too late: l love. but without any passion: l hate with a ineek sort of hate. l sigh. but my sigh comes out trcinblyz My cakes are as flat as can be. My friends say. You're lucky. You're different. And nobody pities poor ine. A young inan stayed up all night figuring out where the sun went when it went down. lt finally dawned on hiin. A lady in Boston. who was suffering froin a slight indisposition. told her husband that it was with the greatest difliculty that she could breathe. and the effort distressed her exceedingly. l wouldnt try. iny dear. soothingly responded the kindhearted husband. Fanner's wife lto druggisth : Now be sure and write plain on the bottles which is for Hank and which is for the horse. l wouldnt want anything to happen to that horse before spring plowing. You W'ill Be .-X Xvelcoine Depositor In Che Bank nf Zgaltimnre Qiountp YORK ROAD . . . TOVC' SON, MD. Deposits Guaranteed to 55,000.00 HARRY C. LANGGOOD 402 YORK ROAD. XEXT TO C1113s,xP13.aKE Ayn. TOWSON. BID. Skilled W'attb, Clock, Jewelry, Eye Glass and Fountain Pen Repairing-Diuzlzoml Setting Instructor lin geography lesson 1: Now, can anyone tell ine where we find lll3llgOCS?n Gob: Yes. XYliere':er woman goes. -Evening Sun. All State Teachers College Students Are Cordially Invited To Pfztrouize The T O W S O N D I N E R Best Food and Sandwiches At All Hours 61 1 Y O R K R O A D TOWSON. XIARYLAXD DIAY KYE BE 0F SERVICE? IIIICIISCIIILD K 0 Il N 8 C 0. Baltimore 32 TOWER LIGHT .nv -gg , 4 ,, ,,, VV W 44 ' '-' -fu . 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' ,- 4, A - V' ,' ' fp I M- . --1'-'., . w ' mf- Fl '-.4 'W ,. 4 , ' ,-4.., .-,, - -.5 4 4, ' M' T-5 : - 055 -'52 f-X'f 'i- ' ' ..m- Q, V V - 4 -- 4. 4,,-W: V+., 1. AZN Fx, S Watch the change to Chesterfield DONNA DAE says CHESTERFlELD'S JANUARY GIRL FRED WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS FORECASTING MORE SMOKING PLEASURE FOR IQ4O Y Wea Change to Chesterfields and y0u'1l get what you want . . . real mildness and better taste. .g , ,Tm MYERS You can't buy a better cigarette. Z6l'LL6U'y 1 60 WET Eiqkf HERE'S ROY CONACHER KNO. 9l. HIGH - SCORING FORXVARD OF THE BOSTON BRUINS, . WORLD E N' ' n 0, CHAMPIONS of '39m IN THIS ACTION SHOT he's come in like a bullet from HE'5 AWAY! He burns up the ice-a spectacu- an express riHe...he takes a pass. But the- opposition's lar solo dash...nimbly he dodges the defense defense stops him-this time. ...draws out the goalie and scores. His hockey's fast and hot! BUT HE SMOKES A SLOW-BURNING 'INQ- cv ,A N - S., CIGARETTE FOR MORE MILDNESS, COOLNESS, AGAIN a furious Hash of speed...a split-second AND FLAVOR of stick magic...and the puck shoots home for the goal that wins the match. Ilubezz ilk easy-chair time uhm' the hockey elljofizlg 11 milder, cooler. more j9'agr1111t, PEED'S fine in hockey but not in cig- arettes -Roy, how right you are! Research men may use fancier lan- guage- but they say exactly the same thing about cigarettes. Scientists know that nothing destroys a cigarettes delicate elements of fragrance and flavor so mercilessly as-excess beat, And cigarettes that burn fast also burn boi, Your own taste tells you that. Slow-burning cigarettes dorft burn SPEEDS FINE IN HOCKEY BUT NOT IN CIGARETTES. I LIKE SLOW-BURNING CAMELS. . . TI-IEY'RE MILDER AND coousk qs. :- lzmfrlr. -1011.11-fill!! Roy Comzfber ofthe Bruins and f1I1z'orj?1l I.'I:gl17'E'ffE. .. Camels, of l'0lH'XL'. away these precious natural elements of flavor and fragrance. They're milder, mellower, and-naturally-cooler! And the xlozrext-b1n'r1ir1g cigarette of the 16 largest-selling brands tested was Camelmthey burned 2552 slower than the average of the 15 others. fSee pmzel ar rigbm Why' not enjoy Camel's extra mildness, coolness, fragrance, and fla- vor? And extra smoking equal to S ex- tra smokes per pack. fflgain, eyes rigblfl FOR MILDNESS, COOLNESS, AND FLAVOR SLOW- BURNING COSTLIER Copyright. 1940 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Commun In recent laboratory tests, Camels burned 2557? slower than the av- erage of the 15 other of the larg- est-selling brands tested-slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to lic-Twig? EX?RA , +1 gl I SMOKES ...gggmx PER PACK: TOBA CCOS y, Ivinswn-salem, Norm can-:mn R 21 I Ii THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. FIEDLER KATHERINE FEASER RICHARD CUNNINGHARI CHARLES CROSS CIRCULATION MANAGERS Esther Royston Margaret Heck Virginia Roop Norma Gambrill ADVERTISING MANAGERS Elizabeth VVeems Tillie Gold Ieanette Iones Margaret Lowry BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt Iohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Art Dorothy Snoops Alice Trott Miriam Kolodner Audrey Pramschufer Marguerite VVilSon Humor Katherine Iacob Frances Shores Elizabeth Melendez Science Lee McCarriar Iohn Chilcoat Ianies O'Connor Athletics Henry Steckler Catherine Paula Nolan Chipman Library Elizabeth Zentz Audrey Horner Doris Klank Mary Di Peppi Service Station Ieanne Kravetz General Literature Nannette Trott Irma Sennhenn Patricia Herndon Music Sydney Baker Exchanges Mildred Hainent Faxhions Marie Parr Dorothy Sisk College Events Helen Picck Howard Stottlemyer Mary Brashears Nancy Metzger OW LQXLLIIEHT V01-X111 ff FEBRUARY - 1940 w NO-5 CONTENTS PAGE INTERNATIONAL HUMOR . 2 THE TAIVIING OF THE SHREW . 2 IVIARK TXVAIN,S HUMOR . 4 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU . . S A HEART DISTURBING CUSTOM , 6 LEAP YEAR . . . 7 COULDNYT IT HAPPEN HERE? . 8 CARTOONING IN BRIEF . 9 WHAT,S IN YOUR NAME? . 10 How TO CURE A COLD . , 11 CAN YOU TELL A IOKE? . , 12 DEMONS OF RENUNCIATION . , 13 NIGHTLIARE . . . , 14 POETRY . , 15 EDITORIALS . . , 16 COLLEGE CALENDAR . . IS COLLEGE NOTES . . . . I9 MEET CHARLES KELLER AND FAINIILY . Z0 SPORTS ..... 21 THE LIBRARY . . , 22 CABIPUS SCHOOL HUIXIOR . . 2-I USO VVHATT' . . . Z5 I SHALL NEVER FORGET . . 26 A SATIRE ON LIFE . . 27 XV INTER INTERLUDE . . ZS IHIUIXIOR . . . 29 ADVERTISEINIENTS . 30 PHOTOGRAPHS . . Lee Mc-Carriar Efii f l THE TOVVER LIGHT is published monthly - Ocfobef Calvin Parker ' Catlmine Gm, through june - by the Students of the State Teachers College Iflmes ICU i at Towson, Maryland. . ALICE MUNN - - lIfIaIIagiIIg Editor S150 PER YEAR . . 20 CENTS PER COPY International Humor DOROTHY Srsrc MOST OF the leading nations of today are aware of the fact that humor finds its way into national and in- ternational affairs. Humor, as employed by large papers throughout the United States, is used chiefly to align the American people against anti-American doctrine. Cartoonists on these papers are skilled in the art of bringing out the irony in a situation, of exaggerating the features of prominent world figures and, in general, of giving every important topic a humorous touch. Hitler's familiar moustache has replaced President Roosevelt's broad smile, and who will soon forget the epidemic of cartoons showing big Iapan chasing little China? Laughter is used to feed grudges, to deepen prejudices, and to foster irritating dissensions. However, laughter is not devoted solely to creating stage lrishmen, Iohn Bulls. Uncle Sams. and to pro- ducing annoying newspaper caricatures, cartoons. and bitter jests. On occasion. genuine humor plays a grate- ful part in relieving international tension and in renew- ing friendship and good feeling. A delightful instance of such took place in 1896 dur- ing the excitement created by President Cleveland's bombshell message on the Venezuelan boundary dis- pute. The summer before, Lord Dunraven. lrish yachts- man, had cut a poor figure as challenger for thelAmer- ican cup. Dunraven had been peevish and had made many baseless complaints. Among other charges he in- sisted that he had lost one race because the swells from the sightseeing boats had slowed his boat down. This poor sportsmanship was deplored in England as well as in the United States. All this was in the public mind when Cleveland's mes- sage startled America and Britain. The papers exploited the affair sensationally. Public feeling reached a high pitch. XV hen the report came that the British Channel Fleet had sailed under sealed orders, the situation grew suddenly tense. At this very critical moment, the Lon- don Stock Exchange sent the New York Stock Exchange the following cable: XV hen the British fleet sails up the New York harbor, please see that it is not interrupted by excursion steamersf' A roar of laughter burst forth' on both sides of the Atlantic and absurd fears were swept away. Laughter proved to be the successful anti- dote in relieving a serious situation. lt is an accepted fact that all nations have a different sense of the ridiculous. But whatever the truth about the characteristic national types, there can be no doubt that humor is a unifying influence in the life of every social group. large or small. Instant. spontaneous laugh- ter reveals a common background of expression and allusion. of the Shrew ' W Q 6 by YVILLIABI SHAKESPEARE Q! A shrew means a gal whose temper is fieryg who is never satisfied with thingsg nagging, peevish, always Ending fault. cYou married guys is got the idea. roughly, ain't you?J Condensed by E. Koontz. with apologies to the author and Munro Leaf. creator of Ferdinand the Bull. NVE ARE to suppose. with the above in mind. that Katharina. the elder daughter of Baptista. a rich guy of Padua. a dinky little resort near Venice iwoo! woo!j. lNIussolini's territory, was so ill-tempered that she rated being called one of these shrews. Of course. she might not have been at heart. but she gave everybody that impression, anyway. You see. she'd been spoiled by Mamma and Papa as a kid. and. teachers. you know how habits are formed. This made her an unpleasant com- panion and her chances of being shelved were pretty 2 goodg although all the Village Cut-Ups knew a hunk of dough would go with her. ,bf Quite the opposite to Katharina was her kid sister, Bianca. A beautiful hunk of baggage, gentle and wina some fwhatever that means! in her character. and be- loved by all. so we may be sure there was no shortage of guys giving each other the works in order to grab her' off. Bappy fthat's her Pal let it out that no one was TOWER LIGHT going to get hitched to Bianca before Katharina was first settled in a dump of her own with little feet pattering around. ln the meantime, hc intended his kids to have the best education and advertised for any good tutors who might be recommended to him. fb' Lucentio, a rich young fellow from Pisa, came to col- lege in Padua, as Padua was a college town. Of course, he started out with good intentions to pursue his stud- ies, but after lamping Bianca a few times, he switched pursuits. fi Knowing Bappy wanted tutors for his daughters, Smart-Stuff Lucentio had his valet, one Tranio, whom he could trust fha! halj, to impersonate a rich man from Pisa who wished to date Bianca steady. Of course, -while all the preparations between the Old Man and lTranio were going on, Lucentio hit Bappy at the right imoment for the job of tutor to Bianca. QThese old-time gguys were plenty fast, also had good ideas.j He landed the job and soon took Bianca's mind off her studies. ,inf In the meantime, one of Bianca's other suitors, a gent 'named Hortensio, had enlisted the aid of a screwball friend from Verona, who undertook no less a task than to marry Katharina, and thus leave the other Bimbo free to marry Hortensio. The screwball's name was Petru- jchio, who Shakespeare says was at once clever, mas- ' terful, high-spirited. See, a screwball. L fff' Petruchio began his love-inaking Qain't that quaint?j by calling her real familiar-like, Kate, This burned her T up, but as that was his intention, he says: Aw, she's just L 'passing gentle'. Qlf he meant passing the way I could take it to be, l'd have ducked out the nearest alleyway.j Well, she took a few passes at him and he turns right i-around and gives her a few slaps in the kisser and told her he was going to marry her. The Old Man makes his 'appearance and the Screwball tells him real cool like that they were getting spliced the following Sunday. ,bf i' On the fatal morning, Petruchio arrives dressed like a fclown. He believed in something old, something new. isomething borrowed, and something blue. but he put jthe emphasis on the part about old and borrowed, His ij clothes were old, and he was riding an old broken-down snag that he had snitched from the local riding academy. ji V n 1, 2' it The Old Man, who was a stickler for social standing :land a lot of show: namely, headlines in the Society Col- VFEBRUARY - 1940 . . I l i uinn of the local rag, raised a fuss, Kate threw a fit, but the Screwball stood his ground and thc hitching came off with him in his crazy outht. He even rode the old nag into the living room - pardon me, parlor. Of course, this guy had had a stiff course in psychology and all this comedy was part of his plan for the taining of the Shrew. In the church he cut up something awful, insulting the priest, and kissing Katharina so loudly that the whole place echoed with Vesuvian lushings. He skipped the family frolie and latched off for Verona with Kate sit- ting on his horse behind him. And that was no com- fortable rumble seat. 2' The journey was one long series of screwball antics, and the bridegrooin behaved as if he cared nothing for his bride. QOh, by the way, Petruchio really did get a few offbeats in the cardiac region when he looked at his Kate.j The last part of the journey they had to hike it because Pete whipped the horses into flight. They got to his house feeling as if they had been on a bender for a couple of months and Pete made matters worse by complaining about everything, and throwing things around, especially the servants, who were all acrobats and had been tipped off before what was going to hap- pen to them. 2' Pete kept it up so consistently that Kate didn't have a chance to act up. He was beating her down by cram- ming her own tactics down her throat. Hortensio came in for dinner and Pete decided that they would return to Padua with him Qsee, he wore the pants in the fam- ilyj, promising that they would wear clothes befitting their rank. VV hen the servants brought in costumes for Pete and Kate to choose from, Pete threw them on the Hoor and raised Hail Columbia. VVhen they left, Pete was wearing old clothes and nothing that he had on matched its partner. 2' In Kate's home town, meanwhile Qto be poetiej , Bap- py had promised Bianca would be married to her richest suitor, and this was Tranio, who was playing Lucentio's part, while the latter pretended to be merely the teacher of Latin and Greek. COf course, we know better: neck- ing behind a copy of Homerj Tranio arranged with an elderly stooge to impersonate the father of Lucentio, and got him to give his consent to the wedding. invit- ing Bappy to his bachelor apartment to arrange the mat- ter, while Bianca was to follow with a servant. gThcy were quite hep to traditions and lots of ceremony in those days.j fContinucd on page 303 3 Mark Twain' s Humor Dorus H13NKL1s THE NAME and fame of Mark Twain as America's foremost humorist deservedly towers over all other writ- ers who might claim such a title. Even in his life time his reputation as a humorous genius spread all over the world and his work was translated into many languages. It is unanimously agreed by many critics that Mark Twain far exceeded and surpassed all his contemporaries and predecessors. Born during the period when American comedy was making rapid strides, in 1835. Mark Twain grew up in a small town on the Mississippi - the same region where the Crockett humor had a strong foothold and the tall tale had its beginning. As a young printer, he must have read the newspapers that were so full of comic narratives, he must have felt keenly and admired that spirit of burlesque that was popular. Aside from his using personal experiences as a basis for his wit, it is believed by some critics that Mark Twain used as literary models some of the humorists of the old South. For example, in Blair's Native American Humor, a striking likeness is pointed out between B. P. Shillaber's Partington books dealing with the mischiev- ous Ike Partington, and Clemen's Tom Sawyer. lt is granted that, although Twain, in Tom Sawyer, por- trayed Aunt Polly as a much better characterization than any created by other humorists, he modeled one very similar to Shillaber's Mrs. Partington. There is more than a physical resemblance between these female characters. Both were widows burdened with caring for mischievous nephews. and both had the same idea about patent medicines and the disciplining of their nephews. The greatest gift of Southwest humor to Mark was the gift of a narrative method so evident in The Cele- brated Iumping Frog story. Again we find this not orig- inal. The tale was an old mining camp story told with variations fseveral timesj in a California newspaper. XVhen Mark told this story he made it his own by em- ploying the effective technique of having an old char- acter, Simon XVheeler. relate the narrative and at the same time reveal many of his characteristics. This tech- nique of employing a narrator was oirginal. but in the subtle revelation of personality it was exactly the style of T. B. Thorpe's Big Bear of Arkansas. of the Sut Lov- ingood yarns and many other old stories. Mark Twain employed an air of innocence and sur- prise delightful for keeping the reader in suspense till the end of his passage. He used successfully most au- thors' favorite tool of exaggeration, although at times 4 he developed his material into forms too fantastic to be amusing .Mr. De Voto, in a study of Mark Twain, char- acterized his style when he said: He took the humorous anecdote, combined it with autobiographical reminiseenee. and so achieved the nar- rative form best adapted to his mind. In Innocents Abroad. Clemens uses this method. Descriptive passages interrupt the narrative from time to time but its steady progress is accomplished by means of stories. The same framework produces Roughing It, A Tramp Abroad, and Life on the Mississippi. lf it is agreed by critics that early American humor gave Mark Twain his ideas, methods, and materials, we still think his success was due to his own great genius in being able to narrate. characterize. depict accurately, and joke naturally. lust as he is supposed to have ae- quired technique from his contemporaries. so will pos- terity acquire benefits from him, for he has contrib- uted works in American humor that are unequalled and priceless. What Makes Humor? ESTA BABLAN YO U LAY aside a book with a feeling of intense sat- isfaction, still chuckling inwardly at the closing episode. Should anyone question you as to the merit of the book, C-rand amusement, excellent humor, might be your reply. But few readers can analyze the qualities that go into the making of a successful humorous story. Skillful authors. however. are well aware of ways to evoke both silent laughter and appreciative giggles. The mere naming of a character is often enough to conjure up in the mind's eye a figure ridiculous for some exaggeration of form or manner. or a face bewitching for its umisualness. Charles Dickens was such a master of the art of nomenclature. that we often encounter people who seem the incarnation of those people who graced the pages of his many novels. Once off to a good start. the writer has at his com- mand the invahiable aid of scenery and props. Over-i turning a vase at a critical moment may serve to upset. the dignity of Mrs. Pompous and chalk up another hap- py. though disrespectful. deed for Little Abner. Typical expressions. that fall into that class by con-- TOWER ,LIGHT I l i i stant repetition, are useful not only in identifying an individual, but in making this character truly a friend of the reader. Sympathetic smiles break through every time the hero of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen moaned Ye Cods, mother! and expectant groans of amaze- ment every time his lady-love calls Ickle-boy, Baxter!!! Christopher Billopp, of our own day, employs the trait of human nature that makes us willing to tolerate both exaggerations and gross understatements from those we like. In fact, Mr. B. goes one step farther in making his chief character you, Though we are reluctant to admit it, we are even will- jiing to enjoy time-worn jokes and puns, provided they l are used in a novel manner - So Pat said to Mike is I gradually finding its way into the best of literature. Even slap-stick comedy is quite often as acceptable in jvwritten form as are subtly concocted witticisms. l S0 there you have it - the writer's bag of tricks, iRemember, though, that they are the rules of his writ- fing, not of your reading, Keep them in mind only for lthat time when you may seek to use your pen. Continue ireading for the joy of it - and say, did you hear the one labout Mr. Creenwagon and the pony-cart? ,I B' 'ro You: i FRANCES SHORES FE B R U A R Y , S O the encyclopedia says, is the birth- day of some of the world's most famous sons and daugh- ters, Not having the right to contradict a higher author- ity, I shall proceed with what I have to say and let you judge for yourselves. Strangely enough, Dr. XViedefeld's birthday comes on iiGroundhog Day. This does not imply, however, that 'there is any resemblance between the two. But, both of :them do have their sunny and their cloudy hours. Dr. 'Wiedefelcl's optimism about our new gymnasium has brought us to the state where we can see it adorning our :campus - spiritually, if not bodily. Then there are her g.dark hours when we listen to her righteous indignation labout spilled ink and chewing gum wads, lf YVhat now follows will probably rate me a dishonor- jllable dismissal from the TowER LIGHT staff, but they say we have freedom of the press, so if worst comes to worst, j-I shall demand justice from the Supreme Court. Miss lyMunn and Henry VVadsworth Longfellow have birth- uldays on the same date. Since I can find no fitting simile. -I shall, with all due respect to the poet, dedicate the following parody of his poem, f'The Children's Hour, f-to Miss Munn: L l WFEBRUARY . iam fi ODE TO Miss MUNN Between the dark and the daylight, XVhen last night was beginning to lower, Came a pause in my days occupation, NVhieh I christened the Towria Lierrr Ilour. I heard in the corridors 'round me The clatter of overgrown feet, The sounds of doors that were open, And voices far from sweet. My brain was working with misses, Inspiration was not mine, And I began to envy Ilitler XVith his brown shirts on the Rhine. Do you know, my dear Miss Munn, That my head is not at my call, And when I have to write articles, I have no brains at all? In that condition I shall stay forever, Yes, forever and a clay. And if my mind eruinbles to ruin, You shall have to put me away! Another birthday on the date of Longfellow's! Is she like the poet? f'Listen, and you shall hear Uthe mur- muring pines and hemlocks and a 'fwhir of wings in the drowsy air as you stroll on the Audubon Trail. Look, and you shall see a figure, in the late evening, carefully putting out seed for a scarlet friend. Yes, Miss Brown was born in February, too. I need not compare them as authors - surely you don't want me to mention UA Cuide to Student Teaching. But love of nature is a fitting comparison. Since Miss Stitzel and Miss Yoder both have birth- days in February, we think it a proper thing to declare a joint holiday for them on an appointed date. At this time the student body will celebrate the occasion by: 1. Refraining from long and loud conversations in the Library. 2. Refraining from using the Library as a lunchrooin. 3. Paying all fees on over-due books. Such a celebration might be so successful that we could try it again before next year rolls around. Dr. Tansil, Miss Roach, and Mrs. Brouwer also have birthdays in February. XVe might offer the following suggestions as a fitting way to spend the day: I. Dr. Tansil - to hold open house for her personal record tiles so we may see ourselves as others see us. Z. Miss Roach - to allow her classes to be irrespoii- sible for a day. 3. Mrs. Brouwer - to read what Lin Yutang thinks about Hrushingn Americans. Now that all is said and all is done, we wish all of you a happy birthday. You may never get in XVho's W'ho in America, but you will still be our famous Childrcn. 5 A Heart Disturbing ustom XV H E T H E R and if so, from whom it will come, are often questions which so till our waking thoughts that we are little con- cerned about how such a heart-disturbing custom orig- inated. But upon searching, the writer found that St. Valentines Day has quite an interesting pedigree. OR not we shall receive a valentine, In Rome. before there were any saints or saints' days, there was a festive day in honor of Lupercus, the great wolf destroyer. On that day, Lupercalia, the young peo- ple drew lots to find who would be their partners for the next year. Later, when the heathen festivals were weeded from the Roman calendar, Lupercalia was re- placed by St. Valentine's Day, in honor of St. Valen- tine. a priest who had died a martyr's death in 270 A. D., and whose saint's day fell near Lupercalia. Then, too, St. Valentine was the patron saint of lovers, so some of the Romair customs were kept. However, it is from England that most of the present Valentine Day customs come. The day was adopted in England because on that day the birds were supposed to mate. In that country the sending of valentines was exceedingly popular, for there are records of many which Charles, the Duke of Grleans. composed while he was in prison. There are also, to be found in old collections, valentines to suit people of every profession, from the carpenter to the lawyer. English literature, too, furnishes references to the observance of this day. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophe- lia says: Good morrow, 'tis St. Valentines Day All in the morning betime And I a maid at your window To be your Valentine. Q Could it have been leap year?j Samuel Pepys' Diary contains reference to the giving of valentines. The cus- tom of the gentlemen giving gifts. accompanied by notes, was quite popular by this time and it is to this that Samuel Pepys refers. A Miss Stuart drew the name of the Duke of Richmond and received a jewel worth about S-l.000. The gentleman whose name she drew the next year gave her a ring worth about Sl.500. The young lady who drew Mr. Pepys' name received some green silk hose. some garters. and some shoe laces. which pleased the young lady very much. Klrs. Pepys once drew her husband's name for a valentine. and he gave her a ring made of a turkey stone set with diamonds. Besides the giving of gifts. other customs and super- 6 stitions arose. On the eve of St. Valentines Day the young ladies slept on a pillow on which were pinned five bay leaves - one at each corner and one in the center. If the young lady dreamed of her sweetheart, they surely would be married before the year was over. To make doubly sure that her dream came true, the young lady might hard boil an egg, take out the yolk, fill the hollow with salt, and eat the egg - shell, salt, and all, before going to bed. But she must neither speak nor drink after eating the egg! Q VVhat fools these mortals be! j If the young people arose early and snared an owl and two sparrows, they would have good luck for the entire year. In Scotland, the first person of the opposite sex seen on St. Valentines Day was the valentine for the year. As with many other customs, that of sending valen- tines was brought to America and received favorably. In the early part of the twentieth century the Chicago postoflice accepted 1,250,000 valentines, but it rejected 25,000 comic ones on the ground that they were not it to be carried in the mail. fSome we've seen must have been smuggled past the censor.j However, some of the verses were amusing. This one was supposedly written by a New York confectioner: Young Cupid's choicest sugar plum, .affections purest drop, Your sweetness has no rival In the candies of my shop. I'll send you some vanilla And I'll make you, love, a neat heart Out of my rarest sugar. If you will be my sweetheart. Here is one written to a teacher: .i I have the nicest teacher- I wonder if she knows it? This valentine I send to her Because I think it shows it. Another said: You auto be my valentine. I'll never tire of you. And then there was the one signed Gessa Gen. St. Valentines Day has helped make the history of the world. Here's hoping that this year it makes his- tory for you! TOWER LIGHTL 1 I i I eap Year IVIARGARET ZILLMOR VVIT H FE B RUARY this year, in addition to the I bare trees, the snow storms, the second semester with i l I I I l l its crowded schedule, comes Leap Year. 1940 has many implications for the homo sapiens occupying this ter? rain: to the harassed, it means one more shopping day before Christmas, to naive, unsopliistieated twerps, it affords a time for a reversing of charges Qdatedj, to the more aggressive but less pursued damsels, it is the gold- en opportunity uto catch as catch can , to the fatigued faces which fill the halls of learning, it means one more day until the last day of the last of the semester. But has anyone ever considered how this blight came .upon our current calendar? In our imagination, we've pictured this outstanding, historical event. Pope Gregory III sat in his study and undertook the I- reformation of the Iulian calendar. For countless hours :he worked and after he had, to the best of his ability, ar- aranged the year, systematically into months, there was lone day left over. He tore his hair and gnashed his teeth, ii he groaned and sighed and moaned and cried, but no- I I I I 1 I I 1 I l where would that measly day lit in. Over and over again he asked himself the same question. Couldn't he make some day forty-eight hours long, some day whose joy could be extended? Then, a Great Thought entered his brain like a thunderbolt. Christmas! He would like to make Christmas forty-eight hours long! Everybody likes Christmasiv He thought of the joy this act would bring to the hearts of little children, of the great boom of Christmas sales which would be effected fsince people would have a longer time, they could make more visits and, consequently, would have to buy more giftsj. But soon this thought disintegrated in the mist of oblivion. A Christmas forty-eight hours long every four years wouldn't do at all, he was flooded with a great sense of shame for having conceived such an atrocious idea. Chagrined and defeated, he resignedly looked through his list of months. Then, his eye caught the in- nocent month of February, which contained only twen- ty-eight days. VVith Hendish glee he pounced upon in- nocent February, slighted with only twenty-eight days. There, in that fateful moment, Leap Year was injected into the lives of generations to come. And that, dear fel- low sufferers, is how February happens to have an extra day every four years. I rossed Wires MAR 1011112 LESSENCO Characters - Mr. Sehpriegelhiein ---- A Butcher Sgigilizy? - - - Typical Housewives lScene - The stage is divided into three partitions: The first partition is a butcher shop, the others, the homes of Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. VVoodley, rc- speetively. The telephone bell jingles in the ' butcher shop and Schpriegelhiem takes down the receiver .,.. He is in a very good mood .... There is a broad German smile on his face .... ,bf rSchpriegelhiem - I-Ialloo! Schpriegelhicm's Butcher Shop. Anyting I could do for you? Mrs. XVoodley fspeaking hurriedlyj - This is Mrs. VVoodley talking. Fm in a dreadful rush, IXfIr. . Schpriegelhiem, so please listen carefully, I would it like to order a nice spring chicken, about - - QVFEBRUARY - 1940 I I il Mrs. Spencer-Size fourteen, and in that new beautiful color of green with - - Schpriegelhiem-Vat's dot you sed? I guess I didn't get it ride. VVe don't got vat you vants - I don't tink so, anyway. Mrs. Spencer-Size fourteen, I said, in that lovely sea- bright green. Schpriegelhiem Ctalking to himselfj-Gott, dat voman iss crazy! QTalking into the phonej-Ma'am, ye haf not got vat you vant. Ve don't got a demand for chickens dot color. Maybe you would like a nice steak, huh, maybe? Mrs. VV oodley-XV hat on earth can you be talking about, Mr. Schpriegelhiem? I said I wanted a nice spring chicken. Mrs. Spencer-Yes. buttoncd down the front and - - Sehpriegelhiem Ctalking to himselfj-Gott in himmcl. dat voman iss crazylj fTalking into the phonel- Ve couldn't gif you a chicken buttoned down the front. You vant another delephonc number - ain't it? 7 Mrs. Spencer-WVith deep purple collar and cuffs. Schpriegelhiem-Ve don't dress our chickens. You know dat, Mrs. Voodley - - Mrs. XVoodley-Mr. Schpriegelhiem, I don't understand you .... Have you been drinking? Yes, you cer- tainly have been. I shall tell my husband to send you a check and you'll no longer be bothered with our account. Schpriegelhiein-Please, ma'am! But vill you please or- der again vat you vant und say it plain. I guess my hearing iss bad. Mrs. Spencer-A sea-bright green dress-buttoned down the front and - - Schpriegelhiem-Did you vand it for supper? Mrs. Spencer-Central, who is that crazy German on the line? I'm trying to talk to my dressmaker. VV ill you please tell Mr. Sauerkraut to get off the line? Mrs. VVoodley fexasperatedj - Hello, hello, Mr. Sehpriegelhiem! QShe hangs up.j I'll just have to talk to Mr. Woodley about this. Mrs. Spencer-Hmph! fShe hangs up.j I never thought I'd see the time when I couldn't talk to my own dressmaker. The telephone company will hear about this! Schpriegelhiem the hangs up and turns to his wifej- Lina, don't go near dot phone! Der vire is full mit crazy vimen. Dey vant a green chicken mit collars and cuffs. ouldn' t It Happen Here? CATHERINE GRAY 'TVV AS ON the dark, dreary night of February ll, near a damp, desolate, depressing dale that the dauntless deed of deception came to pass! fAre you in the groove, kids?j To be specific - this bit of nonsense took place at a place called Owson, Aryland - to be more specific, it all happened on the property in and around two as- sociate institutions - Tate Eaehers Ollege and Epherd Ratt. It was some years after Senator Bugg escaped-oops, a mistake! - graduated from Tate Eachers that he took the entrance exams at Epherd Ratt, but suflice it to say that the one followed the other! The senator was one of those hard-working, serious people who gradu- ated with A's and honors and was evidently slated for higher things than teaching. After a few years in poli- tics - culminating in senatorship Qwe told you he was Smartj, it was noticed that he definitely was in need of some more instruction, and the kind that Epherd Ratt could provide. His Hpeculiaritiesu were most striking in regard to several incidents. One day he had the misfor- tune to partially ovcrhcar some people discussing his abilities. He heard: history of his family . . . and his education ..., Monroe . . . says he is just the person we need. The brilliant senator's mind leaped backward - history. education, Monroe. He jumped from his chair. grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil. He gritted his teeth and furrowed his brow, grinding at amazed on- lookers - XVell, what chapter do we attack today? Canada be he has lost his mind? punned a by- stander. 8 Canada, screamed the senator, History of Educa- tion in Canada, Monday, History of Education in Eng- land, Tuesday, History of Education in Scotland, VVed- nesday, History of Education in France, Thursday - where will it all end? Another incident occurred while the senator and his friends were walking through a market. A vulgar prole- tarian was telling her oldest child in regard to a young pest, Clap her on the ears. Again, unfortunately, the V' brilliant mind leaped backward - 'Klapperf' He hop- skipped to a fruit stand, grabbed a basket of nice, red, juicy apples and started to line them along the ledge of a stall belonging to A. S. H. Mosera. So-o-o-o-o, the next day Bugg matriculated at Epherd Ratt! Having received his schedule card and having been introduced to the routine, Bugg was left free to do as he chose. He thought, and he thought, and he thought, and he looked at the Ollege. and he looked. By night he had reached a decision. He felt an urge. He was com- pelled. He was true to his original Alma Mater. In other words, he intended to live a double life - spend the nights at the Ollege and the days as a Ratt - hang it, another mistake! - I mean spend the days at Ratt. One by one the Monroes disappeared: two by two the 136, 7's and l50's vanishedg a whole set of science tests were removed, too. Steadily, Bugg's record at Ratt im- proved as he satisfied his urge, and steadily the atmos- phere at the Ollege cleared, at least for formerly stun- ned students. Someone was evidently on their side! Bells rang when periods were half over! There was a l I 1 i 1 l G TOWER LIGHT., faculty reserve in each students locker every morning! No one was late - because all the clocks were fifteen minutes slow. Day and night Bugg and the students had fun, and day and night the faculty had worries. But things just eouldn't go on without something being done. No one wanted a scandal, so some private detectives enrolled as students. It was beautifully done - no one knew the hide-and-seekers weren't studentsg that is, if they ig- jnored the fact that they wore bowler hats to class and hmoked ropes named A'coronas-coronas-coronas. But lthey never got to third base. It was the senator's wife iwho smelled the er-er-er, who discovered the perpe- jtrator of the crime. QThat's better.j Knowing her hus- jband and putting two and two together when she got lone and a half, she knew it was her husband who wasn't jall there. either. She confronted him. He shook and jwailedz Dear, you see, I can explain everything. i uSenator Isaac Alphonse Francis Donahue Bugg, where's your sense? This is wonderful. Those students are tickled a variety of colors. VVe'll take advantage of this - and he was exposed as soon as the extra pa- jpers could be put on the street. Two weeks later - Nope, it's not to the jail house we go, but to Ollege. ll.-I5-Tate Eachers Auditorium. Speaker: Senator I. A. F, D. Bugg. The Speech A'lXIy friends- You are the future voters of this state. You will select your political leaders. XV hen I run for President in nineteen umpty, vote for me and I will not keep you in suspense about my third term. Moreover, I don't make promises. I do first and then appear before you. It was I who removed care and woe from your lives. It was I - - P51 if Nineteen uinpty. Newspaper heading. Senator Bugg's Landslide Election! As head of the Prisoners Education League of Aryland Tate Enitenti- ary, where he is serving a term for illegal entrance and appropriation - - Cartooning in Brief RALPH BARRETT THE IMPULSE to draw is just as compelling as lihe urge to write or compose great masterpieces of lit- erature or music. Cartooning is a phase of this impulse, ind by working in one's spare moments over a period of years, a more or less eiiicient style will result. There is, Wiowever, a fundamental background needed for the art. . I The makers of the comic strips are sometimes incor- lieetly called cartoonists. which is as bad as comparing ilihe slap-stick comedians to the veteran actor, or the bass jtlrum to the violin. It is true, however, that some of the jcomic artists are fine in their interpretations. l. Since this issue deals largely with humor, I shall base any discussion on humorous cartoons and cartoonists. jj The cartoonist uses many ways of stressing his point. ljfxaggeration is the greatest of these. If the subject is jjjmall in stature he is dwarfed by the pen. or if he has Eiarge features, they are enlarged. The Roosevelt smile is jjl typical illustration of the exaggeration Affair. The tgjnost famous of the artists that depend on exaggeration features are Tom Titt. james House, Leo Cheney. jvlatt and Edmund Dulac. A few steer clear of exag- lgeration and promote reproduction of physical features I r 5 j'?'EBRUARY - 1940 I I . I I as accurately as is humanly possible, Such a cartoonist is England's David Low, who claims that American art has no originality and that the figure of Uncle Sam is very poor since it does not live up to the ideal of the American people. Some types of cartooning depend entirely on the strength of the drawing and the pose of the subject, par- ticularly the position of the hands. It is possible to cre- ate a most touching effect without using facial expres- sion at all. Such cartoonists are fewg the most famous was Cary. The use of breathers or script lines in the cartoon is very striking and should be used whenever possible without ruining the coherence of the picture. It is wise to build your picture around your title. thus giving the cartoon no extra detail, since the more detail you have the less pointed your argument. The exaggeration of action has been for the past four or five years stressed very effectively by the animated cartoons under the supervision of Walt Disney. Now rest. digest these suggestions. and then begin to practice. It's easy! 9 What's In Your Name? ANN FRY HAVE YOU ever wished for a name like those of Father Divine's angels? Perhaps you wanted a name such as Shining Pearl or Heavenly Lily. Be satisfied with your own, for perhaps the meaning of your name is as fantastic as those of the t'Angels.'l But suppose, after investigation, you aren't satisfied with the name your parents bestowed on you. Before taking any legal steps to have it changed, I would advise you to learn the meaning of some names, and choose one fitting your personality. If you are the strong, silent type, you could choose Thaddeus Peter, meaning strong rock. Or if you are God's gift to women - you could change your name to Matthew - gift of the Lord. Possibly your personality is too complicated to be described by these names, if this is the case you could choose Pliny, about the meaning of which VVebster's Dictionary is undecided. Here is a list of names from which you may choose Aaron-lofty Agnes-sacred Albert-nobly bright Algernon-with moustaehes Allan-harmony Ann-grace Beatrice-making happy Bernard-bold as a bear Calvin-bald Catherine--pure Charles-strong Clarabel-brightly fair David--beloved Donald-proud chief Dorothy-gift of Cod Edward-right guard Eleanor-light Elizabeth-God of the Oath Francis-free George-husbandman Henry-home ruler Helen-light I Ierman-warrior Ichabod-the glory has departed james-gracious gift of God Iohn-a supplanter joseph-he shall add Julius-downy bearded Kenneth-eomely Louis-famous warrior Margaret-pear Mildred-mild threatener Oscar-bounding warrior Paul-little Peregrine-stranger Philip-lover of horses Phyllis-green bough Priscilla-somewliat old Richard-a stern king Robert-bright in fame Rosamond-horse protection Rufus-red-haired Stella-star Stephen-crown Susan-lily Theresa-carrying ears of corn Thomas-twin Valentine-strong XValter-powerful, warrior XVilliam-helmet of resolution Zephaniah-the Lord hideth 0 This Interviewing Business DAVID H. NELSON NEVER AGAIN. I won't do it. I absolutely refuse to interview. preview, review, Belle Vue or parlez-vous. I'll quit before accepting another assignment such as this one. Even when the editor gave his directions, a strange presentiment warned me to rebel. However. I swallowed my pride, my Adam's apple and a plug of chewing to- bacco, and proceeded on my reluctant way to the home of that eminent English scientist, Sir F. I. Knott. As I walked. I contemplated the situation with none- too-pleasant feelings. XVhy did I ever run away from homei: just to become a journalist and be a slave to every whim and fancy of a scheming editor? Angry though I was. I saw the folly of remaining so. Hap- pily my innate joviality began to assert itself. By this time, I had reached 65th Street and my disposition was much improved. But as the journey was long, I had to stop at the corner drugstore on 90th Street to replenish my spirits. Once again feeling 'ale and hearty, I con- Ed, Note - By home he means the Th-Xin't a Saint in the Place Home and Reformatory for Refractory juveniles, 10 tinued my trek, with no further interruptions, to the very door of my prospective interviewee's home. Strangely enough, I had lost my resentment at having- been assigned the lowly job of interviewer. In fact, I was feeling pretty rum. Confidently stepping forward, I rang the doorbell. Did you ever ring a doorbell? Did you ever wring a neck? Did you know that one good turn deserves an- other? Did -, Ah! But I hear someone approachingf XV ho could it be but the butler? , I was greeted by a pleasant. cultured Oxonian accent as the portal sesamed before me: Yeah? Slightly taken back by such eordiality. it took me a few moments be- fore I managed to say: i 'AIS Sir Knott in? f XVho wants to see him? I could see out of my gooe left eye that he was a fine specimen of manhood. XVitk my slightly befogged right eye I could see that he war? waiting for my answer. I'm Hart, of the Daily Circulator, I replied, I ani to interview Sir Knottf' TOWER LIGHT I i I I see. If you'll step into the reception room, I'Il call 2 Sir Knott. Thanking the butler, I stepped into the room as he I shut the door and left to find the scientist. Before I had 1 j time to become acquainted with the room, another man j entered from the doorway through which I had just j passed. He was a tall, well-built, blond individual with I an air of confident precision. Perhaps he also was a re- porter wishing to interview Sir Knott. Better find out. Do you mind telling me who you are? I asked. Sir Fennleigh Knott, he answered in a pleasant 3 voice. l Well, what is it? 5 UI told you. l You did? You think I'm crazy? 2 HSir Fennleigh Knott, came the emphatic reply. j QWhat's the matter with this guy? I thought. He Q must be nutty or somethingj Sir Fennleigh Ima Knott, came the astonishing re- n mark. , Ah, there you are, sir. The butler had returned. V I've been looking for you. I see that you and this gen- iltleman have already met. He started to leave. I just a moment, Meadows. There is a misunderstand- ning here. NVill you please introduce us properly? You eould have knocked me over with a brick when .- I found what this guy had been trying to tell me. VVell, . he was pleasant enough about it and said that we all I make mistakes, though it's too bad that some people jf make it a habit. . In a few minutes I explained the purpose of my visit. I I see, he said. 1'You want a story which might be jf' termed a 'Scientist's Dayf VVell, here goes. is The nightmare that followed is too wearisome to de- scribe in detail. In the true spirit of scientific revelation, this Knott proceeded to verify the fact that at precisely sixty seconds past ll:S9 P. M. of the previous night the clock struck twelve, thereby starting the present day. To prove this he phoned Greenwich, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Moscow. He recorded these various times. Then he calculated the distances between these places and London, made corrections for the change in times due to varying longitude, and estab- lished the fact that it was IZ olcloek at midnight. In a similar way, Sir Fennleigh related everything he did that day from midnight up until the time he met me. First he made a statement. Then he gathered his material and data and drew a conclusion. Finally he verified his conclusion. That may be the modern way of doing things: pre- cisely, accurately, scientifically. But I want to guess about some things. I want to take some things for granted. If I like a girl, I don't want to investigate why I like her. I might find out that the only reason for liking her is the possibility of borrowing her brother's ear. Did you ever try tasting poison? You probably never tried it again. You probably never tried anything again? That's the way I feel about this interviewing business. I don't want to try it again. I might meet up with a XVat- son or a VVallenstein or run into a VVallen Graek-Up. I don't want to be an interviewer. I want to be a journalist, a writer like Lincoln or Greeley. Although I do disagree with Greeley, I think the well-bred young man should go yeast, all the others may go XV est. Ed. Note -- I hope he never tries writing agnn tl I-low to Cure a Cold I 'z Ti I .NOXV THAT the season of mists and mellow fruit- fulness has come once again, many of us are looking for- ,iward with dread to the colds which are certain to be our jjafflietion. That man in this enlightened age must cringe in fear is most unfortunate but. nevertheless, true: for. I heretofore, the medical profession has failed to find a jf-remedy for this distressing malady. At last, however, the 7j1forces of darkness have been vanquished, and the reign jjof light is at hand. From hours of toilsome and tireless jjreseareh I have devised an infallible cure and, in the ljname of science and the spirit of Hippocrates, I present jit to humanity. ljiFEBRUARY - 1940 I Li '1 ALLEN O'NE1LL In giving directions I shall remember that no doubt the reader, out of sheer magnanimity. will wish to use this cure first on someone other than himself. At the first sneeze have the patient take one-half a litre of three-year-old rye whiskey. If a good brand is used, the patient should not have to be coaxed: hut. if a personal prejudice is involved. the rye may be changed to Scotch. XVhen the eyes of the patient begin to cross. he will be ready for the next treatment. In a bowl marked number one, crush together ten tablets of aspirin. six of bromo-quinine. four of alka- seltzer, and thoroughly mix with this three tablespoons 11 of Baker's best bicarbonate of soda. In another bowl. marked number two. pour eight ounces of castor oil. To the mixture slowly add three and three-quarter ounces of paregoric. the juice of six lemons. and four ounces of sloe gin. To reassure the timid, here let me say that in the following procedure there is absolutely no danger of explosion. Quickly pour the contents of bowl num- ber two into bowl number one. shake twice. and decant the mixture into the sick ones mouth before he begins to doubt the benignity of your purpose. As soon as the last drop has been swallowed. or per- haps sooner, the patient will have the desire to run. This desire is normal. healthy. expected and should be en- couraged until two miles are covered at top speed. XValk or carry the patient home, and let him soak for two hours in water exactly one hundred and sixty-two de- grees F. Hoist him in front of an open window and urge him to scratch his ribs and utter loud shrieks. The last- mentioned treatment is of immense psychological im- portance. By this time there should be no difficulty in convinc- ing the patient that the best place for him is bed. Lay him abdomen down, and with a twenty-ounce rubber mallet beat deftly' and rhythmically once on the first vertebra. twice on the second. three times on the third, and so on until all the vertebrae have been adjusted or a peculiar crunching sound is heard. Any objections of the patient can be overcome by a few sharp cracks on the base of his skull. Pile six woolen blankets, one com- fort. and two quilts on the patient. being careful not to cover his head. and let nature do her work. XVe must remember that it is nature who healsg we can only do our best to help. Can You SO YOU'VE heard a joke? So what? No doubt sev- enty-five per cent of the student body has already heard it. But don't let that stop you! Oh, nog go right ahead and pick out some long-suffering friend and get the foul thing out of your system. However. before you start. here are a few pointers on how to tell jokes and amuse punsters. At the head of the list of the most disliked jokesters is the person who tries to tell a joke that is so scream- ingly funny he can't control himself long enough to tell it. He starts off. Oh. Ioe. ha! ha! ha! hal. have you heard - oh. gosh. it's funny: it's a scream. ha! ha! ha! YVait'll you hear it! So you patiently' wait until the laughter subsides a little and he is able to go on again. XYliy did - why did - ha! ha! ha! - the chicken cross the road? And he goes off into another spasm. Grit your teeth. assume a martyr's expression. and try very hard to get a little chuckle ready. Then. between gasps for breath to replenish his exhausted supply. you hear that just screamingly funny reply. 1'Because Robert Taylor was on the other side. Ha! ha! ha! Keep calm: even- tually he will notice that the answer didn't make much impression on you and will start to explain, The person who tries to explain a joke is as detestable as the person who can't tell one for laughing. because he not only has a low sense of humor. but insults your in- telligence as well. Very gently he begins. Now. listen- 12 ji3ANETTE ULRICH ell a Joke? Robert Taylor is handsome. see? and looks earnestly at you while you nod wearily. And chicken is a slang word for girl, understand? He searches your face anxiously for signs of a light breaking and finding none, exclaims desperately, XVell, don't you get it? Gosh. you're dense! Tearing his hair. he goes through the explana- tion again. Giving up in disgust he walks away mum- bling something uncomplimentary about your sense of humor. Congratulate yourself that your perseverance for a half-hour will save you from many such tortures at the hand of this particular fiend. The most tantalizing of jesters is the one who comes up and says he has a brand new joke to tell you. Of course. you only have his word for it. but the least you can do is to listen politely. XVliy' is an elephant like a kangaroo? XVell. it sounds new: so. joyously. you ask, I don't know - why is an elephant like a kangaroo? , hoping that at last you will be one of the first to hear a new joke. Oh, goodness! XVhat do you know about that? I've forgotten the answer! Here is a good situation for :L justifiable murder but remember that there is still a chance as long as he is alive. 4 jimmy told it to me just a half-hour ago! lsn't that! disgusting? Now I'll have to find him to let him tell it to me again! Gee, I'm getting a short memory! The things you think about such a person are unprintableg TOWER LIGHI ! he is the kind of brute who would hold a piece of candy out of reach of a baby until the poor thing screamed his head off. Creating suspense with a joke is unpardonable and the thought that you may go through eternity with- out ever knowing the points of similarity between an elephant and a kangaroo is enough to give you nervous prostration. A joke sure not to get a laugh is one with no point to it whatever. ln fact, it isn't a joke usually but only a weak pun, or a play on words. A horrible example is: UDid you hear the story about the three men? And the equally horrible answer is, He, he, he. The most discussed problem in the United States, next to the unemployment problem, is what to do with both the people who invent, and those who tell, such trash. To add insult to injury, there is a group who make 'up long narrative stories and when they can't think of a suitable ending add something like, And so to this j! day nobody knows what happened, but we do. don't wwe? Of course. we don't, but you just can't do anything about this type of individual. VV e have still to found an iinstitution for them. Many articles have been written about people who try to tell of situations that can't possibly be humorous unless you were in them. But the situation made such an impression on him that hc comes up and begins en- thusiastically, Say, you should have been ice-skating with us last night! YVe were teaching Charlotte, and you know how she is! lf you had only seen her when she first stood up on the ice! Now, to really appreciate the story, you have to be in the mood and be willing to work your imagination overtime. But as he continues and tells you at great length, with all the minute details, of how they taught Charlotte to ice-skate, your interest begins to wane. If you are not careful, you may find yourself yawning in his face. The narrator usually ends up, t'0f course, you really should have been there! I can't tell you how funny it was! The best thing to do is manage a smile. no matter how weak, and say that you're sorry you missed the fun. The most odious jokester is the one who has no taste, or very poor taste at least, when it comes to telling jokes. A joke is a joke to him, no matter when, where, or with whom. An icy stare usually covers the situation, but if it doesn't, it only proves that-well, it just proves what l've said and think of jokesters. Demons of Renunciation I XVILLIALI IETT THE ART of refusal is practiced so extensively by ,man that it may well be classified as a reflex. People fre- iquently refuse so realistically that they convince others jl that they actually mean it - thousands of persons are i fooled in this manner annually. A commonplace exam- Hple of this phenomenon is the proffering of candy be- , tween children. One child asks another if he will have ja piece of chewing gum, while the child asked irnme- lgdiately begins to fumble and hesitate, answering sheep- j, ishly that he doesn't know. VVhereupon, the benefactor ,insists on acceptance, for he knows that his victim is ibsuffering between the evils of greed and desire. Cases of refusal among children have a very low percentage of fjsuccess, since the refuser is inexperienced, not to men- if tion unwilling. l Adults. however, present a harder problem after the ,i age of thirty. At this stage of the game, grown-ups have I passed the exuberant period, and desire only three or ffour cups of tea instead of a bathtub full of lemonade. QlTheir artifice and calculating renunciations crack the amost persistent offerer. A simple illustration may be l.FEBRUARY - 1940 i l il cited when two mature adults dine out. Mr. and Mrs. A are dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. B, so, when every- one has partaken of an appreciable volume of food, lo and behold! the table suddenly becomes overladen with groceries. This incident, never doubt. was no chance happening, but deliberately planned by Mrs. B. who immediately seeks to make eating miserable for Mr. and Mrs. A. Says Mr. B, Come now, have some more steak. Here, have some potatoes, theyre delicious. Mr. and Mrs. A, who are both satisfied, reply in uni- son, Really, I don't care for any more. You shouldnt have gone to so much trouble for usf' This is a bad counter attack, since the B's only try to prove that noth- ing is too much for Mr. and Mrs. A. and Mrs. B then waxes eloquent in her attempt to ambush the A's. After some inimites of combat, Mrs. A puts an end to the whole affair by stating, But my dear, didn't you know that Mr. A and I are both on a dict. Not too many cal- ories or carbohydrates. you know. Ah, this is the su- preme triumph, for Mrs. B knows as well as you and I that nothing can swerve Mrs. LContinued on page Ql I 13 N e NOI,AN CHIPIVIAN The Place-The lXIen's Room at S. T. C. The Time-You pick the time. The Setting-QTO put yourself in a receptive moodj : Read Grapes of Vlfrath. See the movie, 'AHurricane. Hear Gang Busters. Let's listen to a group lounging in that far corner: Listen, bright boy, do you realize what kind of ma- terial we'll have after February? Sure, the team will have one more handicap. The ball club isn't going badly, though. l'No, it isn'tg anyhow, I'm sleepy Qyawnj. A monotonous voice drones the length of the room: VV ho wants to sell a car token? No reply. Coach Minnegan walks in, Have any of you gentle- men seen Marty? 'AYea, Coach, he went upstairs to practice the piano, answers a classmate in a quivering voice. Several men exchange glances akin to consternation, and mutterings of Allah be praised drift through the room. 'fAll right, I'll see him later, says Coach, and nods approvingly. Monotonous voice drones again. 'fSay, whose gotta extra car token? No reply. A group seated under the mirror is conversing. D--n, next year we'll have Mr. Moser's math, mu- sic practicum, botany, history, and I'll probably repeat music elements. Oooohhh! Man, it makes me groggy to think of it. Me too. Cimme a cigarette. Are you still smoking Camels? O. K., O. K. Yea, I'm crazy about them. Thanks! Cot a match, too? Thanks! Now, I still say Camels - - Lerner breezes in with brown brief ease trying to hold the pace. 'ADoes anyone of you gentlemen find it expe- dient at this time to allow me to purchase a car token? Yea, here's one. Monotonous voice intervenes. I asked you first. I know, but doesn't someone have to keep Lerner quiet? 'I guess so, drawls monotonous voice, and resumes chant with rising crcscendo, 'fListen. men, I've gotta have a car token. No reply. By the tablc near the radiator a group is gathered. First Soph-'fListen, mates, I need a date for our dance. Second Soph-UDate! Man, you've got two more days. Third Soph- Don't worry, you can't do any worse than you did last time. 14 First Soph-f'Listen, that girl wasn't as ugly as you think. I've seen worsef, Third Soph- Me too! But where? Monotonous voice drones in the room again. 'Tm not joking, it's snowing. I can't walk the first fare. How about a car token? Still no reply. Second Soph-UNO kidding, are you boys sending flowers? Chorus- VVhat! The man's demented. Boy, do you feel well? Bright Soph- Gentlemen, I'd send flowers if I wasn't so susceptible to hay fever. Small books and someone's Science Activity fly in that direction. Far to the other end of the room, by the blackboard, there is the most animated group of all. Laughter is sub- siding. Listen to this one. VVhy can't lightning strike a street-car? Pause. 'Because the motorrnan is a non-con- ductorf' A few smiles registered. VVasn't bad for a clean joke. No, I rather liked it the first nineteen times that I heard it. Listen, here's one. Confucius says - - Monotonous voice has risen to shrill Crescendo: VVill somebody please sell me a car token? A Senior from a reclining position on a red-leathered chair innocently raises his eyebrows. Why didn't you tell me that you wanted to buy a car token? Owner of monotonous voice throws his hands to heav- en and sinks to the gray floor in a heap. fb' COURAGE IRMA SENNHENN xr wr Farewell, farewell to all my friends, The maiden sadly sighed. I dread to leave. yet there's no hope. I may no longer bidef' rr 1. I must go forth to meet my Fate, The damsel bravely said. And though she shook and wept with fear, She still marched right ahead. Her friends. in silence. watched her go. They could not lend a hand. - For all alone shc had to do The tasks that Fate had planned. l And o'cr the group a great hush fell f For courage so far-reaching. And bravely she went forth to meet Her nine weeks' student-teaching! TOWER LIGHTI1 l PGETRY ABOUT ME I,11l very ordinary, Heavens above- I'm not the least bit unusual- But he doesn't think so-with me he's in love- Which accounts for his state so 'fconfusialf' He writes of my lovely soft curly brown hair, He writes of my knowledge prolific- If anything's wrong with me he doesn't care- He's not the least bit scientific. So I'll show you the poem he wrote about me, Understand the strange words if you can. You'll End that I'm wonderful and you'll certainly see The weird effect love has on man. TO HER FROM ME There's many a poem or verse or sonnet Inspired by nothing more fair than a bonnet, So, thinking me thus, I determined forthwith To compose me an ode to a very Mitli, Whose beauty is known wherever she be And dazzles the eyes of all who can see. Her name, as you may or may not have guessed fAnd one which too often is taken in jestj, Begins with a --, and ends with a --. At the very grave risk of being thought bold, I follow with glee the temptation to raise My feeble voice to sing her praise. From the tip of her toes to her curly, brown hair, She's without dispute the fairest o' the fair. VVith a figure and face to put Venus to shame. She's Modesty itself-but if not, who could blame Such a lovable lass for failing to hide A bit of sincere, justifiable pride? VV ith a happy smile and a word of good cheer, She reveals her joy at just being here, For life to this maiden's a joyous game, Yet serious enough at times just the same: And, while she's pretty, she's a clever girl, too, VVho's equalled by some but surpassed by few. FEBRUARY - 1940 So I count myself lucky in being her friend, And luckicr still, as l'll always contend, For having her feel as she docs about me- As you know, two is comp'ny, and we're not three. In as many different ways as thcrc are kinds of jello I lift my voice in a rousing UHello! Now it makes me as happy as happy can be, To send all my love to her, from me. ABOUT ME You must think mc hard-boiled, unfceling and coldg You must think me so unromantic or old. But the stuff that I write him Qand it must be toldj VVould drive even Neddie Sparks frantic. So if l've a lesson to teach, it is this. That love is a state detrimental To intelligent action-but for bliss of a kiss I'd rather be senti than mental. -f' JUST ONE MORE MAN PATSY HERNDON Yes, there he is, surrounded- There are men to left and right, In his heart the cry of battle- On his face no trace of fright. And not the least undaunted He plunges through the line. I mustg I'm going to do it! QHe's the big, heroic kind.j He's heading straight across the Field, His footwork is supreme, He dodges one man - there he goes! fHe's every maiden's dream.j He sidesteps neatly one more man And stares him in the eye. I will, no matter what the cost, 'Tm going to do or die! just one more man stands in his way- His task is almost done. He dodges wcarily, and then He cries: 'Tye won. l'ye won! He stumbles, tired. OH the field And meets some fellow man, He says, in voice that's full of pain. f'I'll never dance again! 15 SUCH A LIFE! johnny pulled Susie's pig-tail. And Billy untied Sara's boot: Frankie insists upon running - 1There's some kids in my class I could shootlb Today Shirley tattled on Betty And Sally talked all during art. They quarrel and giggle and chatter. I wonder if they really have hearts. Now. Tommy's a dear. as any can see: And little Marie is a peach: But Ierry's a diilicult problem for me: And he's one of the children I teach. I had vision of leading the children To a wide and unknown realm. I think it is I who am guiding the ship- But the children are now at the helm. u And whether the course be a smooth one, Or whether it's decidedly not- In spite of who's steering the school bark. TRIBAL CHANT OF A COLLEGE GIRL PATRICIA HERNDON I shall have a taste of glory- I shall write a famous story- I shall blind the eyes of nations with my fameg All the world will wait to greet me- Kings and Queens will want to meet me- Ev'ry woman, man and child will know my name. Or perhaps the stage will claim me: Second Bernhardtu they will name me. I will be the greatest actress ever known. All my plays will run forever NVith their brilliance fading never- And for me. the brightest banners will be flown. I might even turn my talents Toward the Arts - Idesign and balancelg I shall paint as well as XVhistler ever could. And the fame of my creations Shall be spread throughout the nationsg I am sure that Rubens' works aren't half as good. But I'm filled with disillusion, I I Gnd myself oft on a spot, 1 And I've come to one conclusion: But then I reflect on my childhood 1For I can't do all the things I've said I canl And remember some deeds I have done- Being famous is a bother. ' No - I can't say I was such an angel. S0 I'll be a help to father So I say. Yes. they will have their fun. And I'll go and try to find myself a man! ON HUMoR 1 I HARRH' Russizrr. l PREVIOUS TO writing this article I read some of cient. In fact. I would not be a bit surprised if some of the stories that composed a book entitled Native Amer- the stories told here in college did not date back to ican Humor 11800-IQOOI. Possibly some of you are thinking that this is the source of some of the stories I tell. but I assure you that none of my stories go as far back as ISOO. The idea of all this reading is to attempt to compare the old American humor with that which is rampant in State Teachers' College at present. So. as one needs a basis upon which to make a comparison. the point upon which I base this one is that both are an- 16 Confucius. The book is written about the humor that was prev- alent in different sections of the country during the aforementioned time, and I shall try to show you how this old humor is similar or dissimilar to the old hu- mor of this college. This may not be possible. however. because many of the stories in the book were funny. The tales that came from the Down East section of TOWER LIGHT J Il I our country are long and in letter form. The humor lies in the expressions used and the things they wrote about. Most of the anecdotes were about some one's troubles regarding political issues. Towson stories are short but it is still harder for one to try to find the hu- mor in them than it is in the New England tales. The other large section of the book is devoted to the tales that typify the old Southwest. These are mainly devoted to telling stories about human exploits in the days when men were men and didn't have anything else to do but sit around and tell tall stories. Anyone in the present who told such stories would win a charter membership in the Liars' Club. These stories would win hands clown from any of those told here at our institu- tion, which you should take as a compliment. Many are wondering. perhaps, as to what this article is all about. It is simply written as a warning to those who have great aspirations to become famous humor- ists. I do not think that anyone will ever write a book about Towsonian humor. So the only way to have your stories recorded is to sneak them into the 'l'owER Lieirr when the editors are not looking. How else do you think this got into this issue? ON EDITORIALS GEORGE LICHTER AN E DITORIAL may be defined as a piece of ex- position presenting faet and opinion for the purpose of entertaining. of influencing opinion, or of interpreting significant news in such a way that its importance to the average reader is made clear. In its larger sense. an ed- itorial consists of an interpretation of events viewed from the standpoint of certain definite principles or policies adopted or advocated by the newspaper publishing it. Interpretation of events and issues is vitally needed. In the very multiplicity of news. in its vortex of whirl- pools, currents. and cross-currents. readers. unaided by the opinions and interpretations of experts, are lost. VVitness the murk in the average voter's mind when he goes to the polls to vote for twelve or fifteen out of a hundred candidates for office. He has had news about every candidate whose name appears before him in the voting machine. The major three or four he knows. but he is at sea as to the merits of the others. He needs the guidance of an unprejudiced. informed mind that has made a business of investigating the respective merits of office seekers. Such a one is. or should be, the editor, the provider of news about the candidates. Thus. with other questions of public policy. with problems of school buildings. city playgrounds. new highways and hundreds of other moot issues presenting themselves annually for general discussion and intelligent solution. VVhether one regards entertainment as a legitimate function or not depends on one's interpretation of the word entertainment. Many readers are entertained by any FEBRUARY - 1940 written composition that presents a novel idea or stim- ulates one to thought. Others demand humor. pathos. or other emotional appeal. Mentality and education may prove to be the determining factors in one's inter- pretation of the term. The purpose of these Hhuman in- terest editorials is to lure the less thoughtful reader to the editorial column and at the same time to lighten the tenseness of abstract thought and argument within the column. A modicum of information or ethical preach- ment usually is present in such editorials. but enter- tainment may be their sole purpose. The editorial column belongs to the editor to con- duct as he understands and interprets the day's sig- nificant news. The news columns are the possession of the readers. Presentation of unbiased news there, all the news, is their demand and right. Numerous readers may pay no heed to whether the news they read is colored or uncolored. They may even want it warped according to their particular political. religious, or national bias: they are the non-reflective, einotion-controlled herd. The thinking element of present society want all the facts from which to draw their own conclusions. They want the editorial column to turn to for verification. and from which to gain knowledge of the opinions of others. IN-'Iany times these opinions modify the ideas of the reader. If an editorial interprets the news, expresses an opin- ion based on facts. or entertains. it fulfills its function. 17 CCLLEGE CALENDAR January 8, 1940 - HELEN HIGGINS, HARPIST A friend of Dr. Tansil's, Miss Helen Higgins. gave a harp concert at the Convocation on Monday, Ianuary S. Miss Higgins is instructor of harp and harmony at Stevens College. Columbia. Missouri. Miss Higgins played a varied selection of short num- bers. ranging from the period of the classicists down to that of the niodernists. The latter were represented by a composition of Salzedo's, the famous harpist. This modern composition caught the fancy of the audience with its clever effects. produced by the player's hand rapping upon the framework of the harp. The numbers from the classic period were more charming, perhaps. and to the writer more satisfying musically. Music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with its deli- cacy, running melodic patterns. and short, rhythmic figures, is well suited to the harp. It is music which pro- vides an artist with ample opportunity to display a facile technique and a grasp of musical phrase that tests and proves musicianship. Miss Higgins' control of these two factors was pronounced. Short phrases were marked by clarity and delicacy of nuance, while the unity of the entire composition. with its interlocking of phrases. was sustained throughout. An interesting feature of the concert was the part in which Miss Higgins collaborated with College students. In one of these selections Miss Higgins accompanied a violin solo played by Eugene NVebster. In the second she joined the harp part with that of piano and violin to accompany a song by a group of girls from the Glee Club. It is to be hoped that Miss Higgins will include the Towson Teachers College on her Christmas concert itinerary again next year. 2' AN IMPORTANT ASSEMBLY ADDRESS BY DR. NVALTER H. JUDD: CHINESE AFFAIRS . Reviewed by NANETTE TROTT The war in the Far East has set an all-time high for barbarity and ruthlessness. Over 2.000.000 soldiers have been killed or have died of wounds during the last two and one-half years of battle. But this is not all! Thickly populated slum districts of the city have been bombed mercilesslyg helpless. utterly defenseless civilians have been attacked without compassion and with disregard 18 of age or sex. Indeed, the most authentic sources show that the Iapanese attacked women and, through them, the most basic of China's institutions, the home. XVe Americans are the unofficial but indispensable partners in lapan's crime. Few Americans realize that S0 to 90 per cent of Iapan's imported war materials come from the United States and cannot be purchased elsewhere. For example, 90 per cent of Iapan's aviation gasoline is Americang over 90 per cent of Iapan's scrap iron and steel comes from us. japan has continued her war with American-made planes which are repaired with American-made parts. Do we realize that one-third of Iapans bombs are made of our scrap-iron and other materials? In addition to humanitarian reasons. an embargo on the sale of all supplies which will aid Iapan in the con- tinuation of her attack on China would help the United States in a very real materialistic way. Our greatest de- sires today are peace and security. Yet we continue to help Iapan wage a war which will stop our access to the foreign markets of China, our largest foreign cotton pur- chaser. XVe shall then, by such means. make a further economic problem for ourselves by building and strengthening a competitive Iapan to destroy us. Our part as alert American citizens and members of a world society striving for peace should be twofold. First. we should boycott Iapanese goods - silk for stockings and ties. tuna fish. pottery. and novelties - and second, we should use our rights of freedom of speech, writing, and assembly to influence our Gov- ernment. XVrite to your Congressmen. the President, and the Secretary of State. Urge them to stop sending supplies to Iapan by passing an embargo act. To be sure. there would be many risks in placing an embargo on a war trade to Iapan. but we must realize our risks now as well as in years to come if we continue to support Iapan's attempt to build up an invincible military. naval. and economic empire. ,4-er' january 10, 1940 - LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP The Student Christian Association recently brought to its members one of its most informing and entertain- ing speakers of the year. Dr. Bowman. of the Church of the Brethren. XVash.. D. C. Dr. Bowman selected as a title Look Before You Leap. a very appropriate topic for this leap year. In his lecture he discussed what he thought made for happy marriage. Some of his main points were. briefly. these: Develop the ability to be agreeable to other peo- TOWER LIGHT ple. Make them want to be with you - not as Benja- min Franklin's friends sometimes were - happier when he was absent. f'There are sins of omission, said Dr. Bowman, and sins of commission, but the great- est of all are the sins of disposition. Acquire a good sense of humor and develop unsel- fishness. Above all, set a high value on yourself and manufacture good wearing qualities. Set up high standards for yourself and consciously work toward achieving those goals. You will naturally expect the same qualities, then, in the person you choose for your husband or wife. Select persons who have standards, ideas, and ideals similar to your own if you would be happy, In order to be life comrades, people must have harmonious personalities. Mates should be well balanced in chronological, mental, and emotional ages. Consider whether or not you are financially able to marry - the husband should be able to support his wife in reasonable comfort, However, many could get more out of life on less money. Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed can not expect to start life where their parents left off, either. Though money is important, it is not the most important thing. There are some who prefer a man worth Sl00,000 who doesn't have a cent to one who had SlO0,000 and wasn't worth a cent. Select a vital religion which will become a working part of the lives of both persons involved, but not the kind of religion of the man who thanked Cod for send- ing his wife a job so he could stay home to read the Bible. Dr. Bowman pointed out that all is not fair in love and war. In order to have a happy marriage there must be love, adjustment, and religion. ls that your pattern for living? 2' january 15, 1940 - FOUNDER'S DAY ASSEMBLY Founder's Day Hymn - - - By the Student Body Psalm Z4 ----- - - - Carolyn Tucker Unto Us a Son ls Born - - - - Orchestra Review and Preview - - Dr. Vlfiedefeld Salvation is Created ---- - Clee Club Christ of the Snow ----- - - Glee Club Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming - - Ieanne Group Dr. Wfiedefeld spoke of the progress our institution has made since our infant days. However, some of Dr. Newell's philosophy has left its impress upon his pro- fessional child, and our aims today reliect some of his of yesterday. May we continue to grow! FEBRUARY - 1940 COLLEGE NOTES ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL SIBY1. DAXYIS 'AVVell, if you do not have enough room, you can leave your second violins home. can't you? someone once asked Miss Prickett. Leave the second violins home? Never! VVithout them the effect of the Orchestra would be lost. It is the group which very frequently indicates the harmony through a change in the chords, and points the way of the melody. lf the second violin section were small, one would have to arrange the seating to give them the advantage or transfer to the second section some of the first violinists. i bl. The Wright: Btllllf' Rector Picelq Hzzblm Similda Schwcir1sberg's picture not included. Nor is the second violin part easier than the first. VVhile it is not necessary for second violinists to play with facility the higher positions, they, to do their job well, must play with precision in both time and tone. Since their part is usually an accompanying part. those who play second violin must listen consistently and sub- ordinate their playing to the lead part or parts. Some- times a composer, if he prefers an alto melody to that of a soprano one, will write a tune in the second part. thus giving the second violins the leading melody. In our Orchestra are many players in the second vi- olin section who are capable of playing the lirst violin part. Most of them played first violin in their respective high school orchestras and were members of the All-City and All-Maryland Orchestras. Have you made their ac- quaintance yet? ,ex OUR STUDENT COUNCIL JEANNIC KR.xvra'rz Our Student Council is growing and expanding its functions. A few years ago it hardly was mentioned. hardly noticed. Now l think it is on the way up to bc- coming a useful. worthwhile help in thc hands of the students of the College. In its new program of coordinating all the activities 19 rd that take place in the College, a feeling of high esteem and regard for it is growing. This is as it should be. XVe are students in a democratic school. XVC should make democracy work for us. XVe can do this by making our- selves heard - voicing our opinions, discussing our dif- ferences. Democracies cease to work when we sit back and lazily accept all that comes our way without ques- tion or thought. By taking an active interest in the affairs of the Stu- dent Council we strengthen it, but not only that, we strengthen ourselves, for we are the Council. A strong Council means a strong College - a strong College de- velops strong citizens and strong citizens make a de- mocracy work! Congratulations, Student Council. And by that I mean not only the students, but also the officers and faculty adviser, Mr. Moser. Your splendid work in the past year should not go without mention. Students, the Council is working for our benefit. It will function to a higher extent if we make our support of it evident. eet Charles Keller and Family NANCY BIETZGER HAVING LIVED in the same community and having gone to the same school that Charles Keller did, I availed myself of the privilege of asking him for an interview concerning baseball. I was, indeed, honored when he consented to meet me on Ianuary the second of this new year. VVhat a way to start the year! Not only is it rare to have such a famous person in the commu- nity. but it is still more rare to have the opportunity of seeing that person-in something other than the movies. The day! The hour! Somewhat laboriously, Charles Keller rose and walked toward me. Then I shared a handclasp that grips. The slight fear that I had had about introducing myself took the outfield. I had reached first base safely, though, I admit. not without difliculty. His address is Crove Boulevard, Frederick, Maryland. Since the street is in quite a new section of town it has neither street numbers nor a well-paved road. I knew not where to go, I passed the ice-skating pond on West College Terrace, I asked questions of strangersg and I felt beastly cold, for the wind blew so that I had to hold my hat on my head. Eventually, I had reached the lovely little red brick house in which the Kellers live. I surveyed a handsome figure with thick, black wavy hair, dark eyes, rather thick lips. and healthy, dark skin. My eyes met equal scrutiny in the deep-set black ones of the figure little taller than I. He wore dark brown trousers and a tan gabardine shirt. Charlie Keller is true to his photographs. Being seated, I proceeded to ask Mr. Keller, Since you've made such a name in baseball I thought perhaps you would write an article about baseball for our mag- azine? I hesitated. A slight smile denied my ambitious start. No, but I'll answer questions. XVhat would you like to know? 20 'Tm a poor one to talk about baseball, especially technical points, but I can't resist seeing Maryland's fa- mous people get a bit more publicity. Perhaps you would like to tell me how you started in baseball? Mrs. Keller came into the living room long enough to remove a heavy leather coat from a chair. The snow of that season had done much to make that coat lie useless, especially for hunting. Maybe I'd better list the names of these placesf, he remarked as he lit a cigarette and opened his desk to get a green fountain pen and stationery of a New York apartment house. Mrs. Keller, a most unassuming person, brought Charles III into the living room from the sun porch. She was wearing saddle shoes, a brown skirt, a yellow blouse, and a tan sweater. She is blonde, and in many respects reminds me of Betty Straining. I have heard that she plays a beautiful game of bridge. Mrs. Keller has made quite a place for herself in the communities of Frederick and Middletown. I walked over to the sofa where Charles III lay. 'AOh. isn't he pleasant? How do you do, little fellow! Oh, look! A tooth! Two teeth! How old is he. Mrs. Keller? Hc's five months old, he just got those two, she replied, rather proudly. Oh, he is the best baby I've ever seen, one chuckle after another. He certainly has a good disposition. Mr. Charles Keller had started his writing and said, apologetically. 'AI hope you'll be able to read this. In 1932, I933 and l934 l played as catcher in the Frederick County League under XVilliam Hauver. Mr. Hauver was also coach at Middletown High School, where I played pitcher and catcher in l932 and 1933. I played soccer and basketball in high school, too. At University of Maryland I played in the outfield TOWER LIGHT 4 I in 1934 and 1935. Barton Shipley was the coach. I played basketball and football for one year. I played soccer at Towson once, too. He added, it was there that I had had some difficulty in looking up one of your girls. Baseball was not his only interest, apparently. HAS a semi-pro, he contimied, HI played outfield at Kinston, North Carolina, in the summers of 1935 and 1936. I was back at Kinston a week in November. VVe caught tive deer that week. UDeer? I questioned. Oh, yes. I caught one. Some of the fellows invited me down to a 56,000-acre hunting camp at Kinstonf' Have you hunted deer in any other states? I could not resist, for I had had a bit of experience in a Pennsyl- vania deer camp. UNO, I haven't, he paused. In the spring of 1937 I left the University for spring training at St. Petersburg. Florida. In january, 1938, we were married. He smiled at Mrs. Keller. The same year 1 went back to college to finish my work. XVhat did you major in? I inquired. Economics, A'And did you lind that being an athlete was consid- ered in the work that was expected of you? No, indeed. We had to do straight college work. VVC had little time for baseball practice. You played with the Newark 'Bears', too, didn't you? Yes, I played with Newark in 1937 and 1938. Since then 1've been with the New York 'Yankeesf The first of March we go to Florida for spring training. All the major leagues have spring training there. 'fHow long does spring training last? 'Alt lasts until the middle of April. six weeks. 'Baseball isn't really a part-time job, is it? Training is very strenuous. Last year I didn't get back here to Frederick until the middle of October. This year I'm taking the family with me to Florida, then we'll take an apartment in New York during the base- ball seasonf' he explained, as he picked up the baby. He then sat down. placing Charles III between his knees. '4Rough-neck, he dubbed the laughing boy. and began to bat the little hands around. It will certainly not be easy to take him to Florida, will it? His food? Ycs. that's a problem. Is he going to be a baseball player, too? It's up to him, he smiled at the baby, perhaps fer- vently hoping that the child would be athletically in- Clined! I-Ie's had a nice Christmas? I ventured. A'Yes, but it doesn't mean much to him. YVC looked at the Christmas tree and CCOIITIIIIICC1 on page 315 FEBRUARY - 1940 5 IEROINIE KOLKILR NV IT H THE basketball season having reached the half-way mark, perhaps it might be interesting to pause for a brief interim to consider the progress of our team. As everyone in the College knows, our team has not fared too well so far this season. Before condemning the players and our coach, let us first consider some of the reasons for the bad start. Foremost in the list was the illness of Coach Minne- gan. Our team was without a coach for approximately three weeks. This was a severe shock. Second. is the loss to the quint of Daniel Austerlitz, one of the finest bas- ketball players ever to be developed by Coach Minne- gan at State Teachers College. VVith Austerlitz in the line-up, an average state team would look exceptional, a poor team, good. VVe are still suifering from the loss of his brilliant shooting and play-making. Reason num- ber three is a more remote one, yet, it is of major sig- niiicance. All of the other teams in the state are far above average. VVashington College, Loyola, Mount St. lVIary's, and Hopkins, this season, have the finest teams that they have had in a number of years. No one will dispute the fact that a team only looks as good as its opponents allow it to look. VVhile there are many more so-called alibis, there is just one more which the writer would like to mention. It is this: NOT ONCE DURING THE PRESENT BASKETBALL SEASON HAS COACH IXIINNEGAN BEEN ABLE TO HAVE HIS STRONCEST TEAAI PRACTICE TOGETHER! Student teaching and other College activities have caused this condition. Still, Towson Teachers have a lighting, fast club. Be- fore the season is concluded, they may start clicking: and then watch them. To some this may sound like an ab- surd prediction, but with Coach Minnegan at the helm and Marty Brill and Bob Cox playing excellent offensive basketball, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. How can the non-playing. grandstand coaches and other College students help the team? CORIE OUT AND SUPPORT THEM! Show them that we are behind them! Show that we do care! Remember that we cannot al- ways have a winner! fb' Now for a glimpse into the future. In a few moons. spring sports will come out of hibernation. Theres base- ball, tennis, and track - with baseball stealing the lime- light, Towson will have a strong ball club this year. Among the talent which Coach hlinncgan will have on hand are Captain XVhitey Laucnstein, an excellent ticld- er at any position and a powerful sluggcr: Lou Cox. an aggressive performer. and Iimmy Cernik. the pilc-driv- ing sluggcr. 21 Tl-IE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE DORISKLANK Best American W'it and Humor. Edited by J. B. Mussey, 1937. Tudor Publishing Co., New York. XVhat is so pleasing as a snack of witty humor? From the subtle to the riotous, from the sublime to the ridic- ulous, no degree of humor is omitted in this book of all laughs. If you prefer subtlety, there are poems by Dorothy Parker, and a series of articles by Newman Levy, called From Saturday to Monday, for your pleasure. If you favor the riotous, may I suggest Ferry-Tail from Keeng Mitas and Hlliawattaf' both by Milt Cross. The story of our Indian friend begins thus: On de shurrs from Ceetchy-goony stoot a tepee witt a weegwom Frontage Feefty feet it mashered. Hopen fireplace - izzy payments. And there's more like it which may be deciphered in several hours of anyones time. Do you prefer the sublime? Then you will relish A'Cap- sule Criticism by Alexander Woollcott and Perfect Behavior by Donald Ogden Stewart, in whom we find a rival for counselor Emily, the Post. Or do you hunger and thirst for the ridiculous? fThis book was really intended for you.j To satiate your hun- ger and quench your thirst there are Through the Ali- mentary Canal with Cun and Camera by George S. Cappell, and many articles by Robert Benchley and the noted humorist, XV ill Rogers. In the words of the editor, If there is any kind of laugh that is not represented in this book, it is a for- eigner. and had better go back to Russia where it came from. gf' A NEW BOOK OF COWBOY BALLADS Reviewed by BARBARA HAILIZ Sun and Saddle Leather. Clark, Badger. Chapman and Grimes, Boston, 1956. 201 pages. The poems that are included in Sun and Saddle Leather may be listed as American Ballads. But in so classifying them, two things are necessary: first. a more definite limitation of the term f'American g and, see- ond, a definition of ballads. In considering them as American ballads, one must realize that they repre- sent one characteristic and well-known phase of Amer- ican life - that of the cowboy on the vast plains 22 i X fi if I ' fa? ,r . U5 . 9 4 iff I I iii! 4 in-gh -5 7: mi 7 C X Z za. Tvi-A 7 Q ii?-1.11. of the VVest, and all of the subsequent rich associations. These poems may be classed as ballads, even though there are many differences between them and the very early ballads. This is because they carry the essential theme or characteristics of ballads. The most important likeness, as I see it, is that these poems seem to repre- sent a communal feeling. All cowboys lead a life char- acteristically alike: they roam the wide plains on horse- back, participate in round-ups, go to small towns for occasional recreation, herd cattle, break horses, and ex- perience many similar things, The poems in Sun and Saddle Leather seem to capture on paper the life and feelings of the cowboy. For example: Ridin' expresses the universal love of the cowboy for his kind of life: '4The Outlaw typifies the horse that is to be brokeng The Lost Pardner shows how one feels in losing a close pal. You cannot put your finger on any poem that is an experience or feeling of one man only, isolated from all other men. Rather will you find the feelings and expe- riences in the realm of the cowboy basically the same for all. This idea is further strengthened by the knowledge that Badger Clark, himself, has said that he has found his poems scattered everywhere, sometimes losing their original identity, but being sung and used as typically cowboy poems. Perhaps one reason why these poems are so expressive of cowboy life in general is that Bad- ger Clark, himself, lived part of his life as a cowboy on the plains, and wrote these poems as a means of ex- pressing his feelings, without any intention of publishing them. Another likeness to ballads is the simplicity. The dia- lect of the cowboy is used and the feelings and actions are presented quite simply. Still another similarity is in the rhythm. Many of these XVestern ballads could be and have been sunff to music by the cowboys themselves, D , . while riding in the saddle or around the campfire, and TOWER LIGHT 4 . I by people other than cowboys. These poems have tlie rhyming scheme of ballads - that is, the last word in the second and fourth lines rhyme. They often have choruses, or refrains, after each stanza, such as we find in early ballads. And they clearly represent the social conditions of the cowboys themselves. Frequently, the ballads protest against any other way of living. These ballads are different from early ballads in sev- eral ways. First, they do not represent superstitious, feats of wonder, legends, etc. They are true to life. They are concerned with no class of people but themselves, they include no battles, sudden deaths, or imaginative won- ders. Another big difference is that early ballads almost invariably were narratives. Cowboy ballads are very in- frequently narratives, instead, they express an emotion and concern everyday activities. In early ballads you rarely knew what the characters thought about things. The following quotation illustrates this point. Qlt is the first stanza of A Cowboy's Prayernj Oh, Lord, I've never lived where churches grow. I love creation better as it stood That day You finished it so long ago And looked upon Your work and called it good. I know that others find You in the light That's sifted down through tinted window-panes, And yet I seem to feel You near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains. Another dissimilarity is the use of description. Early ballads rarely described things, places or people, cowboy ballads do just that to produce certain emotions and ideas. The following is a bit of description in A Round- up Lullaby . Desert blue and silver in the still moonsliiue, Coyote yappin' lazy on the hill, Sleepy winks of lightninl down the far skyline, Time for millin' cattle to be still. The feeling which seems to run throughout all the ballads, no matter what they concern, seems to me to be well-expressed by the following refrain from Ridin' z just a-ridin, a-ridin' - Desert ripplin' in the sun, Mountains blue along the skyline - I don't envy anyone XVhen I'm ridin'. ,Ei The Fine Art of Propaganda. By the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York. 140 pages. Reviewed by HARRY LONDON It is platitudinous to say that America needs to be on the lookout today for many and divers forms of propaganda, local as well as foreign, vicious as well as otherwise: but how can we tell what is, and what is not propaganda? FEBRUARY - 1940 The Institute for Propaganda Analysis believes that any reasoning being, suflicicutly interested in preserving Democracy, should be able to judge for himself what is and what isu't propaganda, if only we give him an adequate set of critiques, stern enough to apply to all he hears and reads. To begin with, the Institute has used for analysis the speeches of Father Coughlin, whom they believe to be the foremost propagandist in America today. VV hat are the points which we may look for in talks and written word, which will aid us in de- termining their propaganda content? l. NAME CALLING:-By giving an idea a bad label, or associating the idea with something widely ac- cepted as A'bad, the propagandist makes us reject and condemn the idea, without examining the evidence. NVhen I call you a iACOII11IlIl1IISt, Socialist, A'jew, Radical, Nazi, etc., I have inunediately discredited you and your idea to some degree. 2. GLIT'I'ERING CENERALITY: - Quite opposed to name calling, in that we associate an idea with something good, decent, wholesome, and clean, in order that listeners will accept it without search- ing out the evidence. If I say that L' ---- is good, because it makes for democracy, free speech, social justice, upholding of the Constitution, Christianity, brotherly love, freedom of the press, etc., I may cause you to fall for my plan without careful consideration. 3. TRANSFER1-C3fT5 lIlg over respected, revered au- thority to something else, to make the latter acceptable. If I associate my ideafljs with the Catholic Church, with the Synagogue, with Protestantism, with the Cross. with Redemption, or other forms of sacred creed, I keep you from examining the evidence against my idea. 4. TESTIBIONIALZ-USG of endorsement, or denuncia- tion by a loved or hated person to extol or dis- credit the idea endorsed or denounced. A'Ceorge YVashington once said, '----'g President Roosevelt once said, A ---- 'g joseph Stalin once said, ' ---- ' 4 these will cause us to accept an idea, or de- nounce it, depending. of course, on the big name used. Again, the evidence is not examined. In many cases, claims the Institute. the propagandist violates tcstiino- nial truth by flj using untrustworthy sources: by jll alleging statements which have not come from thc source cited. 5. PLAIN Forks APPiz.xL:-Mctliocl by which propa- gandist tries to convince the audience that thc idea is good, because they, and thc speaker. arc of the Upeoplcf' of thc plain folks. This is to say, 'AVC workers, wc Christians. wc 23 Americans, etc., must unite to fight so and so, to pro- mote such and such. 6. CARD STACKING:-Selective manipulation of facts. Here, the speaker selects, as he desires, parts of truths, or outright lies, and puts them not-in-their-natural-order, but in an illogical sequence designed for the speakers own benefit. Here we are kept from examining the evi- dence at hand, and thus. tend, unjustly, to believe. And Hnally: 7. THE BAMJWAGON.- Everybody's doing - all of us are doing it - come ong get on the bandwagon. All these propaganda devices are self-explanatory in their wording, but now we must apply these very sternly to something that we hear or see, today, this very moment. Let's take a sample of current writing f and current propagandaj and analyze it on a basis of these critiques: fFrom the Hearst paper, October 19, l939j: Peace This resort to diplomacy t2j on the part of Soviet Russia and Finland to settle their differences 165 should point the way for the cleaning up fly of the whole tragic European mess 165. Common sense diplomacy QD and just negotiation 12p instead of aggression ill and vindictive vitupera- tion tlj are recommended not only to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, but to Mr. Chamberlain Q6j, and M. Daladier t6j. There is no doubt f6j that the whole European sit- uation could be solved f,6j as easily as the Finland situation t6j, and universal disaster Qlj of a XVorld XV ar avoided tlj if a policy of mutual conciliation Q Zj were pursued. . . . YVhat Finland and Russia, what Canada and the XVestern Republics have agreed Q69 to do - and have done Q6j. the countries of Europe can do f6l. For it must plainly be seen that a continuation and speeding up of the present war ill in Europe will re- sult in the complete economic collapse Q ll of all parties in it, with profit alone accruing to the one country which is the common l5j and logical enemy flj of them all - Soviet Russia flj. Wye could go on here at great length, but you should have seen by now how the seven critiques may be ap- plied to any common bit of propaganda published today in the daily press. The little volume is in the Library 4' Magazine Room jg but only three people have taken it out. lsn't S. T. C. interested in combating propaganda? CAMPUS SCHCDOL l-IUMCDR FROM SNOW IVIEN TO PEPPERMINT STICKS KATHERINE IACOB This month we have a most charming contribution from the Campus School. The children have written poems that will delight all of us. Their verses flow freely and rhythmically with a keen sense of humor. The top- ics have a wide range - from snow men to peppermint , sticks. Humor is universal, from youth to old age. This is enough introduction. Here are the verses. Our regret 1 is that space did not permit more. A Snow Man Iohnny made a snow man, His eyes were made of coal, His hat was a tin can, His nose was a roll. Iohnny had him pose. He made him shy. He ate his nose. And made him cry. The snow man stood up all the night, And tried to walk about. But in the morning he did sigh. The children had come out. They played about him all the day, And had a lot of fun. They did not see him melt away Until the day was done. -Louise Vi'ood. Grade -l. 24 Here are two limericks that are enioyable. A pleasing effect is accomplished by simple rhyme and rhythm: Paul There was a young fellow named Paul. XVho was so terribly tall That his head touched the roof. And that was a proof, That Paul was not very small. jane There was a young lady named Iane. XVho was so entirely insane That she stood on her head. And said she was dead, XYhenever it started to rain. -both bv Nancy Kennedy. Grade 5. TOWER LIGHT i Candy Land E Do you think you would like it - ! If there were taffy trees, all coated up with chocolate E bark I And green gum drops for leaves? ?And houses made of ice cream, white and brown and , red, And there weren't any slate roofs, but chewing gum r ones instead? And roads were paved with licorice sticks, And flowers were lolly pops, .And butterflies were butterseotch, gAnd grass was green peppermint drops? !.And rivers flowed with ginger ale and lemonade and milk, nAnd people always wore toffee instead of satin and silk, vAnd everywhere peppermint pigs and pully taify bats, i With surprisingly good fudge terriers, and lovely whip- y ped cream cats? I don't think l'd like it at all. For ice cream houses would melt and fall, And toffee clothes would melt in all the towns And people would look like circus clowns. If we spent each day eating candy and cake VVe'd end each day with the tummy ache. -Nancy Kennedy, Grade 5. Song of the Peppermints u Peppermints, peppermints, here we go, Peppermints, peppermints, down we blow! Ianie is dreaming, we're in her dream! Peppermints, peppermints. that is all! Peppermints, peppermints, down we fall! NVake up, Ianie, come out of your sleep, Peppermints for a year will not keep! That was your dream, that was your dream, Though peppermints really do sparkle and gleam! -Alice Nelson, Grade 5. SO WHAT XV. Noarus Wars X iAS IS the February custom of this column, we offer for your entertainment and enlightenment a boisterous, bubbling, brilliant, blithesome, blustering bit of news which is not intended to be at all unified. It contains ysmatterings which have been tilched from sundry sources around this emporium of wisdom. QBoy, ain't gl keepin' this introduction at a high level with them 5iwords?j So here we go again to discuss ships and shoes iand sealing-wax, and cabbages and kings: E l Things We Never Knew 'Til Now l. lVhitey Lauenstein was confused by some girls as Q being our Math professor, Mr. Moser. CAre you y readin', Agnes?j 2. The same XVhitey is the male hero of Soph. 2. 3. The pianist in the Orchestra Qfar be it from me to X mention any names, but confidentially his initials are Q Iohn Horstj has a fervent admirer in the young lady i with whom he eats lunch. Guess who? Yes, sir. Agnes Kernan, it is! VVillie Gaver has become A'Mercerized. 45. Bob Reidt is getting around more on week-ends now ' that he has his own Carr. I ii6. Sam Klopper is still trying to keep up with the Ioneses. ,FEBRUARY - 19M ! l i I Things We'd Still Like to Know l. VVhy Stottlemyer can't keep his kitty off his lap in Richmond Hall parlor? 2. lust whose heart Lou Henderson is after? ls it Lu- therville's Betty or is it Randallstown's Ruth? 3. VV hy the dorm parlor boys need more comfortable love-seats in Richmond Hall parlor? 4. XVhy Misses Steuart, VVells, Ogier are so intensely interested in the Student Council? Things We'l1 Never Forget About the Past Christmas Vacation l. The number 'A-iS -- will we. Harry? 2. Colburn lXfIartin's getting home at T A. M. 3. lack Hart's the best Christmas l ever had. 4. Christmas Day at Betty NVisebrock's - will we. Iohn? 5. Dotty DeCarlo's ice-skating party delay. 6. Our Christmas Scxtet's rendition of Chloc. CEd. Note - Renderl' means to tear apart! fi-Xnswer to Ed. Note - XVC meant what wc said- A'render .j 3 7. Cernick's bowling and his favorite Harford Road lunch room. fOle lim can wipe od a mean counter 25 if thc waitress is attractive enough.1 8. Culliver's Travels at 3:30 P. M. 9. Minnie's Sable Cape, allegedly lost at the Astor. 10. Betty Ann's phone number. ll. Ruth Nizer's lip-rouge. 12. Cveorge Hoddinott's poetic expressions of love tover- heard in a parlorj. 13. The trip to the accident ward of the hospital. 1-l. Schlepperman's Sam Lapides' joke. Leap Year Along with 1940 came Leap Year. Here that old sage, Leon Lellend Lerner, long of Evening Sun Forum fame, injects what he thinks of this custom. Leap Year - when the female becomes the pro- poser and the male becomes the proposee! Carry it out to its logical conclusion and you will agree that during 1940 no girl is a lady in the true sense of the word unless she- l. Holds the entrance doors open for the men. 2. Gets up and gives her seat to the men in the street cars. 3. Tips her hat to male acquaintances whom she meets. 4. Removes her hat in the elevator. 3. Calls for the boy with whom she has a date. 6. Pays the check. 7. VValks on the gutter side of a boy to protect him from run-away horses and from debris which may be thrown from second-story windows. All these give the girl the right to propose, and unless the girl who proposes is consistent in following the above regulations. we will agree not to accept! So there! Swingology fA1so from the files of L. L. L.l Now take a current song like the one entitled. Oh, lohnsonu - what is its swing or any other swing tech- nique? lt's only something that, when the orchestra leader doesn't know what his band is playing, they are. ihliss lVeyforth, please take note.l O C Dalfynitions XVork: An ancient American custom. Now extinct. Adolescence: A girl who wears her corsage to school the Monday after the Saturday night dance beforef' Maturity: t'An adult who has stopped growing at both ends and starts growing in the middle. 26 College journalism College journalists should think daringly, publish boldly. believe deeply. Nobody in authority should in- terfere with their publishing what they want to publish. And no sensible older person will pay any attention to it after it is printed. fOpinion of Daily Princetonian staff as expressed by Iohn Kieran! Dare we accept this literally? Conclusion So ships and shoes and sealing-wax, and cabbages and kings have been covered in detail for one month. As is also another custom of this columnist f?j, each suc- cessive month of this year I shall have a guest co-writer. The month of March it will be a Freshmang April, a Sophomoreg May, a Iuniorg and Iune, a Senior. This will give each class the chance for prominence that it de- serves. So think ahead for your issue. So. 'til March - so long. and So YVhat? But, Flash!!! K a remark suggested by the Stark film on Newsj: Three types of machines for relaying news -- telephone. teletype. and tellawoman. Now, really, in closing, let me say that it is an es- tablished fact that many men have to live from can to mouth!! ,is' I Shall Never Forget ELIZABETH M . LEXVIS XVINTER, XVITH its icy edge. watched stealthily over her grave. puffing its feathery store of whiteness si- lently against my cheek. On every side great trees. soli- tary ghosts. stood silently stretching white arms to the sky. white purple shadows in weird forms crouched be- tween the tree trunks. The winds made a low and mournful sound as they sobbed in the branches. and I was sure that they understood. The dusky landscape was one pale haze stretching out for miles on either side. i l J i 1 1 I 1 ll 4 I il- Like the withered petals of a rose. the great flakes fell! softly. Every decayed stump, every tombstone. every shrub - one great blanket of snow. As long as 1 have the power to remember. I shall not forget that day. that lonely grave. that falling snow. that! silent beauty, that cold touch of the wind against myi cheek - that all-enveloping whiteness that drifted so silently. imprinting itself inclelibly on all the pages of my life. ' T O WE R LI G H Ti A satire on Life I 1 1 4 3 IEANNE KRAVETZ l iLIFE, IT seems to me, is like a one-man street-ear, crowded at the front. One gets on and comes in con- ytaet with a crowded mass of humanity. The people are lclose together, forming almost an impregnable wall. It is hot, stuffy and crowded. The er lurches to a stop, a jerk, one loses his balance, falls and then regains a foot- ing. The car goes on. More people crowd on. A hat is lknoeked off, a sharp elbow pokes one in the ribs, then - comes another jerk, another shove, a dirty look. a mut- I lj tered curse. The car goes on. Conditions are bad, life iis unhappy and miserable. One thinks that it cannot always be like this. Some- lwhere it must be better. Somewhere, there must exist fthe ideal life - a seat in the ear. Ah, if there were only SOITIC way to find a seat. But is there an empty seat? !iDoubt prevails. Certainly. had there been some seats, I these people would have worked their way farther into the car to find them. Therefore, there are none. Unfor- tunately, most of the people seem to be able to exist in this crowded car. So why should one look for a change? y The crowd gets worse, the ear jerks on, the mutterings .cease and then rise again. The ear moves on. It stops 5 and more people get on. One thinks. why should more people be allowed to get on the car? They will certainly t not be comfortable here and will only make us more mis- erable from getting on the car. f Q1 I I ! One person seems to think there is a place for him I in the ear. He pushes and shoves and elbows his way Q forward. Some people laugh and say, the fool, why does I he wear himself out? VV here is he trying to go? There ! 5 is no better place on this car. Others gleefully retort, there, look. he just had his hat knocked off. That serves him right. V indictively a voice rings out, I tried L to push back and I couldn't. Certainly he ean't. VVhy ,ishould he try? His pushing makes us all the more un- iyeomfortable. It will do him no good. Let's stop him! !Stop him! But the man goes on and on, slowly, slowly, gigsqueezing and pushing and shoving, slowly. squeezing and pushing and shoving. slowly, slowly moving for- llward. He is pushed back. People smile and say. i'See. he I!eouldn't do it. It can't be done. But the man perse- ifveres. Ugly looks, shoves, mutterings, he receives on ev- 'tery hand. But on he goes. One Enal shove - he is igthrough. He has arrived at the back of the car. P Q l In the rear of the ear no one is standing and there are liseveral empty seats. The man sits down. Then he looks ilaround at the other seated people. The people are com- FFEBRUARY - 1940 l , 1 1 fortable and happy. There is room for many more. But they do not come back. The man looks to the front of the car, at the crowded, packed mass. VVhy don't they struggle and come back? They would be so happy and satisfied if they did. The man is happy and he wants others to be. Should he go to the front of the car and tell them of the empty seats? They would not believe him. Should he use force and pull them back and place them in the empty seats? Oh, no, they are intelligent people. They should be allowed to decide for themselves. Oh. but they don't move! They stay in the crowded front of the car. They stay there! How long can they remain static? The car is coming to its destination. More and more people get off. Death! VVhat have they done during their ride on the car? VVhat have they achieved? Most of them have found unhappiness, pain, dirt, disease, struggle, mental inac- tivity and social decay. True, a few have gone on to happiness and construc- tive living. But what a struggle to get there, what a iight, what torment! But it was worth it. It is worth it! How much better it would be if more people were push- ing to the back of the car to happiness and better life. ff' The Speed of Modern Life C. BVIARTIN TH E OTH E R day I happened to be talking to a very old man. His conversation was far younger than his yearsg in fact. he was a brilliant thinker, with a facile tongue. As a mere student of life, I carefully noted what he said concerning the so-called speed of modern life. As he talked I felt an inward glow rising above the mere words of his argument. He said: People of today are merely in a mental whirl: phys- ical events have slowed considcrably: until we of today. in the United States, are the most leisurely people in history. Not only have we been freed from the serfdom of hacking at the soil with our tortured muscles. but we have also managed to feed ourselves culture and art in 27 the diet of a gourinand. Even factory workers, and, per- haps. even some share-croppers, read best-sellers out of public libraries, see an occasional 1'llOVlC, work less than fifty-live hours a week, have Sunday off, and enjoy a fair immunity from pain and suffering. Contrast this, young man, to the blood-sweating galley slaves of the terrible trirenies. Contrast this to the plague-ridden hordes of fifteenth-century Europe, when the grimy rabble fell like Hies. And, finally, contrast the phleg- matic riders in street-cars with the club-and-fang taunt- ed Paleolithic, who swung frantically from tree to tree. XVe've come a long way, soII. But the farther we go ahead, the less we have to exert ourselves, that's true in everything. Remember the old expression, 'the first hundred years are the hardest? VVell, in our case, the iirst million years have been the hardest. We're just drifting along now at the peaceful mouth of the river. VVe're just viewing the ocean of ease and opportunity. XVe have come down from a mad, turbulent stream up in the cataract-and-hill country. Let's forget those silly mistakes we made when the whirlpools seared us. VVe're sailing smoothly now, with new universes beyond. just forget those jungle fears. VVe're resting on our oars and d0n't know it. Winter Interlude V IRGINIA Roop D O XV N B E I-I I N D the hedge the fluttering flakes tumbled, whirled, and came to rest. The barren spots, withered grass, and broken twigs slowly disappeared be- neath the fluff of crispy whiteness. Bit by bit the snow crept upward along the discolored walls of the deserted house. The wind swooped over the roof and ID03IlCd eerily as it banged broken shutters and rattled splintered glass. The building creaked and tottered on its founda- tion with each upward gust, straining as though to burst. Up and down, around and over, the snowflakes went whirling, frosting the panes, lodging in corners, jealously covering every bit of color, leaving a world of white be- neath the gray skies. Darker grew the clouds and wilder the wind. Then, suddenly - a lull, a downpour of pel- ets, a drizzling rain. The cottony mounds sagged and dwindled into icy sheaths. Small drops hung on the eaves, the shutters, the windows, and hardened - ever- growing longer, like the fangs of a yawning dragon. The 3 1 'a ' 5+-1' ' rain ceased and the ice-encased world sparklecl in the! sun! The Most Gullible Creatures on Earth 1 SIBYL DAX'IS THE POOR. deluded creatures who are so easily fooled that they will pay for anything four times. may be numbered among the worlds worst. Everybody rec- ognizes theni, lllfllly capitalize upon their weakness. Mr. Farley is the outstanding champion of their cause in America. For them he has issued countless unnecessary items: and they. being gullible, have bought them faith- 28 Government authorized four hrst-day-of-issue for 0116 ite1II at four different cities. in four different states. on four different dates. The idiotic people were happy, ' even eager, to get all four first-days. ls it any wonder ' that this group has been called 'Astarnp fiends. stamp ' nuts, and the most gullible creatures on earth ? TOWER LIGHTQI I 1 fully. The crowning touch came this year when the fl I RECESS KATHERINE JACOB and FRANCES SHORES My friend, you make no sale to me, I'm five feet eight and would like to look shorter. Statistics prove that the average he Is a meager five feet eight and a quarter. -Saturday Eve. Post. V if 101 Political jokes A teacher, in golden words, talked about heaven to a group of small boys. VVhen she finished. she asked how many wanted to go to heaven. All of the boys raised their hands except Charles McGregory. 'fWhy, Charles, said the teacher, dont you want to go to heaven? '4Yes. said Charles, but not with this bunch! 3 A51 lk Be'in's you getting a hard of hearin'? Erie asked Uncle Jeb. Yep. Better go down to Boston to see a doctor, said Eric. Uncle Ieb did. The doctor told him that if he wanted to keep from being deaf to stop drinking. Well, said Uncle leb, I like what I've been drinkin' so much better than what I've been hearin' that I think I'll keep on getting deaf. Ik Ill it The girl who speaks volumes always ends up on the shelf. if lk Ik A truck driver was buying some meat in a butcher shop when another man, not so well schooled in the amenities of everyday life, rudely pushed up to the counter ahead of him. Give me some dog food, barked the new arrival to the clerk, then turning to the driver, said, A'Hope you don't mind? Not if you're that hungry, said the truck driver. 21 Ik if Bold Facts A gal may live alone and lack it. Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened. VVork is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.-Picasso. Better to have loved a short girl than never to have loved a tall. lk ll! lk lf you doubt that America is the land of untold wealth, ask the income tax collectors. 161 Ili Bk Teacher: Are you yawning? Frosh: No, malam. That is a silent war whoop. FEBRUARY - 1940 UI-I-I-IUI-I R. I. G. Cupid drinks a toast To that member of the faculty who thought that only Mr. VValther could make the TowER LIGHT - Friends, members of thc faculty, classmates, los-lin' us your cars. VVe will divert our attention To another of his peers That twinkle of her eyes That crinkle of her nose Compels us her contribution To humor disclose: i. e. Mommy femphaticallyj: lf you walk in that mud, l'll whip you! Sonny: 4'You'd better whip me now, 'cause l'll do it anyway. Professor fafter bombarding the class with ques- tionsj: f'And what do you think, Iohnnie? Student. Please, sir, we don't have twice to think! And today in speech class, this secret she expounded: That if you had 'ooomph' you could never be grounded. fEditor's Note: I. E. I. made the 'TOXVER LrcHT!!j ii A '41 '41 Which Are You? The Arabs say that fools are of two kinds, 'simple' and fcomplexl A man who does not know everything and knows that he does not know, is a simple foolg while the man who does not know everything and does not know that he does not know, is a complex fool. :,': BQ: aft Poem of the Month: HHe stood by the gate in silence. The sky was studded with stars. The moon cast down a ribbon of silver, As for her he let down the bars. They stood by the gate in silence, Not a word between the two. But she brushed against him gently. As slowly they both passed through. Her eyes were both tender and soulful. But there's no loyc in them now. For he's only the hired man. And she is thc Icrscy cow. . .. ... ,gf s,. ,,. Dippnition : i'Two old ladies fumble at a jewel casket. One throws a handful of pearls into the mud and the other coos with delight! UH-HUH - R. I. C. 29 GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR O'Neills Charles Street at Lexington Complintents of . . . TOWSON THEATER The Svetnnh ,Rational Zaank of Ulutnsun, HID. LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONYENIEXT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Discriminating Tastes Prefer Esskoy' Quality MEAT PRQDUCTS 30 The Taming of the Shrew 1Continued from page Sy Bianca did follow, but with her pretended tutor, Lu- centio. who took a short cut to the church and married her on the sly. XVhen Lucentio arrived at his own home in Padua, his real father had arrived to visit him, so Lu- centio was in time to kneel at his feet and ask at once for his pardon and blessing imore of that who-struck- john stuffj ,E Pete had a swell time on his journey back to Padua, but poor Kate had to take it all the way. He made her obey every little wish of his. even sillier things than he had done at home. He made her kiss him in public un- der threat of taking her back to Verona if she didn't. my They were quite touchy about kissing in those days.j 2 And to wind this up real literary-like: Indeed, by the time they reached Lucentio's house there was no more obedient wife in all Italy. Katharina even went so far as to comment in her Bly Day speech that woman's greatest virtue is obedience to her husband. Moral - if any - Them days is gone forever. May I Help You? Innes CERNIK MAY I help you? A fresh shoulder? How many pounds? Oh. six pounds! Lets see - humm qphandling fresh shoulder ly. How does this look? lholding up the! shoulderl. Oh. yes. I'll weigh it! Two ounces over six pounds. VVon't do? NVhy its only two ounces more than you want! Are you sure its too much? All right. I'll get you another. How is this? lholding up the shoulderj. Too fat!! Why. lady. this isn't fat at all!! It should have some fat on it or it will cook tough. XVhat do I know about cooking? I haven't been married live years for nothing! You want to see the first shoulder I had? Let's see. where did I put it? I put it right in front of you? You say the other fella took it? But I don't see where it is my fault because he sold the shoulder. I am sorry.- But I am keeping my mind on my business! YVhat was that you wanted? A quarter pound of bologna? That? all!!! Thank you! l i 1 l I I didn't send for a piano tuner. said the puzzlecl householder. No, replied the piano tuner. but the people next door did. TOWER LIGHT I Demons of Renunciation j fCO1lff11UCd from page l3j A from her allegiance to jthe feminine altar of dieting. Now, let us analyze. Mr. IA really wanted the steak and potatoes, but did not jeare to embarrass his wife: while Mrs. A really wanted 1 :the salad and coffee, but knew that she would have to itake the other evils if she accepted the tasty inorsels. g That is the situation - two guests, literally starving, de- isiring nourishment, and willing to accept it if encour- jaged enough, but what happens? The two guests leave ithe table hungry and disappointed, through their own efforts. No, it doesn't make sense, but this thing is con- ,stantly going on every day. Let us only hope that Mr. rand Mrs. A never repeat that the B's are not good hosts 'because they don't make you feel enough at home. ' These are only two classic examples, with no mention made of countless other types of refusal such as auto- matically declining to speak, to expend lnoney fa uni- ,-versal illustrationj , to lend things, to buy something, to i-go somewhere. or to ofliciate at an event. Human psy- Ilchology is a funny thing when one thinks about it. .There is nothing under the sun that has not been re- fused, when the refuser actually wants, desires, and even 'craves the thing. It is well not to confuse conscientious refusal with the subject now under discussion. Once in 'a while, some are actually sick, incapacitated, or preju- diced and as a result. when approached, refuse from the bottom of their heart. However, these individuals may be classified by their technique, for they refuse only jonceg they give their excuse and then shut up like a l clam - they simply will not argue. Do not be fooled by lrenunciation. If a person discourses long and feverish- ly, be suspicious and go right on insisting. sl Meet Charles Keller end Family jfCOI1f'I1lU6d from page Zlj the pen full of toys. At IChristmas he ignored all his toys to play with a piece Qof red string. He's learning to like that rubber Porky Pig, though. It was evident, however, that Charles III ,lilovecl more than Porky Pig when one saw him romping jwith his father. ' Finally. I asked Mr. Keller. who is still in his early twenties: Do you plan to stay in baseball very long? HAS long as it makes a living for me. As I thanked Mr. Keller for his kindness and wished ,the family a successful New Year I felt a genuineness j in the man such as I rarelv feel onlv for old friends. Such .obliging folks, such famdus folks: on whom glory rests . so lightly! IQFEBRUARY - 1940 t A Deposit of 51.00 Opens u Claeclaing Account in the CHECKIVIASTER Plan at The Zliutnsnn jliatiunal Earth TOWSON, MD. 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'1' 11 l Wm 1, ,-,, -1 1 . 1 , 1 .'g 11 11. ,.1,,11 ,11 1 , 1. 11 ,Av P 121 L 11 1151 I7 1 W X ' 14 1 '11 ' '1 1.11 1 I I 1 - :1 1 1 1 , W 1 X 1 4 I , I 1 1 1 1 X 1 1 1 A 1 1 1 1 1 -. 1 1 - 1 1 1 I 1 CHE5TERFIELD'S VALENTINE GIRL QM 425 E-,..m,, CHESTERFIELD De real reason why Chesterfields are in more pockets every day is because Chest- erf1e1d's Right Combination of the wor1d's best cigarette tobaccos gives you a better smoke... definitely milder, cooler and better-tasting. You ca1z'1f 17101 zz better czgzzretfe. MAKE YOUR NEXT PACK CHESTERFIELD c C ll 1940 OWEI' Zqkf ll an 1 'mf 65' -'FP' RR an FLAVUR O O in slower-burning I 'v-lr Camelsf says Bill Corum, 'famed sports writer and columnist SURE I WORK FAST- BUT I LIKE MY SMOKING SLOW. MILDER, COOLER CAMELS ARE CHAMPS WITH ME fb-2 ILL CORUM'S sports news isn't just printed . . . it's sprinted . . . at lightning speed from press-box to press and the Five-Star Final. But when the candid camera catches Bill in his office with a cigarette-well, No speed for me in my smoking, he says. His own common sense and experi- ence tell him what scientists have found out in their research laboratories-that slow-burning cigarettes are extra mild, extra cool, fragrant, and flavorful. Cigarettes that burn fast just naturally burn hot. And nothing so surely wrecks the delicate elements of flavor and fra- grance as excess heat. No wonder you get a hot. Hat, unsatisfactory smoke. The delightful mildness, coolness. fragrance, and flavor of Camels are ex- plained by this important finding - Camels proved to be the xlozvexbburn- ing cigarette of the sixteen largest-sell- ing brands tested! fTfJe ptulel at the right expltziui llwe 1exl.j MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF. .. MORE PUFFS PER PACK! LIGHTNING-FAST in the press-box.XWhy, Bill Corum's been known to File 3,000 words of siz- zling copy during a sin- gle big sports event. But no speed for him in his smoking - slower-burn- ing Camels are Bill Corum's cigarette. And here's Bill at work in the quiet of his office. Bill...typewriter...books ...pictures...and Camels -slow-burning Camels. I End them milder and cooler - and thriftier, he says. I rislir, livill R. J Ri-ynnlds 3 l'.r it-mm ,Will-Lim-Salt-ni,X.C' In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned ZSFE ,flower than the aver- age of the 15 other of the largest- selling brands tested-slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to ks'-Q1-.,, k. L---a v V 5 EXTRA s-3 Q l SMOKES PER PACK! L i I' i . el Ca m S - fic cgafeffe jfgfflef' Zfafcaf MANAGERS A A S . ,:.,... THE STAFF EDITORS IZVELYN A, FIEDLIER KATIIIERINE FEASER RICIIARD CUNNINCIIARI CII.-XIKLICS GROSS CIRCULATION ADVERTISING MANAGERS Esther Royston Margaret Heck Virginia Roop Norma Gainhrill Elizabeth XVeems leancttc lones Margaret Lowry BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt lohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Art Dorothx' Snoops Aliee 'l'I'Ott Miriam Kolodner Andrey Praniseliufer Marguerite XVilSOn Humor Katherine Iaeob Frances Shores Elizabeth Melenclez Srience Lee MeCarriar lohn Chileoat Ianies O'COnnOr Alblelics I lenrx' Steeklcr Catherine Paula Nolan Chipinan Lilimry Elizabeth Zentz Andrey Ilorner Doris Klank Mary Di Peppi Service Slatiou Jeanne Kravetz General Lilemtnre Nannettc Trott Irma Sennhenn Patrieia Ilernclon Alllsic Sydney Baker Exfbmzges X lilclrecl Ilkllllffllt Fashions Marie Parr Dorothy Sislc College Events Ilelen Pieeli Mari' Brashears Nancy Metzger Editorial Calvin Parker Catherine Cray Iannes Iett ALICICMUNN - - Managinglf clitor LBLLITLE-TJ' 1101 X111 ff MARCH - 1940 1 No. 6 C 0 N T E N T S PACE 'T'I'IOUGI1'1'S ABOUT YOU 3 FOREXVORD .... 4 FROBI 'I'IIli AVISDORI OF LAO-TZE S Two DIEN GO 'IO XX'7AR . 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Lee XleCarriar TIIIQ TOXVER LICYIIT iS publisliecl IIIOlllflIlA' - Oetoher through Iune - by the Students ot the State VIYCLICIICIN College at Towson, Maryland ......... 51.50 PICR YEAR Ill CIN is l'I li QNHPY ., V ll 'B' ! X, V , i Ina I It I f 1 I I .- 1 J,. -Y Y. M M me 1 -x KW Wkgi 5 :fig N wwf? AV S Luisa 'id I' V 3 E , Y H. M I !5mRFslWW?-256-QWWRWKWQSFNRWXWVWQSJFQWWIQQNWWKQSSQXWX Q, E 3 it Cfzouqlzfs I Eilfouf ou If 5 3 I MARIE M. NEUNSINGER, Class Adzfzscf' I TALL LETTERS stood at the top of the newspaper, and I thought about J E you. War, suspicion, hate, sickness, and death - all yours at the beat of a drum j and the sight of a flag. 5 Youths on parade - eager to change night into dayg intent upon making E 5 right all wrong, rapid in thought and action, but fearful in their quick young JY if hearts. I thought about you. ,E In the place of worship, the Priest and the Rabbi looked into the faces of 2 K those who had lived many years. Within these places of worship, vacant spaces jj ig stretched themselves along in a monotonous way. I thought about you. X Z I thought about you when the machines in the factory thumped their mean- T ,Qs ingless rhythm into the ears and minds of time-clocked young lives. I thought about you when the pictured page gave the world the faces of y those thirsty for possession, or power, and for other things necessary to the 2 Q5 destruction of a civilization. R R I thought about you, inheritors of a civilization with many faces .... A Powerful yet weak, progressive yet backward, religious yet sinful, loving yet ng hateful. And then, as the rays of the sun ran over the hills just ahead, I knew E Q, why I thought about you. You, with your young bodies against a blue sky - i 63 your young faces turning toward the rising red sun, were standing there - your R feet against the earth. You were thinking many things: of the ways your hands R and minds would shape the destiny of men, of your neighbor's goodness and 5 your trust in him, of the ideals and dreams ahead of you - but suddenly you 3 5? turned away when I slapped your face. You had spoken of something I did l I not understand or perhaps of something I had dreamed of long ago and had ga forgotten. Ignorant talk fell from my mouth and surrounded the place where M Q you stood. You were too astonished to speak. My talk went on and on, deafening '5' my own ears, and taking away almost all of your daring. R 5 As I thought about you, I looked at your faces, and then at the rising sun - N your hopes, your dreams, your future work, I remembered as once my own. The sky was clear again. y Ig My job is not to make you 'fgrow up, to make you forget all your good- 2 Wg ness - but to keep you standing with your face to the East. your ideals jf ? stretched before you. and your youth a star in the night. X l N : 2 I ixw5?Qf'anA! KKkmxsS??Q4aA! kmdikaml KXkgxs9?4?eMA!' QM! Xkms9?5Q4nA! EMLs9?9Q4zf 1 1 Freshman TOWER LIGHT STAFF General Cliairinan XXHLLIAIXI IETT BRERIER SHERMAN NIURIEL FRANIES LlXlARY E. STANLEY Advertising Connnittee Art KIA'I'H1iRINE DECKER fCvORDON F. SIIULES Humor l lARRIE'l' FINE lX'lARY STAVROPOULOS ltlusie SYLVIA GELXVASSER, DORO'fII1' KAPP Science SIDNEY BLUINI, IOHN BAREIIARI Editorials - HARRY M, LONDON Fashions SHIRLEY l'lICKS General Literature - ALLAN O'NEILL. NIURIEL FRAIXIES ' gi-Qf--qi V g'- fl-S? I 'RK 963 - lF4DllRlEE 'WHEN ONE has published a book, and wishes to express to the publie his loye for a certain person, or his appreciation for the assistance rendered hiIII by other individuals, he writes in the forepart of his work what is eonnnonly known as a dedication Perhaps it would have been just as well for a group. the 'TOXVER LIGIII' statt, to put together. as of a1Iy other month, a regular issue, and print on page one or two, in ine-looking twelve point type, the words, Dedicated to the Freshnian Class of State 'leaehers College. But such was not the intention of the VFOXYIXR LIGIfI'1 S edi- tors when they said that the next issue would be a Ul'lI'CSllI1lHll lssuef' XVhen those words were used in conjunction with the 'l'owIaR LIGIIIL it was intended that every freshman who wished to make his class better 4 WERE known would help in the issue. XVere we to assign o1Ie or two artieles in athletics tc individual freshmen, and let the class' work go at that the College would probably be impressed with the in clination of the class towards sports, and towards noth ing elsel By the same token, were only the library see tion authored by freshnien, the College might be ini pressed by the bookishness of the crowd. And so on. So. for a month and INOTC, the Freshman Class ha swarnied all over the 'l'owIiR LIOIIT ofliee, as if by insur rection. and has taken control, NYhat is to be read ii these pages is truly a representative work - not of . freshman, or of two freshmen - but of the entire class whose issue this is. This is the work of Iune '-P31 th credit lwe are sure it will be a credity lies with theni. TOWER LIGH' 'F rom l THE wlsoom or l.Ao-Tzs l MR. Kl5NNE'I'I'I IVIILLER F ootsore and lame In the fifth month I came To Tchisakar, The city-of-industrious-artists. In Tchisakar I found many artists: One said, From this shapeless wood I carve Aphrodite. HOW long to finish? 'LA lifetime is too short - But it will be beautiful For Eternityf' Another heard a mother Wailiiig Over her dead son. I make from these cries Immortal music, The symphony of sorrow. And then - n Then I am finished, My life's work done - My fame assured. Around a corner sat A huge fat man Holding a wondrous pipe, And smoking. He blew smoke-rings into the air, And watched them fade. Your art? Smoke ringsg I seek to blow the Perfect Ring. And if you do? And when the wind destroys it? Then, as his belly shook, I Laughing, I'll try to blow another. I O l MARCH - 1940 Two Men Go To War ALLAN OYNIZILL LOVE THY neighbor as thyself .... If a man smite thee upon thy left cheek, turn thc right also .... Thou shalt not kill .... Europe, my friends, may be at war, but thank God, America is not. Ilis thought- ful face unusually grave, Tom Crystal finished his talk and sat down. He had demonstrated the ruin and the utter idiocy of war. It was against all that is best in man. It was a sin thrown at the face of the Almighty. . . Every member of the church had come an hour earlier to hear Tom address the League. Ile was the out- standing young inan in his group: well-settled in his job, an engaging speaker, and a respectful listener to the words of his elders. The mother of every eligible daughter smiled broadly on him. Sitting near the back of the room was another fellow the same age to-the-day as Tom, twenty-three, and so much like him that they were often taken for brothers. George Mantz was not a conspicuous public figure, but he was liked by men in church and out. He lived a de- cent life, and did not argue with the pillars of the church, although he had some ideas of his own. Some of the older women shook their heads and just among themselves concluded He is a nice youngster, but it's too bad, he is a little weak. VVell, that was 1915. The United States bankers still had their money, and public opinion was throwing kisses to Germany. But public opinion is a fickle lover, and with the propaganda mills working three shifts a day, in no time all Germans grew horns. and all English- men sprouted wings. VV e 'tloaned' the Allies our money, and then we went to war. Tom had a part to play. The old men talked of duty and cursed the barbarous Huns. Mothers hugged their children and prayed with suppliant eyes for Tom to protect them. He was a symbol - young America sav- ing democracy, saving civilization, saving the world. It was no time for questionings, for idle thought. Tom himself said: A'It's going to be a dirty job. but it has to be done. To George the whole business seemed like a Mardi Gras. A holiday spirit was in the airy brass bands went through streets on wagons. and a soap-box orator occu- pied every corner. The circus had come to town. But the circus lost its glitter and enchantment when George was cornered and made one of the attractions: when the moving pictures stopped. the lights went on, a pro- moter pointed him out in thc audience and asked him why he was not in France. Ile felt like an outcast in his own city. E Both Tom and George were drafted in the army. Through his connections. Tom got a place in the Quar- termaster Corps, safely behind the lines. A German shell exploded near his depot and slightly deafened him. Soon afterward he was given an easier position still farther back. George was sent up to the front. He lived with lice and the rats. He smelled the sickening stench of rotting Hesh, and heard the anguished screams of wounded men. Shrapncl hit him, too. It pulled his right arm out, crushed his collarbone, ripped off his chin, and tore away his nose. Luckily for unluckilyl he was rescued, carried to a dressing station. and later sent to the rear. The war ended and both men came back. George was placed in the Perry Point Hospital at Havre de Grace, where the doctors patched and grafted, chiseled and sewed. They took pictures of their work on him, and hung them in the lX'Iedical Museum in VVashing- ton, showing the marvels of present-day surgery. Sight, speech, and sanity gone. he lived another year, then died. Bathed in glory. Tom received a hero's welcome and Government pension with equal aplomb. To all in- quiries he replied, 'AYes. it was a dirty job, but it had to be done. He sat up front in church to hear more easily, and nodded his head in approval when the pastor preached, on Armistice Day. a sermon in honor of the late patriot, George Mantz, who Hgave his life to keep chaste our honor. Love thy neighbor as thyself .... If a man smite thee upon the left cheek, turn the right also .... Thou shalt not kill .... Europe may go to war again, but, thank God, America never will. Churchyard IXIURIEL M. FRAMES I IIAD been walking through Lexington Market, snif- ting the aromas from the pans of baked beans and pickles: pricing the coarsely brilliant ealendulas. and the boxes of friendly-faced pansiesg happily munching an oversized banana - more conventional folk stared - and all the while thinking that Lexington Market is the most human spot in Baltimore. It stamps its feet in winter and perspires in summer: it swears and drinks, coaxes and harriesg there, men are men - and the womenfolk run the business! XVith my arms exuding bags and boxes of irresistible pansics and daisies. and the last vendor's cry slowly rc- eeding, I emerged upon an unfamiliar street. The curb 6 was a receptacle of trashg a eroupicr raked in its bits of debris. Each red-brick house presented white-stone steps, a requital for its own drabness. The church at the corner. dingy and deserted, was half-hidden behind a rather high brick wall. I saw an iron grill near the corner which proved to be a door and, on an impulse. I opened it. A granite block confronted mc, and though the in- scription was still a blur, I realized this was Poe's tomb. I paused, awed, for a moment while the Gold Bug, De- scent into the Maelstrom, and The Pit and the Pendu- lum collided in my mind. But there was more beyond. Uncut grass had encroached upon the flagstone walk, but it was still discernible. It was a straight and narrow path that led through this unkempt garden. I could en- visage the stern and implacable men who had directed its course, their only evidence the unperturbable tomb stones resting at weary angles, tired sentries whose un- eventful watch had been too long. The names they bore were Sarah and Susan, Zachary and Ionasg and the dates were often historical and always very old. Each blade of grass was insulated with silence, each loaf-like stone crusted with apathy. Outside the wall children must have been playing, cars honking, news-. boys screaming. But the occupants of that garden were not there to be disturbed by such raucity. and the old brick wall repelled every sound. I suddenly felt embarrassed at my intrusion. Those' epitaphs were not meant for my eyes. Rather. I think, I 4 1 they were understood only by the ones who rested int their shadows, by the faded grass, and the impotent win- dows that still pretended to watch over them. I 'A shudder slithered through me. I don't know why' Perhaps it was the close-set graves, the riddled win-I dows of the church, the lifeless moth that lay on 2 stone. All this belonged to things dead. The men anc' women who mouldered under that sod - had they laughed and loved, cried and suffered. wrestled witlt the soil and conquered the sea. borne children and killed men. and then died, to be interred for centuries in a neglected plot in a disinterested metropolis? Anc Poe, his follies, his failures, his successes, his 'timmortal' genius - yes, immortal! But suppose we could smasl' that granite tomb and look, would we still think of im mortality? XVas this degeneration about me truly sym' bolic? I thought of the market, so intensely alive. XVhaf was the answer? I had been taught oneg but was it thi truth? Then l saw it. A bird must have dropped the seed Out of this sterile soil had grown a lovely iris. Its paste petals were spotless, and it raised its head triumphantlj and victoriously above the dying grass and sunken graves Then I knew the answer. TOWER LIGH', Town Meeting Reported by Cl-IARLES LELIF XV HAT S HOU LD our children learn about war? The members of the Te-Pa-Chi Club of the Campus Elementary School were interested enough in this ques- tion to convert their monthly meeting into a panel dis- cussion of it. Dr. Wiedefeld was to have acted as mod- eratorg but illness prevented her attendance. Dr. Clinton VVinslow. professor of political science at Cvoucher Col- lege, proved a capable substitute. In opening the discussion Dr. Wfinslow pointed out that the panel did not intend to discuss war in the ab- stract, since in these times that would be fruitless and impossible. There was to be a statement from each member of the panelg then there would be a catch-as- catch-can discussion, in which the audience, repre- sented on the platform by two empty chairs, was urged to participate. The first to speak was Miss Lena C. Van Bibber. Be- fore presenting her point of view she made it clear that the ideas which she was about to express were not neces- sarily her own. but, rather, those of several pacifist or- ganizations which she had consulted. Many of these groups frankly believe in indoctrination. They urge that textbooks be rewritten and instruction adapted so that the concept of the degradation and futility of war be imparted. The teaching of the evolution of society with- out considering the part played by wars they consider desirable. Mr. Paul L'Oiseaux, a veteran of the XVorld VVar and father of a boy at the school, approached the question with considerably more realism, He agreed that the great majority of us desire peace. However. he believed it nec- essary to face all the facts with an objective attitude. Since the world has become so small because of the mar- velous means of communication that we have, it is im- possible to keep war news from children. lt is his theory that we should not de-emphasize war, rather, we should emphasize the peaceful arts and sciences. Par- ticularly he opposed the idea that there never was a good war. UVV e live in a world in which we must strug- gle to exist. Many of the benefits of the world are the results of wars! If we are not willing to go to war to maintain them we shall lose them. It is morally right to be prepared to fight. ln closing. Mr. L'Oiseaux but- tressed his arguments with two quotations from the Scriptures. Mrs. Ralph Barnett introduced herself as an average mother. She believed that an appreciation of peace could be developed by pointing out the economic dev- MARCH - 1940 astation of war - the loss of lives and goods - and the set-back in cultural advancement. She believed that the truths of history should be sufficient to approach a so- lution of the problem. The next speaker, Mrs. Donald VVilson, agreed sub- stantially with Mrs. Barnett in many of her statements. Patriotism, she believed, should not be sentimentalized, the rights of other countries and nations should be em- phasized. The school should help the child understand the barrage of propaganda which he meets. Mr, Philip XVagner, the editor of the Evening Sun. declared that he doubted if parents have much control over the question in point. He was skeptical of the in- fiuence of pacifist ideas. H. C. VVells, who had become a pacifist after the last war, recently wrote an article sug- gesting that the Allies should bomb Berlin. Children, he believed, are not particularly upset by atrocities and horror pictures. He cited the popularity in Canada of sets of wounded-soldier toys. All children need not be given tlie same approach to war. Speaking finally. the moderator. Dr. VVinslow, told of a statement that he had found in a typical textbook in American history, published in 190-lr The most im- portant event in American history was the Civil VVar. In a modern textbook now in use the theme is: How new citizens are made. The contrast indicated a marked change of emphasis. 'AI doubtf' he said. uwhether atti- tudes are determined so much by textbooks. else all the speakers would be inilitaristsf' To destroy pictures. toys. and other items that pertain to war would be merely to combat inconsequentials. The child should be allowed to make judgments on all the evidence he can collect. There should be a re-emphasis, perhaps. but no complete omission of references to wars from texts. After these six had made their statements. there fol- lowed a general informal discussion. Nfr. L'Oiseaux asked why we need peace propaganda. No one will say that war is a good thing. Mr. XVagner ventured in sup- port of this idea that recent polls indicate that 90 per cent of our people do not want war. Contrasted with this is the attitude of the Foreign Policy Association. a supposedly well-informed group. who are strong in their support of the Allies. Dr. XVinslow indicated that what and how we teach of wars depends upon the age of the child. He would not hesitate to point out the military genius of XVashington or Crant. A member of the audience. Dr. Newell. retiring pres- ident of the Te-Pa-Chi Club. jContinued on Page lOl 'I Introducing Kappa Delta Pi CHARACTER - Achievement - Scholarshipn: these are the qualities which have been the measure for membership in Chi Alpha Sigma. the school honor so- ciety. Since 1925 membership in Chi Alpha Sigma has been one of the highest honors a student at this insti- tution can attain. But with the advance of the institution from Normal School to Teachers College status. the Chi Alpha Sigma Fraternity itself felt that there should be an honor so- ciety of greater renown - nothing less than a chapter of a national organization. for which only graduates of colleges and universities of high standing are eligible. After much study. correspondence. and consideration by Chi Alpha Sigrna. through its adviser. Dr. Dowell. and others. Kappa Delta Pi. an Honor Society in Edu- cation. was selected as the ultimate goal. For seven months more there was intensive effort-and at last hope grew into certainty. The culmination of effort and the realization of hope came on Saturday. February lf. 1940. when Epsilon Al- pha Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi was installed at the Col- lege by Dr. XYilliam C. Bagley of Teachers College. Co- lumbia University. Twenty-four persons. exemplifying commendable personal qualities. worthy educational ideals. and sound scholarship. were initiated as charter members: Dr. YYiedefeld. Dr. Tall. Misses Brown. Cro- gan. Hill. Kestner. and Mr. Moser 1 faculty members who are graduates of the school and members of Chi Alpha Sigmal: and all members of Chi Alpha Sigma who re- ceived degrees from the College. or who are matricu- lating for a degree. After the initiation and installation ceremonies. held in the North Parlor of Newell Hall, the following ofhcers of the new Kappa Delta Pi chap- ter were elected: president. Mrs. Margery XVillis Har- riss: vice-president. Miss Marion Cunninghamg secre- tary. Miss Frances Iones: treasurer. Mr. Malcolm Daviesg historian-reporter. Mr. Charles Haslupg and counselor. Mr. Harold F.. Moser. Following the ceremonies. a luncheon sponsored by Chi Alpha Sigma to honor the new chapter. was held in Newell dining hall. Dr. Tall introduced the main speak- er after luncheon. Dr. Bagley. He spoke about Kappa Delta Pi. the Phi Beta Kappa of Education and one of the largest honor fraternities in this country fours being the one hundred twenty-first chapterl. Dr. Bag- ley told of the beginnings of Kappa Delta Pi at the Uni- versity of Illinois in 1911. and of the present important status of the society. He cited its noteworthy publica- 8 tions - The Educational Forum. the Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series. and the Kappa Delta Pi Research Pub- lications. The Laureate Chapter of the honor society, 5 which numbers among its members lohn Dewey, Ed-. ward L. Thorndike. Charles H. Iudd. Elwood P. Cub- berley. Lewis M. Terman. XVilliam H. Kilpatrick, Dor-L othy Canfield Fisher, XVilliam C. Bagley lLaureate. Counselorl. Paul Monroe. Truman Lee Kelley. Mc- Keen Cattell. David Eugene Smith. Frank N. Freeman, XValter Damrosch. Charles A. Beard. and Patty Smith Hill. is the closest approach to an Academy of Educa-f tion to be found in the United States. . Dr. XYiedefeld. as president of the College. wel- comed the new fraternity as filling a long-felt need. Other distinguished guests who spoke a few words of greeting to the new chapter were Dr. Mary Braun. pres- l ident of Chi Chapter. Pi Lambda Theta lnational grad-' uate honor society for women l. at Iohns Hopkins Uni- versityg Dr. David E. XYeglein. faculty sponsor of Alpha Rho Chapter. Phi Delta Kappa L' national graduate hon- or fraternity J . at Iohns Hopkins University: and Mr. G. Gordon XVoelper. president of Alpha Rho Chapter. It was announced at the luncheon that Miss Nan- nette Trott would be the delegate from the Epsilon Chapter at the biennial convocation of Kappa Delta Pi' to be held in St. Louis at the same time as the N. E. A. meeting this year. 9 The following are charter members of Epsilon Alphal Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi: ' Dr. M. Theresa XYiedefeld Dr. Lida Lee Tall Mr. Harold E. Moser: Miss Stella Brown Miss Mary Crogan Miss E. Heighe Hill Miss Hilda Kestner: Mrs. R. P. Harriss '36s Marion Cunningham 'fn Frances Iones '38 Malcolm Davies '36 Charles Haslup '38 Larue Kemp '37 Sarah Strumsky 'SSM Muriel Iones '37 Helene Davis SS: Catherine Schottler '39 Ruth Dudderar 39: Louise Firey '39' Dorothy Vogel 39: Beverly Courtney '39 Charlotte Hurtt 'SQN Nannette Trott '-101 Evelyn Fiedler '40H Those of the faculty who are members of other chap-fl ters of Kappa Delta Pi. and who were also helpful inf the establishment of Epsilon Alpha Chapter. are Drfl west. f :SSIPOXYER Licnr Editors ' :Towns Lrcr-rr Staff Members ' TOWER LIGHTfl a l l . Crabtree. Miss Munn. Miss Steele. Dr. Tansil. and Drlli A Bachelor Is Born E.FISHEL BILLY, YOU must! I can't! VVell, you'll have to if you intend taking me to Mar- jorie Peabody's dance. But why, May? Billy Potter, you know very well that all the girls are going to wear corsages and - - May, I've told you a thousand times that I can't get any nrorrey from Mom or Dad this week. i Either youll buy a corsage for rrre or I won't go with you! XVith this statement and a good-bye, both ut- tered with corrrplete hnality, May Bevens strode with all of her twelve-year-old dignity toward her house. 'tG'bye, said Billy. turning away and scraping his .seuffed shoes on the pavement. He started muttering .to himself. Darn ol' women. Always want something. I-VVhere am I goin' to get enough money for flowers by ytomorrow night? Darn ol' women. VV ith his head drooping all the way lrorrre, Billy rmrrn- lbled his troubles over and over again to himself. t'Guess fl should have told her to go ahead and go with that isnobby Sammy lohnson. If there's anyone I hate, it's the. Carried away by this last thought, he began play- iing with his loose front tooth and thinking just how Tmuch he hated Sammy Iohnson. No one was at home when he arrived aird sank un- ghappily into an overstuffed chair. Billy's first case of love .had struck him hard, but he appreciated May all the Qmore because he had had to iight off so many opponents :before Ire could claim her as his girl. He knew, too, that this hold on her adolescent heart was none too strong, ifor money,' the main attraction of a boy, Ire did not have. May Bevens had him under perfect control, and ishe knew it. Naturally, she made the most of it and Ikept Billy busy running after her. Q Billy slumped deeper into the chair, thoroughly stumped. He rotated his tooth with his tongue as Ire always did when his mind was preoccupied. lf there iwere only some way - - 1 Suddenly Billy snapped out of his eonra. He had an jidea. and a good one - one which would work. WV hy rihouldn't it work? Ire thought, as he rair upstairs to his bedroom. ' W'hen Billy's mother carrie home, she called imme- ,Idiately to see if her son were home. Billy had planned inn this and his answer was a low moan. Mrs. Potter :speedily diagnosed the origin of the moaning and in a few seconds was beside her one and only voicing all UMARCH - 1940 sorts of maternal sympathies. Finally she extracted the information from Billy that his front tooth was hurting like all heck,'l and in true motherly fashion the fact that it was only a baby tooth, and a very loose one, didn't interfere with her intention of delivering her son from misery. Her offer to take Billy to the neighborhood dentist to have the offending tooth removed was refused. but the money to pay the dentist was not. Mrs. Potter carefully wrapped Billy's jaw to protect it from the cold and, with many forebodings. sent him on his way to the dentist alone. Once outside his home. Billy smiled happily. His plan was working. He went immediately to the Potter garage and found inside a piece of stout string. VVith this single surgical instrument, he started a delicate opera- tion. By looking into the ear mirror, he was able to tie the string around his loose tooth. and then it was brit a simple matter to tie the other end of the string to the knob of the garages side door. This done, Billy lresi- tated. A'Now to build up courage, he thought, as he plunged into a long youthful monologue. Finally the re- membrance of Mr. Potter's statement, Billy, you're a little man and you have to act like one. proved the deciding point and he slammed the door. The door shut and Billy's mouth opened. Out carne a tooth and a yell. which abruptly gave way to low sobbing as he realized the danger of his mother's hearing him. At any rate. the deed was done, and he had money to spare. At six o'clock the next evening. Billy and May fcor- sagedj arrived at Marjorie Peabody's. He had suffered one of his few baths and Mrs. Potter had carefully brushed his suit. Even his hair was well groomed. May thought he looked wonderful and wondered why one usually so loquacious as Billy could be so quiet. He had opened his mouth only several times during the entire evening. and their only to mumble something. Sudden- ly when Ire again laughed at one of their youthful host- ess's jokes. she saw the reason for his silence - saw. but didn't understand. Had she realized that the gaping hole in Billy's mouth was created in her behalf. she might have acted differentlyg but she didnt know. After losing the first three dances with May to Sam- my arrd having been smrbbed by May several times. Billy at last perceived that sorrretlrirrg was wrong. A glance in a nearby mirror showed him what was the matter. His face did look ter- LContinued on Page ION 9 E V E N I N G ALEDA HEBNER PARTY OF THE POWERFUL h Lim' IANE CLocc Into the purple void of twilight, Slowly sinks the sun Like a burnished copper disk - Evening has begun. as ,arse-aa, W llH In the YVest the bands of gold And streaks of apple-green Change to blue and purple - Evening is serene. In the East an after-glow Nl H 5 Lights the pale blue sky And the roaring water surges YVhen the tides are high. V The beacon in the lighthouse turns, XVaves dash against the rocks, Rough, grey, and jagged - Boats anchor at the docks. Soon darkness crowns the heavens And the skies are filled VVith myriads of twinkling stars - The waters, too, are stilled. MY ROBIN I have a little robin, He always sings for me. He flew into a berry patch, And then into a tree. He is a jolly fellow, That is fat and fair. He flew to my window, And from there to my chair. Morgan Posey, Third Grade, Glasva School, Charles County. Teacher, Agnes Carpenter, '39. THE SUN IULE T. VV RIGHT Slowly, wearily, the sun climbed up the mountain VVhite with heat, he reached the top And fell exhausted in the cooling valley lake, XVhose ripples whispered Stop . . . stop. He lingered there awhile, XV arming his watery nest. Then climbed the western sky, To fall again to rest. 10 4- rn Szzz, bang, crash! Figures fall, Buildings shake, Trees tremble, The guns roar with laughter. Screams, sighs, yells! Children die, Men scatter, YVomen pray, But the cannons feast on. 7 YVar . . . a gay party, Men are the food, VVomen the dessert, Children the humor. XVar . . . a desire of the strong, NV here innocent suffer And powerless obey And helpless die. . . THE OTHER WISE MAN Lois ANNE CHEETHAM YV here can I find the Christ?'l he asks. They answer naught. And so he passed. XV here can I find the Christ? he pleads. Cod knows l've sought. They heed not his needs. As through the night he onward goes, He breathes a prayer to Cod. Could he but be with those Three blessed men of earth, Clad ones who stood At the dear Saviour's birth. Ages on ages roll around. XVill thus it always be. The home it has not found? Of centuries there shall pass a score Ere he shall End at Calvary Rest in Christ forevermore. TOWER LIGH'g THE WIND XVANDA CARTER The wind Hangs in the trees in tangles, It moans Because it is caught so fast - It fights. The trees bend low, taunting The wind. MANIFESTO OF THE INDIVIDUAL H. M. L. This is the charter of his soul. his brief, He who seeks to live apart from men. YVho casts an introspection with his pen Upon his own dull thought, and minor role In the Hspeed-fraught life of his companions. This role, I say, is not significant, It means but little to the rest of folk. Yet they are loath to see their yoke Of bondage not descended on his back. They post upon him penalties for lust, The lust, I mean, for rugged individualism. He seeks a path away from men, but They do ferret him well out, and seek To fast-iinpose on him the stifling rules Of all men. Of men who will be bound By ties of Hright and wrong, Of good and evil, love and hate, Of lust and continencef' Of ucorruptness and Chastity. I cannot see where their concept of lite Is yet more virile than his, the individual's. Yet they are not denied, nor are they In any mood, at any time, to accept the Current scheme of things, I mean, Of native individualism. Bleed the man To death, rob him of his wealth. Render him excommunicate. But individual He will not, he must not remain. This is the cruel totalitarianism Of group's fast life. Simultaneously Lived, which inhibits any truly free Expresion of his mind, or call it, If you will, his soul. MARCH - 1940 THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON They were a band of happy youth, To VVashington they sped, Intent upon expounding truth To a governmental head. They dressed in colors bright and gay VVhich dazzled all around. Their placards screamed UThis is our day, As the youth took over thc town. The rain it came, 'twas such a shame, But to them it did not matter. In them enthusiasm reigned In unadulterated twaddlef' It My friends, the youth heard 'boye the clatter. They turned to him in glee, For here was one who knew the matter, A soul to listen to their plea. The Presidents speech we will not quote, As he lectured on the isms. To reds and whites he solemnly spoke, Which added some blue to their prisms. That night the youth were very blue, Their spirit had been chilled, But, Lewis said, I will be true - The C. I. O. must be filled. But Eleanor at Sunday noon Said, 'ANOW this is Amy dayf I'll help to change their gloomy tune, And send them on their way. Virginia Arneal, Anna Quintero, Martha lane Norris, Adele Mitzel. AIR RAID AT DAWN SHIRLEY C. GREENBERG The mist this morning rose as loath to take Its cover from the town. The shocked corn stood An army vigilant upon the Held, Its stalks as spears that pointed to the sky Alert to prick the clouds with metal shafts That yet fell short of any base. There came The shriek of demon motors. only two. No time for sirens - but street barricades Shelter in blind defeat the white-faced men Swarming from homes in which their children sleep Closing a hand upon eternity .... 11 ysteries of the Moon Ions BAREHABI IT XVAS in the year 1610 - over three centuries ago - that Galileo of Italy peered through the telescope. which he had invented. and discovered the rough and pitted surface of Earth's companion. Luna. He. and those who peered after him. compared the round holes they saw with the nearby volcano Vesuvius and called them cra- ters, More than thirty thousand of these craters have been measured and mapped. the largest being IIS miles across. the smallest just wide enough to drop a school- house in. Throughout three centuries of study. and with three times ten thousand holes to observe. there has yet been no answer to the question: YVhat causes the round and ringed depressions on the moon? The first theory was that they were volcanoes. Many of them are entirely too big. however. to be classed as suchg if you stood near the center of one of these great craters. you would not be able to see the rim. more than fifty miles away, because of the moon's curvature. There is no sure evidence of lava's flowing from the rims. Certain astronomers much prefer the term ring plains to craters, because they wholly reject the idea that they are dead volcanoes. The thought that these rings are the remains of huge lava bubbles that burst on the moon's surface is inter- esting. A bubble more than one hundred miles across would be a whopper! No material that would stand the strain of this great diameter is known, howeverg and since the moon is surely composed of rock material tnot cheese, as you may have been toldj the bubble- theory has burst. The idea that the moon has been bombarded by countless meteors, large and small. is held as most prob- able by some thoughtful scientists. A crash against the rocky surface of the moon tfor there is no water nor soil upon itj would throw the debris in a circular ring. It is a pity that there are certain objections to this so- pleasing explanation. Meteors should have struck slant- ingly upon the moon. and made elliptical tflattened circle! rings. whereas all the rings are practically true circles. The ring plains also occur in certain locations. leaving great smooth areas called seasg meteors would have bombarded all portions of the moon alike. not just certain areas. There is also a theory that after the moon had hard- ened outside. the fluid lava within seeped through small holes in the crust as the passing earth raised tides. These welled out, and then were sucked back. leaving a bit of ring each time. Finally. all the liquid rock froze. and left 12 the floors level within the rings of mountains. Geologists are now searching for types of rock upon the earth which they believe will chemically resemble the rock found upon the moon. The tests for these rocks are based largely on the color and quantity of light they reflect. If these scientists find the type of rock they seek. they will experiment with them in vacuum tanks, 1 i at high and low temperatures. Possibly thus they may: partly solve the mystery of the crater formations on the moon. WHEN JUNE COMES GORDON FORRER SHULES The shepherd boy with garment rude Sat silent on a knoll. And also there a gentle maid, XYith face not purer than her soul. And with her pipe played him a tune As he list' on sylvan sod. A tune as clear as ere had touched The silken ear of nymphite god. The sun was setting in the XVest. Said she, Sweet lad. I leave you now, But will return in moonlit shades. Then kissed him on the mouth. and how! Br HELEN IDXVYER: AFRAID I would miss something of the glory that is' Broadway in the early morning hours. I stood at the hotel window gazing wonderingly at the ubig city. It' lay stretched before me in its shining amiour of bril-' liant lights. The stars in the heavens seemed to hav lost some of their brightness. when compared with the miracle of light which surrounded me. The dull tramp ing of millions of feet came to my ears. the warning note of a taxi horn. the weird siren of an ambulance battling its way through the dense traffic. the distant blast of a steamboat whistle. The faint din from Cal: Calloway's Cotton Club. combined with the softer. more soothing rhythm of Guy Lombardo's boys. pro duced a curious effect. yet stirring. Even the occasional gusts of wind which came through the open window were laden with whiffs of city life. Keyed to a high pitcl of excitement. I retired to dream - of Baltimore. TOWER LIGH U li l i I jTHE SOUTHWEST Comer of F Liberty and Lexington Streets is an ordinary corner in an ordinary city. The impassive but impressive Repre- rsentative of the Law, whose realm is bounded by its Curb, is only an ordinary cop. Pretty dull evening? I queried, by way of conver- sation. l Oh, just like all others. Nothing ever happens on i this corner. UNO accidents - no gunmen? 'LNaw, nothing like that - not since I been here. Ever see any interesting people? I did see Mrs. Roosevelt one day, and when Ann j Harding lived here she used to come by right often. But 'that's about all. The rest of 'em are just ordinary folks. I think I better warn you, officer. I'1n being initiated into a sorority and have to stand on this corner from six until midnight, so please don't arrest me for loitering. . UO. K., lady - it's all right by me!', 4 Propped against a plate glass window, I waited for .twilight. Night was unobtrusively stamping out the last few flaming jets of the fiery sunset. The buildings - whose prodigious mouths had swallowed droves of work- ers that morning, digested them during the day, and emitted them at night, stared at each other, arrogant and taciturn. I A light blue silhouette shared my backrest. Her gloves and hat matched her dress, and a gold locket nestled in the curve of her neck. A smile answered my glance. You waiting for someone, too? No, just waiting. And you? For my husband. He's working late - he often has to - but he'll have to run out for something to eat. 3 Oh, I see. So you're going to surprise him as he runs. 1 That's right. I - I have to tell him something. l :ouldn't wait. I think he'll leave by that side door over there, the one where the girl in the fiowered print is standing. , I watched her eyes. They were building castles of the t jfruit vendor's discarded lemons. She was very happy. j A minute paused, shrugged. and slid on. l There he is! The man in the light gray suit - - Oh, Sod! j , Printed flowers blossomed on a gray coatsleeve and . ivere crushed against the side of a broad shoulder. The , flowers and the gray suit turned a corner and disap- neared. j ' I scrutinized an uninteresting apple. i I've been a fool, she said. I didn't know. Good- ai 'I Veg? f 'MARCH - 1940 , Intersection Good-bye. The rough boards of the corner fruit stall huddled to- gether as the vendor plucked the last of their lustrous feathers and left them to their nightly destitution. Pierc- ing yellow eyes gleained at me from every angle. Twenty feet above the asphalt the street was a red, green, and blue mosaic of neon signs, jutting out from every store. A single figure, clutching a suitcase, scuttled across the street to an idle taxi. 'AMunicipal Airport. I have to make the Clipper. The words were clipped and secretive. VVaves of the after-threatre crowd billowed toward the intersection, and then fiowed on. The streets were lanes of metal sausages, bumper-linked. By now it was very late. Straggling groups of char- women, their impossible figures skillfully draped by darkness, poured from the tall granite structures around me. A girl with mundane eyes walked by, too obviously, an over-evident poeketbook dangling from her arm. A dirty urchin shufiied glumly by, a symphony of patches, fringes, and grime. I moved to the curb beside a girl who had been poised there for a few minutes. She swayed once as I touched her arm. Is anything wrong Her look held the scorn that only a hungry person can feel for the well-fed. 'LI haven't worked for three months and I'm hungry and broke. I hope you're happy, too, she added, sar- castically. VVhat's the idea of standing on a curb at midnight? Does that help? I'm waiting for a car to come - a fast car. She must have sensed the confiict in my mind. the parley with words. Then suddenly she stooped. XV hen she rose a five-dollar note, carelessly dropped by some- one during the day, lay on her palm. Finders keepers? she questioned. I guess so. f'VVhere's the nearest bus station? I'm going home. I was leaving when a radio car slid to the curb. XVhat's new, Tom? asked the same cop. Oh, usual stuff. A woman jumped in the harbor. Unidentified. VVas wearing a blue dress. and gloves. and a gold locket. A kid got bumped off at North and Charles. and they picked up a bank president at the Municipal Airport trying to make off with about a mil- lion dollars. NVhat's new with you? Not a damn thing. You ought to know by now - nothing ever happens on this corner! 13 The Legend of the Deep IULE TnoMPsoN ONCE UPON a time. many ycars ago, in the far- away land of Imaga Nation. high up on a mountain there dwelt a strange people. secure from the rest of the world. Mother and Father Gigantomachy were well over fifty feet tall: and each of their six children, Eve boys and a girl, was rapidly approaching his parents' height. lt was upon a holiday while they were dining that our story has its beginning. The table was beautifully spread -all thirty square feet. There was a turkey for each child and two for each parent, there were bushels of po- tatoes and barrels of gravy and oodles of cranberry sauce -- just all kinds of good things to eat. But there was only one salt-shaker for the entire family. True. that one was of immense proportions, its capacity ex- ceeding ten pounds. Being carved of gold. the shaker was even more unusual. XVhen the meat course was served, Spacious. the beautiful golden-haired daughter whom Father Gigantomachy dearly loved. asked for the salt. ln his haste to give it to her, Father knocked it over. It dropped off the table. rolled out the open door, and went down the mountain side into the sea. Soon the good people of the land could not drink the briny waterg and the giant, on learning this, was very much distressed. ln an effort to mitigate the gross unpleasantness he had unintentionally caused his peo- ple. he sent a son to each of the five seas to End the cellar and the undissolved salt. And now. when you go to the seashore for your vaca- tion. the tangy air strikes your cheeks and the enormous the Gigantomachys have never given up their search. Until their shaker is found, the sea will be salty and! the water will be rough. Much Ado About Something RICHARD CUNNINGHAIXI ONE OF the most unique qualities of the human race is its insatiable capacity for celebration. From ear- liest times humans everywhere have seemed to feel the need or urge to designate, in some fitting manner, any event which strikes them as outstanding or memorable. Indeed, it would probably be safe to say that almost every year of civilized times has witnessed one or more of these festive celebrations. As our present year, 1940, ushers in a new, unfath- omed decade in history. we cannot but be conscious of the number of commemorations of noteworthy events which are taking place. No less than three of these have, to date, received wide-spread advertisement at the hands of the press. The Hrst, and probably the most publicized of these, is the live hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing by johannes Gutenberg, at Mainz, Germany. After inventing his printing ink, a press, a suitable mix- ture of metals for his type, and a system for molding the pieces of type, Gutenberg was able to print his iirst large work. a Latin Bible of 1.286 pages, and to give the world that great boon which brings news, new ideas, and the world's knowledge to rich and poor every- where. Of subsidiary importance, but nevertheless meriting 14 much acclaim as an anniversary, is the three-day na-5 tional celebration to be held next month in honor of the centennial of organized dentistry. This movement originated in the Baltimore College of Dental Sur- gery. founded by Horace H. Hayden and Chapin A.: Harris in an effort to provide public instruction in den- tal education. For an interesting editorial on this sub-' ject see the Baltimore Evening Sun, February 20. 1940, and its article by Lee McCardell, entitled: 'Dentistry' as a Profession. The third major celebration to receive official press notice is that commemorating the founding of the Or- der of the Iesuits by lnigo Lopez De Recalde. more commonly known as Ignatius Loyola, just four hundred' years ago. Curiosity prompted the writer to investigate other anniversaries which might possibly be celebrated this year. and to submit a few of the more obvious occur- rences to the reader. Did you know that 1940 is V l. The thirteen hundredth anniversary of one of civ- ilizations most bitter episodes - the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Egypt, and its estimated fabu- lous treasure of seven hundred thousand volumes? It is believed that the books were fed as fuel to warm the public baths for six months. LContinued on Next Pagej' TOWER LIGHT waves from the sons' swimming beat against youg for I Music and the Average Man SYLVIA CvELXVASSER CGNFUCIUS, THAT Chinese intellect, whose ideas have become so popular during the past few months, once said. HVVouldst thou know if a people be well governed, If its laws be Good or bad examine the music it practices. 23 7 Here, certainly, Confucius recognized the truth, he Saw music as a fundamental expression of a people and Jf a nation. Music is appreciated by men of every age in every walk of life. It is a boon to the present civilization, a :ivilization living in the midst of much uncertainty. -Because of its universal appeal, music, even today, is the language of the German, the Frenchman, the Finn, the Russian, the American. lt is a language that springs sincerely from the inner man and is not adorned with ,ies or propaganda, it is a language of deep basic origin. This present generation is more music-conscious than ,aast generations have been. It realizes the fact that mu- faic is one of the greatest motivating powers in the world. Because of the afiiliation of music with certain very suc- :essful persons in American life, several modern psy- rhologists have suggested the idea that music might liave been a minor factor in their success within the .realms of business and politics. For example, George liastman, king of the photographic industry, donated 'en million dollars for the construction of a music school in Rochester. The late Charles M. Schwab, once presi- ylent of the Bethlehem Steel Company, started his career as a professional teacher and organist. Great statesinen have studied music, Francis Hopkinson was a composer of some note, while Thomas jefferson, Michael Hillegas, and George VVashington were lovers of music. The psychologists have given many reasons to back up the correlating of success with music. First is the fact that music is, in a sense, a science. lt is as symbolic as chemistry. Its notes, measures, key signatures, finger- ing, and position playing are comparable to formulas. Remembering notes, dynamics, time values, and key signatures simultaneously requires as much self-control and accuracy as performing a difficult experiment in physics. Anyone who expects to play a musical instru- ment well, must develop poise and efficiency. Music is important to the development of man from another angle. It acts as a great stimulus that enriches the emotional nature, and keeps this nature under good control. Emotional outlets are vital to the average hu- man, and no better or more profitable one can be found than that provided by music. There is still another factor that places music upon an important level, and that is its recreational value. Music is to the mind of the average person what play is to one's physical self: it is a fine source of refreshment and recreation. The chief aim of music is to enrich the mind and hap- piness of every living individual. Realizing this factor, modern man has acknowledged music one of normal living's necessities. MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING 2. The one thousandth anniversary of the founding rf mints fnot julepsl in England? 3. The six hundredth anniversary of the first use made ry Occidental nations of gunpowder in warfare? Iron- eal as this anniversary may seem at this time, gunpow- ihe battle of Cressy, in 1340. 4. The four hundredth anniversary of the beginning if Francisco Coronado's exploration of what is now xrizona and New Mexico, in the search of Seven Cities if Cibola and rumored stories of gold and silver? 5. The centennial of penny postage in England? The irst postage stamp was issued May 6, l8-ffl. MARCH - 1940 i 9 I i l l . ler was first believed to have been used in Europe. at 3 . U 2 . I . f 2 6. The twelve hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first use of the name f'England ? 7. The one thousand fiftieth anniversary of the found- ing of Oxford University by Alfred the Great. in SQO? S. The two hundred fiftieth anniversary of Englands first making white paper? 9. The fiftieth anniversary of our land-grant colleges in this country? l0. The three hundred fiftieth anniversary of the in- vention of telescopes by Iansen. a German. and of the invention of logarithms qstudents. note bcncl by Na- pier? Can you add to the list? 15 Telepathy SIDNEY BLUINI FRE Q U E NT LY TH E R F. appear in the news col- umns, accounts of incidents which are attributed to telepathy. For years scientists have been conducting tests to determine whether there really is such a thing as thought transference, or telepathy. Let us see what has been proved. First, telepathy should not be confused with clair- voyance. Clairvoyance is the act or power of discerning objects not present to the senses but regarded as having objective reality. Telepathy is the communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, in- dependent of the recognized channels of sense. For ex- ample: if a number of cards were placed on a table, face down, and someone tried to name them correctly. it would be a case of clairvoyance. Yet, if another person had known the positions and what the cards were, then telepathy might have come into action, for the first person might have named the cards by reading the mind of the second person, In surveying the field of telepathy one is impressed by certain outstanding facts. First, that all mind-reading demonstrations which have been performed on a public stage and which have been properly investigated have either been found to be fraudulent or, if the performer is sincere, to have been explained by some abnormal condition or influence. As regards scientific work in the field of telepathy there is this to say. A scientific test is a controlled test - all its factors must be controlled, and by changing one factor at a time we are able to tell, positively, what the effect is. It is extremely diflicult to control all the fac- tors in a telepathy test. If one person in a test flet us take a card test, for examplej is more successful than others, it proves nothing so far as telepathy is con- cerned. VVhy attribute the success to telepathy, when a number of other influences may be responsible for it? If we do not know what the reason is for success, it is just as logical, and probably more so. to assume that it is not telepathy. Another method of treating experimental results is to compare them with mathematical chance. Of course, an average may be affected by errors or outside influences, but not so easily as may an individual test. Probably the most reliable of all such studies was conducted by Dr. I. E. Coover at Stanford University. He tested many persons at guessing lotto blocks, playing cards. and other objectsg and in no instance, without exception, were the results more than might have been expected from chance. Professor Sumner Boyer Ely of the Carnegie Institute of Technology had this to say about telepathy in an article in the Scientific lwonthly for February, 1940. The reader must judge the worth of the following quota- tion: A'The final conclusion regarding telepathy is clear. It can be very positively and definitely stated that there has never been any evidence produced which would warrant the belief that there is such a thing as telepathy. The most careful and reliable tests show no indication whatsoever of it. XVhile, of course, this is a negative proof, yet after all it is proof that no such thing as telepathy exists. XVe can positively say that no mind has ever yet communicated with another mind other than through ordinary sensory channels. So You Think That You Know Science! IOHN BAREHAM and SIDNEY BLUBI l. lf a Farenheit thermometer registers zero, what would it measure if it were twice as cold? 2. XVhat is homogeneous light? 3. XVhat is the lowest temperature ever attained by scientific experiments? . 4. XVliat is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States? 5. XVhat is the greatest pressure ever exerted on a given surface through scientific experiment? 16 6. The largest camera on earth records how much sur- f. How tall is the tallest homo sapiensn? S. VVhat is the largest and oldest tree on earth? 9. How old is the earth? . 10. How many different kinds of molecules are there? ll. How many humans exist on the earth? 12. How many different kinds of atoms are known? fAnswers on Page 36j TOWER LIGHT face at one exposure? 1 ne The Censors Misse News VVit Der Letter March the two States of the United Mein dear Cousin Hans: I now take my pen in hand and wright you mit a lead .pencilg we do not lif where we used to lif, we lif where we haf moved. to the place where we are now lifling. I hate to say, but your dear old aunt vot you loffed so well is dead. She died of new monia on New year's day at Hifteen minutes front of five. Some people think she lhad population of her heart. De doctor gave up all hopes when she died, her breath all leaked out. She leafs a family of two boys, two calves and two cows. Old Mrs. Offenbaeh is fairy sick. she is joust on death's door and de doctor thinks he can pull her through. She has such a nice little boy, he is joust like a human beast. Your brudder Gus took our dog Fido down by de saw- mill to have a fight. He runned up against one of de big circular saws, he only lasted one round. All de C-rassenbachs have de mumps and are having a swell time. I am sending you a black overcoat by express. In order to safe express charges, I cut off de buttons, you will find them in the inside pocket. I joust graduated from the college and took eleetrocution and physical torture. I leaf Ned to be a stingy grafter. Hands Kratz was sick. De doctor told him to take something so he went down street and met Ikey Cohen and took his watch. Ikey Cohen got him arrested, de lawyer got de case and Hands got de works. VVe have thirty chickens and a fine dog. De chickens are laying six eggs a day. De dog is laying behind de stove. De people is dying around here that nefer died before. Your brudder Frank is get- ting along fine mit de small pox and hopes he finds you de same. Hoping you will write sooner, I remain here, Your cousin, Max. P. X.-If you don't get the letter let me know and I will write you a nudder von soon. onfucius Said - - HELEN PICEK iSINCE CONFUCIUS is saying so much today, and I am confused as to what he did say, I feel that I -must be set aright once and for all, lest he turn over in his grave. I Confucius, or Kung-fu-tse, really lived. He was born 551 B. C. in the kingdom of Loo, now a province of lShantung, and was China's greatest philosopher and ,moral teacher, Confucius confined his teachings to the daily intercourse of men and their relations to each other. fHere I am stumped, for doesn't he still do so today?j Kung-fu-tse also expounded the writings of the ancients, for he believed one of the tragedies of hu- Iimanity to be that it had learned so little from its own Lpast. He is quoted to have said, Study the past to dis- lcern the future. C This cue was probably the first to be lsnatched by history teachersj The principles from these ancient writings he emphasized, together with morality iof life and fidelity to ethical principles: hence, the in- unumerable proverbs. VVhen questioned by a student if there was any word which might be taken as a general ll'rule of behavior throughout a man's life, he replied, Is lrnot such a word 'reciprocity'? Do not unto others what lyyou would not have them do unto you, he replied. 1 FMARCH - 1940 Besides the books containing his doctrines, Confu- cius is also accredited with the editing and pruning of collections of poems, folklore, annals, songs, and rites then in vogue in the various parts of the empire. Confu- cius became famous as a teacher in his early thirties. With his spread of fame he traveled to neighboring countries to preach and teach, thus having access to the various literatures. The proverb, I have seen men die from treading on water and fire. but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue, was heard and accepted by many. Confucius died at the age of seventy-three, saying. No wise ruler appearsg no one in the whole kingdom desires my advice, it is time for me to die. Nowhere in my readings. however. did I find trace of the present paronomasia and so. to ease your con- science, Kung-fu-tse. and to beg your humble pardon, I shall say that you did not say: t'Man behind eight ball usually follow wrong cue. He who takes Vitamins. knows his ABC's. Bum steer not always found in stockyardf' He who cook up false rumor, often finds self in stewf' CContinucd on Page Il I 17 .I U lIE5lllDlll6llffIfL5lIRlllQfikllf9S si? An Individual' s Opinion Monrox Rl. KRIECER '43 EVERYONE HAS thought about religion at some time or another: it has been discussed many times and will always be discussed whenever educated people get together. Certain aspects of this subject have been brought out by the three speakers sponsored by the Stu- dent Council. However, the question, How does the scientist, not affiliated with any 'religious organization', feel about religion? has not been dealt with to any great length. I A clear definition of religion is needed. thlorals in religion will be discarded for it is debatable as to wheth- er tliey are a necessary part of religion.j Stated simply, religion is man's attempt to explain the universe. or na- ture if you like. From this point of view, science makes its declarations. Science is that knowledge of general truths or particular facts, obtained and shown to be correct by accurate observations and thinking. XVhat the scientist cannot explain concerning our universe - that is his religion. Science is never at a standstill. Thus, whenever the scientist learns something new about nature and makes this discovery factual. his religion is not supernatural. says the scientist. lt can better be considered a stimulus and a curiosity rather than that which incurs fear or terror. The scientist's religion is important to him even though it declines as science advances. fb' Science and Religion Issues P. OVCONNOR '42 The so-called contradictions between science and re- ligion. about which we hear so much today. very seldom originate in the work of true scientists or honest and in- telligent theologians. Instead. their fountainhead is the distorted reasoning of the not-too-well-informed person who knows very little of the subject. ln reality. there is no possible conflict between reason and faith because Cod is the Author of both natural and 18 supernatural truths. Thus. the opposition fwhich is only apparent J arises from the putting forth of one error or other as a scientific or a theological truth. Today the wise individual finds opposition impossible when he keeps religion and science within their own confines. One of the many reasons for this seeming conflict is the insistence on the part of pseudo-scientists of proofs and explanations for everything religious-the existence of God tmost of these persons boast of being atheistsj, the religious mysteries. passages from the Bible, etc. It is strange. indeed. that nearly everyone of these scien- tists feels quite positive that no reasonable arguments can be advanced for these religious doctrines, despite the fact that they have been tried and accepted by the majority of the greatest thinkers for generations. Many proofs of the existence of C-od through scien- tific reasoning have been advanced. but space forbids a development of these. However, they may be studied in the pages of any manual of natural theology tBeeder, Natural Theologyg Ioyce, The Principles of Natural The- ologyj. Eymieu, in his La Cart des Croyants dans les Progre's de la Science an XIX Sie'cle, has listed the names of 432 scientists of mark. Setting aside 3-f whose religious views are unknown. he tabulates as follows: Atheists, 169 agnostics. li: believers. 367. Selecting out of this total 150 original thinkers and scientific pioneers he finds among them only S atheists and 9 agnostics. com- pared with l23 believers fthe views of 13 are un- known . Such men as Linacre. Galileo. Vesalius. Stensen. Cal- vani. Laennee, Muller, Corrigan. Secehi, Mendel, Pas- teur. de Lapparent. and Dwight saw no difficulty what- ever in being loyal to both natural and supernatural truth. As Dr. Collingwood says: These men were not afraid of fresh discoveries. for they had faith in the Cre- ator of all phenomena. Because they heard the voice of God. they were eager to catch every whisper of that voice in the world of nature. Those scientific minded persons who reject religion for its incomprehensible mysteries are foolish. indeed. These inexplicable truths are not unreasonable but. in- stead. are above and beyond the reasoning of a finite mind. Mystery is in no way peculiar to religion. Science tells us that the paths of planets vary very little. that the moon is held to its orbit by the earth's attraction. that a TOWER LIGHT heavenly body has a gravitational pull so many ti111cs greater tha11 that of the earth's, but when science tries to explain these facts. it merely uses phrases which are meaningless, and clarify nothing. As Newton truthfully put it: I liIIOXV of the law of attraction, brit if you ask what attraction is, I really cannot tellf, 1 Another reason for the t'opposition between science and religion is the determination of certain wcll-mean- i11g people to use the Bible as the last word 011 scie11- tific research. refusing to attribute to it anything but a literal translation. Their obstinate stand 011 the Theory of Evolution, despite the decisions of their churchesito the contrary. is the source of the present misunderstanding o11 this subject. Most churchinen agree with the Reverend Bertram Conway's statement that the 'Bible is not a textbook of science, and therefore cannot rightly be quoted either for or against evolution. Concerning a Student Council Meeting Event The Freshman Editorial Board does not, of course, .nake any class commitment on such an issue as the National Youth Congress. VVe believe sincerely. how- ever, that it is the express function of this staff to do rits utmost to exorcise from our midst, the type of con- ditioned opinion which motivated a freshman at a tneeting of the Student Council one day to say it was lhis idea that what he termed propaganda be removed from the halls so as not to unduly influence students no favor joining the Youth Congress. T In the first place, such an action, as that freshman well knows, constitutes an acrid, stenchy violation of what is known as basic principle, as typified by such iocuments as the Bill of Rights. Surely, in an institu- :ion where the Student Government is held to be to the :tudent body what the Federal Government is to the United States, such a time-honored value as freedom of press, of speech, of assembly, of petition, etc., should 'eceive observance to its fullest, and most wholesome spirit. That alone makes a valid indictment against the zvarped, conditioned, red-baiting mind whence stemmed izhe Usuggestioiif' 1 1 TOWN TfContinued from Page 75 expressed the very signifi- tant fact that those wl1o are against war are very often the first to support a war. Mr. XVagner cited several in- cidents in his experience to indicate how difiicult is fthe obtaining of accurate war news. Mr. L'Oiseaux, in answer to a question. said that war. ihough generally destructive, had given quite an impetus 0 advancement i11 several fields - aviation. chemistry. E i':tc. 5 In our opinion. the most significant observation of the lv lliscussion was 111ade bv a member of the audience, Dr. fiMARCH . 1940 Secondly, our friend seems to have been totally mis- informed on the matter of propaganda. If he 'tracks back o11 his Latin, he will find that the word itself means ought to be propagated. That is to say. that which is spread was worthy of spreading from the start. As our writer failed last 1no11th to point out i11 his re- view of t'The Fine Art of Propaganda, the word in question is today very n1uel1 abused. Iust as the name Communist has provided a valuable epithet to fiing at well-founded opponents, so has the word propaganda proved the best way of discrediting any statement, fron1 the brassiest of lies to the most self-evident truths. The freshman who made the suggestion is one who has but succumbed to the fashion of labelling everything prop- aganda. He was right. The posters were propaganda, but they were certainly worthy of being propagated si11ce they moved students to thought: made students worry whether to vote for, or kill the Youth Congress issue. Our regret, of course, is not that he was a freshman, but that conditions exist which beget such ridiculous state- ments. MEETING Leonard. It is rather ironical. he said, that an actual war crisis must be at hand before we have the impulse to have such a discussion about war. XVe wish with Dr. Leonard that we had more foresight about such vital problems. XVe rather regret, too. that 11one of tl1e speakers chose to discuss 111ore i11 detail those fundamentals which bring about wars - nationalism, imperialism. insecurity and its consequent greed. Perhaps such a discussion would have been more fruitful than a discussion of the cx- ternal symptoms of war. 19 Roof Over America A FA R-REACHING educational program, de- signed to give the American people fand especially those interested in building and improving their homesj straight-forward facts about housing, has been an- nounced by the United States Ofiice of Education. The information will be brought to the citizens by radio, printed bulletins, and graphic exhibits. Of out- standing interest to teachers is a bulletin to be issued by the U. S. Printing Office, tracing the historical rise of our diversified housing situation of today, telling of pioneer efiorts to effect improvements, largely by indi- viduals, and discussing present concerted efforts toward better conditions, both in city and rural areas. Charts, drawings, and photographs will serve to illustrate the popular style to be employed in the text. Besides this bulletin, and exhibits, which will be dis- played before thousands of persons in schools and col- leges and at meetings of public and educational groups. depicting how the Government not only tests materials and methods, but helps industry rehouse entire commu- nities, an unusual radio series entitled Roofs Over America will be broadcast by the Columbia Broadcast- ing System at 2 P. M., E. S. T., every Sunday. beginning March 24, and ending Iune l6. The titles and general content of these programs are as follows: March 24: XVhat Do NVe Mean, Home, Sweet Home ? The status of housing today - Slums that blight metropoli- tan, industrial, and rural areas - Extent of sub-standard housing. March Sl: How XVe Got That XVay. History of the housing problem in America - Americans on the move from south to north, from east to west - Farm tenancy, one-crop farming, and droughts that blight rural America. April T: NVhat Price Bad Housing? Inadequate sanitation and infested homes raise doctor's bills -- Cheerless homes and checrless people - How so- ciety pays for the criminally and physically unfit. April l-f: Hurdles in Housing. How speculators and excessive costs created housing short- ages and high rents - The mortgagee, the villain in the piece - How building associations and Government agen- cies come to the rescue. April 21: The House That Icrry Built. Methods of the unscrupulous builder - How incompetent planning and the speculative fever led to jerry-built houses: attitude of home owner - How lack of knowledge of hous- ing standards and the possibility of a quick sale result in the home as a utemporary' abode. April 2S: Voices in the Wilderness. Battling for the better housing: XVork of Iacob Riis, lane Addams, Edith Elmer XVood. Barney Vladeck, Lawrence Vciller, Theodore Roosevelt. Lillian XVald. Iulius Rosen- wald, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt- Rise of the tcclmicians: Robert D. Kohn, James Ford. Louis Pink. Z0 May 5: Doing Something About lt. Getting adequate housing laws - lncrcasing the number of local housing authorities - How civic, church, labor, social, and patriotic groups are doing something about it. May 12: Streamlining the Home lndustry. Planners and builders get together - Can we have mass production of housing? - How the Bureau of Standards, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, and private research foundations serve technicians and home owners - Narrow- ing the no-man's land in housing. Mav 10: The House Next Door. Advantages of the building restrictions and zoning regula- tions - Protecting old neighborhoods against deteriora- tion-Rural zoning: How shall we best use this land? - Experiments in zoning. May 26: Rooms with a View. The Garden Cities of England: Letchworth, Port Sunlight, Bournville, etc. - American experiments: Greenbelt towns, Sunnyside, N. Y.: Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Happy Valley. Tenn. - Government enterprise in community planning. Iune 2: Keep the Factory Fires Burning. Better housing means better business - Government as a guarantor of building investment - Cooperation of archi- tects, contractors, materials, men, financial institutions for better construction. Iune 9: Here's XVhat XVe Mean, Home, Sweet Home. A housing tour: Life in homes of slum-clearance projects, HOLC rehabilitated homes, resettlement homes, homes financed by FHA insured mortgages. Iune 16: Uncle Sam on the Housing Frontier. Public housing and the American tradition - Government services available to citv and farm owners - How Govern- ment helps private enterprise to provide a better Roof Over America. A BACHELOR IS BORN fContinued from Page 9l rible without that tooth, but hadn't he lost it for her? Nevertheless, all his at- tempts to explain what had happened were curtly dis- missed by Nay as she would go sailing off with Sammy. VVell, let him take her home, then, was all Billy could say as he stamped out of the Peabody household. He walked up and down the streets for over fifteen minutes while he thought over women in general and one girl in particular, His mind could find no rest. but he knew his stomach still could. The corner drugstore drew his attention. Over his third chocolate soda he reached a conclusion. He sol- emnly vowed himself to life-long bachelorhood. TOWER LIGHT i l A i l l l Q l l 1 l IDIIRIVBIIHIIIIBSGIIIJIIRA IIEOIIEBIIRSGDIINIIIINIIIIBIIB - x ' I ft ,. SYLVIA GELXVASSER Gray, Schuclvly, RUhlIllL'ht'I' ,lltlffl-11, Mi1cDom1l1l iTHREE INDISPENSABLE units of any orchestra are the violas, the cellos, and the basses. The violas and I basses are needed for harmony, and the cellos sometimes play beautiful melodic strains, as well as accompani- iinent. Due to the interest and diligence expended by y both Miss Prickett and the student body, these instru- i l l 4, I ments are played by members of the College Orchestra. VV ith the exception of Miss Helen Rohnaeher, the stu- dents did not play these instruments until they entered State Teachers College. This fact, I think, is truly amaz- ing. Most of us realize how little time there is to take part in extra-curricular activities, even if those activities require no outside preparation, yet learning to play a musical instrument proficicntly takes outside prepara- tion, and also requires plenty of determination and pa- tience. The live members of this section are: Miss Helen Rolmaeher Miss Martha Schnebly Miss lane MacDonald Miss Catherine Cray Mr. Donald Martin l eadlme Q The Remedy of f TH E B A LT I M O R E Sun has been conducting an i i i experiment since last October. VVhile many of us did not know it is an experiment, for we didn't stop to think about it, The American Committee News Serv- ice for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, a semi- monthly publication with an editorial board and con- tributing statf, including Professor Franz Boas of Co- lumbia University, Dean Ned H. Dearborn of New York lfUniversity and sixty other almost equally esteemed sages, Q has found it of sufficient importance to bring this matter r I I l, I r I I I l in s .i l r ,i lt l 3 ,l I. I before the eyes of all to whom this pamphlet is circu- lated. The Sun is following a clearly defined policy of: I. Presenting the news conveniently by organizing and collecting related stories. Mentality the Baltimore Sunj Z. Making the issues more intelligible through the in- corporation of background material, Frankly, an attempt to get away from uheadline men- talityf' from sensationalism and distortion. it is signifi- cant that the experiment began the day after England and France declared war against C-ermany. Double-deck headlines have been replaced by brief captions. Related stories are grouped together under captions like XVar in the Air or uPlight of the Neutralsf' Besides its technical and budgetary advantages, the plan gives the reader a better opportunity to compare conliicting dispatches, makes for easier presentation of explanatory material, and - above all - destroys head- line Sensationalism. CUNFUCIUS SAID - - QContiuued from Page I7j ' Nut behind wheel, only thing wrong with auto. 'tHe who act like Donkey in daytime, in night beware lr of tattletale brayf' I And since Confucius did say: The ancients were guarded in their speech. VMARCH - 1940 Like them we should avoid loquacity. Many words invite many defeats. Avoid entering many businesses. for many businesses create many difhcultiesf' - - I think it best to conclude. 21 THE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE Europe In The Books IACK XVILLIARISON THE EUROPEAN situation continues to roll off the presses, and comes out now as three new books, two of which are devoted to himself, Adolf Hitler. Dr. Hermann Rauschning, one-time president of the Danzig Senate, and at that time on the uinsidel' of Nazi politics, is author of the first, The Voice of De- struction. It appears to be the result of his many talks with Herren Hitler, Goering, and Hess. The entire set- up a few years ago would appear at first glance a dream but, according to Dr. Rauschning, it is nothing short of a nightmare. As early as 1932, Hitler prophesied the present complex of European events, including the Rus- sian alliance, the ultimate partition of Poland, and the anschluss with Austria. At that time. de Fuehrer went so far as to see a German-inspired revolution in Mexico, and a general unrest in the United States. Often, he spoke wildly of dying a martyr to the Father- land. and then went on to mark savagely the advent of a new Roman Empire, having as its hub Berlin, Signifi- cant is one statement attributed to Hitler. NVe may be destroyed, he said, but if we are, we shall drag with us a world - a world in flames. Dr. Rauschning debates furiously with himself as to the extent of Hitler's san- ity, but comes to no logical conclusion. However, the author deserts his party long enough to declare con- vincingly that the Nazi realm is a house of cards that a single puff will destroy. Herr Hitler is again in the spotlight, under the critical focus of Dr. james Shotwell's book, Wfhat Ger- many Forgot. lt is Professor Shotwell's purpose here to debunk the now popular conception that the Treaty of Versailles determined Germany's economic and social downfall. Most Germans, says Professor Shotwell, seem to forget the war which preceded and made for the Treaty. Germany expected a status quo peace, and this she could not get. The depression that followed the peace was not caused by the peace terms. but rather by the war. Shotwell blames the Allies for the XVeimar Republics failure. The French occupation of the Ruhr. he writes. was the straw that broke the camel's back. and Germany's reaction was - Hitler. Soon after the present conflict broke out. Oswald Gar- rison Villard had the notable journalistic privilege of 22 T , Q :ig X j Q5Q,4!'. ul V j X jr 'S ,fv yglv y y l HT 'abil I j X fmt ?7. y ' - T-Tie-jf n f-5' gli Y 0 ri- I Q experiencing both the British and German attitudes. He spent most of his time, however, in Prague, and accepted conditions there as duplications of those in Germany. The contrast between England and Ger- many, therefore, he calls tremendous. For the Allied side of war-time Germany, don't miss Germany at Vlfar, and particularly its introduction, A'England at XVar . ,if Our Cozzntryiv Money. By Frederic Majer. Thomas Y. Crowell 8: Co. New York. 1939. 121 pages. Perhaps few institutions are so essential to our pres- ent-day civilization as moneyg yet very few are those of us who have ever stopped to consider how money originated, or the stages through which it has passed in its development, or its multiple function today. Are you one of the many who have always taken money for granted? Do you know what the earliest type of money is supposed to have been and can you name examples of it? Do you know about when and why coin- age came to be used in exchange? Do you know about when and why paper currency first came into existence? Do you know how our country's coins and currency are made? lf you feel in the least shaky about any of the funda- mental questions conccrning money. a brief perusal of Mr. Majer's splendidly illustrated little volume should prove helpful and highly enjoyable. Perhaps you are so fortunate as to be able to answer these questions, ln that case your main enjoyment from reading the book will undoubtedly spring from the dis- covery of such fascinating facts as: YVhere the word dollar comes fromg the reason why 1938 was chosen as the year in which to issue the jefferson nickel, the source of the slang expression. two bits g how the motto. uln God XVe Trust came to be used on our TOWER LIGHT il it i coinage, as well as countless other bits of monetary miscellany. Primarily, the book was intended for juveniles and should prove valuable as Social Studies material for chil- dren from the sixth grade on, nevertheless, no adult should miss it if he has either the need or the yen to discover money. - R. H. C. ,E After Twelve Years. By Michael A. Musmanno. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 414 pages. Very recently, several lawyers, as individuals. were ap- proached by other individuals, who had a very old story to tell. It was related to the barristers fwithout men- tioning namesj that a certain party was under indict- ment for passport falsification with intent to defraud. By expert legal handling, these lawyers were asked, twitli how light a sentence could the defendant be ipunished. The lawyers, who had great confidence in itheir powers of speech, answered, as individuals, that 'they thought the defendant might get off easily, with a fine of several thousands of dollars. Then they added, What's the fellow's name? VVhat particular ease do iyou have in mind? And the answer was, 'Earl R. 1-Browder. To this the lawyers countered with, A'Noth- ing doing. That is a political case! During the trial, in this 'fpolitical case, Prosecuting Attorney john T. Ca- hill told the jury very movingly that Browder was the umocker of our most sacred institutions. On the other hand the judge presiding charged the jury that Mat- ters of public policy or interest are not to be con- sidered. I retell this story because it typifies, as a current ex- ample, the American political trial. One may bleat all day of a working democracy, with Hfree institutions,', but one cannot get away from the fact that an individual may be framed. Such is the anatomy of the political trial. However, it is not at all safe for us to touch the Browder ease too closely, for it is of today, and is doubt- less shaded over by superficialities. VV e can go back to iour books of history, and find, even here in America, a political trial which outranks all political trials in its ifilth, and corruption, and authorized murder. The ease iof which we speak will be noted as more notorious than ithe Browder case, since the man was, at least, 'tguilty irof the charges. In the earlier case the defendants were inot guilty. That is certain, But they were anarchists: and and it has been demonstrated that when the State de- sires the removal of political enemies or offenders, jiiothing stands in the State's way. The case of which I Write is the case of Saeco and Vanzetti. It is with this case that After Twelve Years deals. As the title implies, the words are written about IMARCH - 1940 .Ip twelve years after a notable occurrence of some sort. Notable, indeed! August 22, 1939. was the twelfth anni- versary of the electrocution. with a ghastly finality, of a pair of Italian immigrants fpatriots of the time used the name wops j for a crime which they did not commit. judge Musmanno the sits in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleasj was a member of the Sacco- Vanzetti defense counsel in the later years of the trial. lncidentally, when we speak of ulater years, it is vital to note that six years were required for the Common- wealth of Massachusetts to as much as pass sentence on two men it had convicted earlier. As a judge, and as a legal light. the author doubtless, is well aware of the anatomy of trials, and legal procedure and, with this added experience of 1921-1927. is well aware, also. of the nature of the political trial. judge Musmanno has begun shooting verbal darts at the thick, impervious wall of Massachusetts' legal. judi- cial system, He has pointed out the host of impropri- eties, and abuses of the logical items, in the Common- wealth's system, and at points, the judge becomes so eloquent and so powerful that it would appear that the darts might in reality be cannonballs. Some of the abuses were fand arej lastingg some were temporary modifications expressly for the Sacco-Vanzetti ease. To name but a few, here are several of the most glaring ones: At the time of the trial. there was a peculiarity in Massachusetts law which put the defendants on display before the jury, et al., confined in a big barred cage. First, the prisoners are unable to point out to their counsel, perjuries, obvious falsehoods in testimony. Such is evil enough. Moreover, the jury is moved psy- chologically to assume. by powers of suggestion, that behind bars is exactly the fitting place for the defend- ants. And as long as the State is going to all this ex- pense to put away two men, it might as well electrocute them as send them to prison. Another glaring fault in the legal system is taught in this excerpt from the opinion of Massachusetts' Su- preme judicial Court to an appeal of the case: . . . It is not imperative that a new trial be granted even though the evidence is newly discovered, and if presented to a jury. would justify a different verdict. jltalics inine-H. M. L.j. This is to say that after the State has gone to the expense ll believe it was about 52.000 per diemj of trying two men. there is absolutely no point in retrying them. even though they may be innocent, and even though it is their lives which are at stake. Massachusetts was engaged in reversing an old legal maxim and axiom which states that a defendant is innocent 'til proved guilty. The axiom was being laid aside in the instance of two anarchist wopsf' and 23 now rcad: A man is guilty 'til proved innocent. Yes, sir! The machinery of our justice is too complex to be set in motion twice for a pair of wops, who seek to over- throw our most sacred institutions. I should hardly think that a more brazen statement than that made by the Supreme judicial Court has ever been read, or heard. If examined closely, it will be seen that, whether wittingly, or no, this statement speaks for the Common- wealth's attitude of getting rid of two anarchists, no matter what anyone says, or thinks, or does. Furthermore, there is the 'Levil unto himself of judge Wfebster Thayer, who was a very proper judge, because he was the type who, on the football field of Dartmouth, would say to his friends, 'fDid you see what I did to those anarchistic bastards? With this state- ment and question in mind, I think that nothing more need be said of judge Thayer, for judge Musmanno has said what needs to be said, and if more information is desired concerning the man and his motives, one may read Upton Sinclair's two-volume novel, Boston. I shall quote a sample of judge Thayer's objectivity, and his earnest quest for truth and justice. Remember. lt was not a political trial, but here is what judge Thayer said to the jury as he opened the process: . . . remember the American soldier had other du- ties that he would rather have performed than those that resulted in his giving up his life on the battlefields of France, but with undaunted courage and patriotic de- votion that brought honor and glory to humanity and the world Qhej rendered the service and made the su- preme sacrifice. So I call upon you to render this serv- ice here with the same spirit of patriotism, courage and devotion to duty as was exhibited by our soldier boys across the seas. QLong live P. Morganlj The above takes on new meaning when it is remem- bered that Sacco and V anzetti were slackers , they fled the country in 1917 to avoid conscription Qfor which they were not eligiblej. l cannot here point out much of the nature of the evidence which sent the two men to the chair. I can only sum up the case for justice, by writing that fl repeatj whenever the State sees fit to remove an individual or individuals, no constitution, no law-books, or no evidence will deter that State from car- rying out its sacred mission. Imagine, just imagine, the girl who, upon seeing a car, running at IS miles per hour for one or two seconds, could describe Vanzetti to the last detail. That is not very puzzling, after one learns that the defendant was seated right before her eyes! judge Musmanno is no fool. He, as a jurist, knows that a jury can be affected by even one word of perjured, or framed evidence. And when he complains about the withholding of retrials, he knows quite well that it is the fault of persons, as well 24 Y as of the written law, In Massachusetts, for example, it was judge Thayer's place, before an appeal could be made to higher courts, to confess that he had not con- 1 ducted the trial impartially, and that he had made raw d decisions. Fancy that! To make one more point in the anatomy of political trials, I shall try to show fjudge Musmanno and Mr. Sinclair have done soj how the State government, hand - in hand with the Federal Government, and with every j citizen who was interested in currying favor from the Messrs. Big, all united to kill Sacco and Vanzetti. Mr. i Coolidge kept his mouth quite shut when he might j have cominuted jby suggestionj the sentence to life. ' After all, when men are dead, you cannot bring them f back, even to pardon them. VVhen they are safe away a in prison, matters are not quite so bad. VVitness Mooney and Billings in California. The Department of justice I had in its possession, it is believed, records of a red- baiting investigation of Sacco and Vanzetti, which 3 would have explained away their Uconsciousness of ' guilt, upon which the State rested so much of its case. . NV hy did the two men lie? The Commonwealth's Governor Fuller was about to commute the sentence when he got wind of the news that Coolidge Qthey were both good Republicansj was not going to run for office again. He, too, curried favor, f with the 'fpopulacef' by ridding us of wicked radicals. 1 And so on down. Some current sage, wisely anony-. mous, has said that you cannot beat a system. lt's true. ' You can't beat a system. Sacco and Vanzetti did not go out to puncture the integrity of Massachusetts' legal system. But in convicting the two men of crimes they- did not commit, the State removed its own veil, and the system, and its protagonists, were seen for what they were. judge Musmanno has written well. His is another Boston, with the superficialities of fiction and love re- moved. All loves, that is, but genuine love of justice. I - H. M. L. Since the girls have been wearing such short dresses' this year, instead of saying, Pardon me, they say,i Pardon knee. lk ll! 101 L Miss Muim unwittingly provided us with one of the' best puns of the year. She said, 'fNow, making a dress' is of material nature, ' The other day a big discussion was on in the Men's Room concerning an S. T. C. myth. One boy said,t Marie Parr is the best looking girl in College. An- other said, No The first replied, She's not parr from' I it TOWER LIGHTII ,l Iolanthe ON FEBRUARY IZ, 1940, Iolanthe came to Tow- son. This mythical figure, as portrayed in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta by the same name, was personified at the College by the Play Arts Guild of Baltimore. The presentation was made in the interest of the Cultural Fund for the students and was sponsored by the faculty. After an extremely slow and mediocre first act, the presentation gained momentum and the favor of the audience, which numbered near the 600 mark. The rea- son for the unsatisfactory beginning was probably the performers' inability to adapt themselves and their sing- ing to the large auditorium. This was to be expected, however, since their own Guild Theatre in which they are accustomed to act is not one-quarter as large as the Teachers College auditorium. The entire troupe made a remarkable recovery and adaptation in the closing of Ithe first act, where the Peers first made their appear- ance, and during the entire second episode. Iolanthe is a satirical play which ridicules the English Parliament. The story is made even more fantastic with the interweaving of complications involving marriages of fairies and men, resulting in half mortal-half fairy off- ispring, which is quite a handicap, as was pointed out in the play. The subtlety of the entire play hinges around the remark that uthe English Parliament should leave its nose out of affairs that it knows nothing aboutg namely, affairs of government. The plot is fast moving and the music distinctly Gilbert-Sullivan style, much like The llffikado. I The managers of the Guild deserve congratulations for the excellent scenery and lighting which portrayed to the audience thc desired mood. This was a definite aid to the selling of the show as was also the beautiful and elaborate costuming, Dean Gehring, a former student here, in spite of her evident temperament, possessed the finest female voice of the cast, while the Peer Tolloller, to whom Phyllis became engaged, was outstanding because of his brilliant red velvet robes and his baritone voice. The Lord High Chancellor deserves special mention for his fine acting. lt was obvious that he was the most experienced mem- ber of the company. The accompaniment was loud, but not perhaps with- out reason. lt should be considered that the new acous- tics may have made it necessary for the accompaniment to be fortissimo throughout, though many thought that this distracted from the singing. All in all, it was to be considered a successful per- formance. The remarks of the crowd as it made its way toward the exits were on the whole quite favorable. All enjoyed the production and since the Cultural Fund found itself some S300 richer, it was quite a financial achievement. It may be mentioned in closing that it is somewhat regrettable that the student attendance was not better. However, those who were not there must definitely feel that they missed a thoroughly enjoyable and worthwhile evening. Nlany thanks to the faculty. e Came, e Saw, e Left t D. KAPP NVE CAME! T Parts of costumes temporarily draped over furniture, ifioor, and partitions . . . makeup boxes scattering their contents everywhere . . . street clothes hanging from aracks . . . talking . . . laughter . . . phrases of Oh, .Iohnny, Oh, Iolinny! How You Do Love! . . . I. All this together presented the scene before us as we entered the Little Theatre immediately following the performance of Iolanthe. f Amid this din and confusion we freshman girls, who had come to ask an interview of Miss Dean Gehring, 'struggled toward the star's dressing room - the stage. There Miss Gehring received us and readily consented to talk to us about the Guild Players and her part in JWMARCH - 1940 their work. Through Miss Gchring's answering gra- ciously all our questions and adding other comments, we learned a little about the beginning of the Guild, its organization, and its work. The Guild Players is a semi-professional group, i.e., they give performances cv- ery week, but are not paid a salary. The organization was started fifteen years ago. as a result of some work done in the Hopkins Playshop. by Mr. T. Morris Cush- ing. The group gives performanccs every Friday and Saturday night at the Guild Theatre on 22nd Street. Since the audiences have been so great for Iolanthc. this production has been running since November, 1939. There are usually from QContinucd on Page 331 25 College Calendar January 24, 1940 - The College assembly enjoyed a piano recital by Miss Iulia Schnebly, a sister of our own Martha Schnebly. This program. the second which Miss Iulia has given us. again evidencd an unusual achievement for a young girl. ln a simple. unaffected style. Miss Schnebly played classical and modern compositions. Her playing was marked at all times by breadth of tone. and where needed. by a pleasing delicacy. She observes phrasing and plays with a certain spirit that shows that to her music is a great pleasure, a pleasure which her audience cannot but feel. Because Miss Sclmebly plays particularly well and because of her charming manner. the doors of the Col- lege will be open to her whenever she can favor us with a program. January 29, 1940 - Rose Quong. an English-educated, Australian Chi- nese, who is making a lecture tour of the United States. spoke in assembly on the f'Soul of China. Even though Miss Quong had an Oxford accent rather than the ex- pected Chinese, she looked very Oriental with her straight. glossy black hair, cut in bangs, and her beau- tifully embroidered Mandarin costume. ln acknowl- edging our greetings. Miss Quong reflected her ancestry in her graceful bows. Through translations of Chinese poems, fables. and legends. the proverbs of Confucius, and interesting an- ecdotes of modern China, Miss Quong instilled in her audience the feeling that China must, and will, create a new world out of the very most dead and hopeless water. Perhaps one of the greatest factors in the molding of China has been the teachings of Confucius. not the Chinese whom we have been of late abusing. but the Confucius who left the world invaluable studies of human nature. Chinese life is imbued with this philoso- py of Confucius. Some of the proverbs as translated by Miss Quong might well be observed by us. Shall we remember: Man by nature is born goodf' A closed fist can receive nothingg a closed mind can receive nothing. and The first thing a man must learn is to live at peace with other men. February l, 1940 - Reported by lX'lARIORIE SIEBERT The first of the religious syinposiums was held on February the first. The Reverend Gottlieb Siegenthaler, 26 pastor of St. Matthcw's Evangelical Lutheran Church, was the speaker. He presented the Protestant point of view on the Contribution of Religion to Education for Citizenship. First. Reverend Siegenthaler defines what the Protestants mean by education. Education is that process by which the community seeks to open its life to the next generation and enable young people to take their part in life. It attempts to pass on to them its cul- ture. XV here education is viewed as a stage in develop- ment, younger minds are trained both to receive it and to criticize and improve upon it. Herein the Protestant approach differs from that of either the Iewish or the Catholic. Both of the latter present codes. Salvation here and hereafter depends solely on the priest or rabbi. The Protestant view is much harder: You must stand on your own feet, live your own life and be answerable to your own C-od. The four ways by which religion contributes to edu- cation for citizenship are: l. The church is a home in our loneliness. Z. It is an armory in the conflict of high and low ideals. 3. lt is a nucleus of human brotherhood. a fellowship of free persons under the law of Christ. lt is supra-ra- cial, since it embraces within its fellowship peoples of every color. It is supra-class, recognizing no social dis- tinction between rich and poor. -f. lt points to a redeeming grace - men and nations' deepest. most desperate need is for a Saviour. That sac- rifice of Christ is the profoundest message of the Prot- estant Church. XVithout that message, practical life as citizenship would choke us like dust. February 8, 1940 - The second religious symposium in the series of three was led by Mr. Doehler. of Loyola College. He im- pressed us with the fact that we have a serious respon- sibility. First, we are a part of the sole surviving sane nation. Secondly. we. as educators. are responsible for the preparation of the next generation for the recon- struction of America and the world. Our share in this nation's life is: citizenship - intelligent, responsible, cooperative membership in society. An intelligent cit- izen knows his function in societyg a responsible citi- zen accepts his rights with the accompanying dutiesg and a cooperative citizen protects the rights of all citi- zens. Religion is man's acknowledgment and fulfillment of his debt of dependence on God. Cod gives laws to his TOWER LIGHT I l 1 r l Eposscssions. Obedience in religion means that one ac- gcepts the laws of the god of that religion. Catholicism frecognizes three obligations of man: first. acknowledg- lment of God as Creator, Saviour, and Rulerg second, Hhe proper use of his own capacities, and third, normal lliving with his fellowmen. it Catholicism earnestly attempts to contribute to the ieducation of citizens. It has initiated many study groups ifand classes for adults. Likewise, Catholic action, a kind of mission work done by lay apostles in lay situations, tis doing an excellent piece of work in education for citi- szenship. Every effort is being made to develop charac- ,ters for the full life in a peaceful, well-ordered society. , . l i i V l. li-February 15, 1940 - f Reported by FREDXVIN KIEVAL i i The third lecture in the series of religious symposi- frunis for the current year was delivered by Mr. Abraham llyloseph, a prominent Baltimore attorney. Mr. Ioseph it ll3 it Facult I , Dr. Crabtree, Miss Ioslin, and Mr. Miller attended ga meeting of the College English Association at College LPark on February l0. In attendance were representa- 'itives from colleges and teachers' colleges of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, VVest Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The immediate problem under consideration was 'AThe Teaching of Freshman Composition. In the morning session Dr. Bement described a VVriting Laboratory' experiment at George VVashington Univer- sity. The Maryland State English Supervisor discussed the problem from the high school viewpoint - what must high schools give to constitute adequate prepara- tion for college English? Following a delightful luncheon, with the University of Maryland as host, came afternoon discussions. and olans for a future meeting. Dr. Anita S. Dowell was elected president of Chi Chapter tlohns Hopkins Universityj of Pi Lambda 1l'heta tnational graduate honor society for womenj, at Ll meeting of the society on February l7. She has served is secretary in previous years. T Towson has another faculty member who is an officer if a Hopkins chapter of a national graduate honor fra- QMARCH - 1940 spoke in the absence of Rabbi Abram Shaw, who was ill. ln his general remarks, Mr. Ioseph showed how three great VVestern religions stem from the same root and parallel one another in championing similar ethical values. He declared that the reason why so many con- flicts arise among tlie constituents of these three relig- ions is because religious differences are accentuated while their likenesses are pressed into the background. ln measuring the ideal citizen, the speaker used the nineteenth chapter of Leviticus as a yardstick. This chap- ter propounds social legislation affecting the home, fam- ily life, business, labor, and minorities. As a further contribution toward educating for citi- zenship, the speaker cited the Rabbinic injunction of the law of the land you shall obey. Such an injunction came about after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A. D. and the subsequent dispersion of the Iews to all parts of the world. Thus the combination of the two legal systems, one Rabbinic and the other Biblical. makes a powerful force in educating for good citizenship. y Notes ternity. Mr. XValther is treasurer of Alpha Rho Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. Mr. Minnegan spends his Saturdays at George YV ash- ington University. YVashington, D. C., as part of his plan for becoming A'Dr. Minneganf' Dr. VV est is busy writing workbooks to be used in connection with the recent series of junior high school texts. Science Problemsf, of which he is an author. By now everyone should have seen, in professional magazines or on bulletin boards, the advertisements an- nouncing the new series of readers by Dr. Crabtree. her sister, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. ,er MARRIAGES February 1, 1940 - The marriage of Madeline Veronica Dunne, Class of '27, to Ioseph Nathan Sanford. took place at the rectory of the Catholic Cathedral. February 2, 1940 - Gertrude Iohns and Nathan Iaffa, both of thc Class of '37, were joined in wedlock. 27 The Easter Parade SHIRLEY Hrcrcs IX THE spring a young girl's fancy turns to clothes. This year her attention will be drawn to pastels. Pastels are definitely in this season. Hot pink is a much dis- cussed shade. and. indeed. it has every right to be so. for its soft lights appeal to any girl's vanity. Pastel blue is still worn extensively. You who have blue eyes will do well to look into some of these lovelier shades of blue. 19-IO brings to the front another shade: gray. lt's quite the rage! Gray and hot pink. gray and red. gray and navy. Never before has so much of it been used. For those of you who are a little more conservative. navy is always good. particularly this spring. Featured at one Baltimore store is navy with garden colors. a very attractive and good-looking outfit. Caramel brown is also being displayed popularly. Solid colors are always lovely. but this year enough stripes cannot be had. Dashing prints are the vogue, also. along with the lighter monotones. As far as the general style of Easter fashions go. there is little change. Only a few things stand out as being different. One of these is the use of wool with silk print dyed to match the wool. or perhaps a stripe with a solid piece for trimmings dyed to match the background of the stripes. Vie shall see a lot of that this season. Another new aspect is the military influence. This is seen in the cash-and-carry pockets so popular on spring clothes. the military cut of coats. This latter is empha- sized by the use of epaulets. Moreover. buttons are made as gas masks: hats are fashioned after army caps. As for the hats. flowers prevail. The Easter bonnet of this March 2-1 will be a bunch of flowers perked de- murely on a head of curls. The hat will be adorned by a voluminous veil situated on the hat. but face veils are de- cidedly passe. Besides this. straw sailors and bonnets and felt spectators are numerous. This year. buyers will stick to the traditional patent leather or kid pumps. sandals. and spectators. New styles such as the wedge and bows are being forced. but the latter seem to be the only one to be successful. Handbags are about the same. Featured in patent leather. suede and kid. they vary as to size and shape. As to gloves. wear the white or neutral doeskin or kid. Doeskin is perhaps better because it can be easily laun- dered. For those of you who prefer colors. there are a variety of shades featured in suede. A most essential item is the accessory. Being sold now are countless pastel necklaces. pins. and bracelets of flowers. The iridescent jewelry is also being sold. Most 28 1 interesting are the pins and lapel decorations. found ini such things as musical instruments. golf bags. amusingk caricatures. just one hint: use color. However, as you use color, ll blend in your make-up with your color scheme. Nothing 4' can detract more from a girl's appearance than make-upi that clashes with the costume. i 4 Another thing: clothes do little for a person if shei herself is not tidy. YVatch the hair. Is it washed regu-? larly? ls it kept curled so that those objectional stray! pieces stay in place? ' 1 Nails are also essential. It takes but little effort oiii your part to keep your nails clean and well shapedfi Too long a nail is not pretty. Also. a bright. unsightlyi polish adds little to the appearance. Stick to the pret-fr tier shade of polish for the shorter length nails. . These are just a few beauty hints. but we all want tcl look our best on Easter Sunday: when arrayed in our new outfits. with perhaps a lovely corsage, we step befj fore our admirers. hoping for a nod of approval. l si The Men' s Revue A Nomx CHIPRIAN ' THIS YEAR the men have planned their Revue argl a departure from their policy of several years' standing: No longer is it to be an edition of the Mens Revolt, 011 the Mens Revenge. We are simply letting more expe, rienced and competent hands do our burlesquing ant are going to feature several reels of early films. whose every minute of running time is sure to keep you smilingQ tittering. or bursting into unpremeditated. untamablf laughter. The main feature will be Lon Chaney in Thr Phantom of the Opera. and two ole' time comedies wily round out the program. Following the films. thirty mi utes of selected vaudeville will be presented. featuring: none but four-star perfomiers. After the show. therifv will be dancing 'til one o'clock. with john Horst's tend' piece orchestra. which is still receiving wide acclaim, from those who heard it at the Sophomore Iamboree. .L ll Remember! The Revue is to be given only one nights At that time. we guarantee you a highly enjoyable eve- ning. Here are some of the men who are working harm preparing for the event: 'Weis Henderson. Seidlerllz Herold. Robinson. johnson. Kahn. Astrin. Weiner. Cert' nik. Lichter. XYilde. Lauenstein. Kassel. Chipman. Dawlf son. Brill. Weiner. and Schwartz. All you men have do is to hustle up a date somewhere and all you women have to do is to subtly convince some nice fella' with i' car that he simply can't miss 1Continued on Page 36: TOWER LIGHT' Democratic Scandinavia K I'I12r.rf:N Piioss and PIIYLLIS XVAL'rER FODA Y, IN our 'tpropaganda-conscious'' outlook on jill radio and newspaper reporting, it is with a sigh of ielief that we listen to any first-hand accounts of the European situation. Such was the feeling, we believe, 'if our student body when Mr. Arnold Kean, New York norrespondent of the Scandinavian Press. addressed our iissembly recently on the subject Democratic Scandi- jiavia and the XVars . j Education. cooperation. and social legislation. ac- fording to Mr. Kean. are the watch words of Scandina- ,'ian and Danish culture. Education in these countries is not of a purely intellectual character. but is practical ind well adapted to the agrarian interests of the majority 'rf the Danish citizens. For example, Mr. Kean referred jo the relatively simple but efficient method of handling fmall business partnerships: The Danish folk put their rust in personal integrity rather than in complicated fontracts. As far as social legislation is concerned. too. jhey are progressive - having inaugurated such prac- iees as medical insurance and old-age security. Their wublic funds have been appropriated for benefits to -heir own race, rather than for destruction of others. The Scandinavians. with all their naivcte, are shrewd enough to realize that they would be helpless in the face of an invasion by a large power. Consequently, with the exception of Finland, they are putting forth every effort to maintain friendly relations with other European gov- ermnents. Although this is being accomplished with some economic loss, these small countries feel it is thc wise policy to pursue. Then, too, Denmark has a few aces up her sleeve of which Germany is well aware. Both countries know that it is more advantageous for Germany to allow Denmark to remain independent than to attempt any aggression. lt is this last fact, prob- ably, which accounts for the apparently happy, uncon- cerned outlook of the average Dane. In his address. Mr. Kean referred to a recently pub- lished book, Denmark, A Social Laboratory, by Peter Manniche. A copy of this book has been placed in our library by the I. R. C. XVe feel confident that with Mr. Kean's interesting remarks on Scandinavia as a stimulus, this book will soon be in great demand among the students. Father' s Day in the Campus School IAMES IETT 'HE BIRTHDAY of the Father of Our Country :Jas appropriately observed in the Campus School. The f'ather's Day program brought to the school 97 fathers- .nen who are interested not only in their own children, ilut who are curious to see the philosophies of modern Qdueation in action. They deemed the occasion as an Idueational one for themselves as well as their children. 't was their patriotic responsibility, as a part of an enor- mous social community - our country, to come and to earn. They saw education in action: we, from the in- ide, saw patriotism in action. i Grades four and live had special 'Aopening exercises .3 start the day. Perhaps you, reader, may remember the lime when opening exercises were a universal and daily iroeedure in the elementary schools. However, in the irogressive schools of the country, which display the .Zimerican spirit of moving ahead swiftly but through -Jgical changes, the formal exercises are a thing of the fast. Yet these, given mainly for the benefit of the fath- its, were educational in their aspect. They might have een termed modern opening exercises. VVIARCH - 1940 The teaching of arithmetic. reading. Social studies. science, and spelling was seen by most of the fathers - for nearly all the grades included these subjects in their morning program. Certainly there were evidences of cor- relation, that the fathers might see how the new philoso- phies provide for a continuation of the interests of chil- dren in a not too diversified way. May it be known, too, that an old-fashioned spelling bee was given in Miss Schnorrenberg's room. The fath- ers modestly refused to participate - probably because they didn't want to show their sons up Ui. Miss Grogan's first grade presented three plays, un- der the guidance of the student teachers - Misses Hut- ton and Mercer. A large stage in the front of the room had been made by the children. Backdrops of scenery were a product of the children - probably made in art classes. The muslin curtains were designed with child paintings - and the curtains drew. like those on a reg- ular stage. The three plays acted were Little Red Riding Hood. A'Cat. Cat and Mouse, Mouse. and t'Three Billy Goats. All the iContinued on Page 35 I 29 ld Sport, 1X lARv1N M. GROUPS OF eager, hopeful men are discovered daily looking at idle factories, inspecting town halls, measuring school gymnaisums, and peering into empty barns in your neighborhood. Do not be alarmed, how- ever, for they are simply looking for a place to lay out badminton courts. For in badminton has been found the perfect week-end pastime. the duffer's delight. For you and me it is the simplest. most inexpensive of active games, whereby all may have fun. For the outstanding athlete it is an interesting game, and as fast a workout as any in which contestants are kept apart by a net. Upon seeing beginners patting one of those goose- feathered shuttle-cocks back and forth with their frail racquets. brawny athletes have turned pale. The thought occurs that they have permitted themselves to enter a scene in which a tame game is being played. This is an error, because the game has persisted among the sport- loving British and hardy Canadians since the distant days when man could not make a proper ball. First-class badminton singles calls for the footwork of a lightweight boxing champion, the wind of a dis- tance runner, and the quickness of eye and snap of the wrist needed by a man fighting bees with a popsicle. lt displays the fundamental strategy of tennis, plus a few tricks of its own. The shuttle-cock can be smashed with the force of a man's full strength, or slithered over the net with the dainty deadliness of a lady wasp slipping into her home. Not a new sport, badminton nevertheless had not made rapid strides in the United States until recently. No two authorities agree on the history of the modern version. Legend says it started in 1873 at a dull house party at the home of the Duke of Beaufort, from whose estate, Badminton.'i it is supposed to have received its name. Among those at the party were two English army oflicers who had seen the game played in India under its original name of poona. After sticking goose-quills in champagne corks, they began batting them across the table, and other guests proceeded to follow them. For the next twenty-live years, badminton led a double life. ln England, it enjoyed mild popularity as a socialite amusement, for which the proper uniform was evening dress. ln garrisons and officers' clubs in India. where it had been played as poona for centuries. bad- minton was played inore vigorously, and took Hrmer root. Despite the intense development of the game among the British and Canadians Ito whom it was introduced in 18953, the oldest club in the world is the Badminton 30 ew Rage KLOLIPUS Club in New York. The club was founded in 1878 b two young men who had learned the game in Englanc By 1887, it was organized with a board of governors i, full control, and with the charming and praiseworth policy that only good-looking girls ever be permittej to join. On the court, the women wore trains and picture hat the men, Prince Alberts and choker collars. One 0, newspaper account described the game thus: 4'Badmii ton is an easy-going game which does not require th muscular exertion demanded in bowling, and is quite jolly withal. The game is bound to grow in favor if f no other reason than that it leaves the participan breath sufficient for chat and gossip. ' ln the United States, strenuous badminton did nc, put in an appearance until about 1927. About 1931, bac' minton began to boom and. in April, 1937. came of a when the national championships made it jump i daily papers from the society to the sporting pages. It currently the fastest growing game in this country, an exhibition, tournament, and intercity matches. as well state and national championships, are held regularl However, it has reached its greatest development i Canada. where it is organized nationally under the C nadian Badminton Association. ln an interview a few years ago with Quentin Rei nolds in Colliers Iack Purcell. world professional cha pion from Toronto, pointed out the game's chief dray back: The beauty, and incidentally, the fault of ba- minton is that after a man plays it two or three time he thinks he's an expert. It seems very easy to hit thi Abird' back and keep it in play. lt is easy, if you are pla ing against a beginner. Because of this. players oftep just dub along without bothering to learn court strate and deception. This is significant because 1 am certain that mosti you who have played little badminton have experienc' just what Purcell mentioned. There are few sports NVlliC5 can be mastered without practice, and this one is r' exception. Therefore, if any of you aspire to becon. capable badminton players, steady practice and a know edge of the court fundamentals are essential. 4 Father: YV ell, XVillie, what did you learn at scho' today?' YVillie jproudlyl: I learned to say 'yes, sir' and 'n' sir,' and 'yes, 1na'am.' and 'no. ma'am'. Father. You did? YVillie: 'iYeah. 1 TOWER LIG , v i-Nsiapiaars-W Immoixnz KOLKER l lDMETIME YVITHIN the next five years you may ben your evening paper to the sports page and be greet- il by the following headline: i Wfliitey Lauenstein Sold to the lWajors iff course, this prospective success story has a few jltches to it, but VVhitey, being a catcher, may back- jop his way to the solution. For those of us who are Qbt acquainted with the ability of our hero, I might jynamically expound with glowing metaphors his clever jadership of the baseball team for the past three sea- jms, his mighty svvatting. or his flawless fieldingg but jlis is not necessary, for you will see for yourselves in li, few short months. ,Now for the story behind the headline. During the jast two seasons, VVhitey not only went behind the bat jar our team, but also climbed on the mound to pitch yhen called upon and also played first base, second base pd outfield upon different occasions. VVhat was the jzsult? VVhitey had taxed his throwing arm so greatly 'nat lameness and soreness have persisted ever since. ,Vhile this article is still at press, our hero will be re- jiiving treatment for his injured limb at the expense of jie Baltimore Orioles. who believe VVhitey to be of suf- jcient value in the future to offset any expense that they ,nay incur in priming him for a career in baseball. , If you do read this headline. remember that I TOLD j'OU SO. j --- lg During the last week of April, our College will be rep- jisented at the world-famous Penn Relays, which are jaditionally held at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. This jloriied and gala track and field meet is so arranged that lompetition is on an equal basis for each team entered. I-iother words. colleges or high schools of equal rank jompete against each other. Thus the race is a close one lyhether those competing are the best in the world, the jest in the country, or just average. j, The particular race in which we are interested is the lflason-Dixon One Mile Relay Race, in which each of our runners sprints a quarter of a mile. Q One of the quartet who carried our colors last season jid not return this past fall. Another runner is needed li fill this gap. All interested should speak with Mr. jlinnegan as soon as possible. T VVith the basketball season ebbing into hibernation. uid Coach Miimegan pulling his fast-greying thatch to MARCH - 1940 little avail. our mentor has at least found a silver lining to this fruitless seasons dark cloud. Edgar Fishel. a freshman, has blossomed under careful tutelage into an excellent prospect. The possessor of a fine frame, plenty of speed, grace, a fine eye. and an ideal temperament. this neophyte should become a fine ball player. If records and experience mean anything, State Teach- ers College will have a fine baseball team this spring. Yes. I mean the State Teachers College at Towson. Do not be surprised if at our opening game you find YVhitcy Lauenstein catching, Sam Cloppcr or Frank Dorn on the mound, Marty Brill at first base, jack I-Iart at see- ond. johnny Shock at shortstop, and johnny Horst on third base to round out the infieldg then Lou Cox in left field, jimmy Cernik in center field, and Harry Rus- sell or Charley Rembolt in right field. VV ith every man, except Frank Dorn. a veteran of our past campaigns. this team ought to go places. The fact that these names have been associated with all the positions on the team does not necessarily mean that there isn't any room for new talent. Every man who goes out for the team will not only receive a fair trial. but also will avail himself of the opportunity to learn baseball from the ground up. I regret that the following anecdote concerns XVhitey Lauenstein, for he has been the subject of much of this artieleg nevertheless. because of its irony, this story is of sufiicient interest to make us forget the names involved. State Teachers College played johns Hopkins Uni- versity in a baseball game at johns Hopkins near the end of the season last spring. Hugh Trader, a sports colum- ist for one of the leading Baltimore papers and the gent who selects the All-Maryland Baseball Team for his pa- per, was present at the game. Because of his sore arm. as was mentioned previously, XVhitey Lauenstein played first base in this game. During the course of the afternoon. in four times at the bat. Mr. Lauenstein crashed out two home runs and slashed a sizzling single. beside playing a fine de- fensive game around thc initial sack. Results! A week following. when Mr. Hugh Trader picked his All-Maryland Baseball Team. lo. and behold! there was YVhitey's name on the second All-lXIaryland Team. For what position? XVhy. first base. of course! Yes. Mr. Trader. who had seen our College team play only one game that season. had selected XYhitey as thc first baseman on the mythical second All-Maryland Base- ball Team. when Vlhitcy was undisputcdly thc finest catcher in the league. 31 .'lrtixt.f', .Sign Writers' and Engineering Supplies Studio, S Choo! und Drafting Room Furniture Drawing M aterial 0. willloelg 0 'yC6'0 214 W .fy Ol Ppllff EST FRANKLIN STREET BALTIMORE, MD. VERNoN3700 Compliments 0 a Friend Slll,llllDllE5lIRS6lllJlllIllPllf I'IARRIlfl'I' R. FINE and INIARY jo STAVROPOULOS GREETINGS, READERS! fVVe hope there are reac ers.j W'e're just poor freshmen struggling to give you decent substitute for XV. Norris VVeis' super So VVhat Now, without further ado, we shall plunge into tl! Udirtn and see what our boys and girls are up to. . .A Ah! Romance - S. Sharrow and R. Nizer might just :I well not have gone to see C, VV. T, XV. Richmoni parlor sofa would have served the purpose just as wel QAsk D. Hess about that parlor sofa.j . . . jack VVi liamson is an Eagle Scout in the B. S. A .... Oh, dear johnny S. and Harry R. are teaching. But Lou C. is bac with us and things oughtta start upoppin' .... E, Cr! locks favorite song isn't Oh, Iolmnie by accident! . . C. Cross. who is prevented by student teaching fror censoring this, keeps the home fires burning QEI1, I V olk?j. VVe might help the Culture Fund by installir a parking meter in the lower hall, Q Three Guesses: A XVhat brilliant boy QFr. Zj asked Dr. Lynch female cows had horns? . . . VVhat ten-cent comic boc is rapidly replacing all college literature? QPssst! Super man.j g I Freshman Lingo: How many of you have succumed to Fr. -Vs Arch:- SnafHe lingo? It's been waffled around since a litt: while. Perhaps many of you have been wondering abot the way we freshmen have been talking to each otha. VVe shall attempt to enlighten you. After reading tlr, perhaps you will be able to enlighten us! Arch: name given to all freshmen Archie: lady arch Snaflle: too complex to define YVaffle: any meaning you care to give it On the snorton: on the level Snceburn: used at the end of all sayings Alphabatcric: hll in for poem lXIorphistetcry: fill in for same poem On the Zeeder Zye: locality of freshmen Snaff thc movra: and if so, why not? Kurwenal: we don't know what it means. eithe' Oo Oo Csecond Oo acccntcdg with thunis down VJ: you are done for Phadisee: down to the poolroom. boys Cratcric: so I ain't neat Isley laddo: this means you TOWER LIGH' Laddess: lady laddo Yea-a Mauro: form of greeting or salutation Hottentotten: hippa-dippa Phatisadel: gimme sumpin' XVe trust this has given you a start. If interested in nvestigating further. please consult Grand Arch irieger, Freshman 4. O Jur Dorm Students: S. Baker and Mary M. have been making nocturnal 'isits to Richmond parlor. We wonder what would happen if the Frosh Pres. -ver got the VVrights wrong or the wrong Wright? But hat couldn't be because two VVrights can't make him vrong for can they?j. Lou H. and Ruth are so much so that they even feed zach other bits of food at the breakfast table. i VVhose ring are you wearing, Ronnie? Why? Ask Curly what he learned at a Fr. Hallowe'en party. Practice makes perfect! . Are you inquisitive? Ask Ralph Lanei about the 'dogf' Ask Lillian S. about M. W. O Jnceremonious Finis: WVell, that's about all we have to impart to you right prow. VVe hope you've enjoyed us! WE CAME, WE SAW, WE LEFT 1Continued from Page ZSH thirty to forty members working in the Guild. y Have you been with the Guild long? , For four years, ever since l left State Teachers Col- yegef' A'Have you studied draniaties or had any voice train- ng?Y7 'Al studied at Peabody for a year and had some ex- ,ierience with the St. Louis Opera Company during the ummer. i Do you enjoy the work? y Oh, yes indeed. l'm crazy about it! yi XVith this information, thank yous, and good-byes, uve left the charniing Miss Gehring with the intention if seeking interviews of the other members of the cast. ls we came from the stage we saw that the other women, who by this time had finished dressing. were beginning to tear down some of the brown paper that lllivided the room in two. Squeals of delight from the lvomen on one side - shouts of consternation from lhe men on the other side - - VVe left! l QMARCH - 1940 Complinzerzts of STEVENSON 'S lowers 304 AIGBURTH ROAD TOWSON, MD. Phone Tuxedo 1335 F R A N K M A L A C H RETAIL ck IVHOLES.-1LE DEALER IN Eggs and Poultry 5914 YORK ROAD BALTIMORE Reference Books? Try IIIICIISCIIILD K 0 IIN 8: C0. Baltilnore 1VIason's Service Station Betboline - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 2-l-Hour Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 55-E GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR , a Nezlls Charles Street at Lexington Compliments of . . . TOWSON THEATER The bmah .Rational Bank uf illiutnsnn, jllllh. LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Discriminating Tastes Prefer Esskay Quality MEAT PRODUCTS 34 Service Station To Freshmen MANY FRESPIMEN have asked. f'VVhat is studen teaching? ls it as bad as they say? How much does i count? Is it important to work while at the College? Briefly, I shall attempt to answer these perplexin queries. Student teaching is a term applied to that portion C the time in the life of the student of State Teacheij College when he puts into practice the theories he ha, acquired during his career at the College. There ar' two terms of student teaching - one in the junior yea' and one in the senior year, each of nine weeks' duratior Student teaching is carried on by city students in varior. schools throughout the city, called practice center: County students do their student teaching either in th Campus School or at nearby county schools. Each stil dent gets one term in a primary grade-first, second, c third, and one term in an intermediate grade - fourtlv J. ji 4. l ! C 4 fifth, or sixth. flu the county. the seventh grade is als. T utilized by our student tcaehcrsj Usually there are twj students at each practice center. VVhile out practic' teaching or student teaching fthe terms are synonj mousj, the students are under the guidance of expr, rienced people in the field of education. These peopl are called practice teachers. Their job is to instruct an to guide the prospective teacher. After the student his spent nine weeks in the center, each practice teaehcj gives him a rating and fills out a gray sheet upon which is written an objective account of his work, teachiri: personality traits. attitude, etc. Upon the completion of both terms of student teael ing, the two marks are averaged according to the con bined judgment of the two practice teachers and tl' College supervisors who have seen the student teacl This final student teaching mark is very. very. impo, tant because it is averaged with one's rating on the Ba' timore City Professional Examinations to detcrmir one's ranking on the city lists. The answer to: Is student teaching hard? is ni easy to give in a short space. It depends to a great e tent upon the individual student and the indiyidui' teacher of practice. lf one has a good background ar the ability to organize work with reasonable facility. li will find student teaching not as hard as it would othc wise be. Still. it must be admitted that a greater per cel' of those who have been out student teaching will nf hesitate to tell you that there is more work attachci to teaching than there is to attending and prepariii for class at the College. One does not have to go o' student teaching to know that it is more difficult f teach others than it is for one to learn. lt is difficult to be more specific than this. for hc' TOWER LIGH' A L nany hours one spends in the practice center. and how lnany hours one spends at home in preparation depend Xrntirely upon how fast the individual can do his work. lnd how much work the specific practice teacher re- Qiuires. lt is only natural that some practice teach- prs require more work than others, although there has 'xeen an attempt to equalize the amount of work that is required. -F ls it important to work while at the College? hly linswer is, yes. l have two specific reasons for saying this. L l. lt has been found that there is a high correlation between people who receive high scholastic marks, and lhose who come out high in the professional examina- fions which are given at the end of the four years in the College ffor city studentsj . i 2. XVhat the individual learns at the College aids him lgreatly in the organization and presentation of his work ivhile teaching. ii 3. For the county student. the scholastic average Eneans even more. for this average. the student teaching piark. and the teachers personality are the elements Lvhich influence the County Supervisors' selection of a ireaeher. --- Student teaching is the pe1'iod when one puts into practice that which one has theorized upon. discussed api the various classes at the College, read about. and Lhought about. During this experience, one comes into rrontact with the class-room situation and finds what the gietual situation is like. One comes back from student reaching with the feeling that there is much more to be ltudied and learned. My sincere advice is to study and yearn before going out student teaching so that YOU ivill lic prepared to put forth your best effort in an at tempt to prove your worth, Remember that a little extra ifffort now may save you precious hours in your practical 'est l ff rnrnrirs mir IN THE cAMPus scnooi. !fContinued from Page 29D children participated in bhe acting. Did the fathers see the educational value of yihat period? The new education is the education of ex- perience, realized in part through the function of the petivities program. ii The climax was the assembly program: a great gath- flrring of fathers and their children - the fathers. sym- polic of XVashingtong the children, his fellow country- Lnen - ever desirous to be like the patriarch: idealistic. knowing that active cooperation was demanded in ttaining their ideals. The Gettysburg Speech of Lin- uoln was resaidg songs of patriotism resungg and the yyfkmerican Hag was featured, under the care of Cirl and Boy Scouts. 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Ci 36 BANKING SERVICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL Personal Loans -UIQ Investment Certificates issued in multiples Of, of S50.00. Interest payable January lst S100 to S1000 and July lst At Fair Rates. IVE INVITE YOUR INQUIRY Citizens' Industrial Bankers, Inc. 104 ST. PAUL STREET - - - - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 1 You Wfill Be A Wfeleome Depositor In Ulibz Bank uf Baltimore Qllnuntp YORK ROAD . . . TOWSON, MD. Deposits Guaranteed to 55,000.00 Science Answers . Scientifically speaking. cold is the complete absence of molecular motion. Therefore. a definite answer to this question is impossible, . Tlieoretieally. homogeneous light is light which is made up of waves of one definite length. The coldest cold ever obtained by scientific expcrif ment is l 20 of a degree ccntigrade above Absolute Zero. . Sixty-six degrees below zero Fahrenheit was record- ed at the Yellowstone National Park in XVyoming on February 9. 1933. . :X pressure of l.-I-l0.000 pounds per square inch was produced at Harvard University. . :X surface of T60 square miles of ground was record- ed by a camera used by the United States Coast and Ceodetic Survey. . Robert XYadlow. of Alton, Illinois, towers S feet. 3 and 3i inches into the atmosphere. . The oldest and largest tree is located in Mexico and has a circumference of l0S feet. lt is believed to be more than 2.500 years old. . Some scientists have computed the age of the Earth to be between two and three billion years. . There are as many known molecules as there are compounds. Approximately 2.'500.000.000 individuals inhabit the Earth. . There are as manv known atoms as there are elef ments. or 92. O Freshmen In Sports .ALBERT Rant THE FRESHMEN have made a commendable showing in the fall and winter sports of the College namely, soccer and basketball, More than one-third ol the freshmen men have participated in varsity and jun ior varsity sports. ln addition. the class as a whole turnec in a fine performance on Play Day, capturing the trophy by amassing the greatest number of points. Their mos! notable feat was a hard-fought victory in the softbal' game with the sophomores. Among the freshmen who turned out for the soccc' team were Edgar Fishel. VX'illard Caver. and Marvin Klompus. Fishel showed great promise and has an ex cellent chance of winning a regular fullback post Ol next years varsity. Caver was also a fullback on the jun ior varsity, while Klompus was regular junior varsity in side-right. Other freshmen on the soccer squad were Cordon Sehules and Solomon Chaikin. An unusually large mnnber of freshmen men cami out for basketball. and two of these landed regula berths on the junior varsity five. They were Isaa- Sehldoven. and Fishel. who was high point scorer of thu team and who will probably play with the varsity nex fall. Other freshmen members of the junior varsitj squad were: Oscar Brilliant. Kloinpus. Robert Lytlt Icrome Pleet. David Hess. Morton Krieger. and Alber Raim. THE MEN'S REVUE 1 Continued from Page IS 1 the good time on thc 29tl Now don't forget: Mens Revue. March 29. Lon Chaney in The Pliai tom of the Opera. comedies. vaudeville. dancing t l'lorst's styled swing and. perhaps - another attraetio. which you won't want to miss. Wie can't tell you aboi' that now. G, CO.. EAU, TOWER LIGH nj- 1-' , I - v vw ,lf-u - 1 - w-7 w ll--1 -4 If I ,, 'I' ,, , E- as M, ' VF lv' it I ' X '4 If 1 l r ' A lu! F 1 - 1 w 1 55 iv J 'H-Q1 Three of the counfry's smartest fashion models SUSANN SHAW FLORENCE DORNIN DANA DALE Chesterfield Girls for March Ohio xg 'Dx QQ of s Wav X ,, x I X N. ff .Xa f'X 5 ' Q equi X 0 AA 3 0 'K 'woe' 52 ref' 000 l YOU CANIT BUY A BETTER CIGARETTE WIICII you ask for Clleslerfields i the dealer will say with a smile ...They Satisfy. You will find that Clleslcrficlds smoke cooler, 1 taste better and are definitely milder. ..for Cllesterfields have the right C0lllbillllli0ll if the i W u'0r1cl's best ciffurette lobaccos. , wayne O J byffffkfffzo E Eflprif 1940 ower .Eiqkf Xi t ffllg SLEIJ DUGS...YEAR'S SUPPLY UF SLOW-BURNING CAMEL CIGARETTES ACCUMPANY ADMIRAL BYHD T0 ANTARCTIC -in .46 ite Z Rr: 'Sf' it A Af '. r' T43 . ,, e gk-4, .,.i.. - I .T ,- I, X- V , H., t . 4, e 5' I ali -I 5 v rm xo? J r Y' f U s- ' 3 P' I' P, if fi Ip aim JS MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF...MORE PUFFS PER PACK ... That's how these three members of the U. S. Antarctic expedition tell of the advantages of slow-burning Camels. Richard Moulton, senior dog-driver lrentez-J. says: Slow burning is my measure of a milder. cooler, more flavorful smoke. I'd sledge a mile for a Camel. Nothing destroys a cigarettes delicate elements of flavor and fragrance like excess heat. Cigarettes that burn fast also burn hot. Camels are slower-burning...milder. mellower. and-naturally-cooler! Camels give you more pleasure per puff...and more puffs per pack free rigbll. FUR MILDNESS, COOLNESS, AND FLAVUR sei...-M , 4 ff- X xS,gr..,f I gp-W l w.. g . xx P wl- Y awe ii T IF YOU WERE LEAVING TODAY tO liX'ef'Ol'aWl'xOl6 year on the barren ice of the Antarctic. and if right uou' you had to choose the one brand of cigarette you would smoke through those months -you'd make sure you picked the right brand. The men on the Antarctic expedition were in a situation like that. The picture above shows what happened: The expedition took Camels! Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd explained: Slow-burn- ing Camels are a great favorite with us. You can be sure we have plenty. You. yourself. may never go near the South Pole. but the right cigarette is important to yon. too. Camels give you exlra mildness. exlfa coolness, exn-.1 Havor-plus extra smoking in every pack. fsee lzelouuj In recent laboratory tests. CAMELS burned 2592 slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested-slower than any of them. That means. on the aeMeL3 EELHTmg psf, 2 EXTRA i'E 5 SMOKBS .Wmwm,3 ITR . ...... ..,f IHCK! R N I Cupyrigln,1f1l0,R..l.Rcj-Annlds T-ibn : 4 nllviiipziriy, Winston-Salem, N. C, I rl THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. FIEDLER KATHERINE FRASER RICHARD CUNNINCHALI CHARLES GROSS CIRCULATION ADVERTISING MANAGERS MANAGERS Esther Royston Elizabeth VVeems Margaret Heck Ieanette Iones Virginia Roop Margaret Lowry Norma Cambrill BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt Iohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Ar! Service Station DOFOUIY SIIOOPS Ieanne Kravetz Alice Trott Miriam Kolodner Audrey Pramsehufer Marguerite SVilSOn Humor Katherine Iacob Frances Shores Elizabeth Melendez Science Lee MCCarriar Iohn Chileoat lanics O'COnnor Athletic: Catherine Paula Nolan Chipinan Library Elizabeth Zentz Audrey' llorner Doris Klank General Literature Nannette Trott Irma Sennlienn Patricia Herndon Music Sydney Baker Exchanges A lilclred Hament Fashions Marie Parr Dorothy Sisk College Events I lelen Pieek A IIIIV Brashears Naney Metzger Mary Di Peppi Editorial CalVin Parker Catherine Crax' Iaines Iett I ALICEMUNN - - AIZIIIEIUIIIC' Editor l QDWVLRLLIALITLI' Vol. XIII if APRIL - 1940 S, No.7 C 0 N T E N T S AN OPEN LETTER . 3 PACIC SOPHOAIORE CLASS SPIRIT . -I FOLLOVVING TRAILS IN THE AIR S ON THE lx-XIACINOT LINE . . , EDUCATION AND PEACE - IXIIONROE . S TREES HAVE SOULS . . . 9 THE FLESH IS XIVIEAK O POEIXIS ....... . ll HOW SV ELL DO YOU KNOXV MARYLAND? . ll BRANCH LIBRARY ..... . 12 MY DAY ..... . l3 ON GOING LIOIXIE FROIXI VVORR . H TAKEN FOR A RIDE . . . . lf, COSIXIIC RAYS . . . l5 HOIXIESPUN PHILOSOPHY . . lf EDITORIALS ..... l S THE LIBRARY - IRT YOUR SERVICE . 19 SPORTS . . . . 20 FASHIONS . 23 MUSIC ..,.... 2-l A PERIOD XVITII OUR HIE,-XL'I'II OFFICER . 25 COLLEGE CALENDAR .... . 26 POSTERS FOR YOU . 33 SO VV HAT . 23 ADVERTISEZXIEN'I'S . . . 30 SV HY I AGREE XVITH IDARXVIN :Al I-IVOXVER LIGIIT SCOOPS COUNTRY . . 32 Design OII Page ll Xlarguerite SYilSOn DeSign O11 Page Z3 lillen Anne lillste Pieture O11 Page 2 llughes Coiiipany Pliotograpli .... . . . LCC 3lCC11fTiH1' THE TOSVER LIGHT iS pulJliSlIed lNOllIlllA' - October through Iune - by the Students Of the State 'leaeliers College at ITYOXYSOII, Maryland ...... . - - : :I -3 w PRR XIIQAVR ' -ll Cillfs LS l7l'll l'Y aiu' -:W ni' iv 4- 0-'J 5 U, up - .Mila trgrf .I QQ .r Y - Ds. uv CEU' 'HEBREW WEQKCZF' WEQKGW BWSEEZCFP WNW' WHXCGW wreak JKHQKGW' LUEMGU' GUEECGW' WEXGWWE AN itDi1tvrrr,ini lllbllt5'5lItClltlltBIIR M. TIIERESA XVIEDEFELD I FEEL strongly inclined to step out of character. as president of the college, and forgetful of all else for the time being, write only to my class. I may never have another chance. I am adviser to the Sophomore Class, the Class of '42, and that thought brings me more pride than comes from being president of the college and a member of the State Department of Education. I was appointed to preside over the eollegeg the Sophomores elected me to membership in their class. And so, here I leave you, dear readers, to have a talk with them. YV e all came here together, you and I. VVe were all new on that thirteenth of September in l938. You registered and I talked to you at the end of the day. I was as green as you, and you were not as frightened as I. I answered your questions as best I could and I told you what members of the faculty told me you should know. You started off on your own and you have managed your affairs with very little guidance or advice from me. I have sat with you during your class meetings and I have watched you grow. You were a mob of unrestrained, irresponsible. noisy, but enthusiastic young people. You had come from about one hundred different Maryland high schools. You were all striving for expression, and at times you seemed to be headed in a hundred different directions. I marvel at your development. Your cooperative strength is great. You are now a dynamic group of people, learning to assume more and more responsibility. You have exercised wisdom in the selection of your leaders. You have managed your affairs with excellent judgment and good taste. Your jamboree gave oppor- tunity to demonstrate the achievements of your many talented members. and it was delightful. Your dance was an expression of social and artistic standards of the highest order and made me proud that I belonged to you. Your participation in the Physical Education Demonstration gave me a new understanding of your strengths. I was impressed by your skill, your grace, your control, and your creative ability. The air was so charged with class spirit that even though I did not speak I felt that I had lost my voice, and later, when I tried to talk, found myself rather hoarse. VVhen you won the plaque I was A'secretly proud. You will be remembered as the first full class to enroll for the four year college course, hence the first freshman class which did not have to be broken into city and county groups. I like to believe that you are the real A'Americau Youth . Because of you as such I can vision an era in a changing social order which is full of promise. one teeming with life and vitality. one actuated by wholesome purposes, and guided toward those goals which mean above all else the enrichment of the human per- sonality. You will be my dream come true, and I shall always be jealous for your success and your happiness. C3201-QEQIIICEH-M-HfQllfCf51f, -!l.fQlKQ'f.'lH. 4-Q.EQi21TCim-aiiiiiaa 1-QEQZTKCEQ-1 I aE?2?IIIS'3uf 4-REQKCEQQ UQEJBQEQQ aeibtlisia 43? C315 QQEQAI' SOPHOMORE CLASS SPIRIT EDGAR CLOPPER 'WYHAT THIS college lacls is school spirit. How often we resented this absence of enthusiastic loyalty which caused a minimum of participation in college events! So we decided to do something about it. Our initial problem was to End some way by which we could develop the few remnants of spirit which existed. As a possible solution we planned to offer more opportunities for students to display their college spirit in the development of projects for the year. Under the capable leadership of Aaron Seidler the Sophomore jamboree was planned and executed. lt was a grand success. Those who were present gave their whole-hearted support. and in doing so enjoyed themselves thoroughly. It was the success of this first attempt that proved to us that we were on the right track. The Student Council bought, earlier in the year. a badminton set to be used by the entire student body. XVe immediately saw this opportunity. and took ad- vantage of it. Virginia VVhite. who ranks second in the womenis division of badminton amateurs in Mary- land. was appointed to arrange a tournament in which the faculty as well as the student body might partici- pate. On College Night, after the tournament is ended. two trophies will be presented: one to the winner in the womens division. and one to the men's champion. You are hereby invited to compete for the prizes: they are yours for the taking. You may ask. How were the Sophomores able to administer this program for the development of school spirit? First. we have a great deal of talent in our class, ranging from orchestra leaders. to cham- pions in sport and leaders in community affairs. Sec- Sophomore TOWER LIGHT STAFF General Chairmen: PAIRICLA HERMJON EDGAR CLOPPER Music: Mildred Snyder Katharine Zirkle Eugene XVebster Lhtf jane Disney Henry Astrin Audrey Pramschufer Charles Guertler Sports: Aaron Seidler Dorothy Shinham Nolan Chipman Fashions: Alice Crane Ellen Elste Humor: Frances Shores Margaret Carter Editorials: Edgar Clopper Fredrica Biedermann Science: Iohn Chilcoat Norma Gambrill Assemblies: leannette Iones Margaret Zillmor General Literature: Madeline Cabell Mary Bickle Agnes Kernan ond, we have the will-to-work. Since we have thes requirements. we can justly conclude that we hav college spirit. Vve believe we are doing our part, but please r member that we need your cooperation! Show us th our work is not without results by your whole-heartee participation-not only on College Night-but in every day affairs of the College. CWB S0jl9lZ0l'lZOI'65 Fmxcns SHORES IT XYAS the day after the Sophomores had won the Girls' Demonstration that the inspiration to write this hit me. However. the incentive lay not in our prowess in battle. but in Miss Bader. After the allair was over. noble words concerning the Sophomores rang through the cavity in my head. My vocal cords showed signs of a permanent collapse and caused me to indulge in a bit of Listerine. When I retired. the bot- 4 I tle appeared to be three-fourths full. but the neil. morning it was empty. Evidently. in the excitemeif' of our victory. I must have drunk it for want r something better. But. to get back to the incentive. it was in histoir class the next day that my noble thoughts concernir my class were waylaid as I tried to explain in some ui certain terms what the commons on a feudal manr TOWER LIGH4 I u i 2 ! E l j' species. On each band, whether it be the ponderous I r I 'were The is you is, not is you aint! from the in- structor took the wind out of my sails, and I decided ithat I didn't know what I was talking about. It was lthen that I determined to be very particular about the ltcrms I applied to people, places, and things. Later, 'on my way to the library, I encountered Aaron Seidler, whose chest had expanded ten inches. The word Hsoph- omore' was being used at random. Then it dawned 'on me that since I didn't know much about a commons, I might certainly be a little vague as to just what a Sophomore is. Consequently, I went in to consult ,Mix Vfebster Cy not Eugene the violinist, but Noah the philologistj. Much to my surprise, I found that we Sophs have been calling ourselves names. The word sophomore comes from two Greek words which mean wise fool. Cf course, being a wise fool is a step better than being just a fool. but jthey are both bad enough. For a while I had the notion of demanding that a publication containing such de- grading remarks bc removed from the library. but on second thought I decided there might be some truth sin it. Sophomore, is also associated with the Greek or- der known as Sophists. Since I have yet to engage in the study of Monroes History of Education, I can state only a few facts concerning them. Originally the Sophists were wise men who established in Greece a curriculum that included science. mathematics, and languages. Ilistory does not say whether they advocated flash cards in math and projects in science. Later the Sophists came to excel in argumentation, though they frequently disregarded truth and judgment in order to have the last word. That, I suppose, is where we come in. Ilaving had the seeds of knowledge sown in our Freshman year, we are probably in a state in which we think we know a lot, but really know very little. Sophomores are also dehned as innnature, shallow. and bombastic. Although I resent the adjectives used to describe our order, I must admit that immaturity is directly related to my number sense. So we Sophomores are the wise fools who won the Girls' Demonstration and who are blossoming with spirit. But despite all philology says tpersorially, I wouldn't put a thing past those ancient Creeks after the predicament they left me in during a test last yearj, we still think we are a very. very good class- we sophomores. Following Trails In The Air IN THE old Department of Agriculture building in XVashington, occupying only a few feet of frontage on fone of its endless corridors. is one of the most inter- 'esting suites of oflices in the world. This is the head- 'quarters of a unique research project. Here Frederick C. Lincoln, biologist in charge of research in bird migration, and his several associates keep their lingers on the pulse of bird movement in the Americas. Across Mr. Lincoln's desk flows a constant stream of reports, the neatly tabulated results of thousands of lield hours of watching. trapping, and banding birds. .From the Arctic Qcean to Terra del Fuego more than 900 species of birds wear the distinctive aluminum or copper bands of the Biological Survev. Millions of r, individuals have been banded. And for everv band .placed a record eventually finds its way across Mr. r Lincoln's desk and into his ever-growing files. A bird so banded may then unwittingly reveal in- teresting facts about the habits and movements of its copper circlet fashionable for the legs of eagles and r condors or the tiny wisps of aluminum worn by hum- ' APRIL - 1940 ming birds and kinglets, certain information is stamped. There is a series of mnnbers and. in conspicuous let- ters. Notify Biological Survey, XVashington. D. C. Each band is registered in the XVashington Oflice. as is the name of the person to whom it was issued. YVhen the band is placed on a bird, information con- cerning time, location, and species is compiled by the bander for the Survey. The released bird may then provide further data in a number of ways. It may return often to the trap where it was first banded. Always its number is read and its presence recorded by the station operator. It may be taken by a trapper hundreds of miles from where it was banded. thus showing distance of migration. It may be caught far away quite soon after banding. and a fact concerning speed of migration may be rc- corded. It may return to the same home ground year after year. Longevity information may thus accumulate. A bird sometimes is trapped by station after station along its migration route, and the actual lane of travel plotted with great accuracy. Even its desiccatcd dead body or a fragment of leg still bearing the band may 5 find its way back to the Survey via some interested cooperator. Bands have been found in the stomachs of iish, frogs and reptiles. Often information concern- ing manner of death accompanies the returned band, thus closing the record for that individual with a final useful bit of data. Bird banding was not begun by the Government. Enthusiastic amateurs invented the technique, and they remain the chief practitioners of it. The first band- ing to be done in the Americas was when john Audubon, in 1803, marked a brood of fledgling phoebes by wrapping a leg of each with silver wire. He had the amazing luck to have two of his birds return to the same location to nest the following year. In 1909, an organization called the American Bird Banding Association came into existence. Its members used bands of various manufacture and design, and laid the foundation for the solving of many biological riddles by the data they accumulated. Some banders of those earlier days designed and even made their own bands. This experimentation was of value, and gradu- ally the most suitable types of bands evolved. Some oddities appeared. The now famous lack Miner banded the ducks and geese that came to his sanctuary with bands on which were stamped not only his name and address, but often a verse of Scripture as well. The migratory bird treaty act of l9I8, and treaties with Canada and Mexico providing for the safety of birds migrating across their borders, led our govern- ment finally to assume full responsibility for bird band- ing in North America. Bands, methods of record keepf ing and the like were standardized, and all other band- ing outlawed. Those students desiring to use this method of study were investigated, and if found worthy were issued special permits to operate banding stations. Helpful information on the construction of traps, bait- ing, handling of birds, and similar topics went out constantly from the Biological Survey offices. The bird banding organizations of the nation, by this time three in number, cooperated whole-heartedly. They formed a loose federation of bird banding cooperatives, with the journal Bird-Banding as their official organ. This small journal cannot now accommodate the volume of studies made by the bird banding method, and thousands of interesting articles have appeared in the nation's other ornithological publications, notably The Auk, The VVilson Bulletin, and, on the Pacific coast, The Condor. The banding technique has been modified in a number of ways by students of special topics or by species of unusual habit. Perhaps the most interesting iimovation is color banding. In order that individual birds may be identiiied in the field without the necessity 6 of rctrapping, colored celluloid bands in recorded com-f bination are placed on the bird's legs in addition to the Biological Survey band. Thus a cardinal known to frequent a certain area may be given a yellow band over a red band on the right leg, and a blue band over the Survey band on the left leg. The combination may easily be seen with a good field glass, and the identity of the bird established at any time. Much life history and territory study is now being done with this tech-j nique. For instance, any reader of this might possibly, see. along the Bay, Herring gulls with gaudy bandj combinations. These birds are banded each year on theirj nesting grounds on islands off the New England coastf and at certain other locations. lf the color eombina-, tions can be accurately seen it might be well to record them: the banders would be happy to have any news: of their birds. Bird banding is not, of course. confined to the Ameri-j cas. It is now practised all over the world. English bird journals abound in studies made by bird ringing .- North African ostriches have been roped and bands off galvanized iron affixed by diligent application of aj soldering iron. Australians have banded the almost extinct Kiwi. On VVake and Midway Islands, the Laya san albatrosses and gannets are banded by hundreds each year. And even now, among other things, thg scientihc assistants of the ubiquitous Admiral Byrd may perhaps be placing bands on the great Emperor pen- quins of Antarctica. ,V The bird banding cooperators of the Americas are: as varied as they well could be. From at least one old? lady in a wheel chair who bands twenty or thirty bird Tj a year at a window feeding shelf, to trained biologistsj who band thousands of such colonial or gregariousf forms as ducks, gulls. chimney swifts, and even vulturesg Mr. Lincoln's permit holders form an interesting array., So strategically are they located that the migrating' hordes of birds must tilter through a sieve of banding stations. In addition to the banding work, each stations is a sanctuary, where food and safety await the birds- Thus the mechanical requirements of conservation: the esthetic advantages of augmented numbers oil song birds, and the data for the solving of many phases of the riddle of migration, all are provided by birc.. banding. Q At the State Teachers College our banding statior.. is new. However, more than thirty birds already wear' our bands, and some of these have returned more thai' once to the traps. NVC hope eventually to find out 2' great deal about the movements of our campus birdsr and believe that the station will become one of thc most interesting of the perennial activities of our Del partment of Science. T O WE R LI G H 'li I- l i. I V A I n The aginot Line QA letter direct from the Frontj I Thank you very much for your letter received some ldays ago when I was in France. I am at present still in the Army but as I am a Theological student, the 1VVar Office has fetched me back from France and in due course I shall be released from the Army to con- tinue studying. As Colleges are greatly affected by the war I am not certain that I shall be able to get ad- 'mitted until after the war. in which case I shall proba- Qbly apply for a Commission, so at the moment I am rather uncertain as to what will happen next. but I expect I shall know within the next few weeks. As my letters are probably not censored now I can itell you far more than I could of my five months in 5Franec. It is a very hard life indeed which takes some getting used to. 'l'he food, though good, is not nearly llike home made. and is eaten in a very primitive fashion. iVVe always slept on the floor, though this was not nearly so bad once the knack of sleeping almost on one's fface was learned. I did not see one war casualty out 'there and I think that the number is under twenty for Wall the B.E.F. I did quite a lot of nursing of ordinary sickness and casualties through road accidents. etc.. and gained a lot of experience that will be very useful lto me in years to come, I really liked the nursing part las I felt I was doing something to help the fellows in- lstead of just hanging about and waiting. I have even fhad to help the doctors perform minor operations. As to the war itself, I did a spell of a fortnight up in fthe Line. I was with the troops who have taken over id sector of the Maginot Line. NVhile I was there. there pvas considerable artillery action but as I have said, not gone British casualty. Apart from the artillery and night lpatrols things are very quiet indeed. The Nlaginot Line lis a simply marvellous fortification and the French claim that it would take a million men to break it down yis no idle boast. If Hitler does ever overcome the Magi- fnot. he will not have enough men left to carry on the lrwar with. My personal opinion is that the Siegfried and Maginot Lines are both practically invincible and lthat when and if this war does really develop on land. lit will either be through Belgium or Holland on one fsicle. or Roumania and the Near-East on the other. The yAir Force and Navy seem to be having all the work at ypresent, though the Navy lads have got a thankless ftask searching for German mines, particularly the mag- fnetic mines which are lying on the bed of the sea and are. of course, invisible. Being on the east coast. C-reat IAPRIL - 1940 Yarmouth sees much of the Navy's activity and I ada mire the spirit of those lads very much. The cast coast also gets its share of air raid warnings. In fine weather at the front we had air raid alarms going almost all day and I have got so used to them now that they pass almost unheeded. l do not know the boy you mention in the R.A.N.C.. but since during the war the medical services are so I great it would be almost impossible for me to find him. Do you know what Unit he is in? I am sorry to disappoint your two girl friends but pen pals or the eoimnencing of pen friendships by the B.IE.F. is very much discouraged with all due apologies to your friends, because of the spy trouble. Many fora eign agents. both in England and abroad. try this means of getting information from the troops and we were told that it must stop. Anyway the letters would proba- bly be stopped by the censor. If you reply to my home address above, my mother can forward your letter to me wherever I am. back in the Army or at College. I hope that I shall be able to return to College. as the Army life is far from inspiring, and while there is nothing doing it seems such a waste of valuable time. Surely the Army would not miss just one! I hope I have not bored you with all this war and army talk but I have heard nothing else for the last few months. I shall be pleased to hear from you again as soon as you have time to write. Yours sincerely. bl.-yrrureic. PS. I have met many of the Canadians in England and their accent or intonation. whichever it can be called. rather fascinated me. RAIN B. A. Br A'I l'IiR XVhcn we are sad enough to ery. Cod gathers up our tears Then sends them back to bless thc earth And quiets all our fears. 'I I I A u Education and Peace -- Mormon NiXNNET'FE TROTT rlliss Trott. as the delegate of Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi to the Biennial Convocation in St. Louis, here reviews the address of Dr. Paul Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Education. Teachers College, Columbia University. on the significant subject, What Can Formal Education Contribute to Further International Understanding and International Peace? p TO PROVE that this question is a vital one, we have only to consider the three great wars going on at the present time involving two-thirds of the popu- lation of the world. Surely, no greater proof is needed to show that the question has not been settled. and that we. as liuinanitarians and educators, must still seek an answer to it. It is my sincere opinion that the problem of hostility between peoples can only be solved by education. In spite of wars some progress has been made toward the goal of international peace. In the first place, practically no people of the world really want war. All agree that wars are futile and unsuccessful in that they accomplish nothing. Even the German people, raised in a totalitarian ideal of government. would agree with us if we could get their honest opinion. This same at- titude would not have been so general a hundred or even fifty years ago. In the second place we have dem- onstrated that educational methods can control masses of people. This is particularly true of the Italian, Rus- sian, and German schools which use the same methods but have different aims. They have done a more thorough job than we, and have shown us that we have much to learn from them about education. In the third place we have demonstrated the use of the very modern methods of education-the radio and cinema. In this. too. we are far inferior to the Germans. Italians. and Russians who have demonstrated the effectiveness of these two agents. If we, as educators, do not use and control the radio and cinema, some other less com' petent othcials will use them in the wrong way. and completely abolish the privilege of adult education. The Persian government is buying the whole system of schools and placing the cinema and radio under inili- taristic influences. Can we in America afford to sell our educational birthright for a mess of pottage? XVhat then can we as educators do? In the first place we can control the curriculum material and purge it of the hostile and erroneous ideas which are all too prevalent in our textbooks. In a recent attitudes test given several groups of school children. the following 1 get these prejudiced ideas which have in them thi roots of intense race prejudices, we might well asl-I It is surely the responsibility of educators to contrd the sources of education. I In the second place we must make war as abhorren to children as we have made crime. XVC have done r good job in belittling crime, but too many of us fa to condemn war with equal vehemence. ' ln the third place we must use terms properly sl that they make clear what we really want to say. Fe example. the killing of innocent Chinese and Poles 5 7 murder, not war. YY e must bring about a eondemnatio: of aggressive warfare. ' In the fourth place we must remain optimists. Havi children realize that the human race is advancing. an. that. although we have always had war. it does nc. necessarily follow: that we must always have war. f we believe in progress. we cannot say that becaus others have reverted to the methods Neolithic ma would have used. we, too, must do it. In the fifth place we must rally youth loyalty aroun the idea of a super state. XVe are never going to solvr problems of international scope until we have som.. thing bigger than a mere nation or a nationalistic feel ing. XVe must be willing to sacrifice something thi? we prize for the common good of all. XVhat then woul: keep us from having a United States of Europe? Finally, if we wish to love our neighbor, we mug know our neighbor-for understanding breeds sympath' and sympathy breeds love. Let us seek to form a' quaintanceships between people of different group America is in a better position to do this than ar other country. Let us. then. rally all our forces arour the flags of all the world to promote understanding arf tolerance. Tourist: 'The Indians certainly don't say much. Government Agent: They have their reservations A man paying his bill at a fashionable hotel notiecw ideas were expressed: Iapanese are queer, primitive, A- a sign above the door. Have you left anything? and bloodthirsty: Mexicans crazy: Germans are erooksg I Quickly he went back and said to the manager: Thi and the Chinese. opium-eaters. VVhere do childrent signs wrong: it should read. 'Have you anything left?' 8 TOWER LIGI-If li I i l I i I I 'I li l 4 I l I I I I l r I I I I I i I I I 71 i i I I I I l l Trees ave Souls EL1zABE'r11 M. Lewis OH. YES, trees have souls. Did you ever stop to wonder about that strange, tall combination of beauty against the morning sun? That apple tree. that cedar, that maple, pine, ash, oak, spruce, elm. hickory? Oh, I could go on naming them forever-each so closely related, and yet each so completely different. Growing in the same earth, shining in the same rain, breathing the same air, enjoying the same sunshine. Alas, lashed by the same tempest, split by the same lightning, beaten by the same cruel blows of mankind, broken by the same ice and snow, growing on the same hilltop, yet each producing so different an individual! Yes. not even among humans are there two souls alike. Trees have ideals-great, magnificent ideals! Each tree belongs to a certain family, each family having its own group of habits. aspirations, and ideals. VVher- ever they may grow, there is always the trace of that iremembered family ideal. The elm strives to be fairy- like and graceful! poplars strive for beautiful lines, straight, tall and majestic! The oaks strive for masculine beauty, and great, strong limbsg while the apple trees ambition is to be lovely. XVho has not been impressed by the wealth of beauty the apple tree displays in the springtime. Alas, many of them fail to fulfill their am- bitions, but is it not so even among humans? Sometimes I think that the greatest ambition among the tree families is to do great and good things for the betterment of humanity. Looking about me. I cannot help but feel that most of them have been successful. XVhat beautiful dresses they don purely for our end joyment! VVho among us might have pink apple blos- soms in bloom for his hat, topped with real birds for decoration? VV hat would we not give for a gown luxuri- antly figured with great magnolia blossoms? Oh, what friendship exists among the tree family! Together they strive to fulfill their ideals. I have seen them join hands and grow together, where there is hardly room for one. I am sure no other group of individuals could so clearly understand the true meaning of friendship. Each sacrifices its own completeness for the sake of sharing with a friend. Do I hear someone who doubts the existence of souls among the tree family? The Flesh Is Weak NOLAN CIHPMAN THE SKY is dotted with millions of stars. A gentle breeze is quietly rustling the plentiful june foliage. In the driveway of the Cromwell cottage, Ronald Mase- tield slowly opens the door of his black coupe and lazily swings his long legs to the ground. He is a handsome eighteen-year-old, faultlessly attired in sum- mer formal. As he walks across the lawn, he looks at his watch and nods slightly with satisfaction as the radium dots tell him that he is ten minutes late. On the second step of the porch, he pauses to make a half- turn about and flicks his cigarette through the air in a long arch, watching until the tiny meteor buries it- self in the grass. His second ring of the door bell is answered by Mrs. Cromwell. 'Coocl evening, Ronald. Good evening, said Ronald as he strode over the familiar threshold. Make yourself comfortableg jane will be down in a minute. Ronald sat down, just a little annoyed, but with a resigned look on his face. As always. Mrs. Crom- well opened the conversation. APRIL - 1940 HRonald, aren't you glad that examinations are over? Yes, I really am! I know you are, My husband and I were talking at the supper table last night about his college days. XYhy Herbert used to sit up all night and study and often . . At this point, her voice trailed through space, Ronald was dreamily anticipating the interval between the end of the dance and the arrival home at some time in the morning. Ilowever, he nodded slowly, knowing that this would suflice to keep Mrs. Cromwell talking for a few minutes. Suddenly he heard, 'AHow's your Mother and Dad? Automatically the reply was. Oh they're fine, and as an afterthought, Doc says that Dad can start back to the oflice in a week. Mrs. Cromwell didn't notice the contradiction, but began discussing her own ailing kidneys as Ronald kept nodding and changing his facial expression at prace tised intervals. By habit, he glanced at his watch. Mrs. Cromwell interpreted the signal and called upstairs. jane dear! Ronald is waiting. 9 I know Mother. And where is the lipstick that I just bought? It's in my bureau. In the upper right-hand drawer. Thanks, and Mother. tell Ronnie that I'll be down in a minute. Ronnie limply bared his teeth as he heard the message first hand. Mrs. Cromwell walked back into the room. jane is always late for her dates. I don't know what I'll do with her, she said with a noticeable amount of pride in her voice. Ronald remained silent-not that he wouldn't have liked to say something. Yes, jane always was late. True, she was lovely, she did possess a rare amount of charm and wit. but that was no excuse for always making him wait. Other girls just as popular always jumped at the chance to go out with him, and were always ready on time. XVell, they were not quite as popular. Ronaldjs eyes glowed as he thought of jane's eyes. her lips, her smile. Mrs. Cromwell awakened him. I suppose jane does have an excuse this time, because the fellows didn't bring her and Marion home from the shore until seven o'clock. They said something about the car breaking down. Ronald looked up. For the first time that day, he was really awake. So jane had gone to the beach with Bob Lynch, that trombone player who was old enough to be her father. fTwenty-two, to be exact.j Did they have a nice time down at the shore? he asked, vainly trying to conceal any interest. Yes, jane said that she had a marvelous time. You know, I didn't want to let her go, but she pleaded so and Mr. Lynch brought his married sister along so I thought it would be all right. And jane did have such a fine time. Ronald wished that he hadn't asked the question. He suddenly attached great importance to an Esquire which was lying on the sofa, and began thumbing through its cartoons, hoping to get the thought of Lynch and janejs being together out of his mind. As he was studying one of Petty's drawings, Mrs. Cromwell excused herself, and walked upstairs. He could hear her voice in the upper hall. jane, dear. please hurry. You have kept Ronald waiting twenty minutes now. All right, Mother, Ronnie docsn't mind. After all, you know it isn't my fault. YVhere is the tie to my white wrap? Ronald was beginning to think. So he didn't mind, NO, he never did. Probably didn't count either. It was all very amusing. Mr. Lynch had a date all day, faked car trouble to get home late, and now. he, Ronald. had 10 to wait a half-hour for Her Highness. No, Ronald didn'tl mind. Shed see. He wanted to be a hermit anyh0w.' NVait until jane dear came down, IrIe'd tell her once' and for all. right here. Yes, right here in front of her' mother. If jane thought she could make a monkey out' of him. The same thing had happened night after night. XVas he a man or not? Maybe not, but it didn't take so much guts to tell a woman where to get off if one went about it in the . . . f'Hellooo! Really am a little sorry to have been Soi long. jane had appeared in the doorway. He looked, up and beheld a vision of loveliness swishing into the- room. V jane looked at him. Get that odd look off your face. I'm not quite so fascinating that you must stand gaping, but . , . she drawled through soft, perfect lips. Finally, Ronald recovered enough to hold her wrap. Her sudden appearance had made it possible to discern his thoughts. His knees were actually twitching. I Be careful with these, theyre lovely, said jane as she smiled her sweetest and she put the box of flowers in his arms. By this time Ronald had regained some of his customary composure. ' f'Good night, Mrs. Cromwell. he said as he fol lowed jane through the doorway. On the porch. he helci her hand as tightly as a vise. but the serene faraway look on his face made jane wonder and forget to winced 1 HAVE YOU LIVED ? RIADELINE CABELL v 1 Have you heard at dawn's break j The sound of birds as they wake, Beheld the golden sun come up. Pouring from its shining cup All the beauty of heaven? Then you've lived. i Have you seen through the day As people travel on their way Happy thoughts expressed by smiles? Have you for love walked extra miles? XVith heart full, ended the day? Then you've lived. Have you watched as twilight falls The sun go behind heaven's walls? Seen the birds as they homeward wing? Does your heart with a prayer sing As you enter home-your palace halls? I Then you've lived. TOWER LIGHV' J I if .i ' . . 1 5'5 I ' -ii' ' angina: fi, sf f gi 'ff ' ,if ..i:7'i v I iQ5fi his x O . if 4 : . , . J ,r. . .JI- - a- 'fr hi ' q,f,.:1f f fy' I 3 -N f' .- it '52-5 . nr, f .. ,'-1 , 4:- ,m,., ',. ,,.f,- .. -vt f 1'-, . - . .-Iiv-354 -Af. 1,5 ' A I v . if I' x V y .-.- --Z v Q V+ . ' xiii .- s iw , , . I ,- , I. .f . .W-., , ji .. fi f U 2 J. ,,. . . .. . N... ,-M. ., 51.55.54 1 thi .,A .,,. 'mf'-.'l ' ww ft' .-my W- s , i is is a- - an . -i.,.,vSLwfg ., , -. .- -, iz , lille - -af ., A' by GW a gi ' f V' ' avg' 'IF f I its it g 4 If . , KA r by id ,i f .ii i , it egg' X 'gif ,I v .4 gba F 5 s AK J: A x in 4 1, rig I 6 V Q. 59' j 1 5 I , f if 1 , ,SSA .fl . a, J P ', I X A if f , ina 'I FII' I M I 4 ff I grid , f' is., - I ' jpg 1 Y - N u ff' 1 . 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IXIARTIN Often when I glimpse the nightly arch of sky Bending beyond like a darkened Roman road, I see the starry legions slowly twinkle by. But other times I feel the whole affair Is just a meadow hung up in the air, NV ith saffron-sprinkled daisies dancing in deepest blue. I have even thought of many eolors hiding there. High in that curving palette that's so tritelv called the sky. Then gods alone Could choose the hue VVith which to paint the world anew. Blending blue, and blaek, and white and night- Oh, the gods could make the greatest sight. APRIL - 1940 PRAYER IN PRACTICUM B. A. B. Let my voiee thrill them Ilold them all spell bound! It only I am able To 'mow' them all straight down. 'When I play my musie. YVith one hand on the keys, Please, dear Lord, I'm asking- Fix the wobble in my knees. I praetiee singing do-miaso In aeeord with every rule. For tomorrow I teach musie Over in the Campus School. ON GETTING PEOPLE TO WRITE FOR THE TOWER LIGHT Pivrme IA HERNDoN Approach number one, XVhen there's work to be done. Is to smile very sweetly and say: HYVe have heard of your graeeg Your intelligent faee 7 ' ' P7 Makes us sure that you ll write right away. Gr, if that dOesn't fit. Here is one, you'll admit, That will set them to seribbling like mad: Your name was sent in To Miss Munng so begin On a topic-or get us an ad! ii Or. another to try, YVhen the deadline is nigh. Is to look sort of harried and blue: XVe've been tearing our hair In the depths of despair- 'Til we suddenly thought about you! XVell. I've named but a few Cf the things you can do To make people write, but I know That once in a while. Though you've smiled your best smile. You are bound to hear someone say UNO! And in ease of this last, XV hen all hope now is past. There is only one method to use: Spot your vietim and yell, Like a bat out of ---. Please 1 ll How ell Do You Know Maryland? lol-IN CZIIILCOAT AN EDITORIAL appearing in the Evening Sun last year has inspired me to write this article. Since 1 live on a farm among the rolling hills of Baltimore County, I have a considerable interest for the subject. 'AA man who has recently come to live in Maryland after a number of years in Utah, remarked the other day that it was a pity all Marylanders could not spend a lit- tle time in the Middle XVest. For then, and only then, he thought, would they realize to the full. the bounties which Nature has showered upon this State . To him. it seemed a revelation to find himself among people to whom irrigation had been little more than a word, who had never seen their soil whirling in the air and blowing away during a dust storm, never to return, who had never witnessed an attack of locusts or other vermin, or seen their cattle dying in the fields for lack of pasture or of water or had only in rare instances been troubled by droughts on the one hand and Hoods on the other. It annoyed him somewhat. to think that Mary- landers take their good fortune for granted, and that Baltimoreans in many instances think of their surround- ing countryside as so much territory to cover as soon as possible en route to Annapolis, Ocean City or other points north, south, east, and west. lt is about time for Nlarylanders, including the dwell- ers of Baltimore City, to take note of the States agricul- tural resources and her favorable geographical position, which for her size makes her one of the wealthiest farm- ing areas in the Union. In addition to being a large in- dustrial center and one of the country's leading ports, Baltimore City is also essentially a market town. Milk, meat, fruit, vegetables, and poultry are in daily demand by no fewer than 20,000,000 persons within a radius of 200 miles of Baltimore. XVithin close proxim- ity of Baltimore are four large cities: Philadelphia, XVil- inington, Vlfashington, and Annapolis, which can easily be served by means of trucks. From this, one may see that the Maryland farmer is reasonably sure of selling what he raises, with little transportation charge, unlike the farmer of the Middle VVest who has to go half way across the continent and pay large freight charges to reach his purchasers. As to climate, Maryland is situated midway between the most northern and the most southern State and, having both mountains and seashores, she enjoys the ad- vantages of both sections. Rainfall is abundant. varying from an annual precipitation of 41.56 inches on the Eastern Shore to 39.37 inches in XVestern Maryland. 12 XVe are thus a little above the average as compared with 61.6 inches at Mobile, and 7.8 inches at Phoenix, thc highest and lowest stations recorded by the United States XVeather Bureau. The growing season, calculated r from the last killing frost in autumn. varies from 1221 days at Oakland, Garrett County, to 212 days at SOlO'i mon's in Southern Maryland. There is considerable va- riety in the quality of the soil in the various sections ol the State, but on the whole it is excellent and. wher not abused, retains its fertility. Of the 6.362.240 acres of land area, -1,374,398 acres, or two-thirds, are farni lands, divided into 43,203 farms. This is an average of 101 acres per farm. Agrieulturally, the State is broken up into four di-I visions which are: the Eastern Shore: Southern Mary land, comprising Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prinec Georges and St. Marys counties, North Central, com. prising Baltimore, Cafroll, Frederick. Harford, Howard and Montgomery counties, and XVestern Maryland comprising XVashington, Allegany, and Garrett coun. ties, The character and production of the land is rough, ly uniform in each of these divisions, although the four areas are capable of further subdividing. For example the southern and northern Eastern Shore have individu, al characteristics, Anne Arundel is distinguished fron' the rest of Southern Maryland by the emphasis given tr- orcharding and trucking, and lllashington County, ii the Great Valley west of the Blue Ridge, is more nearly similar to the North Central area than to Allegany ann Garrett counties with which it is included. KTO be continuedl A STAR lE,xNNLi'1 1'Li IONES Like a drop of shining dew In the heaven's grass of blue. Little brightly sparkling star Send your friendliness afar. To the traveler lone in the dark, To the lovers dreamy in the park, To the child with wandering eye. To all of these and others too O shiny beacon in the blue. Quickly twinkle now and then Giving God's blessing to all men. T O WE R LI G Hf ' 1 1 il Q. SQ! 'I 14 -I I I .Y 'l fl 1 u'! 'l in i I l 4 i I Branch Library B. A. BLATTER I QTHE DQOR to the library was reluctant to open. It lalways had been a diflieult lock to manage, thought the itall woman dressed in black as she joggled the key. Per- lhaps the door shared some of her resentment at having ito go from the bright snnshiny freshness of the morning Lair into the musty atmosphere of the branch library. i'l here was no glamor in being a librarian, she mused. lNothing ever happened to break the dull routine of istamping books out and checking books in. The same ilong rows of books stared at her as she entered. empha- isizing the beginning of another long day. ' The telephone was ringing shrilly. 'This is the li- ibrary .,.. Do we have what? . . . No. I'm sorry, we rdon't have any book-reports of Ivanhoe here. As she ihung up the receiver, the librarian could hear the young ?igirl's 'tOh faintly echoing in her ear. A middle-aged women, obviously panting. pushed iopen the library door and sank in the nearest chair. I Deane, pick me out a nice love-story. The librarian turned from the shelf with two light ilietion books in her hand. t'Have you read either of jthese? I UI have so much trouble finding things to read, the iwoman complained. You know, I have a very sensitive Imind and I must be careful what I put into it. The docf I A tor told me any excitement was bad for my blood-pres- sure. These arcn't. uh. very vulgar? The woman coughed. XVell. I believe I'll try them, but don't be too surprised if I bring them back tonight. You never can tell from the modern titles what the books are reallv like, I Two little boys ran in yelling. Ili-ho. Silver! and chased each other around the tables. They stopped sudf denly as they saw the librarian frown over the pile of books she was slipping. Immediately they assumed in- nocent expressions. IXIiss, what time is story hour? one of the eherubs asked. 'Td like a detective story for my brother who is sick in bed, ehimed in the other small boy. The librarian was selecting a properly exciting inys- tery book when the old man shuffled in. Promptly at ten-thirty every morning he came to the library to read the morning paper. So accurate was he that the large li- brary clock could be set by his coming. He greeted her with his usual Good morning, and seated himself in his customary chair at the window. The door swung open more easily as each person cn' tered. There was something a little enchanting in turnf ing to see who was coming in next, the librarian thought, secretly amazed at herself for the discovery. l'If you wait long enough, she was thinking half aloud, the whole world will come in. She smiled a little as she tiled some cards in the cabinet. There was something al- luring about her career after all. ELRANOR I : 5:00 a. m. I was awakened by a serenadc outside the 'garage from my black and white Romeo. Really he is a little too persistent, this daily wail comes to be a bur- den one cannot escape. I believe I do like the yellow Isuitor best, too: he is really handsome, with some Perf lsian blood, and so affectionate. Heigh-ho! there is really no hurry. I can take a little longer to make up my mind. 6:00 a. m. XVhen all was quiet again, I stole nimbly down the ladder rungs from the stored awnings. where I have made my boudoir. It was certainly cold on the .garage floor. I slipped out of the cat-hole of the garage I fhcredity will tell - I heard Iler say Iler grandmother :had a catahole with a little swinging door into the kitchen of their old homej. I thought, though it was still dark, .if I mewed under the bedroom window. She might I come to the back door and let me in. No. She did not .come VIAPRIL - 1940 8. Carr 7:15 a. m. She carrie into the kitchen. I heard Iler step and rushed to the little stool on the bench by the kitchen window sill. I scratched on the pane so hard with both paws that She heard me at once, and let me in. I like that pretty warm blue-green robe She wears: it has a belt and tassels to play with while She dresses. Sometimes if I sit in a chair back of Iflcr. I can reach the locks of her hair as she brushes it. Sometimes, these cold mornings, it crackles with something she calls elec- tricity. My fur does. too. 8:00 a. m. Very satisfactory breakfast. The mackerel seems to be a very good kind: I'd like it three times a day, but She says: No, only once a day, when I run and put my paws on the tall white shining box in the pantry. where it is kept. I do not like the food so well at noon. 10:00 a. m. Ilavc had a good wash. played with my 13 mouse. and stretched a while. A nap on my cushion would be very restful. 11:00 a. m. She says I have to go out while She does errands. I don't see why it would do any harm for me to stay in. My paws are very clean: it would not hurt the blankets or the spreads if I napped awhile on them. Still. it is Kismet. I will use this time to see if everything is going well around the garage and yard. Golden Fur may call at noon. I-Ie snatched a kiss when he left me to go home to lunch yesterday. 1:00 p. m. Lunch did not please me so well today. Really, I detest vegetables. A saucer of milk is not espec- ially intriguing, either: it seems very plebcian to one who boasts an Angora grandmother, even if there were several mesallianees in her career. If She lies down on the couch and covers Herself with the little blanket for a while. as She sometimes does. I will curl up at I-Ier feet. So cozy and comfortable. She pats me and lets me stay there then. XVhy can't I at night. too? 2:00 p. m. Before She woke, I thought it would be a good chance to steal in to the big front room and ex- amine the ornaments. I enjoy looking at myself in that great shining glass back of the davenport. My stripes are really beautifulg my face is round and my features are well-shaped. I am sure my eyes are soulful and full of expression. I think it is time I made my debut in so- ciety: I never stir my foot off this place. After all, we're young only once. I was just playing very softly with some little objects on a round tray, when accidentally I patted one to the floor. I was frightened and ran under the davenport to I fi hide. She eamc in, and fetched me to Iler room and 7 shut the doorg but nothing was broken. She said, No, , no! . but did not seold mc. V' 4:00 p. m. I helped Iler write letters today. First, I jumped on Iler desk lid. and chewed the end of the pen holder to help Her make black lines. and then She' put me on the floor and gave me a little pencil to roll and carry about in my mouth. Then She went into an- other rooin and sat down before a little instrument inl a black box. She hits a little black box and white keysj with Iler fingers, and little arms come up and strike aj piece of white paper. I I climbed up and sat in the box that covers the thing at night CI think She calls it a typewriterl. and I patted the keys, too, and put my paws on the paper. She said to mc: t'You're a great help. you are! Then I chewed a little on some black paper She calls carbon. She laughed at me and called me Dirty-Face. 'tDirty-Facefl She said. go out and wash yourself, you're a disgrace! 6:50 p. m. Dinner was really quite satisfying. I thinkr' I can last until morning without being hungry. I chased a match and slid over the kitchen linoleuin while She- washed dishes. I will help Her read the papers this even- ing. i v 8:30 p. m. My mistress was reading letters tonight! She said: Your Auntie says if I'll bring you to visit at her house.. her kitty, Igor Stravinsky. will introduce you to all ther best back fences in Montclair! 1 10:00 p. m. And so to bed. On Going Home From Work lVlADELINE CABELL THE YOUNG man walks briskly as the sun slowly sinks in the evening sky. Yes, he has had a busy day. and he is tired. But he thinks not of this: for at home she is waiting. Ilis young wife is there anxiously wait- ing. Yes, he must hurryg but hc walks to save the money for their new home. Every penny counts. lt is only a matter of time now until she will run to greet him. As he walks, he passes many people waiting for the bus. The young girl with the tired look waits impatiently. She must hurry home, too: but to an invalid mother. XVhat has happened during the day? Is her mother worse. better, or just the same? lilxhaustcd, she shifts her weight from one foot to the other. XVill the bus never come? That man. how worried he looks! Ile isn't old: but 14 worry has aged him. How is he going to tell them? XVhat is he going to say to her? XVhat will they do? He thinks of his job. I:Ie is no longer needed. past forty, too old. XVay must be made for the younger man, for the 1 college graduate. Yes, way must be made. made at his expense. Three little mouths to feed. I-Ie cannot bear to. think of them. Ilow is he going to tell her? I ji another. Last night she would have been peeved. butl A package drops. She stoops to pick it up and dropsf not tonight. I-Ier face glows with radiance. and she fl laughs as she picks them up. XVill Bob like her newr- dress? She hopes so. She has been saving for more than j a month. 'l'hcre is just enough time to get home, eat. - take a bath. and dress before he comes. XVhy is the bus so long in coming? TOWER LIGHT-F 4 Q 1 I l l l l l , . XV6?1I'1ly', a young woman of tlnrty takes her place among the bus-waiting throng. Have the children ldone well in school? ls little Bill's cold better? Have ilohn and Mary been playing out-of-doors? Did they lhave a good lunch? XV ill Bill be awake when she gets lhome? She hopes so. Often she's too late for that good- piight kiss, for that hug by two chubby little arms, for lthat A'Good-night, Mummy. How she misses them! llqhe bus should be coming. l The tall young man with the bovish face waits anx- liously. He has so much to tell the family about his new job. He hopes he has done well. The boss is so pleased with him, and said. Report early tomorrow morning. Barnes. How pleased his mother will beg how proud to think that at last her son is one of the millions of workers, one of that great army! The money will help, too. Sis needs so much now that she is a Senior in high school. Yes, he has a lot to tell them. The bus is late to- night. Trailic must be heavy. The sun has gone to rest. The bright blue of the bus appears on the horizon. One by one the throng file to the curb and climb the steps. At last they are on their way home. 1 Taken for a Ride lTH I S XVAS to be a trying day in the life of Elmore 5VVilson. He knew it and was prepared for the worst. ElT'he people in his home town had given him careful in- Iistructions on what to do, and he made up his mind to see it through to the finish. As he walked through the door of the massive building, he was aware that all eyes iwere upon him, as if they had by some means known that he was coming. He tried to lose himself in the crowd that surged iibout him, but to no avail. He was too dressed-up for lthese city people. They acted as if they had never seen a pair of red and green striped Sunday pants. Elmore could feel cold merciless eyes following him as he sought the object of his visit. Now, he almost wished that he lliad stayed home and been content to listen to other lfolks tell about their visits to the city. This thought be- came a growing obsession, and several times he was tempted to turn around and go home. But no! He had gone too far to stop now. If he didn't go through with this, he realized that it would be a blow to his pride from which he would never recover. y The crowd was becoming thick, and he knew that he iwas nearing his quest. He hated crowds, especially city licrowdsg and now they had him heinined in on all sides. :He could feel the cold perspiration on his forehead and all thoughts had been pushed from his mind by the .singleness of purpose which drove him on, like an au- l A li ltomaton. Q The crowd moved slower now, and he could see the lsmall barred door to the room he sought. In a few mof pnents. he would enter that door with a few other people. ly A man in uniform was guarding the door, as with fal- ytering steps, Elmore entered the room. His first impres- lsion was of being herded into a cage. for the room i :APRIL - 1940 l i BfIINDELLE KANN would not accommodate more than ten people, even if all were standing. There was no other exit except the barred door by which he had entered. A feeling of panic welled up in him as the uniformed man closed the door. Elmore had been told in detail of the horrible deaths people die in such rooms as this, and his mind became somewhat resigned to such a fate. However, when he looked into the hard unflinching eyes of the man in uni- form, he felt something akin to a chill traverse his spine. Beside the man in uniform was a control-box upon which his gloved hand rested. Elmore's eyes rested on that hand, and tried to imagine what would happen when the big lever was pulled. The attendant's hand tightened on the handle of the big switch, and Elmore instinctively braced his feet more firmly against he knew not what. XVith sudden finality, the switch was thrown. An oppressive weight pressed against his feet, and his head began to spin in giddy circles. He lost all thought of the others in the room and clutched at the wall for support. Then it was all over. How he had ever lived through such a trying experi- ence, Elmore could not fathom. He hurried as quickly as possible to the street, and soon was on the bus going home. All during the ride, he formulated plans for tell- ing everyone about his experience, and it was with a feeling of exaltation and triumph that he descended from the bus and half walked, half ran toward his modf est home. As he neared the entrance. he could sec his mother-'s silhouette in the doorway. Ile was running. Coming within calling distance. he could restrain his pcnt-up emotions no longer. His excited voice rent the evenings quiet: Hey, Nia . , . I just had my lirst elevator ride? 15 l Cosmlc a s IOHN Bixaisirfxsr XVPIENEVER PIIYSICISTS. amateur or professional, meet and talk shop, there is nearly always a discussion concerning cosmic rays. Cosmic, in C-reek. means the orderly universcf' today we translate it to signify outer space. Rays imply ripples or waves moving through something or space going away from its center of origin. Cosmic rays come from an immense distance. They travel with too great a speed and strike too hard to have originated in the earth's atmosphere, There is no dif- ference in the number of these rays that come from re- gions of few and of many stars. and therefore they may come from outside that great galaxy of which our sun is an unassuming member. Cosmic rays possess tremendous energy. They penc- trate lead fwhieh stops x-raysj as easily as light goes through glass. Measuring instruments have detected them at the depth of 700 feet beneath the surface of a lake. No other ray is known to have pierced water to such a depth. Cosmic rays are most frequent near the poles. and least so near the equator. This fact has been confirmed by many expeditions, even by that of Commander Byrd in the Antarctic in 1935. This is the chief reason for be- lieving that the rays are really particles bearing strong charges of electricity. The earth's magnetic field must repel the bombardment. and cause the charged masses to turn away from the equator and toward the poles. Cosmic rays strike atoms of our air's gases. and expel electrons from them. This atom dust flies off at high speed, making it difficult to determine. in many of the experiments, whether the primary particle or see- ondary particle is being measured. ' Because of the effects that these rays are believed to have upon our existence, they are the chief interest of the most noted physicists in the world today. These men do not agree as to the complete nature of the rays. Some believe them to be rays. as the name iinpliesg othersl believe that they are merely particles. Evidence seems' to be amassing in favor of the 'tparticle theory. Never- A theless. the nature of the origin of cosmic rays is still one f of Scieiices most baffling problems. ' uotations from Teacher Education lournal fSeptember, l939j . It's what you read when you don't have to, that de- -A terinines what you will be when you ean't help it. -QI Qhlotto over browsing shelves of the State Teachers College. Alva, Qklahoma. Authorship unknown.l O . A bright adolescent was asked to tell the difference' between a professor and a teacher. His answer: XVell,! a professor is one who professesg but a teacher is one who can really teach. I 0 C I Ulf I cannot always be right. I will at least make ai desperate effort always to be elearg for if I am clear audi wrong I can be corrected, but if I am obscure and wrongf people will merely think that I am wise. - NVilliamf C. Bagley. I PROPHECY L. DU XIAL They say that in ten million years or so The world's growing older and colder. they say- The sun's heat will give out: and down here below. The sun's going farther and farther away. XVe'll all freeze to death-well. think you they know? The night's growing longer, and shorter the day- I doubt it! They shout it! 1 Suppose they are right. and that all of it's true. il If they've figured it out, what can I. or can you. ' Or can anyone else in the freezing world do About it? Ten million years. or a decade or two. XVhat does it matter. to me or to you? XVe'll know then as much as the scientists do About it! 16 In ten million years, it won't matter a lot. XVhether it's cold. or whether it's hot. Or whether there's sun-wc'll lie there and rot XVithout it! TOWER LIGHT' I l V i B, W i Homespun Philosophy I AARoN B. SEIDLISR i 'N Tllli course of one's life, one is subjected. will- +1gly or otherwise, to what other people have to say. gome of the sayers are wiser than the listener, others -fre not, some think more deeply, others think only on ine surfaceg some philosophize on the things that fiey meet in everclay life, and others pass them over is common-place and ordinary, and not worthy of ittention. lf one remembers that a man's wealth is not always ow much he owns, but rather his appreciation of what e owns, he caimot, unless through sheer laziness, iseount the wise and philosophic sayings of others. though they be neither sage nor philosophic. All of us iv things: but how do we say them? Are we subtle, flever. witty. or philosophical? it For the past five years, one of my hobbies has been The collecting of the sayings of others. They are listed ii my scrapbook as Homespun Philosophy . You may '-r may not be familiar with the men who wrote them ir who said them, their names in this instance are of little value. To me it is not who they are, but rather 'what they say, and how they say it. XV ill you share some 'pf them with me? kVe dare not trust our wit for making our house yileasaut to our friends. and so we buy ice cream. - Emerson. H The man who has nothing to boast of but his Eillustrious ancestry is like a potato-the only good ipelonging to him is underground. - Sir Thomas llverbrrry. iw- Blessed is the man who. having nothing to say, bstains from giving wordy evidence of it. -George i Eliot. The work an unknown good man has done is like a 'ein of water flowing hidden underground. secretly making the ground greenf'-Carlyle. I Education makes a people easy to lead, brit difficult '10 driveg easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. - 'loord Brougham. l , V, l complained of having no shoes-until l saw a man 'tvith no feet. i Labor has the power to rid us of three great evils- i l iorcdom, vice. and poverty. Truth is tough, lt will not break, like a bubble, at lla touch: nay, you may kick it about all day, like a foot- .pall, and it will be round and full at evening. -Oliver l 4 Xfendell Holmes. 'l :APRIL - 1940 fi l l A l'he only way to have a friend is to be one. - Emerson. lt is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. --Ingersoll. WE MUST LOOK ON THIS THING SANELY lXfIARG.fx1rE'1' C..xR'1'1in Romance of course, was made for youth- For giddy. childish fools. Pledges of love can hold no truth And may prove dangerous tools. lf vou want me and l Want you. VVe both would be quite dense To Say yve've found a love thats true- lust Wouldnlt be good sense. So if I gaze at moonlit skies, And quote old Avon's bard, lt's just that due to your blue eyes My chemicals are iarred. FORGIVENESS PRISCILLA NTANLEY How beautiful to me the words That lesus spoke one awful day. XVhen nailed beside him on the cross A thief, who cried, Remember me! These words of cheer Christ spake to him, l truly say to thee, today ln heaven thou shalt dwell with me. Oh Christ, who spoke those thrilling words YVhile dying, mortal man to save. Teach mc forgiveness by Thy grace. And fit me for Thy home above! 4. Manager: XYhy did you send back those eggs? Verc- n't they cooked long enough? llc: Yes, but not soon enough. Dr. Abercrombie: In what sections will you hnd dust in the air? Freshman -lp lndnstrial sections. IT llt5lllDlIICllffIIDllRlIIAlIt9S Wanted: Mons: Discussion ON 'run HONOR sYs'rnM FREDRICA BIEDERBIANN IUST XVHAT does the term Honor System bring to our minds? Do yve picture tattling and wholesale cheating, or do yve think of the development of attitudes of honor? Do yve think of punishing the dishonest per- son and protecting the honest person. or do ive think of a yvay of helping the dishonest person, in a movement toyvard building honor? I'm afraid that many of us do not knoyv exactly yvhat yve do think. XVe need more discussion and more op- portunity to give important ideas their yvorth. The Open Forum proved to be a success. but ideas and opinions cannot stop there. In a feyv instances they have been carried farther into lunch table and panel discussions in several sections. These are clearing up ideas, but only to a mere handful of people. Let's have more discussion on this topic yvhieh is so very important. especially to future teachers. Here are some poignant questions yve should consider: l. Hoyv do Honor Systems yyork in other colleges besides those mentioned in the Open Forum? 2. XVhat is the real purpose of the Honor System? 3. Hoyv can yve build up honor? 4. Hoyy can yve prepare for an Honor System in this college? I Think This IN IARY BICKEL IT XVOULD be very interesting to see the results of a national poll. conducted perhaps by the eminent Dr. Gallup, on the question: Is honesty the best policy and yvhy? On the basis of such a poll, I think that most people could be fitted into one of the folloyv- ing groups: l. Those yvho believe, preach. and practice the doc' trine that honesty is the best policy. iYes. there are such people: I knoyv some of them personally. I 2. Those yvho believe and practice that honesty is the best policy. 4These people remember that Christ yvas crucitiedg they do not preach.J 3. Those yvho believe and preach that honesty is the best policy-for others. fTheir motto goes something like this, A'I'll take mine here boys. you'll get yours in heaven. J 18 -t. Those yvho practice that honesty is the best policy, tThey don't believe it, but they yvouldn't like to be,' or can't afford to be caught doing otherwise. yr 5. Those yvho preach that honesty is the best policy,k 1' XVhat they believe and practice you don't know until you have conducted business yvith them in yvhich the question comes up. t'XVho's it gonna be. chum, me or. you? As a rule. you catch on rather rapidly.l 6. Those who do not preach, practice. nor believel that honesty is the best means for planning and con-l ducting one's affairs. tThey may be divided into three groups: I i a. Those yvho are caught. b. Those who are not. i c. Those yvho are still running. fj T. Those yvho believe that honesty is the best policy t but yvhy be a good apple in a barrel of rotten ones?l. As to what is honesty, I refer you to the dictionary: Fair and candid in dealings yvith othersg trueg justg' uprightg trustyvorthyg characterized by openness or sin- cerityg frank. One who is honest in the highest sense- is scrupulously careful to adhere to all known truth and right, even in thought. No loopholes hereg no falling back on circumstances and implication. The dishonest are alike in kind. differing only in degree. Irony NORMA GABIBRILL ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL. the great Syvedish chemist and engineer. was born in Stockholm over one hundred years ago, He devoted much of his life to the study of explosives. especially nitroglyeerin. He patented the invention of dynamite. and later per- fected several other explosives. At his death Nobel oyvned nearly a score of dynamite factories in various parts of the yvorld. 1 I By some queer quirk of conscience. Nobel left his. fortune. .1 fund of S9.000.000. to establish the Nobel Foundation. The interest from this fund is the moneyj given each year in the famous Nobel prizes. The in- terest is divided into tive parts. One part each is givenf to the man yvhose achievement is outstanding in phys- ics. cheniistry. physiology or medicine. literature. and in the interest of yvorld peace. Hoyv strange that thc man yvho invented dynamite. the deadliest of alll yveapons. should be yvilling to leave his money for the furtherance of peace. Maybe that is just human nature after all-trying to undo what has gone before. to bets ter conditions ive helped make bad! TOWER LIGH'Ig LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE lou and Heredity, by Amram Scheirifeld. Frederick A. Stokes I Company, N. Y. 1959. 454 pages. If Reviewed by NIARY DE PEPPr j'HERE ARE few of us who have not at sometime Qi our lives wondered just what makes the human body ick. Perhaps you were curious to know just why you lad certain individual characteristics of hairfcolor. eyed olor, skin-color, and features. Or maybe you have asked lourself such a question as How long may I expect J live? To turn to psychology. do you know the latest xl penetic facts in relation to that ever-fascinating subject, 1 ersonality? El, All of these questions have been answered in the llieently published, highly-entertaining book, You and lileredity. lVritten from a layman's point of view, or the author puts it, from the outside, looking in, iltie material is presented in a manner unobstructed by lliclmical terms. and easily understandable even by :those with a limited scientific background. The infor- :Qiation contained is of a nature that will make it in- gjeresting and valuable to people in all walks of life. 4 The Dionne quintuplets are discussed in one of the pany chapters. A study made found that these live fihildren are identicals -the product of a single egg: lhus all carry the same hereditary factors. Three of the ilDionnes. Cecile, Annette. and Yvonne-have similar lharacteristics, while Emilie and Marie differ in several llespects. Marie and Emilie are more far-sighted than the ltliers, have slcnderer faces, have a peculiar way of girasping things, and are the smallest and lightest. 'ileeause of the fact that each Dionne is a distinct in- ,lividual in a uniform environment, the question has Qlrequently arisen: YVhich is more important, heredity r environment? Scientists wish there were another set I -f quintuplets. Each one would be raised in a different it-nvironment, and the results would be compared with Lyhe Dionnes. Also included in You and Heredity is an original lfgenetic study on the inheritance of musical talent. 'lylocal and instrumental artists, lamong whom are 'laany well known personalitiesl were approached and glsked direct questions as to talent in the family and lfalent as children. After the information was organized, iflhe following conclusions were made: I I. XVhen both parents were talented, in most mat- ings, one-half to three-fourths of the children were talented. FKIPRIL - 1940 , x 5 at ia I , l I ' 'jo . by ' I X vi f ,S 1 ' -tell miata 1 I iff ' ,.. 1 4 -i , f ' li I are . I ' g I , Iilli uw I I in F7 ' 1 ?-g g 1 YYY Li r Q 1 i' f 'Q Qiiiifa 2. XVhere only one parent was talented, in most mat- ing one-half the children were talented. 3. XVhere neither parent was talented. the average of talented offspring was oneafonrth or less. Cnly the highlights of material given in the book have been touched upon by this brief review. lf your interest has been sufficiently aroused. as I hope it may have been, you will find You and Heredity in the Science section of our library. Sue: A'He comes from a poor family. Maw: XVhy. I thought they sent him to college? Sue: Sure Thats what made them poor. .-. ,-. .-. ff- -.- fy- Tommy: Mamma. why do they put Sunday next to Monday? Motlier: I don't know. Tommy: W'as it because cleanliness is next to god- liness? Teacher: lames. what is an island? lames: An island is a piece of land surrounded by water, except in one place. Teacher: ln what place? james: On the top. gf --1 se Caller: Good morning. Mrs. Smith. l'm from the elec- tric company. I understand there is something in the house that won't work? Xlrs. Smith: Yes, hes upstairs. ludge lin a dentists ehairl: Do you swear that you will pull the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth? 19 H cfllpflfllliiciliief QQ WV IEROME KOLKER XYITH MUSCLES straining. chests heaving, and faces writhing. two runners broke the tape in what was believed by all to be a dead heat . Then from the announcement stand: ln the S80-yard run, the first place medal was won by Driscoll of Hopkins, second place medal goes to Bob Cox of State Teachers Col- lege . . . and the voice bellowed through the am- plifier the names of the other place winners. Then was heard. 'The time . . . fYes, the time-it must have been fast. XVhat was it?i . . . Mwas two minutes, three and one-tenth seconds. A New Record! That's what the spectators saw and heard. but the story behind it . . . They missed that completely. Bob Cox had gone to the starting line along with the best half-milers of the Mason-Dixon Conference in a race for which his opponents had been primed for over three months. This was Bobs first half-mile race of the season. The sharp report of the starters gun sent the seven- teen runners sprinting around the first turn with Dris- coll of Hopkins leading the pack. XV ith only two hun- dred and twenty yards remaining, the race appeared to be a run-a-way with Driscoll fifteen yards ahead of the second runner and twenty-five yards ahead of Bob Cox who was running in fifth place. Then it happened! The clamor of the crowd paralleled the bid of a runner as their voices rose in a crescendo. Bob Cox moved up from fifth place to fourth. to third. to second . . . and then that long gap of fifteen yards. The roar of the spectators told Driscoll what was hap- peningg he put on his final sprint. Cox, driving on with terrific speed was gaining and gaining. The finish line fiew toward them: the tape was broken by one hurtling body and carried by the other. Yes. not one runner, but two had broken the existing recordg one a seasoned runner who ran a beautiful well-planue:l race. and the other. Bob Cox. of State Teachers College. who almost matched thc experience and speed of his adversary with a tremendous finishing sprint and will-to-win. Too bad. Bob. that you timed your sprint too late. XYC would certainly like to see you in the record book: Record for SSO-yard run held by Robert Cox of State Teachers College, Towson. Maryland. Time: Two min- utes and three seconds. 20 Perhaps we may see it yet. Bob still has two more chances at the record. O I ln the February issue of the Towizii LIGHT, the writer made the following statement upon which he was congratulated for his fine spirit. iEach congratu- lator felt that as far as the prediction was concerned, spirit was the only thing that left a loophole for congratulationi Before the season is concluded, they may start. clicking, and then watch them. Of course, the state ment referred to the basketball team which, up to the time the February issue had gone to press, had won only two out of eleven games. Well, Colleagues. Mentor Minnegans men mightily- massacred their mediocre record by closing their bas- ketball seasons with three victories in their last four games, The writer is not gloatingg he is merely trying to point out the fact that the prediction made in the March issue concerning XVhitey Lauenstein should be taken more seriously. l assure you at the time each oli the two predictions were made, the latter seemc more probable. . O O 1 1 In athletic games at State Teachers College, or foil that matter. anywhere else. it is the man who scores. the points with spectacular outside shots in basketball and the player who kicks the goals in soccer who rel ceives the plaudits of the crowd and the backslaps oy hero worshipers. XVhile we are heaping praise on these men, and many times they deserve it. we are prone tt' forget the person whom Coach Minnegan calls thai forgotten man of sports . l mean the team player-f the man whose fight and drive inspires his whole tean' to battle on even when the chances for victory seenf hopelessly lost. XYC have such an athlete here at the college. If yor' were told that he was the captain of the soccer team- then you would know immediately who he was: but, 9 prefer to introduce him in another way. i .N certain soccer player who was good enough tc play fullback on the varsity soccer team. became thi manager of the basketball team in his freshman veaf TOWER LIGH'? yi ,l gil i iWhen a sophomore, this same young man, besides keeping his post as manager, played basketball for the thirst time in his life: and this playing consisted of two far three games. NVhen the starting team of l938- H939 came out on the floor in their initial encounter. inany of the spectators rubbed their eyes in utter amaze- nent. VVas that ------ on the starting team? l llliclift know he could play basketball. it The truth was that he couldn'tg but the drive, the -i ispirit, the rebounding power which this plavcr pos- l I . . ' ysessed forced the Coach to put him in the line-up and i'eave him iii. 'l'hcn this past season! Another change. and more cyc-rubbing! Yes. this same athlete-slightly over 5'l0 in stature was very frequently seen exploring the strato- sphcrc fsomewhcrc around the basketball hoopi gath- ering in rebounds for his team. Fighting. driving, guarding. rebounding . . . never a let-up! Need l tell you that it is Lou Cox about whom l am writing! VVhen Lou Cox graduates in lune. he will leave behind one of the finest athletic records ever compiled in this college: but even more than that. he will always be remembered as the most spirited team player we have ever seen. E Demonstration Night l D. C-RONERT ikl'HE FOURTEENTH annual girls' inter-class ilemonstration was held on March l-1. It was a great ilsuccess-for the Sophomores! But according to all zhccounts, everyone had a gala time. As was customary, the evening began with a stunt ioresented by each class. The Freshmen. dressed as mice find cats, executed an effective dance. The Sophomores 'firesented a classroom scene, complete with mathe- .ynatics, science and gym lessons, and a never-to-be- gliorgotten student teacher out for the fifty-fifth time. gllhe Juniors went back to the gay nineties for their inspiration. Their stunt consisted of barber shop sing- PL l ng and a display of the proper technique necessary for tandem riding. The Seniors. judges for the evening, isang several clever songs and reviewed their previous ii tatunts. All the presentations were enthusiastically re- .g3eived. The main events proceeded as follows: l. Lads a Bunchun.. ....,,.,. . .Iuniors 5. Rufty Tufty . . . . . . . , , . , .Iuniors English Country Dance 6. Sicilian Circle ..,. .,... . .Sophomores American Country Dance 7. Norwegian Mountain March. . . Freshmen Folk Dance 8. Cerman Bat Ball 9. lrish Lilt ..,. ..., I uniors Folk Dance 10. Black Nag ..., , , ,,,. . . ,Sophomores English Country Dance ll. Pop C-oes the XVeascl .,,.. . . .Freshmen American Country Dance l2. Newcomb l3. Throw and Stoop Relay The three classes then gathered at the front of the auditorium and sang their class songs in turn. There- after Alma Mater was sung by the entire student body 'g M ' D . . y Omg ance present. Finally Dr. VV1edefeld made the announce- il Z. New Castle ............ . . .Sophomores ment for which evervone was waiting-that the plaque i, , ' ' . il English Countrv Dance was to be awarded to the Sophomore class, which had '3 4 amassed 1 total of 788 Joints to the uniors' 78l3f4 ly 3. Hop lylother Annika. . .... Freshmen . 1 H 1, .PQ 1, . I ,. .N gg . points and the lireshmcns -1-if-i points. Vyith this ii Swedish Folk Dance . T. A 1 announcement. Demonstration lN1ght carrie to a happy 4. End Ball if somewhat tumultuous close. 'i I I T Gu-ls Sports A' DoRo'r'1rY SHINHABI 1 MANY PEOPLE wonder why the girls do not yiave a varsity basketball team. The girls themselves Igidmit it would be fun, but there are reasons why they hgyire content with things as they stand. ln the Hrst place, Wiliere is not enough money for a girls' varsity team. lQ.APR1L - 1940 ,V You may think there is no expense connected with it. but the amount of money which can be spent is sur- prising. To begin with, there must be good equipment. No team can win with balls that are showing their age. Then. too. there is the expense of actually conducting 21 a game with another college. A referee must be hired fifteen dollars per game is the usual chargel, trans- portation must be arranged. and visiting teams must be given their dinner in the dormitory fthirty-Eve cents for each personj. Then. of course. there would be the question of uniforms. The girls could not play in their gym suits. because each class wears a different color. If the student body really expected girls to have a varsity team. it would involve raising the student acf tivity fee several dollars. Besides the expense. there is another factor which Miss Roach and the Girls A. A. Board feel is more important than mere money. If there were a team it would mean that only a selected number of girls would have the opportunity and the experience of participa- ting in games. Not only that. but many girls would not have the chance to play at all. even in practice. because every bit of equipment and every bit of coaching would go toward improving the varsity squad. It is true that we could have junior varsitiesg nevertheless, man-A people would probably stay away from practice, bc cause they would feel that there was no chance for then on the team. ' As it is. any girl in this college may have the privileg- of playing on teams whether she is a skilled sports woman or not. If you aren't so good. no one make fun of you. Everyone is out merely to have a good tim- and to gain relaxation from classes and studying. O course. if you are athletically inclined you will hav every chance of improving your game. As for a reward. every girl who reports faithfully tw practice and who plays conscientiously will be given l place on one of her class teams. The class teams ther play each other to determine whether freshmen. soplil omores. luniors. or seniors will be superior in athleti prowess. Besides. every girl is eligible for a numeral, letter. or a star if she secures the required number 0 points. Sophomore Men in Competitive Sports Axriox SEIDLIZR THE SOPHS have clone well in comparison with last year's established record in our college's competi- tive athletics. Although one vear ago as Freshmen we believe we can present. as well Sophomores aided considerably. we furnish dependable strength for the as for the future success of the sports program at State Teachers College. Regarding S.T.C.'s sports program of the 1939--I0 season. we End that the soccer team. the most suc- cessful of our teams to date. was well represented by Sophomores. The backbone of this team's success was due principally to the following men: lack Hart. a ine center halfback: Creston I-Ierold. a versatile booterg XVarren Culbertson and Charlie Rembold. two boys with a high degree of consistency: and Don Mar- tin. Bill Kahn. and Ed Clopper. a group which did much more than words can describe to make this seasons soccer aggregation so successful. Other Sophs who lent their talent to the team were: Lucien Peters. Iohn Dawson. and Bob Reidt. Capably managing the team's affairs was Marty Brill. The Teachers' basketball quintet has closed its cur rent season. Not once during the basketball seaso' has Coach Minnegan been fortunate enough to hav his first live play together in intercollegiate compet tion. let alone practice together. Student teaching an-p other activities caused this condition. However. doin their share fighting against odds. were several me on the Varsity representing the Sophomores. Mart Brill with his brilliant shooting and play-making abilit deserves top honors for a splendid performance. O cupying berths on the Iunior Varsity were: Ed. Cloppe Charlie Rembold. lohn Dawson. and Morty XVeine XVe should like to take this opportunity in behafiu of all the athletes to thank everyone for the increasi in appreciation of the sincere attempts of those who. t the best of their ability. represented the College i these intercollegiate athletics. I V Editors note: Aaron Seidlcr. the writer of the above articl' also deserves mention for his spirited and capable performance during the basketball season. I Sophomore Women in Sports DOROTHY SHINHABI A SINCE THIS is the Sophomore's own issue of the Towrza LIGHT. I hope the other classes won't mind if I turn the spotlight toward the Sportswomen in our class. 22 The last time we heard. Virginia XVhite rankei third among the women badminton players of Maisy land. She may be second by now. because that young lady is climbing. Remember QCOIIIIIIUCCI on Page 32 TOWER LIGHQ I I l , S llflll lll b N Q 1 A 1116WA, j 51 f MF: 4 Q j i iiiiwi l l A1616 Swing of 1 SPRING APPAREL ji l ELLEN ANNE ELSTE l :YES SIR! These S.T.C. students must be congratu- lated on their smart duds this spring. But before we make personal mention of our outstanding good tasters. let's review briefly some of the general fashion trends. ! 1 Q Suits are definitely Hin again-especially those with 1 the hip length jackets and boxy pockets. The skirts are l jlpleated or softly flared and are worn with fresh white lpique or batistc blouses. Most of the coats and suits are jlitted and have much less emphasis on shoulder pad- ding. Twceds and solid colors are most popular. j Color in spring always means pastel - just oodles of soft blues, pinks. beige. blue grays, and white. The leading color with which these lighter shades are worn is navy. Other new colors are cadet blue, dusty rose, and 1 zlalfodil. Ll XVhat are we seeing in the line of accessories? The jnewer gloves are mostly of doeskin or eapeskin, XVe ltind the Milan Breton sailors and toques are here jagain. Have you seen the overseas cap in legion red jand blue? lt's quite the thing for that tailored costume. jWe believe that the cash and carry pockets can bc li-'ightly called accessories this spring. They're being ifeaturcd not only on skirts. but on sports and afternoon jrzlresses, too. Their purpose seems to be to relieve milady jjof carrying a bag. XVe sec the trouser-waist belt is still quite popular accessory. 1 l I I QIAPRIL . 1940 li 1 je il How do you like those new waist-length belted jack- ets now in vogue in all the lovely pastels? They're grand for this in between weather. Saddle shoes and terry cloth socks are the present rage in footwear. A newer trend in saddle shoes seems to be those with side laeings. lneidentally, plaid shoe strings are still well liked. Now letls take a quick glance about the campus and utter a few words of applause. First to those coeds whose current choice of sweaters and skirts is just too perfect-Audrey P., Txliekey Mae C., Peggy M.. Margaret XV.. Alice C.. Katherine I.. Patsy H., Florence A., Eleanor XV.. Bridge B.. Kay li.. and Marjorie P. To the two Sophs who are particularly outstanding for their constant neatness in their whole appearance: Doris K. and Evelyn l. To Frances L.-that sophomore in the dorm who's always wearing new shoes she buys in XVashington. It was Frances who Hrst introduced us to the side-laced saddle shoes. lust now she's wearing a new pair of two- toned moccasins. Our boys certainly haven't lost any time in adopting the new Men's Dress Code. They can really pick up some snappy sweaters. A nod of approval goes to these: lrl. Astrin's pin stripe fAh yes, Henry, and with those saddle shoes you have that good old collegiate airl. I. Horst's A'Study in Green is also quite effective. It's been reported that Bareham is right there in his tan sweater which he dons with his brown tweed trousers. XVon't you wear this ensemble more often. Mr. B2 A. Seidler and E. johnson. too, both seem to be Uwearers of the green . ls this a false assumption or are some of our men too sophisticated to take up this sweater-in-class idea? At any rate, by being so conservative they are definitely re- taining that dignified and professional man-about-town air. THE WISH IEAN CONNOR l would l we1'e a freshman who Could speak when he is spoken to - XVho tells his teachers when and where XVith statements smooth and debonair. But though l have a countenance That registers intelligence. lt often seems to me unfair To have to prove my brains are there! 23 IIMIIIIIISIIIIT3 Orchestra Personnel Maxrxn Barns 'WYHY DO we have an organ in the Orchestra? I never hear it. This is a question often asked of Miss Prickett and members of the orchestra. XYhy have it. then? The orchestra is built around the organ. The organ binds the orchestra in the middle. often doubling for the woodwind section. XVithout it. much of the blending harmony and various tone effects would be missing. Xllith these facts in mind. we should give Miss Celwasser and Mr. Horst the credit which is due them for their proficiency in playing this instrument. Most of us realize the importance of the piano in a small orchestra. XYithout the harmony of the piano chords. the effect of a small orchestra is incomplete. Be- cause it is not a solo instrument. it must be subservient to the rest of the orchestra. The piano. like the organ. must also double for other instruments. in the event that a part is weak. Therefore. it can be seen that a piano lends balance as well as harmony when skillfully played. XYithout the reeds or woodwinds. a noisy or stringy tone is effected by the orchestra depending upon the predominance of brass or strings. In a string ensemble the effect is charming. but a continuous string tone in orchestral expression becomes exceedingly monotonous. A feeling of breadth and power is desirable which can- not be had from the strings alone. The woodwinds help to achieve breadth. since their tones amplify or in- tensify those of the strings. and add brilliancy to them as well. For instance. when a plaintive. melancholy tone is desired. the clarinet can be played to give this special effect. Miss XYilhelm has been working diligently on the tympani. perfecting the essential rhythm which is al- lotted to these important percussion instruments. ,E THE ALUMNI ORCHESTRA Over a month ago. Alumni members of the Orchestra and Miss Prickett organized an Alumni Orchestra. which meets every other Tuesday night from 7:30 to 9:00 P. M. Anne Arundel. Baltimore. and Harford counties, as well as Baltimore City are represented by members of the graduating classes from 1930 to 1938. There are twelve charter members. who make up a C0111- 24 N-KISOII Grluuzssvr 5II.f:'l7Iill1 ll'1'lf1:'lm Hors! plete instrumentation. Members of the College I chestra who qualify will be invited to join the orchestr upon graduation. At the hrst meeting Mr. Malcolm Davies was electe president of the organization. Under the direction c Miss Prickett. the orchestra has begun work. Th members plan to make their initial public performanc on Memorial Day, at which time they will play a selei tion at our College assembly. Miss Prickett also plar to have a number combining the present College an alumni orchestras on this date. Notes from the Glee ON MARCH 27. the Clee Club took part in musical program for the benefit of the Metropolita Opera Association. This organization is conducting nation-wide campaign for funds with which to cc its work and this was the opportunity of the ' to help. The program was held during the period and a silver olTering taken. Last year the Clee Club joined the Maryland Fede' ation of Music Clubs and participated in the preview of the Spring Festival at the Maryland Casualty. YV have joined the Federation again this year and had part in its spring program. The selections sung by ou group were: The Lords Prayer - Malotte U Roses of the South - Strauss ' Salvation is Created - Tschesnokoff. The program was held on April 5. at the Peabody! Conservatory. ' 2' ALUMNI GLEE CLUB Let the Clee Club look to its laurels. There is noi an Alumni Clee Club! About seventy-tive graduates. all former Glee Clu. members. have responded by letter or their presence t TOWER LIGH 'V lr' li P n invitation to organize and prepare for the seventy- l fth anniversary of the College next year. Because of i he difliculty in arranging the time of rehearsals to suit 'veryone, the attendance has not yet attained the goal 'hat suggests itself - the complete quota of seventy- .ve - one for each of the anniversary years. but the verage attendance of forty-live thus far achieved is fratifying. Rehearsals scheduled for the rest of this year are Qiuiiday. April 7. April ZS, and May l9. all at 3:00 P. M.. In room lOl of the Administration Building. XVe hope lo sing for our friends for the first time on Alumni Day. this year. lune S. eet--Maestro Horst L THE ENTHUSIASTIC reception accorded 'tlohnny Horst and His Boys at the Sophomore Iamboree was an Lndisputable indication that we agile alligators are ca- pable of recognizing pure and unsullied swing - as pro- .lueed by creative swingaroos. . However. we are mere novices inducting ourselves into the depth of swing and are only cognizant of an .rtist in our midst. The important thing is that the abil- ity of 4'The Boys has been acclaimed by an experi- enced and popular musician. Q On Friday and Saturday evenings. March lS and l6, Holmny Horst and His Boys played at the 'Jolly jun- ior lubileew at Forest Park. Eddy Duchin. who was yurrently playing here in Baltimore, had accepted For- pst Parks invitation to visit the Iubilee on Friday even- ing. XVhen he heard the Boys a-swingin' away. he immediately inquired the name of the band. Ile and Iohnny Horst met. Eddy Duchin commended the band with the profound utterance: uit has great possibilities. And that. dear students. in any man's language. is some thing! ! Musical Notes iXlILDRIiD SNYDICR Another Sophomore member of the Clee Club is adding laurels to his name now that hc is singing with Horst,s Orchestra' '... of course. we mean lack Hart. O O The outstanding work of Eugene XVebster. Sopho- more violinist. is familiar to you because of his lovely duet with our guest harpist of a few months ago and because of previous accounts of his achievements. I O Very shortly we of the College shall see a new mem- ber in the orchestra. Miss Mary Metcalf of Sophomore 2. who has been studying violin with Miss Priekett this year, has joined the orchestra and is now practicing the repertoire of the orchestra. I O Some day in the far distant future when you ask your pupils to turn to page eight in their song books. dont be surprised to find the composer of the song to be M. M. XVilson. Recently Miss XVilson has set the childs prayer. A'Now I Lay Me. to music and has composed a few children's ditties. 5 Period With Our Health Officer Ti ESTHER BLUIXISTEIN l IS Monday morning. The last bell has rung. the nstructor smiles pleasantly. not apologetically. but Erm- Qy, as she begins with a question. not on the lesson, Vis there a health oliicer here? Q Someone ineekly raises a hand and proceeds to rise. at the same time dropping a notebook which seatters its f:omponents none too gracefully. She walks towards the ivindows when suddenly. like a summer shower. she remembers the thermometer. This must be the one room in the building where that all-important device Lis yet has not been spied. The reading is seventy-two. Although this may sound comfortable. the rule states ihat when the temperature is seventy-two in any room. 'here is too much warmth. f Thereupon our health oificer proceeds to perform l5PRIL - 1940 her noble deed. After looking at both sides of the ra- diator tthe wrong side hrstj she opens the window ever so little. Uneonsciously. an attempt is made to analyze the amount. but why bother? No measurement is per- feet. Our health ofliccr need never be oppressed by thc thought that she will have to remain in her seat for an unendurably long time. Her training has begun. After half a period of comparative tranquillity. a tap is felt on the vertebrates with the summons. lt's freezing in here. Turn on the heat. l feel as if l were in an iceboxf' The health oiiiccr has a mental debate. but under social pressure. gets up as unobtrusively as possible. carefully evades stumbling. and then turns her eyes to the thermometer, which now reads sixty-seven degrees. 25 She smiles as she closes the window, turns the wheel on the radiator to the left. Once more back in her seat, the health ofiicer is fairly complacent. when a firm tap is felt. Turn off the heat. Open a window. lim roasting in here. l'll get a headache yet, and I'm going to a test next period. The health officer glances at her watch. That bell can't delay much longer. There, it rings! VValking i i through the halls with other students she hears, Th next time l come to College Monday without my jacket' I hope somebody kicks me. Our health oflicer keeps her fingers crossed, hoping that perhaps by some good fortune, the next room wil' be in a healthful state or. if not, no one will know thi difference. 1 I ollege February 26, 1940- Brilliant Fagin, of the Hopkins Playshop, came to speak to us about various plays and productions. I-le told of producing 'Our American Comedy in 1929. and of one of our own students who had a part in it. This comedy was first produced by professional players in 1789. Dr. F agin surveyed the typical drama of this country and England. America has not had much time to IJTO- duce tragedies, but Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell An- derson havc recently begun to write them. On the other hand. the Americans have produced a great deal of good farce. The comedies at which America laughs seein chiefly to have yokel-like characters. like Rip Van YV in- kle and David Harum. An outstanding actor in such roles was XVill Rogers. The English are noted for their barbed satire, such as that produced by George Ber- nard Shaw, and for their teacup and saucer comedies, which are comedies of manners with sparkling dialogue. Ben Ionson and Shakespeare were especially skillful at writing this type of comedy. and Philip Barrie. in his 'AA Philadelphia Story, now playing with Katherine Hepburn in the leading role, has produced a modern example of merit. Dr. Fagin gave us some idea about the work of the Hopkins Playshop and about plays and productions in general. The Mummers sponsored this assembly. February 29, 1940- A new type of campaign assembly was introduced at a meeting of the Student Council. After the student body, under the able leadership of Mr. Seidlcr and his corps of cheer leaders. had worked up a display of Col- lege spirit which culminated in the singing of Stand Up and Cheer, the candidates for the various offices of the Student Council were called to the platform and introduced one by one to the student body. Each can- didate or campaign manager made a short campaign speech. Following these was a campaign parade with 26 I alendar E signs and more cheering and the singing of For He's I jolly Good Fellow, to adjourn this spirited meeting. ' March 4, 1940- I Mr. Bettinger. an artist who conducts an art scho fi on the Caspe Peninsula. presented a color film of thi' beautiful country. ln his choice of subjects, which in eluded lovely wild flowers in brilliant colors, quaint do, carts, exciting winter sports, and the graceful bird lift of the peninsula, the speaker revealed himself the trui artist. There were no flaws in his photography. Eacl picture helped us to understand the life of this pictui csque region, and Mr. Bcttinger's humorous and run ning commentary sufliced to make every picture clear liven the accompanying music. the Franck D Mino Symphony, was aptly chosen for the film. No doubt tht speaker awakened a desire in many to visit this faq cinating country when we have a chance to travel. March 5, 1940- j At about 6:05 P. M. girls came down the steps read' for the birthday party, dressed like the Cay Ninetiesj with tight waists, high necklincs and big sleeves. Mis' Creer's hat. with its large plumes. made a great hit' as did the many upswept hair styles. The wing of th-j dining hall, like Little Old New York, had the lamj posts and street signs of Broadway and Fifth Avenue After the dinner, appropriate songs were sung and sev eral dances were introduced. Prizes were distributed fo' proficiency in dancing. All those who had birthdays iif November. December, january and February enjoyed' the old-fashioned party immensely. 1 March 6, 1940- At the regular Vesper Service on March sixth. wi were led in informal discussion by Miss Dorothy Em crson, a staff member of the University of Maryland and the Girls' State -llrl Club agent. The theme of th-I service was Praycr. Many phases of this topic wer' Towi-:R LIGHT I i a l r I iseussed, the main ones being prayer for others. prayer ir self, and prayer when we don't recognize it as such. 'he problem of answered and unanswered prayer also roved to be an issue of great interest. To add to the Jirit of the occasion, Martha Sclmebly read several oeins, to the accompaniment of violin music by Gene Vebstcr. larch 8, 1940- Huge bunches of luscious-looking purple grapes hung 'om an auditorium banded with the colors of the Span- h flag. On the backdrop was a Spanish couple dancing. 'hus was the atmosphere of this year's Rural Club Dance - A Spanish Fiesta - set up. The soft music of ie orchestra and the gay rhythms of the Spanish danc- r, Esta Bablan, combined to make the dance an enjoy- ble one for all those present. Iarch 11, 1940- if Kirk's Silver Company of Baltimore presented an ed- :cational picture and lecture on the making of silver. ll rr l l l f. ii i '. 21 il r li fl 'l 1 ii rl. g. I i i yi 1 5 .I ri .F ll V. ill the important processes: melting, cutting, weaving, ngraving, chasing, and polishing were shown and ex lained. Of particular interest were the steps in fashion- ig a lovely silver teapot from a round disk of silver, and ie procedure employed in engraving and chasing de- gns by hand on other large pieces of silverware. All iose who saw the pictures should now have a better ap- reciation of the infinite amount of patience and crafts- ianship which are involved in the manufacture of per- :etion silverware. Iareh 18, 1940- Sponsored by the Natural History Group, Mr. Allan iliiruikshank, an instructor at Audubon Nature Camp, Joke on wild birdlife. His lecture was splendidly illus- trated with colored photographs which he had taken while observing birds. Mr. Crnikshank devoted a great deal of the time to gannets, wild birds which nest along the cliffs of the Gaspe Peninsula and upon nearby Bonaventure Island. Gther photographs of birds and mammals were shown and Mr. Cruikshank accompanied these by telling erst- while potential photographers how to begin to develop the technique of taking pictures. Among his photo- graphs shown were several which had gained wide recog- nition because of their excellence, one appearing in a recent Life magazine. The speaker emphasized the importance that photo- graphs have in teaching, stating that very few teachers recognize their value. He also spoke about the great pleasure and enjoyment he derived from his work and he reiterated the fact we so often hear that birds are the most fascinating of crea- tures to study. Nlr. Cruikshank talked in a personal and charming manner, and his conversation was often sprinkled with amusing comments. March 23, 1940- XVedding bells pealed for Grace M. Lowe, class of '3-1, and XVilliam L. Storv Anaheim, California, March 5, 1940- Connie Mack thinks rookie Al Rubeling will till the order at third base for thc Philadelphia Athletics. Al. originally of the class of '34 here at State Teachers Col- lege, was purchased from the Atlanta Crackers. of the Southern Association, for the sum of S35,000 last sea- son. Al is a right-handed batter who hit well over .300 for the Crackers. Things e Can' t Live Without 1. Mr. Crook's haircut 2. Aggie Kernan's little blue skirt 3. Mr. lXIoser's 3-pointed handkerchiefs -l. Bill Kahn's announcements 5. Mr. Minnegan's Steady, now 6. VVhitey Lauenstein ! ! 7. The library's overdue sign 8. lack Koontz' friendliness 9. The place over the hill lf,PRIL - 1940 'A Q. 1 al lO. Charles Guertler's posters ll, lzzy's little white coat l2. XVhitey Lauenstein ! ! l3. The three lemons in the parking lot tfrcsh. at thatj l-1. The A'attractive satin shorts our boys wear at games 13. Bernie Phelps' little hat 16. Tuesday, 'XVednesday, and 'lVil1l1l'SCl2l1' nights at ten! 17, Freddie Bfs impulsivcness 27 Posters For You IIENRY ASTRIN lSN'T THAT a good-looking poster? an admiring girl-student says of a piece of tagboard bearing modcrne India inked words. Bah, not so hot! replies a male and walks away. Lucky poster maker! You have been selected to serve on a publicity committee. and that. my son. is quite a privilege. You merely have to make a few posters, tliat's all, just a few small things, nothing elaborate . . . you may even develop the idea of the poster yourself. You may say to yourself, Colly. I'm on the publicity committee! I wonder why they selected mc, of all peo- ple? XV ell, I had better get some materials from the book- shop. A piece of tagboard and a bottle of India ink! I suppose I'll have to pay for this myself. Oh, well. Okay. I-Iere's thirty cents. You're welcome. You know, I'm beginning to think it's almost worth thirty cents to be on the committee. I can just picture myself pointing nonchalantly to my poster and saying. 'Oh, yes, this is mine,' while my head grows out of proportion. . . . Now what can I put on this thing? Something terse, like ARE U COMING TO THE MAKEMORE REVUE? No, that wouldn't do at all! How about MAKE MORE FRIENDS AT THE MAKEMORE REVUE? Yes. that's pretty good! Novel and concise. I believe I'll use it .... How does one begin these posters. anyway? Let's see .... one, two, three, four, live .... I'll need five lines. The tagboard is two feet in length, so . . . live into twenty-four will go Eve. no four times with four left over. Thatls four and four-tifths inches. Heck, my ruler is divided into sixteenths. Oh. for a slide-rule! XVell, let's see. Thirty-two, forty-eight, sixty-four, eighty, eighty- six. Thats tive into eighty is sixteen, and that times for is sixty-four, also sixteen into eighty is five. So th: means that one-eighth, no, tive-eighths of an . . . Wai tive into sixteen should give me . . . aw, what a heat ache! I'll just put it on four lines. That means six inchcj to a line, or live with one inch between. There! No' I suppose I'll have to make a rough sketch of the letter' in pencil. M A K KI O . . . say, that doesn't look exactlj right. Oh, I left out the 'E'. There, that's better nov MAKE MORE FRIENDS AT THE M A K f' N O R E R E V U E. Now comes the hardest par Hoahum, Im getting a bit tired, too. Oh. oh, a littl too much ink on here! XVhew, I C311 hardly draw straight line with this kind of pen! XVhat kind of f would look best here, I wonder. Oh, what's the diff! don't like all these capitals. Should I make them low case? I wonder if some color might help, too. On sel ond thought, no! Etc., etc. I Fortunate man! You have iinally ended your labo and may now sit back and reap your reward. You do nr sign your name at the bottom, for you have been tol by your art teacher that only a few people in this worl are good enough to be able to put their names to a piec of art without any qualms of self-consciousness, an you. my boy. are not one of those few. So you display tt bit of publicity in the most prominent spot in the hall hoping you will be seen tacking it up. Of course. yc are never seen, and with the passage of time, the judgr fstudentsj also pass . . . all but a few who stop lor enough to say. Isn't that a good-looking poster! cf Bah, not so hot! I hat XV. NORRIS VVEIS HAIL SOPHOMORES! XVell, it's your issue, so let's read about you. To properly introduce you to these so- phisticated Sophs, it is only just to say that they are especially noteworthy because of their l. Supply of students who have a swell sense of humor 2. Cooperation in all College events 3. Participation on athletic teams 4. Injection of some real school spirit into the gang S. The Sophomore jamboree 6. The class lovers and the class loves 28 Things to Remember About the Sophs QIIow could we forget?j l. XVild YVilly Kahn's announcements 2. Seidler's Master of Cerimonying 3. Agnes' criticism of So Wfhat -I. johnny Horst's orchestra . Lou Hendersoifs Good Humor 6. Sam Klopper's conduction of class meetings ' T. Miss Parrich's lawn, eh. Bob Reed? S. jack I-Iarts's crooning 9. jim Cernik's Bund I 5 TOWER LIGHi I F r ! Interesting Note It has been pointed out that if all humor columnists Vere laid end to end. it would be a swell idea! I fe Sophomore Romances A QLest Vlfe Forgetj l l. Dave Hess and Peggitrude l 2. Willy Gaver and Miss Mercer. QAll's not wcll.j 3. Ruth Dietz has our Long Lou I 4. Nan Frey and Lucien Peters E S. Iohnny Dawson and Ronnie I 6. Bob Reed's Carr l 7. Sam Klopper and Ieanette Iones I u eff i Unrelated Ravings i 4 1 It was unusual to give way to two joint writers for the 'reslnnan issue, but the two co-eds did admirably with ine material in a limited space. Mary Io and Harriet .proved very observant for only being a year old. I .I lt if Learnings Required for Ll BS. ill 1. Topography of the Glen I Z. A'Livefiish handshake 3. An automatic grin ,I -I. The receiving-line technique ll 5. To be able to classify scientifically the modern il' coiffures ll 6. Become a Mozart in four easy years 51 7. To eat undetected in the library ll S. Men: Acquire their Ph.P. fPhilosophy of Poolj 9. Electrical skill in handling the light switches in il the Parlor . The art of inasticating one's food without being 1 comprehended by the scrutinizing eye of the I0 librarian ,H l ll y News Notes on the Profs Did you know that - l. Coach Minnevan treated to cigars? . L 7 D D .X -. Miss XVeyforth got a ticket for reckless driving? I 3. Miss Birdsong joined the Maryland Youth Con- gress? fl. Miss Yoder hereby cancels all outstanding library Hncs? Q 5. Miss Bader refuses to interrupt a student while Q reciting? if No, we'rc not nutsg but this is April Foo. mouth. so .l life humbly ask pardon. illXPRIL - 1940 i I l I I. But it's not April lfool when wc report that ljddie Duchin congratulated Iohnny Ilorst when he rDuf chinj heard Iohnny playing at lforcst Park High. Thats some feather in the cap of your orchestra, Iohn, inc lad. fff So, until the May issue, when Lee McCarriar returns from the great outdoors fStudcnt Teaching to yousel to collaborate on the Iunior issue column. I say - So long, and, So XVhat! You Wfill Bc A Wfelcome Depositor In Ciba Zganh nf Baltimore Qluuntp YORK ROAD . . . TOWSON, MD. Deposits Guaranteed to 555,000.00 SO THEY SAY . . . He moved like a glacier of molasses. I'm so Hat they could play me on the victrola. She's so argumentative she won't even eat anything that agrees with her. Did you know that every year is Leap Year for pe- destrians? As badly off as a woodpecker in the petrified forest. Victor Columbia Decca Illucbird Records at IIIICIISCIIILD K 0llN 8: C0. llaltilnorc D 1 L E M M A IRAN CoNNoR Clever as I am, At one thing I'm inept - How to sign a late slip XVhen I merely overslcpt. Licxrxt 1'oN HIARKI i lloruxs Nl.-XRKITI PI 'wa 3310 at .1 .. , D. CALLAHANQS SUNS Sea Food Bi-u.'1'1AioRF xi.x1u'r,ixNn 29 WAT c H R E PAIR 'Neills Charles Street at Lexington GUARANTEED Compliments of . . . TOWSON THEATER Uibe Straub jfiattunal Bank of Ulutnsnn, MD. LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Discriminating Tastes Prefer Esskay Quality MEAT PRQDUCTS 30 .F Why I Agree With Darwin COLBURN RIARTIN 'l'HE DISMISSAL of assembly, and the ensuing in holocaust. is indeed a blot on the record of mankind.j'y XYhen the herd stampedes. all civility is dropped and' the generally mild lambkins turn instantaneously intoi inhuman killers. ' ln fact, the entire process of assembly-dismissing itself' is almost unbelievable. You have to be there to realiz the frightful loss of human life and property. lust a few minutes before the assembly period ends. a feeling of unrest and tenseness pervades the audience. About that time the barometer drops on all ships out on Chesa- peake Bay. John R. XVeeks sends out a storm warning- loyv-pressure area over northern Baltimore. YVhen Dr XViedefeld calmly announces assembly dismissed. it is the equivalent of saying, 'Athe worlds coming to an end. As the President's words shatter the calm. even sineyv is strained. every deep breath has been taken, and all prayers have been said. There is a pinpoint of si-' lence. ln that brief instant the earth braces itself for the titanic explosion to folloyv. XVhen assembly is dis- missed. it's like letting the cats out of the bag - VVILD- CATS! Each person feels his sacred obligation to emulate a hurricane. Every child of nature returns to the Iunglc Layv. The yveaklings are trampled siekeningly under foot Once in a while above the clash. thunder and acric smoke. comes a belloyv from the bursting lungs of , helpless marshal, screaming: XVomen and childrer first. XYalk. not run to the nearest exit! Remember thc Alamo. Haul in the yard arms! Reef out the uppers Batten doyvn the hatches and all men on deck! And this is only one of a thousand pictures. All de scribe the same Armageddon. All shiver as they rememl ber the desolation left after the Hunlike horde has shot through the doors. Limp bodies. weak groans. and tat tered standards fallen in the dust, yvith xvisps of smokc still hovering like phantom buzzards above the battle' field. and yvith the faint note of a dying bugle call fad ing ayvay - this is the Flanders Field of State Teacherz' College. Here is xvhere Americas National Defense iz being strengthened, in our little old test-tube proving ground. the assembly. Here are forged the muscles. ant the broken-Held running of the hope of our nation. XVi cannot help but consecrate this halloxvcd ground to thi marshals. to the faculty. to all those hraxe souls xvhr have not died in vain. that we might get to lunch T.: seconds earlier. TOWER L1GHi 1 ifan Sant, S.T.C. '25, Appointed Iiffto New Post with City Schools 'IH E M AN Y Y. M. C. A. friends of Thomas A. Van int, Ir.. will be pleased to hear of his recent appoint- xant to the headquarters staff of the Baltimore Public llhool system. He has been made acting director of the ivision of Adult Education. iWMr. Van Sant was vice-principal of the Patterson Park pnior High School at the time of his appointment. He Its been a member of the faculty of the Baltimore Col- llge of Commerce - the Y. M. C. A. School of Account- Ilg and Business Management - for a number of years, ing instructor in Economies. He is one of our most pular faculty members. Iln addition to his interest in the educational work of Y. M. C. A.. Mr. Van Sant has come up through ISE ranks of Y. M. C. A. wrestling, and is a skilled ref- I?-ze in addition to being a several-time South Atlantic A. U. champion and a high scorer in national A. A. j. wrestling meets. He coached the Iohns Hopkins Uni- Ifsity wrestling squad for several seasons. illinowing Mr. Van Sant's eminent qualifications as I educator, as an athlete and as a man, we feel that the V school authorities could not possibly have made a tter appointment than this one to what is becoming increasingly responsible post in the city school sys- -From Y. M. C. A. News. ID YOU KNOXV THAT . . . ,, n. , i , Subjects have a right to partition the king? In most of the United States murderers are put to 1 death by elocution? Coethals was the man who dug the alimentary canal? The centaurs were half-hoarse because they had to live in damp eaves? A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the 3 middle? Milton was a blind poet who wrote Paradise Lost. I VVhcn his wife died he wrote Paradise Regainedn? ll vacuum is an empty space in Rome where the Pope ' lives? iThe Boar XVar was when Louis XIV hunted a wild pig? -Natural immunity means catching a disease without 7' the aid of a doctor? ilsouis KVI was gelatined during the French Revolu- tion? I I PRIL - 1940 A Deposit of 31.00 Opens a Checking Account in the CHECKZVIASTER Plan at Ulibe illutnsun Rational Zeank TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is five cents for each cheek drawn and each deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 History. . . . . E ,..,.. Broadway Hit Psychology . .. IT PAYs TO ADVERTISE Fact.. ,. . . . For the CULTURAL FUND Tuesday, April 30th Price .........,..,,......V 4 .,,. 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Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Of course it does. BALLYHOOS GLOSSARY OF ADVERTISING TERMS or How to Tell XVhat the Ad Pages Are Talking About In One Easy Lesson. They laughed when l sat down with Harpers Bazaar. Advertising Plain English Parfum . , . Perfume Odner . . . . Odor Creme . . . Grease Mode . , . . , , , . . , , , , Fashion Poudre . , , . . . . , . ,Powder Delicate Membrane . Any Part of the Body Better-Class . . . ..... Higher-Priced De Luxe , . , , , . .,,, Expensive Oral Cavity . , , . . . . . , Mouth Lnbricate the Skin-Texture ..,.. . . .Put On Grease Pore-Deep Cleansing . Xkashing the Face Big Money ,,,, . , About Fifteen Dollars a XYcek llarsh Irritants All the Ingredients of a Competitors Product .Xrtisan . Factory XYorker lfrnollient , . , Oily Modern Science . , The Copy XYriter's Department Ordinary Rival Product Creation . . . , . Garment .Xstonnding .Xnything Slightly New .Xmazing , . . Ditto .Xchiex emcnt New Model .Xnyone with a Fancy Name Society Leader Great Scientist Any Doctor XVho XYill Sign An Endorsement Lifetime . , ..,., Until the New Model Comes Out Underthings ,,,, ,,,. ,.., ,,.,.,, U n d erelothes Dermatologist .,,.r , , , ,... Skin Doctor Pharmacologist , . . . Drug Clerk Exclusive .,... .,,. . . . Expensive Initial Expenditure ,,,. . , . Price Vitamins ,,,, , . . . . .The Alphabet Dentifriee . .,,. . .Toothpaste Pride of Ownership. . , . , , Snobbery Ultra,Violet . , . , . . , . Ultra Hooey Sophomore Women in Sports tContinued from Page 22,3 the exhibition which sh and Howard Stottlemyer gave at the Sophomore Ian boree? The crowd A'ohed and aired during the ei tire match. She has a terrific drive and doesn't min using it on her opponents. In the early part of Marcl Virginia went to New York to participate in a tournn ment. There. among many top-ranking players of tt country, she reached the quarter finals ,... The girls didn't do so badly in basketball either. . large number of them came out for practice ever week. Then in the inter-class games. they tied tli Seniors for first place. YVho knows what might has happened if they had played off the tie. ix One freshma team was tops. tool . . . And of course there is Girls' Demonstration Nigh The Sophomores are rather proud of that plaque. Ii one can deny that we didn't work hard for it. XVe gar way to the luniors in Newcomb and in German Kick Ball but we were victorious in End Ball and in Thro and Stoop Relay. Our dances were such fun that v smiled as we danced. Could that be why the judg rated us so highly? Hats off to the luniors and Freshmen. They we good. too. as was shown by the closeness of the score' The judges must have been hard put to determine tl winner, but were glad they decided as they did. . . 32 E OND LUCSPG CO BL MORE In,-... . I' M' ' Im. I- 7.. ,- . . II V 'WUWT' ', Y.- ' . . ' -He.. II. 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'I I ' .---'35, ' .J r 1' ' '1 ' ' I ' 'x I A 4 I,- ..,4. .I '.nI I.,'I1 I, ,...I, .I II II , ,I . .44 II',,.'.'jI - -Im III- ' 4.- .I I I 1. ' ' I .,., I I L ' - .- ..- -., . 4 .1 . 1...-M W1. .. I! ' Tu L. ,. i. ,, . , . Ne 5 T T xflzjgl , X M. .fx V , 4' Eff: .fy t N., . ,X Y K? ,, X haf, if-we fn? Y' Ev WMM, N Af 'N X'ws.,,,, ,, A' 1 -ight Y 4 FRANCESCA SIMS of TEXAS 1 gf g chesferfaeld Girl Orme Month ,. g g T of Q so 6 0 j A roundup of all you E as ' want in a cigarette L 1 I kffkh , T75 1, , : A1 rm: ,cant co C o H5575 T Tl1ey're COOLER S. they TASTE BETTER 1hey're DEFINITELY MILDER These are the things you get from Cll6St6l'fi6ld,S right combination of the world's best cigarette tobaccos. Make sure of more smoking pleasure . . . make your next pack Chesterfield and you'll say They give me just what I want . . . THEY SATlSFY.,' ..1'r.Bf'Mv T OWU' iqlzf if 1940 1 il 5 F OUT IN SANTA BAR- BARA. Xvest Coast girls play a lot of polo. Peggy McManus. shown about to mount one of her ponies. is a daring horsewoman... often breaks and trains her own horses. She has car- ried olf many cups and ribbons at various horse shows and rodeos. SPEEDS THE THING IN A HORSE, BUTI LIKE MY CIGARETTES SLOW BURNING THAT MEANS CAMELS THE CIGARETTE THAT GIVES ME THE EXTRASl PEGGY LICMAINPUS faborej has won nu- merous cups for all-'round girl ...studied ranch management at the Ifniversity of California. Shes a swell dancer. swims. sails...is a crack rifle shot...handles a shotgun like an expert. She picks Camels as the all-'round cigarette. They're miider. cooler. and more fragrantf' Peggy says. By burning more slowly. Camels give me extra smokes. Penny for penny. Camels are certainly the best cigarette buy. MORE PLEASURE PER PUFF . . . MORE PUFFS PER PACK! S xiii 5.592 'A f ln' recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25 95 slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling ibrands tested - slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to S FAQ EXTRA SMOKES Q PER I ' PACK! zgx - z ...but the cigarette for her is slower-burning Camels because that means 1 ,. ' J 1 1,53-fjihs' V- '. S53-5 1 155575 ,yr A ai: V 1'-1 111 1 . :iv-,y-. ...P-at .- 1- IQ ::E K ' ' ,ff xl 6352 .MMM NORTH. SOUTH. EAST. XVEST-people feel the same way about Camel cigarettes as Peggy does. Camels went to the Ant- arctic with Admiral Byrd and the U. S. Antarctic expedition. Camel is Joe DiMaggio's cigarette. People like a ciga- rette that burns slowly. And they Find the real. worth while exiras in Camels- an extra amount of mildness. coolness. and flavor. For Camels are slower-burning. Some brands burn fast. Some burn more slowly. But it is a settled fact that Camels burn slower than any other brand tested free leftl. Thus Camels give extra smok- ing...a plus equal. on the average, to five extra smokes per pack. Copyright, 1940, R. J. Riynolds Tob. Co.. Winston-Salem.X. C. 3 m S - Me cgifazeie pfbfgagfzrfzzig Qfffhgfacwf I gi is Ng N Tnnsrnrr EDITORS EVELYN A. FIEDLER KATHERINE FEASER RICHARD CUNNINGHARI CH.iRLES GROSS CIRCULATION MANAGERS Esther Royston Margaret Heck Virginia Roop Norma Gambrill ADVERTISING MANAGERS Elizabeth XVeems Ieanette Iones Margaret Lowry BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt Iohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Art Dorothy Snoops Alice Trott Miriam Kolodner Audrey Pramschufer Marguerite XVilson Humor Katherine Iacob Frances Shores Elizabeth Melendez Science Lee McCarriar Iohn Chilcoat Iames O'Connor Athletics Catherine Paula Nolan Chipman Library Elizabeth Zentz Audrey Horner Doris Klank Service Station Ieanne Krayetz General Literature Nannette Trott Irma Sennhenn Patricia Herndon Music Sydney Baker Exchanges Mildred Hanient Fashions Marie Parr Dorothy Sisk College Events llelen Picek Mary Brashears Nancy Metzger T Q9 LH L Ll A LEE il' vo1.xI1I QQ MAY - 1940 ss No.8 CONTENTS PAGE RIACNOLIAS AND PROGRESS . . 2 CHILDREN IN THIS CHANGING YVORLD . 4 PROGRESS .,.... -I ON PROGRESS . 5 POETRY ..... 7 SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL PROGRESS . 8 PROGRESS FOR ONE ONLY . . . 9 CRIME AND PUNISHAIENT, BY FREUD . . ll EDITORIALS ..... . I3 LOTS OF LUCK . . . . 15 TIIE RED AND THE XVHITE . 16 MUSIC .... . 16 SPORTS . . . . IS COLLEGE CALENDAR . . 21 T IIE LIBRARY - AT YOUR SERVICE . . 22 ALUININI NEWS . . . . 23 SO XVHAT . . 24 XVHY A lh IATH CLUB? . . 25 FASHIONS .... . 26 XVIIAT COLLEGE DID FOR ME . . 29 ADVERTISERIENTS . . 30 IIUIXIOR . . - 30 Photograph - Iunior Class Adviser PHgC 2 Orchestra Personnel . . - P2130 17 Mary Di Peppi Design on Page 13 ...... Miriam Kolodncr C lEfffI'jffi THE TOWER LIGHT is published monthly - October H YI 1 I' ' I' t, Catlwfine Gm- through Iune - by the Students of the State 'teachers College limes lm at Towson, Maryland. ....... . ALICE MUNY - - AI U' 0 Edt I ariablrle 1 Or PER YEAR . 20 CIHZNTS PVR COPY MAGNOLIAS AND PROGRESS 61126 97111164 I5 VI' OIR DOOR MJXIN. The willow trees that have hrtiveh' stood gnurd over our iee-ehoked brook through the long winter are now mix'- ing green baht' rihhons over its rippling snrfnee, The tunefni song spnrrows are singing in the Glen. or feasting on the inseets in the rnugnohrr trees. 2 josfilz Those hlessed inagnohn trees! Iloxx' the rnernory 1 their hlosaonw has cheered ns! How the 1Jl'Ol11iQC of the eonring hm heurtened ns in the days of Storm and eoli Their huge hronze hnds, stouth' resisting the pen trgiting eold. have kept up un nnhihored rhythm 1 growth. NYith gnnazing rapidity they ure now nnfoldir white and dusty pink hloasorns before our very eye TOWER LIGH 3 S blossoms of such beauty of line and color that we can i . . . imly stand motionless before them and gaze 111 silence. 1 j As they breathe out their almost transparent beauty jind shed their glow on man and wall, they seem to Hall us to springtime consciousness, to new effort and 1 ulfillment in all our ways. If we are willing to listen, hey whisper to us the secret of progress. 51 One of their first rules would be that we take stock :if ourselves as students, just as one cleans the attic i11 1 gpring, and make plans for successful unfoldment next wear and all the years. Do we need to discard some habits, habits that im- bede our progress, or some outmoded beliefs that have io further use? Are we wasteful and careless, even lazy lj nd indifferent concerning our great opportunities for jndividual development and democratic living? Are we iliscouraged over the results of our efforts to study and lehieve? Let us make a fresh start. Gratitude makes the ijtarting easier. Encouraging another is a great help. sjfwice this year has one member of the faculty been lieartened by the thanks of students, once by a student or assistance in the making of a teaching unit, and jince by a college class for attending a jamboree. Per- -iaps it will encourage the Assembly Committee to jzhank them periodically for the inspiring programs of- i ered us for convocation. N owadays, students and faculty alike seem to stay awake altogether. That I'1HlSt be a ign of progress. V 1 r L .1 ji Y. ,VVe can resolve to be flexible in making adjustments Jr the social good. VVays can be found to share o11r l ssets with organizations and other colleges to our l iutual benefit and understanding. ij We need to arrange our daily activities i11 a simple, flrderly fashion and sweep out unnecessary complexi- ies, as well as to turn from an uneritical, imitative i attern of living and teaching, to a plan of maturing l , idgment and originality. Let us not be like the Chinese 1 :holar who, Pearl Buck states, hated anything that was 1 'esh or original because he could not fit it i11to the r :yles he knew. . Let us be avid for learning, and approach the task .1 the spirit of receptivity and lllCiCPCllCiCllt accom- lishmentg let us be articulate as well as thoughtful and ijtilling to offer leadership to give impetus to progress: End above all, let us develop the art of attentive listen- jig, in order to live gracefully and to understand the ljrirring eve11ts of today. jj VVe 1'HllSt not be outdone by obstacles. Carleton .,IVashburne tells in his A Living Philosophy of Educa- jon of a XVinnetka child who entered a formal private jijthool in England. After some boring Chapel periods, ,ie boy addressed the astonished headmaster with an l F jjil-XY - 1940 -1 il in offer to make the assembly ll1Ol'C interesting. Later the headmaster told tl1e story, lf the young blighter had been one of our own boys, l would have caned him for l1is impudenee. But l realized that he had just come from a new-fangled school i11 America, so I merely put l1i111 i11 his place! VVhat is our solution for this problem? Let us laugh 111ore. Said a student of Buffalo State Teachers College recently, Laughter keeps ugliness from a woman's face and meanness from a man's dis- position. A laugh is invigorating and cleansing to Hlllld and bodyfl Let us strive for good fellowship. In a letter to his wife at the close of the Civil VVar, Sidney Lanier writes thus of their children, Let us try to teach them, dear wife, that it is only the small soul that ever cherishes bitterness, for the climate of a large and loving heart is too warm for that frigid plant. just as the enthusiasm of our students made a Tot Lot possible for little children in Baltimore, so we could organize a plan to share in alleviating the suf- ferings of children in war-torn Europe. It would mean sacrifice, but surely human happiness means IDOIC to us than amusements-and gum. Let us welcome our parents to the college. lt is good to have them come because all is well, and because we wish them to participate in our life, rather than to hear about it and pay the bills. Summer plans are sl1api11g themselves. One gro11p of juniors has a plan underway to see the Mississippi river this summer. The rest of us may go abroad at ho111e by enjoying trips to the mountains and ocea11. ln the sa111e way that the introduction of the practicums in the college has afforded opportunities for close obser- vation of child growth and deeper thought on pro- cedures to achieve this growth, so perhaps the college will sometime give proper credit for su1111ner camping with children on a twenty-four hour basis. Through all these experiences, o11r eyes and ears will be more attuned to soeiety's problems, and our hearts and minds will be ready to discover effective solutions and to raise worthwhile problems i11 11ew areas. These things will help our college to fulfill its destiny to stand like the magnolias in their places, sharing with the world the fragrance of its progressing ideas. The waters of inspiration will gush out fro111 it. and young people will come to it thro11gl1 the years. john Finley wrote the same message of our magnolia trees i11 The hflystery of the Minds Desire: To be seeing the world made new every morning as if it were the 11lOI'I'1l1'lg of the first day, and tllCll to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were tl1c last day, is the daily curriculum of the l1llIlCl'S desire. 3 hildren n This Changing orld PARENTS' PRIDE and joy! Teacher's little citi- zens! Gifted children! Unfortunate children! Poor children! Rich children! XVhite kiddies! Colored ones! C-ustaf-who speaks with an accent! lane-who enjoys elocution! Eleanor-who lives fifteen stories above the ground! Paul-who lives on a wheat far1n! Barbara- whose father is a bank president! Billy-whose father helps keep the city clean! Individuals-all of them, irrespective of their particular situations, Individuals because they live in a country that recognizes and pro- vides for the development of their individualism. How fortunate are these future American leaders in this changing world of today! And why do I say future leaders? Because now. more than ever, teachers are privileged to lead and to train children to live in a democracy. This means training in leadership and cooperative living, where responsi- bilities are shared by each member of a group. All of today's infants cannot be tomorrow's f'Roosevclts or Dewey-'s or A'Fords or Thorndikes but they can be leaders in their local governments. in their smaller professions, in their communities, and certainly all of them can be leaders in their families. But they must first be shown the ways of democratic livinU. Here the teacher's part is the most valuable one. Recently a Finnish teacher stood looking at the ruins of her nursery school. Two days before, the enemy had passed overhead in bombing planes, and almost im- mediately the school and the surrounding park and the church nearby had passed away with the planes. Some unfortunate women and little children had also been caught unaware. The teacher's heart seemed almost to stop. This loss had been great but there were still others who needed her guidance. She turned from this sight, relieved to know that she might be allowed to bring happiness for a little while to some children who might never realize freedom. At the same time an American teacher stood with her class pledging allegiance to the Hag of the United States of America, She would soon start her day's duty of helping these Americans appreciate their free- dom and intelligently understand the positions of their brothers and sisters in other parts of the world. A significant movement is being started throughout this country by Dorothy Canfield Fisher that will aid all teachers in helping their pupils be democratic citi- zens. This movement is known as the Children's Cru- sade. Interest in the refugee problem led some Ver- 4 D mont people to care for young German refugee chil dren during the summer months last year that thej might learn American ways of living in New England The effect this had upon the American youth led Mrsl Fisher to her larger idea of the Crusade. Through thij Crusade, every American child may contribute pennief to be used for the aid of innocent children who arf the victims of greed and war. Such contributions will br made only after the teachers have helped the childrer realize the freedom and fortunate opportunities offered to them, and yet denied to boys and girls like them' selves who live in another part of the world. 1 This Crusade offers a wide field for the teacherz XV ill he use this opportunity and go on to devise othe- ways of giving children the freedom which belongs tc them? I To those of you who will graduate this year, am those of you who will graduate in years to come,-i' Y your interest children ? Decide now how you will train intelligent happy citizens and begin your work Progress? CHARLES GROSS FOR A few fleeting seconds of this day and age I sat and pondered, not weak and weary, but reasonably aware of my insignificant position among these equally insignificant mites called men. Thoughts flashed, ii the meaningless manner which they have of flashing and carried me into the realm of those subjects whielf loom most prominently on the normal mental horizoi of the present day. The isms are rearing their uglr heads and ever stretching out to encompass some neva i mass of puzzled, less aggressive individuals. Certaii sectors of this globe have become so densely mobilize: and fortified that less informed persons might evei entertain a half-hidden hope of some sort of isostati: shift of land masses as a form of divine adjustment However, a saner view anticipates no such change. bu-5 merely a rearrangement in the powers that be witl' especial regard for the relation of this movement t-1 our own status in this country. After some thought oi the subject we must eventually arrive at the question Ol whether or not the species as a whole is moving toward TOWER LIGHT5. X 'Y i A higher lever of culture and ultimately a new and im- roved plane of civilization. Obviously, as separate units, ie are not agreed upon the most desirable plane. Here in this country we are amply supplied with Jhools, churches, means of communication and trans- Qqortation, wide recreational opportunities and plenty f natural resources, The same could easily be said of gjiany of todays belligerents. Today's model of each Q, it I fl 'r K S ll .,-j ,, jr . 'n E. K f fl f the things mentioned is fortunately but a milestone n the road to something better, yet there is repre- ented in every case a product of the labor and ingenuity f man over a period of a few thousand years. The same 4 still true of these contributions of progress among he belliverents. Either we have become too passive v D nd complacent in the acceptance of the advantages of .iris age, or some countries are willfully miseonstruing , . hat which was actually meant to bring men to a closer, llretter understanding. l F VVho is to decide whether we are progressing or not? negative responses as well as a great many thoughtless ones. Since we never even expect a homogeneous rc- action from any group, especially on such a question, it seems wiser to consider a more objective variable, namely, the effect of certain innovations over long periods of time. Even at such an early stage man may review the major events of the past and with a reason- ably acceptable degree of success class them as either decided marks of progress or definite retrogressions, not because they were at the time of their occurrence helpful or harmful but because of their far-reaching effects denoting a greater or less degree of progress. Therefore, our conclusions should not be drawn too quickly, few of us would hesitate to sacrifice our lives in the defense of our own homes, in spite of our pre- viously well-founded ideas of what is or isn't genuine progress. Should we not then exercise a great deal of foresight in any major activity and immunize ourselves against this popular idea of blind acceptance of au- jf fjlertainly the decisions would vary with the individual thority through the use of a little more rational self- und we would be verv likelv to Get both positive and Guidance? r . . D l to ll jj. tl n Progress jr ' REUBEN NIILLER l THE CHAIR or bench upon which you are sitting hand and similar objects made familiar through pre- jxists only because people such as yourself sit on it. vious experience. Second, a differentiation must be jf we are to find a more beneficial way of sitting, or made between the object and all other objects made if we were to abolish sitting altogether. or if in some familiar through previous experience. These are ac- jther unknown manner, we were generally to cease Using chairs for sitting purposes, the time would be pliiort indeed before they would exist only as relics llf an age gone by. This same obvious truth obtains not I r r ri l. r 1 V l l ii' P 3 f ff s ll july for a chair or a bench, but for a bed, a table, a fook, or radio-in short, anything that is the product if human effort. The history of the race is packed with lividences of culture that are today only representative if something that used to be. Pyramids, for example, ire no longer built, because they no longer serve the human motives that were manifestations of the specific religious, economic, and social conditions of the time Jiuring which they were built. Many other instances night be cited, but the point is too obvious to demand inrtlier exposition. j' Indeed, the idea of the function of an object plays ibn integral role in the very definition of it. Something 0 be defined. must first be recognized, and recognition intails at once two distinct processes of thought. First, in association must be made between the object at .,l.rAY - 1940 coinplished by generalization of all objects of the in- dividuals accumulative environment and are manifested in two ways: the idea of the physical properties and the idea of the functions of the matter. In other words, we never recognize a thing without considering its function as well as its material properties and then associating and differentiating it as far as these two attributes are concerned with objects of previous experience. A chair, as an example, is functionally a scat for one person and materially something with legs and a back, in no definition of chair can these two parts be omitted. ln many eases the idea of the function is more integral than the idea of the phyiseal properties because it is not so easily removed from the mind. Re- move the back of a chair, and although its function may remain the same, it is no longer a chair-it becomes a stool. Again, at times, a chair serves very well as something off which one cats-the function of a table. But in such cases, the object is still referred to as rr chair used as a table. because the function ascribed to 5 it is still that of a scat, thus necessitating the modifying phrase used as a table in the designation. The foregoing implies that all material manifestations of present human culture have functions. This is in- deed true, especially when we realize that it is these functions that primarily supplied the original impetus for their institution and are continuously making for their propagation as long as they fthe functionsj re- main intact, ln the final analysis, the entire process is inevitably for the realization of the natural law which calls for satisfaction of living matter, or more specifi- cally. human life. As soon as there is a change in the human drive and in the corresponding function of matter to satisfy this drive, there follows a corresponding change in the form of the matter itself to further compensate that drive. The nature of progress implies first of all some change. As has already been pointed out, this change is the direct result of corresponding changes in the essential motivations of people which work toward increasing satisfaction of human life. Not all change is progress, however, there must be a change for the better in order to satisfy a complete definition of the term. It necessarily follows therefrom that the changes in human drives must themselves be of a higher standard. XVhat is the agency that makes for higher human aspiration? XVhat is the instrument that drives indi- viduals to seek ever more worthy ideals and realities? The one obvious answer appears as broad as the hori- zon: education. It is education that uncovers for one the wealth of acquaintances that he has hitherto not known. It is education that, because it reveals unrealized experiences, makes the individual dissatisfied with the banality and seeming uneventfulness of the present life. lt is education, that, because it makes him restive and impatient, eventually results in the progress neces- sary to satisfy that individual. In defining progress as change for the better, there is at once implied a comparison, and the two parts compared are easily understood when we realize the element of time that must be entailed. For in the evaluation of any progress, the comparison must be made between two well-defined periods in racial or geologic histories. True such evaluation is more fre- quently traced through a series of stations on the track of time, but essentially, such a process must consist of the accumulative comparisons between successive pairs of posts and a subsequent synthesis to make the trip a continuous one. The basis for comparison, however. is not as easily discussed. VVhat is to determine whether or not one thing is better than another? lt is correct to say that 6 a a thing is good to the degree to which it serves it:i purpose. But what is to be the measuring stick or which the goodness of one stage of civilization or om phase of culture can be compared with another? VVha', is to be the ultimate acme of perfection which will se' the goal towards which progress may be said to mov: and which will determine the road it is to take? Astronomy today is a far cry from its early astrologica, beginnings. Legitimate music of today is quite arf improvement over its mono-elemental rhythmic origin' And certainly today's art of teaching by far exceed the primitive method of training as far as applicatiori of psychology and philosophy are concerned. All of this present-day endeavor and any of many others tot abundant to specify have reached a more advanc i stage of scientific achievement, but how are we to saf that any one of them is inherently better than its any cestor of one, a hundred, or a thousand generations agoi The answer lies in the functional aspect of humar. culture already expounded. Things are better if thej increase the satisfaction of human life, and, conversely things are not better if they decrease the satisfaction og human life: the degree of progress varies directly a the degree to which it makes for personal happines, In this association there appears a pessimistic point-of' view that is decidedly difiicult to counter satisfactoril It is a point-of-view that is reactionary in scope an materialistic in character. The trend of reasoning i follows is this: If progress increases happiness, it i motivated only by the desire for happiness that is ii, turn inspired by education. Now happiness is the ba, ance that is accomplished between desires and thi satisfaction of those desires, and the less that person de sires, the happier he will be. Don't educate him! Th, fewer will be his desires, the less restive he will becom i the happier he will be. VVhy educate an individual t the modern method of taking a bath? lt will only mak' him want a bathtub, And to the extent that he doesn. get the tub, he will be unhappy. Granted it's n progressive, but if progress is simply the means to thi end of happiness, would not some other means be jus? as desirable? And isn't this other means simpler ti accomplish? Furthermore. doesn't it do away with tha- intermediate stage of unrest, that exists until progree can fulfill its function? Finally, isn't it true that educry tion besides breeding dissatisfaction, breeds more edi cation. which brings about more dissatisfaction, thu' making for a vicious momentum-gathering process that increases in size, rolling downhill like a snowball? ' The difiiculty in coping with such a point-of-view' lies in its pragmatism and is due to the education? principle that the concrete is more easily understooi fCoutinued on Page 27' TOWER LIGHl than the abstract and to the i ! I I l I j LAMENT OF THE NORMAL CHILD i PHYLLIS KICGINLEY !, lFrom The Educational F orum-March, I9-lOl 1. ll was strolling past a schoolhouse when I spied a sobbing I lad: i tHis little faee was sorrowful, Pal, come tell me why 1 , you weep, I said, and why you seem so sad. 1And thus the weeping child lisped his tragic tale. i in 9The school Where I go is a modern school I .Witli numerous modern graces, And there they cling to the modern rule 'I li i,Of Cherish the Problem Cases! iFrom nine to three I tl develop me, FI-I dance when I feel daney, f.Or everywhere lay on With creaking crayon ,lI'he colors that suit my fancy. ,l,But when the eommoner tasks are done, !iiDeserted, ignored, I stand, ,For the rest have complexes, everyone, z.One hyperacting band. i Oh, how can I ever be reconciled iiI'o my hatefully normal station! li Why eouldn't I be a problem child jEIndowed with a small fixation? l2Why wasn't I trained for a problem child .-IVVith an interesting fixation? il l i. 4 I I dread the sound of the morning bell, il !,The iron has entered my soul. IIIYITI a square little peg who fits too well iiln a square little normal hole. if or seven years iiln Mortimer Sears gqt-Ias the Oedipus angle Hourished, !And Iessamine Gray tiihe cheats at play riBeeause she is undernourished. ,The teachers beam on Frederick Knipe ,With scientific gratitude, ,For Fred, they claim, is a perfect type pf the Antisocial Attitude. find Cuthbert Iones has his temper riled ilin a way professors mention, ,LBut I am a perfectly normal child '50 I dou't get any attention: l'm nothing at all but a normal child 250 I don't get the least attention. EVIAY - 1940 l W A 3 l 'I'he others ieer as they pass me by, They titter without forbearance, Hes Perfectly Normal they shrilly ery, XVith Perfectly Normal Parents. For I learn to read XV ith a normal speed, I answer when I'm commanded, Infected Antrums Don't give me tantrums, I don't even write left handed. I build with blocks when they give me blocks. XVhen it's busy hour, I labor: And I seldom delight in landing socks On the ear of my little neighbor. So here, by luekier lads reviled, I sit on the step alone. XVhy couldnt I be a problem child XV ith a ease to call my own? XV hy wasn't I born a problem child XV ith a complex of my own? C E I. L I N I IAMES G. IETT VVhose delicate works, whose soft and light design Have brought a nations potent genius forth? XV hose modeled thoughts have shown a peop And drawn their right distinction with a line? les' worth The workers work of works becomes a shrine- A thought that had its simple lyric birth Now shows two peoples' common thoughts XVhose lasting fame is this?-Cellini, thine! In shining silver. bronze, and gold are east The statues and the pieces of his art. In minds of men throughout the world is eau The mem'ry and the greatness of his past. Our hope of racial ties shall never part, on earth. ght It lives an ideal in the works that he has wrought. D E A D BIATILDA XVOLPIERT I saw him only yesterday: XVe spoke-and once he smiled. Oh, God, if only I had known His grief. his wild Despairing, hopeless pride. XVho knows . . . Ile might have liyedg Instead-hc died. 7 GORDON F. SHULES ARE NOT all men destined to die? If not on the tield of battle. then in their beds or in the factories wherein they slave? XVe wage a war to save an ideal. But I know. and you know. that we are slaughtered to save a vision. Not a symbol of peace and happinessg but one of money, and wealth. and greed. Not ours is this wealthg but the possession of others who tell us that we go to a glorious death to save Liberty. Men have fought for freedom before and will be asked to tight for freedom again. The ideal is gone but no one took it. It disappeared as ice that stands in the hot sun on a summer afternoon. Long years after. men will light and bleed and die for this freedom. I am like a drop of water that is lost in the Hood that covers the earth. But always the earth rises again. just as it rises now. I will die and no one but you will care. And as the years roll by you too will cease to care and look upon my name with pride written on a granite slab. He died for Liberty. you'll whisper as all the i others whisper, and that will take the sting from my absence. Yes, I shall die and the symbol and the ideal will flourish: and then the ideal will die, and again men will murder each other to save the symbol and regain the ideal. And again and again this will happe A as it happened before. So be not sorry for me. I can look at the fools and laugh at the hideous jok of slaughter. The fools who seek to kill me are iightin for the same thing as I. so what is the difference whic dominates? Liberty will be the end . . . Liberty and to gain for others. for I shall be dead and cold an' forgotten. I shall not leave my medals for you to remember m by, for the senseless brass will moulder and the ribbons will fade and the token will be forgotten. I leave yo but a kiss. Its meaning will not be obscured by time nor will it ever be forgotten and lie around for sonic small child to find and wear bravely upon his ches Scientific and IAMES P. IN THE realm of physical science our generation is witnessing. whether it knows it or not. the most rapid and outstanding achievement which has taken place in any tield of endeavor since the dawn of civilization. This amazing progress is, I think, the principal feature of the age in which we live. Consider for a moment how the advance of physics and chemistry have revolu- tionized our ways of living and making a living. In comparatively few years science has brought to the door of the poorest citizen the necessities and luxuries which were formerly enjoyed only by the very rich. Or which were not available at all. The railroad. the air- plane. the X-ray. the electric light. the products of synthetic chemistry are all now within reach of every- one. To modern man nothing seems impossible in this era of physical advance, nor does he see any reason why such advance should not be continued. Scientific achievement has progressed with such great speed and iminensity that today it seems to be without limits. Yet at the same time we find that social develop- ment has gone forward at a snail's pace. and that at times it seems to have been at an absolute standstill. On questions of a political. economic. legal. and ethical 8 Social Progress OICONNOR nature man has shown himself to be a colossal blun dererg and through repeated error has found himself ii a muddle of perplexing social difficulties. The curren war will undoubtedly raise many new problems. and i is extremely doubtful whether it will solve any. During the nineteenth century. it is true, there seem to have been considerable social development. such a a rapid rise in the standard of living. the abolition o slavery in America, the more complete establishment 0 nationalism. the diffusion of popular education. and th extension of democratic government. Surprising as i may seem. these evidences of social progress are du chieiiy to the achievements of natural science. For instance. the introduction of power driven m chinery has lowered costs. raised the standard of livin and provided more leisure for millions of workers. The machine has transformed the character of human labo Previous to its introduction most men labored at purel routine drudgery. XVith the coming of machine powe human slavery ceased to be necessary. and those wh direct industry came to realize that the machine opera tor must be literate: he must be able to read and undef stand instructions. The rapid advance of popular educ TOWER LIGH' I symbol. I am comforted, for there is liberty to gain . . ' I I I I I ,I :L I. II I . I I I I I I QI fl I I. I I I I I Il I 'I I If 3. 'I F .on in industrial nations is accounted for more on this :Ore than on any other. And with popular education as come a desire on the part of the masses for greater artieipation in government. It must be admitted, however, that the influence of :ientifie achievement has oft times complicated social roblemsg for example, the airplane and poison gases ave added to the horrors of war, but such complica- ons only amplify the ery for adequate sociological Jlutions. Thus, we see an astonishing contrast between the hysieal sciences and the social studies. ln one field ie flow of progress has been rapid, in the other- uggish and interrupted. VVhy does this amazing situ- :ion exist? The answer to this question lies in the nature of the rigin and the development of the material universe fid the social structure. 'Nature. in constructing the former, has worked in 'ays we call seientifiel', and there is in the universe 'wholeness and a oneness-an interrelation and an Iiterdependence. It is man's discovery of the unchange- ole laws of this universe which has enabled him to lvance so far materially. On the other hand man built the latter. not scientifically, but in the main hap- hazardly. He often confused a step forward with a step in the right direction. Instead of working towards an ideal, he changed the ideal and called it progress, for- getting that we can never know whether or not we are making progress unless we have a fixed point of reference. I think Dr. Ioseph Mayer struck the keynote of the whole problem when he said: Hlt is as if Nature in the dim distant long ago wrote a book, which we now call the natural sciences, and as if Man very much later began the writing of another book, still unfinished, the book of human society. Mans Book, to be understandable and scien- tific, should follow precisely the lines laid down by NaIture's Book, but it as yet does not. lt has been written largely as a child might write it, without understanding and knowledge, and its various era- sures and additions have occurred chiefly as war or famine or social upheaval has guided the pen. Only as man applies the lessons of the Book of Nature to the thoroughgoing revision of his Book of Society can he hope for intelligent and rapid social progress. Progress for One nl CATHERINE CRAY IIIOBILIZATION HAD come eight months ago IPI Ameriania, Men from twenty to thirty-eight had f sen called. There remained only those over thirty- I Ii ght, under twenty, and those young men with families fm support. Iohn Gallaudet was listed in this last group. IHe and Charles had looked after Mom since they 'ere twelve-sometimes selling papers. shining shoes playing errand boy for everyone in the neighborhood. -ion see Mom had heart trouble. The doctor said she i I I1ouldn't have worked so hard when the boys were Jung. She shouldn't have scrubbed floors and taken gp washing at the same time. But soon she could tend ieaeefully to a little garden as she always had wanted. fer boys found steady work. Then M day. Charles as the oldest-twenty-five. He left for the battlefield lith the first troops. Iohn was left. Charles and Iohn Iere different somehow. Charles read newspapers avidly Rad believed every word he read. He would have liked ,II have used his two strong brown hands on that little iflexander the Great and wrung every breath from his I Indy. john rarely read the newspapers. He was much IIAY - 1940 like his mother-small, pale and bespectacled. He read authoritative books a great deal. trying to decipher human nature, trying to understand it. hln time the little man's subjects were bound to revolt. No peaceful, intelligent country could long endure the enslavernent of their neighbors. Iohn could build a whole evenings conversation around these statements. Besides. he would tell you that it was none of his business. He felt that he didn't really know what the war was about or why his country was involved. It hadn't been attacked, no more ships were sunk by one side than by the other. For another thing, he didn't even like to see moving pictures of people being killed. He wasn't a coward, he was just different. So it was that Iohn stayed at home to work for Mom while Charles went to battle. Charles' story was at the other extreme. XVounded. and fighting under the severcst. nerve-wracking shell- fire, he led his regiment to a victory. Ile won a cross of honor and his name became a password for courage. He recognized the enemy and killed him whenever possible. He wasn't blood-thirstyg he was a good soldier. 9 At home john worked like fury. Always he studied in spare moments. He advanced in business to the position of senior clerk of the company. The golden opportunity of becoming manager loomed close. Here there was no killing. How he hated even the suggestion. Even though his company manufactured blades, he made sure that he didn't see the long. thin, shining pieces gleaming with anticipation. At home he was happy, too, His mother loved Charles, but john was the baby. They understood one another so well that no words were necessary. But john had a battle to tight, too. He fought it every morning, every lunchtime, every evening. He knew what people thought when they saw him on the street in civilian clothes. It wasn't easy to look at the fathers and mothers of sons who had gone over there. It was hard to keep on walking when accusing eyes bored through his back, Once he felt like turning and screaming to the whole stupid, unfeeling lot of them, A'Wlio are you to stare at me? VVhat have I done? ls it a sin for me to keep my mother alive? He never did. The hour that the little gold star had been placed in Mom's window, Mom had a heart attack. Expensive doctors were necessary and nurses, too. john worked harder, hoped that THEY would be satisfied with his brother's sacrifice and leave him alone. One day the whole matter was settled for him. A large white en- velope came announcing the fact that he was wanted at the war office. He had been drafted. His was the next class called-men with families. Little silver and black specks circled before his eyes. His heart con- tracted. He gasped. What about Mom? The letter said some money would be provided. He laughed, shrilly, hysterically. Some money! A country, already pinched by war, handing money to old women who couldn't raise a hand in defense of that country. And he-he couldn't Ere a gun. Even at the fairs. he jumped when Charles laughingly shot white tin ducks at the shooting galleries. And the long, shining bayonet he had seen on the posters. he couldn't plunge one of those into . . . Hjohn. dear. Come. Breakfast is waiting. You musn't be late. Yes, mother. Comingf' VVhat did the mailman want, dear? The tiny woman buttered a piece of toast and placed it at john's plate. john had answered that question mentally. So many were called. Maybe he'd be forgotten. He smiled and gave some simple explanation. But governments don't forget-especially in time of war. One warm golden day john came home to mother with four soldiers-military police. His mother sat star- 10 l ing at the little gold star in the window. The four mer moved quickly to surround him. Their purpose was clear. But john is my only son-now. The men were im mune to this. y He can't use a gun. She continued to stare at thi star. john stared at the bayonets. He doesn't like to harm people, was the last plea The men shouldered their rifles and two of the swung john around to leave the room, The paralyzing moment passed. The boy saw suddenly that he mus live the nightmare he had feared. He broke from the and ran to bury his face in his mother's lap. He crie and squeezed her hands, holding fast as though sh could save him. After a few minutes, he realized tha of solace, ha- his mother had offered no soft words y not smoothed his hair as had been her wont when hi up slowly ani came to her with trouble. He looked then very quietly rose. Soon he left the room with th police. john was spared from the tiring squad and sent ti the front, perhaps because of the circumstances,-hi' mother's death. Her heart failure could have beei caused by only one thing-possibly a second gold sta that only she could see. Wfhat john felt is not for u to imagine. THEY had taken his brother. THEY har taken his security. THEY had robbed him of a careei THEY had killed his mother. A pale nervous youtl became paler, ill-tempered, bitter and rebellious agains all the command that he held responsible. A drunken word from him caused fifty deaths and th loss of a strategic position. Drunken? Or quite sober Communication with the back lines was severed bi a clumsy soldiers misstep. Qjohn's.j Clumsy? Possibly His companions hated his regressive, sullen silence, hi half-hidden sneers. Volunteers. for the most part, the' had no use for a forced draft soldier and he had ng use for the Usaintly. hyprocritical, medal-worshipinl bunch . He knew that they saw him hang back whey an advance was ordered. He knew that they had ye to see him tire accurately or use a bayonet advar tageously. They were glad when he deserted. They cursed him when they heard he had joined the enemy They screamed for his blood when an advance wa thwarted because of information he had carried wit. him. They yelled with glee when a patrol surroundei an enemy squad and shot a particular one in the bac as he ran for shelter. As he lay on the field, john felt no regret for wha he had done, He had had his revenge and now it wa all over. There'd be no presidency of the blade corr pany for him. There'd be no tContinued on Page Z0 TOWER LIGHf l ll I-low Well Do You Know Maryland? !1ARYLAND S population of 1 600,000 in the 1930 ensus listed 660 000 or approximately one-third as ural Economically farming ranks second to manu- icturing employing about 85 000 people. I Generally speaking farming 1S diversified, indicated y the fact that with the exception of tobacco, prac- 1cally every important crop and every type of livestock nd poultry is produced to a greater or less extent in very county in the state Of the average 590,000,000 alue of farm products sold traded, or used by the perators families general farming accounts for 522,- 00 000 This figure can be compared with the following istribution of the types of farming carried on in Mary- ind in order of their y alue General Frrmm 523,000,000 Dairyin 22,000,000 Crop spcciilty 11,000,000 Truck 10,000,000 Poultry 6,000,000 Cish ram 6,000,000 Abnormil 5,000,000 Fruit 3,000,000 Xmmrl specirltx 2,000,000 Sclf sufHcin 2,000,000 Such terms as dairy ing truck poultry and fruit are IOHN CHILCOAT self-explanatory. Cash grain refers to corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat - those grains that are threshed and sold immediately rather than those fed to animals whose by-products yield the profits. Crop specialty refers to tobacco, white potatoes, and sweet potatoes, animal specialty to beef cattle, sheep, hogs, and their by-products-those animals that are not kept particularly for their offspring, but instead are sold for their meat and slaughtered by-products. Abnormal refers to institutions, horse farms, forest products, etc., self-suflicing to farms where fifty percent or more of the products are used by the operator's family. General farms are those where the products from any one source are less than forty percent of the whole while the special types are farms where the products from any one source exceeds forty percent of the total. The agricultural picture of Maryland looks simple, but it is a mass of intricate problems that require solu- tions or certainly considerable improvements obtainable only by a greater educational system and a more thorough understanding and greater cooperation be- tween producer and consumer. Illhe and PlI.l1lSlI.l11el1lI BY rnnun 1. Prologue 1 HAD spent the evening engrossed in some harsh ,ut thought-provoking poems by Archibald 1V1acLeish. low the only thing 1 had ever learned from MacLeish ras how to Write poetry , and 1 prided myself some- fhat in having been able to reproduce the MacLeish fliom in personal yerse efforts. 1 repeat: 1 had spent the yening reading Maclueish' and as 1 am every evening ompelled to do betook myself to bed at 11 o'clock. lear of conscience, though a little drilled in visual apacities. Once under protection of a pair of woolen lankets little time elapsed before 1 was asleep: as Jundly as that prox erbial log which makes its way only y having dozing humans compared to it. 11. The Dream , Needless to say, my activity the rest of the night 1rAY - 1940 i 1 y l . 7 .1 7 A' 3 ' ,v 1: ' 1 . . 1 y .b . 7 . . , . , . . D, 1- I r A l' ' .5 U 11 , ' 7 , ' 1. '. '. . 1 J za A 11 ' ' : l . 2 ' g ...... ,... 1 g .,,....,, .. ' 'xiiif' W I 1 g ,' . . 1 +'.,c..ff.. I , 1 ' 2 I 'z ,' .....,.,, ...... QV - g ..,..,............. 1 . , - . 1 , , , i ll 1 1 I 1 l o ' an 3, I 1 1 7 U 1 .. ,. 11 1, 1 , 1 1 1 ' ro 1 i 1 , J A - D 1 e 1' , , ., , 11 4 an 41 1 1 HARRY M. LONDON was not conscious. 1 had a dream, 1 did not experience the horridness of the night's affairs. 1 only witnessed them with the objectivity of a diagnosing doctor, with- out the diagnosis. My sleep began in a park: on a park bench, newly- painted green for the spring and the birds and the spring-fever-ridden men who percnnially turn to park benches for small-time salvation. 1 was on the bench, and here. too, 1 was sleeping . . . quite soundly. Under the bench was a very nebulous hound, whose nebulosity prevented my identifying it as to species. And behind me and the bench. a tree: thick-trunkcd. heayy-in- foliageg offering all the shade of thc African tree: but it was night, and my sleeping self had all the shade it needed. Passed five minutes of a thus far static dream, and an almost bald-headed man ncarcd the bench. The dog told me so, and because of his barking. 1 awakened. ll By the look on the gentleman's facc. I was to have been rudely startled out of park-bench sleep within the time it would have taken for him to pick up a rock and pitch it in my direction. And I could see that this gentleman was. from all facial appearances, Mr. MacLeish himself, whose picture I had seen in magazines. Now lXIacLeish is not a brutal man, though he has evinced some left-wing tendencies, and I saw now that, since I was already awake, he was discarding the rock, happily, not for better weapons. He seated himself on the bench next to me, kicking the dog away, but the Elthy little animal took up his place under the next bench. some thirty-tive feet away, realizing, perhaps, that I was in for a disastrous evening. MacLeish began to speak. But his hand was in his pocket. tense, much as one sees in the cinema. and I was not a good example of steady nerves .at the time. I understand you've been imitating my style in recent months, hlr. ----- , he opened. And I want to know why! He waited for a few moments, and got no answer, for Mr. -it was unusually in- articulate QI wasl, and the poet was moved to action instead of weak. oft-mistaken words. He Masked me to come with him. His voice was gentle, and his manner calm, but his hand was still in his pocket. I could not refuse the dog-kicker. and so I proceeded to march wheresoever Nlaclseish decided he might do a better job of . . . well, shall we say i- revenge for plagiarism? Yes. Because then, in efforts to rationalize this dastardly act. I lit on the mildest of my offenses, aiming to show the world, later, if I were ever to come out of this night's trouble alive, for what heinous crime I had been punished. My end was not nearly so rapid as I had expected. I was seated uneeremoniously in a clean-looking, shin- ing-by-lamplight automobile. but at this junction I was blindfolded with a clean white handkerchief, and without any word at all, the car started. and I was being taken to . . . God and MacLeish knew where. XVe must have gone about on wheels for hours on end. and still I felt MacLeish neither tiring, nor resolv- ing fhe spoke nothingl to end up anywhere in particu- lar. I hoped then it wouldn't be the bottom of the lake. but the lake, I thought, might be better than . . . And still he stopped not. I linally mustered up suf- ficient nerve to ask him as to where the honorable poet and librarian was taking me for, if he preferred. where the honorable poet was goingl and when we would get there. To this he replied with harslmess that re- minded me of the booted dog's aching rib: Shut up! I trusted, since he valued his own life. that both his hands were where they belonged, that his gun I ffl was 12 no longer in a ready position to harm me were I to . . . But I was blindfolded. After six years of riding about he stopped the car, and. alighting. I was asked to march rapidly ahead.. I obeyed, ending the brief trek at the door of a house.. flt must have been a house, still, I was unable to See and it might not have been a house!j A How are you, jimmy? lNIacLeish asked the fellow' who had opened the door. But it wasn't a fellow. Itl was a girl. whose voice. I judged, belonged to a young lady about seventeen years of age. small, yet domineer- ingly large: thin. yet outstandingly plump. Perhaps my ears were deceptive tonight. Iimmy answered she was quite all right. and who was this nice-looking person Archibald had brought to the house CI had guessed correctlyj and wouldn't we both come in and have a cup or two of tea with her. I YVe came in. Maclseish and I. and the poet was gracious enough to permit me to take the blindfold off. whereupon I set eyes on a most beautiful creature: quite short. thin. but well-built, very dark-haired, and I shivered through and through when she said, 'AHOW are you today? A moment later when she asked me whether or not I knew why Archibald had brought me to the confounded house lwheri I laid eyes on her it was already a blessed housej I almost fainted dead away for the passing thrill she sent vibrating through me. Shake hands with the young lady, fellow! Mr. MacLeish suggested. And so I did. But the squeeze she set on my right hand was something unbearableg her strength belied her femininity I winced in paing but the light was coming to terms with my eyes, and the nature of her face and her body allayed most all the pain I felt while she held my hand. I winced' under this pain for a half-hour while MacLeisli launched a tirade against what he called adolescents usurping the pens and the glory of matured poets. I granted him all he said. and the truth thereof: yet I couldr1'ty keep my mind on him and on what he said. My thoughts were centered on the young thing that had a vise-like grip on my right hand. But MacLeish said, If you promise me to stop writing in my style, I will tell Iimmy to let go your hand. because it hurtsg I know. To this bargain I agreed. though I felt I was getting a raw deal, for the grip, though not relaxing, was be- coming bearable. Yet I wanted to get away from the patent hellislmess of the whole scene. and the night, wherein I had been torn away from a relatively peace- ful. quieting sleep on a park bench. Iimmy let loose her grip. for which I pined a moment or two. Then. MacLeish advanced toward me. gently asked jimmy to step aside. CContinued on Page 28l TOWER LIGHT iiisiorsirriiairasirss l i i i i . S I-I ' X l i i. A ' Y X ,i -v' l ' 4 ' ll V --- il N if un if S .5 N i s stu li ' -f if K I , i fl 'Do not ask if a man has been through college- n , , , !ilAsk if a colleve has been throuvh himf -CSIIAPEN. I D D P l Silence, Please ? PHYLLIS XVALTER iHERE lS no place in State Teachers College jhich is safe from noisy students. Even the library, Qhere silence is required, is filled with bustling, scrapf giggling, and buzzing voices, The halls, 'where ilking is permitted, are filled with the banging of ickers, stamping of feet, and the shrieks, screams, lzaring laughter, and raucous voices of boys and girls. iiould it be that these future schoolftcachers, through tiintact with small children, are trying to imitate their iture pupils? Or can it be possible that our students ive unfortunately never grown out of this stage? lf yis latter be true, then certainly the system employed i the elementary schools for keeping the school rea- :lnably quiet should be applied to the State Teachers lollegc group. All the students should enter the school 1 9:00 A. N. and leave it at 3:30 P. Xl., thus avoiding ie noise created by students in the halls during the ist and last classes of the dayg cloakrooms should be lovided to replace the lockers and the noise that ' ey makeg study periods should be eliminated to keep Vidents out of the halls during class sessionsg and young achers should have to participate in gym activities i i' E l AY - 1940 without changing their clothes, thus preventing the commotion caused by humans running through the halls from the gymnasium to the showers. Certainly, the accompanying reasons for elimination of the privi- leges of students is obvious. 'l'herc would be no days in which classes would begin late or end early, no study periods for library work or relaxation, no individual storage space, and no refreshing showers after gym. YVake up, students! Look at the advantages you possess! YV ill you throw them all away, or will you work hard to raise your ethical standards so that you may make college life pleasant for yourselves and for your fellow-students? Prove that State Teachers College is worthy of being called a A'Collegc ! STABLE OR EXPANDING Achvlhes IKICHARD CUNNINGHAM INTELLIGENTLY guided activity is conceded to be basic to all true learning situations, whether the process be with teachers, college students, elementary school children, adults, or with infants. This underlying principle deservedly permeates our curricular and extra-curricular program here at Towson. and gives our student council, our clubs, our classes. and our athletics their chief excuse for being. lf such a program is worthwhile, and there is little controversy on this point. its pursuance calls for the most effective participation of which the student body is capable, both personally and hnancially. Our major activities depend, ultimately. for their financial existence, on the activities fees which each student pays on registration day in the fall. As a matter of common knowledge, these fees include the fifty- cent Student Council fee, the dollar Class fee. the dollar and a half Towisa Lrcrrr subscription. the two and a half dollar Athletic Association membership, and the fifty-cent Culture Fund fee. ln all, the total amounts to six dollars per year. 'lhc question is, do our fees adequately meet the requirements of our activities, or are they exorbitant or insufhcicnt? Most of us will grant that the fees could hardly be smaller than they are without seriously impeding the general student program. Of course there are a few who, because of some ill-founded aversion to a particuf lar item treated in the fee. declare that the total sum might be reduced. The general opinion seems to be that the fees are all too slim for the needs. Several organizations which receive a definite allotment through the Student .Xe tivities allocation have felt that their programs. and the 13 resultant values of these programs to the students, have been decidedly curtailed by the comparative lean- ness of their appropriations in the light of the results expected of them. For some time these organizations, the Athletic Association and the 'TOXVER LIGHT, have vainly striven to get along on what they receive from the fees plus the small income derived from holding dances and from soliciting the support of the classes or the student body. Futhermore, the small proportion of the fees allotted to the Student Council seems meagre if the Student Council is really to function as the most important student group in the school. The inherent possibilities of a student council with greater reserves upon which to draw cannot be realized under the present set-up. Athletic programs. both of a phy- sical and a recreational type, dances, student dramatics, series of cultural assemblies-all of these might be handled much more effectively by the Student Council were its income larger. Finally, the activity fees make no provision for a school yearbook. If the majority of the students are in favor of a college yearbook, it cer- tainly must be financed at least partially from the ac- tivities fees paid by every student. And if it is to be a success, it must be a college project previously provided for financially. Vtfitness the disheartening failure of the present Senior Class in trying to raise enough funds, at the last minute, and without the whole-hearted back- ing of the entire student body, to finance a yearbook. It may be asked how other teachers colleges compare with ours as to fees. Scant knowledge does not permit me to make a broad generalization, but discussion at the Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers seemed to indicate that few institutions of an enrollment similar to ours could admit of such ridiculously low fees. Kutztown, Pennsylvania, with an enrollment of 470 students has a fee of S2250 a yearg East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. with 530 students has a fee of S2150 a yearg Edinboro, Pa.. with 400 students, S20 a yearg Fitchburg, Mass.. about S16 a year: North Adams. Mass.. S10 a yearg Frostburg, Md . S10 a year. The general range was from S10 to S2250. Many of the institutions definitely provided for their yearbooks in the fee. Frostburg provides that S2 of the S10 be set aside for the yearbook. North Adams designates S600 of its total S1430 to its yearbook fund. East Stroudsburg takes care of its yearbook problem by a general fee of S150 which is included in the activities fee and an additional toll levied on each member of the Senior Class amounting to S2.00. Are you one of those who feel that a teacher's edu- cation derives little value from activities sponsored by the cntire student body. or do you favor a more significant program not curtailed by an obvious lack of 14 funds? If you are of the first group. you will swear that these ideas constitute a betrayal of the student bodyg if of the second, you will give the ideas presented some thought. My personal conviction is that the present fees are inadequate. VVhat is yours? A DEBT BIATILDA XVOLPERT I never saw the setting sun, Its lovely colors one by one, Diffusing when the day is done, Until the summer 'thirty-one. I never saw the naked trees Stretched out against the sky like Nor saw the steepled horizon Until the summer 'thirtv-one. AL!!! vs, Oh, I'll remember 'thirty-one Until my days on earth are done, For round about my part of town, A row of houses was knocked down. PREFACE TO SPRING BIARGARET B, Owrxcs I love the sound of wind As it roars through the trees. I love the eerie whistle As it sweeps about the eaves. I love the graceful sway Of the branches as they dance. I love the swirling dust As it wisps by in a glance. I love to see the grass All bent and silver green. I love to feel the freshness As it sweeps the earth so clean. I love the clear cold feeling As it pushes 'gainst my face. I love my hair all tangled As it's tousled out of place. l love the way of wind As it drives the pouring rain. I love the scent of sweetness As it brings new life again. TOWER LIGH1 3 Do We Know hildren? LEON L. LERNER F W E keep an eye on where we, as potential teachers, ire going and what we intend doing, then we may surely wpeet to arrive at our destination more quickly. It f important, therefore, that we, in our four years of allege life, never allow ourselves to forget the children E'ith whom we shall associate. After all, we are spending I i Jur years studying children in order that we may spend ire next forty, or so, in living with them. Our object children. VVhat can help us know them better? 5 We can better know children by spending as much time as possible with them. Such a course of action hill aid in gaining insight into the ways of boys and irls, into their habits, their abilities, their likes and lfslikesg it will lead to discovering how to be a friend J them, how to gain and hold their respect. Certainly, Er Il one of the most serious charges that can be brought against a teacher is that she has lost contact with chil- dren, that she has stumbled away from the living things that children are and has buried herself in an assorted collection of books and theories and principles. The more time we spend away from children, the more prone we are to forget our duties towards them and our relations with them. Pestalozzi remarks in a letter to a friend, I myself learned with the children. Our whole system was so simple and so natural that I should have had difficulty in finding a master who would not have thought it undignified to learn and teach as I was doing. It is apparent that living with children will mean learning both with them and about them. . Lots of Luck or DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN HELEN PICEK B AND THEN it came to pass. on the eighth day, lie set out for her practice center. She had seen her iassmates leave for theirs. nine weeks previously. She ad seen them return strong. determined in spirit, but naller of rank. They were all wishing her luck-those who had been ad those who had not been-just as tho' she were :Jing away never to return. She felt a lump rise in her iroat as she purchased a penny pretzel stick. They ad even taken away her locker key. She now did not wn a locker. Strange, that after three years she should licldenly feel such an affection for the old place. It stood magnificently on the hill with its tower early buried in the clouds. she noticed as she threw fleeting glance over her shoulder. Even this glance emed to bear finality. Someone was waving to her, iLots of Luck - Lots of Luck, she needed it-now ' Today she had taken her last math test. No. no :gretsg but she would miss math. Yet she would be :aching arithmetic in the school where she was going! Ah, there was still one more obligation! She had to IAY - 1940 i l nat she was going away. .i Q ll il i i is I q , x write a VTOXVER LIGHT article. On what? Student Teach- ing? XVhy not? She began: Did you know that: l. A certain bass fiddler supplied her class with rubber pencils on April the first? 2. Mac of the So VVhat slipped the following to his fifth grade: All right, Lou, Know what to do? 3. Nelson of the clarinet taught his class one of his own compositions? 4. Ifs seventh grade is catching on? The next word is tmistf-XYhat's the matter, Iohnny? Pupil: Sorry, Nr. Iett. I 'mist' that one. S. A shy brown-eyed lass told her class to put their papers on the Hoor in front of Mr. Flowers. Imagine? Here endcth chapter I of the tale of that great ada venture. 15 The Red and The White jams G. jm- THE COLORS made from light and atoms are various. Red. to the scientist. is the reflection of light rays of a certain length, XVhite. scientifically. is a stimu- lus resulting from many reflected light rays. In respect to S. T. C. journalism. however. red and white now mean one thing: The First Annual 'TOXVER LIGHT Din- ner. held on the evening of Tuesday the second of April. this year of our existence. I9-IO. Such was the color scheme. carried even into the menu. XX-Ie had beets and potatoes-and steak. XVhat the steak was for. I don't know . . , to eat, I guess. The flames of the red candles lighted the tables with the white cover- ings. And. as Dr. AViedefeld noted. even Miss Munn repeated the color scheme with a smiling pink face beneath snowy white hair. Sympathy and disappointment merged when we dis- covered that our speaker. Mr. R. P. Harriss, had sud- denly become ill and was unable to appear. His wife. an honor graduate and former staff-member, appeared for him. She had obtained Captain XYise. a member of Baltimore City College's English department. to come as an almost extemporaneous speaker. After dinner we all retired to Richmond Hall Social Parlor where Sydney Baker lent more color tof a dif- ferent material nature jj to the evening affair. Our minds were soothed with his violin selection. The more technical business of the evening was dealt with by Captain YYise. He spoke chiefly of the effect of language use and propaganda in connectio with the press. People are too often misled. he said? because they cannot analyze words and ideas. Captain XVise believes that a basis of fundamentals i- needed in life. just what fundamental he meant he di not sayg therefore. I presume he was speaking of funda- mentals in spelling. grammar. and arithmetic-or th tool subjects of the school curricula. Yet in order t connect this statement with his previous ones. he must also have meant science and history, for how could we analyze to get the right meaning had we no such basis? . - Getting a little more technical in regard to jour- nalism. the speaker told of some tricks in writing such as figures of speech. using effective words, and juggling words and phrases about to make the sentences more interesting. An instance to demonstrate his point was taken from the book of perfect literary style. the Bible. Captain XVise was helpful to us in many ways-of fering suggestions as to form and content of a publica- tion and also in attempting to analyze our difficulties. Glee Club--Past and Present IOSEPH HILLYARD XYOU LD YOU like to take a peek into the annals of our Clee Club? We find Miss XVeyforth taking over the directorship of the C-lee Club in 1928. The membership at that time was slightly more than half of its present enrollment. consisting of sixty-Eve girls' voices. We first have record of the men entering the Cslee Club during the school year 1929-30. Since then the Clee Club has grown in size and in quality of performance. The total membership is now one hundred fifteen and Miss XYeyforth is seeking to keep the mem- bership within this number. l93T was an outstanding year in C-lee Club history. as it was the year in which ninety academic gowns were bought and given to the C-lee Club for use on formal occasions. Different alumni groups contributed toward thc purchase price. and the Clec Club itself 16 gave a considerable sum, the money having been earned at public performances. The Clee Club firs appeared in the gowns at a Maryland State Teacher Association meeting at the Polytechnic in October. l93-. The evening was a high spot in both appearanc and performance. Since l92S four hundred persons have been mem- bers of the C-lee Club. About seventy members of this Alumni Group hold weekly rehearsals at the college. They will take part in the Alumni Day program. jun S. at which time the memorial windows to Dr. Tall will be unveiled. They will take part next year in th celebration of Towson's seventy-fifth anniversary. In addition to the various numbers sung separately by the Almnni group and the Clee Club. the combined chorus of one hundred and fifty voices will sing. TOWER LIGHT ll Q. 1 y. lg ji ll li U J i 3 i Orchestra Personnel lhl.-XRY REINDOLLAR NEARLY EVERY morning before nine we are greeted by evidences that the brass section is at work. The usual remark, if you notice, as one anroaches . l l the music room is, They're at it again. Yes. theyfre at it again, but do you realize what they accomplish by working at it again and again? To use the theme of the junior class issue of the T owen Lrerrr. they show definite signs of progress, real progress. Did you know that both Norman XVilde and Richard Cunningham have learned to play their instruments since attending Zollege? Any brass instrument. to be played well. ref quires study, but not over so long a period of time as stringed instruments. The brass section in our orchestra includes: three trumpet players. Norman XYilde. Richard Cunningham. and David Shcpherdg and two trombone players. Bill Kahn and Lou Henderson. There is an important part for each instrument. The trumpets lend volume and brilliancy in addition to majestic qualities. while the melodic tromboncs give solidity of bass and nobility of tone. i So the progress made in the early morning rehearsals is really progress toward a worthwhile cause. 50-P Clllllll-Ugfldlil Wilde Sliepfmrn' Hc11dc1'.fo11 Kuhn SYVINC MUSIC is on the way out. The jitterbugs if a year ago are now requesting waltzes of Americas eading dance maestros instead of A'Flatfoot Floogief' The swing maniacs who have been spreading nerv- Jus breakdowns for several years now-via African tomf om drums. shrill clarinets. and torrid trumpets-are due or a letdown unless they change their ways. Notes no longer will be unheeded dots on paper, and he non-exhibitionists, who prefer the Viennese waltz to he 'Suzy-Q, are due for a comeback. All of these ipinions were gleaned from an authentic interview with rhe well-known orchestra leader, XV ill Osborne. Osborne organized his orchestra at the ending of the l azz-era and soared to fame with the advent of sweet nusic bands. At the time of the debut of the American irooners, XVill Osborne and Rudy Vallee became rivals because each claimed to be the first crooncr. Now Dsbornc's orchestra plays slide music. an effect reated by three tromboncs sliding from one note to nother. which is so different it is the only musical ffect known to be patented by the govermnent. Concerning the passing of swing. says Maestro Usborne: j 'Swing music has reached its pinnacle. Not long ago ' I played a waltz. the younger set would walk off the 'IAY - 1940 , I Q i I il . ,. I l 1 j. E i i , i . 1 l i I .4 i' Q25 . .1 i l l Tj Swing Finale B. E. TRIBULL QBased on an interview with Wfill Osbornej Hoor. Now they ask for waltzes. Like ragtime and jazz before it. swing was bound to fade-out sooner or later for another style. But the death of swing has been hastened by too much publicity. Today. every one knows the technique, the style. and the identifications of the bands as well as we do. They know who plays the trumpet for this orchestra and the drums for another. A few pioneers in a new field of music. prob- ably sweet again, are the only things needed now to sound the death note. T I M E Imoxrn KCILKIZR Time. Oh why must you pass so fast? Can you not wait for just a while For one who doesn't like a change? Oh why are you going away? Time. where are you going so fast? Have you no regard for me today? Time. why don't yon stop your onward rush For men to cease their wearing life. For all to pause and rest and think? 17 i H efllDllDllR.Glllief QQ sv' IEROLIE KOLKER The reach for serves, the sizzling ace, The starter's gun, the hard, fast pace, The whip of arms, the batters' raps, The Swish of clubs, fthose blasted trapsj, The stretch of bows, the arrows' hum All these are signs that Spring has come. YES, SPRING has come, and our attention turns toward our vernal sports' program. Baseball, track, teimis, and archery . . . each demands its place in our newly enlarged program. This year's baseball team threatens to steal the show, for Coach Minnegan po- tentially has a good team. By that I mean a team good enough to upset any other in the Maryland Collegiate League. Armed with a trio of good pitchers QCox, Dorn, and Clopperj and an experienced 'Lmurderer's row Qlaauenstein, Dorn, Cernik, and Coxj, the team should be heard of with glowing reports. Finding a keystone combination fthat is, a shortstop and a second baseman who are capable of playing to- getherl has been one of Coach Minnegan's early season problemsg however, with Dorn at shortstop and Horst at second base, this problem has been solved. Do not be surprised to see some snappy double plays with the ball zipping from Dorn to Horst to Lauenstein. or from Horst to Dorn to Lauenstein, or from Lauenstein to -------- you get the idea. Someone might question my optimism in regard to the team, pointing out that our team's progress to date has not been a too pleasing one. There are many reasons for this, and they are NOT alibis. Coach Minnegan has been shifting players. changing the batting order, trying out rookie pitchers, giving all a chance, in short, trying to find his best combination for the competition which will shortly follow. The team look good, their chances for a successful season are also good. They will do their best to win. You do your part by coming out and cheering them on. Because the Towinz LIGHT is a monthly magazine, it is virtually impossible to give to the reader news which they have not heard before. By the time the May issue is distributed. the results of what has happened at the Penn Relays will be known to all, while at this time I am only able to tell who have been selected to make 18 the trip to Philadelphia. Bob Cox, Lou Cox, Charles' C-uertler, Henry Astrin, Ed Weiner and Ierry Kolkerr have been chosen. Ot the group, Guertler, Astrin, andl Weiner fall Sophomoresj are newcomers to the squad.f VV ith two more years after the present one in which to ' run, these men along with Bob Cox-who has one more season after the present one-should form a team most 1 worthy of representing our College. For all who are interested, a complete description of how the men fared at the Penn Relays will be found in the june issue. Our tennis team has truly been ua victim of circum-V stances . Not once to date have weather conditions! and court conditions been favorable for play. Arrange- ments in scheduling have been made so that the court-, men can travel with the baseball team to the variousl colleges. Of course the schedule will not be as large. as the one for baseball, but still it will allow the men to have more competition. This is the second year that State Teachers College, has considered tennis as a major sport, and while our team will not be the best in the State, much improve- ment is expected over last year's showing. Sol Snyder,j Iimmy O'Connor, and Howard Stottlemyer are the. returning veterans who will form the nucleus of this year's squad. Any predictions at this time as to theQ team's success for this season could only be a guess, and the writer does not wish to venture. Nevertheless, at this? time, we can at least pray for the men to have condi-I tions suitable for play. 6 ..- V For the past three years, perhaps more, there hasf been an argument raging at our College over the fol- lowing question: 1 ls thinking necessary in sports? . One faction claims that thinking is not necessary in 'I playing games. for the players perform the skills me-5 chanically without thinking. The other group believes, that thinking in sports is essential. The adherents off this latter group think it is necessary because of the, many different situations arising at split second intervalsy which demand instantaneous thinking. The writer is, not going to Skly with which group he is sympathetiC,f but instead is merely going to relate a brief anecdote. TOWER LIGHT iif an incident which occurred last season when our ipnaseball team was playing Salisbury Teachers College liit Salisbury. Let us see what light it throws upon the question. v i V With Towson leading S to 0 in the eighth inning, the iigame looked in the bag . Salisbury had a runner on i, hird base, but just the same, there were two outs. Sam Ilopper, our pitcher, was breezing along having al- iflowed only a pair of hits. Charley Rembold, our catcher, fiivas handling Clopper well, Everything was serene. V his stretch and hurled the ball toward the plate. The pitch was wide and called a ball. Suddenly, someone from the Salisbury bench yelled, A'Let me see that ball , and held his hands out appropriately. Rembold, without thinking, threw the ball. Quick as a flash the runner on third base darted home to score Salisbury's lone run, ruining a shutout for our pitcher. This incident has not been elucidated for the pur- pose of punishing Charley Reinhold, in fact, it is being published with his permission. It is merely an attempt il1Note: The psychological conditions were as nearly to furnish evidence which might help to settle this llzontrolled as possible at a ball game.j Clopper took prolonged feud. if l gl The Dawn of Our National Sport it LILLIAN CONNALLY fi BATTER-UP! calls the ump and another game .tif baseball is under way. The packed, shouting crowd orobably have never realized how old the national game eally is. Baseball is a truly primitive game presented in a modern form. It is interesting to note the various addi- ions and subtractions of different centuries which to- laled have given us the sum of present day baseball. rom early records, we find that the game was a ' avored form of ancient recreation. Frequent references vere made to it by Greek and Roman writers. From a museum in Great Britain comes another proof of its Jeing an early game-a ball, thirty centuries old, used in he Nile Valley, appearing as the wretched forebearer if the modern baseball. Since these primitive days, nankind has learned much about the artifiee of the grand sport. l In the early l9th century, American youth of the Eastern States played a game called English rounders played, but was found to furnish considerable excite- ment. A stout paddle with a blade and dressed handle ierved as the bat, while the ball was apt to be composed if a bullet, piece of cork, or a metal slug wound tightly ivith yarn and stitched on the surface. Many other rames developed from Uroundersn. , Barn ball was the next game to appear. Two boys iartieipated-as batter and pitcher. The bat was a stick ir an old axe handle. One boy pitched the ball against he barn for the other to hit, upon its return. If the matter missed the ball, he was forced to surrender the mat to the pitcher. lf, however, he struck it, he tried to core by running to and touching the barn and re- urning to his former position before the pitcher could eeover the ball. Hence from barn ball came the funda- VIAY - 1940 in if l F Af l i i i pr town ball. This was neither planned nor skillfully l i i s f' I 1 1 i . ii xl F 4 mentals of baseball: the pitcher, batter, base hit, and run. Later came the games of the 'fold-cat stage - one old-cat, two-old-eat, 'Athree-old-cat, and 'tfour-old cat. More players and bases were added in each of these games. On the square Held of four-old-cat, one of the most important developments in baseball took place, the system of competition was introduced to make the game more exciting and interesting. 'The players were divided into two groups which competed against each other, The team at bat scored runs until each player was put out in turn, then they yielded to the opposing side. The team with the highest score naturally was the victor. Now that competition held full sway with both fans and players, clubs automatically began to develop. The first known club of the national game in this country was the Knickerbocker Club of New York. An iinpor- tant contribution of this club was the publication of a drafted code of rules in 1845, including the elimina- tion of players to nine, and standards for uniforms. Strange as it seems, the ,uniforms of the Kniekerbockers consisted of blue trousers, white shirts. and straw hats! Later in the 70's and 80's, both amateur and professional clubs sprang up with ever increasing rapidity. Today baseball has a strong hold upon men and boys of America. Some years have elapsed since baseball made its debut into the world, lt was kindly welcomed in an- cient times and continues to be. Indeed, it seems that baseball and America met at an early age and grew up together, says one author. XVhatcver the future of the game may bc. there is no likelihood of its ever bc- coming unpopular. Listen to the slapping down of bills and jingling of silver at the iContinuecl on Page :UH 19 College ight OPENING and closing with a bang. the annual College Night was a huge success. XYith a large crowd of enthusiastic students on hand. the Seniors and Fresh- men literally stole the show. The Seniors presented a one-act play. The W'edding. by Iohn Kirkpatrick. The leading players were very forceful in their portrayal of a nervous couple before the wedding. A glance back to the Gay Nineties was given by the Freshmen. The scene was the Diamond Horseshoe Cabaret in the gay old town of New York. The feature of the program was the dancing of the Can Can by six French girls imported from Paris for the. occasion. The Iuniors presented an amateur show, which lived up to its nanieg while a burlesque of pro- gressive education was given by the Sophomores. After each performance. the classes came forward to sing their class songs. At the conclusion of the en- tertainment, the audience was led by Norris XVeis in singing school songs. Refreshments were available and for the rest of the evening the crowd danced to the strains of the Southern- ites. who feature one of our own students. Bill Kahn. Progress in The Student ouncil XYHEN XYE glance back on 1939. and the past four months of I9-IO. we can say. The Student Council has done a good job. XVe wanted badminton and XVE COT ITQ we wanted a new ping pong table and XYE GOT IT: we wanted the pool table repaired and XYE GOT IT: the men wanted permission to wear sweaters and THEY GOT IT. All the possible requests were granted. Besides increasing and improving the recreational facilities of the college. many other changes were in- augurated. The chairman of the Athletic Association and the chief marshal were added to the executive committeeg the handbook was revised: a ways and means committee was established to aid in unifving the clubs: a student council was formed to arrange assemblies: a dance code was written: a dress code for men was propoundedg the social committee was en- larged by the addition of a social chairman for each class. thus unifying themg the Christmas entertainment was directed by a student committee with the help of Mr. Miller: and Play Day. elections. and May Day were sponsored and directed by the Student Council. In view of the information presented. I would say that the Student Council had gone far toward achiev- ing its goal. which is to have all student activities con- nected with the general council. Much credit for this progress is due Eleanor Xlilliamson. president: Mr. Moser. faculty adviser: and Dr. Lynch. assistant faculty adviser. Let us hope that the rest of I9-tO and I9-ll will find us as successful or even more successful! Progress for One nly iContinued from Page lOl limousine for Mom. THEY had caused that and THEY had paid. Curiously. he wasn't afraid anymore. He knew he had been hit. but it diclnlt hurt. Yvhen finally someone threw shovels of dirt over him and placed thc enemy's helmet on a stick over his head. he decided to rise and see what had taken place in the world. He found others like himself. many of them. who had all had the same experience and had 20 decided to cling together. Ever sincc they have wan- dered on the face of the earth. Now they are in Europe, working for peace. Iohn has found himself: he has changed-its his business now: he understands so much: he has progressed so far. Perhaps he can help the world find itself and progress towards a civilization that doesn't call men between the ages of twenty and thirty-. eight and men with families to the battlefield. TOWER LIGHT j ollege Calendar fApril 1, 1940 - I Miss Ethel Einstein, who helps tourists plan their zravels, related her experiences during her recent trip ,to South America. Miss Einstein traveled southward iilong the eastern coast by boat, and northward along he western coast by plane. Her technicolor movies iidded much life to the wealth of experience. H At Barbados she took pictures of dark-skinned men ,ind women diving for coins in the harbor. Near Bar- Jados farming appeared to have progressed to the ex- ,ent of using eighteen oxen for one plow. There were 'lvindmills and sugar plantations too. jasmine and the jzcarlet flamboya made beauty along the countryside. In Rio de laneiro one saw a great South American lnetropolis. The schools were open to all peoples. The jace-track likewise had a prominent place in the in- ierests of the inhabitants of Rio de laneiro, the jockey ilub donates a great deal of money for schools and for jrharity, Near the city there is an extensive snake farm hat supplies reptiles for medicinal purposes. Rio de aneiro uses many automobiles, of which over ninety iiercent are imported. ' Santos, the coffee-shipping center, is a very pleasant ity. Its convenient modern hotels are quite famed. Jn New Year's Eve one hotel received sixty-tive thou- and orchids. Beautifully planned and somewhat resembling our wn Vlfashington is the city of Buenos Aires. A striking 'ilference between the two cities exists relative to the abits of women. In Buenos Aires the women arise t noon. At four o'clock they go downtown to have aeir tea in the streets and at such times all trallic ,z either stopped or diverted for the continuance of 'iis ancient custom. At Santiago, Miss Einstein photographed dances and ,Jugs by the lncas. Next she pictured Valparaiso and iliva del Mar, the aristocratic suburb of Valparaiso. From the plane Miss Einstein took some very im- jressive pictures of the snow-capped Andes. Miss Ein- jrein's story not only lured the traveler, it challenved fre photographer. D lpi-i1 s, 1940 - j' It is said that new blood in a family strain is a very feneficial thing. Biologieally speaking, we believe this true, but intellectually speaking, we know it is true. fvidence was verv forcefully Given us at the bevinninff j .1 . D V D f the new term by Mr. Miller, a part of our new lood l l j L 'AP t El t ' 1- , w ren re s no 'e on oe rv in c uca ion.' I . 'VIAY - 1940 To understand the place poetry has in education, we must agree upon the meaning of education. Does our idea confine itself to the progressive or does it still cling to the traditional? There is much to be said for pro- gressive education, and yet it seems that in uprogress- ing we have neglected many of the fine tried and true principles which constitute traditional learning. The basic concepts in the modern school are freedom, student interest, activities, and a new idea which has arisen, progress in democracy. 'Teaching is an art, and as such is practiced always, not five days of the week for thirty-six weeks out of a given year. The schools need the best, not the average persons as teachers. Stupidity flourishes where edu- cation fails. Great poetry is a challenge to our minds. Many stu- dents are unable to meet the challenge. Some of the difliculties which the study of poetry presents to the teacher are: One can teach how to read poetry not how to appreciate it. The time allotments are insuf- iieient to give poetry a chance in the overcrowded edu- cational Held, objective tests of appreciation have not yet been devised. Americans always look for a moral in poetry. lf it cannot be found in the poem, then they look to the poet for the moral. Consequently, when a good poem is written we seem to be influenced by the man who wrote it. To quote, XVe must prefer a good poem by a bad man, to a bad poem by a good man. Poetry is peculiar in that it rarely means what it says: but perhaps is not so peculiar after all. since humans are prone to camouflage their meanings. lt may be interpreted by moods, attitudes, intentions, and is a fusion of the intellect and emotions. Because it is an art. and knows no bounds. poetry deserves more than its place as the step-child of Education. Monday, April 15, 1940 - Have you ever had a secret desire to invent one of those intricate little devices that would revolutionize the world? Most of us. it is safe to say. have had thc desire but few have ever passed the pipe-dream stage. However. we were able to obtain an authentic inventor. Mr. A. K. Van Tine. creator of a real, tangible lie detector. His rather lengthy introduction to his actual topic displayed a thorough understanding of the human emotions which undoubtedly justifies his position as a member of the Psychology Department of the Drexel Institute of Technology. l,CO11fl1llIL'Cl on Page I-is 21 Tl-IE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE CHARLES LEEF Voltaire. By Alfred Noyes. New York. Sheed and Ward. 1956. 645 pages. THE READING of Tess of the D'Urbervilles for a report I considered both prohtable and enjoyable, the reading of the volume which is the subject of this re- port was a task. After having read an hundred pages or so, it was apparent that my choice of books for review had not been wise, but to have suspended the reading to choose another book would have been to miss an opportunity to make a really critical review, which I feel issues too seldom from the professional reviewers. It is not easy to account for the books failure to in- terest me. The author is famous for his poetry, and his apologia 'tThe Unknown C-od. is said to rank with some of the corresponding writings of Cardinal New- man. The formal aspect of the technique is without fault. Yet the biographical study fails to present to me the man Voltaire and his times. There is an elaborate attempt at scholarship and careful research, but the subject remains almost an undistinguished stranger. It is my opinion that the Hatness of the book results from several imperfections. The style of the author is not well adapted to the life, the character, and the spirit of the subject, the book does not present the whole man, but emphasizes certain aspects of his life and works that happen to be of especial concern to the author, and Voltaire is not presented as a product of his times, because the background against which he moved is only suggested, and is not given the em- phasis and detail of presentation which it requires. If this were the biography of, say, Charles Lamb, whose light elegance at times borders on the insipid, the style that Noyes has employed here would be satis- factory, but to portray Voltaire, whose breath is as a refiners Ere, it is hopelessly inadequate, The cause of its Hatuess is the same general cause that leaves the pictorial arts without interest. There are no significant lines, no sharply-etched characteristic lines. no points of emphasis. Pages after pages are written matter-of- factly, with no apparent recognition of the spirit of the great man they are supposed to portray. As a poet and Catholic apologist, Noyes might nat- urally be interested in Voltaire primarily as a poet, and as an agnostic for deistj. As a matter of fact, he devotes a disproportionately great amount of the writing to dis- cussions of Voltaire's poetry. and throughout the book Z2 l I . 'I xx f' ,QI ' fi 1 ' xgggp ij . j I 4 D , f I if E? 13' i -,,?5 Z i 5: o ik' X 7. Ti 53 Q 7 Q :R --E . 842,511-.zb 5 iii ' N f-?e,- ,,- , -Q 3-L..-F Aipnnadufn- he belabors the point that Voltaire was not really ir- religious. I believe that Voltaire is remembered today, not for his poetry and poetic dramas, but for his critical essays, particularly those embodied in the ten volume of the Dictionaire Philosophique, and his novels Can! dide and Zadig. As to his irreligion, there can be no legitimate accusation of atheism. These charges com' from those who have not bothered to learn Voltaire's views from his works, but have uncritically adopted the misinterpretations of sources far removed. No matter what are the special interests of a biographer, I do no believe that he may presume to bias his portrayal of man toward these interests so that it becomes littl more than a polemic. Voltaire, generous and magnanimous spirit that h was, was subject in one degree or another, to the vice. and follies of his age. Indeed, he is one of the truly representative men of his times. His education was in- fluenced by the emphasis on classical studies prevalent at the time, and he reflected most skillfully and effec- tively the skepticism and spirit of Enlightenment which had influenced the intellectuals. He was an ardent pr tagonist of the critical philosophy of john Locke, his ideas were tempered by the rationalism which haci been given such an impetus by the scientific works ol Galileo and Newton, and he was attracted toward liberalism to a degree which affected the government of England. All of these factors in V oltaire's intellectuai development are left underemphasized and unex- panded. It may be that as a poet with an interest pre? dominantly in poetry, the author is not able to appre' ciate their importance to his subject: but whatever the reason he has certainly not done them justice. Since there is no really adequate biography of Vol taire available in English it is difficult to compare thi: book to a better one. There is an all-too-brief chapter or TOWER LIGH'J, Voltaire in the Story of Philosophy by Mr. XV ill Durant, '51 philosopher. Even with its brevity it does not fail to give an intensive sketch of Voltaire and the factors ywhich influenced his life and thought. The urbane rstyle of the French biographer, M. Andre Maurois, fwould be wholly adequate, l believe, to a satisfactory representation of Voltaire, Until now, M. Maurois has Lwritten of men of letters, whether he has the per- spective in philosophy to Write about a philosopher l do not know. XVith all due respect to both, I do not :believe that he could do worse than Mr, Noyes has L :lone in the writing of this book. H ' WHICH WILL YOU HAVE? A AUDREY HORNER ,Manrle, Burns: The Best Plays of 1938-39 and the Yearbook xlg of the Drama in America. New York, Dodd, Mead and ' Company, 1959. 545 pages. 53.00. H Once a year, since the season of 1919-20, Burns ,Mantle has issued his well-edited yearbook of the drama Lin America. An outstanding feature of this year's series als the condensation of the ten best plays of the preced- gyng year. Mr. Mantle presents the plays in the form of Ili continuous story, reproducing the highspots in the factual dialogue. y ln the introduction to his current book, the author ipoints out that the trend in the theatre during this ast season was largely patriotic, in so far as several of y-:he important dramas took on a political coloring. The Robert Sherwood 'fAbe Lincoln in lllinoisu, the Max- well Anderson Knickerbocker Holidavv. the Elmer H glRice American Landscape , and the George Kaufman- Wloss Hart The American YVay are popular dramatic Elzuccesses that exemplify this trend. Besides summarizing the best plays, Burns Mantle surveys the theatrical season in New York, in Chicago, pi San Francisco, and in Southern California. I-le also ljncludes in his volume a wealth of valuable data for anyone interested in the theatre. A complete list of the plays produced in New York in 1938-39. the full irasts for each production. the number of performances given, and the date on which each play opened con- gmtitute but a small fraction of the valuable information provided in the yearbook. To you playgoers who want to keep up with Broad- avay's triumphs and failures, I recommend The Best fjlays of 1938-39. 'r I il l . Mary had a little lamp, It was well trained, no doubt, 5 Cause every time that john came in l That little lamp went out. MAY - 1940 Anne Arundel Alumni Unit Meeting THE Anne Arundel County Alumni Unit held its spring meeting Monday, April 22, at 8:30 P. M. in the library of the Germantown School, near Annapolis. Miss Eleanor Brice, the principal of the school, wel- comed the members and guests most cordially. Mr. Don Swann, Ir., of Baltimore, was the guest speaker and talked interestingly on the Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland , besides, he showed copies of the 100 original etchings of these homes, made by his father, Don Swann, Sr., a well-known artist of Balti- more. He also told of the Hilltop Theatre, of Ellicott City, which is being successfully run by a cooperative group of young players. Among the guests of the Unit were representatives of the general Alumni Association, and friends of the College. Dr, Wfiedefeld was not able to be present, but sent a stimulating message. A business meeting followed the talk. The most im- portant matters taken up were: the announcement that the money pledged for the Seventy-fifth Celebration of the Founding of the College, was being collected and would be presented on june 8, Alumni Day, the an- nouncement was made that contributions from indi- viduals present amounting to a considerable sum had been received for the Hammond-Harwood Fund. The present oflicers of the unit were reelected for a second term. The meeting closed with refreshments and a social hour in the cafeteria. Mr. Hammond Cantwell. president, presided. A pleasant surprise was injected into the meeting by the announcement of a gift of twelve etchings from the Hammond-Harwood Home, by Don Swann, Ir.. in the name of his father. These etchings are to be sold for the beneht of the Fund being raised by patriotic Marylanders to save the Home from public sale. It is interesting to know that this Home is recognized by the American Society of Architects as having the finest colonial doorway in America. cc .-. ,.. ,,. ,,. ,,. The Baltimore City Branch of the Alumni Associa- tion will hold its spring meeting in The Clen on May 23. The program will include games. a business meet- ing. and supper. A woman and a car are much alike-a good paint job conceals the years. but thc lines tell the story. .M .L .e The most important question today is not XYhat is the world coming to. but YYlien7 23 1 SID WHAT I N ONV THAT Yours Truly has returned from Student Teaching fXVeis calls it the Great Outdoors but I wonder if he ever went student teachingj here comes another of those columns full of things about you and you. Unless I am mistaken, one of the editors will make this column unless he censors it. This being the junior issue, the juniors should be the topic of conversation. VVith two of our best subjects gone from school and with johnny Shock and Bob Cox behaving themselves, there isn't much to say. But here goes:- 1. A professor asked jimmy jett when he was born. jim answered, April Z, and the prof countered with: Late again! 2. Ask Marie Parr how films are developed in an automobile. 3. The other day at a ball game, one of the freshmen girls watching the writer pitch, remarked: Isn't he a line pitcher: he always hits their bats, no matter where they hold them. fl-Ed. Note: That's no joke!j -l. XVhy wouldn't the above mentioned editor print in the T OXVER LIGI-rr the picture taken of himself and a certain young lady sitting in the hall. That was a Gross mistake, Charles! QEd. Note--Because the picture did not comply with our standards of clarity and precision.j 5. The night of the C-lee Club concert. two of the S. T , C. men got more attention than the performers. All they did was to close the windows. 6. The same evening, why couldn't M. S. and C. H. see Kathleen! Someday you'll grow up, boys. A few things to think about: l. After the fine turnout and the good time had by all at College Night, this column can go on record as being definitely in favor of more of the same. P. S. If we have another, I promise not to tell any more of those awful puns. Those puns were so terrible that they kept me awake all night with indigestion. 2. Let's have more of johnny Horst's orchestra. In the very humble opinion of this writer. they have it all over most of the big-name bands in the city. 3. How do you like Student Teaching. Dave Hess? Causes a lot of Heck. doesn't it? Ed. Note: Should this read a loss of Heck? Oh, what the Heck's the diiierence. 24 4. A freshman, asked to define a circle, gave the fol- lowing answer: A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middlef' By the way, what was it that Miss XVeyforth saidl that almost broke the lie-detector machine? Love con-' quers all. ' i W'ho is this guy: Yehudi? l At College Night, Mickey Sharrow was dancing with a girl who couldn't be Nizer, to the tune of Tuxedo junction. In the middle of the song. they stopped danc-' ing. XVhen asked why, Mickey said, This is one of' the junctions. : Quotes from the faculty: Miss Birdsong: Right now I have five boys on my! mind . . . all in college. : Mr. Moser: Have you ever reduced, Miss ---- ? i Have her parents changed their minds about boys, Norris, or was YVestern Maryland having its spring vacation? 'i VVhat kind of a blowout did you have on the road, Agnes? You and your class are getting plenty of pub- licity now, are they not? And so until next month, when Norris XVeis will write his last column at lastj , Yours Truly and Yehudi. say: So long and So XVhat! I i College Calendar QContinued from Page Zlj The obvious curiosity of the audience was soon satis- fied when Mr. Van Tine explained the peculiar appar- tus set up in our auditorium. On a table on the stage immediately before the curtain was the lie detector. An exact reproduction of the reaction of the indicator was projected upon the screen from the center of the floor. Using four of our own students he performed an un- usually convincing experiment while the audience wit- nessed the responses of the recording apparatus as they 3 were shown on the screen. A lie was in most cases immediately discernible. The extensive use of this instrument was discussed at length with special mention given to its discovery, K I I and its use in detecting a lie in the case of theftS,I murders, assaults and other types of crimes. Although I not legally accepted in some states it is considered by many others as the handmaid of justice. TOWER LIGHT. ' l I 4 i l 9 I l l i l l i I i. 5 r E i I 5 E i r K I i i i i l r i i I I i i i i r F . l X A 4 in P if I f I 5, 5 1 t Why a Math lub? ,VV HAT IS a Math Club? XVhat does a Math Club yo? Ever since this new organization was introduced lto the program of college activities, many curious in- Qividuals have casually asked, YVhat does a Math fllub do? Wfhen this new organization originated ,ud was explained to the students, many of them .irophesied very emphatically: t'l'll wager that there i'on't be enough people in the institution to form iich a club, or even if there are, l'll wager that the ylub won't last. To the surprise of many students and wen of faculty members, quite a number of people gegan to show an interest in the newest organization f the college. Supper meetings were planned in order to provide pportunitv for the students to become better ac- uainted with each other. Programs were planned to ,irovide interesting historical data which would furnish more complete mathematical background for the lcacher, to demonstrate new processes and to provide ln opportunity for working problems. During one of he meetings the abacus was studied and explained. A Fiodel was built by some of the students, and problems Pere solved by the use of the abacus. At the last meet- ing a Professor Quiz program was held in which tuestions were asked pertaining to the understanding ad meaning of concepts and the applications of these iieanings. Here is an example of one of the questions. ,Ian you answer it correctly? The words pay to the order of on a check have to yo with: Q faj the validity of the check K tbl endorsement of the check 1 tel negotiability of the check if Solving problems for pleasure has always been fasci- iating to those who are interested in mathematics. A lart of each program is devoted to solving problems ,fzhich have previously been given to the members. The Qroblems are sent to each about one week before the greeting so as to give the members time to solve. or at- j:mpt to solve, each one. Try this at your leisure: A Three brothers divided four apples among them- lflves so that one had no more than the other, and lzt, no apple was divided. Explain how this was possible. ihe solution: l The Erst took two apples and each of the others took lie. Then one had no more than the others, although lie first had more than either of the others. 1 SLAY - 1940 Z 1 The problems form only one part of the newspaper which is sent to each member of the club. This paper gives a brief summary of the previous meeting, an ac- count of the plan for future meeting, besides any news that would be of particular interest to the members. lf one of your friends is a member of the club. I am sure that he will tell you that he really enjoys it. Ask him to explain anything about the club in which you are interested. Don't label your friend queer, just remember that he knows, mathematics can be fun. Cirl-You remind me of the beautiful moon. Boy-YV hat do you mean? Girl-Kinda bright, but not so hot. :,: 1,1 :,: Soph.-There's a certain reason why l love you. Cirl-My goodness! Soph.-Don't be ridiculous. W'hat kind of soup are they serving at the C. P. O's mess? t'VVindmill soup. A'YVindmill soup? Sure, if it goes around, you'll get somefl 1,1 13: sg: She was wearing a Biblical gown-you know, sort of Lo and Behold. She--I shall never forget how foolish you looked when you proposed to me. He-lt was nothing to how foolish l really was. TRY THIS lf a Hottentot tutor taught a llottentot tot to talk ere the tot could totter, ought the Hottentot tot to be taught to say aught of what ought or ought not to be taught her? lf to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot be taught by a Hottentot tutor, ought the tutor get hot if the Hottentot tot hoot and toot at the Hottentot tutor? WHAT IS MAN? Man is an iinitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learmng to do what he sec others do. -Thomas fellcrson 25 firegmimws e e I ,.A' -Xi Jil. fl-in prinq - - NIARIE PARR 'AIN THE spring a young co-ed's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of-clothes! Apologies for the misquoted quotation above, but clothes seem to be the main prob- lem in the minds of our S. T. C. students. VVhat to wear?-now that winter's snowy blasts have departed and summer's balmy breezes have not yet arrived. Spring is rather an in-between season when it comes to that all-important question: VVhat shall I wear?y' Here are just a few suggestions that seem to have been pretty well accepted as favorites for this spring. Lets talk about the girls' outfits first: It seems that the college girl is to be a 'fRhapsody in Blue. Navy, aqua, royal, copen . . . any shade just so the color is blue. Different hues of this color are being combined in outfits with touches of red or green for contrast. Coming in a close second to blue is black. Black with touches of white is really quite smart and helps give that sophisticated look to girls. Those black fitted coats with white collars and cuffs are very popular. Pastels are holding their place again this year. Reefers with hats to match are most attractive. Pink and blue stripes or checks are all the rage. In footwear. f'wedgies are definitely milady's choice. These shoes come in all styles and range in color from black to multi-colored plaids. Hats are as crazy as they were last season only they are a trifie larger. Veils are very much in demand. 26 i There is really much more to tell, but note! Tli boys have been completely forgotten, and we mustn, overlook the men! 1 Yes. boys. spring influences your apparel, too. XVhile the girls' theme is Rhapsody in Blue, th boys change the tune and have as their theme Th VVearing of the Green. This includes all shades L green. Blues and tans seem to rate second with the mei' Here is a little tip, boys-there is no better way t make the feminine heart flutter than to appear in on? of those smooth-looking tan gabardine suits. f Colored shirts are ascending in popularity. ln faci all boys' clothing is becoming as gay in color as that c the fairer sex. Hats are becoming quite cocky. NVider brims, eolore' bands, gay feathers, all add to monsieur's spring ch: peaux. XVho knows-men, too. may be wearing veil by next spring. QRemember, girls, they vowed the would never wear green, toollj F Raincoats are getting shorter by the hour. Have thi men forgotten that their main purpose is protection QVVe mean the raincoatslj L VVell, spring is here! XVe can tell by the flowery the robins, and the showers. But so are the new fads an fashions shouting, Spring is here. g Your Voice A MIRROR FOR VIRGINIA XVIIITE Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us. THIS XVELL-KNOXVN and much used quota tion from Robert Burns could very easily have its las. line read: f'To hear oursels as others hear usf, withor, losing its intended significance. Seeing one's self g very important in helping to recognize defects in pe. sonal appearance. These faults may take the form cf physical defects which may sometimes be correcte' with painstaking effort. and carelessness. which can corrected more easily. Similarly. if everyone were abl. to hear himself as others hear him, he would hear lig- errors in speaking. Then he might take steps to Ove? come them. Sometimes individuals Qunknown to then selves l have defective speech-patterns which, in timi' may be corrected, More often. it is the Usloppiness in speaking that is the chief difficulty. . XVe at Towson now have the good fortune of bein 'rownn LIGHE i I 5 3 11 l fble to hear ourselves speak. A few weeks ago the Ad- jiinistration secured a machine capable of making re- ordings and reproducing the finished record. At present he machine is being used by the English department nder the direction of Miss Ioslin to further the work li oral English. The attempts made thus far have been lery successful. Formerly, the students knew of their Jiistakes only through the aid of their teachers and fallow-students. The recording machine gives a much Fiore objective way of correcting errors in speaking. The student can hear them for himself, and by making l 4 subsequent recordings and listening to a series of rec- ords, can note his progress. The value of such a machine for those interested in music is immediately apparent for the same reasons. This holds true for group-singing, solos, and orchestral work. Then too, for most of us, hearing our own voice is a surprising and exciting experience. The cost is low: less than forty cents for a six-inch record, and the record may be played as many as fifty times. If you are in- terested. make an appointment with Miss Ioslin and really hear how you sound. n Progress iiContinued from Page 6j physiological principle that in empty stomach is a more urgent matter than an ympty brain. But this is only a fraction of the integral hnction of education. For while it is true that educa- fuon causes unrest, it is equally true that it has a definite piritual value that far overbalances any physical state of fuman dissatisfaction it may inspire, in other words, lrogress is entailed in spiritual, as well as material things. iSuch change takes form in the nature of apprecia- 'onsg not only in the most obvious category of aesthetics iut in a host of other manifestations as well. which xievitably result as the product of increased under- ianding of the environment both immediate and re- iote. Still more significant is the added appreciation, 1 a class all by itself. that considers spiritual wealth hore vital than material wealth. These understandings rid appreciations are concomitant appurtenances of ie material evidences of progress themselves. And it precisely this spiritual development of the human ice that makes life more meaningful for the average 'ian of today than it was for the most powerful tribal lhieftain of forty centuries ago. For if physical happi- less is relative, spiritual satisfaction is absolute and is letermined by the accuinulative sum of appreciations 'fiat constitute one's personal makeup. lThere are those who might facetiously rebut this bneept of educational worth with the idea that a iliarving person has no ambition to enlist his reserve if appreciations. The wisest course to take with this lfgument is not to dignify it by too much consideration. i:'s true that the pangs of a destructive hunger are fur prime considerationg the same holds for freezing. taut at any given thne, the number of unfortunate in- 'ividuals who fall into these classes is insignificant and nmaterial as far as this discussion is concerned. ,l So far the use of the word Uprogressl' has carried HAY - 1940 l i l I l with it its broader and more general meaning, that is, its relationship to the betterment of human life. There is, however, another more specific connotation of the word which should not be overlooked in a thorough consideration of progress. lt is the use of the word as it applies to the various phases of the activity of men for their own sake, and not as it entails directly the progress of the race. Still the two are closely associated. The progress of the human race is determined by the more specific advancements that have been made in the realms of science, education, the arts, and other branches of lifeg and these in turn may theoretically be broken up into still more specific subdivisions and their respective achievements analyzed to measure the general human progress. Advancement in all human endeavor, however, does not contribute to general progress. because some activ- ities themselves do not aim in that direction. Few will deny, for example, that the science and subsequent art of conducting warfare have advanced. This is progress -yes, but only in so far as conducting warfare is con- cerned. But since warfare is itself undesirable. its progress does not add to the true function for which real progress standsg rather it subtracts from it. The theoretical formula necessary to accurately determine the extent of general human progress at any specific time involves, therefore. the balancing of all positive or desirable progresses that have been made with those that are negative or unfavorable to the bencfaction of mankind. Information, Please Know anything about cars? i'Been mixed up with 'cm a bit. BIechanie? No, pedestrianf' yr 27 Just Rambling RENA KLEIN IN THE spring a potential teacher turns to thoughts of prom-frocks. vacation, white shoes and socks, next year's job ffor optimists onlyl and plenty of ice in a coca-cola. Conspicuous on the campus also at this time of the year is our friend Cernik, all equipped for his bird expedition into the South Glen. How are things these days, Iimmy-in the bag? And conspicuous on the dance floor is the absence of couples who are equipped for an astronomy lesson tto please Dr. XYestyJ as they stroll on the campus. So spring is here and I'll wager that at this very moment Margie Vg' like in 'go'l YVells is shaking the moth balls out of her perennial brown-and-white spec- tator pumps. Incidentally. the biggest question before the student council at the next meeting will be whether the student body should invest in white shoe polish or leave its shoes collectively and individually in the primeval state. untouched by civilization. Have you noticed the arch the girls are putting in archery? Indeed, they are giving Dan Cupid a run for his money in more ways than one. It seems that thq combination of archery and leap-year is quite detri- mental to the boys' sense of security. Could it be that our girls' eyes have wandered from the target? But afterf all, who is to judge which is the target? 'Nuff said! If I were L. L. L., I'd say, My grey matter has been transformed into a seething turmoil of activity by at- tempts to introduce into this dissertation the annual terpsichorcn event of the Iunior Class. But alas, I have discovered that my endeavors are of no avail, for all I can find to say is, 'It was springy. you knowf 1 After this. I think it is advisable to close. And so I leave you with the thought of the season- In the spring a young mans thoughts turn fancy. rime and tContinued from Page IZI and with this, sent a hard, heavy blow to my temple which knocked me downg I was asleep on the floor of Iimmy's UI house for at least eighteen hours, when, at length: III. The Awakening Everything vanished: the park bench. the nebulous hound, the beautiful Iimmy, the bald-headed BIacLeish. the blinding white handerchief, the automobile. the house, and the vise-like hand. I was in my own bed. and I was shaking like that proverbial leaf which has nothing else to do but be compared to terrified humans. Under my pillows were still two volumes of poems by RlacLeish, and on my dresser were still seven poems I had written in the XIacLeish style. only that evening. to mv regret. I was sick: I was tired: I needed sleep. And so I went back to somebody's land of Nod till seven o'clock next morning when I woke to a new day. springy and shining with spring: green of the grass and birds' flights. IV. Epilogue I dressed at seven, ate breakfast on an empty stomach till eight. and sat in the parlor chair in well-intended 28 Punishment BY rnnun meditation till time would come to leave. I was going to do several things: First I would return eight MacLeish volumes to the library and to individuals from whom I had borrowed them. I would next ask the girl to whom I gave a poem called Andys Margin for Error, to give the thing back to me. She had one night suggested that I try not to melt on the way from her house homcward. The fact is, I did melt that night, and wrote a poem telling her about it, perhaps just as KIacLeish would have written about a similar situation. It was doubtless this poem which had aroused his anger, and drawn down upon me his wrath. I would ask for this poem back. But it was spring: a delightful spring morning- though Iimmy was prettier than this non-elusive frienl of mine: and though MacLeish could write poetry which was much better than the verse I wrote to my non-elusive friend. But it was spring. A service garage on ripper Broadway, New York City carries a large electric sign. 'Seasonize Your Car. I The Evening Sunj TOWER LIGHI What College Did For Me IXIIRIAIXI KOLODNER QApologies to Robert Benchley, The Early XVorm j Things I learned: Freshman Year 1. That polygamy existed in many ancient tribes. 2. That if you iight hard enough you may be able to wear anklets. 3. That it is easier to buy a piano than to pitch on a pitch pipe. 4. That you can leave home at 8:05 and have plenty of time to get ready for class in the morning. S. That Momjiams is a rather expensive eating place. 6. That faculty reserves must be in at 9:00. QThis was a rather hard lesson to learn.j 7. That here there are no books in a browsing room. 8. That you can leave home 8:15 and still get there before Mr. VValther. 9. That you don't have to worry about professionals yet. Sophomore Year I. That most girls were unaware until this time that they are sincerely interested in mathematics. Z. That Dr. Crabtree's nephew is almost as smart as one's nephew . . . quite remarkable. 3. That the Romans clasped their tunics on the right side. tOr maybe it was the left.j -1. That you can leave home at 8:10 and get to school at two minutes to nine . . . QXVhy waste the time before a class chattering , . . pardon me. chattingj 5. That 100 questions must be given in a good true- false test. 6. That sleep is not necessary to existence . . . it is merely necessary to living. tLearned while student teachingj 7. That nine weeks can seem like nine years . . . therefore time is relative and I'm another person who understands Einstein's theory. 8. That one does not come late during student teach- ing-that one leaves home at 7:30. 9. That the Arundel has the best recordings, and therefore, is better than hIomjiam's. Iunior Year I. That cure for insommia is History of Ed. by Monroe . . . it's guaranteed to give you sleep . . . plus nightmares. III-XY - 1940 Z. That you can pass courses without ever using a faculty reserve f all those quarters wasted .... Q. 3. That the worry you did not use in the first year worrying about professionals can be added to the Worry you worry this year in one lump sum and produce gray hairs overnight instead of over a gradual period of two years. 4. That objective tests are easily marked and are therefore of great value. 5. That any teacher who calls a rock or mineral a stone has not had Dr. XVest's course. 6. That one may leave the house at 8:15 and get to school at two AFTER nine . . . if you train your instructors right. 7. That gum may be purchased in Richmond Hall. 8. That the Smoking Room has better discussions on current topics and problems than the Open Forum . . . Qmore comprehensive, tooj. The foregoing outline of my education is true enough in its way and is what people like to think about a college course. It has become quite the cynical thing to admit laughingly that college did no one good. It is part of the American credo that all the college stu- dent learns is to make dates and to dance. I had to write something like that to satisfy the editors. As a matter of fact-I learned a great deal in college and have those four years to thank for whatever I know today. The above note was written to satisfy my instructors and financial backers who may read this. As a matter of fact. the original outline is true. and I had to look up that data about the Roman garment. COUNSEL Doms KLANK Sometimes life is so complicated I don't know what to do: But it seems when l'm in doubt I can always come to You. You will tell me how to turn And You will show the way I'm thankful that I have a friend To guide me every day. 29 GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR Charles Street at Lexington 'Neills 4 I I ll C mpliments of . . TOWSON THEATER The instant jaatiunal Bank of Uliutnsun, AHHIJ. LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Dis crimmatifng Tastes Prefer Esskay' Quality MEAT PRODUCTS 30 NNSTDCTRTSNN? qContinued from Page l9l ticket booths: listen to the' crunching of peanuts and crackling of popcorn by the enthusiastic fans: listen to the many radios booming out game accounts into myriad homes and you'll probably agree with me that the game has a very secure future. I have followed the game through from beginningj to end and it is now strike three on the last battery thus completing the game. i Rig QED , B IATILDA NVOLPERT HAVE YOU a sense of humor? Yes? For goodness' sakes. hold on to it: it's precious. lt will work miracles for you in the profession you have chosen. It will' change forty different children into forty different personalities: it will transform a routine day into untold. possibilities: it will make your work more pleasant. Have you a sense of humor? XVhat? You don't know! XV:-zll, heres a test for you. These are examples of what you may expect to come across in any normal teaching. day. The following boners were collected from the re-' marks of one class of forty children during one term of student-teaching. Funny? l think so. How's your 'sensa-W yuma? Teacher: Class, do you know what l mean by a fort? Regina: Yes'm: it's an old car. V Teacher: XVho can use the word mate in a good' sentence? Anne: My mother has a mate to help her with her housework. Teacher: Do you know of any other words that begin like twelve? Aline: Twine. Teacher: Good! Can you use the word in a sentence? Aline: l have a twine-colored coat. Teacher: Which would you rather hayc: l-5 of a pie, l-3 of a pie. or l-2 a pie? Kenneth: One-fifth: l clon't like pie. Teacher: XYhat small word do you see in wiggle? Child: lggle. Teacher: XYhat is an iggle? Child: A big bird that flies around. Teacher: XYhat is meant by the word cable? Child: A cable is something you find around a milk bottle that tells you what company made it. TOWER LIGHT. I 'lltllIllIllllVllIfIDllR y ICATIIERINE IACOB I Secretary Hull has sound reasons for refusing to rec- .hgnize Iapans puppet, XVang, as head of the Nanking wgovernment. The United States can tolerate no com- lbetition with Charley McCarthy. 1 -The New Yorker ... .-, .VV -.- as f.- N A slight change has been made in the economy pro- trgram, Congressmen have stopped saving money and '.tarted saving their jobs. ,I -The New Yorker 'I Professors daughter: Circumstances compel me to tdeeline a marital arrangement with a man of no pecu- Wiiary resources. ii Student: Er-I don't get you . . . Professors daughter: That's just what I'm telling l'fOLll'y i 13 sg: -4: He: I wish you would quit driving from the back l. Meat. Ll She: UI will when you quit cooking from the dining- V r g room table. The long outstanding accounts of the nrm were being fpaid with amazing promptness, which aroused the lcuriosity of the head of the organization. I-Iow do you ido it? he asked the young man responsible for the Ichange. HI just recall parts of letters I sent Dad while I was at fcollegef' he explained. -The Rotarian r .., .-, .-. y Bobby to his little brother: I must share this .cake with you-I will give you the nice dainty little fpieec and take this ugly big piece myself. judge: Madam, do you understand the nature of Qian oath? y XVitness: VVell, my husband is a golfer and my Hson drives a second-hand flivverf' I -The Rotarian A Here, waiter! exploded the diner. Theres a fly 5 in my soup! i Ah-h-h-li, said the waiter. examining the soup. l M'sieur ees mistaken: zat in soup ees not a fly: i it ees a vitamin bee! -The Howling Ute l'MAY - 1940 For Style-Bight Clothes Il0CIlSCllILD K 0llN 8: C 0. 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BXLTIXIORE XHRYL AND Deposits Guaranteed to 55,000.00 On Our Own BARBARA HAILE and BIARTHA SCHNEBLY ABOUT A month ago in New York. we, two total strangers to that city, were walking down Broadway when we fell upon a scheme that took us to an opposite section of town. XVe didn't know anymore about New York than you do and yet we survived to tell our tale. ln the corner drugstore, the first information was gained from a telephone book and by the help of a New Yorker. Sure. l know where it is, he said. As you go out the door. turn to the right and use the subway. You won't have any trouble. You'll see the place when you get there. Feeling like conquerors of the universe we descended the steps to the subway. But once underground our puff of assurance was crushed in the bewilderment that followed. Such noise! People hurrying in and out. never pausing! Trains every few seconds followed by echoes of silence. Reassurance returned after the woman at the change booth gave us directions as to the train to take. She failed to name the proper stop for us, but we dicln't realize this until later when we were riding along comfortably. For amusement we followed our route on the subway map. and it was here we discovered that the street we wanted wasn't listed as a station. ln great alarm we noticed that beyond the next two stops was 32 LUC I I the tunnel that led to Coney Island. The meditations I of a passenger were interrupted by us with the important question as to what station we should use. XVith sus-I pense on our part. but definite amusement on his, he. replied, Past it? No. this is as close as you'll get to it. '1 The train had already stopped when we asked thei question. so we made a dash for the doors before they should close on us. ' After leaving the Rector Street Station. our fourthl set of directions passed the test. XVe found the object of our search. XVall Street. the financial center of they world. XValking through a canyon of buildings, wef came face to face with lt. After pausing to glory in' our own ability. we coniidently followed the signs that directed us to the Visitors' Gallery. And what luck!! There was a reception committee of one who extended an invitation to us to join the tour that had just begunf Excellent miniature electrical devices and charts pre-I pared us for what was to follow. Ushered out to the. gallery, we lost ourselves in that which reminded us I of the activity of a nest of disturbed ants combined with the noise of a factory going at full speed. Oh. yes. Columbus discovered America. but so far asl we are concerned, we discovered the Stock Exchange .f of New York. I' I Salesman: This is the type of washing machine that i pays for itself. I Prospect: Fine! As soon as it has made the last payment send it out to my house. S G C., B ,, TOWER LIGHT I I ' .,vj1 ' ' 1 'W 15. h . I , , Y A W.-,,:,A,IV .H , . '4 -, .5 . 5 x A u 'IH Y 4. .A r ' 4 H '. 1 J. , o JI P-ep 4 ' v- Y L ' ' . E N H, .- - ,., , ' 4 ' . f , N, I I4 0 . '--1 Q u' - I 5, . ' 7 ' 1 v . U, Z , 1 , . A-H 1 , ,Q lit- 1 l I 'i .1 I Y -qi V I , A ful ri , ,, R . ' 1F . ' , K s 1 . , . . I Q . 1 P In . 1 1 ' I . f 1,3 0 ' J '11 A i'-Lf -, 'F . For the Merry Month of May - ' , if ' 1, Miss ELAINE SHEPARD New York and HolIywood's celebrated model in Chesterfielcfs Sundial dress ,pi . I 4' -'if all ,g ,. R 'na Y ' 1, N,x -U f ' ' 1. . xxoqqfu-0 ,f -7- Xe 4 - T THE CIGARETTE OF THE HUUR Today more than ever, smokers are turning to ChesterHeld's skillful blend of the worldls best cigarette tobaccos. Now is the time , for you to light up and enjoy a Chesterfield. . . 5 tlleyire COOLER SMOKING, BETTER-TASTING l AND DEFINITELY MILDER. 3 fs so I . WI I I u IIF Q5 SENIOR gwgy QQSSUE f WL ,Zane 1940 4. x ii l.533AQW lfzffs imap? 1-2 7Q.WMEf QS l . in .4 V ,X , . TEST PILOT HOMER BERRY LIKES ALL THE SPEED HE CAN GET IN A PLANE, BUT HE LIKES HIS SMOKING S-L-O-W! SLOXVER-BURNING CAMELS ARE HIS CIGARETTE mx FASTEST PLANE off the production line today! That's how Homer Berry describes the Bell Airacobra, amazing new speed plane. He should know. This veteran speed test pilot started flying in 19l5...started smok- ing Camels the same year. No other Cigarette ever gave me anything like the pleasure of a Camel. he says. They burn slower, smoke milder and Cooler. Camels don't irritate my throat and their full, rich flavor doesn't tire my taste. ln 26 years, that slower burning has given me a lot of extra smoking. Before jill! take it for granted you're getting all the pleasure there is in a cigarette. try Camels. Enjoy the advantages of Camel's slower- burning costlier tobaccos. Penny for penny your best cigarette buy! TEST PILOT HONIER BERRY SAYS: Mona PLEASURE PER Purr No fast burning for me in my cigarette. I've smoked Camels ever since there have been any Camels. They burn slower and give me more pleasure per puff and more puffs per pack. 'I'd walk a mile for a slozc'-bzfrfzilzg Camel! ' U Q . MORE PUFFS PER PACK! In refent laboratory tests. ' Camels hurned 25 '7 ,t101l'El' than the average of the 15 other of the largesnsell- ing brands tested-slower than imp of them. That means. on the average. a smoking plux equal to EXTRA A sMoKEs Sgiwez ' lliiir 1L4w.H..T II.-ymild:Ttiht1.i.,iU xx'1i,.w.,,Ys,,1..:,,,NyC4 PER PACK! THE STAFF EDITORS EVELYN A. FIEDLER KATHERINE FEASER RICIIARD CUNNINGIIAAI CIIIARLES CROSS CIRCULATION ADVERTISING MANAGERS MANAGERS Esther Royston Elizabeth AXISCIHS Margaret Heck leanette Iones Virginia Roop Margaret Lowry Norma Cambrill BUSINESS MANAGERS Yvonne Belt Iohn Edward Koontz DEPARTMENT EDITORS Art Service Station DOrOtl'ly' Snoops Ieanne Kravetz Alice Trott Miriam Kokldllef General Literature AudreyPranIsehufer N' tt T tt - a e e o Marguerlte AV1lSOI'l L Im , I Irina Sennhenn Patricia Herndon Humor Katherine Iaeob H . Frances Shores I 'mc Elizabeth Melendez Syd11GyBakCr Sfienfe Exchanges Lee NCC21ff12f Mildred lrlament Iohn Clnleoat Iames O Connor Fmbiom Atblegja-5 Marie Parr. Nolan Chiplnan Dorothy Slsk Library College Events llelen Pieel: Mary Brashears Nancy Metzger Elizabeth Zentz Audrey Ilorner Doris Klank Mary Di Peppi Editorial Calvin Parker Catherine Cray lames lett ALICE MUNN - - Managing Eclito l' Ja'-RMUIUSLSIEI' Vol XIII 14 JUNE - 1940 A No.9 CONTENTS PAGE S1Q:I,I,ING FISH OR FISICACHINC SCHOOL? . 2 HOUR IDAY, '.... . 4 SURIRIER EVENING . . 5 RECIPE FOR A LEADER . . 7 SONNET TO LIDA LEE TALL . . . 9 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DISCIPLINE . . 9 TIIE IDEAL STUDENT ..... . lll FROBI CIII ALPHA SIGMA TO KAPPA IDICLTA PI . . ll MY rlTRIP TO THE STATE FPEACIIERS COLLEGE . . 12 EIGHTY T HOUSAND VISITORS A YEAR . . . li UNDERGROUND ADVENTURE . . . 16 A AIODERN rIlAN'IALUS . . l7 CjIlARAC'1'ER SK1+1'1'CI'IES . . lS EDITORIALS ...... . l9 IALRIA RI.-LTER AND CLASS SONG OF l9-i0 . . 20 SPORTS ...... . 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The garbage collectors, the street sweepers are paid a much salary as the beginning teachers. said an irate .tizen when making a plea for increased salaries for .:aehers. y The teachers make no better appearance than serv, 'ig maids. said the eoinmandant of an army post when :questing that improvements be made in the post thool. The above statements concerning teachers are all true notations from actual conversations. Not one is ficti- .ous and many more might be added. They are illus- fations of what is expected of teachers. They are not ieant to reflect in any sense upon the occupations with fhieh teaching is contrasted. I VVhen a trade becomes a profession and adds more nd more information to its bodies of knowledge. when is objectives and its standards of achievement become more and more clearly defined. when its implements nd its procedures are being constantly evaluated and ested. then it must require more and more education or its candidates, and higher and higher standards for its nembers. Making a direct application for immediate needs. the iliscussion might be confined to three aspects of the iubject, approached through these questions: 1 I. Do you look like a professional person? XVho Nants to? is a logical response. ' Z. Do you act like a professional person? XVhy should one? comes back the answer. 3. Are you a professionally minded person? XVhat does that mean? might be the reply. How should a professional person look? Like any other other well-groomed person. Some members of certain professions have earned for themselves characteristic features which label them. VVe say. I-Ie looks like an artistf' Ile looks like a mu- 1 JUNE - 1940 sicianf' MHC does not look like a doctor. An old lady on the hotel porch at an ocean resort once said to the writer. Do you teach detectives? I know you are a teacher. I told my friends so when you walked into the dining room last night. YVhen asked how she knew. she went on. I can always tell widows and school teach- ers. The first appear so sophisticated. the latter seem so eonhdentf' That designation is a unique one. lt does not imply the drabness, old-maidishness. eccentricity. which such a statement frequently conveys. The well-groomed person does not affect the extreme in dress. Ile does not appear eccentric by holding to an old or highly individual style. nor ultra-modern by folf lowing the latest and commonest in fashion. Ile is ala ways particular about his appearance. A careless or hur- ried toilet. shoddy or inappropriate apparel. excessive use of cosmetics. odor of tobacco. shabby or unblaekf ened shoes. uncreased and baggy trousers. have all. each and every one. been responsible for the failure of in' dividuals to make good. lCf31IfI1lllC'Cl on Page lil 3 MJ.. We Nunn: 5-4 gf il l .I il It I I ll I In ,f II I. I 1 I 1, ii iz if if ,I l il li' l I I EXECUTIVE BOARDfSTUDENT COUNCIL si UOLUW Q I7 I SEVERAL days following the election of officers for l9-POA-ll, I approached Allan O'Neill to congratulate him on the acquisition of his new oflice. Mr. O'Neill received the greeting with his usual modest blush, and then quizzically asked, uSay. what office do you hold next year? In Iune. 1939, I presented the platform of the Stu- dent Council. VVe present the following record as pledges kept: l. A democratic consideration has been given every problem. XVe have tried to realize that a work' ing democracy is one with intelligent and deep- thinking participants who cooperate by sharing ideas, reaching a sane and satisfying goal for all. Z. There has definitely been increased participation in council activities. Although every student has not held the Hoot during discussion in general meetings, a large percentage have sent problems, requests, and suggestions to the executive board for committee investigation. 3. XVC have tried to make our council a student coun- cil. XVc have added responsibilities by uniting col- lege activities such as Play Day. the Qlde English Dinner, May Fete, and the handbook publication under council administration, thus giving us strength. 4 ,I 9 if ELEANOR XVILLIAIXISON ' XVe have stressed our student council but must alloi: much of our progress to our president, Dr. M. Theressl XViedefeld, whom we all love and admire for her coniii dence and trust in the council of young people. Q., There is a well-worn path leading to a door near thi' southern extremity ofthe college. Behind this door at tht. eastern portion of the room sits another adviser. Here come not only questions of ratio and proportion. bull social and administrative problems requiring immediattfui attention. From here go forth not only suggestions foxy mathematical improvement, but decisive notations on student actions calling for telescopic minds and winger: feet. This is known in council slang as the Har0lcI Nloser spur, the most effective stimulant for dilatorylr officers, At this time we wish to thank Mr. Moser foi all the life and vigor that the council of l9'59-40 hai' absorbed from him. I And now that our day has come to the restful twi I light of the year, we look forward to an eventful yea for the student leaders of I9-I0--ll. To you, Betty Steuart, the president-elect, I give intc your keeping: the constitution, which you have pledgec to upholdg the gavel, which is the symbol of powerg ant q rules of order, which represent democratic procedure. 5 TOWER LIGH1? Lunmer vezzizzq PEARLE BLOOD THE western sky was bright with the sunset. Only the gentle slapping of the water on the stones, and the even- ing salute of the song Sparrow broke the silence. Then the whir of a motor, and gay laughing voices came across the still air, as a crowd of young people scrambled down the bank toward the lake. The evening was soft and warm, the water smooth and inviting. Witli a joyous splash they waded in together. 'AO-o-oh, it's cold! The first anticipation of delight changed to apprehension. The beautiful shining lake had become real, and - it was cold! ln the ruddy light there was no detail, only silhou- ettes against the sky and water. One slim trembling fig- ure broke away from the others, and waded back toward the warm safety of the shore. Come on in! It's only cold at first. You'll get used to it! Encouraging hands stretched out, and the timid Hgure started half-heartedly again. The others went on, crying out with pleasure or fright, as they ventured deeper into the cold water. The stones on the bottom hurt their feet. They were only little pebbles, but there were so many of them. Some of the group stumbled. One half-fell on a stone bigger than the rest. Another slipped off a smooth rock which offered a treacherous foothold. The deeper water gave a feeling of lightness and the stones on the bottom began to trouble them less. The voices became more confident, the movements more certain. VV ith easy, sure strokes the figures reached out, trying their strength and endurance, seeking their depth. Presently they found broad fiat rocks where they could rest and push off again with fresh vigor. Only the timid one still dabbled in fear, enjoying none of the exhilaration of trying the depths. One, bolder than the rest, called, Can you touch bottom? I can't. l'm going to swim to the sunset. ln the growing half-light and the cold buoyancy of the JUNE - 1940 water, anything seemed possible. The crowd watched. 'fYou'd better find the big rock. they shouted. 'fYou're getting out too far. 'fVVho wants a rock? l'm going to the sunset. The swimmer kept moving, but he made little progress. ln his first impulsive spurt he had ex- hausted his energy, and now it took all his strength to keep afloat. The glow in the west was fading. Soon it would be hard to tell where the sun had been. XV ith an effort he turned toward the shore. As darkness closed in, the voices grew more subdued. The figures came quietly back to the beach: the dab- bler who never found the courage to face the new and untriedg thc boaster who couldn't see his own limita- tions: the group who had explored the deep water from the solid rocks, testing their skill with different strokes, finding their power, ln a few minutes they had gone. and the evening was still again. But these were only gay young people looking for fun on a hot summer night. XVhat could they have to do with us? 5 mmm X :iw ML! Q 'V - -A .s M mx, ww w W 9' W? 5 Q W WQ -gy 7 mv mf W W ecipe for or .gender NORNIAN NVILDE AS EVERY good teacher knows, no lesson is com- plete until it has been analyzed by the teacher for the purpose of improving the technique of the next lesson. lt is unfortunate that this plan which works so beauti- fully for a series of classroom situations which evolve under one leader. can seldom be utilized by student officers because the annual installation of new officers allows no chance for the old ofhcer to rebuild. Be that as it may, the leader of any organization must meet many requirements. Perhaps the greatest asset a leader can have is the ability to foresee events. lt is most comforting for one to be able to enter any situation knowing that one is ready to meet it. Any club, group, or class aims to rank high in achievement, and the way to achieve is to Hbe prepared. A leader must realize that merely following tradition because it is the easiest way soon loses its lustre unless the tradition has become a ritual. Unless the originality and enthusiasm of the group is challenged, a laekadaisical attitude is likely to develop. A good leader must inject something new, something original into his guidance. An eilicient leader follows the desires of his group and plans to carry them out. Many times he can foresee the direction events will take, but occasionally he must uncover such wishes by consulting individuals. lf there are no ideas, the leader himself must supply them, like the teacher who, through his motivation and bubbling energy, makes that which was formerly dormant blossom anew. But in carrying out the desire of his group, he comes face to face with personalities. If he is an idealist. he is in for a great shockg if a realist, he knows what to expect. Only experience will show him that he is deal- ing with a number of people who follow the normal curve at all times. There will be a few who indorse cer- tain activities wholeheartedlyg there will be a great many who are willing to do their share when asked, there will be the usual few who are never satisfied with anything done, and are seldom willing to help although they never neglect to state their dislikes. Here one's ability to be cool-headed is a great asset. ln his desire for the success of his group the leader must be able to turn his left cheek, then his right, and in turn give away his cloak to those who cannot realize the situation they so selfishly create. Then, too. a way must be found to interest the entire group in its functions. Every person should have some integral part to play in the solving of the com- mon problem. Only when everyone becomes a partici- JUNE - 1940 pating member of his small society can there be that en- joyment arising from active cooperation commonly called class spirit. Poor Richard said, lf you'd have it done. go, if not, send. This may be the best way to get things done well. but the good leader is he who can delegate respon- sibilities in such a way that they are willingly accepted and carried out as efficiently as if he had done them him- self. The director must have an optimistic point of view. He must be the inspiring element, the cheerleader, who is able to instill in his followers the feeling that there is always a way to win. Only then will he have the pleas- ure of seeing his class work together wholeheartedly for the success of some project, even though some opposing force makes its achievement difficult. lf his fellows work together as cogs in a machineg if he can truthfully say he guides a homogeneous group exemplifying the motto 'tln Union There ls Strength. then he may consider himself successful. N24 2 2 s if R gy I EX Glo Our O Senior Dresibcnt 'K The Senior Class Wishes its read- E! if ers to pause and join it in offering a tribute to its most faithful class presi- .R dent, Norman Wilde. E To you, Norman, a sincere student, A V a capable athlete, a faithful friend! S May you find the satisfaction and ,E R enjoyment, which you so deservedly Z, R merit, in your chosen profession. Q rg May you help students develop N those same qualities which you have so thoroughly exemplified. 7NAxksS??QMz! KQXQQQAM XkmksS?'iQm!! K 7 . THE FACULTY I W I I I, If ,I I, I , I I I-I I ,I is I, 'I I I I II I I I .Eiga Bee IAMES G. IETT VVhen in the XV est I saw the great sun wane, 2 I thought on greatness as a part well-played. Eg For great had been the day the sun had made, EI And great had been the growth in its demesne. Im VVhat power was dealt to suns to thus ordain gl E The hours that lie amidst the heavy shade? i I7 XV hat matter, since the potent suns have stayed N And since their benefits shall long remain? E So like the suns was her engagement hereg gl Z And like a sunset, whose elaborate hue A 7' Retells the day - in richly-colored glass N A window-story will review the sphere Of her influence, wherein children grew. R R The greatness of her labors shall not pass. 2 Qlso You THINK You CAN -I 1,1 I L THIS IS one of the first things that we as beginning I .. 5 I , 1 I I II I I I I I I I I I I I I, teachers will have to master. That is as it should be, because unless a class is well disciplined the most beau- tifully prepared lesson will not be efhciently conducted. You may have heard that a person is born a good disci- plinarian. I do not know how true that is, but I do know that a teacher must have a thorough understanding of, and insight into, human natureg she must have a certain basic philosophy of life which will enable her to stand aloof and view dispassionately yet understandingly her children's actions. A teacher must be reasonable in her requirementsg she must be able to see what is best for her children. There are certain fundamentals which everyone may acquire and which when used will reduce one's disci- plinary problems to a minimum. First, children are great imitators and quickly imitate their teacher. A teacher who is quiet and composed in manner has a class which conducts itself in the same way. In no other place does a teacher have to be so careful about what she says, what she does, and how she looks as in a classroom. Outside she is with people of her own age who will JUNE - 1940 Bcip ine ADELE MITZEL interpret her actions, understand them. and sometimes discount them. But in a classroom she is a model - there to set the best example possible. She is a leader, a guide in developing the childis personality for Hwhole- some living. Children are very sensitive and respond readily to their environment. That environment should reflect kindness, politeness, and consideration. I have known situations which would seemingly disprove such teacher action, but I feel it is the right way. Naturally, it takes time - the classic simile hRome wasn't built in a day' applies aptly. It won't work in a dayg it will not work in a month - but the important thing is that it will work, if the correct habits are consistently emphasized accord- ing to the psychological laws of habit formation. There are other prerequisites to good discipline. how- ever. You win or lose your class ahnost the first day you meet. That is the time to start setting up the standards you expect it to fulhll. Let the children feel that you 9 will accept nothing but their best. Let them feel that you mean what you say. You get only what you demand, so demand their best. Make your standards high. yet at- tainable. VVhen I say win your class the first day I do not mean you should be dictatorial or frighten them. You will. of course, be more adamant the first month at least than normally. until the class fully realizes exactly what you expect and has become adjusted to your personality. Nevertheless, even that first month you do not have to superimpose your personality in such a way that you stunt the development of theirs. Keep in mind how you react to different teachers. It is not the teacher who frightens you, or the one who tries to subordinate your personality to hers, or the one who is inconsiderate. whom you respect, or for whom you will do your best work, It is precisely the same way with children, only more so. Because of your experience you can sometimes understand why a teacher has such a manner, but chil- dren cannot. They have not yet developed such insight. A teacher who is overbearing and unreasonable is often neither sure of herself, her subjects, nor her pupils. It is also important that all materials be ready and at your fingertips. Such things as having your paper cut be- forehand and all books and pictures ready make for a smooth-running class. There must be thorough prepara- tion for each lesson. Furthermore, the teacher should be able to foresee and anticipate, as nearly as possible, what is going to happen in each class period and be prepared for it. She should always be many jumps ahead of her class. As college students you know what hap- pens when a teacher has to look for some materials or is not prepared. You turn around and talk to your neigh- bor although you have had double the years of training of your elementary school children. Finally, there should always be something for the child to do, and he should know how to go about doing it. To sum up, if you use your authority wisely, adapt your personality to your group. and prepare conscien- I U' I ii ,l I ,l ji. 4 I tiously for your teaching, you should go a long way to- Q ward gaining the understanding and respect of your class: and there should be little need of your disciplin- ing in the old sense of the term. ffm gdeaf Student DAY IN and day out we hear individuals glibly re- ferred to as college students. Isn't this term a misno- mer, at least in its ideal sense? To me the term is some- what synonymous with the person whom XVinifred Gor- don has described as one whose mind is alive to ideasg who is interested in politics, religion, science, history, literature, who knows enough to wish to know more. and to listen if he cannot talkg a person who is not at the mercy of a new book, leading article, or the chatter of an irresponsible outsider - a person who is not insular, narrow-minded. or contemptuousf, As the old saying goes: there is nothing right or wrong, but thinking makes it so. Vlfhether this is, or is not, the definition of an ideal student, is purely an individual matter, yet if we accept it as being essentially ours, it may be wise for us all to consider how nearly we ourselves approach the extremely worthy. yet distantly attainable goal. How ideal a student is the person who: I. Feels that he has adequately completed all as- signments when he has taken copious verbatim notes from one reference? Z. Takes part in no club work because he has no time for such distracting influences, and sincerely 10 believes that the amount of time spent in study is the prime index of its worth? 3. Cuts all assemblies because they have fewer values than eating lunch. playing a game of pool or ping-pong, or hunching over a game of cards? I 4. Confidentially informs other less-informed persons 1 in the Men's Room that drastic reforms are neces- sary in certain clubs but hasn't considered that his arguments fcarefully promulgated as they are cer- tain to bel merit the immediate consideration of: the group in question? XV ho casually suggests the' evils of the group to his audience and inad-' vertently neglects to propose positive remedies? 5. Feels that intramural athletics cannot possiblyl measure up to intercollegiate athletics in their val-j ue, because the social implications of the latter far'- outweigh those of the former? ' 6. Doesn't bother to vote when election time comes,l because he has work to do that period. and un-5 doubtedly enough of his simple fellows will vote' so that there will be no danger of his losing his right of franchise when he wishes to utilize it at some more convenient period? TOWER LIGHT' I .l 7. Sits up until 1:00 A. M. studying for an examina- tion and then informs his section members that he has not cracked a book when they ask him a 1 a question before the test? j 8. Doesn't attend dances because it bores him to go l V 14 through the receiving line, or because he doesnt l like the crowd who attend. or because the bands are corny ? . . . or VVho attends all dances because he wants to be judged in the eye of the faculty and his classmates, j' a stalwart supporter of all dances? lj 9. Spends all his spare time either dancing in the foy- Q er. conversing in the bookshop, or kibitzing at the games, because, after all, conversation is the best j medium for sharpening the wits? j 10. Doesn't try out for any of the teams because there i are more worthy intellectual activities which de- serve his interest? ll Sinugly Haunts a 6.5 average in the faces of his class- mates and explains the ease of his accomplislunent 1 by a statement of the comparative simplicity of the courses here at the college as compared with those 1 at Hopkins, Maryland, etc.? jj 12. Blandly asserts when a fellow does well in certain courses that it was Hto be expected because he g ustood in'l with the instructors? 13. Casually offers his services to an instructor under ' the guise of genuine interest in a course, when in i reality he wishes to compensate for poor marks in . the subject? 14. Seldom supports any evening performances given by student groups in the college because they are amateurish and would necessitate an entire trip back to college at night? l 15. Unmeaningfully forgets to indicate quoted ex- cerpts in his term-paper. feeling that no matter how he might try he couldn't improve the words, so why not call them his own? After all, C-oil helps those who help themselves. 16. Rushes up to the library to get a half-dozen books on the same subject for a week? He caimot possibly use all of them for several days. yet if he should wait until he needs them perhaps he might be dis- appointed. 17. Feels that because he has been taken into the honor society he is the epitome of a generous teachers college education and an insuperable teaching pros- pect? . . . or Who consoles himself for not having been admit- ted to the honor society by declaring that mem- bers are not selected entirely on the basis of merit? 18. Resignedly remarks to his friends that he doesn't know how long he is going to be able to stand the college and asserts that the only thing which kept him from going to a 'Areal college was lack of money? 19. Condescendingly admits to underclassinen after his own trying days of student teaching are over that it is not at all difficult. and in fact a great deal simpler than taking courses in the college? 20. Listlessly decides to keep all his complaints un- der his hat because expressing oneself only gets him in Dutch?W Let us lose no more time about the definition of the ideal student. but endeavor. ourselves, to be one. Som- adera's statement may be of some encouragement: There is nothing in this world which a resolute man who exerts himself cannot attain. f From Chi Alpha Sigma to Kappa Delta Pi jlN THF. Crystals, the yearbooks of prosperous, pop- ulous Normal School days. you will find three Creek :letters under some of the individual pictures of grad- muates - X A F.. In june TOWER LIGHTS of L' 'way back you may find photographs of small groups labeled A'The lil-Ionor Society - Chi Alpha Sigma. On the back pages of commencement programs as recent as those of last year you will find brief lists of names titled Members lot the Class of - Elected to Chi Alpha Sigma. But never again will there be such notations on any l'college program or publication. The honor society that thas served the institution since 1925 has not died: it has lmerely surrendered its opportunities for growth, j'.JUNE - 1940 l l i 1 i 4 l Chi Alpha Sigma Fraternity is responsible for the es- tablishment. in February, 1940. of a chapter of Kappa Delta Pi at this college. The school honor society ne- gotiated and paid for the installation of the national honor society chapter which, because of its high stand- ards, cannot even admit that large group of faithful Chi Alpha Sigma members who did not receive de- grees from this college. Having performed this unselhsh act, the school honor society must now always be over- shadowed by its nationally recognized successor that takes over and enlarges its functions and ideals. There- fore, no more students will be elected to Chi Alpha Sig- ma. VVith the graduation of its last two student mem- 11 bers, Nannette Trott and Evelyn Fiedler, it becomes an alumni honor society. Though Chi Alpha Sigma has lost its power to grow in numbers it will nevertheless continue to live to the fullest. Two meetings each year will be held in conjunc- tion with Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. june I was the time for such a meeting of the two honor societies. The Kappa Delta Pi's separate business meeting and initiation ceremonies were held at twelve o'clock in Newell Hall. At one o'clock there was a joint luncheon, with Dr. Lida Lee Tall as the speaker. Dr. Tall gave her viewpoint of Scandinavia, as based on her experiences in Finland last summer. Accenting the spirit of the speech, the former Glee Club members present led the singing of Finlandia. After the luncheon Chi Alpha Sigma held a business meeting - probably its first june meeting without initiation ceremonies. This june, then, we do not hear of students elected to Chi Alpha Sigma. Instead, the roll of honor in our june Towizn LIGHT and on commencement programs reads: ELECTED TO KAPPA DELTA PI: Class of 1940 Class of I9-ll Richard Cunningham Catherine Cray Evelyn A. Fiedler Charles Gross Barbara Haile Gwendolyn Sadler Shirley Thomas Nannette Trott My Trip to the State Teachers College by EDGAR ALLAN POE as told to BARON BTUNCHAUSEN translated in English by VVASHINGTON IRVING S OM E YEARS ago, while on a business trip to Bal- timore, it was my misfortune to make the acquaintance of Palvin Carker, a young man of rather melancholy ap- pearance and absurd demeanor. XVe met while carousing in the Hot Dime Cafe under circumstances which will not L'beer repeating. Mr. Carker informed me that he was quite sad at leaving the college he attended and felt that he must confide his feelings to someone. He gave me quite a long-winded story about his life there and how delightful all the people were, and as a result it was with no reluctance that I accepted his invitation to visit the institution. XVe boarded a No. S street car, a queer contraption. which originally had been designed as an instrument of torture but had recently been converted into a means of transportation. I insisted upon paying the fare, a sug- gestion to which my host made not the least objection. An hour or so later we arrived at the college, a beauti- ful structure surrounded by a spacious campus. As we walked up the roadway to the main building I noticed a few people lolling under trees doing nothing whatso- ever, which convinced me beyond the shadow of a doubt that this was a college. My host informed me that he intended to introduce me to the members of the Senior Class, since they all belonged to the intelligentsia. As we entered the main building my host hailed a young man of courteous and gracious appearance whom he in- troduced as a Mr. Cichard Runningham. Mr. Running- 12 ham inquired as to my health, the state of my morals, and my religious tendencies. Upon informing him I was I. ji 4 il- jjj v 'r A I l r a Unitarian he immediately broke forth into a most vio- 1 lent tirade, calling me names unfit to print and finally' ended by bawling Mr. Carker out for daring to introduce 1 him to a Christian. My host, very much embarrassed, hastened to inform me that Runningham was a militant i I atheist and agitator, who constantly penned insulting- articles against the faith and made a general nuisance of I himself. Following Mr. Runningham's departure two 'i young ladies approached. I noticed that they gave Mr.- Carker a disdainful look but seemed glad to be intro- duced to me. They were, if I recall correctly, Miss Sarthai Mchnebly and Miss Mona Delle Borris. Upon learning that I was a stranger in the college Miss Borris pro-- ji duced a pamphlet entitled, 4'Tl1e Theory of Transmagni-' fycanubandansielity and XVhat It Means to You and' Me, and lectured tiresomely upon the necessity for the acceptance of this theory for the salvation of the world.' Miss Mchnebly broke in every now and then to add thej proper punctuation. After a period of two hours Miss Borris ran out of wind and Mr, Carker and I ran outf of the building with a sigh of relief. Mr. Carker informed me that Miss Borris was the longest winded talker and noisiest girl in the entire state and constantly disrupted classes with her incessant chatter. I was exhausted by this encounter and hoped that we would meet no more stu- dents that day. Unfortunately, a young man. scowling 1 i H TOWER LIGHT: ifiercely and mumbling to himself, appeared on the scene. jAt the sight of this new arrival Mr. Carker uttered a -ifpiercing shriek, turned on his heel, and fled up the hill. The young man who had been the cause of Mr. Carker's ldeparture introduced himself as Mr. VVorman Nilde, president of the Senior Class. He wanted to see my host ij about the balance in the class treasury because he had fa sneaking suspicion that Mr. Carker had no idea of ul how much money the class had had since the books r were turned over to him in September. Mr. Nilde, in a fblatant, rough voice, volunteered to show me around. i and to introduce me to the rest of the students. a sug- jfgestion I very reluctantly accepted, I can assure you. if Mr. Nilde told me that he was the bully of the college ij and had cracked the skulls of half of the male students. ii and was that evening preparing to trim a certain Larville lCauenstein, who had made himself obnoxious by his jcontemptible remarks about the young ladies of the Fcollege. We entered the foyer of Newell Hall, where I Mr. Nilde called my attention to a boy stretched at full 1 length on a sofa. He was one Cuther Lox, the champion .IlCl1CCliC1' player of the school. who at the time was re- .euperating from a strenuous match held several weeks libefore. Mr. Lox offered to play me a game of ping-pong, ifbut as he had not yet recovered his wind. I did not feel that I should take advantage of him. We found ourselves gin a moment surrounded by four charming girls whom Mr. Nilde identified as Miss Fay Keaser, Miss Bary iiMashears, Miss Fevelyn Iedler. and Miss Sorothy Disk. :,These girls were dressed in rather scanty gym outfits, 'jand told me they were going to practice interpretative jg dancing. Mr. Nilde informed me that these girls had no sense of humor and were consistently ostracized by the irest of the students. Noting that I seemed hungry. Mr. .Nilde led me into the dining room for refreshments, -X which he graciously allowed me to pay for. We secured Ha seat at a table where a young man was nosily eat- L, ing or absorbing soup in some manner. He turned out to be one Bydney Saker. A friendly soul, Mr. Saker told 1. me that college life was fine except for the fact that the food was bad, the periods too long, and the social life ijilimited to only seven days a week. jj Later, in the foyer, Mr. Saker pointed out a Miss jji Hidgely Rill and a Miss Seleanor Ewell, who were danc- .ji ing together. Miss Rill was a well-known authority on ij horse racing and had at one time given a man a tip on ,T Midnight, which she thought was a horse's name but jlater had found was the time he had finally finished his jlast race. Miss Ewell was planning to run for Congress ji on the Communist ticket as soon as she graduated. She Q' had already decided to introduce a bill advocating the j removal of the stripes from the Stars and Stripes on the ground that the stripes re- QContinued on Page 141 .4 j, i K I ,jJUNE - 1940 I I l 1 Seffbzq or Catching Selma! fContinuecl from Page 3D A person who is very fat makes a poor appearanceg an extremely thin person gives the impression of having insufficient strength to do the work, a very short person appears to lack the force necessary to command respectg a very quiet per- son is too often unheardg a very loud person seems crude and uncouth. And so it goes! Table manners. so- cial deportment, and speech signify fitness for one's calling. Personality is of the utmost importance in the make-up of a professional person. The candidate can- not afford to minimize it for a minute. How does a professional person act? Like the well- bred lady or gentleman in any walk of life. Each profes- sion has its own code of ethics but there is much that is common to them all. None considers it ethical to discuss freely the personal problems of its subjects or clientele, none regards with favor activities such as might be considered subjective, dramatization of self, or sales- manship involving competition. All require cooperation of their members for professional ends, all expect the finest and best of which one is capable, regardless of monetary remuneration, personal fame, expenditure of time, or personal sacrifice. Self and selfish purposes should play no part in the professional person's actions. His outlook and his actions are objective, in terms of benefits to his fellow man. What type of mind does the professional person need? The type of mind which is capable of formulating prin- ciples and applying them, of initiating plans and execut- ing them, of originating ideas and dealing with them, of collecting information and utilizing it for practical purposes, and of making adaptations and adjustments in terms of needs and values. This type of mind is not sat- isfied to expend its energy on material things, it must deal with ideas. It is not content with following ready- inade pattcrnsp it must be its own pattern maker. It is irked by monotony of scene: by saineness of procedure, by dead level values. It chafes under the pressure of out- moded practieesg it is constrained to be cautious in the ready adoption of the unproved, the untested. the theo- retical. It gets genuine pleasure from complete absorp- tion in the pursuance of its creations. The professional mind deals with facts. and because it has imagination and systems for organizing and reorganizing and arriv- ing at new facts. judgments. and hypotheses. it can view the world with multocular vision and prepare itself for the infinite development of which it is capable. Such is the professional person. The candidate becomes a quack or a master, depending upon the degree to which he corresponds to the total configuration. 13 tCoutinucd from Page 135 sembled bars and thus had an immoral effect upon the youth of our nation. A Miss Eynolds stepped up and tried to sell me a ticket to a dance, thc proceeds of which were to be donated to a fund being raised to enlarge the tonsils of indigent hog- callers with a view to making opera singers of them. I declined the ticket on the ground that I never could see the difference between hog-callers and opera singers anyway. Miss Eynolds and a Miss Molmson were highly insulted and left in high dudgeon. Mr. Nilde arrived with two very peculiar looking young men in tow. They turned out to be Mr. Kedwin Fieval and YV. XVorris Neis. These two lads had collaborated on a popular song called Oey, I'm Serewy for Louie, or Bluebird Lay Off My Hat. They asked me if I cared to hear it and before I could answer they called a certain Miss Matherine Kileto to sing it. Miss Kileto declined on the ground that she did not care to waste her breath for fear it would not last her the rest of her life. Nothing daunted, Mr. Fieval disappeared and in a few minutes returned with the two Rott sisters, Alice and Nannette, and Miss Hadelyn Mall and Miss Dary May, who vol- unteered to form a quartet to sing the song. Miss Nan- nette Rott sang first bass. Miss Alice Rott second bass, Miss Mall. shortstop. and Miss May left Held. I re- marked to Mr. Fieval that he should make a great suc- cess in the music business as he already had musical feet -two flats. At this juncture Misses Hachel Rale and VVeleanor Illiamson screamed that they had just attend- ed the annual I. R. C. picnic, a pink tea organization of the college, and had won first and second prizes in the beauty contest. NVere their faces red! just at this time in rushed Mr. Saker shouting at the top of his voice that his pal, jed Ohnson, had been arrested and it was up to the senior class to bail him out. It seems Mr. Ohnson had taken one too many swigs of Iron Mountain Elixir and had tried to ride a bicycle through a revolving door. Miss Swen Gadler and Miss Harbara Baile rushed for- ward with the suggestion that they'd take money from the senior class treasury to bail out Mr. Ohnson. Miss Sessie jcherer objected to this on the ground that he was not worth wasting the class' money on. She suggested that they take up a collection among the students in the senior class. This was immediately done and the following were collected - I3 cents in money, two day- old street car transfers, and one safety pin. As this was not enough, Miss Gadler suggested that the class spend the night in the jail to keep Mr. Ohnson from being lonesome. This was received with wild acclaim and all set out in a body. just at this time Miss Iansman showed up to explain that she had checked over Mr. Carker's books and found that he had made a slight error of S2 30. Upon learning that the class had gone to see Ohn- son she set out to join them, dragging Carker with her. I decided to go home and on the very next day received a telegram from Mr. Nilde saying that the entire class was in jail, including Iansman and Carker, and desired bail. I was about to answer their plea when I happened to think that they would probably wind up there soon again, so I decided against it. I don't think that I shall ever forget my trip to S. T. C. and the wonderful peo- ple I met there. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE? P. HERNDON ffm sorry, IVII. Kiplingj If you can drive a Cord when all about you Are driving Fords that once saw '22, If you can string a line so none can doubt you And make each girl think she's the one for you, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting NVhen minutes pass and still no date is there, If you can drop a dollar down a grating And still not scream and yell and tear your hair, If you can sing a song like Nelson Eddy And glide with ease across a polished floor, If you are always gay, and wise, and ready And tolerant of punny folk who bore, If you can own a yacht and several horses Yet never breathe a word about your doughg If you can get an A in all your courses And never drive too fast, and not too slow, 14 If you have looks to vie with Mr. Gable And look like him, excepting for his ears, It's very odd that I have been unable To find someone like you in eighteen years!! TOWER LIGHT Eighty Thousand Visitors a Year DOROTHY C. SNooPs l jHONV OUR legs needed a stretching! How glad we were to be in famed YVilliamsburg at last! Six hours in -1- j a bus with only a fifteen-minute stop at Richmond can 'become quite tiresome. But every minute of numbness . was repaid by a delightful stay in that restored city. jf The most outstanding impression we received was the in extreme spotlessness of the town, set off by the old, yet Ei new-appearing, buildings. lt has been said that here, as l' elsewhere, 'tThe Great American Moron may throw his plemptv cigarette packets or chewing-guin wrappers out of the window of his car, but here in XNv1ll1211l1SlJLl1'g the r White XV ings are always busy, and what they miss is iK.garnered up by a certain Dark Angel of Tidiness who l goes about with scrip and staff pouneing on every atom if-of paperfw The business section takes up no more than 4 . . 'l a block, and contains, among other stores, one tiny mov- jing picture theater and a postoflice. Each store has a well-kept eighteenth-century exterior, but one peep Qjwithin discloses ultra-modern furnishings. 5, In all respects, VVilliamsburg is typically Southern. People just don't rush anywhere, perhaps because they .haven't so very far to go. VV hen we reached the private ' home where we were to stay, we found a note in the X . F! f door-knocker telling us to select our rooms and to make ourselves at home. This trusting spirit surprised us at -lirst, but then we realized we weren't in a large city like j Baltimore. To still further remind us of the Old South i were the negro gardeners and groundsmen, appropriate- ly attired in colonial costumes, and furnishing the senti- . mental tourists with something to write home about. Every day at about live o'clock, the lady guides or 'Almost- essesf' similarly garbed, can be seen riding home in a coach which is a genuine relic. 'l'hcy are attended by a eoachman and footman in full regalia of sky-blue coat, black knee breeches, buckled shoes, and cocked hat. On rainy days motor cars are used, since the coach is not allowed to suffer from the weather. The climax of our stay was reached when we took a guided tour ffor one dollar and a half, subject to changej through the main restored buildings. ln the Capitol we saw the room wherein Patrick Henry made one of his famous speeches, we visited the dark cell- holes in the Public Gaol and the single bedroom of a gaoler who had twenty children, we were impressed by the luxurious Raleigh Tavern. Most important of all of the show places is the Governor's Palace which is 'iso sumptuous and so extensive as to take one's breath away. Here we wondered at the splendor of the fur- nishings, the geometric gardens, and the staff of serv- ants still employed for the sake of appearance. These few scenes are quite sketchy compared to the galaxy of scenes to be found. A description of VVilliamsburg would be incomplete without mention of VVilliam and Mary College with its 1300 students. VVith its wide-spreading campus, fra- ternity and sorority houses, and, from all appearances, extensive college life, many a young person would be tempted to say, This is the ideal college town. On our return trip of another six hours, we had volumes to think and talk of, but like all who have had happy journeys, we contemplated how and when we could visit XV il- liamsburg again. Stevens, YVin. O., Old Wfilliamsburg: 1933, Dodd, Mead Sz Co., N. Y., pp. S3--t. OUR GLEN JAMES G. IETT I l When, like a seed sprout bursting from the dark Subt'ranean grave into a flower of beauty stark, j This breathing Glen relieves itself of night, I, wandering, felt herein a keen delight. Where the Muses late had stept Dainty violets faintly slept, 2 CAnd the Muses left sweet notes For those feathered avian throatsj. At the blooming of the East Beauty's budding thrice increased - l l 4 i l A JUNE - 1940 I Dewdrops each became a world, As the glorious day unfurled - fEither flower, or tree, or sky Danced within each dewdrop's eyel. And the lovely morning grew, And its early beauties flew. Orion ever 'sues the Pleiades, Like water chasing water to the seas: And Beauty follows Beauty-as the thought. the word- A budding flower and a flying bird. 15 Underground Adventure EvELYN CAVE EXPLORINCH to the average person prob- ably suggests going twith a ball of twine unrolling be- hind one to mark trail l into a dark. stuffy hole, where bats will get caught in one's hair. and snakes. wolves. etc.. may be lurking in the inky shadows. To the person whose travel experience includes a visit to one of our publicized underground attractions-as Carlsbad, Mammoth or Luray- cave exploring recalls walking with relative ease in a company of twenty or more people gas many as a thousand in Carlsbad Caverns il. along well-graded paths in an electric-lighted fairyland. under the care of uniformed guides. But to a compari- tively small number of individuals cave exploring is synonymous for a fascinating hobbyn. The first requirement for cave exploring. obviously. is caves. Any predominately limestone region may be ex- pected to have some caves of the kind most worthy of investigation. Old timers in a locality may know of a little cave in the hills which has never been more than superhcially examined. It was such a situation that led to the discovery of Luray Caverns. An insig- nificant looking hole in a rocky mountain side may. when opened by dynamite. lead into a passage large enough to admit a person. The passage may shrink into sheer rock within a few yards. or it may develop into-that we shall see. The minimum equipment for the explorers tfor safety there should invariably be more than one person visiting a cavel consists of close-fitting. staunch. warm clothing fsubject to being suitable for nothing but cave exploring thereafterlg two good flashlights per person. with extra cells and bulbs. candles 1, to test the oxygen content of the airfl, and matches in a water- proof container. To these may be added a gasoline lantern. a stout rope. a stone hammer. and a wrecking bar. No. that traditional ball of twine is not necessaryg the trail in a small cave such as we shall explore can readily be marked on the stone walls by smudges from candle smoke. Now that you are properly prepared. let's explore a small limestone cave. The entrance is in the side of a rocky ravine. almost hidden by foliage. Any snakes or wild animals which may make this their home will be near the entrance. so you make a preliminary investigation with your flashlight. Finding no deterrents other than a passage that looks like A'Fat Mans Misery . you proceed by crawling like a wonn on the angular rocks lining the 16 A. FIEDLER floor of the passage. XYhenever you are tempted to rise to the quadruped stage. you are forcibly discouraged by the sharp impact of your head against the solid rock ceiling. After several yards of worming your way over the dusty rocks of the curving entrance passage, and thinking cave exploring isn't so hotn. you sud- denly realize that now there is room to walk on all fours -yes. even to rise to your full stature. You have come to a chamber the size of a large classroom. But how' magnificent is Natures classroom! Its ceil- ing is decorated with sinuous rows of stalactites, best described as stone icicles. varied in fonn from large, pendant-like structures to slender. semi-transparent, 1 1 1. 1 5 1 hollow ones that could be used for soda straws. sparkling crystal-white or glowing with the mellowness of amber. On the floor are stalagmites. like tall dips of vanilla or orange ice cream-some giant multiple dips g others the inverted cones. their points nearly meeting the tips of the icicles above them. Some stalactites and stalagmites meet to fomi graceful fluted colunmsg others in a row are fused. like the pipes of an organ, and when struck produce clear bell-like notes of dif- ferent pitches. At one side of the chamber are trans- lucent fringed draperies of stone in broad folds-tinted creamy white. yellow. amber. pale rose. salmon. and rusty brown. Thoroughly entranced by the breath-taking spectacle, you find a seat on a damp. toadstool-like stalagmite. The air is pleasantly cool-refreshing after exertion. Everyone extinguishes his light-and then you know, for the first time. what darkness is. Not one fraction of a candle power of light there is: a sheet of the whitest paper placed before your very eyes is just so much more darkness. A hushed awe ensues . . . coin- plete. dead silence . . . peaceful oblivion .... ls this how it feels . . . underground? . . . Suddenly. an icy. clammy touch on the back of your neck! For a moment you are as much stone as your surroundings. incapable of switching on your flashlight. When you do. you find-nothing. You stab the beam of light into all the mysterious corners when-that frigid touch again . . . a wet touch! And then you look up. As you have been sitting directly beneath a stalac- tite. you have unwittingly interrupted a drop of the lime-bearing ground water in its fall from the stalactite through which it has seeped Lleaving there a tiny bit of calcium carbonate to add to the icicle l. to the stalagmite below that is built up by the residue of TOWER LIGHT 5, f L l i 4 4. l 'i Li ii I ilime in the water droplet. Never, after that experience, fwill you forget how cave formations are developed! You jrealize then, too, the centuries required to form the jstone columns. the draperies. Here is ancient yet virgin jbeauty, shielding its modeled glory with the cloak of fdarkness from-nothing except perhaps the unseeing ifeyes of pale cave crickets and a few venturesome bats. jj. . . Really, don't let those bats worry you. They have f'an uncanny skill of dodging objects in the total dark- wness, so they won't bother you. I You decide to explore farther. for a draft of cool air gjsuggests that there is more to this cave. At one end the ljchamber narrows to a sharply descending passage- idown, down. into the earth. You find you must lower wyourself from one level to another, so you attach the jirope to a firm column, hang on with both hands. and ij dangle your feet in the void below until they meet a iliboulder on which to stand. This far-and no farther, ji for the only way to continue is through a two-foot !higIi gap, impassable because of a fringe of stalactites .j.barring the way. Undaunted. you apply the stone ham- iimer and wrecking bar in removing the obstructions. .-!Still, it will be a challenge. You squeeze your way into 'the gap, worm fashion again, when-not an inch can you advance or retreat! Now you know how it feels jto be stuck, one hundred feet below light and life. H-- No! won't call for help yet. Relax. Ease those tense muscles. There . . . by cautious contortioning you push and pull and grunt yourself forward through the gap. to the plaudits of your portlier companions. XVhat you sec beyond causes you to shout back. 'Come on, everybody! For here, never before seen by human eye, is a miniature Carlsbad, a model Luray. a dazzling, fantastic fairyland: stalactites twisted by air currents into delicate orchids and lilies of stoneg spires and minarctsg frozen cascades, slender totem polesng a pool of crystal water into which drops fall with musical 'fplunksu-this is beauty worthy of any exertion. XV e shall leave you at the climax of this exploration trip ftrusting you to find your way out! and mention just one other kind of cave which you might explore: one in which there is still flowing a subterranean stream. Here the procedure may be part walking, part crawl- ing. and part swimming. If you want an experience worth recounting. try swimming far from daylight in a cave-in icy. fifteen-foot deep water. under a stalactite- studded stone roof. But perhaps you'd better not start your exploring hobby with a challenge like that. First visit a tame. civilized cave, recognize the lure of cave beauty. and then proceed with caution to more difficult feats. You'll find adventure that was old to the cave men, yet is still something new under the ground . A Modern Tantalus j NANNETTE TROTT I DOES THERE ever come a time when you would j fain have the power to pour into a song that nostalgia which fills your heart? It happens to me a hundred, no a thousand times a day. until now I know the answer rand have stopped wondering. It is this . . . the poets of the ages have made me a serf to the verses they have written. At first I thought it would be so easy to outwit them. I'll just learn this. I thought, about the daffodils , 'tHerrick. I said, will surely be more kind. Alas. I was enthralled by the verse and felt that I must repeat it every time I saw a silly. 'nodding Hower. Then one day, long time since, I saw armfuls of daffodils on a windy corner. and so brave and gay they looked that I felt urged to tell about them. , My niuse will help me this once. I concluded. and I tried to put what I felt into words. To my dismay. I was as powerless as if my muscles had been paralyzed. Of all the thoughts that teemed through my head. not one JUNE - 1940 could I express except through the words of Herrick or VVordsworth, which I had learned so unsuspectingly. Today, no matter what I see and how much I yearn to express it, it can never go beyond my yearning. It will never be more than a poor brain-child. a haIf-con- ceived notion of a lovely thing: and. like Half-Chick of the VVeather Vane, must always remain unfinished. Therein lies the tragedy of it all. For although it is a terrible thing to be born and to die, it is worse. indeed, not to be born at all. YVhy is there nothing in the world left unsung? XVhy must every mood of nature. every feeling of man have been cast into iron forms that print an invariablc and indelible pattern on my mind, leaving no room for origa inality? The trees belong to Kilmer: the blue-flower fiags to Millayz the cherry blossoms to A. E. Housman: and the Madonna lilies to Amy Lowell. john Mascficld has claimed the seag and Sara Teasdale the stars of thc hcavf 17 ens. Even my truant pen has been immortalized by Sir Philip Sydney in an Elizabethan Sonnet. The tears which I have shed have been sung by Lizette XVood- worth Reese. and the epitaph which they might carve on my tombstone molded by E. A. Robinson: 'Klinever Cheevy, child of scorn, Assailed the seasons: He wept that he was ever born. And he had reasons. Some day. I shall gather all the bits of my soul they have stolen. these thieves of the ages. I shall write them down as my very own. and no one shall dare say that I stole them. Not I, but they, are the plagiarists. They who allowed me the soul of a poet and then tore the power from me bit by bit until I was only a foolish shell of a thingg they who stood in neat stacks on my desk and subtly lured me with Take meg read meg learn me by heartg say me over and over until I am yours. You will be the greatest poet in thc world if you let us be your masters. Piteous. pliable human that I was. I listened to them. aped them. and loved them. until they turned like the worm in the bud and mocked mc with my own impotence. Show me no more of these poets' works. Let me never again hear words thrown so skillfully together that they make my heart cry out with a joy akin to paing or read a verse that sets the whole world aflame with its beauty. The little they have not taken I shall make my own, coax patiently. and shield and nurture until it is free from their honeyed thoughts. and emerges. rough though it may be. as my own. Character Sketch YVONNE BELT THE FRAGRANT woods and cool brooklets were his only habitat. Once he emerged from his hiding place. housewives began their spring cleaning. children oiled their roller skates. and men put aside their shovels to replace them with hoes and trowels. Some called him a magician, others an apothecary. still others a crazed old fogy, but to the children of our neighborhood he was the kind old herb man. His long gray hair and beard lent an air of mystery to his being. His baggy, tattered clothes and burlap-clad feet made one wonder how he kept the twinkle in his bright blue eyes. the ruddy blush on his nose and cheeks. and the prosperous plumpness of his body. He needed no instruments to announce his comingsg children were his only trumpets. with their clear piping and whistling on the reed flutes and birch whistles which he sold at two pennies apiece. It was rumored that at one time he had been a fa- mous surgeon, and. unsuccessful in one operation. had begun a life of aimless wandering. gathering herbs and shrubs in his pack. and prescribing remedies for every malady or complaint. Elvira Whittaker A CHARACTER SKETCH BIARY BRASHEARS GLANCINC out the windows which looked upon a puny. weary plot of grass to a road beyond. I saw Elvira XYhittaker striding across the lawn. She looked 18 as if she had just thoroughly chewed and swallowed a choice bit of gossip. One could almost see her lick her thin lips. whetting her appetite for some of the small- town news dear to the hearts of women. Not that the purpose of her visit was to tell me this bit of news. Oh. no - she was coming to collect the things I had ready for the missionary box. or else plan the next meeting of the society. She was a robust. healthy person. capable of work had she had a mind to do it. But she expended most of her energy in maintaining especially alert eyes and ears and an overly-industrious tongue. Her purposeful steps sounded on the wooden floor. The bell pierced the air with emphatic shrillness, and I stepped to the door. hoping her sharp eyes wouldn't see the thin film of dust which persistently made its home on the ebonied piano. I screwed my face into what I thought a pleasant smile. and invited the would-be-ben- efactor-of-the-poor-heathen-in-the-wilds-of-the-Kentuckyh mountains to enter. She explained that she had come for the old clothes which I couldn't wear any longer. subtly. to my suspi- cious mind, insinuating that all my clothes were old. At my dubious invitation to sit down. she took off her coat and hat and prepared for a nice. long visit. She had just started to share her choice morsel with me. when the telephone gave two long and two short rings. She pricked up her ears as a donkey does when he hears an arresting noise. I was thankful the ring was not ours. Her full duty accomplished. Elvira took her leave, glancing around to see what else would furnish news for thc next missionary call. I gazed after her disappear- ing form with misgivings. fearing that part of my repu- tation. at least. might not be dealt with charitably. TOWER LIGHT 9 E: l rl il ti l i l l 4 i l -1 .4 i xl I I Eorroarars I 5 IEANNE RIRAVETZ I VVAS sitting down after diimer last Friday, thinking of professionals and college dates and people. books, and science projects, teachers and . . . Four years of S. -T. C. and what has it done for me? My cultural back- 'ground has broadened, my interests have widened, my igroup of friendships has grown. and from all indica- tions I have noticed growth in tact, understanding, poise, iaffability and other worthwhile traits. I know more than I did four years ago, and besides I have found so many many more things that I had never dreamed of. All indications would lead me to believe that great changes have come about. A senior would indeed feel proud if he could sincerely and honestly agree that the above-mentioned informa- -tion had come to pass. But so often - ah yes, so often. ione hears: My thoughts have not changed so much. I was right about nearly everything when I entered and I still am. I came to college with ---- and --- as a freshman and I continue to do so as a senior. That proves my selection was best. I don't know many of the students in Senior -- and I don't particularly care to. EAS for those traits of tact. understanding, etc., I didn't 1 get that at college, but at home and during my outside 1 activities. Really, I believe these four years were a pleas- V ant waste of time. Now I can teach. Now I am ready to 1 earn some money. The things I learned at college sound good, but they don't really work. And besides. even if I itried to do something really progressive. my supervisor 4 wouldn't like it. All this talk about knowing how much lyou don't know is all right, but I would rather remem- liber what I do know. After all, you can spend a lifetime I studying what you don't know. I really think I've had i enough schooling, don't you? v y Unfortunately, we must answer yes. You have had E too much schooling, but it has done little for you. You . would better use your time on something besides teach- I ing. You lack the love for children. the hope of the fu- IJUNE - 1940 ture, the willingness to fight for progress. the love of study. the humility of the great, thc imagination of a leaderg and you have the smug complacency of the nar- row, petty mind that one too often meets. Our college should discourage this. And how? By free discussion of our hopes and ideals, of our feelings and ideas. VVe have this last year built up a strong student government. Next year the aim should be high profes- sional ethics and love for teaching as a profession. ,ff WHAT WE THINK! ELEANOR SEXVELL THE C-ALLUP poll has been very interesting and suc- cessful because it shows the trend of thought of the American people. The results of the assembly question- naire. answered by the students and faculty of this col- lege, are just as important. The assembly program, in general, has pleased its audience. The preferred type of assembly was the movies, but frequently this was quali- Hed by the comment that they should include little or no advertisement. Illustrated lectures and concerts were the second and third choices. In the choice of topics, travel took first place. with music very close behind. National and international affairs and dramatics also scored high. Better facilities for hearing in the audito- rium were desired. Optional assembly attendance was requested by a few people. Many replies gave the names of fine people for diverse assembly programs. XY-'ith the results of the questionnaire as a basis. the assembly com- mittee hopes to keep working in the interest of the col- lege. S' THE SILVER LINING IQATIIERINE FEASER THERE ARE some people who claim that an edu- cation at S. T. C. is one-sided. May we beg to differ? If you tire of teaching school some day. just think of the other occupations for which student teaching has fitted you! This year's crop of student teachers should yield some expert typists qwho scorn the touch system in favor of the Uhunt and punch methodl, a few costume designers, drcssinakcrs. nursemaids, and even an interior decorator or two. Also - a few would make good wives fno. I didn't tear up my contractl for already they have dishpan hands and houscmaid's kncc. and a goodly sup- ply of child psychology! Then, too, some might apply at YVestern Union as experienced crrand boys tor girls 1. 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E-Medmus V 1'HQT'fJ 1V ' ' hug s. . f-my dfedh '41 - l-+ .w N-+A W-fm MQW, Af'C'iF2Lbf1OFw df2 40:5 bruqzd' woes:-e Zietioirsnjhelseabeuw mn4hemqht5hr1wq ever 'Jem' 904 b lM I . fdfgffwfwl W0 JMU PWC 51-rage +o be Us 'fauumldldsa-Y weslwuldbe3Bn1K-.imqroon and sliver huefn you we wall be 'fr-ue' Tiachen-5 Cdleqeheves +4 vang mlour lau,devo+nonho, Thus vu q1v2,H'seC Hlma Hqieqdurrledqg Q-F Igyqlly . 20 TOWER LIGHT L -J 1 4 it Ex SENIOR MEN IN SPORTS D. E. MINNEGAN SENIOR MEN have held numerous positions of distinction on the varsity teams at the Teachers Col- lege. Their graduation will leave several key positions vacant. VV ith the passing of Lou Cox, Carville Lauen- stein, Norman VVilde, Don Foster, Cy Parker, Norris VVeis, and Ed johnson will go leaders, and excellent per- formers. Their total achievements could not be recorded in a large book. Still, an outline sketch will reflect a few of their notable deeds. Don Foster played right half on the varsity soccer team and turned in his greatest performance against the University of Maryland in 1938 when the Teachers de- feated the University three to nothing. Ed johnson played at right half on the I939 cham- pionship team. Cy Parker's game against the powerful Frostburg booters of l939 showed him to be a skilled, driving per- former. Cy also played baseball. Norris Weis holds a position in the hall of fame as the only Towson batter with a batting percentage of one thousand. In the 1937 game against johns Hopkins Nor- ris, as a freshman, batting for Roger Williams, hit one for one and then retired as an active player. tHe re- turned to the squad in his sophomore and junior yearsj Norman Wilde's record of three years of superb goal playing was a big factor in our undefeated and unscored on Maryland championship record of two years ago. His cheering cries to fullbacks and halves frequently rallied a hard-pressed defense and helped it clear the ball to the forwards. Captain VVhitey Lauenstein has set a pattern of ex- cellence for all Towson catchers of the future. His bril- liant strategy. ability to spot batters, ability to handle pitchers, and all around skill marked him as an unusual college player. YVhitey will probably join another great captain of the past, Al Reubling. as a big league player. His skill in soccer was equal to his play in baseball. Lou Cox is the kind of player who is most diflicult to replace. He was the spirit man, the morale builder. the Sportsman, the worker. the reliable. Even his trcinen- JUNE ' 1940 dous achievement as the only real four-letter man in the history of thc college, a player on three State cham- pionship teams, twice captain of State championship teams, and the college's best all-around athlete, seein dim in view of his spirit. In situations of conflict, de- pression, defeat, failure, and hard going, where others turned tail and ran away. Lou's spirit flared the higher. It will live forever in the athletic traditions of Towson Teachers. Good luck to you, valiant sons of State Teachers. May you play well in the game of life. ,ef SENIOR WOMEN IN SPORTS CATHERINE PAULA THE WOMEN of the class of '40 have left an out- standing record in athletics. Here are a few of their ac- eomplislnnents: XVinners of Demonstration Night. 1938, l939, hold- ers of the basketball championship for four years, holders of the volleyball championship for four years, holders of the hockey championship for two years, holders of the baseball championship for two years, claimants to sev- eral skilled archers and badminton players. Among the girls who received their uHighest Awards at the Athletic Association assembly on May 25th for having earned 325 or more points in elective participa- tion were eight Seniors: Doris Henkle, Freda Hoffman, Fern Miller, Catherine Paula, Shirley Thomas, Cornelia C-albreath, Barbara Haile, and Martha Schnebly. We may be a little superstitious, but here's the slogan to which we accredit our success: VVhenever you're be- hind. just imagine you're ahead and you are bound to win. ,ef RETROSPECTION VVIIITI-:Y LAUENSTEIN and LOU Cox ALTHOUGH our athletic careers are drawing to an end. we look back with pride upon the rapid strides which State Teachers College at Towson has made in intercollegiate sports. During the past four years, the Towson bootcrs have won three Maryland State championships. in which thc athletes of the senior class played a major part. The basketball team has gained State recognition and has scheduled many of the larger colleges in the East. Because of the dexterity and skill required in baseball and the inability of Coach Minncgan to obtain expe- rienced material, the process of molding a team to com- pete successfully with other tContinucd on Page I-ll 21 if I I1 f' -- 4 3 Ass .-' 1 4 i. 'ff ' '-..4?.i' .-1.'I F Q ,.,g5f, 13 'T- 1 . ' 1 4 .1 . t . x f , ,V- x . . 79 A . c,f l 'ww 1'-A W: lvu.-.,.,xmsnA- ix 0 .p X, :X ' QQ w qc , ,Y Li 'J fs ip' ,K 'k 'Y 9 A, 5 2? ' , nfyviatg V'-'L-iargl 4 -, ' 11 , , R sq, , ., . ,, ,, Q 1 .mmf ff? ' A. Q A n N If lt -B, ' 3 9 - ' .2 4 ff' ' Leg- A.. A Lx 1' G A 'K I 2 E, Ln- 1 , 1 5, -.R 23 L X u 4 D' AA- , I ' 'vip A' ' - ' 34:1 1 ' 'Q' X , N , .H . ,V i , ' mf R .fxi f -Q 9 Q rl ,A - fy '- h ,-. ' y K- . ,,, , t - - x, 1 ,, I ci . ,. 1-, V Q' rt ll M +5 xi' A 'gr 'V' ir fly, .4 3, xy si I t E 6g 5.1, 1 1 b . . Y , . y ,if -x 'fb 1' U fran M, A I .1 t ii?-v,,l,l i ' 1 va 1551 ' 'S' - fs- if ' ' ' :nu ef- ' ' -a 4 - X'-'f 1 . - ' f 13:4',5f..7' '7f3fff7.f1 nf -T i 'Wiwf A riff Fevw M. 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Today. amid joyousness of spirit. which is symbolic of a new beginning. we are observing in our traditional manner the advent of spring. lt is my privilege to crown as our queen, Miss Elea- nor VVilliamson, who is the selection of the junior and senior classes. and who, in her youth and beauty, per- l y soniiies the spirit of this day. l Miss Wfilliamson, l bestow upon you all the rights and privileges of your high estate and hereby crown you Queen of the bday! Q L, Q t X . Q May Day Eighteen Years Ago N EAL GALBREATH -...,--,Aw:AY. ZQOO LDS' 7 ld . Si! 'Wm .Lp T-A '-' cn 'FZOPQ fl 7rm,'Z.'?fU h4n'- '-'XD ADJQELAQV 4 gzfw-4 . .. Lf'4.-1 Us-. Q.-4 DJ. :9 'T'LS n-J 'HO 2 :s-'Egg M . m2.2rQD-I, .-33.5 4 'FS .-.Or-1-rr' .-ED CI Q cnc. .-i-QA'-has DHHS: 'J -'E'-' wHfS'D g 52 if-:H EQWU. F. Q-cr.ot o .EQ Nr-v-. .cnt-f-5 ':rQ..Q-3 9 GH-0 EL -SELL ., Tick fs 'Dim F-5 owe ff r-1-. Ir-r-. in LT' fb if U0 cn .- .-1 O f-e- Q C3 v-1 f-+- N .-. .-4 h-J I .- ..- r-u- cn D CD D.. .-. L v-1 f'D ... inf ...I fb ..- .-1 .-1 U' Q v-1 r-v- .- .-1 Q-7 f-r ..- .-1 O Q .-. 'D an Cf, es were in session The morning was spent much like lour Play Day. Volleyball games were played. a grand march followed. and fair maidens did the Irish Lilt and the May Pole Dance on the front campus. Did the stu- tdents costume? XVell. no - unless you would call black lbloomers, middy blouses and long silk stockings cos- . tumes. i The actual crowning of the queen took place in the .JUNE - 1940 i I afternoon. The president of the senior class was auto- matically made 'Queen of the Mayn qimagine Mr. XVilde as Queen of the Mayub. The throne was lo- cated at the southeast corner of the North campus. The queen and her two attendants. the other class otliecrs. walked out the side door of Newell Hall. up the road to the throne to music from a portable yictrola. Only the queen had the honor ot sitting on the flower-decked throne. The two attendants stood on each side of her during the group singing. The queen was crowned by the president of the incoming senior class who gave a speech similar to that used by our king. The boys ot the student body, at least ten in number. had no part in the celebration. 23 tContinued from Page 2lj colleges has been difficult, especially when we have had to match those colleges which subsidize their players. This accounts for the fact that our record has not been too impressive, and for the team of the current season not living up to pre- season expectations. As a whole the team has hit espe- cially well and received good pitchingg but the fielding has been lamentably weak. Our last three games j to datej were lost in the final inning after we had enjoyed a comfortable margin throughout. Despite the fact that many familiar senior faces will be absent from the local athletic pitch in September, we are sure their fighting spirit will remain as Towson faces many stern foes in the forthcoming season as a member of the newly formed Mason-Dixon circuit. This new conference was the outgrowth of the Mary- land Collegiate League. The colleges to be represented are: Delaware, American University, johns Hopkins, XVestern Maryland, XVashington College, Loyola, Mt. St. Mary's and Towson. The prospects of Towson's be- ing well represented in the loops to be formed in base- ball, basketball, soccer, tennis and track seem bright. ,bf SPORTS IN REVIEW jERRY KOLKER Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Pa. - jThe starting line in the Mason-Dixon One Mile Re- lay Race included teams representing VVashington Col- lege, Catholic University, Loyola, johns Hopkins Uni- versity, American University, Delaware University, Blue Ridge College, and Towson Teachersj Now listen, boys. get this straight. Two breaks fa break is when a runner starts before the gun goes offj and the whole race is off. Remember, not one team, but the whole race. Are you all ready? Please, boys, don't dig holes in the track: you'll ruin the track for the boys who run later. Now remember, boys, no breaks. I am going to hold you, so be on your toes. All right! On your mark! G-e-e-t set , . A break! jackson, starting for XVashington College, led the men in a false start. All right, boys, come on back. Remember. one more break and the whole race is off. These races have to go off on time. On this start look straight ahead. The pho- tographer is going to take a picture. Don't let him scare you. Are you all ready? On your mark! Cv-e-e-et set . . . Bang! Almost simultaneous with the sound of the gun was the motion of eight runners, as each tried to gain the pole position, or inside lane. Because Towson, Hopkins. and Blue Ridge were in the sixth. seventh. and eighth lanes. respectively, they were crowded out at the start. 24 i Towson's first runner passed the relay stick to Cuertler, the second runner, while in the fifth position. The stick, was passed in that order from Cuertler to Lou Cox and to Bob Cox and each runner clung desperately to the' team's original position - fifth. Bob Cox, our anchor man, realizing that he had to sprint the whole way to pull us up into the third position and medaldom, tried to do just that. From fifth to fourth to within at few inches of third place he ran, with a crowd of 32,000j shouting for the man who was coming from behind to run right on and finish first. Then the inevitable hapl pened , . . he couldn't keep it up, his heart was there,j his wind was there, but the old legs refused to driver From within a few inches of third to fifth he dropped, and as the race ended, Towson Teachers were in fifth place. only three yards behind third place and a medal' Some might comment that the team did worse than last year, because last year they finished in fourth place, XVhat is not known is that the distance between Hfth, and first place this year was shorter than the distance between fourth and third place last year. In other words, the race was far closer this year, and the teams were more evenly matched. For those who like to juggle statistics, here are a few to consider. Our team ran the mile in 3 minutes 32.4 seconds. lf we had run the distance in the same time last year, we would have finished in second place. Oui average speed for the quarter-mile was 53.1 seconds. Yet if Bob Cox could have finished the last ninety yards og his race in an amount of time proportional to the rest of his race, he would have turned in a 50-second quarterr mile, a feat which few men in the conference could posg sibly surpass. Although the team was dispirited becausd they did not bring home the so-called A'bacon, then- was some satisfaction in noting that johns Hopkins Uni versity. Blue Ridge College, and Loyola were far behind although Hopkins has had a track and field team for a. least two score years. : CONVICTION G. F. S. XVe were speaking of religion, he and I, He a believer. Take my Cod. he said to me, test Him, Prove that He exists. Fool. l said, how can l try that which I cannot see, nor hear, nor sense? l Abruptly he broke this line of logic. Do you believe in jesus Christ? Yes, l answered, but knew not why. TOWER LIGHL 4. if fi i Q I 1 L 1 l f T 19-ici nniitnsrrrr-Qfgltvtwis 19-io l fApri1 12, 1940 - I A gray sky, mist, then drizzly rain, and at intervals ftorrents of water was the actual weather for April 12, ll940. lt was a beautiful day for planting a tree. In fact, lseven seniors and two of the faculty braved the possibili- fties of dampness, bordering on overdampness, when the ihawthorn tree was made secure in its new home. Each year it has been the custom of the Senior Class :to celebrate Arbor Day by the planting of a tree, with a Qprogram of commemoration. This .year a hawthorn tree was selected fbecause of the beauty of the blos- ,, India's desired independence from England. This is a question which has, as far as we are concerned, been more or less shelved in order that conditions in Europe might be considered. Miss Bhico Batlivala. a native of India and the wife of an Englishnian, was in a position to discuss the question, keeping in mind both Eng- land's and India's side. India has contributed much to the culture of the world. She has proved that independence in her hands would not be dynamite in the hands of a child. She is working tirelessly to bring about her independence :soms and leaves. and especially be- without the power of the sword. In- icause of its attractiveness to birds. T dia. in this world crisis, is willing to fThe program consisted of a reading R offer all she has to England, but only igiven by Ruth Rosen, Ioyee Kilmer's in so far as she is recognized as an f'4Trees, sung by Vera Ensor, and May 31.-Senior Prom equal and as a brother - not a slave ya dedication speech by the class gpresident, Norman Wilde, after Iune ywhich the aforementioned group at- gtended the planting on the south fume f:ampus. E This was only a small gesture to- rward furthering conservation. VVe :hope that we shall be able to do Qmuch more towards this program in fthe future. iApri1 22, 1940 - 5 A very educational and interesting film, entitled f'Alaska's Silver Millions, was shown during the assem- lbly hour. This film, made through the courtesy of fthe American Can Company. was obtained for our lcollege through the efforts of Father Bernard Hubbard, Ithe Glacier Priest, Much geographical information about Alaska was shown in the film. Of course, Alaska's jmillions lie in her salmon industry. The film traced the development of the salmon industry from the earliest 'stage in the life of the salmon to the actual canning of the salmon meat. The film lasted forty minutes but was time well spent. ,April 29, 1940 - India: The Struggle for Iiiclependerrcef' T The assembly on Monday, April 29, offered the stu- dent body a rare opportunity to hear a discussion of EJUNE - 1940 6-Step Singing 9-Baccalaureate Service Iune 10-Class Night Iune 11-Commencement of England. England is coming to realize that if she is to tight a war against aggres- sion sincerely and honestly. she must cease to profit by past dictatorships. India is definitely and absolutely unsyinpathetic toward Hitlerism. but because of her domination by England her hands are tied. India is reaching out in a spirit of comradeship and true helpfulness, it is for England to meet her half-vvay and walk forward into the light of freedom and peace. My 1, 1940 - VV e resident seniors certainly have some advantages over the day seniors. One of the biggest events in the senior year - as far as voracious, mouth-watering dorm students are concerned - is the Senior Breakfast. It is given to the seniors by the resident faculty. This year. following a more or less recent tradition. we were served fresh strawberries and fried chicken tmade famous by parsons and preachersj. XVC want to thank the resident faculty, and to tell you day seniors how much we en- joyed the affair. just think what you missed! Monday, May 6, 1940 - Portrait Painting - Aff. Stanislav Rcinbski VVhen introducing Mr, Stanislav Rcinbski. Dr. Vic- - 2 5 defeld told us that wc were about to experience a very rare privilege. A few people do have the privilege of see- ing an unfinished portrait completed, but only a spe- cial few have had the privilege of watching a perfectly blank canvas take 011 the portrait of a11 individual un- der the artist's brush. NV e were to have this experience. Mr. Rembski chose one of our ow11 seniors. Iessie Scherer, for his subject. I11 l1is remarks and i11 l1is pai11ti11g technique Mr. Rembski imparted to us a philosophy of life applicable to a11y undertaking. Mr. Rembski explained in a 111ost forceful manner tl1at the 111ost important attribute of Elly art, wl1etl1er it be poetry. music. or pai11ti11g, is styleg without style it is no art, Hlld style is perfect suitability. The canvas represented the whole world to himg the greatness of his painting depended O11 his ability to make each small fragment into one wholeg the 111ost important thing was not the individual fragments but the way i11 which the fragments were interrelated to form the whole picture. Before touching tl1e canvas. he explained, he became perfectly relaxed, concentrated on his subject, became completely absorbed i11 his subject and waited for a11 idea, 'Afor the greatest ideas are born in a moment, Cas shown by his paintingl. After forty minutes of painting i11 his rather large studio, Mr. Rembski stood aside a11d let us view the blue print of a future portrait. The audience looked, applauded, and realized that this was truly the work of a master artist. May Day at Teachers College - The May Day assembly at State Teachers College began with many visiting high school students, parents, and friends taking their places in the auditorium to attend the 111ost impressive assembly of the year. XVitl1 tl1e orchestra playing an appropriate march. Dr. VViedefeld, Uthe most understanding president a college could have, and Eleanor VVilliamson, tl1e retiring pres- ident of the student council, headed tl1e procession of student olhcers, seniors i11 cap 211'lCl gown for the first ti111e, and Clee Club members. After the incoming oflicers of the classes had been in- stalled. the respective classes sang their class songs pledg- ing their loyalty and devotion to oflieers and to tl1e col- lege. XVhen the student cou11cil officers had been prop- erly sworn into office, Norman NVilde, the president of tl1e Senior Class, presented the class gift - a CllCCli for 5100. to be named the Pearle Blood Loa11 Fund. and to be used each year to help a worthy senior stu- dent 'Lreceive the advantages we have had. The climax of our day - the out-of-doors program - was yet to come, when tl1e beauty of our campus en- 26 hanced the splendor of the queen and her court. The colorful peasant costumes, the dances around the Maj Pole, the songs, the balloons, and the mascot of S, 'li C., Patsy, afforded a gay and joyous scene. After thi festivity the visiting high school seniors were enter tained, as is customary, at a tea dance i11 Newell Hall May many of these high school seniors have tl1e pleas ure of planning future May Days at our college! May 15, 1940 - i Censorship of the Movies , Censorship of tl1e movies is a protection for the me tion picture industry and for society as a whole. Cort trary to the general thought. according to Mr. Holme Alexander, a member of the Maryland State Board c' Censors, the movie business welcomes the censors ani is glad of their protection. It is the purpose of the nic tion picture producers to reacl1 a common denominatc of iiitelligencef' it is tl1e purpose of the censors to dc termine what that common denominator is. The censof ship committee is definitely not opinionated. but it doc. act as a rudder to help the n1otio11 pictures steerr straight course. Censorship does 11ot permit the showin, of a11y picture or the speaking of any dialogue whic, might debase morals or incite crimes. The board is ne., essary because it steers the movies into the middle c the stream and prevents tl1e business fron1 runnin aground o11 either side. A Day in May - Each dormitory senior received an invitation tof picnic given by our sister class. the sophomores. W5 were surprised and delighted that they displayed the, sisterly affection for us i11 such a satisfying manne Sincerely, we had one of the Hpleasantest picnics ever i the Glen, Miss Blood, contrary to l1er usual nature. was catg Eleanor was a cowg and YVilde was a pig. QC- someone to explain tl1at to you - it was really all just game.j XVilde had hysterics, and we all had fun. Thanf again, sophs. May 20, 1940 - ' An event to which the entire college had looked fc ward with keen anticipation was the Monday convoc tio11 011 May 20g for it was that of the concert given l' our two violinists, Sydney Baker and Eugene L. XVe5A ster. As the concert proceeded it was evident that 0' anticipated pleasure i11 the l1our was to be realized full. The tecl111ique and musicianship of each of the perforr- ers are of unquestioned qualityg which enhanced l' youthful freshness in interpretation produces a spo11ta- eitv every listener finds irresistible. He is charmed. 'll beienthralled with the music and at the same time to 7: conscious tl1at it is tl1e work fCO1lfl1lUCd 011 Page 3' TOWER LIGE? ! A ssembly eview 5 RUTH ROSEN THE SCHOLASTIC year 1939-1940 has been a mem- Drable one in the light of assemblies. Not only have we Enjoyed a great variety of subjects but the selection of bpeakers and topics has been, according to popular jnpinion. superior. The wide variety of assemblies is illustrated by the kfollowing classification: i Films iTravelogues, art, science. etc.j. . . 9 I, u Concerts .... ,.,,.... . .. . . 4 . Observance National Holidays. . . . ,... . . 7 ' Current Affairs ..,,., . ,..,,.......,., -I Student Assemblies tlncluding Open Forums! 7 Religious Syniposiums ...., . ......... 3 3 Art ,.,,..4,.,,,..,.....,. .,.. .....,. J fi To what do we owe this impressive showing? The fmain factor in this success, it must be admitted, lies in fthe creation of a Culture Fund, a fund initiated by the lRobert VVeede concert last year, and augmented this .llyear by lolauthe and the very excellent play pro- ldueed by the Muimners. I The fund enabled us to secure such important per- sonages as Dr. Nathan, Rose Quong. Father Hubbard, Dr. Iudd, A. K. Van Tine and Bhicoo Batlivala. As one recalls the vital messages brought by each of these peo- ple. there will be general agreement that the total ex- penditure of flS49l.OO was a fruitful one. Equally responsible for the success of our program has been the splendid cooperation of all faculty and stu- dents called upon in planning and participating in our student assemblies. Since the Student Council and the Athletic Associa- tion have set an example in working toward new goals during the coming year, we would like to establish as our goal: making assemblies more vital and useful to the community. The Assembly Committee wishes to take this oppor- tunity to thank all those who aided in making this year's program so outstanding. Watch the fall issue of the TOWER LIGHT for an important announcement concern- ing a change in assembly policies! ! 5 WASHINGTON COUNTY ALUMNI L'1-ENVQI i LUNCHEON lUN MAY ll, the annual spring luncheon of the XVash- iington County Alumni Unit of the college was held at lthe XVoman's City Club in Hagerstown. Forty alumni lsat down to well-appointed and daintily decorated tables find enjoyed a delicious repast. The program, introduced fby the retiring chairman, Miss Ines Boyer, included the ffollowing: i Song . Gold and VVhite l Vocal Solo . . . Miss K. Noel l Reading . . , Mrs. Louise Miller li Welcome to the Guests . . Miss Ines Boyer 1 Remarks by the Guests l Song ..... Alma Mater Dr. Wiedefeld, Dr. Tall. and Miss Mary Hudson lScarborough represented the college and the general plumni. The newly elected chairman is Mrs. Robert -l-Taylor, of Hagerstown. It is very encouraging to see the contimied energy il-llld loyalty of this alumni unit. 'Engagements - I l . . Frances Louise Iones - Dr. Victor Hugo Morgenroth. y Mary Elaine VVard - Merlyn Naylor. f n 1 Marriages - Anna Miller and Carleton Sehueller - married dur- ing the Easter holidays. H!JUNE - 1940 KIPLINC AND EAF tchiefiy the former! XVhen our last Senior Class is dismissed, and our part- ing tears all have been dried. XVhen our last prof has said, Good luck to you, and we look on our B.S. in pride. VVe shall rest and, faith, we shall need it - play for a summer or two, Till the Superintendents of cities and counties shall set us to work anew! And those that were good shall be happy: they'll forget student-teaching care, They shall practice their principles with freedomg but now no one the responsibility can share. They'll have their 'fownn children to work with - Mary Ann, Billy, and Paul: They may sit up nights planning lessons - but now they won't mind that at all! And only the Principal shall praise us. and only the Principal shall blame, And no one shall teach for money. and Lwe hope! none shall teach for fame: But each for the joy of teaching: and each. in his class- room afar. Shall be grateful to State Teachers College. and strive nc'er her name to mar. 27 It Paid To Advertise THE Thirteen Soap mystery has been solved! Ad- vertisements proclaiming the cleansing powers of Thir- teen Soap have automatically become invalid since the presentation of It Pays to Advertise, the Mummers' play. which was given at the college on April 30, 19-10. Although the play was produced in the interest of our Culture Fund. only a small number of persons as- sembled to see the lively comedy, which centered about the formation of a soap company - a soap company that forgot to manufacture its product. The three-act performance featured a romance between a rich lad. a bit of a fop. from Harvard. and his fathers secretary. who was the party of the second part merely because it meant a large check from the boy's millionaire father. who wanted someone to make his simple son work. As good plays go. however. conditions soon became re- versed and the half-romance became the real thing. along with the boy's soap business. which became successful without the manufacture of a soap product - much to the surprise of the owner. Much of the enjoyment of the crowd was notably centered about the antics of a fake French Countess who almost swindled our simple English-speaking friends out of S5.000, and Peale, advertising agent deluxe. whose witticisms continually kept alive the glories of his pro- fession. Few students realized that this was the Mummers' biggest and. according to comments of the audience. the best play they have ever presented. Add to this, the convincing facts that the play was produced without help from any other organizations and was voluntarily given for the benefit of the colleges Culture Fund, and you will agree with me that those who helped to make ity a success deserve all the credit they can possibly receive. FACULTY DIRECTORS Mas. HELEN C. S'r.sPLEroN MR. KENNETH P. IXIILLEIJ SET DESIGN Miss Mann: NEUNSINCER THE CAST: . Sylvia Gelwasser Edward XYiener Miriam Kupper ' Henry Astrin - Mary Grasyon, Secretary . . Iohnson, Butler . . . Comtesse de Beaureu . . . Rodney Martin. Son of Soap King . Cyrus Martin, Soap King . . Colburn Martin I Ambrose Peale, Advertising Agent . Morton XYeiner . Marie, Maid .,.. Thelma Rosenthal I Helen Smith, Dowager Aunt . . Rena Klein A Miss Burke ...... Ieanette Ulrich I George McChesnev. Advertiser . Nolan Chipman Ellery Clark. Sophisticated Playboy . . Leon Kassel Charles Bronson, Businessman . , . Louis Snyder . PRODUCTION, STAGE. ADVERTISING Moarox YTTEINER, Iscrc AYILLIABISON, HENRX' ASTRIN, Lrzois LERNER, EDXVARD XXVIENER, NOLAN CHIPBIAN, . and LEON KASSEL, ' Dramatically and socially a success. the play aided the Culture Fund to the amount of 51268. The Mummersi sincerely hope that this, their first presentation on 2 large scale, will be only one of a series of annual plays foi the welfare of the college. 1 A Tribute to One THE STATE Teachers College at Towson has suffered a great loss in the recent death of Dr. XVilliam S. Love. Dr. Love was one of the staunchest and most loyal friends the college ever had. To him belongs in great measure the success of the campaign which resulted in moving the school from Baltimore and the erection of the buildings on their present site. It was to Dr. Love and Dr. Robert Fawcett, two of the most loyal and faithful alumni. that Miss Sarah E. Richmond. then principal of the school, first confided her idea of the new buildings and proposed the campaign for them. In 1909 the question was brought before the Alumni Association by Dr. Love and Miss Richmond. A com- mittee composed of prominent alumni. including Dr. 28 of Our Founders XVilliam S. Love. Miss Sarah E. Richmond. Dr. Rober Fawcett. Mr. Richard M. Browning. Mr. B. K. Pur dum. and Mr. Robert Farring. was appointed. Dr. Love gave unstintingly of his time and his talen' in order to get things done. At the end of six years ol.. strenuous and continuous work with the people of thi State. the members of the Alumni Association. tht members of the Legislature. and the Commission ap' pointed by the Legislature, he realized his goal. The nev buildings were dedicated on November 19. 1915, a 2:00 P. M. Dr. Love served on every important committee of th- Alumni Association from the date of his graduation ii 1887 until about 192-1 when he became less active ii TOWER LIGHQ if I I T ,i 1 ire general business of the Alumni Association. He was gsually a member on the Executive Committee. He :rved as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the arah E. Richmond Student Loan Fund from its crea- I, on on May 13, 1916, until his death. He made his year- if report of the trustees' management of the fund at the innual meeting of the Association. Unlike the majority 1 ff graduates it can be said of Dr. Love. without fear of i l contradiction, that he always attended the yearly busi- ness meeting and banquet. Ile will be greatly missed by those alumni who also have been faithful in attendance at the annual reunions. He was intensely zealous for thc success of his Alma Mater. livery institution has need for such alumni. Sad to relate, the Wfilliam S. Loves are few! The Listening Student and the College Orchestra I SYDNE 5 f I. iOME unthinking students believe that the college or- ghestra exists only for the benefit of its membersg some leclare that the orchestra is an extra ornament indis- iiensable on certain occasionsg and a few oblivious mor- gals wouldn't be aware of its absence were it disbanded. ifhe reasoning evidently must be that since the world's ljreatest music can be had by simply turning the dial if the radio, why take an interest in an amateur group. 'I Limitations, such as lack of talented musicians, inad- rquate training, inferior instruments, and an improper Wmalance of instruments do make it diflicult, if not impos- lible. for amateur groups to perform some selections lvhich a professional group of artists can. However, an jirchestra director who is trained in the recognition of :cal values in orchestral music will demand a perform- fince from even an amateur organization which has a yluality which approaches these values. I feel confident fhat were our orchestra to engage in a contest on the lame composition with a similar group of world-famous inusicians, the performance of the experts would be no betterg that is, from the standpoint of essentials, our lgroup would not be rated inferior. provided, of course. phat in this hypothetical situation, we performed our pest. The superiority seemingly manifested by the pro- fessionals would be due to the fact that each instru- lnentalist had mastered the mechanics of his particular mstrument and was able to inject into his playing that fzubtle and intangible something known as talent which fnade the rendition more polished. Yet such funda- fnental values as correctness of pitch, balance of parts, lfariations in intensity, and accuracy of rhythm and time would be peculiar to both groups. , I II. , Since it is required of teachers to help children recog- viize the values inherent in music, it should be part if their equipment for teaching to be able to note the presence or absence of fundamental values in .JUNE - 1940 Y BAKER music which they hear performed. It distresses me when I hear a student commend a miserable musical performance, or to hear a student say that a perform- ance is good or bad without offering evidence to sup- port his conclusions. These conditions could be reme- died by a coordination of the curricular music courses and occasional orchestral programs. The simplicity of the compositions heard would enable the student to obtain a basis for judging whether the values of orches- tral performances were present or absent. XVith in- creased ability through this activity. the student might well become intelligently keen when analyzing the per- formances of standard symphony orchestras. LOOKING BACK SARA I'IEPBURN 'ASTUDENTS ! is the call to arms. After a hurried visit to the library - generally with a pretzel stick - we answer the call. Precious minutes are spent for an- nouncements and eflicient practice begins. How much have we benefited in four years? Music- ally, have the hours spent provided an opportunity for individual growth in musical performance? XVhen we began as freshmen how many of us could read notes, sing in harmony with three other parts or interpret music effectively? How many of us knew anything about teaching music, directing a chorus, or obtaining artistic results? Today we can all boast partial mastery of these skills and arts. Then we recall the trip through the counties one spring, our annual fall picnic in the glen. and, best of all, that grand supper-garden party at the home of our director. XV ill you ever forget how it feels to realizc that your audience is thrilled by your performance? Those long hours of rehearsing were not QContinucd on Page 3Sl 29 Tl-IE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE FREE FOR ALL lX lARGARET BARKLEY D U R I N G a student's years at the State Teachers Col- lege the library is an important part of the system func- tioning for his education. Books are made easily acces- sible for use, and opportunity is given to associate with them and to know them. It is the intention of the col- lege to develop general reading interests as well as to furnish through the library the materials required by the courses of instruction. Many opportunities are given for starting the practice of reading good books. impor- tant newspapers, general magazines, and special periodi- cals. VVhen one is impatient to reach a goal quickly. the best possible rate of advance seems to be too slow. Such is the case here, where a very fine normal school library is in the process of growth into a richer library to serve the program of a four-year college. For the new curric- ulum the collections of books and periodicals are being strengthened according to the needs in each subject field. It will take a long time to build the library that is our goal. but continuous growth. together with intelli- gent use of the resources at hand mean that the college library can be an important center for the student dur- ing what may be the most valuable years of a lifetime. Beyond the contribution that books have made to his development during the college years, the library habit will prove an everlasting asset to the individual. The student who has formed the habit of using the college library will continue to use libraries for his professional and recreational readingg he may be expected to acquire a personal libraryg and he will undoubtedly be interested in promoting the advancement of libraries in his school and community. Learning in the college library to know the outstanding professional periodicals and general magazines should mean preparation advantageously to select periodical literature for regular reading. In the journals with which he becomes acquainted as a student. the teacher finds familiar sources for reports of new stud- ics, information about current publications. and reviews of latest books. Experience in the use and evaluation of books should prove of benefit when the graduate is faced with the problems - and pleasures - of book se- lection. The thoughtful user of his college library will 30 ffm' 1 xl' f ' rdf . f . X' QB7 - I 4 b h f j -?5 W. 'few 0 TE' . Z - EES Q 5 ,. rn. .. . .-S, i Q r- - j -1:1 ,1 - 5.. '1-T, E-.L , - N I-L..f X Ae.n,..,ai...+.,. find that when he is in the position of teacher he will save himself from extravagances in getting and spend- gl ing, for he will turn readily to a large library for to the 1: Public Library Advisory Commissionj for advice and si for information about books, before he buys subscrip-it tion sets or expensive. unknown works. r Addressing the St. Louis meeting of the Edueationalc Press Association recently, Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fish- ll er said: ul have been struck by the fact that almost none- of the hundreds of thousands of youth with whom con-g tact has been made, has said a word of recognition offr what America does for its young people. They have dilii-3 culty in hnding jobs - or in iinding jobs they like.-it There is nothing else in life for them. That they are inf: complete safety, thanks to our magniiicent Americanf' political system, with our federation really succeeding,45 they never think of. That their country has provided li' gr free schooling for them. in many eases free health serv-yy ice, free library service, eager and resourceful effort to'3 provide what the majority want - their minds haven'- never moved from the chalkline long enough to per-qi ceive, let alone appreciate. their meaning. Young, int? reasonably good health, in personal safety. free to do i whatever they like so long as it does not cost money -' they cannot think of anything that anybody would likej to do except those things which cost money. Conspic-f. uously to the contrary - although they may not say ajft word of recognition - many of the students at the State Teachers College appreciate the opportunitiesjl il that have been provided for themg they recognize whatfi . the college 'Adoes for its young peopleng and they will assuredly find cause for rejoicing in their natural relay tionships with books, for personal enjoyment and satisi faction can result from carrying on and developing the r habits begun with the benefits offered to them in thc. i. college library. , TOWER LIGH2 im iase, Mary Ellen, A Goodly Fellowship: New York, Mac- H millan Company, 1939. 3 ANNE XVILLIALIS l l l You'll like A Goodly Fellowship. You'll like it be- iiuse you'll see yourself and your friends all through s pages. You'll like it because of its humorous, vivid id understanding characterizations. And yon'll like it ecause it is the picture of Mary Ellen Chase, the kind ,f person each of us would like to be. tYou who have had difliculties in your music courses ill sympathize with Miss Chase's inability to carry a dine. You who have struggled with high school Latin -ill sigh with longing for a Latin teacher such as Miss 'lhase describes. You who have suffered many heart- irhes over discipline problems in student teaching gill live again Miss Chase's iirst day of teaching in a ,iuntry school chosen by her father because of the difli- Iyilt problems it was likely to aliord! You who have Yrestled with spacing alignment and the 'T' principle i handwriting will be comforted by Miss Chase's tale li her struggle to master the Palmer system of hand- lriting. Indeed, in one of her positions, handwriting las considered so important that every pay day Miss fhase was docked live dollars because she could not rite the sentence I am piriing for a pin to use in Tuning to the satisfaction of Messrs. Palmer. You who give taken professionals or any other supremely im- lirtant examinations will laugh and feel that you and liss Chase are kindred spirits when you read how, in er extreme nervousness during her doctor's exams, Miss lhase ruined a new pair of stockings by rubbing one Eikle against the other, tore a handkerchief to bits, and fliined a new suit by pulling at a button until she had i-'urn a hole in the jacket. is li i i 1 i l ii ll You'll enjoy reading of her experiences at Hillside ls job to define itself in pedagogical terms, but which Uday would be termed a progressive school by all the llzpporters and disciples of such institutions. S' In telling of her work at Smith College, where she is flaw teaching, Miss Chase describes the former college kesident, Dr. Neilson, in such a way as to assure her loaders that she is sincere when she says, I think it is lrfe to say that no other college president has been so :ved by his students. On one occasion, when he found necessary to scold the girls for misusing the smoking l livileges granted to them, he eased the rebuke by say- .1g, Smoking is a dirty, expensive, and unhygienic hab- if il. to which I am devoted. I i Miss Chase says that she once told her grandmother f 'ie was sure of only two things about her work: First, l Vat the teaching of English is at once the hardest thing Home School, a school that in 1909 was too busy doing ll l S 1 l 9 I llUNE - 1940 ll if l l in the world to do. and second, that it is more fun to do than anything else in thc world. All through A Goodly Fellowship Miss Chase leads us to believe that if one loves teaching to this cxtcnt it will surely be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. ,gf I INTERVIEWED AN AUTHOR RACHEL PIALE We have an author in our midst, Dr. Eunice K. Crab- tree. Five years ago Dr. Crabtree and her sister, Mrs. Lu- Verne Crabtree VValker, decided to do something about the inadequate reading material they had to work with in their teaching of the first and third grades. The prob- lem was solved by writing the experiences of their chil- dren and adding their own personal childhood experi- ences. These were typed and put into booklets for each child. The theme of these stories is the development of the art of living. Witli the help and co-authorship of Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Dr. Crabtree and Mrs. VValker put into print their various experiences - those of their own and those of the children they had taught. The f'Crabtree Basic Series was published in Febru- ary, l940. The series is named for Dr. Crabtree's father. The series includesft 1. The Readiness Story Book Tell Me A Story This is the first time a basic series provides a literature book for the readiness level. This is a book of delightful stories for the teacher to read to the children in First Grade, Kindergarten, or Nursery School. A rich, full-page illustration accompanies each story. 2. The Readiness Picture Book 'tMy First Book An all-picture book that presents reading as a thought- getting process through picture interpretation. lt develops all phases of reading readiness, including: How to Use a Book! Left to Right Eye Movements! Visual Discrim- ination! Auditory Discrimination! Facility in Expression and Story Sequence! 3. The Pre-Primer Runaway Toys Here is action, plot and climax! - despite simplicity and low vocabulary load. Every page has point and pur- pose! XVord and scntcnce recognition is developed grad- ually and surely through repetition of basic words in sim- ple, natural expression. There are 59 words in this Pre- Primer. -l. The Primer To School and Home Again This book contains the initial reading experiences xvitli- out abrupt changc in mechanical set-np. Fifty-three Pre- Primer words are repeated in the Primer. where l-ii new words are added. 31 5. The First Reader In the City and On the l 1irin Provides for further building of sight vocabulary. Stories are bascd on childrcn's widening experiences in city and farm communities. There arc 316 words in the First Reader. Of this number I-I6 are rcpmitcd from the Pre- Primer and Primer. 6. The Nlzinnal The Teachers Own Book Nlanunl for all First Grade Books by Geneva Hecox, Priniaiy Supervisor, XYnshington, D. C., and Dr. Crab- trec and Mrs. Vlilker. Here is a manual the tcmcher can use as a hand book and plan book. Teaching suggestions are concise and easy to read. Terry Townsend. the illustrator. took actual photo- graphs of boys and girls and then drew the sketches from the photographs. XVith this contribution to first-grade reading. we may now look forward to reading programs for the second and third grades. which are coming soon. z Taken from Announcing the Crabtree Basic Series. ,gf THE CHILDREN'S SCIENCE SERIES FERN BIILLER I ARI sure nearly everyone has noticed how much sci- to elementary school children. The girls ence appeals and boys are very curious about such questions as: the cause of rain. the composition of the earth. the way the thermometer works. etc. They enjoy performing simple experiments to show the formation of rain. osmosis, sound vibrations, the shape of the earth. They like to make models of volcanoes. and of the earth's interior. XYhat first-grade child does not like to keep frogs' eggs in his room and watch them gradually develop into tadpoles and frogs? Yes. science does appeal to the children. but the teach- er caimot acquaint them with all the worthwhile infor- mation through pictures, diagrams. models. and ex- periments. It seems that he still has to do much talking and give valuable information himself. Cne of the rea- sons for this unfortunate condition is the scarcity of in- teresting reading matter on the childrens level. In our library are six brightly-bound new books of the Children's Science Seriesf' which have been written for elementary school children. They have been pre- pared by the Pennsylvania XVriter's Project. sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction, and copyrighted by the Philadelphia Board of Public Education. You may ask: Is the subject matter accurate? Can the children understand it? VVill the books appeal to the children? The books are written in an interesting story form. Numerous pictures and diagrams illustrate a care- fully chosen body of subject matter. In the middle of each book is a double-page, beautifully colored picture. If you are interested in childrens science books. don't miss these books from the Childrens Science Series : The Story of Bees The Ladder of Clouds Looking at the Moon A Trip On Many XVaters The Book of Stones Snow, C-laciers, Icebergs Leafing Thru the Clothes Tree Fruxcrzs lonxsox THE MAN who is interested in establishing himself as the paragon of clothing perfection could End no bet- ter rule to follow than the sage advice given by Shakes- peare in the first act of Hamlet: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancyg rich. not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. There. in a very few words. lies the secret of being well dressed: the importance of which cannot be too heavily emphasized. Since summer has arrived. the ma- jor problem is how to be correctly yet comfortablv at- tired. Esquire. the magazine of men's fashions, pictures many of the new styles. Colonial Tan. Ash Brown. and Stone Blue are predicted as popular colors. Striped Shetland jackets are expected to compete in favor with the Glen plaids. Collarless coats. cuffless trousers. and coat sleeves with turn-back cuffs are gaining favor. 32 Shirts of lighter shades like bamboo. natural tan. ivory. pale green, and hemp are sure-Ere with gabardine and Palm Beach suits. or sport coat and slack combina- tions. Bright socks, heavily ribbed, are more popular than ever. NVhite buck shoes are in close competition. with moccasins and saddles. Probably themost startling innovation is the odd waistcoat gvest to youl cut like vest. It has tive buttons and long an optional step collar. I a postboy riding square flaps. with Yet conformity with the latest fashions is not as im portant as the use of discretion and good taste in al' the details of one's dress. Balance a conservative suit witl bright socks and tie. XVear a plain coat with boldly pat terned slacks and vice-versa. Avoid haphazard color com binationsg careful blending or direct contrast produc. that immaculate appearance. l lt is true that you can't judge a book by its cover. bu with the exception of your friends. people will conside your appearance an index of your character. For th apparel oft proclaims the man. j TOWER LIGHU zi i i I ,- good exercise can be motivated by poetry if the envir- j QW ID 1lf1IIAf1lf We XV. Nonnrs VV EIS YES, So VVhat again with me at the helm. But somehow I feel different as I sit down at the typewriter to snap out in rhytlnnie staccato these words. It is with a pang of regret that the realization comes that this is the last So VV hat column that I shall write as a student. You'll know what I mean when you get this far. There is the sinking feeling in one's stomach that one feels after an elevator has just shot upward for about Hfteen floors and suddenly and sickeningly comes to an abrupt halt. If you think I'm exaggerating wait until you are about to perform for the last time one of the acts that has been a pleasure to you during your stay at the college. XVhy should I feel this way about the So VV hat col- umn? Wfait. I'll tell you: At the staff meeting held in September. 1937. the need was felt for a column which would be versatile. humorous. and student-centered. I was at that meetingg it was my first. Irnpressed by the popularity of columns by Christopher Billopp. Mark Hellinger. Louis Azrael. etc., there dawned upon me the idea for So Wfhat. That's how So VV hat was born. So for three years the column appearedg not one which oozed culture at every mark of punctuation, but one which looked at the brighter. more unprofessional angles of college life. So to Mae goes the eventful task of bur- rowing through the emporium of wisdom j college to yousej and unearthing the inevitable as well as present- ing it in a printable fashion. So . . . Bear in mind that the column can only be as good as the news that you. the students. create around the col- lege, since the aim of this department has been to write about the things that no one else considered news. Now. if any of the faculty members feel that they would like to cure this empty feeling in my bread-basket by taking steps to prolong my stay, please remember that I I'm only kidding. At least. I don't want to come back if I have to continue doing under-graduate work. Now for my last barrage. Here it comes, ready or not: My Last Romantic Notes 5 1. Marguerite VVilson should have no trouble with her student teaching when it comes to poetry. Many a . onment is conducive for a good response. eh. Marguer- .I ite? If you don't believe this ask joe Hillyard. . 2. XVell, it appears that George Hoddinott. the cold IJUNE - 1940 lege's No. 1 freshman. has been having his Tribulls. l'll bet Betty likes it. though. 3. Every time I ask for news along the romantic front. almost everyone starts off with the name of the man who has become a synonym for romance. The only thing I can Hgure out is how comes he has a different gir1's initials after his name every other month. How about this, Bob Cox? -l. Better watch your step. Mae. Some day you'll go over to dance in the dorm looking for Mary jane. and the dawn will break all about you. that is to say. the Lytle be in your way. 3. Our last engagement announcement: She says we won't hear any bells for at least two years. But we'll betcha 2 to 1 we'll hear them before that. XVhat do you say now. Marjorie Hisley? XVonder if Loren feels the same way? 6. Flash! julia Coffman gets her engagement ring on june 11, 1940. Some fast reporting! 7. At last! A faculty romance that culminated! I I Permanent Mental Images Impressions made in four years that a life-time will not erase: 1. My' ballroom waltz with hfliss XVeyforth. 2. I-Iitch-hiking into town. 3. Harry Russell's house-warmings. -1. Marie's brown eyes. 5. Cernik's mustache. 6. Dr. Crabtree's nephew. 7. Mr. Moser's twenty-three apples S. The German invasion of the U. S, and their re- pulsion by the Fancy Charliesf' 9. The Bookshop Club's Dance. 10. Our ball trip to Salisbury. 1939. Some jokes. eh. Brill? ll. YVilly Kahn in the auditorium. IZ. Lou Cox calling our laboratory a 'Scainpus School. I Q Prognostications XVe've tried our hand at everything clse in three years, guess we might just as well try to forctcll what some of our contemporaries will be doing twenty years from now: 33 l. lack Hart: Crooning in the movies, billed as the lil, hereby bequeath to posterity the following. which Second Crosby. we have thoroughly utilized and enjoyed: l 2. Evelyn Fiedler: School Superintendent in Texas. 3. Sarah jane Barrett: Raising guinea pigs. accom- panied by Erma Iacobs. in Borneo. 4. Colburn Martin: Stage star in a Broadway produc- tion. 5. Dick Cunningham: Giving trumpet lessons. Last Will and Testament of the Senior Class XVC. ofthe Senior Class of 1940. being of sound mind For Later n IUNE DUVALL iss Blood's helpful guidance velyn Fiedler's science teaching argaret johnson's Irish temper verdue library books uth Rosen's loss of avoirdupois rma Iacobs' rush for library books ddie Iohnsons tenor solos cherer's portrait op's. I mean Snoop's, ability in art red Kieval's great amount of knowledge rott sisters, Alice and Nannette epburn's Evans Robinson sther Royston's engagement ring orman XVilde's dimples rene Lansman's picture frame for art ancy Dolan's fair play lizabeth's. we mean Libby's. Southern accent ucker. chief marshal sther Lohr's good cheer leanor's able leadership orris' So-XVhat ravings renchie's hair styles ld Bookshop Gang uth Deitz's long letters from all her admirers homas' breeding. brains. and beauty vonne's attraction to the opposite sex ornelia's campuses auenstein's deep blushes une Quinteros Spanish beauty ydney's violin playing chnebly's athletic ability 34 The memory of Cernik's Maxwell as a warning. Mr. XValther as a source of the best jokes in town. The Open Forum as a lunch period. The student council as an escape valve for the emotions. May Day as a preview of next year's freshmen. Mrs. Clark as a sure-fire Bookshop promoter. v The statues in the halls as examples of class gifts.i Leon Lerner as the father of It may be inter-I esting to note . . The So W'hat column - dog-goned if we can E, think of a reason. . , O I Conclusion And now, as any Fitzpatrick Traveltalk would con-. clude. I say and it is with great regret that we leave- this port of call to wend our way homeward to Home Sweet Horne. So long and - So YVhat! Bug Class Ballad K Iaizrru SCHNEBLY Hexapoda. insects, bugs! By any name They're all the same And yet their name Gives us a pain. It may be queer the way we plug. For you who rest XVithout the quest To learn the best Of such a pest Can live your lives without an l'Ugh. You've no care Of toils we share In nightly mare To do and dare As daily for our mark we tug. But who can say At just what day Insects may sway Into full play And rule the world in which we dug. Then our information May gain us position And you'll be wishin' You'd have ambition And taken the XVest course in bugs. TOWER LIGHT fl Laugh, And The World Laughs With You :KATHERINE IACOB and ELIZABETH NIELENDEZ Laugh a little now and then, It brightens life a lot: You can see the brighter side just as well as not. Don't go mournfully around, Gloomy and forlorn, Try to make your fellowmen Glad that you were born. 1 P? if 121 An old negro recently limped into a lawyer's office land launched into a long and bitter description of how The had been run over by a ear. Oh, I understand. said the lawyer, you want damages. 'tNo, sah, replied the darky, t'I'se got damages. I wants repairs. -Rotarian. i 2.2 is as i Cavalry Recruit: uSergeant, pick me out a nice gentle jihorsef' j Sergeant: I-Iave you ever ridden a horse before? Recruit: UNO. Sergeant: t'Ah, here's just the animal for you, Never 'been ridden before. You can both start together. is Sli Il: A'Spare a copper for a poor man who has been re- duced to beggary? But I see you actually have a car of your own! A 'tYes, lady. that is the reason I have been reduced to beggaryf'-Rotarian. 221 i PF A soldier was on sentry duty for the Hrst time. A dark form approached him. .A Halt! he cried in a threatening tone. t'XVho are you? I The oflicer of the day, was the reply. l 'LAdvance. The officer advanced, but before he proceeded half ja dozen steps the sentry cried again, t'Halt! l This is the second time you have halted me, ob- served the officer. 'AVV hat are you going to do next? j Never you mind. My orders are to call 'Halt' three ,times and then shoot. j The following notice was inserted in a rural weekly: f'Anyone found near my chicken house at night will be Il found there the next morning. I Sli fi 121 '. Fair City Visitor: Wl1at's that I smell? j, Farmer: That's fertilizer, Missf, Fair City Visitor: UFor land's sake! 1 Farmer: HYes, ma'am. JUNE - 1940 A woman driver ran into an embankment and bent a fender. It worried her. She went to a garage and asked the mechanic, Can you Hx this fender so my husband won't know how it was bent? The mechanic looked at the bent fender and then at her, and said: No, lady, I can't. But I'll tell what I can do. I can fix it up so that in a few days you can ask your husband how he bent it. It is taken for granted that both our national con- ventions will declare that we must not get into the war. That will settle everything nicely, except the question, YVill the war get into us? -The New Yorker. :,: 41 sy: The philosopher calmly defined the exact difference between life and love: Life is just one fool thing after another. Love is just two fool things after each other. 1:1 sg: Salesman, to a tired businessman cutting his grass: 'tAll you have to do is cross our sword grass with this blue grass, and when the wind blows. the lawn will cut itself. PARTING ADVICE If you want to kill time, why not try working it to death? It may be that he who laughs last laughs best, but he who laughs first sees the point. Blaming your faults on nature will not change the nature of your faults. Young girl, he may be all the world to you, but you'd better see more of the world. .- J, .e ,,: ,,. .,. It Has Happened Here l. An orderly Student Council meeting. thanks to El- eanor. 2. A quiet library, thanks to Dr, XViedefel:l and the librarians. 3. Unitless student teaching. -l. A faculty member who teaches as he preaches Eng- lishf' 5. Better assemblies. thanks to the Culture Fund. 6. Records of the voices of S. T. C.'s imnates. T. A new ping-pong table: and a greater interest in atha letics. S. Loss of the seventh grade from the Campus School. 9. Sweaters for boys and anklcts for girls. IO. Two swing band leaders among the students. 35 GUARANTEED WATCH REPAIR , n O Neills Charles Strcet at Lexington Compliments of . . TOWSON THEATER The Svernnh jliatiunal igank uf illintnsun, jllllh. LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONYENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment People with Discriminatmg Tastes Prefer Esskay Quality MEAT PRODUCTS The Senior Who's Who Eleanor, our stately queen, Bv far the best vve've cver seen, In her gracious. charming manner Uphcld the student councils banner. Campusing is a dreadful task, One for which no one would ask. But since it's in the line of duty, Neal performs with skill and scrutiny. The keeper of the big black book In spring gives us a blushing look. Timid and shv though he seems to be tsl, XVhcre is a better keeper of the fees? Her faces and graces have brought renown, She's a class sage as xvell as a clovvn. To the student council our vvoes she takes, lt's Dottv vvho vvorks for our sakcs. He's here in a flurrv and off in a rush. But because he's President, vve'll have to hush. He's the center of blame and of honor. too! But brave Norm! You came Hving thru! XVhitev is our ladies' man XVith his South Ca'lina tan. He reigned as king of the lslav Court. tlluling vvomen's his favorite sportdl Shirlev. our secretary. faithful and true. Has kept the records the whole vear thru. She deserves lots of thanks and lots of credit, And if it's up to us were sure she'll get it. Of xvorries he had not enough. So to make Cv's path more rough The seniors placed upon his shoulders 19-l0's financial boulders. Three cheers for the parties and the dance and the prom. The fun bv thc seniors and the vvork bv Yvonne. Regardless of place and regardless of date. The seniors to her sav. Smooth sailing. Mate! Frenchics a lassie vvith a great big grin. She can rcallv take it on the chin. As our social chairman she vvorks vvith a vvill, And a spot in our hearts she'll alvvavs till. No senior revue would be quite complete. XVithout Evelyn to round out the suite: lack of all trades vvho masters them. too. Shes helped lf?-tO come shining through. TOWER LIGHT l The Hit Parade En IOIINSON Eleanor XVillianison-UA Star Fell Out of Heaven Sydney Baker- XVho's Afraid of the Big, Bad VVolf? VVhitey Laucnstein-UMa, lle's Makin' Eyes at Me! Lou Cox- My Hero! Sarah and Robby-''Sweethearts on Parade Kitty Paula-'tliardon My Southern Aecenty' Dotty Davis- Three O'Cloek in the lXfIorning Mr. Crook- Does the Spearniint Lose Its Flavor 0 the Bedpost Overnight? Senior Class- Lazyboncs'l Richard Cnnninghain-'ABlow. Gabriel, Blowln XV. Norris XVeis-A'An Apple for the Teacher Miss Blood- Faithful Forever Gwen Sadler- Anchors Aweighll' Nancy Dolan- hf'ly XVild lrish Rosen Ruth Deitz- To You, Sweetheart, Alohal' Iessie Scherer-t'Daisies XVon't Tell Calvin Parker-'LA Study in Blue 17 Il Gifts for the lirzuluate IIUCIISCIIILD K0llN 8 C0. Baltinlore A Deposit of 31.00 Opens a Checking Acfozmt in the CHECKAIASTER Plan at The Zlintnsun 3HatiunaI Bank TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is five Cents for each check drawn and each deposit. Evelyn Fiedler-L'Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 Charley Leet- Little Sir Eehol' The Dorm Girls- The Prisoner's Song Yvonne Belt- Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue Elaine Reynolds-''Cliatterhoxn Neal C-albrcath-''Innipin' live Connie Reesor- XVilliani Tell Libby VVeems-''Sweetheart of Sigma Chi D. B. Morris, B. Haile, M. Sehnebly - Three Little Fishes L. L. Lerner- Flat Foot FlooUie 1VIason's Service Station Betlaoline - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 24-Hour Service b i F1'SCl KlCX 3l-A'HClgl1-llO, IlClgll-l1O, lt's to XVOIR - Phone Towson XVe Go. ' ' , Ed Iohnson fupon requestj- johnny One'Note Esther Royston-''XVedding Bells Shirley Thomas- Betty C0-ed CPardon this one. pleasclj - laines Ccrnik- Roll Out the Barrel! B You VVill Be A Vffelcome Depositor In 4 0 O Y O r li R O a d The Bank nf igaltimure C!Euuntp YORK ROAD . . . TOWSON, MD. TOWSON, MD. Deposits Guaranteed to 355,000.00 JUNE - 1940 SAM. MUSOTTO PATRONS COMMENCEMENT GIFTS That are ffclgjrerelzzd' F1112 to Get mm' Fllll to Give Come rom H TZLER BFQIHEIQ CQ M U I2 IQ AY 9 S HOMEMADE ICE CREAM MILK or CHOCOLATE MILK - HOMEMADE CAKES LOCH RAVEN BLVD. and TAYLOR AVE. TUXedo 5000, 5001 PRICE-LEIMBACH FURNITURE Same Flfrnitlzre for Less Movley 5526 - 28 - 30 YORK ROAD BALTIIXIORE, RIARYLAND ErRs'reLAss Shoe Repairing IVORK BY HAND OR MACHINE INVISIBLE PATCHING WORK GUARANTEED COHIlD!I.NZE'IZI'5 of STEVENSON 'S F lowers' 30+ AIGBURTI-I ROAD TOWSON, MD. On Looking Back lC:O1II'IIIlICCl from Page 293 in vain. You have helped give your college a good reputation and, best of all, you have rewarded your director for long hours of tireless ctiort. By this time I am sure you know of what organization I am speaking. I wonder then whether you realize whose talent and ability lay behind such acconiplislnnents. There is only one answer. So on looking back. we offer to Miss AVeyforth appreciation for the many things she has given us during our four short years in the Glee Club. ON LOOKING FORAVARD A violin concert by a celebrated artist - Could it be our own Sydney Baker? It is. How proud we will be to say He was in my class at S. T. C. A tenor soloist from the Metropolitan - Let me see, that must be Ed Iohnson. lust think! I used to sing in our college Glce Club with him. Another AValter Damrosch in the making - Are you using the AV. N. AV. appreciation series? There is a weekly broadcast of each course. Remember when he was writing that series of appreciation lessons for Miss AVeyforth's music course? AV e need someone to take charge of assembly music- Miss Fiedler eould till that position in a very capable manner. I wonder if she will accept? This operetta needs a violinist and a good one. I'm afraid none of the children will qualify. Of course, Miss Calbreath! AVhy didn't we think of her before? ANONYMOUS SYDNEY BAKER SARA IANE BARRETT MARY BRASIIEARS IULIA COEFMAN LUTHER COX RICHARD CUNNINGHAM ANNETTE DANKER MARY ELIZABETH DAY SIIIRLIE DIAMOND NANCY DOLAN IUNE DUVALL KATIIERINE EEASER EYELYN A. EIEDLER NEAL GALBREATII ANNA CARMAN BARBARA IIAILE SARA IIEPBURN MARY IIUTTON KATIIERINE IACOB ERMA IACOBS IEANNE KRAYETZ MILDRED LAMBERT IRENE LANSMAN CARVILLE LAUENSTEIN ESTIIER LOHR ELIZABETH MELENDEZ DONA BELLE MORRIS MARTIIA IANE NORRIS ANNE QUINTERO ANNE E. RACLAND CONSTANCE REESOR EVANS ROBINSON CAYEN SADLER IESSIE SCIIERER MARTIIA SCIINEBLY R. T. SETTLE ELEANOR SEAYELL MARGARET L. SIEBERT DOROTIIY C. SNOOPS SIIIRLEY TIIOMAS ALICE TROTT NANNETTE TROTT XY. NORRIS AYEIS NORMAN AYILDE ANNE AYILLIAMS TOWER LIGHT I H T l T STCOLLEGE EVENTS i QContinue:l from Page 265 of one of our own college group gives a feeling of pride as well as of pleasure. Mr. lBaker and Mr. XVebster are to be commended for their 'Vexcellence on this occasion and for their generous sup- port of all the musical activities of the college. . Miss Sylvia Celwasser evidenced taste and artistry in her accompaniment of Mr. Bakers playing of the Con- certo. Besides, it is a pleasure to add a word of appreciation for Mr. C. Van Hulsteyn. teacher of Mr, Baker. and for Miss Celia Brace. teacher of Mr. XVebster. for their iintcrest in the concert and their generous efforts to in- i' sure a successful performance. Miss Brace came to act as Mr. YVelJster's accompanist. This all goes to show 'that real musicians are thc soul of generosity with their wmusic. and that teachers whose work is so widely known E as that of these two Peabody teachers of violin are also ,generous in working with another college. The college Tis grateful to Miss Braec and Mr. Van Hulsteyn. The program was as follows: No. 2 from Duets for 'l'wo Violins . . . Viotte Mr. Baker and Mr. XYehstcr Andantino ....... Kreislcr Swiss Lullaby . . . Dc Rihaupierre Serenade Espagnolc . . . . . Kreisler llungarian Poem .... . Hubiiy Klr. YVchster Concerto in E minor Tlfirst Moycmentl . Mendelssohn Mr. Baker ' May 31, 1940 - TA coming attractionb - The juniors and seniors are looking forward to an evening on a Southern plantation on May 31. The prom this year will carry out the Cone XVith The XVind idea in the setting and in the dinner. Old Southern cooking is widely known and welre sure that it will gain more renown when it is prepared and served at Newell Hall. XVe shall be entertained by the Men About Town. So. ladies. put on your Southern airs and. gen- tlemen, put on your aristocratic bearing. and all of you acquire a Southern accent. I-PHE IUNIORS AND SICNIORS ,yr HOAIE BTAY 31 9:00 - l:00 SoU'1'1rr1RN PL-xN'r'ix'r'roN - Nrcwrirr. ITALL LEx1Ne'roN M,-x1ucr:'i' lIoLr,iNs M.-xRKia'1' PLa2a 2510 D. CALLAHANQS SONS COMPLIMENTS OF - STUATRT C.ASSA'RD line 1ENi1frf:R BUILDING TOXWSON, MD. nux'5 Zlanmsmahe 35:2 Qlireanl LOCH RAVEN BLVD. and TAYLOR AVE. TOWSON, MD. Open Your Bank Account lVitb Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOYVN. NTD. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited COMPLIMENTS OF - H. STREET BALDWIN BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. HAUT eosixiissioxiciis oi' Sea Food X Y , iz.xL'i'ixioR1a couxi 1 BALTIMORE M.-XlH'LAND JUNE - 1940 I Continued Then. seniors, just think of the sense of humor you've developed. Not many juniors would call unexpected su- pervision a surprise attack lthat must have been the result of war propaganda J . XVould you think johnny im- pertinent if, when you asked where the Declaration of Independence was signed. he answered. At the bot- tom ? Xylltlt would you have done when Patricia, after hearing an explanation of the whales teeth and gums, which tit together as a ball and socket, asked, But how does the whale know when to turn the socket on? - Or the little girl who said in a lesson about air, Now the glass is empty. I poured the air out! And, just to prove that the morale of the seniors was higher at the end of student teaching, here are a few quips we overheard: Kitty-How is your notebook? Mary-Ch. I have an inch of lesson plans, three-quar- ters of an inch of observations, and a half-inch of pro- fessional readings. And then: Did you come out red or blue in the last acid test? Oh, well! It doesn't matter. If you came out in the red. you're blue. so where does it all get you? Seniors, don't lose that sense of humor! It's the one thing that won't let you down regardless of whether you find yourself behind a desk or a kitchen stove! from Page I9 j WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL B.-ina.-nz.-x I IAILIL THE PEACE which passeth all understanding. Such peace fills the soul with unvoiccd feeling. Noth- ing lacksg all overflows. You fccl remote from everything in a curious contentment of your own. and in a strange relationship with something intangible, wondrous, and unknown. It may come after a good day's work with your bare fingers in the rich garden soil. in the hope that beauty in nature will be forthcoming. Perhaps it comes from a glimpse of an old church on a hill in the open country with a single spire etched in blackness against a fading sunset sky. Or is it from doing one thing that seemed fully unexpected to both you, the giver, and the blessed receiver? The ecstasy of some familiar mu- sic may thrill you to the core and give you peace - a tender, restful one. Again, the endearing smile of a friend. There is that intangible, fragrant whiff of per- fume from the flowers as you pass by. Peace may come with the clinging of the soft, trusting hand of a child in yoursg or the faithful, trembling joy of an aged one in your care. Perhaps the work of God Himself helps send this peace to you. Or yet the thought of peace itself in quiet leisure hours - thought of the peace which passeth all understanding. Tell me, who knows? More Precious THE QUEST after knowledge never ceases. In its endless journey, it is marked by milestones and mark- ers. Gutwardly, in its early years, it is marked by gradu- ations, in its later years by degrees. Does it follow then, that he who has accumulated many degrees is the man who has consumed the most of knowledge? All of us know that this is not true. Degree hunting is a vicious sport. XVhat is the significance of a degree? Is it the summit of scholastic mountain-climbers or a pass to a lettered fraternity? It is none of these. It is a symbol - a sym- bol that one has caught a single leaf of the Tree of Knowledge and has gazccl admiringly at the Tree's secret parts. perhaps never to clutch them to his bosom. Seniors we are, and degrees we receive. Do we merit them? Of course we have completed a four-year course with satisfactory grades in a college of recognized stand- ing. Is this all that is required? No, something more is needed. That something is a confession - a genuine confession. Several days ago, I sat at a library table with a friend. He lifted his eyes from his book and with a slight smile 40 THE JOHN D LUCAS ll FREDXVIN KIEVAL mused to himself, The more I study, the less I realize I knowfl At that moment I knew he was ready to ae- cept his degree. How much the lower classnien may gain from these senior admissions is entirely their own concern. There is an ancient story among an historic people who loved learning more than life itself that illustrates quite clear- ly this point. Over these things does God weep every day: Over him who studies amid difficulties hard to overcomeg but more so, over him who is able to study but neglects itfl How will a lower classrnan know that he honestly merits a degree when his time elapscs? If he has striven conscientiously for knowledge and can say afterward that I know nothing, then he has won his degree. For he has sought knowledge. Happy is that man that findeth wisdom. And the man that obtaineth understanding. She is more precious than rubies, And all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her. G C Mm TOWER LIGHT I P I 1 i I v I 1 ! V I l l I 1 I 6 I l i v F i if 1 S558 Mia J N THE ARUNDEL CDRPDRATIDN I BALTIMGRE rf E MARYLAND is 4 1 I D R E D G 1 N G 5 CDNSTRUCTIDN N E N G I N E E R I N G and Distributors of N SAND - GRAVEL - STONE N and 1 COMMERCIAL SLAG I , r w - rw P ' 4, 'JN . fa -V4 5 ' ' .v Q53 YQ-xQ5,n'o A L Introducing Chesleweld 's own graduation cap Just make your next pack Chesterfields, that's all, and as quick as you can light up, you'll learn the meaning of real mildness . . . and you will learn this too, Chesterfields are cooler and definitely better-tasting. You get all of the right answers to your smoking pleasure with Chesterfields . . . the busiest cigarette in America. QW sh90L M 1 C THEY SATISFl Sffnj jcfober - 1940 ower .giqkf I YES. LARRUPING LAWSON LITTLE-NATION.-XL OPEN CHAMPION-PREFERS I THE CIGARETTE THAT GIVES THE EXTRAS - 'I 1. Q SLOXYER-BURNING CAMELS 'll- I TURNED TO CAMELS YOL' XVATCI-I that hall go scream- ing off the tee and you shake your head. Hou' does he do it? Form. tim- ing. power, wrist action. control... FOR EXTRA MILDNESS AND FOUND SEVERAL OTHER SWELL EXTRASTOQ INCLUDING EXTRA SMOKING. SLOWER BURNING SU RE IS THE TICKET FOR STEADY SMOKING 2 14' ,Y Q I.,,. In ,l , I xx'-.- ..s, Ny XYATCH OUT. PAR-here comes Liltfef No. Lays son Little is never content unless he can better par... in his golf . . . in his cigarette. I want .111 the mild- ness I can get in my cigarette -.'A he says. Camels burn slower and give me extra mildness. And Camels also giye me something else I never found before- Haxor that doesnt tire my taste. Yes. Camels give all the qualities you want plus an extra measure of each. The extra flax or of costlier tobaccos presery ed hy slower burning. The natural mildness and coolness of costlier tobatcos plus freedom from the irritating qualities of too-fast burning. And on top of exlrtz p1e,1x1n'e-Caniels giye extra yalue mite p.n1tz'.1r riglvfi. GET THEIEXTHASQWITH SLIIWEII-BURNING CIIMEIS he has them all-but Lau son Little has that exlzu n1e.1,ynre of each which makes the difference between a good golfer and a champion. -lust as the ,ylf-.fx in his cigarette . . . Camel . .. make the difference between smoking and smoking pleasure at its best, Mluaness coowess EM M--'ly me y FLAVOR In recent laboratory tests. C.-XMI-ILS burned 25 , .tlozrer than the average of the I5 other of the largest-selling brands tested-slower than .mg of them. That means. on thc average, a smoking plus equal to 5 EXTRA SMUKES PER PACK! ff i ' fi ,f T-1 QEHMQ 7X ,ff W . it Li P 1 fs Nw 1 , f . ,fe 45 I f f f ,ff 'Q'f5erQ5, 9 f ,f , . s., 3, ik U X KX, I QI ff! 0 J, 'Lf71 rif13I'f I ff Meant-nes .f i I I l if I I , '.fv ,ii Alvllb I 2 il III' I-I E S T H E I: I ,-lii1 ll EDITORS l IIQIHARLES GROSS l I l 'l ,1 i 1 1 P.-x'i'RieI.x IIERNDON FRANCES SHORES IABIES IET1' iz il BUSINESS MANAGERS Ionx EDXVARD KOONTZ It C.-x'rnER1NE CSR.-AY I. 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ID COLLEGE NENVS , ....., I' THE BEST TRIP EVER , I0 TIIE SABOTEUR . . QU HOAV AVE CAN HELP 13 SPORTS , . , . H IVASIIIONS , :S SO AVHAT :ll HUAIOR . , I' Plxotograpli On Cover-Geiiei'iei'e Haile Pliotograipli of Nlornion Teniple-Cliarlex Crew Lilirziry Cut-Katlierine Deeker THE TOXVER LIGHT iS pulJliSliecl niontlili'-Oetiiliei' tlimiigli Tune-bi' students of tlie State Teaeliers College at 'l'mxwii, Alrl, -Q -,iw-w i-' SIGN PER YEAR -il LIN I S ll R GOI i TISS? F F 'i ur Standing HMCNG THE COLLEGES l 1 AI. THERESA XVIEDEFELD BIRTHDAY celebration should glorify the past. take stock of the present. and visualize the fu- ture. The present is the most important period in the life of any person or institution. Even though we may agree with the statement that there is no present. we must think of it as that state which is resulting from the past and at the same time determining the future. Before beginning the celebration of our Tith anni- versary year we should take stock of the present by studying our standing among the colleges. There are not many objective criteria by which we can measure our college with a degree of reliability. but we can use those which are available and get a rating which should help us to understand what the future may be. There are several subjective comparisons which when made can be checked by personal or group opinion and their reliability determined. One concerns our college buildings. Cnr location is ideal for many reasons and our buildings are second to none in the State. and compare favorably with any in the nation from the standpoint of beauty of architecture. spaciousness. and wealth of cam- pus trees and shrubbery. Another standard concerns our faculty and staff. These groups of men and women take their places in that continuing line of the capable. highly trained. and noble among the world's leaders. In point of years our college ranks among the oldest of the teacher training institutions and among the youngest of the colleges. We enjoy the privilege of membership in the American Association of Teachers Colleges which is the national accrediting agency for teacher training institutions. XYe earned this right of membership by reaching the standards which were set by the association: concerning Faculty Preparation. Conditions of Faculty Service. Library and Financial Support. YVe also hold membership in the American Council on Education which requires definite quali- fications. Use of the Psychological Examination for College Freshmen and the National College Sophomore Test of the American Council on Education provide reliable bases for knowing much about our students. The Psy- 2 chological Examination is given annually in September to the freshmen at Towson. and to many other colleges throughout the nation. ln l939 it was taken by 83.00f students in 325 colleges. This number included 237 colleges in the larger universities and other four-yeai colleges. 39 junior colleges. and 29 teacher colleges. Tow- son stood lS6th among the 325 colleges when the av- erage grades of all participating colleges were compared This placed her in 50th percentile rank. XYhen comparedj with the freslnnen of the 29 teachers colleges partici? pating in the testing program. Towson ranked fourth! The mean score of the Teachers Colleges was 88.7. thei- Towson score was 95.29. I The National College Sophomore Test was given tc our Sophomore Class in April. 1939. The results of these tests indicate in some degree the relative worth of the two years in college and give us one more criterion by which we can rank ourselves among the participating colleges. The test is divided into three parts and is quit comprehensive. It covers English. including Mechanics of Expression. Effectiveness of Expression. and Compre hensiong General Culture which includes Current So- cial Problems. History and Social Studies. Literature, Fine Arts. Science. and Mathematics: Contemporary Affairs. including Political Events. Social and Economic Events. Science and Medicine. Fine Arts. and Anmse ments. The norms which we have are those which were computed in june and are tentative. They ar based on possibly 3.000 cases. More general findings will be published this fall. lt would therefore be unfai to give the results here as tinal. Several trends, however are worthy of mention. It is of interest to note that the results for men and women students differ. The womer made higher scores in English than the men and the men have more general culture and know more of con- temporary affairs than do the women. The men ranl- in the 60th percentile in Mechanics of Expression while the women rank in the 82nd percentile. On the other hand the men are in the 80th percentile in Sci ence. the women in the T0th: the men's percentile ranl TOWER LIGHT A- I I Qin Science and Medicine is 67, the women's is 50g but fthe women rank in the 73rd percentile in line arts while the men stand in the 67th. The men ranked higher in Current Social Problems, and Political Events: the Women ranked higher in Literature and in Vocabulary. lust what are the implications of these differences? The mnnber of women is four times the miinber of men and the differences may not be significant as sex differences. Other statistical studies have not indicated these sex differences with groups which were equated ll' on the basis of general ability and reading ability. These tests are worthy of our attention, howcvcr. and they point to the specific needs of both men and women students as groups. Individuals within each of the groups are bound to differ widely. Certain women will su1'pass many of the men, and certain men will be superior in all subjects to many of the women. Our standing among the colleges gives us satisfaction and affords us encouragement. The future has much in store for Towson. Let us work boldly and conhdently. Gu lib es Travels DR. E. F. DOXVELL IWHEN AN emissary of the Townn LIGHT staff re- ,quested me to write this article I was tempted to re- finiind her of the constitutional provision against the iiinfliction of cruel and unusual punishments. Then it iisuddenly dawned upon me that this journalistic en- lzdeavor would probably inflict greater punishment on ,the unfortunate readers than upon the embarrassed writer. I have never been able to write about myself ,without feeling very much like the man whose wig ,blew off when he was about to make a speech. More rover, as a native of Baltimore I possess none of that ,enchantment which distance is reputed to lend. Life at the Friends' School and the Boys' Latin fSchool brought me the usual interest in sports and reertain studies. The most distinct memory of this period is one of covering a half-dollar sized blister on my heel ,with adhesive tape for over a month in order to play in enough games to win my baseball letter. Four years of undergraduate activity at the johns ,Hopkins University produced an abiding affection and .respect for that great institution and for the distinf guished fraternity of scholars who constitute its life- jblood. This is not to say that much of my time was not gfdevoted to the college newspaper, track, fraternity ac- gtivities, the Y.M.C.A., the Barnstormers. and the Cos- gmopolitan and Liberal Clubs. I still recall with glee :tripping a Sophomore, spanking him with his own 3.paddle. and thereby precipitating a class riot on the ,campus 3 A trip to Europe the surmner after graduation pro- vided an interesting series of experiences in England. gFrance, Germany, Holland. and Switzerland. Then I ,returned to the U. S. A. and the Great Depression. ,Work in advertising and selling stocks and bonds did .not satisfy me. I returned to the Iohns Hopkins Uni- gversity. entered the Graduate School in the Department 'OCTOBER - 1940 of Political Science, and in 1936. received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. My experience as a teacher began at Ilollins College which is situated six miles from Roanoke in the beauti- ful mountain country of southwest Virginia. This college is heir to a long and distinguished tradition accumulated since its founding in I8-ll and bears an honored name in connection with thc history of the growthof institutions of higher learning for women in the South. It provided a congenial atmosphere for the development of my teaching and research and for par- ticipation in the civic affairs of nearby connnunities. Three events associated with my four years at Hollins College stand out in my recollections: the labor in- volved in preparing my dissertation for publicationg the kind letter received from Mr. Iustice Brandeis after he had received a copy, and the study which I made of the city-manager form of government in Roanoke, Virginia. The warmest memories of these four years. aside from personal and professional friendships among my Hollins colleagues. are of my former students, a mnnber of whom I now consider my friends in the truest sense of the term. WVhat do I think of the State Teachers College? President VViedefeld, Miss Van Bibbcr. and my new colleagues have extended to me a cordial welcome and all possible assistance. The students are friendly, co- operative. and eager to learn. A teacher could ask for no more than this, except for one thing. the conviction that he is a part of an institution that possesses real opportunities for future development and expansion. I believe that the State Teachers College, in particular. provides such opportunities, and that thc training of American teachers, in general. along lines more closely corresponding to college and university curricula offers a fertile field for future expansion. 3 Miss Lena C. Van Bibber Retires MISS LENA C. VAN BIBBER retires from the faculty of the State Teachers College at 'l'owson and is succeeded by Dr. E. Foster Dowell. Miss Van Bibbcr. herself a graduate of the college, received her baehelor's degree from Columbia University and her mastcr's de- gree from the Iohns Hopkins University. Always an ardent student of history, she interprets contemporary affairs upon a vivid background of the past. Her dis- sertation. Town Life in Medieval England, reveals her ability as a scholarg her active participation in organi- zations and clubs for social betterment shows the high degree of responsibility which she had always assumed toward her duties as a teacher and as a citizen. This energetic enthusiasm has contributed to the fine quality of her teaching and has made her a leader in the student activities of the college, where she organized and fos- tered the League of Young Voters, later the Interna- tional Relations Club. She has also been chairman of the International Relations Committee of the College Club and secretary of the History Association of the lXfIiddle Atlantic State and Maryland. Miss Van Bibber has traveled much abroad, studying at the great English universities and attending a school directed in Geneva by the League of Nations, which granted her a scholar- ship. Irler broad experiences, however. have given her only a more profound love of Maryland. She is a daughter of the late Iudgc Ceorge Van Bibber of I--Iar- ford County. a sister of Dr. Armlield Van Bibbcr of Bel Air, and a sister of Mrs. Alexis Shriver. The Student ouncil BE'I 1'Y STEUART SINCE LAST year, the Student Council has as- sumed more and more responsibilities, which previously had been assumed by the administration. For instance. we have undertaken Play Day. May Day, assemblies, and the handbook publication. 'l'his is significant in the life of the entire student body. It means that the stu- dents are undertaking important activities. The functioning of the Student Council should be elcome ONCE AGAIN the halls of our college are filled with new faces. It has not been too long ago for us to re- member how we felt when we were newcomers to this institution. NVe understand that feeling of aloneness that one can have even in the midst of several hundred other people. So, as older members of the family. we want to extend a hearty greeting to our younger brothers and sisters. XYe gladly offer our assistance if it is needed in any way and, above all, our friendship. , ,You, as Freslimen, bring much to us. Iilach of you is an individual and. naturally. each of you brings di- verse ideas. XVe need new ideas to You bring added spirit. You bring keep us growing. loyalty. XYithout 4 the interest of every freshman, sophomore, Iunior. and senior. Often there are those who say that the students are not participating as they should. 'llhis can be reme- died by an understanding that what goes on at Student Council meetings is of interest to everyone. Having this understanding. the students should submit more sug- gestions, take more part in discussions. and. in general, do more for the good of the college as a whole. Freshmen loyalty, we cannot exist. llere at State 'l'eachers College, there is much that we can share with each other. The clubs are ours. Clubs I I II in I I I I I I I I il 1 I 1 I I I are such a vital part of our college career that each ofg us should join those of particular interest to us. The campus and the glen are ours. XVith the ownership of these, come responsibilities. The sharing of these re- sponsibilities binds us more closely together and in turn, you will become an integral part of our group. lfrom what we have seen of you so far. we can truthfully say, t'XVe like you. XVc hope you have formed just as high an opinion of us and that you are proud to be a part of The State Teachers College at Towson. TOWER LIGHT e Change ur Seat of Learning I NOLAN CIIIPBIAN l I QIT REALLY didn't matter where we went. XVC were going, that's what counted! There were no serious thoughts among our group of seventy odd Iuniors when l . ' . we left the College on a certain beautiful Wfedncsday 'in September. There was nothing of the pioneer spirit in us. No, we were just saturated with fondness for mankind in General. XV e were filled with affection for . D . . fthe President, for those who had organized the Seminar Courses, for Miss loslin, Miss Brown, Miss Bader. and rMr. XValther who were accompanying us. for those lwhom we were visiting: for each other, and for the unfortunates left behind. But simmering inside of this volcano of brotherly love, there was a lone trait that imight make the time and effort spent on us bear fruit. :WVC were curious! How lonv does it take them to Grow? XVhat kind I D . D are they? VV hat s in the compost? How many beds do you have? XVe were at the mushroom farm in Cockeys- uville, Maryland, trying to satisfy our insatiable thirst for information. Mr. Snodgrass tit was an experience to see a real Snodvrass was a Uenial host and did much to . . . Ci . F? . instill in us a friendlier feeling toward Agaricus eampes- tris-mushrooms. After he had given us a sketchy pic- ture of the workings of a mushroom farm we all made 1 tour of the beds where we saw mushrooms in various stages of development. XV e toured the packing house and other buildings, all the while questioning Mr. Snod- grass. Then like a swarm of locust, we moved on to ply another host for facts about unfamiliar things. l Mr. Bosley and his family gave us complete freedom :at their spacious dairy farm. There was a pleasing yshyness and hospitality about them that made ns quite at ease, YVC se Jarated into small Urouns and surveyed i . . te l - ythe barns, the dairy, the silo, the pig pen, the bull pen and every nook and cranny about the place. It required four of the Bosleys, the faculty among us, the Chileoat boys, Ouentin Thom Json and several citv stock uwho y . - In p A t . iknew , to stem the tide of our in uiries. And I am i . . fl . pure that it was a healthy stimulating experience for lall. XVC couldn't help but gain some background about ythe workings of a dairy farm. YV e were up to our eye- brows in it and probing farther and farther. i XVC saw the herd of Colden Cuernseys led to the ieow barn: we saw them milkedg we touched them. XVC saw the mules, we saw a calf, we saw and heard the bull, we saw the Jigs, we saw the tractor, we saw the 2 . l D reorn crib, we saw and saw and saw! VVith anetites but tem norarilv aneased, we set off I I l . I 1 'OCTOBER - 1940 for Sparks and the horse farm. Rlr. Canncday, manager of the farm, welcomed us with the same warmth that Mr, Snodgrass and Mr. Bosley had shown. The climax of the day was reached when a handler brought forth a thoroughbred race horse named Action-to the ex- tent of 536.000 earnings. Ile was a splendid beast and the most unsophisticated among us could not help but admire his beauty. XVe went through the barn and were shown a number of fine mares and their foals and given a little history of each pair. Of course our inexhaustible supply of questions poured forth. Finally we saw a group of Belgian draft horses. Then we students saun- tered back to the cars and headed for home. YVe had ended the first Held trip of the Seminar Courses. XVould making the trip help us to be better teachers? Undoubtedly. Did we enjoy the experience? Immensely. Did we derive benefits other than learning facts? Yes. XVhat benefits? I can't describe them. I asked other Iuniors. Their answers are vague, but of a single theme. The Seminar Courses provide boundless capacity for self development, for group development, for teacher development. 1 A SONNET OF YOUTH ELIZABETII M. LEXVIS hilly cup of happiness is full today: Its gold is spilling over all my soul! No force on earth has pow'r enough to stay The flowing liquid of its golden whole. Oh Lord, with silver streaming through the vein, And happiness of living everywhere, lt's hard for youth to understand the pain. And tragedy that others have to bear. Is it your chosen plan to spread with gold The hours of youth, and then withdraw the light W'hen youth is past? Oh, Father, make me old Xvith wrinkles deep. and hair of snowy white. But never let the golden joy decay That lives within my happy heart today! 5 1 l i The Eighth Wonder of the World ' NE OF the editors was unusually fortunate this past summer in being able to travel to the west coast and back by automobile. lt would obviously be impossible to record eight thousand miles of sightseeing in the pages of our publication. Even if it were possible, it would certainly not be in keeping with those democratic principles to which we aspire. Therefore the only logical thing to do is to de- scribe what seemed to be one of the most impressive sights and hope that you readers will be similarly impressed. After reading this and looking at the picture your first conclusion is probably that the wrong picture was used. Yes, it will be admitted that it is only a picture of a gray stone build- ing. and also that gray stone build- ings are certainly no oddity. Nev- ertheless, compare these facts concerning this picture with those about any other stone building in this or any other city. To begin, this is the hflormom Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, which enjoys the privilege of being the only one of its kind in the world. As the picture here gives only a general view and that from the rear. the most interesting details would still be left to your imagination. However, one could never fully appreciate this amazing feat of man with even the farthest stretch of the imagination. Brigham Young. as you will no doubt remember. led his band of twenty thousand lNIor1nons across the coun- try from St. Louis and finally settled on the spot which is now Salt Lake City. The first few years were wisely spent in the establishment of a huge irrigation system, extensive farming projects, and a cooperative plan of government. Being a deeply religious group of people, they gathered together and selected from their midst a few hundred of the hardiest men. Under the cliicient guidance of their leader, Brigham Young, these men began the erection of a memorial to Cod that should remain forever. They seem to have accomplished their purpose. at least to some extent, for today. almost one 6 hundred years later, the temple is in perfect condition. XVe are told that it required a full clay for a yoke of four' oxen to haul one building stone from the hills wherel it was cut to the site of the structure. Even after reach-I ing the location each block had to be hand-cut and? set in place without the aid of any of our present day? cranes or derrieks. This gives us a' fair idea of the years upon years of uneeasing labor required for the building of their memorial. i However, the most remarkable detail is, that despite the fact that the building is over one hundred- feet high. there was not one screw nail or peg, nor one ounce of mor- tar of any kind used in the entirei structure. The weight of the blocks themselves is all that holds them in place. The precision with which they were set in place reminds one 7 the spires over the front door is a giant statue of Angel Moroni blowing a golden trumpet. l Not only is this temple a beau- tiful thing in itself. but it is also - ans: - W ' sms, T 31 situated within the Mormon' Square and is surrounded by a mnnber of other unique structures of only slightly less importance to the Mor- mon people. ln the rear of the temple stands the Salt Lake Tabernacle which can justly boast of having the best acoustics of any building in the world. It is from here that the famous Salt Lake Choir sings every Sun- day morning on a coast-to-coast broadcast. To the rear of the temple and at one side is the only monument ever erected to birds. Such a remembrance was thought only fitting since a fiock of sea gulls had miraculously saved the crops of the people from the complete de- struction which had been started by hordes of descend-T ing grasshoppers. The monument is in the center of a large pool dotted here and thcrc with broad water lilies. Each feature of Mormon Square. when considered alone completely captures one's attention. But when' standing at a distance, just jContinuecl on Page 26l TOWER LIGHTf of the accuracy exercised in the- eonstruetion of the pyramids ofl Egypt. r Mounted on the yen' tallest of' IOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OI' MEMBERSHIP IN IKICIIARD CZUNNINGHAIXI 'F IT is true that Uthe adolescent years are pre- 'minently a period of social development and adjust- ment , and that 'torganized social activities of the chool, church, and other agencies play a large part in ocializing the adolescent , certainly the many clubs, earns, and small groups here at State Teachers have leiinite values to their members. There is little doubt in my mind concerning the im- nineut values which accrue to the student participating ri any of the extra-curricular groups here at school. riowever, since I have had more acquaintance with he 'TVOXVER LIGHT than any other, I shall attempt to roint out the social implications of being a member tif this group. l. Through its staff meetings it encourages spon- taneous expression of individual ideas and allows each of us to become aware of, and tolerant of other peoples' opinions and attitudes. Z. Through its delegation of specific duties to all members on the basis of interest, it allows the student to express himself along lines which are pleasing to him, At the same time. the student receives training in carrying out responsible tasks. 3. Student chairmanship of these meetings tends to discourage shyness and to develop traits of lead- ership. A group of limited membership such as this one has many advantages over a larger group when it comes to inducting the shy student into the duties of leadership. There is little oppor- tunity for fear and awe to develop. 4. From helping with the planning of the Tower Light Dance and the planning of the monthly issues, each individual receives values arising from satisfaction in assisting in the solution of problems mutual to his fellows. 5. From working in the Advertising Department, certain individuals experience situations leading to increased assurance and self-confidence. 6. From working in its Business Department, cer- tain individuals gain a wealth of socially useful information concerning the proper handling of business accounts. 7. From working in its various writing departments. and particularly its editorial departments. the student is immensely aided in the use of force- ful, correct English, and is guided to an under- standing of what constitutes sincere and worthy student writing. OCTOBER - 1940 the tower light 8. In all its groups, large or small. opportunity is provided to know individuals of the same age and of both sexes, to learn their interests. strong points, weak pointsg to develop friendships and eompanionships with like-iniiided people. Par- ticipation in all these groups furnishes the student with a criterion of his degree of social maturity, and supplies him with a goal of self-expression toward which he may work. DORMITORY WORK AND PLAY HARRIET XVELLS MONDAYS THROUGH Thursdays, a seven o'elock bell warns evening merrymakers in Newell Hall foyer that the life of study has begun, Laughing, brightly sweatered groups chat on their way upstairs to books and assignments. An unobtrusive parole shortly after seven reveals a dormitory settling itself for work. At the beginning of the year, nine fifty-live arrives quickly, as new acquaintances are made and old friend- ships renewed. The home-sick and forlorn are encour- agedg summer vacations are reviewed, school schedules inspected, and study devices suggested. Some one asks for help next Monday evening, while another pur- suer of knowledge needs immediate aid in ending an article of reminiscence. As the months continue, strict budgeting of time becomes necessary for many, and concentrated work with a few follows. Informal spelling quizzes. mathe- matics drills, group readings, and English miuiiiium essential brush-ups are sought. Matters pertaining to general college adjustment, to room-mate difficulties, to decisions regarding careers are brought up as well. In addition, those retarded through illness are helped as the need arises, Committee meetings to plan week cud social activities represent another feature. From nine fifty-five to ten-five. light cuts until twelve are issued to any would-be burners of the midnight oil. YVcek end routine from one to ten-thirty includes the signing of special permissions and late leaves. the doliug out of keys, the coping with the unexpected. ranging from the coca cola man who comes to service his prod- uct, to the anxious lady who has carried off the glen keys to East Baltimore. brief colloquies with the night watchman, aid to any student who desires it, super- vision of the current social activity. and a general check- ing upon dormitory ritual: service room, piano rooms, and Newell and Richmond lrlalls. 'I 7 i . i, oincidence or Good Judgment? t L NIILDRED SNYDER NOT EVERY fourth-grader can go to college and right in the same class with his teacher, too! This was the key sentence of an article about the Bates Summer School for children and teachers. In Lewiston, Maine, this summer, twenty-two elementary teachers and twenty-six Lewiston children were taught reading by Miss Dorothy K. Cadwallader, principal of the Carroll- Robbins Elementary School of Trenton, N. The children were taught how to readg the teachers how to teach reading. XVhile the fourth-graders did their work, the twentyatwo teachers had a representative from the Scott-Foresman Company lecture on the theories and methods of teaching reading. After the lecture, the teachers saw a practical application of the theories and methods by watching the fourth-grade class in session. XVhen the observation hour ended, the teachers re- turned to the lecture room to discuss the lesson they had just seen. How many of you find this situation fa- miliar? Our lecturer has an office and a classroom on the second floor S. T. C.-her room is piled high with children's readers-we observe in a building directly behind our college. In another room of the college, we have a device that is of particular delight to all incoming Freshmen. Bef giiming this year, every Freshman, just as he is re- quired to register, will also be required to make a voice recording. During his four years at the college this student will receive much training in oral English, and at the end of his college career will be required to make another record of his voice. By playing both records and comparing the results, the student will discover whether there has been improvement in his speech. Speech defects for years have been prevalent among our elementary and high school students. Keeping in mind the tremendous cost of employing speech experts to train children handicapped in speech, Columbia Uni- versity Tcachers' College has instituted a new program of speech correction for student teachers. This College discovered that only 1522, of the students attending special speech remedial classes had any actual physical defects that necessitated special attention, the other SSVQ, are in the classes because of carelessness or lack of proper training. Professor George A. Kopp, Director of the colleges remedial speech laboratory, is quoted as saying, lf elementary school teachers are instructed in a teclmique of speech correction, thousands of stu- dents can obtain proper attention without recourse to 8 high-priced specialists. Today, when education budgets are being drastically reduced, when thousands of regular. teachers are being dismissed, when hundreds of public IQ school are being closed . . . it seems that teachers shouldg' be educationally honest enough not to insist uponjj special' teachers for children who do not absolutelyi' need them. ' Beginning next year, the Senior Class will be al-- lowed some electives. For example, we students who are' particularly fond of music will be permitted to major in that subject, the same applies for art and physical education enthusiasts and those who are interested in- special teacher training. Beginning with this fall se-N mester, the New York City Schools inaugurated a sys-ij tem of special classes for talented students not yetrl graduated from junior High School. Students with an xl I of 120 or over, who usually find their regular work: a snap, will be permitted to enter special classes, most of which will deal with line arts, literature, and. social studies. Talented instructors are at a premium and are the ones needed to teach these classes. Dr. Lieberman, who is in charge of this new system said, ul don't want a tired hack who draws a wine bottle' and an apple and thinks it's art. Only capable and ex-'I perienced teachers will be used. Our present elective system seems to fit in beautifully with the New Yorkj City system. VVe, who are talented and trained in ax particular subject, will be better Htted to teach it en- joyably to talented children than those teachers whoi have no such background. I F 3 v FLOOD Lois ANNE Cireiarnixixr A wave, one tree, A tipsy house. A floating chicken-coop, And silence. A storm, the sky, A breath of wind. A dozen tired-out men And violence. TOWER LIGHTQ r STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE OF '21 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE in I9-I0 is a Ear difierent place from the State Normal School in l9Zl when I registered to take the twofyear course which allowed us to teach in Maryland. r Almost all the students of State Normal School iboarded-city people went to Baltimore City Training School then. Since the enrollment was about five ihundred and Newell Hall was the only dormitory, liv- iing quarters were rather cramped. Girls roomed in the lbasement, in what are now corrective and piano rooms. Girls lived on the third iioor of the Administration building in Miss I'Iolt's library, Room Zll, the girls' :rest room, and the me:a's room, these rooms were .broken up into cubicles with two or more girls in each. The overflow of girls found accommodations in Towson. V The boys were assigned to the barracks. and the I:-noise they made at times was terrific. One night they iimoved their beds onto the front campus but were iquickly ordered back to the rooms over the laundry. .A All our meals were served cafeteria style. The wings irto the dining room had not been added then, and we iizhad two shifts for meals. One year the men in the ltkitchen struck. I can't remember why, but the boys and Qsome of the girls helped with the serving until the fdisgruntled ones came to their senses. ' Lutherville, Fullerton, Timonium, Ridge and the Campus school were the practice centers. The Campus Eschool was located where the art rooms and The Little 1Theatre are at present. i I did my student teaching at Lutherville in a two i i i l 4 I IAMES Cv. i iF'ROM THE beginnings of mankind, human relations have been a potent force in the making of our civili- ,zation of today. From time immemorial the inter- leliange of ideas changed ideas, and man developed l- mentally, through social contact. Later, tribes com- ,bined and nations rose. Nations traded both matc- irial wealth and ideas. At such a point in the evolution ,of human relations we find ourselves today. That they lshould go any further, or that they can go any further, Lis a problem which posterity will answer. YVe are con- ieerned with them as they are today. In our complicated society. human relations are un- traceable. The milkman, the banker, the civil engineer. fthe doctor, the sailor, and countless others all have irelations with each other: relations with their work and. VOCTOBER - 1940 l I On Education and room school with four grades assigned to each room. XVC left the dormitory each morning in a truck and returned at noon. The truck had a row of seats on each side and curtains that could be rolled up in good weather so we could view the country! XVhile I was doing my student teaching, a girl in Newell Hall had scarlet fever, and we were quarantined. As soon as the quarantine was lifted and we were al- lowed to resume our daily trips to Lutherville, another girl became ill with the same disease, and again we were quarantined. This happened several times, until, in desperation, we were ordered to pack all our clothes and books and go home for ten days. XVhile we were home, the buildings were fumigated, and we were sup- posed to disinfect our clothes and books. XVe consid- ered it a big joke, until, to make up for lost time, we had to have school on Saturday for several weeks. XVe had no foyer then so we did our dancing in a basement room. One of the popular songs then as now was f'Down on the Ohio. VV e were not allowed to smoke although some of the girls did so in their rooms. Our nearest hang-out was Deary's , who is A'The Little Old Lady to you. Some of us made pin-money by working in the laun- dry sorting elothes and ironing sheets as we had no NYA then. So you may see, dear reader, that your dignified Alma Mater has reached her present state through a series of growing pains. I Human Relahons IETT in a democratic society, with their ideas. If you are a teacher, you have to know more about human relations than any other professional group. In the first place, the teacher has to teach lminan relations. They are the basis of the social studies. of music. of arithmetic-of the entire curriculum. Iluman relations are the bulwark of education. and education is thc bul- wark of human relations. The teacher has also to meet human relations-in her children, in the occupations of their parents, rela- tives, and friends. YVith these people the teacher has to deal. I repeat, that no other professional group has to be as accurate as persistent in their consideration of hu, man relations as do teachers and others in the field of education. 9 On Editors FRANCES SHORES and PATRIeLs HERNDON From Pessimist Manifesto, in The Archive, student literary magazine at Duke University: The editors of college magazines are a spineless tribe, forever clowning before some surly student body or burn- ing incense before some university administration. They content themselves with the publication of themes and other academic paper blossoms. Occasionally a mighty proletarian arises among them witlI a loud Ines- sage of suffering which he has never experienced and in- iustiee about which he has read somewhere. But on the whole, everything is sweetness and light. The undergraduate of 1940 has nothing to say. He prefers to play handball. To Our Arzofzynzous Critic: The TOWER LIGHT Staff was delighted to find that the student body has in it a mighty proletarian who. in- censed by the state of his college magazine. anony- Inously pinned the above notice on our bulletin board. However. such criticism. being entirely destructive and not constructive. is of little value. YVlIy not drop in the TOWER LIGHT office and present your views? This is a free country, we hope. Being a hspineless tribe . We are probably out of or- der in even presenting our views. But. as a college mag- azine is what the surly student body makes it, we shall go on uclowning and burning incense if you do not help improve the FFOXVER LIGHT instead of playing handball. The remark about sweetness and light is rather amusing. For intellectual articles are unread. and the undergraduates clamor for more humor. lust what do you Want? The 'TOXVER LIGHT Staff wants your suggestionsg after all. it's your magazine. Let's hear from you! Lament for the Departed FRANCES SHORES THIS IS no requiem but a tribute UI to the 'TOXVER LIGHT editors Who have gone into the World carrying the brand lighted by the fires of education. Room I5 is still room 15. The place is still frequented by varmints lliies. thank youl and the business manager still has red hair and hay fever. The disaster lies in the fact that future issues of the 'TOXYER LIGIIT will lack Evelyn Fied- ler's discourses on rocks and stars. Katherine Fcaser's homespun philosophy . and Richard CllI11llllgll3Ill'S profound words of Wisdom. Rumor. not fact. has it that our three departed souls are on the highway to becoming deans in the teaching profession. Katherine Fcaser is now educating the youth IO in the environs of Catonsville. The aforementioned was last seen in a state hazardous to mankind. VVith a newly acquired ear at her disposal she was cutting capers on the public highways. XV hen Safety XVeek is celebrated at her school, it should be one where teacher-pupil par- ticipation is mutual. Professor Fiedler stimulated the intellectual stu- dents at Radford State Teachers College during the summer semester. If she was a disciple of the activity movement, which baflles this writer extremely, we hope she encountered fertile grounds to sow her seeds upon. One thing we may be certain of - a school room some- where in Baltimore City will have more than its allot- ment of tin cans, milk bottles, cheese boxes, egg crates, and junk to stimulate some young genius. The TOXX'ER LIGHT stretched its budget to finance a phone call to Richard Cunningham to inquire about his well-being. Since the conversation was not very enlight- ening. we shall disclaim all libel suits on the grounds of non-cooperation. Available information says that Mr. Cunningham has a sun tan and a sixth grade at Essex. The former was acquired as road inspector during the summer and the latter - Well. see Mr. Cooper. As well as missing Mr. Cunningham's intellect. we ind that the morning air is strangely silent without those notes of Gabriel-like quality which he produced within the confines of the music room. In ease this lament has not left the intended impres- sion of sadness, may we say in parting that loneliness surges through our souls. Our blessings on the departed ones! IN THE LAND WHERE THE DEAD DREAMS GOD Lois IXNNE CHEETHARI It's a magical land. XVhere you go by yourself. XVhen everyone else is asleep. There a dream-boat glides On a pearly lagoon As you float with the rippling tide. You may dream away For a year and a day. Or never wake up again. Your heart is sad XYith a heavy load If you leave that beautiful land. And you'll always long For a golden song Sung on that silvery strand 'tln the land where the dead dreams go. TOWER LIGHT I I ll l I r I I l l ll u. L a I Y' F h ,- I 1 I' 3 U I F' I W I I i The Same M E I D EFORE BEGINNING this article, I looked up the defi- T1 11itio11 of the word 'Amen' and found that Mr. If I5 . - Webster, in a somewhat shy and reserved 111an- ier, said that men was the plural of man. I was pleased with this: l1e could have been less generous and 'N said exactly what he thought, but l1e didn't. However, I 11111 ha111pered by 110 such laudable retieeneeg I shall I1 I iereby present my views o11 these amazing creatures i11 L1 :his unbiased, uncensored, and in all probability, un- K 1 H 'ead theme. But here goes. ii I11 the first place, the majority of them are drowned nn self-pity. They are sure to have the warped, sixteenth- :entury idea that every free female over IO and under i 90 sees i11 them a prospective husband, so they promptly Fpegin to feel sorry for themselves, to compare themselves 11:0 the little red fox in the chase, and to sigh to friends layer their lamentable, hunted state. Nonsense! Wfe are V i, -io longer gluttons for punishment! 'L Secondly, the major portion of all ITTCII tplural of .nanj are eonceited. Each and every one, according to 1in1self, is Einstein, VVeissmuller, C-able, Levant, and Moser rolled into one. The male can do IIO wrong is :he battle cry of 111a11y a mang 'fperfection and I are ':onsidered o11e by 99 per cent of the stronger part of I I Jur population. J Thirdly, they're 11ot consistent. Their screams of an- ! I 1 ld Story-- guish Illkly be heard within a radius of 50 miles when they think they're being taken advantage of or are being stepped on. But - Inst give them a Cl12lIlCC to sl1ow their mighty will power, their so-called dominant per- sonalities. and what is the invariable result? They knuckle u11der to the first pretty face that comes into view, thus making it difficult to answer tactfully the age-old question - Man or Mouse? Vfflien will they learn that the girls of today are more independent, more able to stand on their own two feet, and really appreciate the same characteristics in members of the opposite sex? Then, they shout from roofs, towers, and articles that women's place is i11 the home, because of l1er timidity, weakness, and gentleness. But-just let one of these n1e11 tplural of manj see a poor, helpless, timid. weak, gentle woman board a street car, do they clamor to give l1er their seats? Ask the girls who ride the Tow- son car. So, Monsieurs, there is my viewpoint - take it or don't take it, it 111akes no difference to any of us. XVe'll go O11 being tolerant. sweet, and understanding, as we have been for centuries, trying to overlook your faults and defects, numerous as they are. For we are perfect. Note - Mr. Moser, Mr. Miller, Dr. Dowell, Dr. NYest, Klr. Minnegan, Mr, Crook, and Mr. VValther are excluded from these views for, after all, I want to graduate. I WET WASH CHARLOTTE SMYRK ,WHY IS IT that so111e dogs object to being washed. tind why is it that at such a time ideas of obedience dis- appear from a dogs mind? Y.Vhen a bath is mentioned Jur dog seems to sense the iinminence of the occasion and hides in so111e inaccessible COTIICT. One may coax 1nd cajole with apparent sincerity, but tl1e dog is not faewitched by alluring pro111ises. Pleading with sweets, feffeetive in other emergencies, does not tur11 the caninels iead. One now looks at his pet disbelieving that such 'nbstinacy ca11 exist: he is determined to stand by to :lefend l1is privileges. The would-be bathcr is just as de- Qermined. Taet and diplomacy give way to brute force. ,With a quick pounce the dog becomes your captive to EOCTOBER - 19M I I imprison in the tub. Iminersed in water. he looks up and opens his mouth as if to say, I really ClO1l'f mind. After he has meekly given his paws to be scrubbed a11d has smiled at having his face washed, tl1e soap is rinsed off. 'T'llC1l yours truly is truly tested. Gently one says, Dont shake, XVith a rush of words one hastens to make a final plea rich with promises adding with what o11e thinks is finality, uDon't shake! The dog looks at his shainpooer, intelligence shining i11 his eyes and - shakes. I am now practicing the fifty-yard dash: and someday, who knows, I may 11ot receive one stray drop of water. ll I The All-American Youth Concert SvLvLi CSELXVASSER SLIGHT GESTURE made by those pliant. expressive hands began the unforgettable All-American Youth Concert September l9. The first half of the program was devoted to the works of Bach - a Bach more emotional and less reserved than usual, but still delightful. The members of the orchestra. though young. played maturely and with genuine understand- lllg. The rest of the concert was quite a contrast - Shas- takovich in all his glory! His Fifth Symphony is thor- oughly Russian with powerful. though simple, themes. Shastakovich makes new use of various instruments. es- pecially the clarinet and trumpet. The Allegretto is chamiing. and the rhythm is treated in a novel manner, Nevertheless. at times. the music is a meaningless blast of sound. not beautiful to hear. Throughout the entire concert. the orchestra per- formed brilliantly. The clarity and precision of the strings. and the excellent perfomiances of the wood and brass sections showed the true ability of the young peo- ple. The diflicult counterpoint of Bach and the modern dissonances of Shastakovich were passed off with equal ease. On the whole. it was an inspiring evening with the great Stokowski and his All-American Youth Orchestra. Perhaps it would have been a little more inspiring if it had included the comfortable chairs and perfect light- ing of the Lyric. Backstage. the confusion was that of any group of mu- sicians. Snatches of ninsic. laughter, talk passed back and forth. l was amazed when I talked with members of the or- chestra. They were so good-looking! Two six-footers with short clipped hair were playing bits of music on the cello. They looked more like football heroes than musicians. Then there was a girl from the XYest. l kept wondering how many senors' hearts she broke in South America. Stokowski must have an eve for beauty as well as musicianship. i i Milton XYohl. the violinist from Baltimore. is ex- tremely pleasant. I asked him all about the trip. It was wonderful. he said. Ve stayed at the best hotels. Everybody was so friendly. When we docked at Rio de Ianeiro. we were called 'Professoresf All the Lord Governors of the countries gave formal dinners. Rio held a National Youth Day in our honor and is now going to organize its own youth orchestra. YYe traveled through most of Brazil. Uruguay. and 12 Argentina, giving seventeen concerts. ln Argentina wer played for the Youth School for American Culture. Here the students are taught North American culture inl order to better the understanding between the Ameri-1 CHHS. ll XYe practiced hours every day. Mr. XVohl con-il tinued. but we didn't mind because 'Stokey' is thei' greatest conductor in the world. He treats everybody as an individual and has a good sense of humor. XVhenever he can't think of my name he calls me 'NIL Baltimore. I lt'll be hard getting back to regular work again. The twenty girls in the orchestra will End it even harder. They were certainly popular this summer. But then were going to reorganize in the spring and tour again. LIKE A TALL, WHITE CANDLE ELIZABETH M. Lewis LIKE A TALL. white candle burning - burning with a brightness quite unlike any other. The light was both soft and intense and I marveled at its constancy. Noti that it had escaped the rush of wind and rain. Oh. no,. quite the contrary. I can remember when a great wave ' of sorrow shook the snow so fiercely that I thought thei light would surely die. But. no. misfortune seemed tol kindle rather than dissolve it. Not only did the world of nature seem brighter be- cause of it. but the inner life became so illuined that we scarcely recognized it as our own. XVhat a leader it proved to be! Ioyfully we traversed the higher ways of- life. hardly conscious of the fact that we were being lcad. Oh. I shall ever be grateful to it for showing me the way. while the rest of the world lay in darkness. I shall never forget the year I spent in that little class- room with her as my teacher. Like a tall. white candle burning - giving her all - asking for nothing! How I wish you. too. might become as she - like a candle burning - burning in the hearts of many: overcoming the darkness like a beacon. building a monument - a monument of light that shall last forever. TOWER LIGHT, F A Study of Crowds l - INIINDELLE KANN ik CROYVD resembles nothing so much as an over- ilnovvering monster of various whims and moods. To say .ighat a crowd is devastating and overwhelming would be ii rather mild assertion. Guided solely by mob impulse, iind usually by petty manias grown to giant magnitudes. 'ii crowd will allow itself to be led by a hatless leader to filo things which, as individuals, its components would lpiever think of doing. by Only one who has watched an angry mob or partici- ioated in one can appreciate the spell which is cast over piihe people who compose it. A crowd on a rampage is it-ike a rolling snowball, gathering more of its own ma- sierial as it moves along, and as its mass becomes larger, Ut picks up momentum. As speed is gathered, the mass igrows proportionally, forming a vicious cycle which l!T1l.1St complete its course or else be shattered by some lioutside force. But all crowds are not rampage ones. A theatre au- LATE AUTUMN IAMES C. IETT Nature will not give again That which she has giv'n in vain, Therefore must I walk in view Of chill autumn's color hue. A On hills and meadows lingering green i Has caught what with the leaves had been, Q The leaves have captured half the rays Of rainbow-light: the wood portrays . The spectacle of massive art - 'Tis deeply sunk within my heart. Fold, grey skies, a colder blast, Make the glory unsurpassed, QF locks of birds, all southward flying Show that autumn days are dying. I In orchards scented winesaps drop - The Fall that Nature will not stop - l Now from the village comes the knell i Of the constant steeplc bell, l That calls me homeward from UTY dreams l Inspired by autumn's beauty-beams. EOCTOBER - 1940 dience is exemplary. The friendly, protecting darkness unites the spectators into a more or less single body. They usually applaud as a group, or hiss as a group. The fact that an audience can be started in a vigorous burst of applause by a single leader is often made use of bv a vaudeville performer. He must, of necessity, know the principles of mob psychology. A crowd, however, is so complex an organization that no man can foretell what its next impulse will be. A mob scene may be created by a mere whisper of The building is on fire. The crowd, sensing impending disaster, will become a surg- ing, jostling mass of humanity. crowding their own kind in a mad, frantic attempt to escape from a building which they are not sure is on fire. In their panic. they kill or injure many more than would the tire itself. Mankind, no matter how civilized, will always, in time of danger, inevitably turn to his primitive methods of defense, and downfall-the crowd. THE NAVY WILL HAVE TO GET ALONG WITHOUT ME PATRICIA LIERNDON I spent the summer at the shore: XVas gleeful looking forward. for I'd have a rest, and what is more. The water. I thought the sky would be so bright, The grass so green, the clouds so light, But all there was, from morn till night XV as water. I thought I'd get a healthy tan. QI also thought I'd get a manj But all I got was dampish sand And water. I thought I'd surely get a view Of sails against a sky of blue: But all I saw. it's sad but true. XVas water. My honored fathers favorite dish XVas trout. XVe'd have it till I'd wish I'd never seen or heard of fish Or water. So hark ye all to a tale well meant: For each of us has his own lament. And mine is the thought of a summer spent Near water! 13 Q K ENT Ebiroarats Q A NEW MAGNA CARTA M. SIBION RE SEPTEKIBRE. that lovely month upon whose threshold knocks the advances of fall - falling leaves, falling rain. and falling spirits of recalcitrant school children. Oh, you wail, how can they be so ungrate- ful. e attltu ndowed as they are with this blessed heritage of de. for you have always welcomed the opportunity to gain new knowledge and have ravenously devoured every book. every morsel of information. have eagerly a great land. You. yourself, could never understand this e drain of lea d the dregs of wisdom cupped within those halls rning. You have always regretted the fact that the authorities have been persuaded tagainst their better judff gm cation. All ent, you feel surel into allowing such a long va- summer you've been thinking about college, read- ing books to help develop a more worldly outlook. building up a technique on the piano. writing composi- tions worki ure it to keep your mental machinery well greased. ng out complex math problems for the sheer pleas- gives you to feel the wrinkles being added to your cerebral cortex, amazing your family by cultivating a rich, low voice so that your classes will be dazzled by the jewel-like quality of your tones. In fact, you have worked out a program by which you plan to revolutionize the whole school life so that it will be one pleasant. un- marred course headed straight for highest honors and membership in Kappa Delta Pi. Among other things in this new Magna Carta. designed to further the develop- ment ment of the sapien part of the human race. are vehe- protests against wasted studies. cramming. snacks in the classroom. doodling during lectures. last-minute orgies with uncompleted notebooks or projects. using the library as a drawing room, depending on the class- room for all information. and having as your main ob- ject in the whole business passing the test. All This and Heaven. Too. you might call your new plang or perhaps it's just the reverse. Anyway: even if, at the present moment. you don't happen to meet all the specifications for the perfect student. you're glad to get b when I4 ack because you'd hate to bc around the house fall housecleaning starts. JUST A FEW WORDS . . . I knew a feller once - an' he always used to say that honor should have been listed along with faith, hope, and charity. And somehow. I can't help agrein' with himg 'cause you see. without honor, we wouldnt have anything at all - not even a country. Now. I don't pre- tend to be smart about gOX'CI'l1HC1'1t or politics, but I do know this land o' ours is based on a lot o' fine things, and honor is certainly one o' the hnest things we have. An' I guess it works the same in almost everything we do. But. gettin' back to this feller I knew: he was jest as kind. and good and honorable as anyone could bc: but if you had asked him if he had an Honor System. he would have hooted and said Naw. An' I guess that's pretty much the way it is with all of us. Settin' up a bunch o' rules an' regulations an' callin' it a system isn't goima make a man change very inuch, 'cause honor's something that comes from the inside an' not the out- side. Anyway, I sort o' think that most of us are hon- orable. an' jest 'cause we don't make a big blow about it. it doesn't mean we don't feel the wind - it's some- thin' were made of but somethin' we don't make any bones about. An' so in stoppinf I'd like to say that even though you don't rush aroun' and shout about it. you've got a college based on honor. An' as that feller I knew would say, jest because the moon isn't made o' silver is no proof that it isn't made o' gold. ,gf LET FREEDOM RING! CBENEVIEVE I'IAILE Have you sung America recently? Have you ever really thought about the ideals to which it gives expres- sion? If not. stop now and sing it. all four stanzas. For more than one hundred years the school children of our nation have joyously sung this beloved song. A clergy- man. Reverend S. F. Smith. wrote the meaningful words for a childrens celebration of American independence. The song portrays to children a glorious picture of a TOWER LIGHT l 1 lg country that is free. Those of us who are interested in ii the education and welfare of American children do not fli I I l f il ll 1 4 ii 'A I P V. i + d l 1 i v T l i l . 1 P l i Al r , 1 I l: i 3 i , l l i i want that picture marred! This fall, widespread wars have caused children abroad to stop singing of liberty and freedom and even to stop school attendance. VVe must not let war do that to American children. Some time ago President Roose- velt said that all the possibilities of a democracy rest squarely upon education. Everyone will wholehearted- ly agree with that statement and realize the challenge it presents. Our schools must go on! America was made by its system of free education. There has never been a greater need for public schools than during these troublesome times. Schools are the living embodiment of the spirit that made us a nation, the very symbol of our freedom. They must continue to be progressive. As students of State Teachers College we can be proud of the concentrated efforts of the faculty mem- bers to evolve newer and better curricula for both the college and the campus school. Their efforts should inspire us to exercise the self-discipline that Dr. VViede- feld so forcibly advocates in using our minds and souls toward achieving a clearer understanding and a better solution of the modern problems of life. Fellow students, establish now ideals and goals for the development of your academic ability and your personality that will enable you to meet the demands of these unstable times and guide capably Maryland school children in maintaining democracy in a land that will forever be bright with freedom's holy light. 2' THE COLOR OF REASON GORDON FORRER SHULES Today we are living in an age of conflicting propa- ganda. The printed page has been utilized to influence our thoughts and actions with predetermined ends in view. YV E who read the newspapers realize the dangers lurking in false reports, elaborations. and other tactics of the special pleaders. Several goverinnents censor publications in the hope of eliminating all points of view not in accord with governmental policy. XVe, as Americans. do not believe that such action is to be desired or contemplated. VVE are thinking beings, not fools to be indoctrinated at the whim of a dictator. From the standpoint of human values, true' democracy is the most successful way of dealing with life. An in- tegral part of that democracy is the freedom of the in- dividual to communicate with his fellow man as he OCTOBER - 1940 sees fit. The Bill of Rights is one of the coveted benefits of our democracy. NVC should be much worse off if the press were curtailed in its efforts to present fact. There is even the possibility that if our press were censored we might get no truth and all fiction. The unprejudiced facts that are printed are sometimes less in volume than the fictitious and colored, but there still remain some facts. The problem is to distinguish these facts from the fiction. The present lamentable status of the press can be offset by teaching the reader to separate the grain from the chaff, the true from the false. Such training could be profitably incorporated in our school curricula. Children, as well as adults. could be taught that when 'Areliable sources reveal, 'it has been unofficially an- nounced by high government officials. it is reported. the article is possibly fictitious and is to be read with that understanding. The reader could be instructed in the art of self questioning, ls this really true? ls it veriHed? How does it tend to influence me? A'XVhy was it printed-to sell the paper? Several of the courses offered at our college have the aim of making students critical. One instructor even lists this as one of her objectives. Such an aim is laudable. but it is valueless unless it can be successfully applied to the exigencies of everyday life. If such a program as we have suggested were followed. the reader would learn to discriminate between authori- tative sources and the ever present voice of the special pleader. no matter how subtle the technique of the lat- ter. By training in propaganda analysis. the reader could properly evaluate all written statements. The press must retain its long fought for freedom: but at the same time, let us insure that freedom by intelligent action. WE DIVULGE OUR AGE Our present college magazine, the Towiza Lrerrr. was inaugurated September, l92l. under the name of The Oriole. lt was published. as now. by the student body but in newspaper form. Since this is our anniversary year. we intend to reprint. from time to time, articles and poems of interest to ns today. 15 Tl-IE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE NEWS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE BIARY D1 PEPPI REYIEXYED BELOXY are some of the bright- baeked newcomers on the juvenile literature shelves. The stories are gay. adventurous. and humorous. de- signed to hold the interest of younger readers. Perhaps the most striking feature of these new books is their many beautiful illustrations. Here Is A Book -Marshall McClintock This is a most unusual book in the field of childrens literature-the story of the making of a book. The author begins by telling how he got an idea for a juve- nile book and takes one along with him while he out- lines his story and obtains an artist to design illustra- tions. The entire process of putting together the book- whieh includes the manufacture of the paper. printing the story. and lithographing the pictures-is included. But the most engrossing thing about it is that the en- tire. finished t'new book is reproduced at the end. The Circus Boat -john Hooper The circus boat with its crew of animals catches on fire. and all the crew swim ashore where they are wel- comed by the friendly towns-people, The animals de- cide to give the town a show. It is a great success. for the elephant dances. the parrot tells fortunes. and the bear walks the tight rope. Isn't this behavior just like humans! Daniel Boone -James Daugherty In this beautifully illustrated book for children the author tells the colorful adventures of Daniel Boone. After reading this story. the young reader will place this fearless pioneer among his favorite characters in Ameri- can History. Thimble Summer -Elizabeth Enright Thimble Summer . published in l93S. is a New- berry Prize winner. It is a charming story about two little farm girls. Garnet and Citronella. The busy life on the farm and the good times at the country fair are made even more enjoyable to the reader through pic- turesque descriptions and realistic character portrayals. 16 J T? m if ffti .lj BOOKS WE FOUND TOO LATE! Vrnerxu :XRNEAL ED. NOTE: XYe feel that this article which was written bv one of last years graduates is most worthy. May you discoyer these books and others before it is too late. As seniors we realize now that we know many little things which would have helped us so much had we known them sooner. Foremost among these items are books which would have guided and aided us both in our studies and in our Student Teaching. XVe would like to tell you about some of these books. in the hope that you may learn to know and use them as a need arises. Mohler. L.. Teaching Music from an Appreciative Basis. Boston. C. C. Birchard and Co.. 1927. Do you have difficulty in teaching music appreciation? Mohler will furnish you with complete lesson plans on every grade level in every type of music. Lynde. C. j.. Science Experiments with Inexpensive Equipment. Philadelphia. International Textbook Co.. l939. This book illustrates. describes and explains two hundred science experiences. Each step is carefully il- lustrated and described. and if you follow the directions. you cannot fail to succeed every time. The same author has written another book entitled. Science Experiments with Home Equipment. Many a science or geography lesson may be enriched by an experiment from this book. Curry. C. Xl. and Clippinger. E. E.. Cliildrezfs Litera- ture. N. Y.. Rand McNally and Co.. l92O. lf you are looking for a certain Mother Goose jingle. nursery rhyme. traditional tale. modern fantastic tale. fable. myth. poem. or legend. the first place for you to go is to Curry-Clippinger. This large book is really the source book for teachers and teachers- 1Continued Page 261 TOWER LIGHT ' i i L I 1 I l 1 I i. l i i l l l FRESHMAN WEEK 'IF VVE seek an explanation of why our freshmen are going serenely and happily about their work instead of irushing around Hustered and confused in their new surroundings, we need look no farther than Freshman ,Week to End the answer. l After registering on September ll, several days ahead liof the ripper classmen, the freshmen at once set out ito get acquainted with their college. At a gathering gin the auditorium they were welcomed by Dr. VViede- ifeld and introduced to the Students' Association for g'CO0perative Government. On the evening of their second day at school, they became members of this I-association through participation in the impressive induction ceremony known as the Lighting of the Way. An early opportunity gave them a chance to meet and confer with their section advisers, so that they lmight receive advice and help concerning any problems Lwhieh had arisen. Instruction was furnished as to the Weffieient use of the library. The social side of college life was not neglected. Ac- tivities included supper on the campus, a sing-song pat the Council Ring in the Glen, and a tea dance in l!Newell Hall. By now our freshmen have established for themselves la routine of work and play which makes for successful living at college. VVe extend to them our heartiest Wishes for a happy and profitable year. ,5' THE NEW MEN'S CLUB We Change Horses In Midstream For several weeks Mr. Moser has been interviewing men and formulating plans for a completely new and purposeful Men's Club. Dr. VViedefeld has conferred full powers of organization and administration on Mr. !Moser. He, as Faculty Head, has called together two 'men from each class and will discuss with them com- plete plans for launching a new program. There is no room to doubt the success of the Club under such able administration. O C T O B E R - 19 40 NEWS ALUMNI NCTES The following Towson girls, members of XVashington County unit. have had promotions. Frances Crimes has been made principal of Antietam Street schoolg Alice NIcCardell Quick, principal of Broadway school. Both of the schools are in Hagerstown and they are considered the largest elementary schools in the county. Anilea Brown has been made principal of the ele- mentary school at Half-way. ,ef ASSEMBLY ALICE CARR September 23, 1940 Mr. Guy Frank Armitage presenting Dickens and His Queer Folk With the first assembly by outside talent the college committee has set up a high standard. Seldom has a speaker been as enthusiastically received as Mr. Armi- tage. He gave us briefly an understanding of Dickens and the candle-litl' age in which he lived and shared with us his means for remembering Dickens' dates. His enthusiasm for Dickens' ability to present a true picture of the people who lived in England during the last century was contagious. The range of the characters presented was wide and demanded much versatility. As Uriah Heep, Alr. Armi- tage recalled for us the too 'umble clerk from UDayid Copperfield. He displayed his ability to manipulate his facial muscles futwist his face around. Freshmcnnl by impersonating Grandfather Sinallweed, a crochety complaining old inau from Bleak House. The coin- plex character of Sidney Carton gave Mr. Armitage the opportunity to give a graver, more subtle performance, The audience turned actor when Alr. Armitage became Schoolmaster Squeers. Some of us blubbercd and others shrunk from his harsh. penetrating glance. while Dr. XViedefeld played the part of Nicholas Nicklcby. Never has the ll 140 bell been less welcome. Rt-lute tantly we left the atmosphere of dreary. curious l,.ondon lY which Mr. Armitage had so vividly created. XVC took with us his easily remembered words: Scott looked at life through the stained glass win- dows of an abbey: Thackeray, through the windows of a London clubg and Dickens through a kitchen window. ,E IN OUR MAILBOX MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS May 20. 1940-Glenn Horner Algire. class of '26. to Dorothy Blanche Hamilton. june 21. IQ-I0-Frances Oehm. class of '38, to XYilliam Perkins. 'tune 22. I9-PO-Mildred Boone. class of '-t2. to Iames McIntosh. Ir. lune 23. l9+O-Lorelle Headley. class of '31 to Horace XYhitworth. Ir. lune 30. 1940-Mollie Hollander. class of 39. to Morris I. Alliker. luly 13. 1940-Shirley Mumford. class of '-12. to David Smith. August 27. I9-I0-Dorothea A. Becker, class of '34, to Edwin Paul Heinrich. August 23. 19-+0-Beverly Courtney. class of '39. to Mr. Compton Crook. XVedding Bells also pealed for-Rosalie Gill Iacobsen. class of '35, and Dr. Iames Sasscer. Elizabeth Annette Goodhand. class of '3S. and Andrew Gwynn Bowie. Iane Kimball and Paul Massicot. both of the class of '39 Esther Royston. class of '-10. and Harold Gravbeal. ,rf SOCIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE DORMITORY Saturday. October I2-Card Party Saturday, October 19-Taffy Pull Saturday. October 26-Barn Dance Saturday. November 2-Scavenger Hunt Saturday. November 9-Freshman Mothers' XYeek-End Friday. November I5-Dorm Dance Saturday. 18 November l6-Theater Party THE ORCHESTRA THE COLLEGE Orchestra effected its organization ll with record speed this fall. Already it has begun prepara- J tion for its part on the programs honoring the College's l T5 years of service to the cause of teacher education. Several Freshmen are studying certain of our instru- t ments. To date we are delighted with their promise it l The Alumni Orchestra is rehearsing for pleasure and I for the purpose of helping with our Anniversary program. ,ef A Foreword SYLvLx CZELXVASSER YOU SING it. you dance to it. you listen to it. you read of it-music is so vital a part of life, Can you imagine a world without music? There would be no freedom, no secret escape. No lilting tune would be near to rescue you from mental despair. no voice to sing your own joy. Can you imagine such a world? The music staff of the TowER LIGHT cannot. and that is why it is going to make this a banner year. XVith all the novel ideas that have been cooked up and with all the exciting things daily happening in the music world. we cannot fail. XVe are going to let you see the human side of the more famous musicians. How do you suppose Barlow got his start in music? Do you know as much about Boogie-NYoogie as you do about the Art Song? And, above all. we are going to bring you the latest flashes from Carnegie Hall. Radio City. Broadway and State Teachers College. Now that we have started the ball rolling. the music staff would like to wish the student body a most suc- cessful and joyous music year. And remember. this section of the Town Lrcnr will be reserved every month for you. We hope you will Hnd it stimulating as well as interesting. TOWER LIGHT of ultimate success. 1 l T U The Best Trip Ever' ' YF 5 L KATHERINE FRASER i. l -, ED. NOTE: For the first time in the history of the col- i lege, two members of the senior class were the benc- il ficiaries of the Lida Lee Tall Award. The two recipients V, of this fund, Katherine Feaser and Norman XYilde. g availed themselves of the privilege of attending the Audubon Nature Camp in Maine. The following article 1 is an outgrowth of that experience. VEN 'rms enthusiastic descriptions of a last year's T camper left a great deal to be discovered when 5' we reached the Audubon Nature Camp on Hog Island in the Muscongus Bay off the picturesque icoast of Maine. The Camp Staff evidently believed lthat first impressions were lasting, for all the Camp lwives and Mr. Cruickshank vt ere on the porch of the giQueen Mary to bid us welcome. The Queen Mary, an fold ship chandlery. has been converted into a combi- -fnation lecture hall, laboratory, and girls' dormitory-the fleeture hall and lab downstairs and the dormitory up- listairs. QThis system complicates matters for the girls jwho wished to water their mosses or pickle starfish after flights out because there as elsewhere, the staff obeys ia different set of rules from that of the studentsj l Birds are fascinating creatures in themselves, but ifiwhen served a la Cruickshank or a la Codbury they ybecome even more appetizing. Everybody studied birds land every other day there was a birding trip for our lgroup. Some days that would mean a trip around the f island or to the mainland to see the common land birds. On other days we would visit oceanic islands where igulls, cormorants, or great blue herons nested in colo- nies. But the climax of all bird trips was that to Little IGreen. an island some distance beyond the two mile limit. 0n our Little Green trip we saw nesting Leach's petrels, common and arctic terns, and young black tgulls besides the eggs of several black guillemots. Going iback to camp. we saw two finback whales and a great .many freaks of human nature, for were we not past the two mile limit? There was no law. and anything might happen! O C T O B E R - 1940 But Birds was only one class-the messiest group of all was the marine group. The knee-deep wades in black, slimy mud were often repaid by a bucket of steamers between 9:30 and lO:OO p. m. fpCan you imagine the president of the class of '-PO indulging in steamed periwinkles? I saw him do itlj Aside from the Epicurean delights of marine life. though. there were other pleasing aspects. The coastline under water is a most unusual garden of marine plants and animals of various colors and life habits. Did you know that a sea cucumber, if attacked, tlnows out a portion of its viscera? The 'Aeream of the crop to those who were begin- ning teachers was the nature activities class. In that class, Miss Hubbard. the instructor. suggested ways and means of presenting science to young children-at school or in camp. She discussed general fields of sci- ence and gave bibliography for children and teachers. Later, each instructor at a general meeting suggested activities and bibliography for his particular field- plants, animals, and marine life. Besides the tremendous quantities of information and ideas for teaching science in the grades. there was the social side. People from about twenty states and Canada were thereg and in the inforinality of the camp. every- one exchanged his ideas with everyone else. XYho that has visited the camp will forget the Campfire just at dusk-the spruce trees a hazy purple. the water streaked with a rainbow of colors. and the great backdrop of the ocean, dotted with spruce-covered. rocky-shorcd islands? Some take it home in kodachromcs. but all take it home indelibly impressed on the retina of their minds. 19 The Saboteur EVANS llOBINSON sri' IN my darkened study. The guns on my wall clank in sympathetic vibration with the lightning and thunder outside. The lashing soft terrible rain and wind whine 'round the house and through the gardens. These elements bring life and death to all those things which believe themselves alive and indi- vidual. How complacently they take their existence! Death so nearg life so dear. This night and these thoughts remind me of that evening when I went to an old warehouse which had been Dr. Morarri's labora- tory. Hurrying to the door fit was about seven o'cIock in the eveningj at the sound of hurried steps, a mes- senger thrust an envelope through my letter slot and hastened away into the storm, As I stood bewildered I was aware that the Gothic architecture of the Mt. Vernon Methodist Church diagonally across the street appeared weird, medieval, and shadowy in the storm. I involuntarily shivered as I picked up the envelope from the floor and ascended to my study. 'tBy the Saints. I exclaimed. if it isn't a radiogramln Eagerly tearing open the envelope, I perceived the contents of that most unusual message, and its meaning registered on my mind with wondrous suddenness and horror. Could this be from my friend, Dr. Morarriln XVhy I thought he was still studying Voodoo cus- toms in Puerto Rico! And if this were true could it be that my friend could be in a sad state? I reflected half aloud. This message begged me to come without delay to the old warehouse which he had used as a laboratory. XVith alacrity and dexterity I procured and donned my raincoat, ran down the steps to the street. Hailing a taxi which. either by the grace of my dark angel or Mephistophocles himself, stood immediately in front of the door, I began to give the address as I swiftly entered. To the foot of . . . I started. To the foot of Caroline Street and then down the alley, droned the most mechanical voice I had ever heard. As I looked quickly up into the rear mirror, I caught the expression of horrible glee and satisfaction in the eyes of my telepathic chauffeur. Those eyes fascinated me. Bounding like an Apocalyptic horseman , the taxi sped down the Fallsway and seemed to lose itself in the intricately complicated irregularity of streets known as southeast Baltimore. 20 XV ith a scream of brakes the ear pulled up to the curb at my destination. VVhen I offered the driver cab-fare, he just looked up at me with those fearful, mocking, bloodshot eyes. His face, dark and large, and those piercing eyes, made me shudder with the remembrance of the statue of a Voodoo god which Dr. Morarri had once shown me, Throwing the money on the seat of the cab, I turned into the narrow alley in the rear of the chemical works. The smell of brimstone, the flash of the huge furnaces momentarily illuminated the dark lane as the doors were opened and closed by black slaves. The vacant eyes which peered at me as I nervously hurried along the forgotten street, made me shudder with the remem- brance of hell as depicted by the old preacher of my boyhood days. At the same moment as if to add color to my fancies, the wailing ghost of a fog horn shrieked out its terrible warning- Look out! Look out! it seemed to say. As a blast from the furnaces flashed again, it seemed that a beam of light focused and stopped on the num- ber 3 , on the door of the old warehouse that had been Dr. Morarri's laboratory. That number rever- berated in my subconscious mind and I found myself murmuring yes And I laughed a strange hollow laugh of relief at having found something tangible in this mad night. Upon reaching the door I became horrified for the inanimate barrier seemed to pulsate with the steady rhvthm of a human heart. It must be my nerves, I murmured to myself. Get a hold of yourself, fellow, was my thought as I reached out to open the door. It yielded to my touch and as if on well greased hinges, swung silently inward. The next moment I shuddered at the click of its closing. My next thought was to turn and Hee, to forget the whole matter. But a strange sound. like a steady tremolo of a violin, held me hypnotized and drew me toward an inner room from which exuded a purplish-blue light that seemed to travel in a circle. The loud pulsating of my heart. the tremolo of the violin-like sound. and the wavering light, fascinated mc and drew me into that inner room. The furnishings which I saw are not easy to explain. But I saw them-I'll swear to it! In the center stood a plain operating table ready for use. Around the table were placed three huge potted plants-one at the head TOWER LIGHT I md one on either side so that the purplish-blue rays I . . 'lvhich extended from them met on the operating table 1 .ind formed an incandescent mass of pulsing matter. I il ,At the foot of the table sat a black man who beat in- :l:essantly on a drum, and on the right side Qhorror of llliorrorsl, naked except for a loin cloth, stood my cab- tfilriver emitting the tremolo sound of which I have fspoken. r I il ,i Then as if from afar off I heard a command given in that same droning, monotonous tremolo voice of the I'C2llJ-ClIIVC1'. 'I 'tManville, it is the will of vour friend. Dr. Morarri, llvvho is high priest of the flowering gods of Zal, that l-,you be invested with his spirit and so be honored. ,Come and lie here and receive your blessing. I walked to the center of the room and lay upon the Ebirtable. My body became incandescent in the cross cur- rfrent of the rays of the three plantsg the drum beat so :ifuriously that I thought my temples would burstg and lathe black man at mv side. wrenched from his soul the lirniost violently beautiful tremolo that I had ever heard. F. .v I felt my mind float into space, come into contact llwith an alien object and fight with it. Three times this I i : 1 uyhappened. Three times I fought for possession of my lself control and three times I lost. Then there was .only subtle conflict and I felt my whole being domi- ynated by another. VVhen I awoke, I saw that I was lying upon a plain yoperating table. Gone were the black men and their iVoodoo magic. In their places were doctors. white-robed and silent, standing over me and watching. At first I lwas only conscious of the doctor at my side. His eyes lxfascinated me. Painfully, I withdrew my vision from Ithe creature and looked at my surroundings. There was ia doctor at the foot of my bed. He was making records gon a bed-chart. Another MD. and his assistant stood I irespectfully at my head. From the gleam in the eyes of all these practitioners I assumed that they were very lpleased with themselves. VVhat a marvelous exhibition, Doctor, exclaimed tithe one I thought was an assistant. t'You should be called Svengali the Second. This to the surgeon with I 'the strange eyes. I I HMine was only the bringing out of an idea which iwas already in the patient's mind, Doctor A, answered the doctor with the strange eyes. Are you going to test the subject. Dr. H? the as- l sistant asked. Haas.,' began Doctor H, and I found myself listen- iy ing. von are to do exaetlv as I direct. You will listen ,I ' ' - .- li carefully for there must be no mistake. gl Slowly, soothingly, monotonously the doctor revealed to me the plan. And, even as I watched his eyes dance IOCTOBER - 19M I I with the ficndish glee of success. I repeated word for word the instructions. As I finished with the words. must not be caught, I shuddered for I knew what that would mean. The next thing I knew I was hurry- ing out the door and into a waiting taxi which took me home. It was a dreary morning when I looked out of my window the next day. The rain seemed to fall half- heartcdly. As my gaze wandered back into the room, 'as ten o'elock. lNfIethodically I pre- I noticed that it xx pared and ate my breakfast. Stolidly I walked down the steps to the street. It did not seem strange that I was carrying a violin case, nor did it seem queer that my car was in front of my door. Placing the violin case carefully in the car, I, myself, entered and drove off-toward Aberdeen. I was recognized as I drove up to the gate. The sen- try saluted sharply and I was hastily admitted. A park- ing place was easy to find. Soon I lost myself in the maze of buildings. As if by predesign. I set up my gun in a newly built shed and awaited developments. On a small sign on the next shed I could read the name. Aberdeen Proving Grounds. As my gaze won- dered to the road. I saw that the automobiles of the Senatorial committee were arriving. The inventor was pacing up and down behind the observation station. His new invention. another one of those high powered demons, had been hoisted into position about half an hour before. The committee was late. The inventor was anxious-and so was I. There they were, all of them in clear view. Deliber- ately I raised my gun. Aiming with particular care, I fired. There was only a slight shock against my shoulder -no noise- no smoke. 'tIngenious this, I mused half aloud. Again I raised the gun and again I fired. Nine times I Hredg nine times the missile hit its mark. The bag containing the charge of the new explosive was leaking like a sieve. The inventor fumed at the delay which the late arrival of the committee had caused. He blamed the lack of potency of the charge to that delay. The Senatorial committee thought that it was strange that the bag should leak so much. but no one said any- thing, It did not seem strange to me as I drove past the guard on my way home for I knew that the vital instructions I had received for the incident had been carried out to the letter. lVhen I arrived home I abscntly looked in the mail- box. to End a queer looking envelope. 'tXVhy it's Morris writing. by heaven. I exclaimed. I tore open the letter and read its contents. 'Dear Manville. This tropical country is simply beautiful at this time of year. The trees. the flowers. are indescribable. Wiliy M don't you come down and spend a few weeks with me? There's a plane leaving tomorrow night. Please excuse the briefness of the message, I want to get it in the morning mail. Sincerely yours, Morri As I straightened up I happened to glance at myself in the mirror and I observed a wonderful change. My features, no, my whole body, was undergoing a change! The face in the mirror I gradually recognized as my own. I began to speak and I realized that I had not been talking with my own voice before. As I watched, my entire appearance changed from that of a well known army officer to that of myself. Then I realized what had happened. The hypnotic bond had been broken, Some foreign agent had hyp- notized me and made me do what I had done at Aber- rl . ,. i deen. They had known that they could not completely hypnotize without the subject's consent. That is why - I had received that radiogram. I took it out and read it again. Dear Manville, Am dying of tropical disease. You can help me by going to old laboratory at 3 Register Street immediately - upon receipt of radiogram. In the name of our friend- 1 ship and the Flowering Cods of Zal do not fail me.l. Do exactly as my assistant commands! ' Morri f Hum, I mused That was almost too clever. Ati' least I give them credit for knowing a good marksman I when they see one. Well, I have a little call to make ati the police station and then I think I'll take a shortii vacation in the civilized country of Puerto Rico. At least they only have V oodoof' I European Trip all Q! CThe Oriole-june. 1925 I E MISS ANITA S. DOVVELL, assistant to the prin- cipal and chairman of the Department of Health Edu- cation, has been awarded the European Traveling Fellowship, offered by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company through the American Child Health Associa- tion, and is planning to leave Baltimore early in Iuly for five months' travel and study in Europe, during which time she will attend for a week the VVorld's Educational Conference in Edinburgh. The contest was open to all Normal Schools tand Teachers Collegesj in the country which are members of the American Association of Teachers' Colleges. Eighteen States competed. Miss Dowell submitted a survey which described the health program being ear- ried out at our Normal School. She discussed in detail all phases of the health work and offered recommenda- tions for improvement in the course. The names of the contestants for the Fellowship were not known to the judges, who were: Miss Emma Dolhnger, American Child Health Association, New Yorkg Presidents' Black, Ellensburg State Normal, XVashingtong Ilighbie. Madison State Normal, South 22 Dakota: Ypsilanti State Normal, Michigan, and Dr. Thomas D. W'ood, Teachers' College, Columbia Uni- : versity. Miss Dowell is a Marylander, the daughter of George 1 XV. Dowell, of Prince Frederick. She is a graduate of, Coucher College, where she majored in science and I biology. She has done graduate work at Iohns Hopkins ' University and was awarded the degree of M.A. at Teachers' College, Columbia University, where she I was assistant instructor in physical education for a year. 5 She was first to be granted a diploma at Teachers' Col- I lege for Health Supervision in Normal Schools. She has taught at the Towson Normal School twelve years. the I last three of which she has been chairman of her de- ll partment. A The following is only one of the many congratulatory messages she has received: Mr. Hillcgeist, Registrar of the University of Mary-- land, says: HCongratulations to the school and Miss -1 Dowell for winning Traveling Fellowship. Clad you are i continuing to hold your own in the affairs of the 'I country. I TOWER LIGHT 3' l no Yau Think The Rain Will Ruin The Rhubarb? l E'DON'T LET college interfere with your education! 3 The innumberable times that ripper elassmen have heard this statement tand under classmen will hear Stl should weave it indelibly into the patterns of their fhinking. It is unnecessary to mention the authors pameg he is too well-known and admired. How many -if us have heard these words and reflected on their yneaning? How many have just heard them, laughed at fheir ludicrousness and let them pass unheeded? Too rnany! ' Let us reflect! Courses, courses, papers, reports, observations, as- signments, field trips, so much work, so such so much. i . . The mind whirls, the brain becomes confused, muddled, so intent on details, generalizations, evalua- lions are we. XVhat does it all mean? One year, two wears, three years, four yearsg what have we gained? ytlow many know? Too few! i Teacher training is so dreary and, yet, such a fas- lzinating process. In the beginning one is so enthusiastic, is the years wear on tand the spirit, and the physical .naehinery wear down before the swing back to en- ihusiasm comes as teaching beginsl one is querulous iibout his position in the intellectual world. VVhat has I happened? He has become pedantic. Spontaneity of thought and enjoyment are gone. Analysis has taken the place of all naturalness. Movies are analyzed: social groups tfrieuds, relatives, associatesp are analyzed. Une becomes the old-fashioned pedant. Childhood is rc- mote, though easy to remember, easy to reminisce about Cthrough rose-colored glassesj, Youth is shattered, all that remains is the high school diploma, a crumpled dance program, a worn balcony seat stub. Easy to re- member, easy to reminisce about f through rose-colored glassesl. One has set himself up on a pedestal and is left with the grim job of balancing himself up there. Such a grim job, apart from the world, and yet a part of itg aloof to the feelings of others: completely self- centered. Gruesomc, isn't it? Let us rouse from our reflections. The sun of life and laughter is beaming down on us. XVe could be that one in our reflections. tUnfortunately, many teachers today will find. with introspection, they are such H. Providence. smile on these who are in training! Let us see some- thing of life. Let it be such a stimulating experience that its memory will last forever! Above all: t'Don't let college interfere with your education! I-low We Can Help i'lN THESE unsettled times, many college students have become confused as to the best course to follow :with relation to their careers. Eager to serve their coun- itry to the best possible advantage. they are considering the abandonment of their studies in order to carry out what they consider more patriotic duties, such as en- listing in the army or working in a shipyard. h To all such American youth, our President sends a timely message. ln a letter which Dr, XViedcfeld rc- ceutly received from the XVhite Ilouse, lXlr. Roosevelt urges students to go on with their studies more dili- .OCTOBER - 1940 gently than before. He stresses the fact that now. more than ever, we have need of well-educated and intelligent citizens to deal with the difficult problems of today. People with specialized knowledge such as scientists, engineers, economists. and teachers, have a great job to do in helping us plan and build for national defense as well as for social and economic progress. Thus, young people can perform no more patriotic service than to continue the normal course of their education, for it is in this way that they will be preparetl for greatest usefulness to their country. 23 FEET NEW l j. Ml ll . QB lllfj JIL Jll. A JOHN HoRsT SQUASI-I i DOES THE. name Squash mean more to you than just a vegetable? lf it does. more power to you. If it doesnt maybe you're just as well off. Squash is a game resembling tennis except that you do not play it on an outdoor court. nor do you use tennis balls or a tennis racket. Squash is played in a room 32 feet long and 181: feet wide with either a small black rubber ball or with a larger green inflated one. A special long handled. small headed racket is the means of keeping the ball in play. XVhy do most people think that squash is only a vegetable? Squash fans are primarily squash players. No agent could support his family on the tickets he would sell for a squash match of the highest calibre. ln most cases the only people who sec the match are the two players themselves. Some squash courts have a small window high on the back wall where a handful of devotees may watch in a cramped position. All this might lead you to believe that squash players like to be alone but such is not the ease. They lpros and amateurs alikej play for sheer sport and an occasional bet on the side. At any rate. squash is only enjoyed by squash players who seem to love it. The players' expenses are low fjust about the same as Lawn Tennisi. The price of a court is high. How- ever. many Y.Xl.C.A.'s are scraping up funds to build squash courts. They have swimming pools. so why not. a squash court? j As you know, or may have guessed, squash is in a, sense a faster game of handball in which a racket and not the gloved hand is used. The ball is served Erst' off the front wall by the server. It must be returned in the air or before the second bounce to the front walli to be played again by the server. and so on. Reboundsj from any of the five walls and floor must be played and a point is lost if the ball bounds twice on the Hoor. just to confuse you further, there are two types of' squash. Squash racket is played with a dead. small. black rubber ball which keeps the players running to take the ball on the first bounce. Squash tennis is played with a lively, green. inflated tennis ball. This produces a fast moving game where fast reflexes are the prime requi- site. From this you may or may not gather that squash racket is the more popular game of the two. Squash has spread from the leading cities of the East westward to the Pacific. Most large colleges and universities equip the gyms with courts and provide good coaches. Championship play is held in many large cities yearly. Amateurs and professionals play squash tournaments at the drop of a squash ball. And for what?' XVill someone commission them to write their lifej story or broadcast to their fans? No. They just love toi chase that pellet around the room. Maybe there's something in it at that. ' SOCCER SCHEDULE - 1940 Fri.. Oct. lS-Salisbury T. C. ..., ....,, . at Salisbury Thurs.. Oct. 24-Elizabethtown College ..,. at Towson Fri.. Oct. 25-Frostburg T. C.. . . . ..... at Towson Tues.. Oct, 29-johns Hopkins U. ..... at Homewood XYcd.. Nov. 6-XVestern Md. College. .at XYestminstcr Thurs.. Nov. l-t-YYest Chester T. C. .....,. pending Alumni Came . . ,.... . . . . . . . .pending TOWER LIGHT l l l SPORT 5 NOTES 1 i NOLAN CI11Pixr.xN ljJENSE C LOUDS of pessimism shroud the Athletic ifDirector's Office. And no wonder! Coach Minnegan has j E. r l I ilost practically his entire starting championship soccer ieam of the past year. Cone are forwards Lauenstein, jffieineyer, Calder, and Parker and halfbacks johnson K jiind Foster. Also not answering this year's starting jiivhistle will be fullbacks Rembold, Cernik and Cox, and jigoal keeper XVilde. To make the situation more woeful, Y l F K 'v l -lihock and Stottlemeyer, veterans of several seasons. lire student teaching. All of these players are men who jsimply can't be replaced in a season. Nevertheless, don't believe that a defeatist attitude, or anything of the sort, has infected the present soccer Qieam. It hasn't. Iaek Hart, Thompson, Herold. Martin, Clopper, Peters and Dawson are all veteransg they are jill fighters, and each is confident that the team will iaiake a good showing. The newcomers, Culbertson, Astrin, VVeiner, Robinson, Fishel, Cohen, Coleman and 'Hoffman feel the same way. 2 Unquestionably, our 1940 squad is Hghting against jheavy odds to perpetuate the great records of soccer :teams at State Teachers College. But, they have the fspiritg they have our support and with some luck, let's ,dare hope for an enviable string of victories. Last year's Hnal record was 5 won, 2 tied and 2 lost. And the figures are much more imposing to those who saw the games! Loyola was a newcomer to our schedule. May our rivalry be lasting and successful. The Varsity Club deserves our cooperation for their Benefit Dance on November l. Basketball practice begins on November l. The National Defense of our country requires phyf 'sical fitness on the part of young men. College athletics prepare physically tit men. XV hy have the juniors been limited to one physical education period a week? 'OCTOBER - 19M TASMMDNS ALL CLOTHES this season seem to express a defi- nite restraint and simplicity. Suits ffor both men and womenj are seen with trim lines and fine tailoring, yet they are casual, comfortable, and have all the dash of autumn. Among the current trends of clothes for the women students we find: Pinafore jumpers in heather wool jersey and corduroy. worn with striped wool jersey or silk crepe blouses. Shortie skirts in men's wear Hannel-flared or box pleated, Other skirts are tweeds or Scotch plaids. Longer Cardigans of Shetland and kitt'ngoi'a. Also cable stitched slipovcrs. Saddle shoes and moccasins are still with us and are worn with ribbed or angora socks both ankle and knee length. Pearls on sweaters are still smart and bracelets of pins and seeds have become quite popular. Cabardine zippered rain toppers with plaid limngs are definitely on the way Hin . Other coats of tweed and camel's hair are seen in boxed or fitted models. Leading colors are beige, king tan, tire drill red, blue olive. clear yellow, and cadet blue, which was in- troduced early last spring. Current trends in men's wear are: New longer length in jackets which are cut along free and easy lines with straight backs. The leaders in fabrics are Shetlands, cashmercs, her- ringbones basket weaves, and other soft materials. 7 The mismatched hat band is quite a new feature of men's hats. The ribbon bands around the brim contrast in color with the hat body. Combinations include brown and green, blue and gray. and blue and tan. XVhat about the double-breasted model with the lapel rolling to the lower button? So much for a brief review of autumn highlights. Next month we shall make personal mention of those students who seem to show especially good taste in their autumn apparel. 25 The Eighth Wonder of the World QContinued from Page 65 within the entrance gates. the entire scene inspires a feeling of awe and enchant- ment never before experienced. As a caution to you prospective visitors to Salt Lake City. it should be said that you should never attempt to enter the Mormon Temple either alone or with any- one else unless you are a Mormon. This ruling was instituted quite a few years ago. but. as one soon learns. the Mormons believe in strict adherence to the laws of both man and God. Books e Found Too Late 4Continued from Page 163 to-be. lt includes an in- troduction. notes. and bibliographies. Teeters. XY, R. and Hersing. C. M.. Early Iourneys in Science. Chicago. B. Lippincott and Co.. 1931. Three books which contain interesting and entertain- ing information on birds. flowers. and insects. Stevenson. B. C.. The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks. N. Y.. Henry Holt and Co.. 1915. :Xl- tliough this book was published many years ago. it is one of the outstanding sources of appropriate poems for every occasion and age level. Teachers' llanual to Readers. XVith almost every set of childrens readers. there is a Teachers' Manual which gives suggestive lesson plans for each story in the reader. Can you imagine how many hours of labor these books will save you? Courses of Study. Before you go student teaching read all the Courses of Study for your grade. Youll be surprised at the dividends this reading will pay later. . I The Call of Elechves -XUDREY BTERCER HIKING. XYHICH for many years has been for- gotten because of the automobile. is coming back stronger than ever according to stories about hiking clubs all over the continent. At this most wonderful season of the year. why not join our groups? The tramps led by our A. A. manager are not too lengthy and are planned to bring you to many beauty spots around our campus and community. Cnr target ticld is welcoming our archers! Robin Hood would bc pleased to try his luck with thc bow 26 and arrow on our targets. Archery is a sport which can be carried on almost anywhere. and we are lucky to have such an excellent target held here at our college. Pick up a bow and arrow-seck instructions-then pull the string and let the arrow fly. Hockey! How exciting and what a fast game it is! The hockey sticks click and thc white ball will go flying as you go for thc sport. Come on! Show some spirit! Sign up for electives and try out for your favorite sports! TOWER LIGHT i From The Club ourant VIOST OF the grade school teachers, on whom this lf:lementary school program is going to depend for its ifarrying out, come to us from the State Teachers Col- lege in Towson. Here we find an extensive program of Tnusie training under lVIiss Emma VVeyforth and Miss Vilma Prickett. Most interesting is the set of Personal inventory sheets, one for every student, whereon is entered his musical training, if any, his capabilities and 'liis achievements in music while in college. All the Etudents are obliged to learn to play the piano a little- l they receive individual instruction in it, too. livery one of them must learn a certain number of songs and be able to teach them, The music courses are good stiff ones, including elements of music theory. ap- preciation, and practice in teaching. The College has a remarkable Clce Club, trained by Miss VVeyforth. and an orchestra under Miss Prickctt. These groups together or singly have appeared in radio performances, and at State Teachers Association meetings, P. T. A. and Federation programs, a Hopkins dinner and so on. Their standard is a verv high one. He: XVhy can't Cab Calloway's wife water the lawn? :3 She: Because Cab hi-de-hos. Have you heard about the 'Llittle man who wasn't l:here ? He eats Ghost Toasties and evaporated milk for breakfast and fried doughnut holes for lunch. His ltransparents gave him a Phantom Eight which he gkeeps in his mirage. U l And have you heard Mr. VValther's etymology of I Mesopotamia? He says that it is a mess between two rivers. Two of the dorm's freshmen seemed to be taken aback when Mr. Howard Stottlemeyer, who they thought was the dean of men. gave them very specific directions for winding the sun dials located at various ipoints on the campus. Luck would have it that some junsuspeeting person let out the secret of Stottie's iden- itity and the seven-thirty trip to the sun dials was called OE l i l VVhat is a pronoun? 1 A pronoun is a noun that has turned Pro. ll-leard in Math Class: i lnstructor to girl student: Tell me all the ways you know how to reduce. QQf course he meant mathe- matieallyj OCTOBER ' 1940 FROM THE WISE Ladies: Keep a man under your thumb, By being bright and acting dumb! Mr, VValther: Soon we are going to use a spray gun and just spray you people from head to foot with ideas. Mr. Kahn: That would still give us a lacquer knowledge. A gal may live alone and lack It. Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened. VVork is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.-Picasso. Better to have loved a short girl than never to have loved a tall.-Evening Sun. The modern girl adores spinning wheels. but she wants four of them and a spare.-Evening Sun. flimowiciiig the opening of the TQWSON JEWELERS EMANUEI. DE CARLO prop. 41-l YORK ROAD, TOXVSON We Invite 'Your Prztroinige Complete line oflexvclry, lNdu5ic.il lnstrum nts, :Xccesst ri 27 T I Wkifiigirio R E D , S For aII your Drug Store Needs! 503-505 YORK ROAD Phone: Towson 362 For FREE Delivery! TEXACO SERVICE STATION YORK RD. and BURKE AVE. TELEPHONE: TOWSON 1094 TIRES BATTERIES JOHN W. 0'DAY Contractor and Builder Ofliees Towson 1251 3T YORK ROAD Residence: Liberty 1136 Towson. Bld- Greetings to the . . . MARYLAND STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE You All Know Confectionery Martha A. Anderson YORK ROAD, opposite Linden Terrace CLASSIC CANIPUS STYLES from HUCIISCHILD K 0 ll N 8 C 0. Baltimore CHAPTER II Humax Picnic Seventeen Playmates, l cannot play with you, I have so much to do- Boo, hoo, hoo. hoo, hoo, hoo, Must write ten lesson plans. And theres those boards to do. And those dear homework papers. Must mark them too. . . . lament those seventeen! Seventeen who were nineteen strong! Seventeen who had been in hiber- nation at their respective P. Cfs 1Practice Centersl for nine weeks. Seventeen upon whom the sun did not shine-lest it was while on recess duty.-Seventeen' who had to relinquish popcorn, hot dogs, and peanuts for a night at home experimenting for that lesson on static eleetrieitv-while babv brother rode on the Ferris wheel. Seventeen to whom Miller, Krupa, and Crosby' were merely names. Seventeen to whom the radio was forbidden. Seventeen! Seventeen! Seventeen! Seventeen, who. however. forced a wan smile when marking 5A's spelling papers. perhaps? Do you extend to go to the circus? How did you get in the new furnace? He did not waist the butter. Her waist is 6592 inches. Or when? l. A sixth grade safety patrolinan tells a thirsty student teacher that children are allowed to get drinks only if they have permission from a teacher. 2. A child waiting for the class to come to order states that he could bake a cake before this class gets ready. 3 NYiIliam. upon being asked if he knew why the class was behind, said that this was because of too many teachers who are just learning! Yes. now as Seniors. again are they ready to take up the challenge! Seventeen! Seventeen! Seventeen! T O WE R LI G H T II I, f ig S ID 3 W llflll A Clif N Lf LEE NICCZARRIAR II ii7IRST XVE must offer greetings to the neophytes Iiind explain to them the policy of this column, lest Iihey be left in doubt. This great piece of literature UI lktarted three years ago under the guidance of one Norris :h7Veis. Since he has passed on fwe mean graduatedj, iii, his little brother, have been delegated to HII his shoes. ifllhis being impossible because he wore size IZ. I shall Ido my best to write about everything that no other loerson would consider worth writing about. 35 Since the writer is student teaching, the next issue I..vill be written by a ghost writer. P. S, That means an linidentilied person. Since you won't know who is -:writing the column you won't be on your guard and we Itonsequently will discover more to write about. Don't Qforget that this column is both for and about YOU. ADO make the column interesting. A few notes gathered from Freshman YVeek and the 'tea dance in particular. l. At a first glance the dormitory looked just the I same as last year. All the same fixtures in the same old places. After a while the Freshmen will enter into the swing of things and the picture I may be changed. 5 2. YVhat Sophomore girl admitted to this writer one night that she used her Towniz LreHTs to balance a rocking chair. Shame on you. They would be much better used in other ways. Every year, the writer of this column makes a promise to his readers. This year I promise that after student teaching, there will be very few secrets running loose in the college. I shall do my best to make eyeryone's 'life an open book. So long and So XVhat- OCTOBER - 1940 Compliments of . . MARYLAND HOTEL SUPPLY COMPANY 227 Hanover Street -so-n-m-a-wa-n-M-n 4ll'zgi11Ecz Efbziifzifli qiflzilliozz CEIZEEZ 40 YORK ROAD - TowsoN1712 - TUXEDO 5196 A LADIES AND MISSES APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES TEAROOM OPEN BY APPOINTMENT YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO SHOP WITH US CALVERT C670 - C671 WM. BECK 8: SON l'l4ir0fesafe ..9?111u'fs and lQgeZ'a6fes 416 W. 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VERNON 3700 Tl Human Funny Blunders of School Children All brutes are imperfect animals. Man alone is they perfect beast. ' Christians are only allowed one wife. This is called! monotony. , 9 I - 1 A man who looks on the bright side of things isi called an optionist, and one who looks at the dull side is called a pianist. Thomas A. Beeket lived a dissipated life. Three nights killed him. ' Note underneath a lads outline map: I know the map looks wrong somehow. but I can say with the poet, England, with all thy faults. I love thee still. A philosopher is a man who makes the best of a bad job, Socrates is called a philosopher because he didn't worry much when he was poisoned. A sincere friend is one who says nasty things to your face instead of your back. If it wasn't for our breath we should die when we slept and never wake up. A stethoscope is a spy glass for looking into other peoples' chests with your ears. 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CAMELS ARE EXTRA MILD, BUT THE FLAVORS ALL THERE -EXTRA FLAVOR -fs G v' I Xt HE ARBICHAIR above is his cockpit- but Bill Miller Hies as many as 100 planes a day. North. south. east. and west from New York's LaGuardia Field fair rieu' upper right! his radio controlaroom directs the course of .'i77I67'ff.J7l'X giant tlagships. Flier. navigator. engineer. traffic executive all in one-yes. Hight superintendent Bill Miller is a man with the extras-a man who gets the extras. too...the extra pleasure and extra smoking in slower-burning Camels. For Camels costlier tobaccos and slower wav of burning give you extra mildness and coolness with a Havor that holds its appeal through the last extra puff. Camels also give vou extra smoking per pack fsee rigbtj. 'Un- GET THEWEXTHASQWITH SLUWER-BURNING CAMELS .2 .I Q In recent laboratory tests, CABIELS burned ZSQ slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested-slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to PER PACK. 'n K- ri H 3 u TL U11 Tlv im 5 G X-oi f.-ff at 1: iv lg J 3 J 3 6 ...,.,,,.5f 'J 2 - 'bones-r cigfsigixrqrzs lc U I I I i H I I I I I I I I I I I r r I I I n s I I 5 3 1 I I. I I I I I A I i If - A E3 LU JEIULI' 5 VOLUME xuv - - NOVEMBER 1940 - - NUMBER 2 LES'I' xyr-1 FoRoiS'1 ' I EDITORS FIVE YEARS .soo . I , , . 2 fclmms CROSS SoC1,xL S'1'UDn5S IN THE CAMPUS S'enooL 4 X P.x1'RierA IIIZRNDON I FRANCES SHORES A LETTER TO A FRIEND . , ..,, , 5 IAAIES IET1' I BUSINESS MANAGERS IOHN EDXYARD KOONTZ CIATHERINE CSR,-XY CIRCULATION Ihlargaret Heck Norma C-ambrill Margaret Gunnells Annetta VVright ADVERTISING Muriel Frames Margaret Lowry lean O'Cormor Virginia Roop DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Art Audrey Pramschufer Marguerite XVilSon Katherine Decker Charles Cuertler Athletics Nolan Chiprnan Iohn HorSt Audrey Mercer College Events Helen Picek Nancy hletzger Frederica Biederman Sibyl Davis Editorials Ccncyieye Haile Mary Simon Cordon E Sehules Assemblies Alice Carr Helen Pross Mildred Snyder ALICE MUNN - Science Iohn Chilcoat Iohn Bareham Fashions Ellen Elste Shirley Hicks General Literature Ieannette Uhlrich Mindelle Kann Irma Sennhenn Lois Chcetham Humor Lee McCarriar Estelle XYaterS Iule Thompson Alma McAvoy Margaret Zilhnor Library Mary Di Peppi Doris Klank Katherine Pctroff Music Sylvia Cehyasser Ruth Malcson - Managing Editor TIIE CAL-UP POLL OI S. T. C. 7 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS' S THE CLOISTERS , . S HALF CASTE , , . 9 THE COMMON TOUCH lo EDITORIALS .... . II THE LIBRARY .., ., ..., .,, .., 12 CAMPUS SCHOOL LITERATURE , . I+ THE AVERAGE REFUCEE , M . I6 AN UPSTARTU . , . . . , I' THE ELIXIR OF YOUTH IS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . IU MUSIC ,. IO THE SAME OLD CATS - XYOMEN , . , II ADVENTURES' IN ROMANCE ,.,, IZ FASHIONS .,.,. . . 2? COLLEGE NEXYS , 2-I ALUMNI NOTES . , Io HUMOR . . 3' SPORTS' , , , 35 COMING EVENTS' . . 11 ADVERTISERIENTS , 53: Library cut'-Katherine Decker ll Ilalf-tone-Ellen Anne Elstc 2: THE TOXVER LICIIT is published niontlily-Octcwlici' tlirouuh Iuncgby Students of thc State TcachcrS College git 'I'ouSoi.. Mil. 51.50 PER YEAR Qui Cl NIS VI R LF IIN Q f 9 .. s MBI Q jforgef' KI H, Fiuxcns L. Sironns UKIEWTHERE in England tonight there are thousands of civilians waiting for air raid alarms. Somewhere in these United States there are thousands of youths wondering about the future - wondering. There are youths who are saying compulsory conscription is undemocratic and unfair. youths who are saying we haye been born in a ,generation where the odds are against us, youths who are going to scoff when we pause refleetiyely to say, I am thankful. Thankful for what? Let us think awhile - L'Lest We Forget. That the future bears an ominous note there is no question but the present is with us. One does not need to be a conhrmed optimist to realize we ean't be thankful enough for what we have. There were no airplanes bearing missiles of death on the horizon this morning. There was no death-like suspense surrounding us. We went leisurely about our work. The air we breathed was free. The 'Lstars and stripes waved aboye us umnolested. News came from across the seas that there were many deaths. Still. they weren't our loyed ones - f'Lest We Forget. WThen tomorrow becomes today, we must face it with the courage that we haye faced the past. Our youth will be eonscripted. The things that confront us haye confronted people in eyery age. They suryiyed and we shall do likewise. Meanwhile, we still haye peace. Our leaders have promised that our youth will not iight on foreign soil - ULest We Forget. As we pause to say, 'fl am thankful. let us do it with reverence. Our are Americans - uLest We Forget. x I X fi , 0 tl race, or our creed, does not matter. We haye fared well so far. And. we 0 . Q 0 'p 4 Q l I 5 . , jf: D APERS Tomi' are filled to overflowing with the l-. tragedy of war. As the war news continues I lg find myself considering the peaceful country- 3 ide I viewed just five years ago when I drove my Ford ' -ar on a five-thousand-mile 'aunt throuffh Central Eu- , l :- j ope. A few weeks ago I was recounting some of the A letails of that trip when I suddenly realized that every y rountry I had visited in 1935 had either been at war or ' vas at war at the present time. To ' 'eca ture some of the thrill of the A P ' D , . . :ri and to Jartiallv dis Jel the A 11 P l . ll l j gloomy news of today I skimmed j fi Jver parts of my travelog. These are j some of the contrasts of 1935 and 1940. u 1 I . ' D . ' e ' - ', ' ' j . . 0 . , i ' I Z3 l Landing at Havre we headed straight to Paris and entered that rgaie city by wav of the Are de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees. It was the beginning of the Bastile Dav festival and the streets were filled with celebrat- ' ing Parisians Only a few months ago these same Npeople vyere trudging down the Champs Elysees as ref- ugees. During our stay in Paris we drove out to Reims, Chateau Thierry and the champagne country. The beau- .,tiful highway followed the No Man's Land of the XVorld llWar Number I. How satisfied we felt as we drove along this highway for, except for the damage to the j Rheims Cathedral, we could see little ravages of the war. lThe country looked peaceful and beautiful. Last spring ifthis peaceful country again resounded with the clash of 'P ij On into Switzerland and Germany we travelled. The llfirst few days in Germany were spent in Freiburg and in lHeidelberg. the university town. Both of these cities jhave been recent targets for the R. A. F. In Munich we -'visited the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and there we lfound a poppy wreath from Great Britain! Youth in jGermany were marching everywhere on summer holi- day trips: the Heil Hitler greeting was just beginning. rAlthough we could detect a slight undercurrent of an impending change we could not realize what it would amount to in a few years. Many of these young men have already paid the price of war with their lives and others are marching to battlefields instead of summer holiday trips. battle and was again laid waste. u Austria was a free nation and driving toward Vienna. We followed the Danube for many miles. XV e saw much river traffic. pleasure steamers and freighters, for the .Danube in times of peace is a river of romance and trade. In times of war it is a frontier of violence and bloodshed and it is now playing an important part in the Balkan conflict. In Vienna we loved the Viennese NOVEMBER - 1940 Rramzecs C. TANsrr. music and the Volksgartcns where people of all levels gathered in the evenings to enjoy the music. I recall a member of thc Austrian family where we stayed saying. Austria is now getting on her feet agaiiig the tourist trade is returning. If 'they' will leave us alone and give us a few more years we will be back to normal. They meant IXfIussolini and Hitler, for this was soon after the confiict between Germany and Italy over Austria. Of course. the country did not have its f few years of respite. In Italy we found the best roads of any country, thanks to hIussolini's road-building program. XVe had widely different experiences in Venf ice, Rome fwhere we drove along the Appian YVayiJ . and the enchant- ing Riviera. The country was beau- tiful with its olive groves on rolling i hillsides, miles of ripening vineyards and beautiful oleanders that bor- dered many of the highways. Italy. like Germany, had youth camps where military training was given and in a few sections there seemed to be a certain amount of restlessness. One Sunday we had difiieulty in getting through the streets of small towns because of the large gatherings of men. Later we learned they were mobiliz- ing for the Ethiopian XV ar which began a month after our departure from Italy. Now the country is engaging in a second war. 6644 I Into Spain we travelled. where we were charmed with the Basque people and the beauty of the Bay of Biscay where we visited at the American Consulate at Bilbao. A year or two later we were avidly following the news of the Spanish Revolution. The siege of Bilbao lasted six weeks before the city finally fell into Franco's hands. XVe learned that Franco's army had passed within a block of the home where we had visited but since this was the home of an American official the home was spared. From Spain back to Havre we drove through Brittany and stopped at many of the coast towns. Now we read of almost daily raids on this coastal territory. Back in America after this trip I began to plan for other trips in the years ahead. This time it would be the Scandinavian countries. Holland. Belgium and surc- ly England. But now I find myself asking. shall we ever enjoy the privileges of such a trip? XYhen tight- ing finally ceases how long will it take the countries to recover from the ravages of this present World Var? Many treasures will have been destroyed and thc visitor will view only ruins. Even should I travel over the same route as I did in l93i there would be many clianges and some of the small countries would have unrloulited- ly lost their identity and much of their eharin. 3 Social Studies , IN Tl-IE CAMPUS SCHOOL . IRENE M. STEELE ' fur DO wa wish to happen to a child as a result of his social studies in the elementary school? YVhat do we hope a child will be- come because of his living in. and learning about his school. his community. his world? In a general way we have for many years had a satisfactory answer to this question. XVe have hoped that children would become good citizens. that is. good citizens in a country com- mitted to the ideal of democratic living - a country which respects the worth of every individual, and in turn provides each one with great freedom but charges him with responsibilities. In this matter of educating children for a high stand- ard of democratic living, we have not always done as well as we know. For a number of reasons we have often been diverted from a singleness of purpose about this matter of citizenship. Vie have sometimes been satisfied with knowing what is good to do instead of both knowing and doing. YVe have emphasized mere knowledge. instead of knowledge put to use. XVe have overlooked immediate opportunities for giving experi- ence with democratic processes. and studied about re- mote conditions which lacked reality for young chil- dren. NVe have followed a logically arranged sequence of study when mature thought would have led us to evolve an arrangement in accordance with children's demonstrated capacities and gripping interests. XVe have attempted to achieve an impossible kind of com- pleteness in covering the traditional studies assigned to the elementary school. as though children were finish- ing their formal education in six or seven years. These mistakes are. no doubt, mistakes of a transition period. of a time when new conditions call for new ways of doing things. but also a period when there is still great reluctance to abandon what has proved of value in the past. The time has now come. we think. for vigorous attack on the social studies in the Campus School. VVe. too. wish to conserve what has been good in our course. but we wish also to meet the challenge of doing as well as we know. Vie know that the changes which take place in children as a consequence of their studies is the im- portant inatter. We believe if we keep our attention on this thought. we teachers will begin to do things differ- ently. lf. for example. we keep telling ourselves that we wish children to value the things which their forefathers 4 have sacrificed to gaing that we wish them to cheris the hard-won freedom. the opportunities and the beau of this great land. we will. if we are wise, begin witl' what is concrete and near. XVe will not be satisfied witl' merely relating our country's story, dramatic and inte esting as it is. but we will find ways to help childrei identify themselves with the stream of life in our eoun try and to feel themselves an essential part of it. XVith all this in mind. the attention of every grad has been concentrated for the first few weeks of thig year. on the educational opportunities inherent in th living and working together in our school. There i. nothing new about this situation, but there is som thing new. for us. in our attitude toward it. The stud' of our immediate environment is accorded a new di nity as the organization and content of class and schoo activities become quite definitely a part of the socia studies curriculum of all grades. Many activities whicl were formerly hurried over in order that the class might get to the prescribed course of study. now are the course of study. They become the means through which chil dren begin to understand various social processes. sucl as evolving standards for group living, dividing respon- sibilities for specialized activities: adjusting to environ- mental conditions beyond their control. or bringing their environment under control to meet their needs And adequate time is allowed for working out these values. The Student Council is one excellent example of how school life provides opportunities for children to grow, through taking part in the management of their ow affairs. At present the older children are in the midst of plans for amending the constitution of the council, b the due process of their own law. in order to make the document fit the present needs of the school. The con- cepts constitution . amendment . ratification ar passing the verbal stage: they are becoming rooted in. experience. The range of responsibilities assumed by the. council is suggested by what the standing committee do for the cafeteria. the lavatory. the campus, lost audi found articles. athletics. assemblies. safety. and reporting attendance. As guided by teachers. these activities arei rich in possibilities for child growth in the direction off deeper social understanding and improved social prac- tice - that is. social practice in a small community com- mitted to the ideals of democratic living. 1 TOWER LIGHT! i l I r . I Our Campus School environment furnishes an es- j , . . jjreeially full background for social studies. It has long jfreen the custom for the first grades to visit various jj-laces on the campus - the administration building. 'he power-house. the laundry. the glen. The purpose of hese explorations is to help children feel more at ease lin their strange world, and to help them understand heir relation to those people whose services affect their jjives. This year the older children are also having an op- portunity to study the school community. They. too. rave visited or re-visited the college science rooms. the jzitehen. the power-house, and have interpreted what iihey saw in terms of their added years of experience. in school and out. with real things in the world about them. with pictures. books. songs. and stories. ' VVithin our own building these same children have gained new insights into the kind and amount of sup- 'plies and equipment needed for running a school. as fvvell as the kind and amount of planning required. 'lllhey have visited the store rooms and seen some surpris- iing things - paper in quantities they had not imaginedg lclav in powder form when they had thought of it as 'always coming to us moist from the earthg glue in -sheets - the glue which they knew only in liquid form: lgarden tools. carpenter tools. and paints stored ready l-for use: costumes in orderly arrangement on hangers or in labeled boxes. These behind-the-scenes views have made the children conscious of services which they had long taken for grantedg have added meaning to the coin- plex, costly organization we know as a schoolg and have raised questions which will give direction to their study for some time to come. Living and working together in school will continue through the years. but this area of experience will cer- tainly not constitute the major part of the social studies curriculum in all grades. lt will. however. parallel what- ever else is studied. or perhaps be bound up with other themes. But whatever the center of interest. whether it be colonial life. housing, or man's struggle for food or freedom. the major purpose of the study will always bc. ehildren's growth in social understanding and social be- havior. The ideal to be kept before us is the enlight- ened. responsible citizen. the kind so sorely needed if the democratic way of life is to be made to work. Shall we teach children facts? By all means. XVe shall teach them facts in abundanceg facts about colonial life, that throw light on our present ways of thinking and livingg facts about housing that reveal problems of democracy which, in a short time, they will help to solveg facts about the long, slow struggle for freedom that will help plant in their hearts the seeds of gratitude for their enjoyment of the daily blessings of liberty - the liberty for which many have pledged their lives. their fortunes. and their sacred honor . Letter To A Friend DEAR IOHN: Some time ago we were talking about the amazingly sudden hold defense has taken on the public mind. Everyone, everywhere. is talking defense, defense. de- fense. l'ye been thinking about it. too. and I think that I have discovered a grand assumption in much of the present thought and action. a disastrous and irrecon- eilable paradox overlooked in the general fanfare and excitement. lf defense is not to become just another catchword to be used by the clever to trap the gullible into doing almost anything from changing their brand of toothpaste to persecuting minorities, we must look into what the shouting is all about. just what are we trying to defend. and what is the best way to go about it? VVhat do we want to defend? XVhy, the answer is ob- vious! XV e want to defend the democracy we have. our freedom of speech and press. our right to lawful trial. We want to make secure our inalienable rights of life. NOVEMBER - 1940 liberty. and pursuit of happiness. XVe want to protect our men. women. and children. their homes. their no- blest ideals. and the best of all that man has accumu- lated through long and painful years of toil. NVQ want to preserve our civilization. To this everyone agrees. These are our immediate ends. Now what means are wc going to use to achieve these ends? Ah. john. my friend. there is the grand as- sumption. the impossible dilemma. The newspapers. ra- dio. and moving pictures flash before us defense - armamentsg defense - bombers. battleships. and big guns: defense - warg war and defense. and lo! as if by magic the two terms are taken to bc synonymous. ,Krin- aments will defend our women and children: war will defend our beliefs. our civilization - but will they? The political leaders of every nation in lriuropc told their people that they must arm for defense. for national security. Have their arms protected any of them? Non nightly the bombers visit death and destruction upon England. France. and Germany alike without any rt 5 gard for innocence or guilt. For centuries Europe has depended on its armies for protection, and for centuries it has been ravaged. After 1918 partly because of a con- tinued allied food blockade 2,000,000 German and Aus- trian people starved to death. This winter France will starve. Victor today is loser tomorrow, and after the war is over its problems still remain to be settled by peaceful means, Even in the so-called winning nation the great masses of the people are crushed under grief, poverty, and despair brought on by the holocaust of lies, hate, and the unbridled murderous passion that is war. In its very nature war is destruction. Both sides cry defense and then destroy each other. Stanley Baldwin says, the only defense is in offense, which means that you will have to kill women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves. VVe have learned within our nation to live by a large measure of honesty, law, and justice, we try to live among the nations by deceit, robbery, and wholesale murder. XVe want to save democracy abroad, and first we destroy it here at home. Mobilization day means immediate abro-. gation of all civil rights and dictatorship right here. and for who knows how long? Stuart Chase, Charles E. Beard, and Charles Evans Hughes doubt if democracy in America can survive another major war. VVe want to preserve our homes, markets, and economic goods. and yet in war we utterly destroy unbelievable wealth. Nich- olas Murray Butler in a report to the Carnegie Foun- dation in 1934 figured that every family in America, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Bel- gium, Germany, and Russia could be given a house worth about 52500, S1000 worth of furniture, S500 worth of land, that every town of 25,000 inhabitants could be given a library worth S5,000.000. a university costing Sl0,000,000, and then the whole of France and Belgium could be bought outright with the money squandered on the Wforld XVar. 1 wonder what the cost of rubber and tin would be a pound if figured on this basis? XVe work and sweat and worry to reduce crime and brutality to build decent manhood, and then we force these youths to tear off the limbs and cut out the hearts of their human brothers. YVhen was truth obtained through lies, justice through revenge, bitterness. and hate? XVhen was security ever found in suspicion. distrust, and fear? john, the answer to this paradox is that there is no na- tional security. There is no security in armaments and war. Each nation is forever defending itself against the defensive measures of all the other nations. Every an- nouncement of a more destructive weapon, of a more lethal gas in one nation brings terror and insecurity for all others. Richard B. Gregg deftly states the situation, Security does not lie in our possessions but in the qual- ity of our relationships - it lies forever between us and 6 1 1 if either of us seeks it for himself, both of us will miszg, it. ' Today the only security is world security. People thc world over are frantically groping for ways to solve thi' fundamental political, racial, and economic problem: which are causing our troubles. Yet each time we go tc war we move our goals farther and farther out of our reach. XV ar itself cannot solve these problems, but adds' to them, and makes their ultimate solution all the more difficult and painful. l Many sincere peace loving people will agree to alj this, john, and yet you and 1 have heard them say, Yesj but not everyone thinks this way. XVe must be prac- tical. VVe must choose between the least of the evils and build on the good we have. Temporarily, we may have to sacrifice our liberty, our homes, our democracy, and all we love most, but the sacrifice is worthwhile for thc final security of our country. Have these people so soon forgotten the sad lesson of 1914, the failure of war tce save democracy, the failure of war to end wars? For years war has been tried as a means to solve our prob lems, and for years it has failed miserably. lt is the most' impractical course of action. And in its workings it de- stroys the very possessions we cherish most. Do they notf see that ends and means can not be separated, that death, disease, grief, and poverty are the victors of war? There are people, john, who seeing the failure and futility of war, renounce it as a means of solving our problems, defending our treasured possessions. and bringing us security, These people are not just sitting down or objecting, nor indulging in the bankrupting luxury of emotional name calling. These people have already conscripted themselves for peace, and have been working for years to find means of real and lasting de- fense and peace. 1'm going to find out something of their work, and will write you again. ALLEN 0'NEILL. A LAMEN T 1 l SHIRLEY llEDDEN 3 ! That the sun spends but little time with us now- 1 And guards its warmth from earth and sky- P That the trees, suddenly finding their burden great, , Release the dying leaflets with a sigh- 1 can bear. I But stronger than ache of death of this, my life. f Ebbing slowly away with each flake of snow. i ls the pain which clutches my heart with fingers of falls And refuses to believe that, like all beauty. 1 You must go. I TOWER LIGHT!! 1 2 i I 1 ! The al- Poll of . T. . I G U S C I e I IVIILDRED SNYDER ETYS BE tolerant about this, P. admonished in NI: -Yes, marry him. Don't cross your bridges before a shrill scream. As usual, the Ir. IB girls were indigesting their lunches by expressing their iiews about some subject that interested them at that ,iarticular moment. The reasoning in these views was thot always of an Einstein quality but they were truly ivhat the girls thought and did not mind saying among 5. group of good friends. 'l .W fi . Confession - The girls did not know I was using if our viewpoints for outside materialg in fact. neither ti did I until the T1OXVER LIGHT deadline swiftly ap- tj proaehed. After the opinions were sorted and listed. If the girls, A., M., V., and P. were shown the results ll: and asked if they would permit them to be printed. Each graciously agreed and so here are the results I' of the Cal-up Poll of S. T. C.: Q I. Roosevelt vs. Willkie I V 'I . . . . . I, V. -XV1llk1e is the man. He will bolster our present 5 economic situation as soon as he gets into the it if VVhite House. Roosevelt is out of the running. -I really don't know enough about either to make 5 a definite decision, but I favor VVillkie. IMI.-Both sides have their good points. P. -Personally, I like Roosevelt. I think he's done some good things and his foreign policy is good. IM-.-I dislike Roosevelt's extravagant spending. but he -x i did help some people. XVillkie's promises are nice, if but I just don't like him. J I 11. New Fall Hats I EV. -They're dizzy but they're cute. QA. -I haven't bothered to look at them. Ml.-I don't wear hats enough to care about them. IP. -I haven't noticed any so far. Mg.-I think they are much smarter than last year's. l l III. Marriage Before War? U V. -Don't get married. It won't hurt to wait. and if he would get killed, you could try to forget. IA. -Of course not. I-Ie might be killed and you might be left with a child to raise. . Ml.-Yes. marry him if you love him enough. He could just as easily be killed accidentally at home as at ' VVHY. I I P. -No, it is awfully hard to be a widow at twenty- someg or worse, he might be shell-shocked and you would be tied down for life. NOVEMBER - 1940 V. A. IXII P. M2 V. A. M1 P. -1 M- v. A . M' P. -1 M- V. A. MI. P. .u NI- you come to them. Even if you are left with a child. it would be his and vou'd want it more than anything else. IV. Formal or Informal Dances? -Formal. Informal dances are too sloppy. l'd like boys. as well as girls, to be formal. -It doesnlt make any difference to me about any brit class dances. -Only have class dances formal, I never have enough evening gowns, my date doesn't like to go formal, and it is too much trouble to dress up. -Class dances formal. Have the others informal. for the kids without cars. -It seems more like a dance if it is formal. Dressing up is half the fun. One or two dances could be in- formal. V. The Draft -It is grand, especially for boys who criticize our country but do nothing to improve it. -It is good. but I didn't realize they would teach how to kill. -I like it. -It is good for all classes of men. -Necessary but distasteful. It is going to make the younger men too hard. VI. Should Roosevelr's Son Be a Captain? -It is unfair and wrong. -He definitely should not get any more advantages than other boys. I -I think it is perfectly O. K. YVhy not? After all, the Presidents family should have some prestige and privileges. -Because of the narrow-minded public hc shouldn't be. but after all. his father is President and his son should be allowed such a trivial privilege. VII. All This and Heaven Too -I agree with M? -She was very weak to stay. She should have left. -I don't think they did anything wrong. -Both he and she were selfish. weak people. who thought only of themselves. She should have left as soon as she realized the situation. -After all. we cau't turn off our emotions like 'Z water. They did nothing wrong, unless loving a person is wrong. NYe believe this to be an excellent cross section of the student body as each of these girls live in an entirely different section of the city, attended a different high school, and has different religious beliefs - Methodist. Catholic, Lutheran, Iewish, and Episcopal. Light in the Darkness IEAN Hmm' THE DARK coolness of the night took my breath. coming as I did from the warm, lighted house. The stars. pin-points of brilliant light. filled the midnight blue background of sky with intricate patterns - the same patterns gazed on by Man at the earth's beginning. There is always something eternal in the universe, viewed at night from a tiny spot on this tiny planet. Past. present. and future seem forever linked. Here is the handiwork of the Creator, bearing witness to His care and plan. Here on earth wars may rage and spend their fury. In some places flames and smoke from fallen bombs and tiring guns dim the stars. The drone of planes and bark of anti-aircraft fire deafen men's ears. The scream of air- raid sirens for a moment makes fear uppermost in hu- man minds. But somewhere behind all this horror there must be some plan. some ininiortal force, watching and guiding. just as for centuries it has maintained in secur- ity the universe and the Earth which is a minute part of it. Everything cannot end now, here in the twentieth century! Creed. lust, and hate must not spread their evil influence over the world. There is a benign factor at work. There is a Creator and Protector who is the author of love, fellowship, and peace. These atrributes He has placed in the hearts of all good people for them to defend and preserve. As constant as the natural handiwork of the Creator are these elements. They must be kept alive! As long as they exist in the minds of even a few, they are inviolate. In the end they will emerge strengthened from this chaos. for it has always been so. The stars may be hidden for a moment by clouds of smoke from gunfire, but that does not destroy them. They will shine again and be even brighter because of the darkness which has con- cealed them. Everything was quiet. The black earth lay firm and solid beneath my feet. The stars still shone. Nature was adding her affirmation to my thoughts! 8 I The Cloisters i RUTH B ICCARTH' IUST LOOKING out - out - out . . . rainy. chilly, nasty, and bare. Come with me! Into the thickness - back - back - back. Then warmth, brightness, beauty, peace and voices . . . admiring, awed. humble. Curious. But listen - the one voice .... Young people. never throw old things away. Keep them for they grow more precious with each generation. I have always loved an- tiques. For many years it has been my greatest desire to help others feel some affection for an old piece of furni- ture. To do this I've given much of my life collecting antiques from all over the world. The result is The Cloisters. I want all of you to use it. It is your museum - for your benefit. Come - we must keep up with the voices - in. out, up. down. here. there - everywhere. Hurry - here - in the dining room, the art gallery. the living room. the library, the chapel, the cloisters - then - the circular stairway, the masters bedroom, the lace room, the Ed- gar Allen Poe room, the doll room. the taproom. the early American room - on - on. Listen - always that one voice - guiding - kind, Five generations of china - 'tfour generations of linen - I3th century and- irons - front door from Glen Ellen - Chippen- dale chairs - famous cutware - colored glass - wedding chest of Marie Antoinette - chairs and highboys from palaces of England and France - Black Madonna - Da Vinci's religious banner - illumi- nated manuscripts - wedding dresses of three brides in our family - 'Aiirst day dresses - hand made lace handkcrchiefs - shawlsn - trundle beds - feather mattresses - altar chair - doll houses - doll fur- niture - doll people - brought out every Christmas - Romantic - yes - but hard to do. Have you tried kissing your love with both of you on galloping horses? Lovely voice - so willing - but now a little weary - asking for help. Many, many times I've gone with the voice - I am the standing symbol. I must stay. I will stay. I ani the walls of the Cloisters - the home of Mrs. Sumner Parker in Brooklandville, Maryland. Excerpts from tbe Nfarylafzd Educational jour- nal, 1867: XVait for others to advance your interests and you will wait until they are not worth advancing. Most persons' ideas are adopted children - few brains can raise a family of their own. Reproof is like medicine, like mercury or opiumg if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good. TOWER LIGHT I HEN FIRST I met Trican Adams, I was not cs- pecially curious as to his origin or his reason for being at the meeting. I accepted him as me of tne new members and let it go at that. XV hen I ,poke to him, however, his faultless use of English, and 11s slightly olive complexion aroused in me a desire to ynow more about him. But this desire was not as easy to atisfy as I had imagined. I saw no more of Trican un- il the next meeting, to which I went more in the hope Jf having another chat with him than for any other Curiosity has a way of growing when not satishedg so when I saw Trican coming toward me, I could hardly suppress my delight. He remembered me from our first introduction! After a cordial greeting, he sat in a chair opposite mine, and we discussed the matter to be brouvht up in the meeting. Conversation then turned, Without apparent reason, to matters of personal his- tory I learned that Triean's first impression was finding nrmself in an orphan's home in New York. He had no trace of his father or mother. and he could do no more than accept the charity offered, He spent his first four- teen vears in the Home, going to school and learning to do his work well and without complaint. He had then gone to a high school close by and had worked in a drug store after school. After graduation from school, The left the Home and went to college, working every evening to make enough to finish his education. Now, at the age of twenty-four, he had a responsible job in one of the larger banks and was making enough to support himself comfortably. His composed manner lmade me like him from the start, and I felt that he and I would be great friends. After the meeting, however. I did not see him for a week. Then one evening he called me by telephone and invited me to dine at his apartment the next evening. During dinner. we talked over current affairs and by the time the last course was served, we were the best of friends. I learned that Trican was engaged to be mar- ried to the daughter of the president of the bank in which he worked. VVC had a toast to the bride, and then I decided I had better leave, as it was getting late. During the next few weeks, I had occasion to see Tri- can quite often since I had business to transact at his ,bank. As time went on, we became more and more steadfast friends. His pleasing personality, his congen- iality, and his willingness to accommodate made him a person hard to dislike. It 1 , I I 1 I . L. . . eason. I 1 ' 2: iNOVEMBER - 1940 ali Caste INIINDELLE KANN The week after I had finished my business at the bank, I did not see him at all. Then, Tuesday evening of the following week, he called me. I could tell at once from the sound of his voice that something was wrong. He asked me if I had time to stop by his apartment. I had, and was soon on my way to see him. XVhen I saw his face, I knew even more than from the sound of his voice that something terrible must have happened. He sat quietly on the edge of an easy chair and began pour- ing out a strange but tragic story of his own life, You already know about my early life in the or- phan's home and that I never knew who my real father or mother were. VVhen I began to work at the bank, the business manager naturally went into my early life as much as possible. but he could find out nothing that I had not already told him. But when I became engaged to the president's daughter, he would not be satisfied until he knew all the secrets of my early life. One day. he called me into his office and told me that he had found out who my parents were. Try to imagine how I felt when he told me that my mother was a negro! Oh, if I hadn't worked up to where I am now! I'm not good enough to be a white man, and I'm too good to be a negro. My blood is not pure enough to be the man I thought I was - to marry the presidents daugh- ter - but itls too pure to associate with negroes: and the thought of marrying a negro woman is revoltingf' His story left me amazed. I felt only the deepest sym- pathy for him, the thought that one of my closest friends was half negro had never occurred to me. I kept silent waiting for Trican to continue. I could see that I wasn't wanted at thc bank, so I resigned. I went over to see Dorothy and broke our cn- gagement, but I didn't tell her the reason. Then I made her father promise that he would never tell anyone. I don't know what I'll do, but I am leaving tonight. I want you to go now: and maybe, some day, after I'ni gone, if you feel that you want to. you can explain to the friends and acquaintances I have made why I left. It's been a pleasure to know you. I left the apartment in a somewhat dazed condition. My mind refused to grasp all that I had heard. I was stunned! Several hours later, at home thinking over the events of the evening, I heard my telephone ring. ,N deep. busi- ness-like voice greeted my solemn IIclIo. This is Sergeant Klein of the homicide squad. fcontiiiued on Page lil 9 The Common Touch I FRANCES RoBisoN y A HEY, HOV' DOES YVar Point look to you? The brightly painted heavyweight on my left, with a pug- nacious chin. blew a dense smoke screen in my face to enforce her question. Trying to answer. I blinked for a second in the cloud of smoke. My bet's on him. yelled a small. greasy individual in my right ear. They're off! The roar from the motley mob seemed to fan even the bright pennants soaring proudly over the huge grandstand. The heavyweight waved her hands as though she were trying to push her favorite horse over the finish line. Yet. during that race. I scarcely heard her con- tinuous. urgent bellow. 'Come on. XVar Point! The dislieartened April sun thrust its last feeble rays through a rift in the clouds, shivered for a moment in the cool air. and disappeared behind faint blue moun- tains. In the remaining minutes of light, I hurried to the brooding shed to examine the new foals. Soon I was peering into the warm. hay-scented darkness of the first stall. A large black shadow swung around, a smaller spot CARAVANS K IaReU13R1'ri3 YVLLSON Such varied thoughts thread in and out the mind XYhen wand'ring all alone. like caravans That silent come and go. but leave behind A poignant perfume borne of distant lands. Vi'ithin each casket of the shadowy train Rare treasures lie. beyond all earthly mean. For who can buy a muted sweet refrain? Or offer gold for moonlight's pearly sheen? Ah. none can hold for long the velvet rose Nor leash the vagrant whimsies of the breeze. Nor purchase sunsets hues at evenings close That gleam upon a world of reveries. The beauty rare. of each. enthralls the heart As one by one th' enchanted veils unfold. Some hold a memory that teardrops start. Or heav'nly love. by mortals yet untold. Too soon these rapturous moments must expire XVhen once again reality descends. Gone now the caravan of golden tire. But ever shall its joy, all grief transcend. 10 of inkiness in its wake. Pushing back the inquisitive nose' of the mare, I stepped in the stall. A tiny foal stalked forward on long wobbly legs to examine me. Growing bolder. he thrust a tiny golden muzzle on my arm andl stared intently with great purple-black eyes. Suddenly he clenched his teeth on my sleeve and pulled. The' mare edged forward between us and gently pushed me out of the stall. Such was my first glance of the black horse. That April had been pushed back into the memories- of another spring. the next time I saw the black horse. The September sun had poured molten gold on the trees. but the black colt raced over spring-fresh grass. Three colts played on the Held, but the sun, leaving the others merely vague shadows. seemed to glisten only on the blue-black horse. There was little about the black horse to remind me of the rough-coated. awkward. foal of the past April. Yet. for a fleeting second, there was the mischievous expression that was identical with the one I had noticed when he nipped my ami. The black horse was a full-Hedged yearling the third time I saw him. He rated a stall in the racing stable and a name. The morning air was clean and crisp as I fol- lowed him to the track. Canter once around the track and breeze him the second time. came the order. Dancing fretfully the black horse seemed to realize that for the first time he was really to run. He cantered easily around the track. Suddenly I leaned far over the rail. He was running - rinming as only a true racer can run - effortlessly. grace- fully. racing for pure joy. That horse shows the blood of his sires. The trib- ute came from an old jockey who rarely paid compli- ments. The sun beat down on the slowly drifting cloud of dust on the track. The pennants drooped aimlessly. The sudden hush after the race was broken by a harsh, angry cry from the heavyweight on my left. t'XVar Point. huh! Two bucks gone on that broken- down nag. The greasy individual on mv right threw down his ticket. A plow horse could have walked away with that race! XVar Point. son of NVar Hero and grandson of Man o' XVar. you ran a courageous race and met defeat gal- lantly, yet you are condemned. Surely the common touch has reached the Sport of Kings. TOWER LIGHT EDITORIALS LIVING TO EAT M. SIIXION SURROUNDED by turkey. cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and all the other delicacies of the properly outfitted festive board, we are likely to grieve a bit that Thanks- giving is so rare, that like a lot of other holidays it comes but once a year. Yet probably that fact alone is a greater blessing than many of us realize. WVe just couldn't stand it, as animals of limited capacities, if we gorged our- selves as we do on this particular day, more than once in a year of 365 days. Perhaps, when viewed from this same standpoint, it is a good thing that the President moved Thanksgiving up, for we now have a longer time to recuperate from that bit of voracious inastication be- fore beginning the Christmas holidays. This period of overindulgence may develop into an even worse condi- tion, for whereas Thanksgiving is one day, the Christ- mas holidays extend over several days, naturally giving all our friends, relatives, acquaintances, patrons. busi- ness associates and even, heaven help us Qwe breathe with fingers crossedl. our enemies, the opportunity to delight us with all the latest concoctions. Sometimes we find out later to our utter consternation by accompany- ing upheavals, that they have had the gall to abuse this privilege by using us as an experimental lab. It is one of the evidences of our primitive instincts that man turns all his holidays into a festive occasion with emphasis placed on the palate. XVe even associate the thought of holidays with foods - Easter and eggs. Christmas and cakes, Thanksgiving and turkey. VVe have in all probability become what future historians will glibly call the exponents of Epicurean Philosophy. And this trend, this retroversion, is slowly spelling ruin to our health as a race as well as to our spiritual develop- ment. Therefore, as joint collaborators in the interests of humanity, we can be sincerely grateful C except for school being closedj that holidays are well spaced and we are encouraged to go back to our primitive gluttouous hab- its only occasionally, so that all the rest of the year we revert to our primordial nature simply because most men LIVE TO EAT. NOVEMBER - 1940 a l R60 its EDUCATION FOR WHAT? GORDON Foniuzn SIIULES A problem has confronted colleges for a number of years. The lamentable fact seems to be that the knowl- edge which we acquire with so imich labor and sacrifice is not being used to the very best advantage. Knowl- edge of the technical aspects of a question are soon for- gotten and for many of us only the residue of our for- mal education is used. It is also our experience that if facts are not immediately relevant they do not persist long in our memories. One of the ultimate results, even if it were not a yer- balized objective of education, is the indoctrination of attitudes, ideals, and methods. YVe must recognize these resultant aspects and consciously employ them outside of the channelized subjects in which they are instilled. But because it is seldom made clear to them, many stu- dents miss the implication of this result of education. As one instructor in our college pointed out, one cannot expect to learn everything in four years ot college. Sub- ject matter is not a means to an end but acts as a vehicle for the purpose of iuculcating those satisfactions in life which give ideals and attitudes rncaniug. Of more im- portance than mastery of subject matter is the mastery of the learning methods employed which result in the thought that underlies all this grist of education. The desirability of the various attitudes which we absorb ap- parently remains a problem for the educational theo- rists. To repeat. perhaps not a few of our failures may be due to our inability to apply our orientations outside of the class room. Can't we have active formation rather than unconscious imbibing? VV e continue to adapt the folkways which were rela- tively successful in the less complex past to the prob- lems of a modern world. The ideal solution of this situ- ation would be the discovery of a single orientation which would be universally applicable. .Xt present the scientific approach is perhaps thc most effective incaus that we have. But how many of us apply thc mctliod- ology of science outside of science courses. even if we admit that we carry it out this far? jCO11fI11l1CCl on Page l3l 11 THE L1B1QA1QY AT YOUR SERVICE THE READERS QUIZ AIARY Dr PEPPI KEEP IN step with 1x1llC1'lCLl'S readers! How many of these recent best-sellers can you identify? Turn to page 16 for the correct answers and keep your score as follows: 10 Correct ..,...,..,. . .Excellent 7 to 9 Correct l.., . . .Good -1 to 6 Correct . . . . .Fair 1 to 3 Correct ,.... ...,r,r..l P oor 1. The heroine marries a wandering photographer who takes her with him to the wilds of British East Africa to photograph animals. 2. The story concerns the struggle of a shrewd, wise- eracking yet tender Philadelphia girl of modest Irish-American stock against an insurmountable so- cial tradition. 3. The story of one of the worlds greatest fperhaps the greatestj men told from three different angles- that of a disciple, of a contemporary, and of a young man of the people. -1. The joys and dangers of life in the forest are charm- ingly told through the adventures of the twin fauns. Ceno and Curri. 5. Chinese life and customs form the background for the story of two daughters of a Peking upper mid- dle-class family. the gay. whimsical, soft-voiced Mu- lan. and the bright-eyed, practical, more woinanly Blocliow. 6. The memoirs of a great French aviator are told in poetical prose, yet the thrilling adventures and the dangers of his profession are not necfleeted. 5 f. The story of XVelsh coal miners in the days of Vic- toria as set down by old Iluw Morgan who was young lluw when the valley was green, S. A C-crman actress who has resided in America for several years goes back to Germany on business. gets in trouble with the authorities, is placed in a concen- tration camp, and makes a thrilling escape with the aid of several friends. 9. The entertaining story of two sisters, Ruth and Ei- leen, told in such a refreshing manner as to keep the reader continually amused at their humorous ex- perienees. 12 - 1-1.11.11 E1 WD- V l 10. The author tells of her Hrst-hand observations of European events and in so doing has written an in- formative resume of the coiiditious which brought about the present crisis ot affairs. fAnswers on Page 151 ,ef AND HERE'S THE AUTHOR - Doars KLANK His first novel is a best-seller in England and America! This is the climax of the story of a hitherto unknown English writer, Richard Llewellyn. He spent his school days in London, his birthplace, and in St. Davids. At sixteen he was sent to Venice to learn hotel management. In his spare time he studied painting and sculpture and worked with an Italian Elm unit. learning the rudiments of the cinema. Thus. when he returned to London, jobless. he turned to the cinema and entered the studios as an extra player to study the methods of men in charge of production. After an interval he became a reporter on a penny film paper, and it was during this period that he began writ- ing for pleasure. Mr. Llewellyn returned to the cinema to become as- sistant director, seenarist. production manager, and, Hnally. director. However. a slump in the industry turned him to writing plays, one of which was success- fully produeed in London. How Green W'as Aly Valley was begun in St. Davids from a draft written in lndia. was rewritten in Cardiff and again in St. Iames' Park. London. during a period of unemployment. After another period of work in XVales. Richard Llewellyn returned to London. where a friend TOWER LIGHT introduced him to the publisher who accepted the man- uscript of the novel on which he had worked for so long. That was the happiest day of his life. ,ef BOOK REVIEW KATIIERINE PIZTROFF Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Wfas My Valley. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1940. The New York Sun called How Green Wfas My Val- ley the book that restores faith in human life. XVe call it this and even more. It is great, because it tells of the forces that guide human destiny. lt is poignant, for it relates the sad and tenderly amusing happenings of the simple XVelshmang and it is frank, because of its unashamed outlook on life. Through the narration of Huw Morgan, youngest son of the Morgan household, we are introduced to the family life of the VVelsh coal miner, and the tragic con- ditions under which the miners were forced to work in the collieries. Huw Morgan, now an old man, has been forced to leave the beloved valley of his forefathers. He is going out into the world to return again when he has found the answer to the change in mankind. l-le is going to escape the ugly slag heap which will soon devour the house as it has already devoured the valley and the glistening river which ran dancing through it in bygone days. Thus we find Huw reminiscing of all that is dead and buried and wondering all the while whether the world and the hearts of men have changed since the day when man took pleasures from the simple rewards of life such as love, friendship, families, song and prayer. Running through the lives of the XVelsh. an ever- present discordant note was the bickering between the workers and the owners of the mines. Huw's brothers were the leaders of the opposition to the owners and were ever getting into trouble because of their actions in forming a union which would be potent enough to combat the evil of the long hours and low wages which the XVelshmen were forced to follow and to accept. The futility of strike against the hated English owners was clear to everyone when a winter of starvation, death, and poverty caused the submissive and beaten people to return to work if they chose to live. Huw's entrance into the colliery was a blow to every- one for it had been ascertained that he would study medicine, Years of tradition and a stubborn spirit caused him to descend into the earth with his brothers and father. The Morgans had been born to the mines, NOVEMBER - 1940 as were the other valley folk, and changed indeed were the times when the family parted forever, Oeven and and Givilyn embarked for the United States, lanto went to Germany, and Davy to New Zealand. for they knew that their efforts to bring about a better social order were in vain. Through the years the treacherous black slag heap crept ominously down the mountainside, blotting all things of beauty beneath its crushing weight, This heap began to accumulate when the owners decided that it was too expensive to put the mine waste back into the earth. XVhat a price the valley paid as the slag grew with the years and the shining, clean beauty of the country disappeared. Llewellyifs keen writing relates lluw's growth and maturity, his possession of Ceineven. of his lifelong love for his eldest brother's wife, his friendship, and his un- derstanding of his fellow men. The author has written the best novel about Wfales yet to be seen and intro- duces the world to the simple manner of living to which the VVelsh were born, their love of singing, their social gatherings, their temperament, and their tenacity. He shows that small village folk can 'tmake or break a man with their narrovv-mindedness, fixed conventions. and gossipy tongues. Part of the success of the story is due to the faith- fulness and truthfulness to which Llewellyn adhered when he created the novel, and part lies in the lan- guage of the people. The delightful manner of speaking of the VVelsh is fresh, vital, and musical to the ear. The novel is as deep as the coal mines of XVales, as high as the mountain tops, and as broad as humanity. XVe do not hesitate to say that we have read this book twice and shall certainly read it again, for it is one that will undoubtedly become a part of the literary background which the discriminating reader collects for himself over a lifetime. In this turbulent world it is refresh- ing to End a book which is so simple and beautiful in retrospect, and though it runs the gamut of experiences in life, it leaves the reader with a clean taste in his mouth and food for thought for days to come. How Green Vlfas Aly Valley is such a great novel that it will surely stand the test of time and remain as one of the great books of all generations. ,ear WORDS XV E NEED l',LI.14.x Ax N ir. lar .s 1 ir. Every one of us. l think, has. on various occasioiis. had something to say - some feeling to express --- or lCO1lflllllCCl on Page 3l w 13 1f2A.lIMlllllDlIiIS S1ll3lIHIIID4Dllf9 lllb If Cllf lb llR Acllf III IR lIE5 AUTUIVHNI IS HERE All the leaves are turning red All the Howers are going to bed. Autumn is here. Autumn is here. XVinter is near. Bonhres burning in the night, Birds above us in their Hight. XVinter is near. XVinter is near. Autumn is here. STEPHEN SILION, Grade 6. ,E THE GREAT HALL XVhen walking in the woods in autumn, I feel as if I'm in a great hall. The winds sound like a tremendous organ And the trees are pillars tall. The carpet's of leaves of everv color. XVhen l'm walking through the woods in the fall. LEROY HAILE. ALICE NELSON, Grade 6. gf AUTUMN Autumn has come. l'm glad, because it is mv favorite season. Hiking is one of mv favorite hobbies. lust the other day we took a hike in the wood, and well, it is too hard to describe. lt was beautiful, all the falling leaves looked like a colored snow storm. The squirrels jump- ing from tree to tree were the onlv signs of life we saw. Bora HALL. Grade 6. ,E THE AUTUIVIN WIND The autumn wind is a charger Tearing through the night. The autumn wind is a fairy Dancing in the moonlight. The autumn wind is il butterflv Chasing red leaves all dav. The autumn wind is a screaming eagle Frightening the birds awav. ANN APSEY. Grade 6. 14 AUTUMN Autumn is the season of vear That makes you get up and cheer. Then comes the weather crisp and cold. And from the trees fall leaves of gold. As the sun sets on yonder hill. The harvest moon throws a blanket of white On the lovelv fields of night. V AN TACK. Grade 6. 2 AUTUMN XV hen autumn comes the leaves start turning To bright red. yellow, golden and brown. In the garden the boniires are burning, XVhile the gardeners rake the ground. The corn is stacked high in the meadows And the pumpkins lie below. The harvest moon shines high in the sky XVlIile the happy farmer retires with a sigh. RIARIE SCHISLER. Grade 6. 2 A SURPRISE She had a spot on the tip of her tail. Her eves were a friendly. beautiful brown: She seemed so lonelv and miserable. I just had to take her to town. Nobody there had lost a dog. So I took her to mv little home. I put her in the living room, And left her there to roam. She was verv hungry: l got her some food, And medicine for her sore paw. I opened the door of the living room - lust what do you think I saw? I really was so astonished I dropped the medicine cups: She was curled in a chair with cushions Surrounded bv six little pups. NANCY KENNEDY. Grade 6. TOWER LIGHT BICYCLE SAFETY Bicycle accidents are increasing rapidly. In 1937 there avere 810 deaths and 32,000 injuries. The fifth grade of going to have our bicycles tested. VV e are going to have 1 bicycle assembly in the college auditorium. In this we will have Skill Tests such as the Slow Ride Test. the Circle Test, and the Pedaling and Braking Test. VVe hope it will teach the children of the Campus School to ride safely. STUART BALDXVIN, Grade 5. BICYCLE SAFETY Bicycle safety concerns everybody. The rider should be careful in self-defense. He may be hurt in an acci- dent and crippled permanently. if he isn't. There are rules to make bicycle riding safe. First, proper equipment is needed. You need a horn to let people know you are coming. To see if anyone is coming from behind. you need a reflector. To see in the night you need a light. Carriers are convenient for books and packaffes. Be sure to have your bike tested at regular times. There are certain rules to remember for bicycle safety. You should ride your bicycle alone. Always keep both hands on the handlebars. Because it might be necessary to ride in the road, you should know the traffic rules. Always keep to the right of the road. Traffic signals are to be obeyed. There are people who ride bikes who do not know how to ride them. They are the ones who make bicycle riding dangerous. The fifth grade has set aside a week in which to have a safety campaign. XV ill you help us? CI-IARLOTTE HICKS, Grade 5. gzhe Campus School is trying to prevent this. VVe are l 'T' D D EDITORIALS fContinued from Page lll It is apparent that we are bogged down in the dregs of the past. The first step toward improvement is the rec- ognition ot this culture lag. The second will be the more complete removal of misconception and superstition. The solution depends upon our ability to realize the fullness of our educational opportunities and to take more complete advantage of them. ,ef LOOK TO THIS DAY GENEVIEVE HAILE We who use Miss Birdsong's classroom are frequently conscious of the framed poem containing the words Look to this day! t'Today well lived makes every yes- NOVEMBER - 1940 tcrday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. It is so easy in life, especially here at college, to live each day as the one before it and even each hour the same as the preceding hour. How did you use the hour that has just passed? Do you hurry through the hours of the day without actually starting or coin- pleting the things you should do? Yes? Then begin now to decide upon the things you wish to accomplish each day. Take time to evaluate your life at Teachers Col- lege. VVhat do you want out of college? XVhat do you want out of life? Are you satisfied with what you are getting? VV hat kind of a person or teacher do you wish to become? Vlfhat is the purpose of living anyway? Have you developed a philosophy of life? F reshmen, have you asked yourselves these questions? Upper classmen, do you know all of the answers? If you want to make the most of your life you should find the answers soon. There are many things you can do to help yourself find satisfactory answers. Converse with faculty mem- bers and with upper classmen who seem to know the best answers. Know what is going on in the world by reading magazines and newspapers regularly. Have a va- riety of experiences. Don't be all grind and don't be all socialite. Above all. take time for solitude and sound thinking. Try to see things in perspective, to gain poise and to develop self-discipline so that your todays will be well lived! HALF CASTE QContinned from Page 95 A chill ran down my spine. Trican Adams has committed suicideg and in a note which he left on the table. he names you as the last person to leave his apartment. He also says that he had planned and executed his own death - which automat- ically clears you. However. I want you to come to Mr. Adams, apartment as soon as possible to identify the body. CORRECT ANSWERS TO THE READER'S QUIZ l. I Nlarried Adventure .... . ,. .... Osa lohnson 2. Kitty Foyle ...... .. .... Christopher Morley 3. The Nazarene. . . . . . . Sholcm Aseli 4. Ba1nbi's Children. . . . , , . . Felix Salten 5. llffoinent in Peking ............... .Lin Yutang 6. Vffind, Sand, and Stars .Antoine de Saint lfxupery 7. How Green Wfas hly Valley . . Richard Llewellyn S. Escape . . ......... .... . . Ethel Vance 9. llly Sister Eileen . . . Ruth Xlclicnncy l0. Europe in the Spring , Clare Buotln' 15 The Average Refugee G.rv1'i-IERINE GRAY .eiuthofs Note - This is not a propaganda story! It is true. Somewhere in New York City you will find Klr. Hess, Perhaps I have built up the gaps in his story. but not fantastically so. His is the story of the average German-Iewish doctor caught in Europe. in Germany. at an unfortunate time. HEX OUR government heads talked of bring- ing refugees to this country. as usual. you could find two points of view prevalent in this country on the subject. The following are they: 1. 'Alt is the only thing that a great rich country like America can do. XVe must stand ready to aid those who are not as fortunate as we are in securing security and peace for themselves and those they love. It is a great and noble thing to do. I feel grand to be a part of such a generous country. This is. indeed. an expansive point of view. It makes you feel quite big and wonderful . 2. XVhada I care about them people. I got my living to make. Bring those smart lews over here or any of them people that are being run out of Europe - bring 'em over here and we got more unemployed. They'1l work at starvation wages. They'1l lower our way of 1ivin'. I'm against it. you can bet your neckf' Perhaps this is the more practical view, for it comes frozn the skilled and unskilled laborers who fear that they will soon become one of the great mass of unemployed. W'hich side are you on? W'hy don't you read this true story first to End out? It was a muddy. dark road. The only time he could see anything was when the lightning flashed. He was allergic to lightning. The young man laughed to him- sclf. He was always making up things. You can be al- lergic to ragweed. but how can you be allergic to lightf ning? XYe11. he was. Every time it flashed. instead of looking for the road, he closed his eyes tightly and held on to the wheel. Finally. he made himself look. It was 9 o'clock now. He had just one more call to make. The thought of the call made him take heart. Dr. Hess had treated little Richert for rheumatic heart disease for some time. At last hc was beginning to see results. To- night's treatment would help a lot. The doctor yawned and squinehed his eyes to sec better the sloppy road. 16 At 11 o'clock the storm was over and so was Rich- ert's treatment. Dr. Hess started home. It was no use going to that German meeting now. He'd walk in on the middle of it and every one would turn around to look at him. The young man didn't like to be conspicu- ous. Anyhow. it would be far better to go home to little Anna and the children. A dark country road is very good for thinking. Dr. Hess found. It helped him to orient himself every now and then. especially when he had a problem to solve. He had one tonight. At thirty-two he was well liked. No one could stop the sudden rush of affection for that round face. It was positively cherubic. XVhen he smiled at you. the pain seemed to go down to your toes and out from the bed. Small wonder that the people in four villages in the southern part of Germany called Dr. Hess when some- thing unexpected or expected happened, It was no longer a question of gaining clients. even ones that paid. The other Dr. Hess this wifel claimed any pa- tients who would not come to him. No. that wasn't the trouble. His family life was ideal. He had his synagogue, two worshipful little boys and a wife that was more than a doctor. At last he faced it. The real trouble was the meetings that he had been missing lately. The Nazi Party was just beginning to grow and many intelligent men were invited to join. Dr. Hess had been interested in it and had attended many meetings. Late- ly. calls had been coming more frequently at night. He had missed one. then three. then five or six. The other members had inquired about it at first: now they said a cool Good morning. R- Tr -r- -- Dr. Hess. as you can see. drifted along: a young man with all he could desire - not too much. not too little. Like most of us. he liked to forget the boring things in life and enioy the pleasures when there was time. All of this happened in 1932. As time went by he had reason to regret the meetings unattended. The coolness of club members changed to unfricndliness. They no longer knew him. As 1937 approached. they knew him TOWER LIGHT - they knew him as one of the yellow-marked lewish doctors. Despite the advent of hard times. Dr. Hess and his intelligent young wife managed to save money. They had far over the ticket from the land of Germany. XV hen they applied for tickets for four. they discovered that for them the price of escape had gone to an unheard of price. lt took to the last penny, the money they had saved. ln 1939. Dr. Hess sailed for America with his wife and his children. .-. .-, ie .-. After Ellis lsland carrie screaming. crowding, pam- pered. riotous New York City. There came tenement houses and vegetable stalls on the streets. There came roaches and. yes - lice. Dr. Hess could not afford any more than this. He came to America a German doctor. To become a doctor in this country he must take a medical test. Several days after the family was settled in a two-room apartment with two other families in the East Side. Dr. Hess ap- plied for his medical test papers. That night he and his wife pored over them. There were seven questions. Five must be answered. You can imagine the type of ques- tion that was asked - XV hat would you do for whooping cough? VV hat are the symptoms? XV hat would you do if the case developed into pneumonia? The two laughed gleefully. This was easy. America was a great country. They read on - and stopped. XV hat was this word? Dr. Hess looked at his wife inquiringly. She shook her head. Each reached for one of his medical books, then for the encyclopedias. Both made a trip to the library and plowed through scores of books. The word and others that had followed it could not be found. Finally, in desperation. Dr. Hess visited a colleague. The man knew the word and the others. Dr. Hess could not understand why these words were not listed. No. said the colleague. the words are not listed because they are not part of the medical terms. They are like nick- names for different diseases and the cures. Every physi- cian knows what they mean. but no one has ever made a collection of them. How was Dr. Hess to learn all of these words before the real examination came? The col- league shook his head. The answer was to take a com- plete medical course in America. lt isn't often that a man will come to his wife in tears - especially a German man. Dr, Hess was thirty- eight. After five or six years that he would put in med- ical training here, he would be forty-three or forty-four. They had no money. He could get little other work. ln New York. in the United States. they faced the same danger of starvation that they faced in Germany. XVhen the children had gone to bed. the two doctors figured out a budget. Cutting everything to the bone. NOVEMBER - 1940 they could get by on STU a month, S6899 would not do. Not one cent was left for anything, but bare necessities - no extra clothing, no reercition, no money for sugar, coffee. salt and pepper or butter. At dishwashing. while he is studying. Dr. Hess can make S8 a week, brit eight fours are 532. That is a long way from STO. llis wife has tried many times to get work - she has no experience except in doctoring. You may say - well. let him take the test. He is counting on failing before he even tries. Dr, Hess will soon take that test. but he takes it with this knowledge: according to reports kept. 2 out of lOO who take it passg yet Z out of 98 students who study here. fail. The dif- ference is tremendous. Again you say - well. let him go to another state. Practice out in Arizona. or New Mexico. There. require- ments will probably be lower. Yes, you're right. lt would be easier there, but this fact remains: New York is the only state in the Union where a non-citizen can apply for a medical permit, Through it all, Dr. Hess has remained tolerant and understanding. Perhaps this is because he believes so firmly in his religion. One man tried to pay him on a lewish holiday for acting as male nurse to a sick man. The doctor could not accept the money or write a re- ceipt. His wife had cooked parsley soup for supper. His children needed clothes. Yet. he would not accept the money on this day, Soon he will take his test. XVhat will happen? -T Vlfhat have we done for refugees? Wfhieh point of view do you hold now? Has Dr. Hess taken your work? Has America been the generous, patriotic nation others would have us think? Vlfhat is your point of view? An pstart lor-nv C1-nr.Co.vr THERE IS one plant that has no root. no stem. no leaves and yet it springs up so rapidly that it grows al- most 'fwhile you wait. Like other fungi. it has no chlo- rophyll by means of which most plants manufacture their food. lt lives on the food provided by animals and other plants. By now you probably know that this plant is thc mushroom. ln addition to the above idiosyncra- sies. mushrooms are of various sizes. shapes. and colors. There are over seven hundred known varieties. Mushrooms grow naturally all over the world in tem- perate rcgions and in rich. open pastures where grass is kept short by grazing Hocks. They rarely grow in wti. boggy places. in meadows. in woods. or near stumps o' l T trees. XVarm, muggy sum1ner nights and early autumn are ideal for their growth. Not until recently have mushrooms been grown ar- tificially in America on a large scale. Mushroom farm- ing. like all other types of agriculture, is a gamble from start to finish. Success seems to depend more upon the individual grower than upon the method. Two growers may succeed equally well with very different methods. Near Paris, mushrooms arc cultivated in enormous quantities in dark underground cellars 60 to 160 feet from the surface, Moisture is supplied artificially and through a systematic arrangement of successive beds, a continuous crop is insured. The passages sometimes ex- tend for several miles. Equable temperatures and free- dom from draft make the beds bear from six to eight months. In America, well ventilated cellars, or mushroom houses, with temperatures artificially controlled are used for beds. The temperature should be kept between 50 degrees and 60 degrees F. If it gets colder than this, the spawn containing the mushroom spores will not grow while, if it gets much warmer, the spawn and the grow- ing crop will mold. In case you wish to become a mushroom grower, ob- tain manure froin a horse stable. Stack it in piles for several weeks and allow it to cure by heating to a high degree. The heating process kills all bacteria, fungi, and insects. Add water so that the manure does not dry out and burn. Upon cooling to about 90 degrees F. pack it into the beds, which are usually four feet by six feet. to a depth of from six to ten inches. After settling several days the bed is ready for the spawn. Spawn which consists of the myceliuin or fungus of a mushroom mixed with the substratum in which it grew can be purchased from seed houses in brick form. Each brick, about six by four inches, is broken into eight or ten pieces and planted about a foot apart to a depth of one or two inches. In about ten days the myceliuin will be seen to be growing and spreading as a mass of fine white threads. The bed should then be covered with an inch of moist garden soil. VVater should be supplied in small amounts and the bed protected from drafts which cause quick evaporation. About a month or two after planting the uspawnf' mushrooms should appear upon the surface and bear for a period of about three months. Most of the so-called toadstools that we see are mush- rooms, but not all mushrooms are edible. As a rule it is wise not to eat any that grow wild unless you are abso- lutely sure they are safe and fresh. Despite the fact that mushrooms contain S0 per cent water and have no nutritive value, they still decorate expensive beef steaks for The -f00. 18 The Elixir of Youth IOHN R. Bixruzrraixr IF T VV O people meet twice they must have lived the same period of time between the two meetings, even if one of them has traveled to a distant part of the uni- verse and back to terra Erma. An absurdly impossible situation, you will say. Quite so, it is outside all human experience. And yet, if the question is pressed, most people would answer impa- tiently that of course the statement was true. Most peo- ple have formed a notion of time rolling on outside our solar system in a way which makes this seem inevitable. But. they do not ask themselves whether this conclu- sion is warranted by anything in their actual experience of time. True, we caimot perform the experiment of sending a man to a remote part of the universe but we have enough scientific knowledge to compute the rates of atomic and other physical processes in a body at rest and in a body in motion. On the basis of these calcula- tions we can definitely say that the physical processes in the traveler occur more slowly than the corresponding physical processes in the man at rest on the earth. This is not particularly mysterious because it is a well- known fact that inertia increases in direct proportion to an increase in velocity. The retardation of life processes is a natural consequence of the greater inertia. Thus, so far as physical processes are concerned, the rapidly moving traveler lives more slowly than the man at rest on the earth. The cycle of digestion and fatigue, the development from youth to age, and the rate of muscu- lar response to stimulus all must be geared down to the same ratio. An example to clarify the issue: Suppose that the Ustay-at-home has aged some seventy years during his stay on the earth. Then, in that same period of time, the traveler has grown perhaps only one year older. He has found time and appetite for only 365 breakfasts, his in- tellect. clogged by a slow moving brain. has traversed only the amount of time equal to one year of terrestial life. Thus, judging by the time which consciousness at- tempts to measure after its own rough pattern, these two men have not lived the same time between the two meetings. A word to those sagacious members of our faculty who have seen more winters than they care to admit: At the present time this bit of scientific knowledge is in a hypothetical stage: therefore, a practical application of its ideas would necessarily fail. TOWER LIGHT I i I l I I I v P i v I l LETTERS TO THE EDITORS 0 the Editors of the TOYVER LIGHT: So the TOWER LIGHT is all sweetness and light! lave you ever watched anyone read the rllOXVER LIGHT? Jbservation and questioning have led the writer to very letinite conclusions. Many of the students - and even some of the teach- - first open the magazine to So VVhat and the he usual reader begins leaiing through the light and rothiness for an article with a catchy title, conversa- ion, or a picture. Then one reads what one has time - nothing! Of course, anything written by a writer who has built ip a reputation for interesting articles - Nolan Chip- nan, Margaret Zillmor - is soon pounced upon with oleasure. There are exceptions, Some wary individuals invari- ably read all the articles written by teachers. for one never knows when one might be questioned. Others read things of special interest, such as sports or music. And there is one rare individual who always glances through the advertisements, even before reading 'LSO Wliat. Maybe you, and the anonymous critic, do not belong with the majority of us. Remem-ber, though. that psy- chologically, one must begin building with what one has. Hence - so what? S. DAVIS, Senior 7. To the Editors: l am a Iunior who would like to see the so-called Gossip Column of the TowER LIGHT improved. For the past two years the writers of this column have been Writing about their friends and consequently have nar- it 1. li J 1 :rs :gossip and humor columns. VV hen these are exhausted, lOl' l z R l l i ,ef l i i rowed the column to about twenty people. I get so tired of hearing about the same people, the same ro- mances, the same situations, that l gave up reading it in utter disgust. Let's have a wider, more interesting col- umn this year, and really cover the front! DISCLTSTED. Editor's Note - Upon Mr. McCarriar's return from the front the high command will insist that the com- muniques be more universal. NOVEMBER - 1940 llMl!lltlSll!!B NEWS OF THE MONTH SYLVIA CHCLXVASSIILR LAVVRENCE TIBBETT has been ordered not to sing for four months and has canceled his entire fall concert and opera tour. His vocal cords are in perfect condi- tion, but he is suffering from a spastic condition of some larynx Inuscles. A f'For Sale sign hangs on the Boston Opera House. Perhaps this will focus the public attention upon the housing of grand opera in this city. The week of December 7 will be a national Sibelius Festival held throughout the United States. Ian Si- belius was born on December 8. lS6S. October Birthdays - St. Saens on the 9th, lS35: Verdi on the l0th, lSl3g Liszt on the 22nd, lSllg Strauss, Ir., on the 25th, l825. October was, indeed. the month of Inusicians. Ieanette MacDonald, a soprano, will make her first extended concert tour of the Eastern Seaboard after November S, She is scheduled for fourteen appearances in major cities. Baltimore may be one. ln spite of the war, the organ of Canterbury Cathe- dral is being renovated. October 13 was an ofhcial Ferde Crofe Day at the VVorld's Fair. Mr. Crofe, composer of 'Cn the Trail, played regularly at the Fair this entire season. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mayor La Guardia were present at the Stokowski All-American Youth Orchestras Con- cert in New York, Mrs. Roosevelt read a letter of wel- come from Secretary Hull. The program was identical with the one of the second concert given by the or- chestra in Baltimore. The Peabody has scheduled its concert series for this winter. Among thc soloists will be Edward Kilcnyi. pianistg Budapest String Quartet: Kurt Baum. tenor: Robert VVeede. baritoneg and Harold Bauer, pianist. The price for the series of twenty concerts is ten dollars. A ticket for each individual concert costs one dollar. Records Worth Having StravinslQy's Capriscio for piano and orchestra is a delightful bit of musical satire. Unusually good is thc recording made by the Puerto Rican pianist lcsus Son- roma and Serge Kousevitzky with the Boston Syniphonx 19 Orchestra. Peter Reed says This music . . . is essen- tially a divertissement. Of the three movements the jazzy dancing finale is quite the best. 1jVictor set M - 6851 Bizet's Second Suite. consisting of a Pastorale, In- termezzo. Minuet and Farandole. is an enjoyable set. The recording made by Arthur Fiedler and a Boston orchestra is quite effective. though not so good from the interpretative standpoint. tVictor set M - 6839 Delius' A'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring in expression is the epitome of serene English country- side. This beautiful, lovely tone poem. as recorded by Constant Lambert and London Philharmonic Orches- tra. is indeed worth having in any music collection. QVictor disc 44963 No one can deny the genius of XValter Gieseking. his clarity and tineness of touch. His recording of Beetho- ven's 'Concerto No. -l in C Major. Opus 58 beautiful- ly displays his talents and at the same time voices the beauty of Beethoven. Q Columbia Album N -- -H1 J Dvorak's American Quartet based on Indian melo- dies has been recorded by the Budapest String Quartet. This group has achieved a high degree of ensemble per- fection. fVictor Album M - 681i For those interested in the piano. Arthur Schnabel has recorded Moments Musicale, Opus 94 by Schu- bert. CVictor set M - 6845 The mezzosoprano. Cladys Swarthout has recorded a group of songs from Handel. Dowland. Mollay and Malotte. They are all sung to piano accompaniment. tVictor set M - 679i And remember. this is the season for record sales. gf MUSICIANS IN BALTIMORE SYLvr.a CEELXVASSER The room in which I sat was the realization of all my conceptions regarding a musician's studio. A baby grand piano fitted into one corner. books completely lined the opposite wall, knick-knacks picked up here and there during travel graced the tops of the book shelves. and a few artistic pictures modestly decorated the walls. The chairs were deep and comfortable. One. in particular. caught my fancy: its worn spots betraying its years of use. This happened to be the chair in which Franz Bornschein does most of his composing. Yes. I was vis- iting Franz Bornschein. XYhen I asked him how he had got his start in music. Mr. Bornschein led me over to a wall on which hung a very old caricature drawing of an orchestra. 20 l This man with the violin. he said. was my fatherg and this. my uncle. Now you see from whom l gleaned my inspiration. K XVhen just a wee little tyke, Franz would pick up anything he could find and pretend it was a violin. He would hear such lovely tunes. Some time later his' father presented him with a tiny violin. and this Franz really learned to play, XVhen just eight years old he taught cello to his neighbors for twenty-five cents a lesson. and he also began to write music with a definite leaning toward romantieisni. Later he learned to play the piano. the French horn and the viola. But his first love. the violin. still claimed him and he devoted most of his time to its study. At the age of twelve Franz was already a professional. He had made music his passion or better. his labor. Most of his early experience consisted in giving violin recitals and in teaching. Next Mr. Bornschein began de- voting his entire time to composing and directing choral groups and orchestras. The shift to composing grew out of a new desire that developed - the desire to do some- thing that would last more than a fleeting moment, something that would be a heritage for future genera- tions. And the older he grows the more he is realizing this desire. Here is Mr. Bornschein's favorite recipe for com- posing. First there is a driving impulse. By the use of musical vocabulary. tone values and rhytlnns the im- pulse is turned into a thought. then into a written mo- tif and finally into a completed form. The necessary tools are just paper and a pencil with a thick eraser on the end. But at this point. the modest musician forgot to mention genius. Basically. it is this native ability em- bodied in a composer that can set apart from the aver- age a man like Franz Bornschein. ,gf THE GLEE CLUB RUTH K IALESON The Clee Club with eighty-tive old members. and re- inforced with forty new ones. carries on despite the loss of the graduates. This year. it has again found that prac- tice inakes perfect - or nearly perfect. And so. with a will. each Monday and Tuesday. it practices and will continue to practice to try to attain the perfection for which Miss XVeyforth strives. With the ringing smooth- ness of the sopranos. the mellowness of the tenors. the blending harmony of the altos and the rumble of as- surance from the basses. how can it fail to achieve this goal? Already, the social aspect of the club has been fos- 1Continued on Page SZXJ TOWER LIGHT 'or you! j THE SAME oLD eATs - WOMEN If the composer of last month's article on Men iinks Mr. Vtfebster was being Usomewhat shy and rc- ixrvedn when he said that men', was the plural of nan, let me inform you that he was exhibiting polite- ess, gentlemanliness, courtesy, and kindness when he ifused to comment on women other than to say that L was the plural of Uwomanf' In my opinion he could .! fi i save carved a greater name for himself and won ever- isting fame by using his command of words to tell the ,utli concerning the female species. Here is 1ny Hun- iiased and uncensored theme. , First Qand last and alwaysj women are catty - un- sirdonably and infallibly so! They purr so sympathet- ally and understandingly to one's face but - as soon ,: one is out of earshot the green eyes of envy gleam, lie claws of nasty language start scratching. and anyone jithin fifty feet can feel the radiating sparks of hate and ialice. Exaggerating? Definitely not! I've heard for iiyselfz Hmph! If she got married then I guess there's ,ope for the rest of us! 'AI don't dare eat with anyone accept them - they might talk about me! 'fHer party liust have been a suceessg she practically had to pay aeople to come to it. And is there such a thing as Syalty? Vxfhy their spines curve up exactly like a cat's nd they just shrug their shoulders and grin rather than Lsk being the next object of scorn! So men are eonceited? The term, dear lady, repre- ents pride. After all, is it our fault if we were endowed 'ith those qualities that make us so alluring to females 'om one to one hundred? VVomen, on the other hand, re possessed with such vanity and false illusions of eauty that one despairs at times of their sanity. Some ay, when one of you asks, YVhat has Ann Sheridan got aat I haven't?', you're going to be told! Don't say we idn't warn you! And don't think the male creature is 3 stupid that he doesn't catch your subtle fishings for iompliments. He knows that such remarks as Oh, I Jok frightful in blueli' My hair is such a mess today, tc., etc.. are signal lights for him to remark on your rooming, good taste, or natural beauty fif anyl. Bah! Inconsistency may well be listed in Mr. XVebster's .ietionary as a synonym for women. l'Equal rights iou shout. All right, you asked for them - take them. But remember you are also asking for the right to stand ip in street cars, to pay your own way to the movies, nd to carry your own books and parcels. fOh. no, you inly want equal rights in so far as they are convenient An article of this type would not be complete with- 'rut a comment on the clothes women wear, not to at- ract men, but to outdo other women. Show me a wo- uan who docs not want a sillier hat. a more daring bath- NOVEMBER - 1940 ing suit, a more stupid pair of shoes for a reasonably accurate facsimilcj, or a sloppier sports outht than her neighbor, and I promise you that the male population will beat a path to her door. Another feminine charac- teristic comes in appropriately here. She doesnt want those men! NO! She wants one that belongs to some- one else fusually her best friend! until she succeeds, by very subtle f?j methods, in catching him. Then, of course, she decides that some other poor male is more enticing. Wfith all their faults, I still cau't say that I feel sorry for women. I'm much more depressed when I consider the future of men. But bear up. brothers, thereis still conscription and at least one year of release! ,gf YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE XVe're here to learng we're here to gain A bit of useful knowledge. XVe're here so Mom and Pop can say Their child has been to college. For four long years we'll trudge along And hope for lenient teachers. And while were here. we'll come to know This next quintet of preachers. The first is he whose sermon tells Of stems and leaves and roots - Of flowers, plants of shrubs and trees And buds and herbs and shoots. The second tells about percents, Of four and one and seven: Of many different ways to add. Of how to uknow elevenf' The third one does experiments XVith iron and tin and leather. And since they always fail to work He blames it on the weather. The fourth one speaks of adiectiyes. And tries with all her might To make us give our all for verbs And the good old rlV1OXVIiR LIGHT. The next one tells of desert lands. Of cows and wool and France. Of economics. genus and ice. And spineless cactus plants. Yes, each of these youll come to know - And each will give you knowledge. Youyll learn the import of work, work. work, XVhen you get their courses in college! 21 ADVENTURES IN ROMANCE BIAGARET CARTER XV hen I appeared with Hubert, I acted bright and gay. My repartee was wittyg I had a lot to say. But Hubert liked his women Retiring, quiet, and shy. He pined for a vvomanly woman, And I was a regular guy. So when I met Orlando, I blushed and acted shy. There never was a maiden Less talkative than I. Orlando wanted someone To keep him gay by the hour. He wanted a sparkling companion, And I was a delicate How'r. The next I stalked was Ferdie. I learned to fish and swim. I even took to hiking To be a pal to him. But Ferdie thought that women XVere made to care for the home, He yearned for a girl who was settled, And I was accustomed to roam. XVhen Clarence drove out to court me, I baked a cherry pie. I dressed in plainest gingham And fed the hungry guy. But Clarence detested all women XVho stooped to such obvious tricks As getting to hearts via stomachs. So Clarenee's verdict was A'Nixf' And now I've quit my trying. I'm glad to live stark alone. I'm glad that all my emotions Are noxv my very own. For now, when I feel domestic, Or roughneck. or giddy, or sweet, I don't have to fear disapproval - Theres no one's approval to meet. ,sf Glossary fflpologies to Billoppy Fluer-n. That portion of wood between your feet and the law of gravity. e.g. I coulda fell through the Huer. XVarter-n. A fluid used for refreshing plants. cleans- ing, and also, in emergencies, for drinking. e.g. I like to swim in warter. 22 V I Ast-v. To inquire. e.g. Always ast the teacher a ques- tion before she can call on you for something you donlt know. Stuir-n. A place where you buy the things your father swears you could make at home at less cost. e.g. I went to the stuir for my mother. The nocturnal night- al of Poe's stories - frequent inhabitor of graveyards. e.g. I am not a wise al. Al-11. I I ,fd I a I s. T. c. Gone Hollywood T Basketball Games-t'Stand Up and Cheer Biology-A'The Call of the VVild Prom- Our Dancing Daughters Infirmary-t'Death Takes a Holiday A's in Tests-ult Can't Happen Here Quitting School- Brides Are Like That Library-t'All Quiet on the YVestern Front 'TOXVER LIGHT Staff-L'Snowed Under Elimination-'Alt Had to Happen Between Periods- The 'XValking Dead Seniors- Born to Gloryn Class Meetings- Big Broadcast I9-12 Treasury-'tXVe're in the Money Science- Ah, XVilderness Gym- As Thousands Cheer Office- Crime and Punishment Dining Room-Ulf You Could Only.Cook Crushes-t'Pettieoat Fever Report Cards- Exclusive Story Low Marks- She Loves Me Not Test Papers- Ceiling Zero Freshmen- Accent on Youth S. T. C.- The Big House Orchestra- Too Much Harmony Student Council- The Crusaders Homework- Our Daily Bread Glee Club- Harmony Lane Faculty- The C1-Men Graduation- Blessed Event English- Another Language Summer Vacation- Vx7e Live Again School- Imitation of Life Deficiencies- Break of Hearts Faculty Room-A'Private XVorlds T O WE R LI G H 'I la few fashion plates. . But first we would like to state, that ihave this notion are very few indeed and r 1 li ' ir as s iai ii ro N s i ELLEN ANNE ELSTE i Es, snr! Students this fall are really putting Two freslnnen whom we think could not pass with- ii ' K plenty of jive into their costumes. They are r exhilarating their campus togs with bright new novelty jewelry, angora accessories, and even colors, plaid bow ties. Last month we promised to name those who seem to be showing especially good taste, so let's Liget right down to business and dish out sg although some of the opposite sex hold to the opinion: Because the jumper was designed for the Hchick of high school age it should not be seen on a college campus, we, here at S. T. C., seem to be caught in a pinafore furore. Those who fl , 213' will in no way affect the growing popular- ity of this fashion newcomer. The jumper dress is young and fresh and charming - in fact, we think. one of the gavest fash- ions that ever swept over us. Now for some nods of approval to: 4 U i x'L'- X lr 7 Aff 1 V 3 ,nf--x N , N X I IU? JH, -off I out comment are Virginia S., who has a cunning little beige jockey hat which she wears effectively on the back of her head, and Beatrice C., who has a precious little corduroy outht of fire drill red which includes skirt, jacket and cap. The most distinctive 'Ahair-do change seems to have been made by Ann F., who . has taken up the new pompadour eoidure. a Now, let's change the gender and see what we find: Dashing Mr. Phelps adds an interesting note to his suit with those little round leather buttons. flncidentally, Betty and Virginia Lee XV. apparently go in for but- tons, too. XVendell they stop?j Is Mr. Leef the only one to have adopt- ed the rolled lapel to-the-last-button fad? Somehow, we think it lends a dignified man-about-town air. Messrs. OlConnor and Culbertson have 6 R1 Irene Gfs little red and grey plaid and jean Bfs cool blue-gray - both of the Freslnnan Class. X31 r NXXgSk X, f wg if X X been seen traipsing around in zippered sports coats of heavy tan corduroy. They are a bit shorter than the other models 4- Ruth Nfs corduroy and Evelyn Cvfs velvet - two sophomores who favor fire drill red. and have brilliant red plaid linings! And then there is Mr. Horst. who has been featuring some snazzy bow tie ar- , 'F . mv. .,,, -.RES . gl , 5, , H Q, f , .EAW - f -' i rf' ' is if , ', 11' ,W i ,, ,ffw-f ' . I , p.,,s?y,a,,w. my r , wx f y fr .Q , ,,,f,44s'Ws vi 1 ,ff . eq. H ,MF wtf f ' --- ' ' ' A W J' 2' ' N jjigg., y .r fr 1 M 'aft' A: as ' y W. A darling navy plaid is worn by Helen K., a junior. Somewhere over in the dorm, needles started to click. and now almost everyone in junior 2 has taken unto her- self an extra little package, the contents of which are emptied on every possible occasion so that the owner may knit one - purl two. The end products are ana gora socks and mittens. Three girls who are really going to town with needles are Audrey P., Elizabeth H., and Selma R. If we were asked who has the widest selection of skirts and eardigans, we should say Patsy H. XVhere does she get them all? There seems to be no color she doesn't have. Speaking of color, Betty C.'s sweater was the Hrst to introduce us to that stimulating shade - benedictinc brown, QA most flattering shade for your hair, isn't it, Betty?j Other popular members of the brown family are sepia, a warm golden brown. nutria, and beaver brown. NOVEMBER - 1940 rangernents, which just won't pull out. fXVe're wondering if he actually ties them himself.j These students and many others. we think. are really in the groove with top-notching fashions. Most of the current choices are just too perfect. Next month we shall add a few notes on formal and informal date- wear. Attention. seniors! YVC have received an announcement from the Conde- Nast Publications, Inc.. of Vogueis Sixth Prix dc Paris - an annual competition open to college seniors who are interested in writing, fashion, and advertising. There are to be seven major awards. For further information. read the contest rules posted on the bulletin board or see someone on the Fashion staff. 23 A S S E M B L I E S ALICE C.-IRR and I IELEN PROSS OCTOBER 7. I9-PO - Dressed in the costume of Sac and Fox Indians. lim Thorpe spoke to us as an American Indian making ur- gent plea for the rights of his people. He told us that Indians would improve their status much more effec- tively if the restraint now imposed upon them by the Bureau of Indian Affairs would be removed. He as- serted that the red men in this country are as truly American as anyone. However, these native Americans are, at present. treated as foreigners in their own lands and must take out citizenship papers just as aliens do. The suggestion was made that all Americans should take a test to determine their worthiness for citizen- ship. As an athlete, he urged us. and all other young peo- ple to avoid liquor, tobacco, and bad habits. It was his opinion that college athletics help young people to avoid these things. In answer to a student's question, Mr. Thorpe said that conscription would build up our young men physically but would hurt athletics as a whole. XVhether or not we agree with Mr. Thorpe's ideas. we could not help but feel his sincerity in pleading for the cause of the American Indian today. OCTOBER I-I. I9-IO - A thought-provoking address was given the student body today by Dr. Foster Dowell, faculty successor to Miss Van Bibbcr. At the beginning of his talk, Dr. Dowell stated that today democracy is on the defensive, and that the present world situation, no matter what its outcome. will result in the necessary defense of de- mocracy by the United States. In order for this country to preserve democracy in a world full of totalitarianism, she must maintain it from within. Dr. Dowell went on to say that democracy is govern- ment by education, and therefore great responsibility is being thrust upon those dealing with education in the United States. To have democracy, people must be educated and the most effective instrumentalities must be chosen in time of crisis to preserve democracy. Nat- urally, the school system is the most important instru- 24 NEWS ment, and at the center of that system stand teachers' colleges. To function efliciently schools must be pro- tected froin outside pressure groups. Furthermore, in days to come, we must beware of such hindrances to education as budget-cutting and the decrease of govern- mental appropriations to schools. As we go on. we must cope each day with new problems and struggle to over- come them. Our most unique problem is how to pre- pare for the possibility of war and still maintain democ- racy at home. No matter what happens, we must always remember: Democracy cannot exist without an intel- lectual population. ,gf Marguerite Vidali, Fr. 2, won the Deanna Durbin contest sponsored by the News-Post. Miss Vidali is also an accomplished pianist, sings regularly over XVFBR, and plays the trumpet in our college orchestra. ,aff CALENDAR OF COLLEGE EVENTS NANCY h IETZCER Sept. 30-The dormitories had their annual open house with several of the non-resident faculty and the men students as guests. After the tour of the rooms and the endless step-climbing, everyone welcomed a cup of coffee in the foyer. A Ionday, XYednesday, Oct. 2-Bernard Phelps represented the men stu- dents of the Senior Class at the class picnic in the Glen. Oct. -I-The Little Red Schoolhouse opened its doors to the seniors and their friends for the first dance of the year. Not counting The Lambs, there were one hundred and seventy-six couples present. lfriday, Sunday, Oct. 6-The Student Christian Association had Sunday night supper and ycspcrs in the foyer. As an established custom. the speech was given by the President of the College. Dr. Xtiedcfeld particularly urged the students to cling to their fainily re- ligious practices. Tuesday, Oct. S-XYhcn is a picnic not a picnic? XYhen the most effectively organized orchestra pic- nic turns into a political discussion. TOWER LIGHT I i I 1 1 J I Oct. 10-Finally the long postponed Campus Day i l1l11'SclL15'. 5 was held. with the seniors acting as oth- I eials. The trophy was awarded to the 1 juniors, who scored highest in the com- l petition. lluesday, Oct. I5-The proposed Art Club has materialized. ' has composed a charter, and today elect- li ed oilicers. Miss Neunsinger, the adviser of the Art Club, demonstrated oil paint- ing at this meeting. In the Little Theatre. . Miss Neunsinger and Dr. YVest displayed some of their paintings. lfhursday. Oct. IT-The Student Christian Association gave l a pajama party in the foyer. The songs were good: the games were betterg the Y doughnuts and cider were best. v Triday, Oct. 18-Varsity Club Dance Saturday, Oct. lf?-Taffy Pull. . ,gf I EIGHTEEN TREATS B IARY ROCHLITZ V On a certain Friday afternoon, at the sound of the .three o'elock bell, eighteen juniors rushed out of class lllike a herd of bovines. XVe had been invited to have din- iner with our section adviser. Mrs. Brouwer. and as a fprelude, there was to be a bus ride through that section of the country known to Marylanders as the valley. XV e assembled at the south entrance of the Admin- istration Building. The sounds which issued from the eighteen were exceedingly juvenile. but we were off to have a gay, good time. The weather was perfect and one was prone to quote Bliss Carmen's Theres something in the autumn . . The conversation of the bus passengers while driving through the countryside ranged from autumnal beauty to the persistency of the books in sliding from the racks and jarring our intellect. The harmonizers in the back -seat filled in when there was a lull in the conversation. Their repertoire was not classical but well-Htted to the occasion. VVe arrived at the YVoman's Civic Club about five. After being ushered into a lounge, elaborately decor- ated. we changed our demeanor and acted 'four age. The dining room was a mass of twinkling candles and shining glassware. The menu was deliciousg the com- pany grand. XVC had a delightful time - we eighteen. ,er A FAVORITE DORMITORY RESORT lX I.-XRY KATIIARINE Nnwcoixriza XV e all like to be popular. But do we ever remember the measuring stick of our popularity. the gage of our NOVEMBER - 1940 social pros and cons, the mailbox? Let's take a vote of the resident students as to their favorite haunt. I hear. after a moment's hesitation. the unanimous voice. XVhy, the mailbox, of course. Interesting? XVell I should say so. But suppose we stand aside and watch the students file past the boxes on their way to lunch. Cries of oh, and ah! you lucky girl soon reach our ears. Some students begin the immediate perusal of their most recent treasure. Occasionally, however. we cannot but glimpse a disap- pointed face. A few more students approach. These peer into the boxes hopefully. Heroically they turn aside and move on down the corridor wearing an ex- pression which says definitely enough. A'Oh. well. I didn't expect any. Besides. what more could I antici- pate. having never answered those I did receive? Those homely gray tin boxes that occupy such a small geometrical area! XV hat a tale they could relate if speech were only granted them. No wonder. for it was from them that many of the college alumni as well as the undergraduates received messages of hope and encour- agement. Of course the mailbox is popular. XVhy shouldn't it be? Giving us aid and at the same time guarding our secrets. gd DORMITORY FUN IN STORE RIARY IANE BURDETTE Nothing is boring. XVe humans only make it so. How true this is. and yet, look at the countless individuals always complaining of being bored! NVhen you sense a bored feeling creeping up on you. look around and wake up to the many, many things you could do to stop it. If you encourage such a feeling. of course you'll be bored. Frequently. someone says. lt's so boring to stay in the dormitory on week-ends, Theres never anything to do - nothing going on. I simply have to go home or some place! The Social Committee is working hard this year to make week-ends in the dormitory just as pleasant as possible for those who remain. Already a bicycle hike has been held. A group cycled and hiked over to Loch Raven. Another hike is being planned when more bikes will be available. A card party in the foyer was another of the recent functions. On schedule are such affairs as a tatfy pull jwhieh should be loads of funl and a real ol' fashioned barn dance. The success of this enterprise rests with just one group - the dorm students. themselves, The commit- tee has done its part. Let's help them. 25 jj A.1lt91l111lMl11lNll1I1 1INllflD6lIf1lE5S Miss Mary Adele Hilberg, known to many as A'Miss Dellief' recently celebrated her 80th birthday. Miss Hilberg graduated from the State Normal School in 1883 and taught at Public School No. 15 for 47 years. Mrs. Yvonne McCandless, nee Losch, class of 1920, died at her home near Omaha, Nebraska, on june 14, 1940. Mrs. McCandless' interest in nature study led her to hike through much of the United States and Can- ada. She was also much interested in the Florence Oaks Garden Club and the junior Park Rangers. Her love of nature was expressed in her book for children, N uka, the Big Indian, Mildred XVilliams and XVilliam Kennersley, both of the class of 1930. were married during the summer. Elizabeth Bailey, formerly of the class of 1934, was married on September 5, 1940, to Mr. Somerset. ,er BALTIMORE CITY UNIT PICNIC A clever invitation, written by Edith jones and Dor- othy Lorenz of School 84, was sent to all members of the Baltimore City Unit of the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College of Towson for a picnic in the Glen on Saturday, October 12, 1940. Early in the afternoon a treasure hunt was held. This event served several purposes. Many members explored the beauties of this part of the campus for the first time, worked up an excellent appetite for the supper, and enjoyed playing together. Ethel Hooker from Mon- tebello and Ethel Novey from School 61 arranged an intriguing and intricate hunt. After the hunt everyone was ready for the splendid picnic supper planned by Marie Vinci of Hamilton jun- ior High School and Virginia Myerly from School 4. Dr. XViedefeld. Miss Scarborough, Miss XVoodward. Mr. Flowers, and two seniors from Section 4A made the affair even more enjoyable by being present and joining with us in our picnic. Last, but not least. much thanks is due to julia R. jolly, the chairman of the Social Committee. lulia's splendid cooperation in managing this event was typical of everything she undertakes. 26 DORCHESTER COUNTY ALUMNI UNIT MEETING The Dorchester County Alumni Unit held its fall meeting Tuesday evening, September 24, at 8 o'elock, in the library of the Upper Elementary School, in Cam- bridge, with Mrs, Granville Hooper, president, presid- mg. Mr. Paul jones, the principal of the school, welcomed the members and guests most cordially. Among the guests of the Umt were representatives of the general Alumni Association, Mrs. Albert Groshans, secretary, Mrs. George Schluderberg, treasurer, and Miss Mary Hudson Scarborough, field secretary of the College. At the business meeting the most important matters taken up were: the announcement that the Seventy- Hfth Celebration of the Founding of the College would be held this year, and for this purpose the Unit voted to give a contribution of tifteen dollarsg also the an- nouncement that every member of the Unit be urged to pay his annual dues to the State Alumni Association in order to help put on this special celebration: from this appeal there was a decided increase of State dues re- ceived. The following oihcers were chosen to serve for the year: president, Mrs. Clarence LeCompteg vice- president, Mrs. Leon Gray, and secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Leon Spicer. The Unit is very fortunate to have as one of its mem- bers Mrs. Gertrude Meredith, a graduate of the class of 1877. Mrs. Meredith is an interested member and at- tends the Unit regularly, lt is most unusual for the older graduates to take such an active part in the work of the Unit as Mrs. Meredith takes and she is to be congrat- ulated for her splendid cooperation. At this meeting her daughter, Alice Meredith, being home on her vaca- tion, was also present. The meeting closed with delicious refreshments and a social hour in the cafeteria. The host and hostesses, Messrs. Paul jones, Howard Evans. Miss Blanche Vin- cent, Mrs, Frances Keenan, and Mrs. Claude Truax are teachers of the Upper Elementary School and members of the Unit. TOWER LIGHT l i CECIL COUNTY CLUB MEETING The annual fall meeting of the Cecil County Club of The State Teachers College of Towson was held at the home of Miss Katharine M. Bratton in Elkton on Sat- i irday, October 19th, at half past two. Fourteen members and guests were present. The 'i neeting was opened by the president, Miss Ida Kimble, ilvho asked us to sing A'C1od Bless America and salute if he , The minutes of the last meeting were read and ap- : Jroved and the trcasurer's report was accepted. Under new business Miss Bratton read a letter from !LVIrs. Sallie Chance Marker, class of l866, in which Mrs. 'Marker told of the life of the school when she was a iiztudent there. The letter was very interesting and was part of the material that is being collected for the writ- ing of the history of the school, Miss Kimble then introduced our guest speaker. Dr. XViedefeld, president of the State Teachers College. Dr. YVicdcfeld told us the plans that are being formulated for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the found- ing of the college. and what the Cecil County members could do to help make it a success. lt was a vcry en! lightening and delightful talk. Miss Scarborough, the founder of our club, and al- ways a welcome guest, was then asked to talk to the club and told about the plans for writing a short history of the college. A social hour followed and then the club adjourned until next fall. IQATHARINE M. BRATTON, Secretary. fi llfilf llll lltlll QD llli if l iVfARGARET ZILLMOR and ALBIA MCAVOY I I . The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual eheerfulnessz her state is like that of things in the re- gions above the moon, always clear and serene. -Moritaigire. . VV ith the above mentioned in mind, we offer the fol- flowing literary gems to keep you in that state of cheer- A fulness: A The best reducing exercise we know is to shake the head violently when offered a second helping. If you stop to consider the work you have done And to boast what your labor is worth, dear, Angels may come for you. VVillie, my son, But you'll never be wanted on earth, dear! -Kipling. NEWS wialn 1.11413 'ro rims: Clark Gable is to confer diplomas on the girls: lrledy Lamar dittocs for the boys. The Student Council is to give one free permanent a year to every student. fBoys may choose a shave in- :stead if they so desire.j Crowded conditions at the Naval Academy force us to donate half our campus for a small N. A. Students and faculty are to be provided with veloci- pedes for transportation between buildingsg sleds are to be substituted in the winter. l NOVEMBER - 1940 FACULTY 1fRoL1cs Can you imagine - Dr. YViedefeld as a platinum blond? Dr. A. Dowell riding a kiddie car? Miss Birdsong training lions? Miss Munn providing a refuge for stray flies? Miss Bader as a snake charmer? Mr. Moser conducting a class in knitting? Miss loslin teaching 'tpigfLatin to seniors? Dr. XVest teaching worms how to wiggle? Dr. Lynch collecting a fund for starving cater- pillars? Miss Roach teaching a class how to chew gum? Mr. Wfalther playing tiddledywinks on the floor with Miss Bersch? Dr. Crabtree wearing ling curls? Miss Prickett, Miss MacDonald. and Miss XYey- forth as the Andrews Sisters? Some politicians' greatest asset is their licfabilityf' iAnonymous. A'Surc. deck your limbs in floppy pants - Yours are the limbs. my swceting: You look divine as you advance - lrlave you ever seen yourself retreating? I i -Ogden Nash. 27 CLASSIC CADIPUS STYLES from HIDCIISCIIILD K0 IIN 8 C0. Baltilnore jlltlanufarturinq Bletneler anti Qlttllatchmaher HARRY C. LANGGOOD Skilled Watch, Cloclc, Jewelry, Eye Glass and Fountain Pen Repairing 402 YORK ROAD TOWSON, MD. LEXINGTON AND HoL1.iNs MARKETS PHONES: PLAZA 2510, 2511 D. CAl.LAHAN'S SONS, Inc. Highest Quality SEA FOOD City and Suburban Dvliveries Also Sperinlizinig in Serving of Schools and Institutions INFORMAL and SPORT DRESSES 'Ycwns BLOUSES - SWEATERS - SKIRTS THE KNITTING NEEDLE 23 ALLEGHENY AVENUE TowsoN, MD. 39? --MEM' ON THE TaBr..E ' By EDGAR A. GUEST I sing this glorious land of ours, Here your amliutious boy may he Its motor ears and shows, Our President if he-'s able. Its little gardens, gay with flowers, But what Spells U.S.A, to me Its phones and radios ls meat upon the table! if find gdikay .Qualify 912 016 THE WM. SCHLUDERBERG-T. J. KURDlE C0. BALTIMORE, MD. lex' 28 Q llla AVNIID GIVQQ SIILUWLJIIL IIL Q51 SPORTS NEWS NQLAN CZIIIPBIAN TIIE SOCCER season having been completed. basket- ball will now be the center of attention in the Collegeg sports program. This year State Teachers College has' become a member of the Mason-Dixon Basketball' League, Such colleges as American University, Catho-E lic University, University of Delaware, Hopkins, Loy-r ola, and YVestern Maryland compose this lN'Iason-Dixon group. ln addition to scheduling games in the league, the basketball team will play such schools as Mount St. Maryls, XVashington College and Salisbury. This high- caliber schedule should provide an interesting season. The team which will represent us will be composed of the remainder of last years Varsity, the entire V., and a few promising freshmen. Cox. Stottlemeyer. Seid- ler, Dorn, Clopper, Thompson, Dawson. Sehkloven,l Fishel and Iless are returning from past years with the probable addition of Mines. a freshman. Lou Cox and Marty Brill. of last years Varsity, the former the most aggressive and the latter the most ex- perienced and capable player of many seasons. have not returned this year. The opening game with Salisbury will be played dur- ing the early part of December. Heres hoping for many victories through the season! ,rf LACROSSE - EARLY INDIAN HISTORY lor-11-1 HoRs'r A battle-scarred red man breaks from a clump of scrub! Ilis tawny body is painted with streaks of blue and green. Isle bears clown on his prey with a mighty bludgcon held high! XVho is to feel his wrath? XVill he add another notch on his tomahawk? YVliere is the Lone Ranger? You won't have to wait until next Saturday to find how this gripping tale turns out. Ugh-Tug. who was the fair-haired boy of his tribe. managed by supreme effort and a few well-placed kicks to tear the ball away from his opponent. Picking it up with a net which he carried attached to his bluclgeon, he ran down the valley. Ile passed the -KI, the 30. and the 20-yard line: then with the aim of the great hunter he flipped the ball through the goal. A great cheer echoed through the valley: the home team had won, There was feasting and drinking in the tribe tepees that night while the old grads retold the tales of the 1-192 class. TOWER LIGHT 3' I I I I I I Q 5 I I I I I I I Seriously, the game of lacrosse as now played had its fsrigin back in the early Indian days. It was America's iiirst sport. The game as played here in the United iitates has tamed down but for real speed and thrills lhe game is hard to beat. Most people in this section of 'he country are familiar with the game. However. there ire some interesting features about its origin that are worth remembering. Ni The game had been played by the American Indians Iior years but it was not witnessed by white men until some early lesuit missionaries pushed into Canada. lllhese missionaries gave the game its name. The curved netted stick which was used resembled a bishop's cro- izier, hence. La Crosse. 2 The game. if game it was, was played over an entire Countryside. There were no boundaries but many nat- ural obstacles including forests, scrub, roeks, and riv- ers. The goals were usually a half-mile apart. After a Iceremonial dance, the ball Iapproximately two inches pn diameterl was put into play by throwing it into the lair. From then on it was anybody's ball game with no holds barred. The old men were the referees and the 'isquaws beat the players with switches to make them I I 4, s?Il1l1Stl6. 'r The game was almost a war. It was used by some 'tribes as a training for war. The stick could inflict heavy damage and if Ugh-Tug's four horsemen met an opposing ace in the woods, they were likely to put him out of play. The teams played in war paint and little else. No padding protected arms, shoulders, and legs. The head was not protected by mask and helmet. but the boys seemed to enjoy themselves. Ugh-Tug and his old cronies who watch most every game from the Great Sport's reserved section, probably sneer in contempt at the present-day tilts. But to quote loe Doakes, Pulse Normalts ace second attack man, after a hard scrimmage: A'lt's tough enough for me. INFORMATION , PLEASED SOPIIOBIORE 3 Call me moron, I don't care, I can't fill in this questionnaire. For who can answer these erispish queries. VVith 'lclubs-noneug and Study time-varies g Or Expense difficulties-yes and noug Father's income-I don't know . N1And when one's spent the summer in sleeping late, I VVere it not best to preyaricatc? No, lass, save that imagination To conjure an answer for ualternate yoeationn? Call me moron. I don't care - I never could Hll in a questionnaire. NOVEMBER - 1940 Compliments of . . MARYLAND HOTEL SUPPLY COMPANY 227 Hanover Street TUXEDO 1516 EVERGREEN 200 7 Charles S. Austin, Jr. pfzaamacbil' 6709 YORK ROAD COR. NIURDOCK STONELEIGH CALVERT 0670 - 0671 WM. BECK 8: SON lyfofesafe QSZPIIIYS and l4fgefa6fes 416 W. LEXINGTON ST., BALTIMORE GIVE A GIFT WITH A SCHOOL OR LODGE SEAL THE .IDHII 'I'RllIII'lEIlBRO'I' ISU. IXIANUFACTURERS OF School, College. Club, Lodge, RINGS AND PINS See Our Display In The Book Store BANQUET FAVORS -:- Tnovnncs 310 N. PACA STREET VERNON iosz NEED SOMETHING IN A I-ILIRRY? CALL SARATOGA 6262 STEWART'S PERSONAL SERVICE WILL SI-IOP FOI? YOU OI? WIII-I YOU. WATCH REPAIRS GUARANTEED FOR R oNE YEAR . . . . 1 -. .L u , 'Nezll s Charles Street at Lexington l HXVELL, XVELLl DO '1'1iLLln He has not had much training in the domestic arts as jett, but he is learning fast. Else for what pur- pose was he carrying thc ironing board over to the Campus School - for his jewel perhaps? Seems as if nocturnal visits to the distinguished R. H. P. shulelv are not objectionable to a certain junior. qPsvchological discussions are enjoyable, Frauuielj During the course of human events we have been interested in Omar, Olaf, O'Ncill. O'Shea and manv others. Helens interest. however, primarily CCIT- ters in A'O'Connor. -l. This certainly is the season for the Irish. All-an all. Norma is satished. 5. Iona C.'s path of life is strewn with roses and dorns. 6. He: Herold has established a place for himself in soccer. er wot? She: Ya sheere. A'Dot's right! Amonk de vimmens too! 1 . Perhaps Ieannette would End arithmetic much more interesting were the name of the text changed to Klopperl'. S. Have you heard 'ACrace's theme song, O Donnie LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE Boy? CNeed we add that he has curly hair?j . To M. S. T. Cfs Band Leader No. l: A suggestion has been made that an appropriate theme song for your band be Icanie with the Light Brown Hairn? For the beneiit of the other members of this worthy institution who have concerned themselves with the higher avenues of thought, but who are desirous of broadening their education. Hetie Hix, bv request. will attempt to answer a most perplexing question: Compliments of . . . 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 9 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment Ulbz Snerunh jaatiunal Bank UXVHAT is A Kiss? uf Towson, HID. A kiss is a noun because it is connnon and proper. lt is a pronoun because she stands for it. It is a verb because it is active and passive. lt is an adverb because it makes an explanation. qlffl-,w'Ii,, Sign U'I'lf!'I'5i limi 1f11g1'11c'f1'1'r1g Szlpflflru' - Sfudlo, It School und Dmftzng Room Fnrnzlurf A- Dmuvzzg .llrrferml T SCHOOL fYgj,fe If 00 2I1,,,510berg L ..... .ffff surrues 214 WEST FRANKLIN STREET BALTIMORE, MD. Vlirrxox 3700 is a conjunction because it brings two together. It is a preposition because it has an object. It is an adjective because it can be modified. The complete dance 01' party ensemble includes zz corsfzge 2Q'yQ54, ' TOWER LIGHT THE LIBRARY fContinued from Page 131 iome very specihc idea to put forth, but even after claw- lag at the very crevices of our brain have failed to scrape the words we need. So often we find ourselves asking. How else can we say it? Many of our modern Qand iliose not so modernj writers hold our answer. Mar- ,fgaret Halsey, for example, in lier delightful Wfith Alalice lnoward Some. 1938, gives us these: I XX'e closed in gratefully on the cold ham and new-laid ' eggs and lettuce from the garden. i -Our room, extravagantly small, is decorated to the I eyebrows in a suffocating shade of pink. 3 Henry is having one of the streaks of silent, deadly efhciency which periodically emerge from the evening mist of his character. There is something in thc handsome inexpressiveness ' of Swedish architecture and Swedish towns which sug- l l gest a very goodalooking face without any eyebrows. i She was beautiful, and her smile was something to l find your way with in the dark. i f The village stands at the edge of the fjord. on a green and amiable slope, with mountains leaning over 5 its shoulders and breathing down its neck. The days melt away like cough drops on my tongue. She enunciates with rococco exactitude. P P l ,ev TO THE LIBRARY NIARY IANE BURDETTE ATO the library, young men and young ladies, they say. To the library, where students of all types do stray. There sits the bookworm, his eyes on a page Dt math or psychologyg the works of a sage. Here comes a crowd of nonsensical flirts. Chewing and giggling with coquettish A'curts At each of the lads whom they instantly spy Studying UH the life history of an innocent Hy. Go to the library, where silence abounds. fXVhen the library teachers are making their roundsj VVhere the N, Y. A. workers wear long. drawn-down faces Because people never put books in their places! Seriously. though, it's a beautiful sight - Rows of books to the left and books to the right. Books of science and those of psychology. Books of literature and old world history. Books of adventure and books of love. 'Books down below us and books up above. All can be read. absolutely free. As we slave away for our B.S. degree. NOVEMBER - 1940 HUTZLER BFQTHETQ Q AFTER - DARK FASHIONS In Ezzefzifzg Dresses f0rLez1ely Co-Eds 1,72 Correct Dinner Szzits for the Well-D1'eJseei College Mafz A Deposit of 51.00 Opens cl Checking Accoznzt in the CHECKMASTER Plan at The Uliutnsun national Malik TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is Eve cents for each check drawn and each deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 1VIason's Service Station Betboliue - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 2-I-Hom' Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 55+ COMPLIMENTS OF - H. STREET BALDWIN BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. 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PRATT ST. :: BALTIMORE, MD. TI-IE GLEE CLUB fContinued from Page 201 tered by the picnic, which was held in thc glen. The hamburgers tasted just as good as they did when Norris VVeis was chief cook. George Hoddinott took over the task, and with his committee prepared the hamburgers. After the food was consumed there were solos and some group singing. There is some new music in the club repertoire. A new waltz and choral anthem take up most of the prac- tices, but there is still time to review pieces learned in the past. This year the Glee Club is preparing to help celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the college by being as excellent a group as it can be. Nov. Noi Noi Nov. Noi Dec ,ef COMING EVENTS Museum of Art Opening-Sculpture and Carl lxlillcs Opening-Prints and Drawings by Sculptors Dormitory Theater Party Lyric-Monte Carlo Ballet Museum of Art Lecture by Metric Rogers: Carl Xlillcsu Opening-Artists' Union of Baltimore Qthrougli December 291 Informal Dormitory Dance r1lOXVIfR LIGHT Dance Lyric-The Famous Violinist: Mischa Elman lVIuscum of Art-Opening-XVork by Reu- ben Kramer Qthrough December 151 ' Dec Dorm Event-lee Skating Party Dcc Dorm Event-Bowling Party Dec. 20 Museum of Art Opcning-Lithographs by Nlcrvin Iulcs ftlirough December 291 mu i-.iz r 53204821-5822 si-xi rooms IVIACE PBUDUCE C0. 11' lmlesale ,lolilzers in F111 ITS. VICGICTABLICS. EGGS. P1'1l'I,'I'RY BEPACKED 'l'0MA'l'0ES Fm-:E in-:Llvisnii-Ls 20-28 K 30 MARK!-IT PLACE :: l!Al.'l'lNl0lili. MD. 32 TOWER LIGHT ll li li .1 l :I 1 1 '1 1 ! i I 1 1 . il M I l 1 l l 1 ' - Ii.. 1 .I ' 'U . l ' . , I. .. ' '11 .. L ' . ' xg 1 I .II I-'II -- f I . . ' IAIII I PI I ' ' ' . ' 'My I I II . 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P glfp 55's of W T 011-:il S Camelgflggor. .xi W , ' to gh, fapped Or X 1' Fhe perfeq . Chrisrmfialgiels iii tiff. - Q a y, 'f0n! O For those who prefer cigarettes, give Camels and you can be sure your gift will be appreci- ated. For more smokers prefer slower-burning Camels than any other cigarette. They are the cigarette of costlier tobaccos that gives more pleasure in every puff. Your dealer is featuring Camels for Christmas in the two handsome packages shown above. Easy to get-perfect to receive. Yes, there's nothing like Camels to say: Happy holidays and happy smoking. S gso QV 'off . X025 - fx:x0kV'g vfwis S9 GAY LP ,bill ei . Qcsoet.1tl9co'Te go 3 P+ ,six 50 ati? bl i :SC co- -ga owtiixsboxi X S 'L V guy ,Y -- , Iillmig f ggggvgg' ,. .fe 4: ' xr .- PRINCE ALBERT 0 No problem about those pipe-smokers on your gift list! You just can't miss when you give them a big, long-lasting one-pound tin of the worlds most popular smoking tobacco- Prince Albert! fOr a one-pound real glass hu- midor.l Pipe-smokers call Prince Albert the NilIlOH2ll-'OySIHOk6.T'l'16ySf1j'1 TllCFC'S no other tobacco like it! Your local dealer has Prince Alberts Christmas-wrapped specials on dis- play now! Get your Prince Albert gifts tmli1y.' ,s L 1ul.lil,l.ViH, lt .I l.f-:.ui'.-l-,lrmwiiixwzlygzlxyllall-11111-bali-1xv,,s c. xX I ei fri . y yy .y. J. THE STHFF EDITORS Cirauuas Gimoss P,-ITRICIA HERNDUN FnANc1:s Suoruzs IAMES IETT BUSINESS MANAGERS IOHN Eowaizn Kooivrz CATIIERINIZ CSRAY CIRCULATION Margaret Heck Norma Gambrill Margaret Gunnells Annetta AYrigl1t ADVERTISING Muriel Frames Margaret Lowry lean O'Connor Virginia Roop DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Art Science Audrey Prainschufer Iohn Chileoat Marguerite AVilson Katherine Decker Charles Guertler Albletics Nolan Chipnian Iohn Horst Audrey Mercer College Events Helen Pieeli Nancy Metzger Frederica B iederni ann Sihyl Davis Editorials Genevieve Ilaile Mary Simon Gordon lf. Shules Axxemblies Alice Carr Helen Pross Mildred Snyder ALICE MUNN ,Iohn Barehani Fashions Ellen Elste Shirley IliCl4S General Literature leannette Uhlrich Mindelle Kann ' Irina Sennhenn Lois Cheetham Humor Lee MeCarriar Inle Thompson Alma McAv0y Margaret Zillmor Library Mary Di Peppi Doris Klank Katherine Petroff Mnxic Sylvia Gclxyas5er Ruth Maleson - Alaiiagiiig Editor VOLUME XIV - - DECEMBER 1940 - - NUMBER 3 A TENDER Ol TllE FIRE 4 A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS' - 4 PEACE ON EARTH - GOOD XYILL TOXYARD XIICN 5 TODAY, THE KIDNAPER . . . w SCHOOL SPIRIT IN REVERSE 0 I REMEMBER .. .. . . 6 IN MEMORY Ol ROBERT CALDER 7 POETRY .. T OSCULATION . . . ,,... . . . S THE PRICE OF LIBERTY . CJ ON BEING A SPECIAL. O ELBOAVROOM FOR INSPIRATION lu CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY .. . ll XYOMEN - IMITATIVE, NOT CREATIVE lf THE LIBRARY . . .,.. . . ..... . . 12 EDITORIALS . . . . . . . . 13 ON PROVIDING CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS I' THE FITZGERALD CONTRACTION . IS MUSIC .. 10 FASHIONS . Il COLLEGE NEXYS . I? SPORTS . .. iw IIUMOR ... Sf ADVERTISERIENTS' 241 Sl l RONl'lSPllf1ClC - Charles Gnertler FASHION CUT - Ellen lfilxte il CARTOON-Life at M. S. 'l . C. it THE TOXVER LlGI lT is published inonllily-CJetolwer lliningli Iune-by students of the State Teaelicrs College .it 'l'mywn. Nlrl. S150 PER YEAR.. . Qu Cl NIS l'l li QOPY 27 uqcvipffonff fvom ffxe C' 4 fda 7 GG all memorial windows QQ' Q! .J Z0 wx if g'Q9f,'i ' ' ' 7 ggnowlcdegc 5 4, ' 5 Wwwff NN K ' ' tlwavcg ' YM? W i Z annapolm f , if omf M W n n ff ! ! ' iwmsfg ffxcg f l banning iingcxfs X joys too exquisite to last, 3 And yet more exquisite when past. I , lNlON'l'GOlXllLRY Poetry is a wonderful form of literature for it expresses in few W? viwords that which we ordinary individuals think and feel, but cannot ilexpress. So Montgomery has aptly expressed for many of us what we flfeel when we see the stained-glass windows. For us they will always re- :all the more exquisite joys of remembrance. l, Bliss in possession will not last, Remembered joys are never past. At once the foznztain, stream and sea. ll Tlaey were, they are, they yet shall be. For a broader View of those things which are ever before us and yet everlasting let us turn to a recording by Henry Van Dyke. W Let me but live my life from year to year with forward face and unreluctant soulg not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal, not mourn- ling for the things that disappear in the dim past, nor holding Jack in fear from what the future veilsg but with a whole and nappy heart that pays its toll to Youth and Age, and travels Jn with cheer. So let the way wind up the hill or down, o'er rough or Smooth, the journey will be joyg still seeking what I sought when but a boy, new friendships, high adventure, and a Crown, my heart will keep the courage of the quest, and hope the road's last turn will be the best? M? 5' HY is Christmas in its original sense moving to- nite down to a life of routine until the ne: 5? 9 g Ulenher i ii YJ mas today ized event completely of the day. the event. is becoming a commercial- as people tend to ignore the true meaning and spirit XVe spend days anticipating but in what manner? Our last penny is spent for inane gifts. inane because so many give only in observance of a twinge of con- science which reminds them that Mary gave some- thing last year. or that custom demands this traditional rite. Wie anticipate the holiday as a time for gorging and utter relaxation. as a time when we can let oft steam and enjoy the rounds of social life from after- noon to early morning, Then we very prosaieally settle ward the obsolete? Christ- A L M A ij :Fire i M There are some. however, ofte termed Victorian reaetionaries, who ar here to the old regime. To them t word Christmas is itself an impetus do not what conscience or greed di tates but what the heart says. The. too, observe the exchange of gifts and the social amei ities, but for this group such actions are done because a belief in. Not what you get, but what you giveg n: what you say. but how you live. Their lives exempli Christmas in the true meaning - the strengthening the ties of Christian brotherhood. Such as they are th torehbearers of each generation who have kept aliv during advance of civilization, the embers of a slow dying fire. Are you going to be a tender of the ire? holiday. c A V O Y VE'-'UI W3 Q9 2-'? 61? 'FP' if? 1? lp 15? 32? E9 15? IF? IJ-'ill 2515 513 5513515-E515 eslglsigrefg-esllgeitgweg awww EE Qiwfsjffi ef-ligrrilfgsslgeea QQ 1' gi, 1-3 L I Y? 404 CD 3 L I A Letter To Santa Claus DEAR SANTA CLAUS, It has been a long time since I wrote you. You'll re- member that the last letter came in '2S. I asked you for silk stockings that year. You brought me socks. Mother tried to tell me that I was just seven and that you didn't want me to grow up for a few more years. I didn't agree with you. That same year you forgot my bicycle. Somebody in the family said that you probably had been hit by the depression. For a long time I pon- dered on whether the depression was some type of car or a disease like the measles. You never acknowl- edged the 'Aget-well card I sent you. But. time has passed. time has changed. and so have I. This year I want just two important things. Xlost everybody would like them. Thcy're hard to find down here. just a small parcel of each would help. First of all. please bring some peace. Victor Hugo said that Peace is happiness digesting so if you'll bring happiness that will till the bill. Cordon Shules 4 Sometime before Christmas and Kenneth Martin vow and declare that I'm pugnz cious. but I'm sure they'll change their minds if the read this. Then you might bring some honesty. Not that I'r doubting anyones veracity but sometimes I wonder- just wonder. you know. The money from the breakag fee for misplaced library books has gone up. I we planning on having a little left in june '42 for a har sandwich to go with my B.S. degree. Now I think th: I shall have a BS. degree and an empty stomach. There are other incidentals which you might bring but the two I have mentioned will be enough fc everybody. XYhen you come to Towson. watch the ligh at Belvedere Avenue. It's a dangerous corner. Sincerely. FRANCES P. S.-You might bring me some socks - like the one in '23, Make it size Qli instead of 3 this time. TOWER LIGH l A r .N r. j. T1 ll C I r. ji - . I 5. ig DI 6666 044 Qaacf Will 7awaacf Mm I! !I is !LIC-HT NOVV. all over this country, people are pre- aring for Christmas. Christmas! The commemora- S lion of our Lord's birth! The season of joy and festivity: he time, when for just a little while, men supposedly 1 orget their peeves and their grudges, and join with -ne another in a spirit of charity and unselfishness. Not 7 a all the world and in all time is there anything like n Ihristmas, when people are obeying the new com- I nandment: that ye love one another. when, for a little i vhile, people are truly Christians. ! f In America, the celebration of Christmas has been i izvarmer and richer in spirit than anywhere else on rarth. Because this is a melting-pot of nations: because his is a country built on the Christian belief that all inen are equal. the spirit of Christmas has endured in ttronger form and has assumed greater proportions. ln his country there are holly wreaths in the windows, rrowds on the streets and in the stores, spicy fruit X-akes, Christmas trees loaded with ornaments. Choirs rre practicing Christmas carols, people are smiling, and vishing one another good will. ln this country there is ejoieing. 5 . Such activities are only representative of this coun- try. Across the seas nations are at war, men and boys are being slaughtered, women wait fearfully in bomb- racked homes, and no man trusts his brother. No one over there has time to think of the birth of the Christ- child with all its significance. Many nations will not observe the holiday at all. Those that do, will observe it not in rejoicing, but in sorrow. How can their faith remain intact when they are engaged in a conflict dc- stroying all the ideals and convictions that are right, that are from Christ? How can they love their neigh- bors when their neighbors shower them witli death? How can they believe in the future with the present such a chaos? The words Peace on earth - good will to men! seem a mockery for there is no peace nor any good will. How can those nations across the sea celebrate Christmas? How long before they lose all faith entirely? And so, this Christmas, let us be thankful that here. we are still able to preserve ideals and to believe in them. Let us take time to think of those not as fortunate as we. And let us believe in Upeace on earth - good will to menf, Eitigtgglgglgritggtgrilggtggllg-5tag!-fiwlitigti-:QEtigtieiftiilgwgtsi-gftgwgs Tod THE KIDNAPER I p LIARRY LONDON E . . . Disappearing from the face of the earth, time And things and life: unit by unit away nf' rom the limits of Yesterday and Tomorrow: tamed !By the tempering ways of Today: seizing 1Things and ideas as they pass the barrier of Yesterday: l!Holding them fast: beating them: causing lesions To appear on what once was beautiful: and clean: 3-Before they climbed the fence twixt Today yAnd Yesterday And now: greeting Tomorrow: leaning Toward sterility and impotence: being not ideas 'At all: but words: pretty as words: but mcre words !Letters: bereaved symbols: meatless like the pods of peas lDECEMBER - 1940 Emptied for the pot: then shunted to the pail For refuse and the collector of refuse: but the Time too is gone: tempering time: out the nailed Vfindow with the flightly power and virility Once these ideas had: these things: halted in their Very natural course from Yesterday to Tomorrow: near The place where a hooded figure: with a clean Label: 4'Today lurked: with a grasping hand: A harsh, heavy club spiked on its end: teeming XVith bacteria-focuses: to enter: piercing the flesh Of ideas: diffuse in the channeled blood: make Shells of ideas: of things: words orphaned in the flash Of descending club and rasping spikes . . . 'l'ime Makes words nothing more: but less: is in turn made to Nothing: Time is: is true: Time was and will bc: is lies. -luiic. ltl-Ht. 5 School Spirit in R erse IN THE two years in which I was adviser to the Stu- dent Council the most frequently posed question was. XVhy is there no real school spirit in our college? There were many variations to the theme. Sometimes it appeared as an exhortation. Is there nothing we can do to stir up some enthusiasm in the student body? XVhatever the phrasing. perplexed and baffled student leaders have not found the answer yet, and, while I may be guilty of over-simplifying the problem by the hypothesis which I am about to propose. I feel that the issue should receive the best thoughts of everyone connected with the college. As colleges go our school is small in size and yet it is surprising how few in the student body the av- erage student knows. Everywhere I go I find the same small groups eating, gossiping. dancing or playing to- gether. XVe are a school of cliques and small factions. The class section represents 90 per cent of a student's interest in the student body. His loyalties. interests and enthusiasms are to the section rather than to the class - and least of all to the vague group known as the student bodv. HAROLD Mosrsiz The situation is largely peculiar to our school. It could not happen in most colleges where the program of electives makes it unlikely that any entering group of freshmen will spend the four years in college with thef same student group. The intellectual. if not the social,1 environment will vary from class to class and year to. - - 4 year. This is as it should be. 1 I believe that the section organization as currently practiced in our college serves as a deterrent to the creation of school spirit. Sections. engrossed with their own problems. parties and assignments, soon become ingrown. Few of these students have a college point of view: local loyalties are stronger than school loyal- ties. XVhen students are denied the stimulation de- rived from meeting new minds and adjusting to dif- ferent personalities they tend to become complacent, slipslrod and careless. This whole question should be explored further, but I would like to see a plan studied by which section personnel would be com- pletely changed at regular intervals during the four college years. NORBIA KIRCKHOFF I Rememdm A rainy day on a busy streetg shoppers rushing by un- der dripping umbrellas - so many bobbing apples in a great sea of wet humanityg a diseonsolate fruit dealer - shivering. bemoaning his rotting produceg wet, shiny pavements. clean for a space. reflecting the straight. stiff architecture of row housesg a peanut man - the steam from his vendor cutting cloudy capers on the misty air: and over on one side of the street - a dilapi- dated truck waiting for its driver - a little boy sitting on the running board and leaning over to sail a white paper boat down the muddy gutter . . . The first sign of spring in the Harlem of East Bal- timoreuz the famed marble steps of the city completely obliterated by clouds of chocolate-colored people stretching themselves in the sung an early Easter adver- tisement in the form of two spifs strolling down the street - she in purple and red - he in green and yel- lowg little piekaninnies - released black threads from the blanket of winter - squealing and playing in the first warm sunlight. 6 The view from the top of Federal Hillg the harbor - so splendid from a distance - with its great ships, rocking to and fro - impatient children chafing to be released from homeg the clean. cool air - right in the center of the city's busiest industrial centers - a para- dox of human livingg far below, little speeks of hu- manity, hurrying. hurryingg the thought that all our wor- ries and cares look just as infinitesimal when viewed in retrospect. the myriads of lights that flicker on as evening advancesg the whole great panorama - ugly underneath and yet strangely beautiful when viewed from the top of the Hill. Six o'clock Christmas morning: the almost frightening hush that covers the earthg then the strains of Silent Night drifting across the snow: rainbow lights on a gaily bcdecked trecg stockings hung at the fireplace - bulging grab-bags of goodies: the story of the Christ child - heard in the solemn yet glorious atmosphere of a candle-lit and holly-wreathed church: Christmas dinner with its puddings and turkey: mistletoe and its flushed victorious captors and equally flushed submis- sive captives: evening - the beautiful hymns. dear friends. and loving Gifts: and stealing over all - a feeling 'J D of peace, good will towards men. TOWER LIGHT I Iln memory of IRQbert alive THEORETICALLY, last month this college received a message. It wasn't of the usual type that characterizes the multitude of letters which pour into this college every day. There was something solemn, something se- rious in the air and in the facial expressions of many W people in this college, you would have understood im- lmediately - the comnninication was edged in black, a symbol which made us more aware of the crisis which sometime we all must face. I VVhat was the purport of the message? A former member of our student body, Bob Calder, had passed 'to the world beyond. Some dear friends were heart- broken, many acquaintances were greatly moved. There were reminiscences exchanged, many incidents of the past were transformed into priceless. golden rneinories. some of which all of us as members of this college can share. Bob was loved by almost everyone. No one could have overlooked that dark-haired chap on the athletic Held who always fought hard and squarely for his Alma Materfy Iust nine months ago, Bob changed his mind as to his profession and at the time of his illness was un- doubtedly headed for success. Not all my lasting memories of him are the same as yours, but surely they symbolize those which you pos- sess. This being true, I feel free to suggest that, as this article is read, you pause a moment for meditation in honor of that real friend of yours, of mine, of S. T. C. - Bob Calder. y THE COMING OF CHRISTMAS I IAIXIES C. IETT The myriad snowflakes make a newer earth, QCII, hallowed rites of Christ's nativitylj - It is indeed the day of joy and mirth. My thoughts are stilled by evenings holy glow. The music of the church enraptures meg The holly's leaves are green against the snow. The sky is darkening and the air is cold. Chlay human thoughts be always, Christ, with thee.j This day you see the love of man unfold. OCTOBER SNOW NETT113 P. I-IUTCHINS 'I5 One morn I strolled to my garden XV ith steps reluctant and slow Instead of the quick, eager hurry XV ith which I was wont to go. But the sight that met my wondering gaze YVas of such beauty rare That grief and sorrow were soon forgot And I could but stand and stare. For ev'ry Hower wore a gown Of lacy, gleaming white That hid all trace of ugliness Completely from my sight. 'Alf this be Death, I asked myself XVhy should we dread or fear. YVhen beauty hides all ugly sears And Ileaven seems so near? U ROSES AND Tl-IORNS XNIALTICR SAVAGE LANDOR XV hy do our joys depart For cares to seize the heart? I know not. Nature says, Obcyg and man obeys, I sec, and know not why Thorns live and roses die. DECEMBER - 1940 ll5lIUlllllllN rr. smsox of mistletoe! Holly is col- orful, cedar has that exciting odor, poinsettia is beautiful. but - mis- tletoe has a meaning and a privilege that makes it possibly the most popular mem- ber of the plant kingdom during this season of merriment and gaiety. XVhat girl hasnt coyly lingered under a hanging sprig of it. hoping that HE would be sure to notice. and what forward young man hasn't carried a bit of it in his pocket so that he could dangle it over HER head at the opportune moment? Oh. yes. it's a most convenient and plausible excuse for indulgence in the accomplished art of osculation. All of which leads us to our real topic. which is not mistletoe. but kissing. For the benefit of those who are Nagin it, let us begin by quoting a bit of scientific information. A noted physician recently advanced the theory that kissing is a healthful exercise. Hive wonder if Miss Roach and Mr. Minegan would like to start some elective classes?ij The theory stated that the heat generated during the process killed all the germs that we have been warned that kiss- ing spreads. The problem that confronts us if this theory is put into daily practice is: How are we to know when a person really means to be loving and when he is just trying to throw off a cold germ? Since we are being scientific about this perhaps the best means of approach would be through classifica- tion. Several possible ones come innnediately to mind: kisses with Oomph and kisses without: kisses of love and kisses of duty: desirable and undesirable: pleasant and unpleasant. Considering the last classification and beginning with the pleasant we shall use the teclmology adopted by Hollywood in designating certain kisses for their loves scenes. According to Hollywood, kisses are used to establish character as well as to reveal love. Thus. if the scene calls for a hc-man bit of osculation the au- dience is expected to judge the man as a go-getter - a muscular. superior male who knows what he wants. Fearing that the fair sex might swoon in their seats at the sight of johnny XYeissmuller dragging his mate by the hair and then kissing her with brute force. di, rectors only allow this kiss to last 20 seconds, Ltlavc any of you boys ever used a stop watch?3 The bear kiss isn't quite so sensational and so cen- sors usually let it pass at twenty-tive seconds. The usual time of this kiss is at the end of the picture when she 8 F. ROBISON and J. ULRICH I - says. Darling, wc'll always and always love 2 each other, won't we. and won't ever let anything mar our happiness again? and he says, Precious, l'm your slave forever. qThose who are snickering pause and re- call what you said the last time you kissed your beloved good-night!j The two types that are least emotional and display the character a rather indiffer- ent sort of person are the Upruden and the peck. How you hate Clark Gable when he rushed away from his sweet little wife. pausing only long enough to give her a peck on the cheek or forehead. and hurries down to the office to his siren secretary! And how you despise Tom, or Dick, or joe when he leaves with only a brief and thoughtless token of his love. fyAnd how you cry and wonder if his love has cooledlj YVe could go on indefinitely listing these pleasant lit- tle lip exercises. Suppose we rubbed noses like the Es- kimos?' But we must hasten on to the unpleasant di- vision. The classes of this group compose mostly dirty kisses, the most frequent recipients of which are our relatives. The married brother division is distinguished by its infrequent occurrence and although he often has halitosis. the most unpleasant thing about it is the fol- low-through. just as soon as the fog lifts enough from one's surprised brain for the thought Maybe the big bully isn't so bad after all, he has a disconcerting way of asking. Say, Sis. can't you mind the kids tonight? The uncle kiss is unpleasant for two reasons. Usu- ally Uncle hasn't a Barbasol face and scratchy beards weren't meant to be kissed! 1Uncles 31'Cl'l't the only people who could be put into this classlj Then. too. there is always doubt in both minds as to who's doing the kissing and who's being kissed. The result is that the two necks are strained into uncomfortable positions and a general rubbing of noses results. The little niece kiss may sound sweet and inno- cent but why do young children decide to show just how much they love you as soon as you put on your best clothes and they are completely covered with ltake you choice! ill soap suds. 121 half their lunch. or 1 31 nice sticky gum drops? You. dear reaclerisl. could no doubt make a more complete and exciting list but since many think that our beloved Towizn Lrerrr is becoming frivolous. per- haps we'd better not take up too much space with such prattle. TOWER LIGHT The Price of Liberty IOIIN NTCCAULEY 'OLIIICIXNS the world over seem determined to iermeite our cherished land with the principles of die- atorship ind to enchain our people under codes which ibliterate the economic and social ideals for which our orefathers sacrificed their lives. Subtly the t'isms are nawinff it Ameiiei s heart. Like termites they are in- estmg the Amerie in colleges. Students, undiseerning, re tauffht that they can be pioneers in a new field. They ne told it is right to dispute inherited theories of fovernment ind thit it is the educated fellow who ind placed before our youths. They are shown the mod- i rn cities and the yy eilthy, happy people of Russia. They ittle realize th it they are being blinded by lies and are lowlv being in ide mental slaves to the bestial selfish notnes of Europe s masters. They cannot see the povf rty and disease laden streets of the unvisited quarters if Berlin ind Moscow. They do not see the crumbled uins of once Uieat cathedrals for atheism goes hand in iiand with all the 'isms and with them tears down every semblance of the ideal and cultural in a people. Men are merely tools of the state. XVhy go on? XVe know this false and destructive teaching exists and is slowly but steadily undermining American political thought, The question is how to cheek this decay of America from within. A bad Amer- ican, like a bad apple, contaminatcs others. Probably the best policy is to follow the recent example of the University of Michigan and exclude all students con- nected in any way with the so-called fifth column or activities evidencing subversive ideas. The university welcomes only those who believe in the democratic philosophy of government. XVisconsin University also refuses to tolerate disloyal students or faculty members. Perhaps other colleges will follow this noble prece- dent and, by reorganizing their faculties and courses of instruction, through real truth. produce a generation of XVashingtons, Franklins, and Haneocks who are loyal to the land and faith of their fathers and are willing to pay the price of liberty. ON BEING 14 Two OF VTIIEBI 5OlXIl1 ONE asked us the other day - lust how fi l ri i ,. . 5 1' ' a s j y I T' is Q E ' i 5 ' r. Q ' is ' '. v V I I - - ' , ' 2 2 . I CHOXVS Llllll votes SOCILTTISITI. COlH1Tllll'llSl'1l IS Sllglllf-COklTCCl 1 I f ,J 2 . . D., special is a Special? Ah-ha! said we - Tremendously special - YVhy how many of you would dare burst into Fresh- man Art, and from there bound into Senior Psychol- ogy, then slide into lunior gym, and wind up in Sophf omore English, all in one morning? You know about how welcome you would he. You have to keep your places - that's what you have to do. But we specials - 'VVe have you there - YVC are welcome everywhere! -Not only welcome - but our presence in the various ielasses is considered absolutely essential - Cfor usll And when it comes to taking tests - why we as a body are permitted to take the tests given every class in this great institution. Think of what a privilege lthat is - to sample, as a body, all the tests compiled by the entire S. T. C. Brain Trust - fof course. passing these tests is another story. but we shall not go into that angle of it at the present timel. And on the playground - we all have special invitaf DECEMBER - 1940 tions to be there - they insist that we be there. and every period, too. And are we not dragging our crutches through the halls as well as some of you young sophs? XVe all may not be so lithe of limb - but ah - we play the game - llust try and not - sez youll As for announcements - you have only one Bulletin Board, for each section, to watch - but one Bulletin Board is not enough for us - we are required to watch them all. As for luneliing in the dorm, your lunch hour every- day is quite the same. but we specials. we can often do with fifteen inimites and show no apparent suffering! And furthermore we can do a marathon to class and reach the place on time. after bolting such a speedy lunch. Could you do that? Ah. we could go on endlessly and show in many ways how special we really are, or think we arc. XYe deem it wise, however, at this point to stop and let you draw your own conclusions as to just how special is a Special. 9 I i l Elbow-Room for I piration A IT MAY have been by sheer accident. but the place where the English department is concentrating much of its etfort currently is the most poetic room in the college. This. unfortunately, isn't its real name. Some students call it prosaically Mr, Millers room, or merely No. 202 - all of which seems rather ineffectual. The description is as inapt as that of the freshman who described the Grand Canyon, which she had seen for the Hrst time, as cute . Shades of understatement! Several years ago the room was called, for lack of a better title. The Browsing Room , where few people came and still fewer browsed. Years before it nmst have had other titles, but they have gone unrecorded and there is available no written historical data regarding the room. Since September, the place has been labelled The XVriting Room , the most appropriate appella- tion yet. Anyone who has frequented 'AThe VVriting Room will immediately understand why it may be mentioned in the same breath with poetry. Perhaps it is not only what lies inside the walls, but outside the walls of that southwest corner. On two sides are windows, and there are not many rooms in the building which can boast of such wealth. The architect, when he planned the school, must have known that the view from this par- ticular region would be a worthwhile one, indeedg for you may look to the west and see the green, flat expanse of the elementary sehool's lawn, or south. you may look up at the high. tapering hill where, of late, two horses have been gamboling - between these, the valley of the glen, sitting quietly in its neatly arranged pattern of greenery. Always there is the sky, and you can readily understand from here what Shakespeare meant when he spoke of eyeing 'fthe eye of heavenn. For, you may stand and almost mechanically trace the curved travels of the sun, inch by inch. And when there is no sun, only clouds, you note the mists overhead, for miles stretching out on every side. Sharp ears will catch the wind-voice. never still, always articulate. ls it this loveliness outside that makes the inside of A'The XVriting Room attractive? XVhat is particularly striking is the deep, almost audible silence in it, as though some hand were pressed against some unseen lips there. Time seems to stand still. The sound of your breathing. however quiet, becomes magniiied. You count the rhythm of your breath, meanwhile list- ening to the loud tick-tock of your heart. All at once, you start. In time, you become aware of the atmos- 10 phere in the room, its intensity. its sharpness, its signifi- cant presence. Now it is impossible not to concentrate And you sit at one of the long tables, your being wrapped up and focused upon your imagination. I XVas it an accident that this room became '1The VVriti ing Room ? To this place come students, periodically scheduled, for corrective writing. They have not yet learned how to effectively match word with thought thought with word, how to capture, on paper, the dis tilled essence of their imagination. The English faculty' aided by students, is helping them in this direction. The classinen bring with them the needed materials. and a desirable attitude toward workg from the locale, quiet,- stimulating, they derive their inspiration. Combining these two, the effort at correction ought not to be ditiieult one for either faculty or undergraduates. A ln time someone is going to produce a literary mas' terpiece in The VVriting Room . Keats, Arnold, Dos- toievsky, Lizette XV. Reese, people of the soul, would have fallen in love with the place at tirst sight. They would have come back to it, day after day. lt is to b- hoped that many of our own students. especially those who want the atmosphere for writing, will take ad- vantage of the room. GONE G. F. SHULES The gray winds blew along the lanes. The fallen leaves clattered in the weeds. Roads were lonely in their winding. The land was a void and did not understand The death of the life of the leaves. Someone had gone along the lanes. Along the lanes that wind and do not end. The land did not understand the scraping of the leaves. Someone had left no guiding trace, Leaves clattered and the land was bare. The land was a void and did not understand. TOWER LIGHT hristmas in th ountry lX'lARY K. Nnweoixrrzrz VIAYBE I am from the country, but even in that dis- .1nt, rapidly vanishing territory, all good children anx- ously await the annual visit of Santa Claus. Cnr big thrills begin in advance. For most of us the tears-Roebuck catalogue plays an important part in our oung lives. lnstead of standing for hours on snowy treets. gazing in rapt admiration at the splendidly eeked show windows. country children diligently tucly, around an open iireplaee, the all-beguiling book rom cover to cover. Little sister Susie wants another eddy bear. Her last one needs a few repairs. An eye, ine ear. and a tail are missing. VVorse than that. poor eddy is leaking sawdust, lohnny persistently states that ie needs a new wagon. Big brother Bob asks for a sled vith shiny red runners. while sister Sally wants a new lress. It must be. she insists. a brilliant scarlet having arge white polka dots. After careful deliberation these vishes are written down. Later they mysteriously start zor the North Pole fSears-Roebuekj. lvleanwhile everyone has been busy helping mother rake pies. cookies, and fruit cakes. Candy must be uade. In the country there is no Riee's man at the door. Phat particular turkey we've watched and fed for -ight long months must be separated from the flock. low that Christmas Day approaches. Christmas Eve Bob drags in the all-important tree hat has been selected from a nearfby wood. lts pungent idor is soon diffused throughout the house. XVe begin mmediately to trim the tree and presto, it is transformed from its natural leaiiness into a silvery cone of beauty. DECEMBER G. F. SIIULES Cold strings of snow Crystal rainbows in a flood of light. Cold as young puppy's muzzle XVhiter than bone bleached in sand Swirling in myriad forms and fancies ln the bleak December twilight. DECE MBE R - 1940 lust before bedtime the stockings are hung in a neat row in front of the fireplace. All the while the atmosphere seems to be brimming over with festive secrets. XVe learn the answers next morning. 'llhe first sight which greets our sleepy eyes is the loaded Christmas tree surrounded by Santa's gifts. VVe pounce upon them eagerly. liach one joyously tries to explain to the others that he has received exactly what he desired. Day of all days - no wonder memories of Christmas linger long as cherished treasures in the mind of every country child! EIH IVIUIIHEII SIR MODRED, the bad boy of the Knights of the Round Table, was a piker. lust think of the things the boys from S. T. C. could have taught him. Of course. Sir Modred did not have to bother about manners as we know them. He did not have to knock the ladies down in order to reach the table before the food was chilled. Once seated, there was no rationing of the victuals. Having a full suit of armor to carry around in frequent moments of stress. Sir Modred needed all his vitamins. COne wonders about his poor horse!j Like our proverbial provineials. table etiquette was the least of our heros worries. llc could tear a chicken apart. eat what he wanted. and throw the rea mains under the table to be devoured by the ever- present dogs. ln some ways Sir Modred and the male population of our college have nineh in common. Unfortunately we have no stone wall from which to pluck our Sir Modreds. Like all of his compatriots. Sir Klodred did not feel guilty about changing his allegiance. If it furthered his aims to join the other side. he shifted. But. when the Hnal round was played. and the dust of battle cleared away. we find Sir hlodred left behind. Supposedly. the days of chivalry have passed. Xlaybc it is history repeating itself. 1 1 IMITATIVE l 'nor CREATIVE T 1 XVARREN CULBERTSON and AARON SEIDLER I Editors Note -,The following ,article was submitted as a result of the disparag- j ing remarks appearing in an article entitled Bleu in one of our issues. If hostilities con- I tinue we suggest an arbitration board be drawn up to define the rights and qualihcations of the belligerent parties. 1 L I Hrs ARTICLE has been digested and for the most part has been taken directly from Schools. by Alonzo B. Seeg copyrighted 1928 and privately printed in the United States. In his book. Mr. See has taken the extremist's point of view on the entire field of education and has written on all matters related di- rectly or indirectly to schools. It must have been a fervent enemy of women who spoke as follows: Half the miseries of the western world are caused by women fighting against men. ln spite of countless ages of experience, women have failed to excel even in cook- ing, yet they set themselves up as competitors of men in all walks of life. Far more homes are made miserable by envious women than by dominant or brutal men. XVomen have been tinklers on the mandolin and piano through all the ages, but it is among men that the creative musicians are found. ln the sphere of art. al- though women have been busy painting their lips and faces. their nails and eyelashes for countless ages. if one seeks paintings which will create emotions of the high- est and best character for all time. one has to go to paintings done by men. 'tXVomen are imitative and not creative. lf search is made in YVestminster Abbey for records of the great women of England. one will find a few actresses and courtesans. but none who were worthy of being com- memorated as poets. painters, sculptors. inventors. world pioneers or world bcnefactors. Men are superior and should be reverenced. and until women are taught to become affectionate junior comrades in the co-part- nership of the sexes. there will be no peace in life. XVe can agree that these words were those from the mouth of an extreme cynic who has resorted to much exaggeration and implications. However. we also must admit that many. many feminists claim that men have kept women down. This is not true. Men. because of their chivalrous nature. advanced the women of this country as they had never been ad- vanced elsewhere or ever before. This reference to 12 chivalrous nature might be explained as that whicll many females refer to in factless arguments about the merits and demerits of men. If men had treated women. as men could. becausc of men's superior physical strength and superior phys ical endurance. they would have made slaves and serf: of women. However. everyone must admit that 1ne1 are the ones instrumental in raising the women to great heights and favoring them in courts and in other count- less ways. A Not only have women been protected and favored. but they have shared with men in all the advancements men have made in science and engineering, shared with men the pleasures of sailing across the ocean in great steamships. shared with men in riding in automobiles and trains, but have done nothing for the development of these vehicles. They also use the telephone and lis- ten to the radio which is offered and is being provided by the work of men. t'XVomen have done nothing in the way of producing all these things with which we are favored today. If the world had had to depend on the inventive and con- structive ability of women. we should still be sleeping on the plains. The feminists tell the women they should act like the men. This they can never do. XVhen women try to act like men. they either do things men never think of doing or copy men in a way to make themselves ridicu- lous. The counterpart of a 'feminist' in men would be a 'masculinistf A masculinist would be a man who would tell men that they should dress like the women. But. of course. there is no man intellectually low enough to be the counterpart of a feminist. A feminist is a wo- man with a feeble mind whose brain cracked when she tried to reason. No one can hear such a woman speak on the platform on politics. on the industrial situation. on schools. or any other subject that requires reason- ing capacity for its full understanding. without seeing at once that she is dabbling in a subject for which na- ture ncver fitted her intellectually. TOWER LIGHT THE LIBRARY l lar Youn SERVICE I I si K.. a :5 MAKE THIS A LITERARY CHRISTMAS! gg? INIARY Dr PEPPI ?ifIHR1S'1'MAS shopping to most of us constitutes ljgfhe perplexing problem of what to give our relatives ,XB Qlmd friends. VVe rack our brains trying to think of :home appropriate, unusual gift. XVe usually end by gel? it :lgiving ties to the males, and handkerehiefs to the female 1 linembers on our shopping list. ' r The Library Department, always eager to be of serv- lliee, has decided to do your Christmas shopping for f-fl lvou. XVC urge you to forget your problems by making Qthis coming holiday a 1iterary one. XVhat is more ifweleome than a book which has been especially chosen lto meet one's interests? Because the Held of books is lso extensive, provisions can easily be made for special :reading tastes. Here is a list of books we prepared to help you in gvour selections: I X FOR MOTHER: l I If she takes pride in being a good hostess: l 1. The Fun Encyclopedia: Nashville, Abington- Cokesburv, 1940, 352.75 Includes suggestions for showers, anniversaries, planning programs, club , room equipment. I 2. The Settlement Cook Book: Milwaukee, Settle- ment Book Company, 19-10, 32.50. The latest revision of a very popular book which tells the wav to a 111211113 heart. 3. Bell, Louise Price, Successful Parties: New York, Revell, 1940. 51.50. A new party book by the author of t'Having a Party. 4. Gooding, lulia Papin, Formal Dinners: New York, Houghton Mifllin, 19-10, 252.50 A family collection of unusual recipes. FOR FATIIER1 If he likes sports: 1. Tunis, lohn R., Sport for the Fun of It: New York, Barnes, 19-10, 52.50. A handbook of in- formation on twenty sports including the official rules. DECEMBER - 1940 ff - 'EE I It he is up on the latest news: 2. Howe, Quincy, The News and How to Underf stand It: New York, Simon 81 Schuster, 19-10, 35150. A guide hook which tells you how to dig the real news out of newspapers, radio, and inaga- zine reports. If he enjoys stories of travel and adventure: 'T J. 4 5 Hager, Alice, Wfings Over the Americas: New York, Macmillan, 1940, 52.50. Goertz, Artheinise, South of the Border: York, Nlaemillan, 19-10, 53.00. Nordhoft, Charles and Hall, lames N.. The Bounty Trilogy: New York. Little-Brown, 19-10, 53.00. New FOR THE OLDER BOYS: It he loves to read western stories: 1. 2. Gooden, Arthur H., The Range Hawk: New York, Random House, 19-10, S2.00. A thrilling novel of cattle rustling in the border country. Hendryx. lames B., Hard Rock Alan: New York, Random House, 1940. 52.00. The author of the 'Corporal Downey stories tells an exciting tale of the Alaskan coast. If he likes a good mystery: -s D -1. 7. llogarth. ljnnnet, The Goose ls Cooked: New York, Simon S Schuster, 10-10, S200. XVoolrich, Cornell, The Bride W'ore Black: New York, Simon S Schuster. 10-10, 52.00. Allerton, Mary, The Shadow and the XY'ehh: New York, Bobhs-Merrell, 10-10, 52.00. 13 FOR run OLDER GIRLS: lf she enjoys a good novel: 1. Coyle. Kathleen. Vi'ho Dwell W'ith W'ondcr: New York. Dutton. 1910. 52.50. 2. de la Roche. Mazo. Whiteoak Heritage: New York. Little. 1910. 52.50. n. Struther. lan. Mrs. Miniver: New York. Harcourt. 19-10. 52.00. -1. Mason. F. Yan XYyck. Stars on the Sea: New York. Lippincott. 19-10. 52.75. 's FOR THE YOUNCER Boys AND GIRLS: lf they like imaginative stories: 1. Coatsworth. Elizabeth. Littlest House: New York. Macmillan. 19-10. 51.50. A story about a little house that was loaned to three children for a sunnner holiday. 2. Du Bois. XY. P.. Great Geppy: New York. Viking. 19-10. 52.00. The striped horse Cveppy solves the baffling mystery of the Bott Circus Case. 3. Finger. Charles Golden Tales from Faraway: New York. XVinston. 19-10. 52.00. lf they like to know and to do things: -1. McClintock. Marshall. hlillions of Books: New York. Vanguard Press. 19-10. 51.75. The story of a library. 5. hlarran. Ray Playthings for Indoor and Out- door Fun: New York. Appleton-Century. 19-10. 52.00. lnstruetions for making a variety of play- things with tools and materials to be found around the house. 6. Yates. Raymond F.. Science with Simple Things: New York. Appleton-Century. 19-10. 52.50. T. Thompson. Burnette. Let's Sing: Minn.. Augs- burg Publishing House. 19-10. 52.00. ,bf BOOK REVIEW 1A1ARY D1 PEPPI Goudge, Elizabeth. Sirler of tbe Angels, New York. Coward McCann, N. Y., 1939. 155 pages. When you tire of reading so-called modern novels with their ultra-sophisticated plots and much publi- cized realism. pick up a copy of Sister of the Angels. one of the sweetest and most refreshing little stories ever written. The story is a very simple one but it is the very simplicity together with the clearcut. beautiful style in which it is written. which makes it so unusual. The book tells about one month in the life of little. eleven-year old Henrietta. who has been left in the 14 care of Canon Fordyce and his wife. an old couple liv 1 ing in the Cathedral of Iorminstcr in England. Hen rietta's father is a world famous poet who loves h' daughter but is too irresponsible to look after her prop crly. At the time the story opens it is one month befor Christmas and Henrietta is awaiting a visit from he father. His arrival is the signal for a series of events which follow rapidly one on another and concern Hen- rietta's discovery of a talented but despondent artis and her efforts to help him find himself. Henrietta her- self loves to paint and is called Sister of the Angels by her artist-friend because she is so nearly related t the creatures that she should be able to persuade the to come in at the window and sit for her. 1 Christmas is celebrated by Henrietta. her father, th artist. and the Canon and his wife in the charming old-world atmosphere of the ancient Cathedral. Th Christmas tree in all its glory. the newly painted wal of the Chapel which depict the Christmas story an which Henrietta helped to paint. the soft lights of th candles. and the sound of a choir singing carols in the distance. are all woven together to form the warmly colorful and sincere end of a story which will never' be forgotten by anyone who reads it. ,if INFORMATION BUREAU IXLKIA McAvoY Vl'hat to give for Christmas and to whom: Farsighted glasses-to that person across the aisle with Roman eyes during tests Time-to Mrs. Brouwer A sense of humor-to Gordon Shules i A man-to any girl who needs one y A ehaperon-for Leon Lerner in Richmond Hall Social Room A grandstand-to those ringside referees who watch the developments in the foyer A cozy nook-for Helen and limmy 1 Boxing gloves-to those picker-uppers in the dormi- 1 ww 1 Another Sappho-for Iames Iett 5 A steady -for Liz 1 X Children-to those domestically inclined-the knit-l ters 1 Earmuffs-to certain of the faculty after a test l Robots-to those with tests on Mondays A year's leave of absence-to the student body Food-to the dorm students 1 TOWER LIGHT l l Ii iff Q, if are if EDITORIALS SANTA CLAUS CSENEVIEVE TTAILE JIOVV OLD is our Santa Claus? About 1,200 years, ou think? No, the Santa Claus you know and love is inly 11S yeirs old. He came into existence in 1822 vlien Dr Clement Clarke Moore, an American edu- ator and poet, wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas for ns own children. L' 'Twas the night before Christmas vhen Dr Moore looked out the window of his bed- winklmg ey es and snow-white beard, dressed from head 0 foot in fur and seated, with a pack full of toys, in ns sleigh drawn by eight tiny reindeer. Dr. Moore vatched him drive swiftly to housetops white with now descend chimneys and fill stockings with gifts, ind then whirl away to the jingle of sleigh bells, calling ach of his reindeer by name: Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Praneer and Vixen! On Comet' on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzenln In America this delightful old Santa Claus, before 1827 had 1 mere mythical existence, having come to he children of the New VVorld with the early Dutch ettlers The original patron saint of children was Saint Xlicholas w ho lived about 1,600 years ago in Asia Minor. With the passing centuries his spirit of giving has been absorbed gradually into Christmas celebrations through- f, 'f ji -f e 4 'r ill .5 if .4 . i , . 7 . room and saw the jollv old fellow with his rosy cheeks. I . . I' a D . 'T 1 , . 1 ' A 7 1 . . I I 7 out the world. The details of Christmas customs have varied among different peoples. They have greeted either Saint Nicho- las, Kriss Kringle, or Santa Claus. Receptacles for gifts have ranged from shoes, baskets and plates to stockings, Areceptacles have been placed on beds, behind doors, yin corners or in fireplaces. St. Nicholas himself has ltraveled by gray horse, white ass or by reindeer. How- jever, there is one significant thing all Yuletide customs jhave in common. lt is the inystifying way in which :Santa Claus spreads his happiness and good cheer. He jcomes and goes on Christmas Eve, unseen and unheard. gHe likes to empty his pack, giving freely to all, without 'expecting any gift in return. Couldn't we emulate his behavior? Couldn't we also realize that Christmas isn't just jholly and mistletoe, and snowflakes and candles, and jstuffed stockings and shining trees? Couldn't we con- LDECEMBER . 19M l l sider what would have been lost to the world, and to our own imaginations, and to the whole approach of the human soul to God, if we knew nothing of Santa Claus, or wakeful shepherds, or singing angels, or a baby in a manger? Let us think of these things as we celebrate our Christmas holiday by performing the simple acts of friendship-eating, talking, singing, giving and ref ceiving gifts. During the 19-10 Christmas season let us re-experience the glow of joy and the spirit of giving, and open our hearts again to Cod's message of love, understanding, truth and peace in the world. ,rr STUDENT GOVERNMENT AT DICKINSON A Guest Editorial XVILLIALI HAAK An organization of which Dickinson students might well be proud, although few of us seem to bc, is the Student Senate. Let us pause for a time to consider the merits of this governing body. A little investigation and reflection will reveal them. First, upon looking into the constitution of the Student Assembly and Senate found in the little read handbook, we find that the Senate, which is consti- tuted of the executive body of the Student Assembly, is both well-purposed and well-constructed. The ob- jects of the organization are to promote the welfare of the students of Dickinson College, to effect a closer union of the students and of the students and the faculty, and to act upon all matters which belong to the students of the Collegcfl Its construction permits a representative of each fraternity and sorority. two representatives of the unaffiliated men and one of the unafiliated women. XVhat purpose could be better than this and what representation could bc fairer? Since the Student Assembly part of our government is practically non-functional, the entire mechanism rests with the Senate, YVhen it comes right down to brass tacks nearly everyone will admit that thc Senate always tries to and usually does do a very fine job, ln this regard it might be added that the whole-hearted support of the students is vital to the proper function- ing of the Senate. 15 If one looks to the student government of some other colleges the value of our form of representation is easily perceivcd. None of the traditionally biased campus politics enters here. Each intimate group of students selects a member to represent it. Votes are not traded in political cliqucs, nor is stufling of the ballot box the rule. Finally, in reviewing thc varied activities of the Sen- ate, who is there to criticize the administration? XVhat other form of government could better handle pep rallies, assignment of the student budget, dances and other social activities, and freshman orientation? The representative legislature is the essence of the demo- cratic form of government and we here at Dickinson are learning that we may not forsake it later in public life. ,gr OUR WORK AIARY SIBION Here we are preparing ourselves for a profession that is sacred to the very ideals of democracy. YV e are ex- pected to be examples to the future citizens of America. VVe are to guide and mold the young of our country. A noble work-yes, ours is a most vital part of the whole democratic system. It beckons only those men and women with superior character and intelligence, the best that the country has to offer. This, then, is our goal-tliis preparation for a great work. XV e must place it on the top rung of the ladder and never lose sight of it while we are climbing up. XVe must not let the little things of life overshadow the big principles. XVe must not let superficialities re- strain our thoughts, narrow our minds. Nothing can be more limiting to the character than an attitude of re- sistance to new things. XVe, especially, must grasp every opportunity we have to enrich our experience-take part in the multitude of activities that are provided for us. VVe shall never have the same chance again. It is not enough just to make the grade. It is the at- titude of self-developincnt, an attitude that causes us to do more than the required assignment, that will really make us what we want to be. Freedom is ours to mold our lives as we please. Let us use this freedom constructively in order that it may benefit posterity as it has benefited Americans until thc present day. ,fr A CHANGING WORLD IKIELIZN Pnoss Have you ever thought about the problem of living 16 in a changing world? XVith that question in mind, Dr Steinmeycr, professor of political history at the Unii versity of Xlaryland, gave us sonic worthwhile guidancc on the subject this day in assembly. Many of us are prone to dream about ideals that we wish would comd to be realized or that had been realized. Few of us see' that progress in a world like ours comes only when dreamers conscientiously set about to make their idealis- tic views real. To make this point more emphatic, thc' speaker gave us the following information as an exampl A of what he meant: The various 'Aisms of Europei governments which differ from ours in organization and administration, have no doctrines, no means tha can solve American problems. In other words, an Ameri- can way must be used to deal with American problems' No substitute will do. Government is a matter of the temperament of a people. Take the European countries who have one eye on the present and another eye on the future. These Europeans, such as the Germans and the Russians are willing to sacrifice anything and every-' thing to aid in the up-building of their future coun- tries. They can visualize a more perfect state in the years to come and they are putting forth every effort to make this dream a realization. They have a goal, an aim, and a belief that this goal can and is being attained through their efforts. If America is to preserve Democracy, we as Americans must begin to believe in something. XVe must believe in Democracy. XVe must realize that Democracy in theory and Democracy in practice are different. VVe must face our problems, think them through. and set down rules of living in accord with our belief in Deinoe- racy. Because of a belief in something, discipline is necessary, for there is no freedom without it. XVe must re-evaluate the ideals used in the founding of our coun- try. XVC imist remember that a people will be free only as long as they desire to be free, and that violation of spiritual laws brings penalties upon the offenders. Yes, we in America have much to consider as we fmd our-4 selves living in a changing world. First, we must show the rest of the world that Democracy can solve its prob- lems, and second, the United States should lend moral I courage to the oppressed peoples of the world. ,er AMERICAN YOUTH AND DEMOCRACY 4, Doizis Mizrzisownn , In Convocation Dr. Foster Dowell made the state-5 ment that Amcricag that is, the United States, is thej only democracy left in the world. XVhcn you thinki about it, you realize that this 1Continucd on Page ZSQ f TOWER LIGHT Z' 0 F! ON PROVIDING l bristmas ecnratiuns H e ' 1 E- 1 1 o1rN Crnreoivr 1. ji Ji J' ff- ,fri LIT XVONWI' be long before we begin to think about jclecorating our homes for the Yuletide season. For some jit will mean moans and groans, but l am sure, that, 'T for the majority of us, it will be an experience that we . shall look forward to with pleasure. Most families, especially the younger members. look forward to the Christmas tree to supply the atmosphere and to set the stage for the joyous holidays. Before buy- ' ing the tree or venturing to hunt for one, as the country 'folks have to do, one should always know where the xl . . . . . dj' tree rs to be placed rn relatrorr to the furrnture and i aj l, ri ' i for the Holidays fReprinted from Towson Nurseriesnj FROM THE time when Christmas was first cele- brated it has been the custom to use decorations sym- bolic of this holiday season. In fact, decoration has grown to be an important phase of the holiday ob- servance, and each year has witnessed countless efforts to add new styles. Nevertheless. certain symbols of the holiday season have been handed down from generation to generation, and notwithstanding the introduction of new ideas and changes in styles, the traditional symbols of the season are more widely used than ever before. The holly, with its cherry red berries, is one of the most treasured of all plants associated with Christmas. Legend tells us that the evergreen leaves prove that the sun never deserts this plant-therefore it is favored and sacred: that the Crown of Thorns was made from holly and the berries which were then white, beeanre crimson drops of blood after the Crucifixion. Because the rich, evergreen leaves and brilliant red berries of the American holly make such a conspicuous picture of contrast against its neutral gray bark in the drab winter landscape. it CConfinued on Page 223 DECEMBER - 1940 also the height of the room. Many people just get a tree and attempt to make it fit the situation. The ex- cuse ean't always be that there is but one type of ever- green:-namely, the pine. lt's true that the pine is usually used but this again depends rrpon the room and the house. The cedar, which is scarce in this section, is exceptionally adapted to the small home because if is compact in structure, quite elongated, and requires only a small amount of floor space. On the other hand the pine with its few branches can be more artistically decorated and is preferable in the opinion of the rua- jority of people. The average person has no idea of the difiiculties one usually experiences in finding a suitable Christmas tree from among a forest of them. It's like fiudirrg a desirable ear of corn from the entire crop when it seems that every ear has some weakness. So it is with Christmas trees. They are either too tall, too short' or shallow looking in one spot or anotherg they possess some brown needles, or lack a certain branch on the very side that you had chosen for the front. After an extremely difficult time of hunting and se- lecting, one will usually either find a suitable tree or will saw the top from a large tree. and leave the lower portion in the forest to grow again. just as you are about to proceed homeward, you will remember that you were to get some crow's-foot, holly, or any other type of evergreen suitable for decorating smaller objects throughout the house. Crow's-foot is a runner plant, sometimes extending for a distance of fifteen or twenty feet along the srrrface of the ground. The leaves which resemble crows' feet. account for the name. Holly is an evergreen bush pos- sessing both thorns and berries. It is not as eormnon in this section as crow's-foot. Upon arriving home our next task is to find a stand or some means of support for our stately forest creature? After our tree is in place we begin to talk up the Santa Claus idea to the younger children of the family. XVC remind them to be extra good if they want airy toys or any trimmings on the tree. Then eorrrcs the night before Christmas and half the fun for the older members. XYith a little artistic skill the trimming is completed and you are proud to remind the children next morning that Old Santa did a good job of trimming the night before. 17 The Fitzgerald ontraction IOHN BAREHABI IMAGINE YOURSELF traveling through space at the tremendous rate of 161,000 miles per second. You are in a rocket ship and this ship. we will say. is traveling toward the distant nebulae in Andromeda. During the course of your journey. you happen to turn your arm from across the line of motion to a position which is parallel to the line of motion. and instantly your arm contracts to one-half of its original length. That is. your arm when held in the first position was. let us say, 30 inches long. Now, after your arm has moved through 900 to a position which is parallel to the line of motion, it is but IS inches long. Quite perplexing and fascinating. isn't it? I dare say you are even a bit du- bious concerning these statements. Then bring a yard- stick and measure the difference in the two lengths. In the Brst position your arm was thirty inches long. the yard measure veriies this statement. Now. in the second position when your arm is parallel to the line of motion we find that the result is but thirty half inches. You must allow for the fact that an inch division of the scale contracts to half an inch when the yard measure is parallel to the line of motion. Still. you doubt my statement of contraction and as yet I have produced no plausible explanation of this phenomena. But stay a while! Perhaps I can point out the real cause to you. Fitzgerald in l893 and Lorentz. independently in 1892. suggested a similar cause to account for this con- traction of linear dimension, They reasoned that when a ship moves through the water the pressure of the water on its bow causes it to contract a minute portion of its length. In the same way a motor car moving through air contracts as it is squeezed between the retrograde pressure of the wind and the forward pressure of the wheels. Perhaps then the contraction of your arm can be accounted for in much the same manner. In our case the prevailing medium is a hypothetical ether. Although the actual contraction is not altogether analogous to that of the ship or the motor car. these serve to give a good idea of the forces involved. You are surprised that the length of your arm is changed merely by pointing it in a different direction. You expect it to remain unchanged. If you consider your arm to be continuous substance extending in space. then there seems to be no valid cause for such a change to occur. But the scientific arm is a swarm of electrical particles rushing about and widely separ- ated from one another. Edclington points out that. The 18 marvel is that such a swarm should tend to preserve any definite extension. These particles. however. maintain a certain average spacing so that the whole volume remains practically unchanged. They exert electrical forces on one another and the volume they fill corresponds to a balance be- tween the forces tending to spread them out and the forces drawing them together. XVhen your arm is set in rapid motion the electrical forces change. A new magnetic force is introduced. since electricity in motion gives rise to a magnetic field. Clearly the original bal- ance is disturbed and the average spacing between the particles must alter until a new balance is found. There is really nothing mysterious about the Fitz- gerald Contraction. You would naturally expect your arm to keep its original length presuming of course that it receives fair treatment and is not subjected to any new stresses. But your arm in rapid motion is sub- jected to a new magnetic stress, and under this stress the contraction occurs. You must remember that this magnetic stress affects not only the length of your arm but also the width when the arm is held across the line of motion. Perhaps now you will refute my statement by saying that your arm does not appear to be shorter because you can see that such a change does not occur. Cer- tainly you can trust your eyes. Certainly not. since the retina of your eye is affected in much the same way as your arm was affected. And so on for every proposed test. RECIPES FOR CHRISTMAS FREDERICA BIEDERMANN RAISIN CCOKIES ll: cups of ground English walnuts I teaspoon of baking soda 14 cup of hot water 3 cups of flour I teaspoon of cinnamon l cup of butter 3 eggs ll: cups of sugar ll: cups of finely chopped raisins 6 tablespoons strong coffee Cream the butter. Add sugar gradually and cream well. Add beaten eggs. Add raisins qslightly dusted with floury. walnuts. coffee. cinnamon. soda fdissolved in hot waterl. and Hour. Butter pans well. Put dough on in tcaspoonfuls. flat- ten a little. Bake slowly. T O WER LI G HT I I i I.I I QI Is I I I I I I L, It I L I H, I ,I I I I I SYLVIA Crirwvassnn HIS HEART made funny little leaps as he slipped noiselessly down the long staircase. They were out for the evening, so they would never know of his venture. The mere thought of England made him feel queer all over. He could almost see the men selling hot chest- nuts on the busy street corners. Hot ehestnuts-with their sweet, fragrant smell and fuzzy inside covering. Then the fog. He could feel it even here. He could feel it playing softly so silent and mysterious. And how strange Big Ben, looming through the mist, looked on foggy nights. No, he would never forget his old friend Big Ben. If only he could hear its booming voice once more. Then perhaps he would not feel so small and alone. The radio knob clicked into place. Seemingly as if in answer to his fervent prayer, he heard Big Ben toll the a home- had died ring and hour. It was calling across the ocean to him, sick little boy. VVhen the last sonorous tone away, a voice began to speak with familiar cadence. An English announcer was speaking of Christ- mas and of the holiday spirit prevailing throughout London. The Yuletide earolers were singing in front of the church. Londoners were thrilling once more to oratorios and to the story of the Nativity. Christmas had come again to England. Static! A terse Sorry-air raid. Then the rolling, swelling roar of the ocean muffling all other sound. He sat stunned. He could not see nor hear. His Lon- don, his home-. That was why they would not let him listen to broadcasts from England. He had thought it was because they did not want him to be homesick. Dear London-and he had not known. He remained P FRUIT COOKIES tablespoons cinnamon l cup of butter 2 l teaspoon nutmeg teaspoon cloves teaspoon baking soda dis- solved in 2 tablespoons of sour milk 2 cups of sugar 21-'i cups of raisins feut raisinsl l Z eggs l Flour enough to make a stiff dough Cream butter with sugar and eggs. Add raisins Idustcd with flourl, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda fdissolved in sour milkl, and enough flour to make a stiff dough. Roll and cut dough with small biscuit eut- ter. Bake in a moderate oven. DECEMBER - 1940 dazed for a long time before his dulled senses were penetrated by a familiar melody and words. Toy to the world, the Lord is come! Dear Cod. nothing was lost. His mother had told him of faith. Here were people who still had faith and were singing to proclaim this faith. No, noth- ing was lost. ,er HERE WE COME A-CAROLINGU lack XVYILLIABISON After the tree has been trimmed and the pres- ents piled in a tempting heap beneath the swcet-s1nell- ing branches, we stand back to admire our work. Christ- mas has come once again. and the usual last minute rushes to the shops for gifts and goodies has finally ended. The house lights are dim, and atop the glitter- ing tree, the Christmas star winks like a silver eye. Then floating through the airlike soft-falling snowflakes, comes the harmonious sound of music. The carolers have come again. Carols, however, did not begin as tradition after the first Christmas. The Bible tells us the first carol was sung by the host of angels over the hills of Iudea on the eve of Christ's birth. Not till many centuries later did man sing Christmas carols. He did of course sing church hymns but these are of a more reserved and stately nature than are the carols, The word t'carol is derived from the Italian word Carola, a dance and from uCarolare, to sing. Carols were originally sung to accompany dances which were a common way to express the Christmas spirit. These dances were frowned upon by the church, but they remained an important part of the peasants Christmas. XVhen St. Francis placed the first Christmas crib in his church. he helped advance the popularity of the carol. lt marked a release from the heavy, strict, Christ- mas observance. XVith Christmas came the dramatiza- tions of the Christmas story. later adopted by the Mys- tery Players. Carols were sung as interludes. but gradu- ally were included in the theme of the play. lf the audience approved of the carols. it became the custom for the singers to march off the stage and about the town singing the carols as they went. 19 By thc fifteenth century, caroling was fairly well established. In England it gained its greatest popularity. There it had displaced the ancient pagan custom of wassailing, It had been the custom for revclers to go about the town. offering drinks from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts. A transition from wassailing to caroling was easily accomplished. Many of the wassail songs have been handed down through the centuries to become popular carols. Two in particular are Deck the Halls, and Here XVe Come A-Carolingf' Caroling of course was not limited to England. Both France and Cerinany had their singers. One of the most beautiful carols is the French, t'Carol of the Birds. XVhen the Christmas tree was introduced into Germany at the time of Luther, it became one of the most popular symbols of Christmas. Of the two most popular carols in Germany, O Tannenbaurnw qo Christmas Treej is second only to Silent Night. fBy way of interest, the words of My Klarylandl' have been set to the tune of O Tannenbaum. j The story of Silent Night is almost legendary, but it bears repeat- ing. XVhen the organ of the St. Nicholas Church at Oberndorf, Bavaria, needed repair and there was no one to Hx it, the church organist suggested that a new tune, easily played and sung, be written. The vicar, joseph Mohr, agreed and that evening wrote the words to Stille Nacht. Gruber, the organist, immediately wrote the tune, and it was presented at Christmas Mass, to the accompanirnent of a guitar. Christmas caroling has become an important part of our celebration. l.Vhen I hear the inelodious notes com- ing through the winter's air, I am inclined to agree with Carlyle who said 'thlusic is truly the speech of angels. ,gr PRESENTING - STATION WBAL IX'IAReUizR1'1'i3 XIIDALI VValter Linthicum. XVBAL's sports caster. came to the station as a baritone. One day there was a shortage of announcers and Mr. Linthicum found himself be- fore the microphone. Besides being an announcer. Mr. Linthicum teaches at his first alma mater, City College. Bailey Coss. though his manner is suggestive of a caimy New Englandcr, hails from Pennsylvania. His background has proved very helpful in his present role of sports announcer. He was captain of his football team in both high school and college. For three years he traveled all over the country announcing athletic pro- grams. His present avocation is archery. He has made forty bows. Mr. Coss occasionally studies from the en- cyclopedia. 20 Calen Troimne began his career as a singer. Ilis sing-j ing career included everything from a church choir to Major Bowe's program. He says he enjoys the Readefs Digest. Anyone who talks with him says that he is a brilliant convcrsationalist. If you are an early riser, you are familiar with the program t'Around the Breakfast Table and its con-. rfenial announcer, Bill Herson. Mr. Ilerson attributes D his humor to the funny papers and fan mail - he can't j decide which is funnier, As a side line Mr. Herson . composes music. He has just written Business in Bal- timore which is now being published. ,Qi RADIOS, PLEASE! IRAN PARENT 'tXVhat! No radios? I should think that you'd miss the tremendous ad- vantages of radio newsHashes when current events are so important nowll' My favorite winter programs include the operas and symphony broadcasts. It's wonderful to be able to hear them without paying the price to see them personally! Don't you ever hear them? The dormitory students sincerely hope that in the future we shall be given permission to have radios in our rooms. VVe earnestly realize the necessity for strict regulation concerning their use, but we are ready to abide by rules for the privilege of using radios during certain hours. XVe expect the hours seven to ten p. m. to remain quiet, but from five to seven would provide an opportunity for complete relaxation as well as for further educational and cultural development. It seems unnecessary to miss fine speeches, plays, com- mentaries, quizzes, and music ranging from Glen Miller to XVagner. It is vital to us, as teachers, to be informed, and we feel that the radio is an effective method. There- fore, can some consideration be given our desires for radios? ,gf THE GLEE CLUB RUTH B IALESON Christmas and music - the words fuse to make a complete whole. XVhile it is true that apart. each has its own meaning and independence, together, they are fuller and richer. The spirit of Christmas invades the music: the glory of music gives more meaning to Christmas. Again are sung the delightful carols that TOWER LIGHT i I 5 4 i l 'l I. E , I l r r r linake one feel good, and generous, and warm, and safe. gl The Clee Club this year, as in years past, will do its 'best towards providing the Christmas season in this reollege and comrnrrrrity with some of the lovelicst mu- sic it has ever sung. Half of the annual radio program 'Will be devoted to Christmas music. Drrrirrg the Christ- mas assernbly, these songs will be sung: Carrtiqrre de Noel, a French carol by Adolphc Adamg Carol of the Dove, an ancient Polish carol, arranged by Harvey Caulg From Heaven High the Angels Come, a fourteenth- century carol arranged by Dickinson and Phelps. The first singing of a clrorale by Christiansen, Praise to the Lord, a brilliant work in eight parts, will be given this year. It is one of the biggest things the Clee Club has ever attempted. and is the kind of music that can stir one's emotions. The Clee Club's performance will bc, We hope, one of the highlights of this Christmas Season. ORCHESTRA NEWS At the testimonial luncheon to Dr. Cook on October' 25th. at the llotel Belvedere, seven members of the orchestra - Sibyl Davis, Maxine Batie, Marie Sabatino, Evelyn Karrdel, Sidney Baker and Eugene YVebster - had the privilege of playing with Sylvia Celwasscr as accompanist. This ensemble, however, is not a permanent group, having been organized only three weeks before the lrrncheon and disbarrdirrg after the occasion. However, they did repeat their program at the performance of A'The Cat and the Canary given here at the College on November lst. Preparations to form a girls' string ensemble have been made. This group will play Christmas carols in the main hall on the day before the Christmas holidays be- gin, and everyone is invited to come and sing. WM FASHION SHOW 1 V AREN'T the sophomores versatile peo- so ple? Not only can they teach. but they can also model. On November ll Hutz- ler 81 Co. presented a very charming Fashion Show with thirteen of our usophsn modeling. Orchids to these people! Professionals could not have done better. In the choice of evening clothes, so- phistication reigned! For instance, Phyl- lis Allen's beige dinner gown, Agnes Link's red crepe. YVinter coats are crrrrrring with their leopard or mink Peggy collars. XVasn't Phyllis Cohen's red leopard trimmed coat good-looking? Furs are prevalent. fi? ii i ii? Many hints as to proper dress were received. XVe learned that: Dresses are lovely this year with their draped fronts, high neck lines, and square sleeves. which incidentally are not as elaborate as last season. Light woolens in pastel shades are the thing for every-day wear: crepe in black or darker tones. for more formal occasions. Two-toned dresses are prominent, too. Phyllis Allen sported a green and brown wool which, by the way, was cleverly made with a zipper down the entire side. Her aqua and brown was also smart. Doris Carr mod- eled a half-and-half red and black dinner gown. Sequins are particularly good for holiday wear, as was illustrated by a stunning brown crepe with a se- quin top. Did you notice Phyllis Cohen's blue lame jacket with the Hating peplum? Rhinestones are again gaining favor, as was shown in the strrddcd red chiffon Mary Pue wore. DECEMBER - 1940 FASHI too. Barbara Titus' jacket, hat, and muff were the last word. Pompadour hats are very important this winter, as was shown so well by lane Stottlerrrver and Agnes Link. Berets are UNE Srrrrrrasv Hrercs - also featured extensively. is complete withorrt a full line of jewelry. either gold, silver. rhinestone, or pearl. The new fashions for rrrerr are really good-looking and varied: the imported tweed that YVillard C-avcr wore. the covert cloth of Morton Kreiger. the wide herring- bone XVinston of Isaac Schkloven. all illrrstratcd these points. Top coats are full with rrrilitary collars. fly fronts. stitched bottoms. Bob Lytle's blrrc heather shade twecd was all right. Dave Hess, in his tux, was the perfect date escorting lane Stottlcmvcr, who wore a lovely black velvet. fur' No costrrrnc trinrmed. evening wrap and hood. Hut2ler Brothers have given us many good point- ers - ones we carrt afford to ignore, 21 DO YOU KNOW? l. Xllhat is tl1e n1ea11i11g llllll ClCl'lY2llflO11 of tl1e word carol? 2. XYhat is tl1e difference between Christinas carols llllfl Christmas lly'lll1lS? 3 Can vou COlll1CCl Tscliaikowslqvs Nutcracker Suite witl1 Cl1TlSfl1121S? 4. What carol pictures tl1e spirit of Christinas as a11 old 11111117 5. XYhat XYclsl1 carol is used to celebrate lDOtl1 Christmas 2lHCl Neyy' Year? 6. Connect witl1 their eo1111tries of origi11 these C2l1'OlSZ The First Noel. Adeste Fideles. W'assail, Wfassail. Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly: O Christ- 111as Tree? T. Na111e six of tl1e 111ost popular themes for carols? S. XYhat American seasonal song 11215 bee11 adapted i11to a Christrnas sleighing song? 9. Xhvllllf Christmas 11y'11111 are these words fron1: And tl1e sky' was bright 011 tl1at Holy' Night. O'er tl1e place wl1ere lesus lay? 10. hhlllllt German carol l1as bee11 adopted by' our state of Maryland for a state SO1lg? Answers O11 Page 31 HOLLY FOR THE HOLIDAYS 1 Continued from Page 171 l1as bee11 ruthlessly' tor11 fro111 tl1e woodland flllfl eve11 tl1reate11ed witl1 extinction before tl1e SC1'lOllS11CSS of tl1e situation was realized. Today. l1olly' l1as protection, but vigilance is necessary: for wl1at rnay' be sincere appreciation by' those of us wl1o love it is C11COlU'k1gC11lC1li to the collectors whose vandalisni l1as wrought its ruin. Because it is so appreciated, holly' l1as beeoine a treasured specnnen of almost every' 11o111e landscape. Today' 111ore tl1a11 cver befo1'c. those wl1o talae pride i11 their gardens use tl1e holly' for its beauty' tl1e year I'OUllCl klllfl especially' so at tl1e Cliristnias season. for tl1c11 it is at tl1e l1eigl1t of its beauty. Tl1e l1olly' is not 2111 llllllilllllly' difficult tree to l1'k1l1S- plant, and o11ce properly' located grows 1'cadily'. To ob- tain tl1e best results, however, it is necessary' to observe a few simple rules. Select the variety' which is best suited to y'ou1'locality'. 111 this section of tl1e United States. tl1e American llolly' tllcx opacal is best adapted. Nursery'- grow11 l1olly' trees 2ll'C wellarootcd Llllll carefully' lJI'l'll1CCl. Ylihen planted either as specimens, in groups, or ar- 22 ranged with such other erieaccous plants as rhododen-i clrons, azaleas, la11rel, a11d androniedas, they' will thrive V as i11 their woodland hornc, for thcyf are woods plants 1 Wirral are an acid 3011. 1 O11e of tl1e poi11ts of interest PCft2ll1lil1g to holly is' tllilt so111e trees have berries while others do 1lOt. T11e y FCEISOII is tl1at tl1e holly' 11215 tl1e sta111i11ate and pistillate - characteristics of certain other plants a11d unless the two types are planted i11 relatively' close proxi1nity,' wl1ere lllfly' lllily' be pollinated by' tl1e bees or tl1e winds, tl1e fruit of tl1e pistillate variety' does llOt 1'llJCl1. 1 Here at Towson Nurseries, tl1e berry'-bearing trees are carefully' labeled. Nevertheless, we 1'CCOT1I1l1CIlCl tl1at 11olly' trees be pla11ted in groups eo11tai11i11g both the starninate and pistillate types, as this is tl1e only' certain way' of see11ring proper pollination. Add a few holly' trees to your garden this Cliristmas. They' are available in any' size fron1 speein1e11s of only several feet to large trees of great beauty: Your family will appreciate the tradition for wl1iel1 they' stand, which is emphasized by' tl1e glossy: rich. green leaves and showy' red berries, so beautiful each Christmas season. ,gr YOU'D BETTER HOLD ON TO HERBERT, DEARIE PAT HERNDON As she stepped upo11 tl1e trolley' Feeling very' far fro111 jolly: S116 espied a handsome redl1ead sitting there. T110 his nose was slightly' longish. Still l1is chin was ayvfullyf strongish, And so red became her favorite color l1air! TllCl1, sl1e saw a blue eye shiningg ln l1er heart there came a pining. Of a nian with eyes like that, sl1e could be fond! Yes. l1is l1air was really' lightish. And his azure eyes so brightish Tl1at l1er favorite ty'pe of man beea111e a blonde! Then, about a rninute later. All at once, sl1e sat up straighter- For sl1e saw above tl1e crowd a tall brunette: And l1is eyes were black Hlld cl1eerisl1 And his smile so wide and dearish Tl1at sl1e understood why' Scarlet yve11t for Rl1ett! But - Xhillfill sl1e reached l1er desti11atio11. She was filled with great elation. 'Twas an a11eie11t Proverb caused her to be jolly: T110 the others IHHB' be tallish, Tl1o the 0116 y'ou've got is sinallish. l'lc's i11 y'our hands, Hllfl wortl1 three 011 tl1e trolley! TOWER LIGHT 1. ll I 4 l COMING EVENTS 'December 9-Assembly: Mr. Crook, f'Naturalist in the Rockies. rDecembcr l3-The Mummers' Play, Spring Dance, by Philip Barry Deadline for the Ianuary 'TOWER LIGHT .December 20-Museum of Art Opening: Lithographs by Mervin Iules f through December Z9j Christmas Holiday Begins - 3:00 WDecember Z2-Lyric Bronislaw Hubcrmann, Concert Violin- ist I -V January 3-llfiuseum of Art Opening: One-Man Shows, Stefan Mlawa and Max Schellinger l fthrough Ianuary Z6j Opening: The City in Graphic Arts fthrough Ianuary l2l sy Opening: Prints, Graphic, Contrasts :january 6-Regular Schedule of Classes Begins l 1 fi COLLEGE CALENDAR Friday, October 25-The Maryland State Teachers' As- sociation met in Baltimore. Alumni of the college found this an opportune time for returning to the , college. Students ventured inquiring antennae into the meetings of the State Teachers' Association. lThursday. October 31-From Hawaii. the Congo, the T Indian Reservations, the South VVing and other re- mote places came the guests of the dormitory Hal- lowc'en dinner. L'Nobody knew where the Mid- night Guests came from, in spite of the fact that l they left their marks of corn, powder, jam, and shoe polish. l Friday, November l-For the benefit of the Te-Pa-Chi Club, the Ellicott City Hilltop Players presented The Cat and the Canary in the college auditorium. Saturday, November 2-The dormitory social commit- tee sponsored the Hallowe'en dance held in the barracks The broomstick dance. the shoe dance, the girls' cutting and the cider and doughnuts are DECEMBER - 1940 NEWS not to be forgotten. There were a number of men imported for the evening. Tuesday, November 5-The college missed a number of out-of-town students and teachers who re- sponded to the call to vote. Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and lO-The Fresh- men Mothers visited their sons and daughters at the college. They were given an opportunity to confer with the teachers concerning the progress of their children here. Entertainment was provided by a violin solo, the Glee Club, the Girls' Chorus, Freshman 6, and the Physical Education Depart- ment. Tuesday, November 12-The Sophomore Class gave a Fashion Show in the auditorium. Afternoon and evening clothes for men and women were modeled and commented upon. Thursday, November 14-The first school term closed. Friday, November l5-Dormitory Dance. ,Qi FRESHMEN MOTHERS' WEEK-END SUE BAKER On a Saturday morning not many weeks ago, dust flew in certain dormitory rooms and girls scurried up- stairs and down with armfuls of belongings. The cause of this sudden industry? Freshmen Mothers' XVeek- End, of course. For weeks the freshmen. filled with details from upperelassmen of the good times which they had enjoyed, had looked forward to this partie- ular week-end. After lunch that Saturday mothers began arriving and were welcomed eagerly! Suitcases were quickly un- packed and with but a few seconds for last-minute primping, all were caught up in a quick succession of events. A tea, lasting from two until four o'clock, where members of the faculty met and talked with the moth- ers was iirst on the program. This was followed by :i group picture taken outside of the main entrance to Newell Hall. The mothers then returned to Richmond Hall Parlor to participate in a discussion conducted by Dr. VViedefeld. 23 FE Lai? i JU? Q i - M W-nf' .sw-Um '1? TffC'i ,iff 210 -,nat ace AVN .L l'IQ1'! 'Iago ' Lrarifl Tf-ms A - B-.A Q E fartxvixr ' ' j l ' fm nm- 1 -f 1' EJ-eqLASr Ms' ut'-17 13 v U EL N -jp ' tr kill-4399 H' - 5:-if-' ' T 121- ir PRY Baer' A if-llwi 'npaflfgsiwia i I T 1 sru .ofwr ,gazy 51 wEss5iiiAqL,fr- ni M15 6 17l7Lg:mH071dH Afgvfffs 0- sc lm 4 DIMN fC E IN CGQ. 0 ff. B-Mn Q- uri' sos : . i -' . v , v N90 . J , .1 5 j 69 gl 6: 85 1 L x, 2 W V- vi 9 -1 i' t ? 7G'f7-jt'1i5 T33 ix 1 j agiffff F' . N in Lwiwi Y j I :K i s If X-if . 1, . i. . 1-21.4 '- ' .1 jj, sy. 'til '-75 s q 2 : j V Q I 3 f U gf fa fp j Ti 'Qi F Q 6' ii j .- X . x -WMM .,.,...A..a..,..,..,.,, DREAMS g .TNA UZ F - ,mag aLa17,.,. 'ffpg ii Offft -A A ' , Q .5-X G AMS WANY Wfse-GE I I tin afcmc M Q Q ' I Qi P epav-:ts tl VLN- J X . 'j CLFFIE F0721 5t d 'f L vial ,ga-3-an g 1 ivy Mensa: Bog f L -' - Lfif-L. .- 4 K f.'.'. n-el'.':aL U2' - Xe' At six o'clock candlelight dinner. with a faculty host or hostess at each table. was served in grand style by student waitresses. Following dinner there was enter- tainment fincluding piano and violin solos. games. folk dancing. and singing by the Clee Club and Freshmen Cirls' Chorus! in the foyer. This concluded scheduled activities for the day and mothers and daughters en- tertained themselves for the remainder of the evening. Sunday morning found everyone refreshed and ready for church attendance. Fathers as well as mothers were invited to Sunday dinner. The farewells on Sunday afternoon were postponed until the last possible moment. Most of our freshmen were happier than at any time since entering college. ,er THE MARSHALS Vnxeixu RooP The Marshals, one of the least familiar organizations in the school. is one of the most active. NVhen things run smoothly thc pcrson or persons responsible for this are not noticed. This is the keynote of the work done by the Marshals. They are in turn ushers. policemen. ad- visers always ready to help anyone in doubt. Have you noticed how quickly the assembly is filled? That the music books are ready for use and put away without con- fusion? These routine matters are carried on quietly and efficiently by the Marshals. Of every Marshal is required responsibility, initiative. cooperation. reliability. prompt- ness. sincerity. A'The Cat and thc Canary. the play sponsored by the Te Pa Chi Club. was just one more instance in which 24 the Marshals were ready to serve. YVhcnevcr a large group of people are congregated in a strange place a certain amount of guidance is needed to prevent con- fusion. The Marshals met the people, helped them find? their seats. passed out programs. attended to the light-L ing. and answered any pertinent questions. The above gives you some idea as to just what the Marshals are responsible for. If there are any further. questions. ask a Marshal - he will tell you. ,ea A S S E M B L I E S ALICE CARR Lynn B. Poole - The Arts and the W'orld Crisis. Oc- tober 28. Mr. Poole. Director of the XValters Art Gallery. pre- sented a long-range view of the effect of the present world crisis on art. This question is of importance be- cause all tlie arts are based on man's emotions. his works. his beliefs. and his dreams. Since this is true. the greatest periods in art were born in times of upheaval, social unrest. or religious change. He cited as an ex- ample the effect of the French Revolution on art. In our own time. totalitarianism tleaving America the last stronghold for freedom in the artsj has destroyed the new art and individual creativeness. Therefore. what we are doing now and what we will do after the war is over will be of utmost importance. Each one of us, as a future teacher and citizen of a democratic country, has the opportunity to arouse interest in the arts and set up standards of appreciation. No longer should Europe be our modelg the spirit and beauty of America should be expressed in art. in music. and in literature. Dr. Stienmeyer - Living in a Changing W'orld. November 4. Dr. Stienmeyer, of the political science department of the University of Maryland. delivered a thought-pro- voking message. Now is the time to dream about chang- ing the world. and this is Americas responsibility and privilege. The experiences of the European must form the basis for our action. Primarily. we must recognize the value of a strong belief in something. a high morale. France. Norway. and many of the other conquered na- tions lacked this strong feeling. In totalitarian coun- tries. a blind belief has been built up by means of speeches. music. uniforms. and gestures. Of course. we agree with neither the objectives of those countries nor the means they have used to achieve them. However. unless our belief in democracy and self-discipline are as strong as their belief in dicta- QContinued on Page ZTH TOWER LIGHT ll l- 1 4 1 3 1 i 1 4 1 i 1 I EDITORIALS ,ontmued from Pige l6J is not only an impressive I t it is in alarming one Irrance and England, the her large democracies, ein no longer be considered as France is now a mere sham of 1 country. Half of it is the power of the Nazi regime md the other half struggling s ihantls but rither hopelessly, for istenee I need not mention the condition in which England ids herself todas I-Ier peril is 1 constant worry to ose of us in the United States whose sympathy is ith her Flhere is good cause for tlns anxiety, for Eng- nd is shedding her life blood, and each day her danger ows If Hitler conquers tlns valorous and admirable peo- e what ssill be the effect upon us? XV e all shudder v think of the prospect for sve hold our principles of imocraey too dear to let them slip easily through our agers But whs is it that we are still democratic in the truest use of the ss ord? I feel that it is because the youth of menca through each successive generation, has been inded and has cherished the triditions of the first eat fathers of this countrv Ans thing which has been easured for so mins generations is not likely to be ghtlv east aside The south of todas ire hoss eyer far more critical democracv than the south of .mv other era have 1red to be XVC should be grateful for this criticism, ir demociacs IS not 1 principle which has been set oss n in i book for ill to read ind perhaps memorize. is not an unsreldmg unchangeable doctrine. De- iocracy is a way of life a living breathing thing in ae same ss as that a fire is and like a flame it must be ourished or it will perish ust as wind fans a fire so ie stiff breeae of criticism ss ill keep alive the spark if democracy and tne flickering flame will grow and Jread Xouth must ippoint itself the guardian of the re and must keep it glowing brightly But what of the south sy hose los iltv has ssverved to llaziism Communism or some other cause. alien to pe purpose of democracy? Perhaps I am wrong. but believe that they become supnorters of those foreign lauses for an inescapable reason. I think that most peo- le will agree that 'i great majority of these unfortunate ouths belong to the army of unemployed, who, being lle have become easy prey for the silver-tongucd ad- ocates of the ' isms. But I honestly believe that these oung people have been led blindly and unwillingly DECEMBER - 1940 I rg 1. 7. il I ,I . Y A Y . 1 l V fb , X 1 :Y ' Z: ' I D I cf I ' 9 2 an 'eh. . C ' ' ' 1 . T ' o ' ' N fp ' 'ry 3 - X. ' 1 ' , ' , 1 . I I U Y I I ' i . . 1 ' ' I I I r ' I I I J P ' .3 I V 1 , I' 1-U u Q' 1 D I' I , . . . 1' 7 ' , 2 I' ' .' .I an 2 f ' D . I ' , . V . Y , -' 1 L v v 1' I- ' ' 234 , I y . y . . y . . C I , ' 2 ' 2 ' .a , , yi vf' , ' ge' X, J ' ' I - - ' Y 3 . . . . . I f . . I C I f v 1 . ' . 4,7 I . 7 . ' ' I ' Y , . D 1 , ' .' ' g f. E 1 C if y .fl A ll L 3 I I I' D L o lr v : . H y C y c I I I into the fold of these wolves in sheeps' clothing. They need a shock, such as a war or other major crisis to awaken them to the fact their country is the finest in the world. In the event of such a crisis I am sure that these youths would once again return to the cause they have temporarily deserted - the cause of democracy. This is what I feel that American youth think of dc- mocraey. I sincerely hope and believe that the youth of today are willing and eager to carry the torch of de- mocracy onwards and upwards to a higher level than it has ever reached beforeg that they are willing and eager to defend this most precious possession against any aggressor, and that they are placing their faith. as the people of America have for generation after generation. in the will of God. ,hr ITS A NICE IDEA GORDON FORRER SHULES In 1936 Dale Carnegie published his book How to VVin Friends and Influence People. It caused quite a stir among the best-seller readers of the country and was roundly criticized as a handbook of insineerity. For a man, and a Ph.D. at that. to commercialize human relations to such an extent svas unbelievable. After a period of time the protest rose as did the royalties and it began to look as if people were protesting too muchf' XVC have had occasion to come in contact with per- sons in and out of our immediate environment who. after the first copy had rolled from the presses. were ready to fight at the drop of a Carnegie. XVC had a hard time understanding this so we investigated the contents of a popular edition Q39 cents at all drug storesl. XVe read the book, in fact. we read the book twice and marveled that one can make money by ex- pounding the things that every politician knows. Dr. Carnegie hadn't even been subtle. He called a spade a spade. XVe have recently realized that Dr. Carnegie wasnt proposing anything new. He was merely bring- ing to light an American custom which preceded the time the Dutch got Manhattan Island - that of telling the Indians how stunning they would look in neck- laces. YVe noticed that the critics were strongly against unethical methods of furthering social relationships. They vehemently declared themselves in favor of straightforward facts without diplomatic embellish- ments. So we tried straight-from-the-shoulder stuff, 1:Xh woe, ah svoell And then we looked again and this time at the critics, lt was another case of the mote in the eye. How human they were . . . supporting in fact that which they denounced in theory. And that 25 CLASSIC CANIPUS STYLES from IIGCIISCIIILD K 0llN 8: C0. B3lf,illl0P0 Manufacturing Zemeler ani: Matchmaker HARRY C. LANGGOOD Skilled Watch, Cloclc, Jewelry, Eye Glass and Fountain Pen Repairing 402 YORK ROAD TOWSON, MD. LEXINGTON AND HoLL1Ns MARKETS PHONES: PLAZA 2510, 2511 D. CALLAHAN'S SONS, Inc. 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Little Fritz wa taught to smile cherubically and tell his teacher wha a nice time hc had had at the Christmas party whei really he had been bored to the nails. l'1'hc idea of thal man, Carncgielg And hovv the teachers loved it ivliei' Mary in her simple, frank, unsophisticatcd xvay lol yeah?j said that she liked them. lAnd to think thai' Dr. Carnegie would suggest that xvc compliment pee ple to gain their friendshiplj I Hypocrisy in our country may develop along witl the socialization of the individual. XVe pass no judg ment as to its being good or bad, but observation show' its effectiveness in dealing with others. And sorrow frilly enough it isn't contincd just to speaking. Critieizr democracy cleverly and no one realizes it is criticism bare your opinions and you become something very terrible like the big bad xvolf or a communist. Put you? criticism conventionally and your goose is cooked adroitlyf place it betyveen the lines and people think you are very clever. All of us have a bit of the artist in us. Combine thisi with euphuistic t'tact and you have a politician. And a politician is undoubtedly a very influential man KQ. E. D.j Tact, as yve have shoyvn. is indispensable ir our relationships with others and therefore yve can only partly understand the criticisms of How to W'i11 Friends and Influence People. lCcrtainly a most legitimate objectivej XVe arbitrarily divide hypocrisy into twc classes, that which is unconscious and that xvhich is conscious, XVe cannot get axvay from the former or ayvay yvith the latter. XVe thank Dr. Carnegie for his instructive book but we remain a hopeless iconoclast. XVe should like to re- form the situation and yve feel that the reform should take place at the source, the home and the school. XVe, like Mr. XVillkic, concede that it is hopeless, but at any rate, it's a nice idea. Telephone: PLAZA 2056 F. W. KROI-I 84 CO. QR. T. BURKE, Ownerl WHOLESALE FRUITS and PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCI-IANTS 210-212-214 W. PRATT ST. :: BALTIMORE, MD. 26 TOWER LIGHT I I I I COLLEGE NEWS ilflontinued from Page 245 torship and externally im- ibsed discipline, we shall not remain free. A people are lee only as long as they deserve to be free was his final I I f - I. arning and challenge. 'Iovember ll, 19-I0 In a year when Armistice Day should mean more ian ever to the peace-loving American population, state Teachers College observed the occasion with an inpressive Armistice Day program. As an audience of fudents and faculty. we heard expressed through the aedia of poetry and prose, the ever-present desire for feace. A very suitable passage from the Bible was read Alt the beginning of the program. At eleven o'clock we had a minute of silent meditation. Then the program ivontinued with several selections of poetry and prose nterpreted for us by some of our students. The readings ,allowed one another with no interruptions and were very well done. Surely everyone was touched with a peeling of sorrow and regret for the last conflict in Ivhich we were engaged and felt a fervent wish that the I wresent terrible wars will not involve our country. I I, 'AThat's line, dear, said the mother joyfully. 'AVVhat vas it in? If Fifty in readin' and fifty in spellin'. I got a hundred in school this morning. Id r I owson ursertes I t INCORPORATED TOYV SON MARYLAND c,xLvERT 58204321-5322 SEA F0005 MACE PBMJUCE 130. Ilnlzolesale jobbers in Ii FRUITS, VEGETABLES, EGGS, POULTRY A IIEPACICED 'l'0lVlA'l'0ES if FREE DELIVERIES 20-28 K 30 MARKET PLACE :: BALTIMORE, BID. II DECEMBER - 1940 Compliments of . . . MARYLAND HOTEL SUPPLY COMPANY 227 Hanover Street TUXEDO 1516 EVERGREEN 200 T Charles S. Austin, Jr. fjfnafunacdal' 6709 YORK ROAD COR. MURDOCK STONELEIGH The complete dance or party ensemble includes 4 cormge GIVE A GIFT WITH A SCHOOL OR LODGE SEAL THE .lllllll 'I'll0lII'lEllBBO'I' IU. 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Thcl Mens Club voted its support. I was glad. I was doubt! ful. I stood and said as much. I predicted ten men or' the field the Hrst week. I The first week arrived. Forty men plavcd soccer. second week arrived. Fortv men plaved soccer. I was wrong - shamefullv and unequivocally. I was glad. And I am proud. proud and delighted that the men of State' Teachers College have finallv shown themselves to be virile enough to stav after three o'cloek to go out on the athletic field and work up a genuine sweat, not pol-f luted bv the ink of a credit on a report card. Since sports have never been given their legitimate . . . . . I status in the college, it is espeeiallv heartening to see students start such a program and then support it en- thusiasticallv. If, after such a successful beginning, the men students allow the intramural program to be poi- soned and killed bv the prevailing lust to outcrain one's neighbors at anv cost, the men don't deserve athletics- anv athletics. In such a case a schedule of hop scotch in the C-len, and on rainy davs. rhythms in the fover would be quite appropriate. Q, gl ' . D G o L F Q M Tonx Hoizsr x IT ALL began manv vears ago in Holland and Belgium. Golf as plaved then was a far crv from the brand played todav. The Dutch enioved their golf on ice but they found that it was quite a hindrance to sink the ball in a hole in the ice. It was usuallv the custom to wait until the spring thaw to regain the lost balls. Now von and I know that such a procedure would be impossible in Scotland. XYhen the game attained favor in Scotland. the Scots took to the land. Their love for the game was not exceeded bv their love for the golf ball. It was not unusual to see a cannv Scot scouring the rough scrub for his ball and spending more time there than plaving the game. The clubs used were rough and poorlv balanced but Angus KIcDutf didn't mind. lrle just loved to spend his spare time whacking the ball over hill and heather. In 1603. with the reign of King Iamcs the First. golf was introduced to England. Onlv the wealthy lords TOWER LIGHT if the court enjoyed the game. however. Two hundred fears later the game began to catch on. You know these lnglish. The game spread. Canada. India. and other Brit- ish possessions adopted it in the nineteenth century. In l89-I the United States Golf Association was organized. I about four clubs belonged to this body. Today nearly very city has at least one golf club belonging to the J. S. G. A. I I So you'd like to know why golf is golf, I'll tell you. fllhe Scotch word for blow or strike was gouf. Since old lXngus did manage to gouf the ball every third time he iawung at it. he called the game gouf. Simple, isn't it? T he present-day word is an extraction from the old Scotch. After hearing some of the American folk ex- lnressions often used on the golf course after dubbing li shot, you. dear reader, will understand why golf is fthe accepted word. .I All kinds of people play golf. This is because even the idub can find some good in the game. The golf expert fmakes his round of golf a skillful contest. He makes use ,of winds. clubs, English and other twists that make the Iiball behave beautifully. The dub uses sheer will power 'and grit. He whacks the ball and prays. At least he is ,getting fine exercise and probably a stiff neck looking F . for lost balls. The rich play golf on private club links. The poor man plays on the public links, of which there are many. But rich or poor, expert or dub plays and en- joys golf. A.lII9llIIlIIIIIlINlIlII IINIIIDGITIIESS On Saturday. October twenty-sixth. some of the mem- bers of the class of 1925 met for breakfast at the Oriole Cafeteria on North Ayenue, Those who attended were Hope Creenwell, Mary Moss, Nellie Tones, Martha Sea- man, Anna Trail, Lenna Baker Burgess, Lionel Burgess. Helen Ehlers, Ciril McAllister, Harold KIcCann. Bessie Arterbnrn Rich, and Ruth Freck Plant. Xlr. and Mrs. Burgess were accompanied by their two sons and Mrs. Plant brought her little boy. Bliss Scarborough had ac- cepted an invitation to join thc class of IQ36 but atc her breakfast in courses so that she could visit with everyone. In the exchange of news Harold McCann proudly announced that he has recently acquired a son. ,rf ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY UNIT OE S. T. C. COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Anne Arundel County Unit of the State Teach- ers Collcge Alumni Association met in Annapolis on October Zlst, I9-IU. The president. Ilammond Cant- well. presided. DECEMBER - 1940 E N C I-I M A N I.SOPHER,PROP I3 I2 0 S . exam Qlaaa swam femzea HARDWARE - PAINTS AND HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS 4703-4705 LIBERTY HEIGHTS AVENUE PHONE LIBERTY 9058 A Deposit of 51.00 Opens fl Cbecking Account in the CHECKMASTER Plan at The Uliutnsun jliatiunal Bank TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is Ere cents for each check drawn and eacli deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 Masorfs Service Station Betbolifze - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 2-I-Hour Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 COAIPLIMENTS OF - H. STREET BALDWIN BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. HAUT COMMISSIONERS OI BALTIMORE COUNTY Open Your Bank Account IVitb Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOYVN, IXID. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited H at ll B CIIEI EIYS IN T0!VSON L N LEHTHER GOODS TO SUIT EVERY NEED GIFTS THHT FIRE UNUSUAL Wallets, Belts, Bags, Suit Cases, Swank Iewelry, Botany Ties, Sport Iewelry 71 I ' DOG FURNISHINGS I DESIGNED 8. MADE IN Towson . I ,, SHDDLERY OF HLL DESCRIPTIONS All Types oi Leather Items Experlly Repairecl J. Rl. Buclleimer of Towson U One Square east from the Enqme House on Sl-IEFILEY at DELPIWHRE HVENUE OPEN ON SFITURDHY NITES COLLEGE WH RDR OBE E4 VORITES ! SPORTLEIGH CLASSIC COATS Beloved favorites for campus parading and all outdoors. . Sizes 9 to I5 at A Huh Exclusive' ,Iuninr ,Iliss SIIOIIYSPCOIIII Floor T H E I-IIBIIH H U B --Of Charles Street 30 I I The president appointed a committee of three, Mrs Andrew, Mrs. Morton, and Mr. Evans, to take care o thc groups annual contribution to the State Teacher. College. The new members, recent graduates of State Teach ers College, were introduced by the president. Mis: Grace Carroll, State President of the Alumni Associa tion, was also introduced. Miss Scarborough extended greetings to the group. 4 Dr. NViedefeld spoke of the 75th anniversary of State Teachers College. The activities begin on Ianuary 19th with a Founders' Day celebration. There will bc varied activities through Commencement XVeek. Dr. NViede- feld also spoke of means of raising money to finance the program. The speaker of the evening. Lieutenant Boundy, a native Alaskan, gave a very worthwhile talk on the natural beauty and the economic and social condition of Alaska. After adjournment refreshments were served, -Elizabeth Nutwell Catterton. gr KAPPA DELTA PI NEWS In keeping with the theme. Know Baltimore, Rich- ard Carl Medford, recently appointed Director of the Peale Museum, was guest speaker at a luncheon given by the Epsilon Alpha chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, na- tional honor society in education. in the ballroom of the Stafford Hotel at I p. m. on Saturday. October 26th. Because the group which he addressed is composed chiefly of teachers and school administrators. Mr. Med- ford planned to discuss the historical and educational facilities offered to students and research workers by the Peale Museum. The Epsilon Alpha chapter of Kappa Delta Pi was established at the State Teachers College at Towson, Maryland, February 17th, I9-IO. The purpose of the or- ganization is to encourage high intellectual and schol- astic standards and to recognize outstanding contribu- tions to education. The officers of thc local group are: lXIrs. R. P. Harriss. presidentg Marion Cunningham. vice-presidentg Frances L. Iones. Secretary: Malcolm Da- vies, treasurcrg Harold E. Moser. counselor: Charles A. Haslup, historian-recorder. ,gr FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE EVELYN A. FIEDLER Dr. Thomas G. Pullcn, Assistant Superintendent of Education in Maryland, and Dr. Harry Vance Hollo- way, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Delaware, TOWER LIGHT ,are initiated as honorary members of Epsilon Alpha lhapter, Kappa Delta Pi, on November 16th, 1940. A 'hapter of this national honor society in education may ominate to honorary membership each year two per- 'lnns of outstanding service in the field of education. It the suggestion of Dr. XVilliam C. Bagley. Dr. Pullen jid Dr. Holloway were nominated by the local chapter. , In addition to these first honorary members of Epsi- 'wn Alpha Chapter. there was present at the Saturday fternoon meeting in Richmond Hall Parlor another Qifuest, who has had long experience in the work of the bciety. Miss Anna D. I-Ialberg. of XVilson Teachers ilollege, XVashington, D. C., conveyed the greetings ff the XVilson chapter to the chapter at Towson. Her report of the activities of Delta Lambda chapter should i-rove helpful to the local chapter, still in its first year. i The meeting on November 16th was the third of the teason. The next will be held in conjunction with the founders' Day celebration on Ianuary 19th. This is oartieularly appropriate since the very formation of the Kappa Delta Pi is an important addition to an already rich heritage of the college, developed in three-quarters Inf a century. ANSVVERS K 5 1. The term carol was used to name the medieval cir- cle dances which were danced by the nobility on festival days. The two principal derivatives of the word are: Charos fCreelcj: meaning dancing and singing Kyrriole fAnglo-Saxonj: meaning Lord. 2. There is only a slight distinction between Carol and Christmas Hymn: Hymn: a religious poem of lyrical character, usu- ally songs of praise, formally composed. Carols: more secular songs about Christmas def rivcd from old folk tunes, usually festive and playful. 3. The story behind it is of a little girl who dreamed that her Christmas toys and dolls had come to life. 4. Father Christmas. 5. Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly! 6. French, Latin, English, W'elsh, German. 7. CLullabies and cradle songsj to the Christ Child Songs of the shepherds Songs of the angels Songs about the glory of the night Songs to the Virgin Songs about the Magi or the Three XVisc Men. S. ulingle Bells. 9. The Birthday of a King, YV. H. Neidlinger. 10. O Tannebaum or The Christmas Tree. DECEMBER - 1940 CHRISTMAS SHGPPING IS LOTS OF FUN AT HUTZLER BFQTHEIQ GE Come in mm' wa!! help you shop-and Iferidef will gift wrap, mail 01' deliver your prerefztr. SQ ieraiaasiea icrcria SQ SQ SQ SQ SQ SQ SQ 0 SQ SQ W SQ 6 SQ z SQ .4 Sl SQ SQ 119118 N. Cllarles Street SQ LEROY Y. HAILE li li 1, if l l Any girl can be gay In a classy coupe: In a taxi they all can be jolly. But the girl worthwhile Is the girl who can smile XVhcn you'rc taking her home in a trolley. Methinks George H. has a bad cold. He brings Quinan to every dance. Editor: This line is devoted to Philip. Reader: To Philip who? Editor: To Philip Space. Brother lrusliing into room lx Sister has fell out the window. Mother tan ex -teacherj: Don't say fell. say fallen Teacher: Susie, what do people do to bring water into dry lands so that gardens will grow? Susie: They irritate the land. Dentist: You say you've never had a tooth filled. yet I find Hakes of metal on my drill. Xliserable Plebe: That was my collar button. SDW SINCE IT is the policy of this column to please the majority of the students of the college. we feel that the letter of protest in last month's Towisn LIGHT was fully justifiable and action has been taken on the matter. After hearing of Mr. Phelps' daring ride on the night of November I-ith. wc might suggest that he stick to parking instead of driving. Better Late Than Never VVliy did the president of the Student Council turn out the light by her chair at the Senior Benefit Dance? One of the fifthfgrade children at Stoneleigh went home and told his father that his student teachers were father and son. Now we can call them Pop Stottyn and Iunior Shock. Iflow about it. 'bla Coulsonn? A new twist to an old affair has taken place. Someone. guess who. has induced Sam Clopper to take up danc- ing. The Dorm Dance was his first public appearance. 32 Prof.:'I'his exam will be conducted on the honor sys-. tcm. Please take seats three seats apart and in alternatej rows. During the filming of 'ANapoleon. someone Ie- marked to Ricardo Cortez that the movie ought to have a happy ending. They're giving it one. Ric retorted. A'they're letting Napoleon win the Battle of XVaterloo. Maggie. tell Mrs. Brown I am not at home. Robert has just told nie a deliberate falsehood about the pie and I must punish him severely. J. J. .e j f.- -f '.- Absorbed motorist after running over man: Gee whiz. XV hat a chicken! Q J, .-. J. ' 4- '.- -.- I Mother: Bobby. did you do anything besides eat af the Sunday School picnic? I Bobby: Oh, yes. YV e sang a song called VVe Cari Sing. Full Though YVe Be. It was revealed to be the hymn XVeak and Sinful Though YVe Be. i .-. .-. .D 1 f.- -- fi- XVho invented the hole in the doughnut? Oh, some fresh-air fiend. I suppose. lltillfkfllli A couple of freshmen in Mr. Crook's class were ad- miring an aquarium which they had just completed. One asked the other if she thought that it was balanced. The second. a bit dubious. replied. It may be bal-. aneed but I think there are more plants on one side than on the other. Does Mary Swartz think that he is the D.est thing she ever saw? XVarren Ely Culbertson is the latest to fall prey to a woman. Vie understand her first name is Evelyn. XVhat's this? Some of the dorm girls reversed the pro- cedure by giving a leap year party! In closing may I quote last month's writer. who un- doubtedly was quoting some other person: Knockers never work. W'orkers never knock. Until next month. so long and - So XVhat! TOWER LIGHT WH. 4 Q.,-,v .,. .H . ,.. . v lp H . I-:I .. -.X .rf-', ,1' v 41- , . , - . ' I-A-. gl L. , v. K4-f . .' A' . . . vu ,, ,f ' . .yn M ,JW , A .-fa :- H. V4 is 3, x.,.,',, .fm 6, . -3 .MT , '...V 'f ,, .. L . , 'J 7.1. ' -1 , .,, 3' ..'f.' ., .HF W 'MEL 5. lbf..1 ',. 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He says: That extra Havor in a Camel always hits the spot. - I SMOKE A LOT2 SO I SMOKE CAMELS. THEY BURN SLOWER GIVE ME EXTRA MILDNESS WITH A GRAND EXTRA FLAVOR. MORE PER PACK IS ANOTHER EXTRA I GO FOR IN no CAMELS as swim' ftv SAFELY X TRYING to tear a plane apart in mid-air is only part of test pilot Bob Fausel's job. There are long hours of engineering conferences. .. long hours of smoking. Thats where Camels extra mildness and extra cool- ness are so important. explains Bob fcenter, aborel. Camels are more than mild-they're extra mild-easy on my throat. Cigarettes that burn fast burn hot. Camels s-l-0-w way of burning means more coolness. of course. plus freedom from the irritating qualities ' gil-9. mx cool- ess ei' e110 I ' of excess heat. Smoke Camels and enjoy extra mildness, extra coolness, extra Havor-yes, and extra smoking hee belozrj. O In recent laboratory tests, Camels yxzl 4 i 7 ci burned ZSQ slower than the average , f of the 15 other of the largest-selling IQEIIVHQL brands tested-slower than any of them. f . i 'C' That means, on the average, a smoking um 'Fx plus equal to ' Q I I I if . .., Q . I TURKISH 5. I J 2 A 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK. ..g.,g5,...... . 11 .T litfviiiiiis'l'nII.I-w4'nm1i..r3 XX :i-I-in-S.I1il1. Nlf. GET THEXXEXTHASQWITH SLIIWER-BURNING CAMELS I THE STHFF 6 VOLUME XIV - - JANUARY 1941 - ' NUMBER 4 PACE 5 AA? I .lA 5 zfflhlkg H 'cl' EDITORS CHARLES GROSS PATRICIA IIERNDON FRANCES SHORES IAIXIES IET1' BUSINESS MANAGERS IOIIN EDWARD KooN'rz CIATIIERINE CRAY CIRCULATION ADVERTISING Margaret Heck Norma Gainbrill Margaret Gunnells Annetta AVright Muriel Frames Margaret Lowry Ican Connor Virginia Roop DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Art Sfieuce Audrey Pramsehufer lohn Chilcoat Marguerite XVilson Katherine Decker Charles Guertler Athletics Nolan Chipinan lohn Horst Audrey Mercer College Events Helen Picek Nancy Metzger lohn Barehani Fashions Ellen Elste Shirley Hicks General Lilerrztzlre Ieannctte Ulrich Mindellc Kann Lois Cheetharn Humor Frederica BICCICTIIILIIIIIISCC McCarriar Sibyl Davis Editorials Genevieve Haile Mary Simon Gordon F. Shnles Axxemblies Alice Carr Helen Pross Mildred Snyder ALICE MUNN Inle Thompson Ahna Mc-Avoy Margaret Zilhnor Library Mary Di Peppi Doris Klank Katherine Petroft Music Sylvia Gelwasser Ruth Malcson - Alanaging Editor THOUGHTS ON THE NEXV YEARA I OUR FOUNDERS' .,.,,. 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PATRICIA I-IERNDON ET ME LIVE eaeh moment of this eoming year with an open heart and a willing mind. Let me laugh with honest laaghterj let me look at life through eyes that see the hest and not the worst, hut are not blind to need. Let me not turn aside when help is aslqed, nor close my mind to poverty and want. Let me sympathize where scorn is what the multitude is showingj instead of I'l'dlC'ZlZI'72g, let me respeetj instead of hating, let me honor -- and mine will he tlze happiest life as well as the happiest New Year! I 1111 Thought For TOITIOITOW TI-IERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORKING UNDER AN I-IONOR SYSTEM AND WORKING IN A SYSTEM WI-IERE TI-IE INDIVIDUAL IS ON HIS HONOR. TI-IESE SYSTEMS REOUIRE DIFFER- ENT TYPES OF I-IONOR RESPONSES. TI-IESE I-IONOR RESPONSES WEAVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF I-IONOR PATTERNS AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF I-IONESTINDIVIDUAL RESULTS. WI-IICI-I SYSTEM SI-IOULD PREVAIL IN A TEACI-IERS' COLLEGE? Fl 1 11 F .Y if ur ounders i 1 Li, As Is The Teacher, So Is The School l M. CLARICE Buiiscrr F THE ORIGINAL thirteen States Maryland was preach a new and startling doctrine respecting Educa- tlie seventh, in point of time, to engage in the tion: that a person requires special training to make him i' enterprise of training teachers. Previous to a good teacher, just as a man needs special training in .80-r its policy in support of education for any purpose has to grant some form of Maid to existing institutions. This policy was vigorously and successfully opposed in he Constitutional Convention of 1864 by such friends wf a State system as Henry Stockbridge, VVilliam Dan- el, and joseph M. Cushing of Baltimore City and lames L. Ridgely of Baltimore County. The Constitu- lional revisions of that year authorized the appointment ,if a State Superintendent of Public lnstructioii who Ehould immediately draw up a plan for a uniform sys- Qem of free public schools and submit it to a special session of the General Assembly to be called for its lonsideration. Accordingly, Governor A. XV. Bradford lppointed Reverend Libertus Van Bokkeleii State Su- jmerintendent on November 12, 1365. Mr. Van Bokke- len, a rector, also director of a private school in Catoiis- ville since 18-15, proceeded at once to acquire such in- jormation as could be had concerning educational con- llitions in the counties of the State, in her sister States, jind from visits to Normal Schools in the North Atlantic States. He submitted his plans on December 30, 1865. providing enthusiastically for a system of public educa- 'ion beginning with the Primary School and progress- ing through a Normal School, which was more elab- jirate than that devised by any other State in the Union. i Mr. Van Bokkelen in submitting his plan enclosed Qrhe plan of operations as submitted by Professor M. A. Newell for the new Normal School to be created. Said Mr. Van Bokkelen: ul ask attention to Professor iNlewell's report . . . because it conveys to our minds a :lear idea of what a Normal School is designed to ac- zomplish, and the important relation it bears to a ,thorough system of Public Instruction. The importance :annot be exaggerated. XVithout such an institution, 'liberally sustained and efliciently conducted, no State :an establish and maintain Public Schools which will be of any real advantage to the community. The subject no longer needs argument. lt is a maxim universally re- ceived that 'as is the teacher, so is the school', and we may add, the teacher is what his training makes him. Professor Newell's report, made after visiting several Normal Schools, states: lt is now about forty years since some bold thinkers in the Eastern States began to -JANUARY - 1941 order to become a good lawyer, a good physician, or a good mechanic. This truth, so obvious and so iinpor- tant, met with such a reception as the world generally accords to great and simple truths, when first presented. Some derided it as a truisin, some branded it as false, many accepted it in theory and rejected it in practice. Fourteen years afterwards, in the year 1839, the State of Massachusetts, urged by one of her private citizens who offered to defray half the expense, set on foot, as an experiment, three schools for the training of teach- ers. These were the pioneer Normal Schools of the United States. 'LThe Normal School, in its highest development, embraces three leading features: first. an acadeinical dc- partment where the students have the opportunity of reviewing the elementary studies, as well as of pursuing an advanced course, second, a professional school, where they learn theoretically how to organize, classify. teach, and govern a school, third, the model school, and school of practice, where they see the various operations of a school conducted after the best methods, and begin themselves to teach and govern under the direction of competent instructors. Some institutions give greater prominence to one, and some to another of these de- partments, but all agree that the co-existence and coop- eration of the three are necessary to a Normal School in its highest state of efficiency. Mr. Van Bokkelen. in support of his plans for 'four Temples of Science Cschool buildingslj uventures to appropriate an editorial from the Baltimore Sun. which, since the uniform system of Public lnstructioii was announced, has been earnest in advocating Ceneral Ed- ucation on the most liberal basis. The editor states: There is more to be effected than convenient buildings to the comfort and health of pupils - the tastes and habits of children are to be formed, their ideas of thc beautiful, their whole moral natures are to bc influenced in the school room - and all these are colored by cx- ternal objects. lf the boy looks for years upon ill-shaped apartments and gloomy walls, upon thc extcrnals and the interior of a school room from which harniony of proportion, of brightness, of coloring and varicty of out- line have been banished, his character will proportion- 3 ately become impervious to the amenities which the constant presence of the beautiful imparts to all. even those apparently insensible to its effects. We would have the walls of the interior, not bare as they now are. but cheerful with maps. engravings. and drawings: even the bright landscapes which the paper-hanger can. for a few dollars. put upon the walls, all afford food for thought. subjects of study, means of moral and mental improve- ments to be taken in through the silent urehins' restless eyes, and to be impressed upon their quick beating hearts, Flowers and trees, too. ought to be properly distributed about the buildings. with a view to shade and ornament . . . Men do not think of these things ' they ought: but as a part of our improvement in educ: tion, we expect women to be extensively employed i our primary schools ...i -X llow our teachers, in the a rangements of their schools, to avail of all the accesso ies we have hinted at, and the next generation wi' witness a refinement of taste and manners, and i provement in morals, an elevation of thought and feeli in the everyday life of society. the absence of which i the American character is so painfully noticeable strangers. -Extracts from Historical Reports. 3 eet The Governor! An Interview by the Editors IN AN EON or two from now when some one examines the archives of the TowER LIGHT office for historical data they will find a communication from a certain Herbert R. O'Conor. The letter will say that His Ex- cellency Qhe was Governor then, you knowj would be delighted to see two members of the staff on December 3. 1940 AD. If the Towiziz Lrerrr has achieved greater things by then they will probably scoffg if it hasn't per- haps they will think of their predecessors as pioneers. But, whatever posterity decides. the two writers of this article will remember a certain XVednesday afternoon when they waited to be ushered into the presence of the Chief Executive of Maryland. There were other persons waiting to see the Governor, A first surmise was that they were some variety of politicians. Mr. O'Conor later verified the hypothesis. Being in daily contact with hundreds of individ- uals involved in various occupations and professions, the Chief Executive left not the slightest doubt in our minds that he placed education as the point from which all activities should radiate if any degree of success or efficiency is expected. Mr. O'Conor's atti- tude toward the educational agencies of the State is far from passive. He is anxiously awaiting the pub- lication of the results of the State survey. This infor- mation he says will prove very valuable as a basis for determining the advisability of adding a grade to the regular seven years of elementary school, the adequacy of the teacher training institutions. and the growing need for expansion of present facilities, Focusing his conversation on our needs the Governor was especially 4 reassuring concerning the proposed gymnasium at To son. He seemed to feel that our hopes of the past fev years will materialize with the action of the 1941 legis lature. Governor O'Conor believes the citizens of the State are doubly aware of the necessity for physical lit ness since the recent reports from the Naval Examina tion Board disclosed that Z6 out of 27 applicants wen found to be physically unit, and keenly as he observes he naturally expects colleges such as ours will lead th way to aid in the defense of our nation. through a more extensive health program. Though the Governor gives due consideration t the educational system he is likewise concerned witf other pressing affairs of state. His time is not his own but to all visitors there is a cordial, yet sincere welcome Upon leaving the office of the Chief Executive of Mary land, one feels that he has met a genuine personality truly capable of furthering those policies in which Mary land holds a sacred trust. SEA RHAPSODY XYhere pounds the sea in fury turbulent: XYhere calls the wave salt-scented. vaguely stirring: XYhere scurry pipers swift. intent. oblivious: XVhere froths the spume and wisp-like floats away: There stands transiixed the wild untrammeled spirit Held still in wonder at his Lord's display. Ann K. Neumeister. Ir. T Sp. TOWER LIGHT fl ri Another Letter to a Friend if EAR JOHN: G .Q When I promised to look at what some of the con- liripts for peace had done and write again, I hardly Ipalized the extent of my promise. At times, though, I yonder, if it were not for the rut of tradition in which iyrciety runs, if there would be any need of anyone to l ork for peace today - modern war fails so obviously 1 defend, is so obviously unnecessary, futile, insane, id horrible. No longer are mercenaries on the market. 0 gain support for wars govermnents must continually fare the population with boogy-boo tales of invasion, reach sermon after sermon on the hypothetical en- :ny's wickedness and its own people's righteousness, id after using every other threat Qpromise and eajol- yy, resort to conscription to raise an army. Plainly the leople want peace. 1 Yet wars are worse than ever. Nations proclaim their im of final peace and then follow policies that make ieaee impossible. No wonder you and I and others of gmur age sometimes think the world is crazy. Long ago nan gave up trying to cure his physical ills by beating in drums, making funny faces, and repeating magic f'ords. Yet today our political witch doctors try to cure fur social ills by cave-man methods: beating on drums, iiaking funny faces at a supposed enemy, and blindly fapeating, 'tBritons never will be slavesf' f'Me und :lott, or I'm proud to be an American. Man has lome a long way from the savage by using his brain to 'earn to live with nature. Now it seems he must use his rain to learn to live with himself or else perish. On lhe belief that reason is more efficacious than magic, an litelligent program for peace can be divided into three y-arts: a long-range international plan for research Iito ways of identifying and removing the causes of war, IZQ an immediate personal plan based on the fact that faeh individual is the ultimate operational unit, and '35 a short-range national plan to provide the 'fmoral quivalent' of war, further the long-range plan, and suc- ieed where war has failed - defend from possible in- Vasion. In this letter and my next I'll go over them one ly one, Iohn. and relate what I found. Identifying and eradicating the causes of war is a iard, unending job. It is easy, too easy, to pass the whole hing Off with, it's human naturef' that madman, Ir by calling all Germans Huns and all Englishmen mypocrites. No, Iohn, that is just more witch-doetoring, in excuse for not thinking. I A great deal of thinking was done. however. by a great many men after the suffering of the XVorld XVar. .nd a great many books resulted. XV e find there is an IANUARY - 19M amazing agreement on the real causes of modern wars. The real culprits are well known: nationalism, militar- ism, and imperialism, the psychology behind them, and the outgrowths from them. There are the fifth-column- ists in every nation sabotaging our whole civilization. These are the tyrants that are holding us all in bondage. Let's look at imperialism, alias international banditry. Led by the great god Profit, a group of men usually organized into a company, Hrst financially, and then physically invade an unarmed and unindustrialized country, butcher half the population, and enslave and exploit the other half. These imperialists then explain the behavior of their own country in terms of uplifting, civilizing, and Christianizing an inferior race. 4'The press which is owned by rich men, the interests of the invest- ing minority are always identified Qdoubtlessly in per- fectly good faithj with those of the nation as a whole. lust as in armaments mamifaeture, a few men make a handsome profit and the nation goes in debt. Econo- mists have agreed that for a nation, imperialism doesnlt pay. To L'protect our Uinterests abroad is one more excuse for an army, one more cause of war. It matters little whether a nation is a hungry or full-bellied wolf. Belgium, France, Germany, and England have all filled many a bloody page in the annals of atrocity. and our own United States has some gruesome chapters of water cure and mass murder in the Philippines. These nations need not fight each other, the common enemy is im- perialism. lust as dangerous an enemy to lasting peace as im- perialism and even more subtle is militarism, a fatalistie belief in the inevitability of war either as Hhuman na- turell or as a sociological refining process which by some mysterious alchemy rejuvenates the human race, and the contradictory advocacy of preparedness for war as the best guarantee of peace. In every nation a group of professional war-makers shape foreign policy. infect cd- ucation, and scare religion into line. This groupls argument that war is 'Lhuman nature has been repeated so often that some people are taking it for the truth. The militarist assumes at once that he knows exactly what Uhuman nature is. and that an ex- tremely complex institution like war exactly fits that nature. Quite an assumption! Man could never have inherited this nature from his animal ancestry. Aldous Iluxley writes, Man is unique in organizing mass mur- der among his own species. The anthropologists at present believe that at a time in man's early history there was no war. It seems to bc an institution very 5 similar to dueling about which the Marquis of Queens- bury wrote some years ago. a practice sanctioned by time and precedent which has withstood the raillery of the satirist, the terror of penal laws, and the admonition of the pulpit, nay, the fear of a future state could never be abolished. XVell, it has been abolished and so have infantieide, trial by torture, and witch-burning. The militarists ignore the kindness, good-will, and love exhibited predominantly in human associations and without which our business, homes, and schools could never function, without which the culture that distin- guishes man from beast could never be continued. They forget the fact that whether war or even personal fight- ing are human nature or not, man has found under- standing, tolerance, and law a much more practical means of settling his difficulties than murder. I don't believe that either you or I, Iohn, have been led to cut anybody's head off yet by our human nature. 0 i. The idea that man and his lot on this earth is irni proved by destroying his home and goods, stuffing hint full of hate and lies, and carefully selecting the best physical specimens and methodically butchering then. - the eugenics of war - is so preposterous that it if used as an excuse for war only on men about to kill anc be killed. ' The argument that preparedness for war is the bes' preparedness for peace is a little harder to answer. Perl haps the words of two outstanding advocates of this policy would help. Mr, Bismarck, the Iron Chancellori There is another advantage to be derived from thcl army bill: the very strength for which we strive will show our peaceful disposition . . . No man will dart' attack us when we have such a powerful machine as wc: wish to make the German army. English Field Marf shal Lord Roberts. 1909: MI believe, paradoxical as it may' sound. that the surest road CContinued on page 271 n the Decline of the Non-Extant PIARRY M. LONDON oxen saw a little girl, giggles and all, dressed up in clothes a more mature woman would be wearing. And when I set eyes on her. I bethought myself that here was one of intellect and one with whom I might talk and be replenished. But immediately our conversation opened, the giggles manifested themselves rather obtrusivcly and the intellectual passed out or never was. I passed her up like a bowl of peelings off the apples I had just eaten. I once saw a quarto or two of enameled paper with printing on each of the thirty or so pages it made. On the inside cover there was color and on the back cover there was color and. occasionally, there was color in some of the writing within. And when I set eyes on this quarto I bethought myself that here was one magazine of intellect with whom I might speak and be replen- ished. But immediately our conversation opened, the giggles and the transparent manifested themselves rath- er obtrusivcly and the intellectual, the universal, the powerfully vicarious. passed out or never was. But I have qualms when the matter comes to passing this paper up as I would and did the apple-peelings. Frankly speaking. I am afraid I am criticising some- what strongly, this colleges monthly magazine. the Towurz LIGHT. Is it right and proper that with the cour- 6 tesy accorded me in the form of space herein I take or the role of the borer-from-within to upset new and som old and obsolete TowER LIGHT traditions? A good many traditions are worthless. and if this be sophomore here- sy then, I fear. you must make the most of it. Ani again: were I interested in only a specific reniedying ol a certain TowER LIGHT ill, I would not have written this to waste your valuable space, and your valuable time and moneyg but in place of this. would appear some poems, maybe. Ah! Here is the point in the first place. There wouldn't be good poetry in place of this article. because the Towiziz Lrerrr hardly ever sees good poetry. My aim then, is to cause some sort of stir among you which may provoke poetry, in its most elevated sense from the poets among us lXVilliam Saroyan has said that we are ali poets at heart J. You know. there was once a time wher we considered poetry quite the thing for human literary consumption. Poetry is such a rare outburst of solvent lyrics and equally solvent thoughts that when it is good people actually read it, nay, indulge in it. I do, too XVhat we want. then, is a splendid redefinition of thc word: poetry. to supply some momentum to our argu- ments as to why you, students at State Teachers Colf lege should write poetry and more of it. TOWER LIGHT I I ien a e ow's Deen a 'inff o a Uir or a onU 'XVI fll I rlkgt glf lg Epvhile, and then she suddenly stops saying hello and good morning, and so on, and when the fellow was some- ilwfhat sensitive in the Hrst plaeeg if he is anywhere near ,llohn O'Ren's conception of a sensitive young man t f I 1 tl 1, or near my eoncep ion o a iuman young man . ren he will write poetryg a series of words in the language Qhe has always spoken. These are the experiences he has lffelt. In a word they are a very part of himg in short, when :lone writes a poem Ceven in the structure of prosel he is 'I setting off a portion of himself so that other humans ij may derive benefit of some sort either from the aesthet- ,lies of the verse and thought, or from the vieariousness Qi of the experience. 'g Now this is no college of pure intellectuals or of pure aintelleetualism. Energy-hours must, then, be expended yin some form or other, and I maintain that one of the I' forms this expenditure should come back in. is poetry. mailed to the TOWER L1er1'i', if it is not too delicately personal. This is needed if the Towicir Lreirr is to sur- vive as a read, as a fingered journal, if it is not to arise inisty-eyed enough to be even without the intellectual, soul-seeking euriosities of a young child, or the giggling girl. Am I boring from within? No. Even Miss Munn, the paper's managing editor, concurs with me and I could get support from poets if I couldnt get it from enough students here. Poetry. my lad, is the thing! I have charged you with experiencing experiences. Now set them down for the beneht, not of posterity. but of at least a somewhat prostrate Ipoeticallyp stu- dent body. P. S.-People who have already contributed good poetry to the Towiza Lrerri' needn't have bothered to read this. Just Comfortable Today, Folks I i AN You imagine anything more deserted than a r I cemetery at midnight? If not. try arriving at I our Alma Mater at about eight o'eloek in the I morningg that is, if you can summon up the will-power ,and not turn over on the other side when the alarm clock rings and mutter, UAW. let somebody else do itfl . The hall is so quiet that a book which has slipped and fallen to the floor sounds like a gun roaring over theref' About a half-hour later signs of life begin to appear. In I another twenty-nine minutes the building becomes full of the hustling human element. One certain young lady has even slipped into her seat with that just made it sigh. Let's get down to business and spend one day at good old S. T. C. First I find myself examining the epidermis of a sim- ple primary root known to us simple ones as the skin of a carrot. There are pencils to be sharpened, keen obser- vations, drawings to be made fat least they are called drawingsj , and so the period progresses. Conlidentially. I still can't look through the microscope with the left eye and keep the right eye on my paper. I guess my muscles still have not coordinated. In the next period, anything can be discussed and it usually is. Starting with the fact that being on the gold standard means individual ownership of gold, we come JANUARY - 1941 to the theory that malaria caused the downfall of the Roman Empire. You don't believe so? Ask Mr. XV. The next hour, pardon me. not quite an hour. fifty minutes it says on my schedule card. is free. Of course I should dance gaily straight down to the library. Dont tell me there is still someone living who has not heard of budgeting time. Nevertheless, despite the fact that there is much I can work on, I head for a very popular place in the Administration Building where I hear a new phenomenon stands - a coca-cola machine. New York, we are catching up! Put in a nickel. turn a knob to the right, and there before your eyes. a cup of that all-prevalent familiar drink - a coke appears. During the important discussion of whether or not school dances should be formal or informal - of course, he wants informal ones lafter all. for every dance, a corsage is - well. you knowl - the ioy-dis- turber warns us that we are due for the next class. Ilerc goes on oratory by our less fortunate classmates who still have that report to give. I must say that we are all diplomatically attentive while a bushel of statistics and legislative acts are rattled off. Probably I have endured less appealing sessions, but right now. I cant remember where or when. In all fairness the speaker has done her 7 best to enlighten us. That, dear friends, is another illu- sion shattered. There is the bell again. This time a joy bringer as we hurry to our most beloved period of all - lunch time. At a table built for six, all nine of us talk over a sandwich and the rest of our nutriment. Today may be Thurs- day, but why do work tonight when tomorrow is Friday and there stretches a beautiful week-end? I know - don't put off till tomorrow what can be done today. But if Scarlett O'I-Iara could think about things tomorrow. I E we say some school ma'rms can do the same. She did all right for herself. Don't you think so, girls? NVell, it's a great life, so off we rush to end the day in the gymnasium at the proper time and in proper at- I, tire. In our games, we always win. when not playing another college. In about forty minutes, all that is de- it sired is a cold shower and some place where no word is spoken - unusual, huh? In ten minutes we may be on the street car thinking. 'Today was regular, maybe some- j thing will happen tomorrow. V l I 0 QThe Sun - December 31, 19255 Wins First Prize in ssay ontest MISS ELSIE MARGUERITE MUNKER, a teacher at the Mordecai Gist School, Oakford and Granada ave- nues, has been awarded first prize, 575, in a world essay contest conducted by the American School Citizenship League. The subject of Miss Munker's essay was A'Methods of Promoting XVorld Friendship Through Education. Last May, when the article was prepared, Miss Munker was a student at the State Normal School, Towson. and was nineteen years old. Three other representatives of the State Normal School received awards: Miss Lillian E. Rawlings. Miss Ellen Moffett and T. A. Van Sant, jr.. were given first, second and third honorable mentions. respectively. They were graduated last june from the Towson school. The second prize was won by Stanislav Sule, of a normal school in Czecho-Slovakia, and the third prize was awarded to Miss Dorothy BI. Gilford. of the State Nor- mal School. at Hyannis. Mass. Miss Munker was born in Baltimore and has spent her life here. She is living with her parents at 9 Dolfield avenue. In l922, when she was graduated from the YVestcrn High School. she was awarded a scholarship at the johns Hopkins University and took a winter and summer course in that institution, specializing in Eng- lish. At the State Normal School she was a member of the honorary fraternity Chi Alpha Sigma. The iirst part of my essay was devoted to refuting arguments tending to show the necessity for war. Miss Munker said yesterday. In the latter half I suggested 8 1 ways of advancing the cause of peace that might be help- ' ful if employed in classrooms. t'For instance, in teaching geography, I suggested that the interdependence of countries be emphasized and the help given and received by each country pointed I out. ' In studying other countries I would emphasize the 5 things that each has done well instead of leaving the 'T pupil with the impression that all and only good things ' come from the United States. 'AParticularly important is fairness in teaching his- torv. In the sixth grade we teach history of the VVorld i I XVar and I have noticed that the instructors' personal prejudices often play a very great part in the teaching. Q Of course this cannot be entirely eliminated, but in my essay I pointed out that sincere efforts should be made 1 by all teachers to study the ease from the side they don't believe in. Recently I was teaching the Civil XVar period and the boys and girls showed the greatest excitement and most of them had preconceived notions which were all in favor of one side or the other. Both were largely wrong. The work of the teacher. according to my essay, is to train the pupils to look always at both sides. Another suggestion which I put forward was the giving of plays with characters representing other na- tions. I also suggested emphasizing the fact that al- though so many of our best children's stories were writ- ten in other countries, they are appreciated just as much bv us. TOWER LIGHT E 711 i Reminiscing with an ld Friend of S.T.C. I EMILY BURNS I 'ILANCING OUT the window at the gray autumn lain, I inquired reminiseently of A'The Little Old Lady. i'Do you remember when the State Normal School was Quilt? Yes, indeed, came the prim reply and she smiled is she continued. For the past twenty-Eve years, except for a few years while I was ill, the boys and girls have nought my cakes, candy, ice cream and coca-cola. You izee, I just came up from Virginia to help my friends and stayed on year after year. Cvleanings from an afternoons conversation with The Two State Students Win World Prizes QTl1e Oriole - Ianuary, 19251 ONE STUDENT of the State Normal School at Tow- son has been awarded first prize and another student third prize in the world essay contest for 1924, con- ducted by the American School Citizenship League for the Promotion of XVorld Peace. according to a Boston :lispateh to The Sun last night. The prize-winning essay was written and submitted by Miss Elva Katherine Gibson. The prize was offered to students in normal schools and teachers colleges for the best essay on Methods of Promoting XVorld Friendship Through Education. Third prize was awarded to Harry Harris Batchelor, also of the State Normal School. Each of the 48 States in the country and many for- eign countries were represented in the contest. Those submitting essays were considered the most intelligent Istudents in the advanced schools of this country and Europe.-QExtraet from Baltimore Morning Suu.j O O Q 'Dearest Annabelle. wrote Oswald, who was hope- lessly in love. 'II could swim the mighty ocean for one glance from your dear eyes. I would walk through a wall of flames for one touch of your little hands. I would leap the widest stream for a word from your lovely lips. As always, your Oswald. P. S. - 'Tll be over Saturday night. if it doesn't rain. JANUARY - 1941 Little Old Lady revealed that her little store was a bakery owned by Mr. and Mrs. Iohn Kracht when the ground was broken for the Maryland State Normal School and building actually begun. During the years, the boys begged or borrowed nee- dles. thread, and buttons from her. Some of them roomed with her and occasionally threw shoes through her window panes when they were unusually hilarious. She saved cardboard boxes which might be used for sewing kits for the girls. Pictures from magazines were saved for those who were student teaching. Day students ate their lunches there and celebrated the birthdays of their friends by buying a cake and gayly singing A'Happy Birthday to You. A'Dcary'i was always invited to take part in these little parties. At that time her store was not considered as being in Towson so the girls were allowed to go there but never elsewhere without a chaperon. The first year at the lylaryland State Normal School there was one boy. He had a basement room in the dor- mitory. His life was kept in a fluid state by running er- rands for the girls. The Little Old Ladyl' recalled that the girls from Pennsylvania and the Eastern Shore of Maryland were more friendly than other students. This could be at- tributed to the fact that they were some distance from home and got homesick often. Perhaps it was her motherly smile and way of doing kind things for them! VVe all hope that Deary for many a year will con- tinue to dispense her candies. cakes and coca-colas with a smile and cheery word to the students of State Teach- ers College. Colored hdammy: Ah wants a ticket for Florence. Ticket Agent Cafter a ten minutes' search in a rail- road guidelz And where is Florence? lylammyz Settin' over yonder on de bench. The Oriole. December. 1925. BONERS The Solar system is the way of teaching singing. The Crusades were fought in plastic-ine. King Alfred conquered the Dames. Wlhere is the greater part of Europe? In New York. YVhat madc the tower of Pisa lean? There was a famine in the land. Towizu Lreirr. May. 1031. 9 I v i i sieiviinaia Rieii1fir.iEe1rioNst My ACNESKERNAN ONE HUNDRED twenty of us visited the Franciscan lNIonastery in Vtfashington and to describe the feelings of each individual toward the visit would be impossible. So what is given here are my own thoughts that came while touring the institution. They are strictly personal and things that, now a week or so after the trip, remain vivid in my memory. To me the transition from the practical to the aes- thetic was iolting. Our previous stop had been Green- belt, where we observed one of the Government's solu- tions for the housing problem. There the practical things impressed me most - I saw traffic, stores, rows of houses and everyday functions of life being carried ong I heard the noise of the traflic - here at the Mon- astery I saw terraced slopes, shrubs, and blue skies that I hadn't noticed bcforeg I heard silence and felt the peace and calm. The relief-panel depicting Christ's Crueihxion is still very vivid in my mind - looking at it then and thinking of it now I was and am ashamed of my own cowardicel towards pain and my desire for easy living. i Still housing and building conscious, when we wentg through the Catacombs I eouldn't help thinking of thel vast difference between these subterranean passagesq which housed the early Christians for religious servicesf during the Roman Persecutions and our church build-5 ings of today. I wondered whether the religious toler-'A ance, which has gradually grown during the centuries,7 will be destroyed entirely. 4 XVhile in the Purgatory Chapel I was struck with the thought that death was just as modern centuries ago asd it is today - it is one of the few unchanging, inevitable: factors in a changing and sometime faltering world.i, was educational I think our visit to the Monastery was very much in order - it served as a pause from the ob- servation of the practical, worldly things and provided a place for reflection and acknowledgment of the One XVho has made life possible. RUTH BICCARTY THE IUNIORS descended - upon Greenbelt. Oh, it has a movie - and 'Spring Paradef too .... Look - tennis courts and a swimming pool .... There's a bus depot - there must be a bus in the town .... A post oflice ....i A drug store . . . and cake cones. There's a barber shop - and a beauty shop right next door .... Reasonable prices in the grocery store - cheese-bits. 5 cents a box .... Look at that 'nifty' policeman - I think I'll live here, too .... I ean't get over the perfect conditions - a modern elementary school - and all those youngsters fthat gives hopej - and then bachelor apartments for 518.50 a month - why even a school- teacher can afford that. These comments amused the guide - I don't know exactly what you expected to find in a Government-plaiined and built town. but from your remarks. well - this must have come as a surprise. It did. The luniors have visited other housing projects. but to most of them the Greenbelt project is the best. It combines many advantages of both city and country life. The town is surrounded by a protecting green belt of parks and farms and forests, The main streets are laid 10 out along the crest of a horseshoe-shaped ridge. Shops, schools, service stations. and other community build- ing are grouped in the center of the horseshoe where they can be easily reached from all parts of town. The sidewalks lie almost entirelv within the block. and un- derpasses under the roads connect the houses with the business and school sections. The underpasscs makei street crossings as safe as possible. The houses are made of concrete block with brick trim, or wood frame covered with brick veneer, stucco, or wood asbestos, and are arranged in blocks four or five times as large as usual city blocks. The living rooms of the houses face the interior of the block. which is laid out in lawns and playgrounds. The bathrooms and kitch- cns are on the street or service court side tlms effecting savings in plumbing and utility installations and making it easier to deliver groceries, collect garbage. and carry on other service functions. The residents of Greenbelt range in income from SIIJOO to 52,200 per year. and they pay an average TOWER LIGHT i Since the main purpose of our trip to VVashingtonj ionthly rental of 352795. Since a project such as this ppeals principally to the young married couples, there ls a verv modern and active community life. Greenbelt lunilies own and run their own stores, debate their own l l 4 i r A Square AT THE beginning of this year the Iuniors were initi- Eted into a new course. Yes, it was brand new. It fol- Dwed the widespread progressive trend in that time was llotted for an activity usually consisting of an observa- ,ion or a trip. I Our first excursion took us up into the country to 'isit some of the most prominent farms in Baltimore County. l had no idea what our city neighbors expected 0 see in the country. From their questions before the igrip, one would think that country people, and espe- cially the farmer, have no conveniences, no forms of rec- reation and amusements, few friends, and that they are for the most part poverty stricken. . L'Soil . . . dirt . . . rotten dirt, what good is it? re- inarks some city folk. Do you know that the three life issentialsg namely, food, clothing, and shelter, in almost :very case. are derived from the soil and yet most of 'ou fail to appreciate the efforts on the part of the ag- 'iculturalist on whom you are almost wholly dependent. The agriculturalist has not had a square deal. Up mtil the present he has been backward and has had ittle control of our Government. Today with modern conveniences. luxuries and comforts we see the 'tsoil iillerl' an educated, thrifty and controlling force in our rountry. More than ever before we End the country de- pendent upon the farmer. To a greater extent than ever agricultural forces of the country are uniting and coop- :rating as a whole. In the past, it has been difficult to communicate and to travel and thus to combine forces. Today with the radio, the telephone, the automobile, the train, and the airplane our entire country has developed into one giant unit. XVith our speedier means of transportation and a more extensive educational system through which high schools have been developed in the rural areas, a greater number of people are being educated. These agencies make for a greater understanding throughout our de- mocracy. Throughout all history, agriculture has been a pre- dominating force in the development of any country, ls it not true that an army travels on its stomach? ls it not true that the dictators of the world look to the soil and to the farmer for victory in the present conHict? Then. if farming has become the greatest of industries and so scientific, and if the farmer is bearing the world JANUARY - 1941 problems in town meetings, form clubs and organiza- tions that fulhll any social or educational needs that they may feel, partake actively in all sorts of recreational activities and elect their own local governing body. JOHN CH1LeoA'r upon his shoulders, if agriculture is the backbone of the nation, then I can't understand why farming is thought of only as a livelihood for the farmer. It is everyone's responsibility to work together and try to conserve the agricultural resources and to help the farmer by doing away with that thieving middle man. The agriculturalist is gaining a new grip upon the country and will be an even greater controlling factor in its future develop- ment. O ART IMMORTAL Music - music: Through my soul it sends Its shiv'ring shafts of melody, Like sunbeams Through black forest gloom. Around me it sways, And threads and modulates. Twisting my heart to its desired form VVith its chords and dissonances. Music - music: VVild and sweet it sings, And fills my mind with images, Fantastic, And elf-like forms YVhose hands seize my own And carry me aloft, Far oler the clouds. To kiss the dome of heaven ln its magnitude and glory. Music - music: YVrought by angels' hands Into a perfect harmony. lts burning lips And pulsating lips Upon my lips press XVith suffocating power: Robbing me there Of thought, of strength. of will. Take nn' all. but leave me music. i Bl.-XRCUICRITI-I XYrr.soN. ll ABS MILTON, no relation to the poet, sat on the I cottage porch bitterly debating with herself on the subject of Life. It was excruciating! Utterly, utterly devastating! You'd think that parents would have more sense than to saddle you with an infant to trail you around the rest of the summer. But did they? No! Parents were positively the most ununderstanding people. Otherwise how could Mother have dared to ask silly Cousin Wfinnie to spend the vacation with them? XVinnie was a verdant, sniveling brat, three whole years, Eve weeks and six and a half days younger than Babs. From the kitchen where he was demolishing pancakes oozing with syrup, jack, Bab's brother, bel- lowed, Hey, Babs! Youv'e got exactly an hour to truck down to the depot and collect our rela- tive. XVhy don't you, Babs de- manded in her most withering manner. get out the brass band and present that drip with the keys of the city? 'iSorry, I'm going fishing with the b'h0ys! 'fAw, nuts! ejaculated Babs reflecting on the callous- ness of families in general and hers in particular, as her brother beat a hasty retreat to the beach. A'Ah, there you are, m'little chickadee! a voice called and janet, Babs' bosom pal, ambled into view clad in an ultra-abbreviated beach costume. 'fVVhy so down in the mouth, fair maiden? XVe're having a relative visit usf' sighed Babs lu- gubriously, and I'm ready to take gas. It's VVinnie! 'Owl Move over, and I'll take gas with you. Do you mean to say we'ye got to cart that little baby around with us again this summer? Gosh, it's just like having B O MARTH Babs groaned in agony. Imagine spending another vacation watching her turn on the waterworks every time someone looks at her crooked. And, reminisced janet fondly, think of all the hours we'll fritter away screwing her hair into those curls that look like asparagus. Mentally both girls pictured XVinnie with her spa- ghetti-like curls, her eternal sniffie, her red-rimmed eyes, and her vicious habit of tagging around where she wasn't wanted. jacks going to boycott her, said Babs with an anaemic grin. After all, who had the gall to laugh when the spectre of VVinnie hovered about? D By hotfooting up the last block, Babs and janet made it to the station platform. The door of the train opened, and sundry characters trotted briskly out and went their 12 CAE 612006 A I I mediocre ways. And then - an apparition stepped int! the doorway and posed. A janet whistled appreciatively. A'Cast your orbs upo, that vision of fluff and feathers. I Um! That's what we call competition with a capit: K where I come from! exclaimed Babs, giving an e: pert thrice-over to the strangers spiffy outfit. f'Get' glimmer of that red chapeau, will you? Is that snarky! And the spotted veil! Ian was in ecstasy. f'Th: suit! That little number must have been just dreamer up over in Gay Pareef' After holding her pose lon enough to insure the attention everyone, the vision, exuding a exotic scent, bore down on Ba 4 and janet. Ba'ba'a, dahling, a voi ' cooed with all the r's carefull deleted. Babs, finally collecting wha were left of her faculties, wheeze' VVinnie! j Ha, you didn't recognize 1ne,! a smirk of satisfaction slithered across XVinnie's Hgla our pussf' It was only the spots in front of my eyes that har me stumped. XV hen VVinnie disappeared in a huddle with the sta tionmaster, Babs and janet 'featted away with vim an vigor. , f'VVe'd better try to get a lift home. advised jar 'A 'cause we'll be stopping traffic on Main Street wit I-Iedyf' I wonder if she's carrying the orchids or if the or chids are carrying herf' cracked Babs. UDeah Ken sent them. But really I'm quite allergi to orchids. I much prefer eamellias - you know. thc enormous, white, waxy ones. I Babs hastily changed the subject. Is Ken somethin new in your life? 9 f'Not very, replied VVinnie in a blase voice. 'He's s very devoted that it's boring. But he's so eligible, he heads my list. I have seads of admirers. you know. 1 Ian's eyebrows almost met in her hair. How tricky!'3 she purred. f'You must confess all to us, XVin. KARSH Pnl-lease, don't call me XVinnie. pleaded the crea' ture. My friends call me G. G, Stands for C-lamou Gal. I Old Abel who drove the antiquated bag of rattles that and joltcd them the entire ride babbling as sh masqueraded as a taxi, picked them up. back to the Milton cottage, During G. C. beat every babbling brook at recounted the biographies of Ken, Bill, john and Com- TOWER LIGHTj Qiny, who comprised her scads of admirers. As Lizzie stopped in front of the cottage, lack and his Qonies, Ben and Bob, began to melt unobtrusively out f sight. Suddenly they paused and gave vent to long ,histles of appreciation. L VVhy, Benny-VVenny, donlt you remcmbah 'ittle he? pouted VVinnie. iBabs reintroduced her cousins. Gentlemen, this is G., Glamour Gal to you, alias VVinnic. 1 The meeting was adjourned when the fellows carried er I4 pieces of luggage into the Milton cottage. Looks as if she brought everything but the grand Mano, commented janet watching this operation. This was G. Gfs night to howl. From the most shun- ed creature at Baylor's Beach, she was transformed nto the major attraction. She never stirred without a ilaxy of masculine satellites revolving around her be- -iuse of a slick line that she dealt out in generous doses m keep her menagerie enthralled. I I donlt know what her mother can be thinking off, iorried Mrs. Milton. A child of her age, floating 'ound in those ridiculous get-ups. I'd write to Mary, lut it's none of my affairs. The very next afternoon as Babs lay basking luxur- iously on the sand near the Baylor Beach Hotel, a stranger dropped down beside her. f'Rather dull little joint, isn't it? he inquired lazily. You look as bored as I feel, so I came over to see whether we couldn't join forces and stir up some ex- citement before I go bugs. 'fThis may not be Biarritz or Coney Island, replied Babs frigidly, but we natives manage to find some rus- tic diversions around here. I am not bored. I only sought seclusion -to do some heavy thinking, an activity in which, no doubt, you have never participated. He explained that he was on his way South and had stopped to visit his cousin, who was staying at Baylor Beach. She, however, had gone out for the day. Her mother asked me to peek in on her, the fellow said, 'fbecause she's worried about her. The kid's a cute little imp but slightly wacky. She grew up suddenly this year, had a couple of dates, and now thinks she's the eat's meow. I took her to the movies several times, and she's firmly convinced l've developed a grand pas- sion for her. fC0ntinued on page ZSD Among the Works of Man G. iROM THOSE human activities which have builded modern civilization, certain productions have survived id stand as symbols of the genius of their creators. As ,ng as the works of man are indestruetible, that man Des not perish. Outstanding among lasting creations 'e the works of sculpture. Sculpture, among all human orks, has a mighty purport: it is the perceptible beauty if man's thought, it is the medium for the interpreta- on of ideasg it is a prolongation of perished cultures, id it is a material beauty. Greek sculpture still has an feet on the souls of men, despite its condition - the vms of Venus may be lost, but the conception of her Jmplete beauty is still evident in the statue. Likewise, :naissanee sculpture still holds us in awe. XV hen one iinks from what Michelangelo carved his David - a 'ab of mutilated granite, which had been east out and Jnsidered as useless - he looks on the masterpiece in s grandeur, and begins to realize the genius of Michel- igelo. Through the emotions that are stirred, one real- :es what sculpture means. Life is, in broad summation, human activity. There- gre, the work that was done in the past is a foundation rr that done today through the capacities of different iiinds, different personalities. Look on the masterpieces f Carl Millcs, the contemporary Swedish-American 4-ANUARY - 1941 sculptor. At the Baltimore Museum of Art a compre- hensive collection of his works is on display. Though Milles won recognition from his primal productions in Sweden, his renown has risen since his later American works have been completed. The Marriage of the Rivers is a massive inspira- tional group of sculpture. These works were made for a fountain in the city of St. Louis, the city of the june- tion of two great rivers. The Missouri, the same watery road which lured Lewis and Clark westward, is repre- sented by a large and lovely maiden. Behind her are various sea nymphs and Tritons, riding sea shells or other marine vehicles. They symbolize the tributaries which once joined the Missouri in her rush from the mountains to the plains, and onward to meet her mate. The Father of VVaters, which was the death-bed of La- Salle and the playground of Tom Sawyer, is personified by a figure representing a strong man holding a water lily as his mate comes rushing to meet him. Ile is also followed by personifications of his tributaries, similar to those figures behind the Missouri. Though f'The Marriage of the Rivers is the chief presentation in the museum, other works are there. The Monument to Genius I would advise one to see for himself for only through observation can its great- 13 ness be perceived. It will stand in the future. literally. as a monument to the genius of Carl Milles. Another of his statues. The Astronomer. is attractive. The lone figure, with instruments in his hands. gazes into the skies. Not only is he an astronomer. but also a philos- opher. Such are the works of Carl Milles. which, along wit others such as St. Gaudcns, French. Borgluin, an Scudder, will stand to represent the ideas behind ou great American democratic civilization. May these works help to prolong the culture of our country an add to its values. ne Word IXIORTON XVEINER COOPERATION - one word. one simple word of the English language. But is it a word of the English lan- guage alone? No, there is a word for cooperation in every language that is known on the face of the earth. It stands for the making or the breaking of every group relation from the smallest of families to the largest of nations. XV ith cooperation the greatest heights of civil- ization can be reachedg without it. total darkness. Cooperation - one word. XVhat has cooperation done for the world? It has brought to the world its greatest scientific findings. XVithout cooperation. without some- one helping either on the discovery or on the publicity of the discovery. how would the world have acquired the benefit from the findings of Pasteur. Harvey. Calileo. Copernicus. Darwin. and even Aristotle and Plato? True. the cooperation may have been small. but it was there. You have heard or read how cooperation built the great ancient empires of Egypt. Babylonia. Greece. Rome. and Carthage. You have heard or read of the Middle Ages - the Period of Darkness. the Dark Ages. XVhat made these ages dark? The reason for the loss of previous learning. and the reason for the lack of new learning during these times was the lack of cooperation. Feudal lords fought each other. fought their kings. fought their vassals. fought themselves. No matter which way one turned. cooperation between any one person and any other person was missing. Coopera- tion during the Dark Ages was conspicuous only by its absence. Then people began to realize what they had ignored. that they knew less than the people before them. They began to study, They began to work with each other. They began to build schools. colleges. and universities. Revival of Learning was nothing more The period of than a period of Revival of Cooperation. Then came 1776. A small group of people worked through blood to establish the greatest testimonial to cooperation known in the world - the United States of America was begun. The idea spread like wild fire. People throughout the world began working together 14 for 'Athe greatest benefit of the greatest number. The idea spread to France where it was expressed as Liberty Equality, and Fraternity - working together as broth ers - once more. cooperation. In 1815. cooperatioi' was on the side of the greatest number. All of Europ was freed by the defeat of Napoleon and his exile tc St. Helena. The Revolutions throughout Central Europe of 183C and 1848 once more showed how important cooperatior was in bringing about The greatest good for the great est number. Alas. as the saying goes. history repeats itself. To day. the once democratic peoples of Europe either lic within the control of. or are at war with. another dictato who has set out to conquer all Europe. He has re ceived GREAT fp if you can call traitors. and cowardf CREATj cooperation in his conquest of Europe. The lack of such cooperation has caused the downfall 0. the free nations. XVe in America remain as the stronghold of demoe K i 1 l i I l I X racy. XVe in America remain as the chief defenders 0: '3 the first great testimonial to cooperation. XVe in Amer ica must show the world that the medicine that they 5 need is the same old medicine of the greatest gooc for the greatest numberf, and that this medicine ca be obtained only through sincere. heartfelt and proper cooperation. Some of us wonder whether this world will ever be the same again. Some of us wonder if democracy anc freedom will ever be seen in Europe again. My only answer to this question is that unless you and I. and al' the other peoples of the entire world begin to give their neighbor cooperation. from their heart. instead of 2 bomb from the sky. this world can look forward to 2 dismal future. Another period of Darkness. another period without the word - cooperation. XVe in America should and shall preserve by our acl tions. rather than our talk. that word that means sc much more than a mere word - the word that means Mlife. liberty and the pursuit of happiness - the worc l l V that means that you and the man next to yon. wherever '- you are. will help each other. the word that means yovlll will aid mankind by working for its general betterment . i as well as your own. the word that should be a part oft I the philosophy of every man. I T O WE R LI G H '1' l J EDITORIALS THE SPRING OF THE YEAR IN RECENT years a certain Mr. Blonsky, interested in individual differences of mental capacity. made a rather intensive study of the problem, the results of which are stirring to say the least, I-Iundreds of persons were given the usual intelligence tests and of course the I. of each was carefully computed. But this was not all. Upon completing his survey Blonsky not only had the proper I. rating beside each name but also the cor- responding month of the year in which that person was born. This latter bit of information was really the most important part, as we shall see. Since no set of records is of any value in itself and this was no exception. these were carefully checked and analyzed. Actually they were being used in an attempt to support the theory which states that a person's l. is definitely influenced by the month in which he was born. According to this theory, if you were born in a Spring or Suimner month you have much greater pos- sibilities of enjoying a high I. than if you were born in a Fall or YVinter month. The psychologist in ques- tion reasoned that the abundant supply of fresh fruits and vegetables. together with the increased amounts of b sunshine, are directly responsible. XVith this theory in mind plus a reasonable amount of tolerance and curiosity let us examine the following list of names and months of birth: Dr. YYest ,.., . Ianuary Miss Neunsinger .,.. March Mrs. Stapleton ..,, April Miss XVoodward .. October Mr. Crook ,..,. . .Iune Miss YVcyforth ,... October Miss Bersch .....,,. April Miss Brown . ,.., February Miss Stitzel . . February Miss Blood . Miss Birdson Miss Muim . Mr, Miller . Dr. Dowell . Dr. Lynch . Miss Bader Miss Yoder . . . . . May November . February November . . . luly . . .March . . .August February Before any erroneous ideas become too well seated it should probably be added that this theory is not ac- cepted as perfectly valid and some individuals have even gone so far as to attempt to prove its exact opposite. . . . And yet, Mr, Blonsky's convictions have never been entirely disproved. J A N U A R Y - 19 41 a THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE QAS Enaeted Daily at STCj MARY SIRION I-lere it comes! There is a general panic as everybody runs for shelter when the warning is sounded through the halls. Cirls clutch their skirts close and hold on to their hair while embracing the nearest stationary ob- ject. The more inexperienced of the masculine sex sit on their books and determinedly crunch their jaws down on any false teeth that they may happen to be blessed with. while the more experienced merely flatten them- selves along the walls. Faculty members manage for the most part to be out of the danger zone - hiding under the desks in their offices. Although it has been known that one of the less easily convinced members had to learn the hard way - by experience. Poor lady - she probably never knew what struck her. XV hat could have made such a devastating contact with her posterior besides a hic-coughing bull? XVhen the dismissal occurs in the auditorium the ef! feet is even more bewildering. Marshals have no power over the unnatural phenomena - how could they bring order out of the chaos created? A path is hewn straight through the aisles, no matter how many people happen to be there and a lmrricane often sweeps along carry- ing in its aftermath less weighty students and objects. b D . Sometimes the draft created is so strong that the wink dows rattle and doors throughout the building slam shut. Severe wind burn and dizzy spells have been re- ported by many students. A visiting teacher thought we were situated on an in- termittent earthquake zone. People in Towson think we are exploding a cannon in the glen to scare away Iapanese beetles. The whole cast at STC call it the zero hour. But the recent experiments undertaken with ex! tremc precautions have revealed some startling facts. Those black streaks. accompanied by a rush of wind are not elongated spots before the eyes - they prove upon investigation to be none other than certain members of the sophomore class whose will power is entirely too weak to keep them from rushing - running - to the dining hall. 15 UP AND ONWARD IOIIN RICCAULEY A man is not made in four years of college or even in zi lifetimeg he is the product of generations. Those per- sons whom we respect as above the average, undoubt- edly had mentally alert and industrious forbearsg those average or below average individuals had a sleep- ing ancestry. I dare say that in the beginning the same general abilities were meted out to all, but somewhere the average person thought more than necessary and in musing about things beyond himself advanced the frontier of his known world and that of his children. VVe must begin developments somewhere and, once having developed our dormant state, must continue, ever striving toward perfection. Perhaps your genealogy is of the finest. For centuries. perhaps, manly virtue and intellectual capacity have been molded through experience and transmitted. You have received a greater congenital potentiality than your brothers and it is your duty, to evolve for the benefit of future humanity, that degree of personal ability. Fear not though you find yourself struggling in an academic maze but persevere lest you sink to satisfaction in the basis of your inheritance. One cannot rest upon the pastg the past must be only a stimulus toward a better future. The strongest foundations are necessary to hold firm the greatest skyscrapers. Build on your foundation a citadel worthy of its pillars. Success is a relative thingg all men are not born equal but all have the privilege of using to the fullest their latent potentialities. ,sf LAUGH ONCE IN A WHILE AUDREY B IERCER Ring out the old! Ring in the new! As we take a for- ward step into I9-ll. let us stop to laugh once in awhile. Don't take yourself too seriously. Really great people don't and even though you may stop and reflect upon this, all of you have some beginnings of greatness in you somewhere. Stop and laugh once in awhile and get more pleasure out of life. Has someone slighted you? Did someone say some- thing about you? YVhat if they have? YVas it enough to spoil your day? No! Forget it! Don't walk around with a gloomy faceg others may feel the same as you. Are you unhappy - disappointed? You are not the only one - your ease is not unique. Many have a more difficult path to walk than you. Don't take yourself too seriously. Great people don't. They respect themselves. but they take time out once in awhile to laugh at their own mistakes. That is what keeps thern so sane, simple, and sensible. 16 As you walk through the corridors of S. T. C., or ride the ear S , smile or laugh once in awhile. Notice what it does to others. The majority will feel their spirits rise as they look at you. I repeat -Laugh once in awhile! Sleeping Beauty -A NEW VERSION Lois A. CHEETHAIXI A THE TRADITIONAL story of the Sleeping Beauty ends when the Princess is awakened from her one hun- dred years' sleep by Prince Charming. As a matter of fact that is where the real action of the story begins. As in all fairy stories, the Prince and Princess fell deeply in love and had a beautiful wedding. XVe are told that they lived happily ever after. Historians at the court did not dare say anything else. Others who might have dared did not know the true state of affairs. VVhat happened to cause this rift? Consider - during a hun- dred years, many changes had taken place. The Princess had grown up in a different era. The younger genera- tion, of which the Prince was a member. laughed at her inhibitions and outmoded ideas. Try as she might, she could not reconcile herself to the new order of things. Poor Princess! She was young and beautiful, yet her habits and ideas were a century old! Every time she opened her mouth her formal. stilted expressions re- vealed her age. She couldn't learn the new slang. She was uncomfortable and self-conscious in the modern dress. XVomen had bobbed hair - hers was long. She had been taught to play the harp. write poetry. and embroider. She was a t'dub at all outdoor sports. CShe could, however, faint at the slightest provocation. Quite an accomplishment when she was younglj Bridge con- fused her terribly. Her most frequent exclamation. after trumping her partner's ace. was XVhy can't I trump, if I want to? Of course I don't want to start any scandal, but it was an open secret that she and the Prince had terrific rows. The whole court used to gather outside their door to listen. And the night he said he never had liked women who were older than he was. she . . , But that. dear reader. is not for you to hear. 2' I noticed in today's paper that you have printed my death from flu. Is that so, replied the telephone girl, Hand where are you speaking from now? TOWER LIGHT I E 1 THEIJBRARY J jjwA'r YOUR SERVICE 1 NOTES FROM A LIBRARY EDITOR'S j NOTEBOOK lVlARY D1 PEPPI .VVilla Cather, who wrote Nly Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop, has written a new one - Sapphira and the Slave Cirl. lt is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and from advance reviews it promises to be well worth reading. Father Paul Schulte, who gave a most entertaining assembly on the Arctic region here at the College, has -written a book called The Flying Priest Over the Arctic. 'Remembering what a charming personality he has, l ldon't want to miss reading his book. l'm sure it will be .as enjoyable as his lecture. Dr. Hugh Young, with whose work every Marylander should be familiar, has a book out entitled, Hugh Young: A Surgeorfs Autobiography. Dr. Young, one of the na- tion's outstanding men of medicine, has written of his life and work in so informal a manner as to make it easy reading for the layman. It is interesting to note that when asked to choose Some Books I Have Liked for the New York Herald- Tribune, many well-known people listed the recent book by Ernest Hemingway, For Vlfhom the Bell Tolls. Among them were Stephen Vincent Benet, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rex Stout, Franklin P. Adams, Clifton Fadi- man and Sinclair Lewis. Nlr. Hemingway's book is a record-breaking national best-seller and is probably the most-talked about book in literary circles today. DO you know the three fiction and the three non- fiction books being bought by the greatest number of people in America today? lf you don't, here they are: Fiction: For Vffhom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Alrs. lXfliniver - jan Struther The Family - Nina Federova Non-Fiction: The Vffayc of the Future - Anne M. Lindbergh A Treasury of the VVOrld's Great Letters - Edited by M. L. Schuster Trelawny - Margaret Armstrong Howard Spring, author of My Son! My Soni, has written a new novel - Fame is the Spur which. I have on good authority. is excellent reading. Kenneth Rob- JANUARY - 1941 ,Jlell , erts, author of Northwest Passage, also has a new book out called Oliver Wfiswell, which its publishers and reviewers believe will be more popular than his other works because of the lavish amount of praise and ad- vertising bestowed upon it at this stage of its debut. Have you ever been curious to know just what a cer- tain author looks like? I know l have, and l know just where to find pictures of them. Cet into the habit of per- using the book section of the New York Herald-Tribune, several copies of which are in the Magazine Room. Here you will End portraits of many authors, and you will have a great deal of fun comparing your mental picture of an author with the real person. Remember when the collective faces of the American were red because of the turmoil caused by the broad- cast of an imaginary invasion from Mars? The broad- caster, you recall. was Orson VVelles. Do you also recall the panic of a goodly number of Americans who thought the end of the world had come? A Princeton psycholo- gist, Professor Hadley Cantril. has written a study of the psychological significance of the country's reaction called The Invasion From Mars. lt will prove provoca- tive material for anyone who wonders how civilized. supposedly intelligent people can become terrihcd at such a fantastic report. ,gf BOOK REVIEW K,-X'1'IIERINE Pi1'1'Ro1-'if McCullers, Carson, The Heart Ir iz Lonely Hunter, Boston: Houghton. MifHin Company. 1940 - 356 pages. Carson McCullers has written a book which should at least take a secondary place beside the works of NWI- liam Faulkner, Like Faulkner. she writes about the 1'I conditions and people of the modern South. Unlike him her style is her own and a much simpler one when com- pared to his more complex and deeper method of nar- ration. Carson McCullers writes as an observer. coolly detached and unseen. yet she seems to be a part of each of her characters. She has taken as her locale a part of the South as rep- resentative of the sectional class hatred and intolerance which retards progress. In it is found Biff Brannon. who is proprietor of the New York Cafe. and around whom much of the action is centered. Through this restau- rant. directly or indirectly. are introduced all the people. lake Blount is the transient. His violent pleas and des- perate efforts to give his fellow-workers some knowl- edge of the social conditions of this country have proved futile. Dr. Copeland is the quiet, feverish negro who tries. without success. to wake up his dormant people to the realization that they are slowly being crushed. Mick. thirteen-year-old daughter of the pro- lific Kollep. stands for genius suppressedf' Her hunger for and intelligent understanding of music eventually lead her to compose some songs. but she, too. is caught in the relentless web when she has to leave school and start work in the Five and Ten. The last member of this oddly assorted group is Mr. Singer, the deaf mute. who is the pivot around which the others revolve. NVho was he? From whence did he come? XVhat was his nationality? No one knew! But all were drawn toward him. All came to his room sepa- rately and spoke by the hour to him. knowing that he understood all that they told him. The intelligent and sympathetic perception of this silverware engraver made him a vital part of their lives. They were unaware of the fact that Singer was filled with aching and an ever- present longing to be with his former room-mate. the Creek mute Antonapoulds. who had been taken to the asylum. The author writes about Mick and her life. then about Biff. then perhaps Dr. Copeland. Occasionally, however. these people meet in a group. but eye each other with distrust, suspicion. and general unrest. so all are happy when an opportunity is open for them to take leave. By taking the threads of these peoples lives and putting them together. Carson BIcCullers has woven an intensely dramatic story which is alive with struggle. passion. and suffering. The denouement comes swiftly and abruptly. The shock literally hits the reader. for although the keynote of tragedy is present. what happens to these people is entirely unexpected. Even Willie. Dr. Copeland's son. is affected by untoward circumstances. XYillie stands as a symbol of our cruel penal system which exists in the South today. In truth. not one character in the whole 18 book is left untouched or uninfluenced in some way by his contact with others. The kaleidoscopic view of the conflicting elements in a mill town are sharply defined and leave the reader with the question - XVhy should such conditions be allowed to exist in our country? The book has its lighter and more humorous mo- ments. yet in the main it is a brutal and frank psycho- logical study of people and their surroundings. It be- comes all the more amazing when one is aware that Carson McCullers is only in her early twenties. Notwith- standing the fact that someone called this book pe- culiar, it is one that should be read. for not only is it different. but it is fascinating as well. ,bf THE TEACHER'S ROLE IN A DEMOCRACY 4Suggested by Baltimore Bulletin of Educationj ALBIA LEE GOT1' How many magazines have you seen recently that have not had at least one small article about the Preser- vation of Our Great American Democracy? I daresay there are not many. The radio. the theatre. modern lit- erature, newspapers. and all other organs of public communication feature topics such as America - the Last Hope for Democracy. The Future of American Youth in a Changing W'orld, American Democratic Ideals. or Active Attitudes Toward Democracy. XVhat are the authors of these articles trying to tell the American public? The average man of the street for S. T. C. studentl will say that democracy is a won- derful idea. but that it is only theoretical: that it is a lofty American ideal. but that there is no true democ- racy. Have they really thought seriously about the true meaning of the word? Vlebster tells us that a democracy is a government by the peopleg a government in which the supreme power is retained by the people and exercised by rep- resentation . . , fast opposed to aristocracy. If we ac- cept this definition then. we must admit that the American form of government is a democratic form. It is not difficult to see that it is almost the last vestige of democracy in the world today. It is not difficult to imag- ine that present autocratic factions in Europe could easily overthrow our American principles and ideals. This must never happen. XVhat have we. as future teachers. to do to preserve our Americanism? The last issue of the Baltimore Bul- letin of Education is devoted entirely to Lessons in De- mocracy. Teachers throughout qContinued on page 255 TOWER LIGHT I i x lIMIlllllSlIlfB THE STORY BEHIND THE ORCHESTRA IOHN HORST'S BAND CATHERINE GRAY and HELEN KLAVENBERG COME ON, students. Let's dance. No, that wonit be the thing for him, Maybe he would like another introduction. Hows this? Come on, jive and glide without remorse, To the swelody melodies of johnny Horst. Terrible rhyming, we all agree, but it speaks the truth. After the TowER LIGHT dance. to quote Marc Antony somevhat. we do not come to bury johnny. but to praise him. Yet, it isn't praise. Praising is bound to make some people say that it will certainly increase his hat size. VVe'll call it his just due. johnny is one of those personable fellows who is conscious of success only in that it points out the way to new improvements and new successes. He is willing to work hard for it - the kind of work that means plenty of practice: you know, one and two and three and four and. Or maybe you think as I did that he probably doesnt do this. Do you realize that you can learn to play the piano like our junior pride and joy? Remember the little f1'lllS-1'L11ll- boogies and conga rhytlnns? You, too, can learn to use them. but not in ten easy lessons. For you who pick in a stilted fashion at most popular pieces and for you who pick with one finger at any piece, take a page from john's notebook and listen in here awhile. Believe it or not - and this is a secret. so sshhhh - Mr. Horst just started to play the piano recently. He was in high school before he even touched a popular number. XV hen he finally tackled one it sounded something like Eddie Duchin at the piano - Eddie without the benefit of the piano. ln other words, it sounded like nothing. You see, it's not too late for you to start. After you start playing. then what. you ask. Let's go back to johnny for the answer. He went to a music teacher to study or- chestrations. From then on, things just happened. The little trills and syncopation he found, are trade tricks. You learn them in about two minutes - no kidding - and apply them to any piece that they seem to fit. For example, for syncopation and blue-notes. when you strike one note, hit the one one-half step up from it. Discord at first, and then you'll find it's really blues But how came johnny to an orchestra, you ask impa- tiently. That is a short story. The music teacher knew of a band leader who needed a pianist for several nights JANUARY - 1941 and quickly suggested johnny. Ile grabbed the chance so quickly that he beat opportunity to the knock. After thc first few trials. our friend became a permanent fixture in the orchestra. However. the Upcrma- nencen didn't last very long. The band practiced regularly for one year without one engagement. XVhen the leader suggested that vio- lins be added for novelty, johnny being a free soul, de- cided he didn't want any strings attached to him, so he left. Not long after this. the leader did our friend a good turn by employing only union musicians. Because of the high price of admission to the union, many musif cians left. A year ago the inevitable happened. None of them wanted to get 'frusty . so they decided to play to- gether. The result? You've guessed it. johnny was elected leader. He says that the orchestra is really a cor- porationg that he merely assumes responsibilities. But knowing that junior as we do, he undoubtedly has all the ideas and push and pull in the organization. Those of you who heard him months ago, remember that it was all right, but not very outstanding. Now things have changed and all because of new members and new ideas. Several of the sixteen members in johnny's band are younger than he - two still go to City College - few are older. To be exact, they range from eighteen to twenty-one. They're willing to work hard and to give up other jobs for the music and with good reason. johnny has played in a number of places and among them - The Emerson Hotel. Besides this he has played for Eddie Dnchin. At the 'T-'OXVER Lienr Dance he played not only for discriminating students, but for soineone who wanted to evaluate his music for a New Year's Eve contract. The results were so good that he got the engagement. Lets give him all the encouragement and publicity we can. He won't become conccited. but his orchestra will be encouraged to improve even more than it has. The juniors have started doing this by having his music at their dance on April 18, And. oh, yes. girls - lend an eye to this. but don't let on l told you. Xlr. llorst is looking for a singer. Lct's keep this in thc family. Cant any of you Girls warblc well enough to sing with the , . b band? 19 AND WE SHALL HAVE MUSIC! DOROTHY M. SCHROEDER Do you like music? I do not mean the kind of music you hear everyday over the radio, but good music, the type one hears in the dorm. Let us tour the building and ind out just what we have along this line. Starting with the piano rooms we hear any number of tunes beginning with Halloween and ending with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata thliss Schroeder's influencej. Our next stop is the foyer. The dominating record is the Five O'Clock XVhistle which never stops blowing. Then like a bolt out of the blue we hear the harmonized notes of You Are My Sunshine, originating from the smoker. From this burning inferno arrangements reach the ear in the most distorted manner imaginable. If the composers could only hear these ingenious masterpieces. they would throw away their pens and staff papers and give up. Fol- low your nose up twenty steps and youll find yourself on the third floor where a conglomeration of sounds ills the air. A lively trio can be found at any time during the day skipping merrily through the hall singing O, Holy Night. Tuxedo Junction and 'Jeannie VVith the Light Brown Hair. The onrush of water from the showers combined with Ragtime Cowboy Ioen makes a combination unequaled anywhere. And last. but not least. we have the instrumental talent in the dorm. There is a very outstanding duet, composed of a mouth organ and piccolo. You may use your imagination con- cerning the sound effects fthat's the only thing I can call their well-meant effortsj. lf you can leave the domi. still appreciating good music. you're a better man than most of us. ,ear MUSIC STAFF - WBAL A IARCUERFPE Vmxu Ruhno lula. youngest of a musically prominent fam- ily. took his first music lesson at the age of six from his brother. Felice. and his first violin lesson at twelve. His professional career commenced by playing in motion picture theatres. Before joining the Baltimore Sym- phony. he was leader of the Southern Hotel Concert Orchestra. Seven years ago he became a member of the National Symphony from which he resigned to assume musical directorship of XYBAL. Mr. lula teaches violin and orchestra at the Seton High School and the Yeager School of Music. His manner is cordial. refined and so. naturally, he is pleasant to work with. Associates, who affectionately call him Fin say. There will never be another like Rufino lulaf' The accomplished musicians in his orchestra are: 20 Sigmund Tvaronas, pianist and accordionist, who has studied arranging from Otto Cesana of New York. Mr. Tvaronas has played in numerous dance orchestras. Frank Nicoletta, harpist member of the San Carlo Opera Company, who spent twenty-two years with the Philadelphia Symphony. Charles Cohen, once cellist with the National Sym- phonyg Ralph Tressel, bass violinist arrangerg and VV il- liam H. Shroeder. violinist. are all with the Baltimore Symphony. Milton Lyons. violinist. once with the Baltimore Symphony, owes his musicianship to Gustave Tinlot, concert master of the New York Symphony. Michael Richter, Baltimore Symphony Hutist. studied at the Vienna Conservatory and was a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Conway Band. Iimmy Abato. saxophonist lContinued on page Z9j DO YOU KNOW - Eucemz XVEBSIER I. Do you know the difference between a flute, a mute, and a lute? 2. Do you know the name of the famous swing band which has a theme song that is a version of Chopin's Nocturne? 3. Do you know the Three Great B's of music? Q Composers. J -l. Do you know the accepted definition for the swing temi Schmaltz? 5. Do you know the meaning of Boogie YVoogie? 6. Do you know why we have a base clef? T. Do you know a composer who can be identified -with the following: Spring. A YVild Rose. A XVater Lily? S. Do you know who wrote the music to the Student Prince - Victor Herbert. Irving Berlin, or Sig- mund Romberg? 9. Do you know which of these three German and Austrian composers is the one with whom you are best acquainted and whose music you love: Franz Anton Schubert, Franz Louis Schubert. Franz Peter Schubert? IO. Do you know which of these Stradavarii was the famous violin maker: Amobna Stradavarius. An- tonius Stradavarius. Francesco Stradavarius? ll. Do you know what a scroll is? 12. Do you think you can give the names of the beloved composers and the names of the masterpieces from which these present-day songs have been taken: Moon Love. My Reverie? g I Answers on page 29l TOWER LIGHT IFA HIONS STEPPING OUT ELLEN ANNE ELSTE SO MUCH emphasis has been placed upon date-wear this past month that we have decided to devote our entire write-up to this phase of fashion. XVith the nu- merous parties, plays, dinners and dances held at the College during the Christmas month, our students have been able to exhibit their current choices of formal and informal costumes. Then. too. we noted that a recent club fashion show featured only date-wear. Sports clothes were not even mentioned. Generally speaking, clothes for dates present many more problems than do the casual sweater and skirt get- ups for the classroom. VVe A T i find ourselves asking: Shall I wear a semi-sports dress, QW P or shall we go to a dance after the game? Is his favor- fff' f A - ite color blue? Did he say :img I informal or semi-formal? W XVould he know if I wore ' my afternoon dress on a Sunday night date? For 4 'jj AM-nj many obvious reasons, our masculines are not faced with such a large number of perplexing problems. How- .ja jj ever, we believe most of our AL M students have been able to solve their problems of date-wear quite successfully. Here we have those who have taken the lead in formal wear: Margie C., with her evening dress of multi- colored striped skirt and flame topper. Shirley R., in her soft long-sleeved blue chiffon. lane Sfs white lace skirt and black silk jersey jacket. Peggy Mac D., in her black velvet bodice with low sweetheart neck and puffed sleeves, her skirt was a full black taffeta. Agnes H. fea- tured a black net with a black sequin girdleg an orchid adorned her shoulder. Freddy B., in her solid black silk jersey with decolletage neckline and pleated skirt. Attention should be called to some uncommcndable choices which have been observed: Colorfully printed gowns at a winter formal. Fussy and frilly dress of lace and net. Clashing color schemes, More than one or two pieces of jewelry with one costume. Introduction of another color to the ever-fashionable black and white winter tux. Informal dresses at a strictly formal affair. Now for a brief review of the apparel fashioned at the A. C. E. Fashion Show, given at Richmond Hall JANUARY - 1941 Parlor on December lZth. Again we End that pastel wools are very popularly worn under winter wraps. In design we have deeolletagc nccklincs, low fitted waist- lines. Schiaparelli pockets and pleated skirts. Black, when relieved by gold or a dash of vivid turquoise or red is particularly smart. Other colors featured this sea- son are light beige, flag red, chatterbox rcd, angel blue, sea green, aqua-marine and gold. The smartest costumes were these: Light beige dress of soft wool with gold buttons from neck to hem. Stunning solid black cocktail dress with black sequins covering the front blouse. Cut-away black evening dress of rayon crepe trinnned in pink sequins. Tri-colored wool dress of beige blouse, black skirt and wide fitted waistband of chatterbox red. Since no woman has ever seen a fashion show in which she liked equally well all the models featured, we should like to note those which seemed displeasing. Fussy net evening dresses covered by an incalculable number of small bows. 'tAmericana dresses for evening, showing a red and white dress with navy bolero. Some dresses have flag designs on cuffs. CLet's keep 'Cod Bless America out of our clothes. YVe have it in everything elsej Boxy fingertip length fur jackets. fThey make the wearer look top heavy.j So much for fashion shows and write-ups for 1940. Here's hoping that l94l will usher in heaps of gay new costumes. To the Editors: The following is a sunnnary of a discussion heard by a small number of students in this college. Perhaps others would like to know about it: Vffhat is the matter with a certain group of students in this College? One day they are complaining that there is not enough student Hsay in this College. The next day they are reporting to teachers incidents of cheating they have witnessed. They are being presented with an ex- cellent opportunity for exercising student opinion! Arc they taking advantage of it? No! just what is this certain group of students doing? They are so worried about having their grades lowered by the grades of dishonest students that they are afraid to depend on student say and go directly to the faculty. It is unnecessary to say that these pcoplc arc incon- sistent and that they had better act in accordance with their complaints if they expect complaints to bc heard, ' Oxrz or 'rms .-Xrrnrizxeif. 21 QlIVNifVTllDClIVQ Qylllffljllt JILQN An Exhibition for English Relief VIRGINLA. LEE XVI-iiris RUSH. RUSH. rush, almost seven-thirty. Is the band on right? Oh, the box. the tickets, the change! XVhere and how to begin was the only thought I finally had as I launched 1ny campaign to sell chances. The fifty-cents chances, too. If they had been a quarter, it would only have been half as bad. The badminton court was surrounded by tiers and tiers of bleachers. The smooth hardwood Hoot shone under the shaded lights, while through the din of the crowd and recorded music my ears could detect a more or less rhytlnnically cracking sound of bird against rac- quet. The players were warming up. My first inclina- tion was to stop and watch, but happily I remembered the British. XVould you like to take. I mean buy, a chance? I asked the nearest person in a very meek voice. Sold. XVhy? After this most trying experience I needed a new grip on life, but fortunately. I spied a group of friends frantically waving at me. They wanted to buy chances. From then on selling was easy and after several repeti- tions it was even possible to glibly reel off the list of articles on which people were asked to take chances. The selling was easy, but have you ever tried running up and down on bleachers in heels? Suddenly everything was quiet. A man began talking over the microphone. He thanked everyone for his cooperation and then proceeded to lavish adjectives on the players. I felt that I could have added a few more for several players tone in particularly but of course that was out of the question, and anyway, they wouldn't have had much to do with sports - more on the social side. Before I knew it the matches had begun. The first three matches were entertaining. They were way above average, but the fourth match - oh! The fourth match! It was thrilling. It was spectacu- lar. It constantly brought forth the roaring approval of the crowd. The four players were Xlr. Devlin and Bir. Stephens against Mr. Farrman and Xlr. Saharko. The skill required, the psychology used. the years and hours spent in practice were in this game. Time after time Stephens would wind up and whip down for a smash: it would be tipped back over the net, then again tipped back. then cleared. then smashed, then driven back: 22 cross-court play, straight court play, shift of men, fast footwork, fast clear thinking. One play went on for minutes: minutes of play for one point. Stamina. Health. I repeat - it was thrilling. ,ef FROM PEACH BASKETS TO IRON RIMS AUDREY KIERCER FROM THE inventors peach baskets to the present iron rims. from the small, low-ceilinged gymnasiums to the massive field houses of today. from audiences of a few hundred to crowds of eighteen thousand unfolds the unprecedented growth of the forty-year-old indoor game of basketball. 1 Dr. Iames Naismith, professor of physical education at the University of Kansas, gets the distinction for originating the game of basketball. In 1891 at a Y. M. C. A. Training School in Massachusetts, he was in- structed to work out an indoor game for eighteen men. These students needed something to keep them enthu- siastic between the football and baseball seasons. So in 1891 America still needed a great indoor game. Naismith answered the need with basketball. This gift was unique in that it was the only major sport that is the invention of one man's brain. Lacrosse, tennis and football have been handed down through the ages. Out of the discontent of the students in Naisinitlfs class came the game of basketball. Young Naismith first tried to modify football, but since tackling had to be eliminated. football was not used. So the search for a new indoor sport continued. A soccer football was used for the first basketball games because of its even bouncing qualities. and peach baskets were suspended at ends of the running track for goals. A rule was made to prohibit running with the ball. Since eighteen were in the class. nine men were hrst used to make up a team: three forwards, three centers, and three guards, XYithin a short time it was changed to seven and Hnally to tive. The game created for eighteen players is now being played by more than IS million people in all parts of the world. Now forty-nine nations and territories play basketball. Some are: Africa. Alaska. Arabia. Brazil, China, Egypt. India. Iapan, Mexico, Poland and Turkey. In America. according to All Sports Book for l93S. basketball out- drew all other sports with total of 80,000,000 paid at- tendance. Baseball was next with S0.000.000. and foot- ball third with -i0.000.000. 1Allen, Forrest: Better Basketball. SPORTS - 4Continued on page 30h TOWER LIGHT l I I l 1 el jl , J . l 1 il 1 11 Ianuary 10 i Ig Ianuary 13 I ,l H F p ll llanuary 16 3 El january 17 Q! Ianuary 19 Ianuary 20 Ianuary 21 Ianuary 22 Ianuary 23 Ianuary 2 f january 31 February -f February T JANUARY NEWS H 1 COMING EVENTS Fcbflldfy 10 F REDERICA BIEDERLIANN Basketball with Gallaudet College fat VVashingtonj . Assembly Program by Robert MacGim- sey, composer, singer. and trilloquist. Lecture at Hopkins Playshop, UThe Su- pernatural in Drama, by Richard Hart, who is in charge of the literature department of Enoch Pratt Free Li- brary. Basketball with YVilson Teachers Col- lege fat YVashingtonj . Basketball with Shenandoah College fat Towsonj. Deadline for the February TOWER LIGHT. Freshman Dance. Celebration of the 75th Anniversary, 2:30 p. m. Assembly: Greek Drama , Dr. Ed- ward Harry. Basketball with Blue Ridge College f8:00 p. m. at Blue Ridgel. lllustrated lecture at the Lyric, South American Medley, by Luis Marden, staff representative of the National Geographic Society. Basketball with Gallaudet College fat Towson j . Assembly: A'The Girls' Vocational School, Miss Edna M. Engle, Prin- cipal. Iosef Hofmann, the Eminent Pianist. plays at the Lyric. Museum of Art-One-Man Shows: Elsa Hutzler and Alexander Clayton 1 through February 231 . Basketball with Hopkins fat Hopkinsl. Basketball with Elizabethtown C at Tow- soul. Museum of Art- YVilliamsburg. Colo- nial City Qthrough February 26j. - 1941 February February February February r Assembly: Miss Harriet XVclls, Educa- tional Theory and Practice as Mirrored in the American Novel from 1870 to l900 . Lecture at Hopkins Playshop, 'AVoltaire as a Dramatic Character, by Emile Malakis, Associate Professor of French Literature, Iohns Hopkins University. Basketball with XVilson Teachers C at Towsonj. Lyric 18:30 p. m.j-dThrough 13,000 Miles of Africa , a Motion Picture Story by the Stewarts, Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Stewart, Miss Pete Stewart. Basketball with St. Marys fat Towsonj. Sophomore Dance. ,rf ABOUT THE FRESHMAN DANCE AGNES Hicks On Friday, Ianuary 17th, the freshman class will make its college debut as a member of the in-group at State Teachers College. Yes. it is the night on which all freshmen will shine In case you haven't guessed. it's the Freshman Dance! You will be able to dance to the smooth, slow, lilting rhythm of Tommy Rogers' Orchestra under a starlit sky, spelling romance with cap- ital letters. This is a promise eycn if the weather isn't favorable outside. A good time Qtopped off with deli- cious refreshmentsj is planned for you. XVhat more could you want for ninety-nine cents? Be sure to wait for your change. NVe need your cooperation! XVc want you! XVclre expecting you! Don't disappoint us. ,if AN ANNUAL AFFAIR lawn Drsxm' On Friday evening, December oth. thc Towi-in Licnr held its annual dance here at State Teachers College. The dance had been announced as formal and those who attended followed the dress code as set by our Student Council. Iohn Horst and his orchestra proyid- ed the music. This orchestra is composed of twclye 23 young men, who, under johnny's capable direction. turned out some of the most pulsating music ever heard. johnny played special request numbers for the many who had old favorites. Those of the faculty who were present were Miss Munn. Dr. XViedefeld. Dr. Tansil, Dr. West. Mr. E. Curt YYalther. Mr. and Mrs. Crook. Miss XVoodward. Mr. and Mrs. Minnegan. and Mr. and Mrs, Miller. Long before the VTOXVER Lrci-iT announced that the dance was a success. those who were present agreed that this had been a most enjoyable evening and one which they would not soon forget. ,bf THE GLEE CLUB RUTH B IALESON The Seventy-fifth Anniversary of this College will be celebrated by the alumni. the student body. the faculty and staff on Sunday. january l9. l94l. The musical part of the celebration will be of special importance. At this time. the Cvlee Club will reach its maximum size. to date. for the student Cslee Club will be augmented by about thirty-five alumni. Together. the alumni and student Glee Club will sing The Lord's Prayer. by Mallotte. arranged by Deis. and Omnipotence. by Schubert. The Glee Club. alone. will sing Praise to the Lord. a chorale arranged by Christiansen. ,rf IN OUR MAILBOX Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Troupe announce the ar- rival of XVilliam Moore Troupe on November 25. I9-lil. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rav Blatter announce the mar- riage of their daughter. Barbara Ann. '42, to Mr. john G. Enders on December T. 1940. Ehrma Le Sage. class of '36. was married to Edward H, Butterfield on November lf. l9+0. Luella Kenley. fomier member of the class of '-ll. was married to XVilliam Kirkwvood on November 23. I9-lO. Ruth Libowitz. class of '-tO. was married to Samuel Berlin. gi ASSEMBLIES :ALICE CARR NOVEMBER IS - W'illiam Badgett: Peru Today The assembly committee hit a new high in interest with Mr. William Badgetts illustrated lecture on Peru. XVhile explaining the customs and industries of Peru today. he brought to our attention much information about the history of South America. In fact. the film was so organized that many stages in the history of 24 Peru were evident. He included in his colorful, well ordered Elm several Inca ruins, the primitive method. of ploughing, threshing by a yoke of oxen, and winnow ing. Colorfully dressed natives lrecently of S. T. C.j appeared on the stage exhibiting the many skirts, thc invertible hats, warmer stocking caps, the blanket-lik overcoats of the highland people, and the jungle dwell- ers' smocks which were introduced by the Spanish mis sionaries. At the colorful fairs amid displays of pottery hand-woven cloth, grains, and fruitsg on the coffee an sugar plantations of eastern Peru, on the nonsinkabl reed boats of Lake Titicaca we saw the diversification o life in Peru. Mr. Badgett showed us copper mines, oi tields. groves of olive trees, and blast furnaces. The low cost housing development for workers was as line as anything Baltimore has produced. The city of Lima is almost as colorful and beautiful in its architecture as were the Indians in costume. The repetition of colorful is not accidental, If the view of Peru which Mr. Badgett presented of its moun- tains. jungles, ruins. industries. and people could be concentrated in one word. that word is colorful. HELEN Przoss NOVEMBER 25 - After a word of greeting and advice by Dr. XViedefeld, the day's assembly was turned over to the Athletic Asso- ciation with Howard Stottlemyer presiding. He remind- ed us of the purpose of the Association-to promote ath- letics in general and to promote college spirit. Cheering by the student body was directed by Creston Herold and Frances Larson. jeannette jones gave us a report of the sophomore girls' accomplishments in the fall activities - soccer and hockey. Mr. Stottlemyer then presented Coach Minnegan. who announced that State Teachers College at Towson is now a member of the Mason-Dixon Soccer League. Assisted by members of the A. A., Dr. XYiedefeld presented awards to the stu- dents outstanding in athletics. We next enjoyed a bad- minton demonstration by Virginia XYhite of the junior year and three other players. It was with genuine reluct- ance that we left at the end of the period. May our next A. A. assembly be as worthwhile! NOVEMBER 28 - Rev. Philip Lee As students rose to greet the Reverend Philip Lee of the National Christian Mission. he shook his own hand in characteristic Chinese manner. Before beginning his talk. Mr. Lee played a folk tune on a Chinese flute. which is a bamboo rod with six holes. The tone is pro- duced by the vibration of the lining of the bamboo stalk. It was the speakers opinion that knowledge of the customs and ways of life of other people lead to understanding and peace. lContinued on page 325 TOWER LIGHT I f tl' -1 li' TI-II-I LIBRARY ill' ' I 11 -. I I1 . . . Continued from page 185 the city have contributed E' heir ideas as to how to educate for democracy in their :articular iields of education. L 'I Bernice Cronin, a kindergarten teacher, writes, 'Through actual experiences based on child interests, Iemocratic ideals are developed and democratic ways of 'hinking and working together are put into actual prac- ffice. Motives that will tend to determine the childs Jehavior are given emphasis: human equality, freedom if speech, appreciation of the contributions of others, 'espect for group standards, acceptance of responsibility. ind honesty. 1 Dorothy E, Bessel writes: In a first grade room, the ideals and principles of democracy can be developed at times by definitely planned material, and almost con- tinuously by the everyday occurrences which the teacher uses if she is alert to their implications. First grade children cannot be given in words all the fundamentals which underlie the democratic way of life. but they can gain some understanding of the things for which de- mocracy stands. Respect for the rights of others through participation in group life, individualism within the bounds of social conformity, freedom of thought and -self-reliance without the loss of tolerance, acceptance of limitations for collective security, and the ability to work with others toward a common goal are all attri- butes of the first grade citizen if he is to be a worthy member of his own group. f A second grade teacher expresses her thoughts simi- ilarly. An intermediate teacher feels the same way. The junior high school is doing all it can to teach democracy. The high schools are making efforts toward the same goal. XVith flexible courses of study in reading. literature, language arts, and social studies a teacher has a wealth iof opportunity through which to instill democratic ways 'of thinking into the minds of her pupils. XVith abun- Idanee of extra-curricular activities democracy can be emphasized. The Montebello School has a functional Pupil Council that could exist only in a democracy. As- Lsemblies have been planned in some schools for thc definite purpose of educating the students in a democ- racy. Every part of school life is concerned with demo- cratic teachings. In every particular of education, the child should be I E IBaItimorc Bulletin of Education, Nov.-Dee., I9-IO, published under Authority of the Board of School Commissioners, p. 120. flbidq p, 132. JANUARY - 1941 led to be an individual and to develop according to his own ability but with proper consideration for the rights of others. XVe, the teachers, are the leaders, XVc. the teachers, have within our grasp the future. Let us unite for a common cause. Let us strive to protect and pre- serve our democratic government - of the people, by the people, and for the people. 2' I-IIAWATI-IA WOULDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL! P. HERNDON VVHEN YOU really stop to analyze it, it seems queer that America's favorite indoor sport is dancing. Prob- ably Miss Uhlrich and Miss Robison will disagree with this but, all in all, I suppose that dancing is here to stay. l'll admit that it can give a great deal of pleasure - no doubt Mr. Astaire and Miss Powell thoroughly en- joy throwing themselves around - but believe me, brother, it can also be the worst punishment in the world! lust put a rhythmless man with a bad sense of balance and an overdone sense of superiority on a slip- pery floor, and I'lI personally guarantee that he will revolutionalize the ball and chain, electric chair, and every ancient Chinese torture method! Sad, but true. And I am certain that when the Indians whooped it up around a bit of combustion that their dances were much more civilized than the acrobatics we go through now and flatter with the title of Rhythm. They only contorted and distorted themselves, you're not consid- ered a good dancer nowadays unless you can twist your- self and your partner up like a ribbon around a May Pole. The Indians were content to hunch around alone -which thought brings up the following query: Ilave you ever heard any mention of Pocahontas' having corns? Of course not, because Mr. Smith danced bv himself! Yes, when you stop to think. dancing's an awfully odd pastime - pushing someone around a room. trusting to Heaven, a sturdy pair of legs and a fair sense of direction to land you safely at the end of a wild piece of music. Also. this defying of gravity can't be making Sir Isaac any happier, and it's certainly not going to look very enticing in a history book a few chapters away from XVashington and Lincoln - he was a part of thc jit- tering generation of '-IO, '-Il. But I suppose. thank goodness. that the Indian is far too civilized to do a Big Apple or the Shag -- for, as someone has already said, They have their reservations. Civc it back to thc Indians? They wonIdn't have it! 25 PEGGY GUNXELLS and LEE BICCIARRLAR XVriting a column of any type entails three main dif- ficulties. These difficulties are similar to those met in life. They could be stated as follows: l. Climbing a fence that is leaning toward you. 2. Kissing a girl that is leaning away from you. 3. Speaking to a group of experts on their own topic. There is no point to the first, the second is by far the most enjoyable, but to us the third is more vital. XVe find it very difficult to write gossip about experts on the subject. Last year we resolved never to make New Years Res- olutions again. However. at this time of the year such things are prevalent and we decided to slip into the harness and do the inevitable. Here are some from the faculty: l. Dr. XViedefeld-More money in the culture fund. 2. Dr. A. Dowell-More trips for her health students. 3. Miss XVeyforth-To find a good definition of the word 'Quartettef' -f. Miss Bersch-To add five more chapters to Monroe. 5. Mr. Miller-To find more 'lilies' to gild. 6. Mr. XValther-To give Inore birthday parties in class. T. Mr. Moser-To give no more in arithmetic tests. S. Dr. F. Dowell-To get a new stock of jokes for his new students in February. 9. Miss XVoodward-To settle the ring situation. l0. Dr. XVest-An observatory before he's 50. ll. Mr. Crook-To get Inore chewing gum. l2. Miss Munn-More munny for the Towiarz LIGHT. Freshmen Frolics XYho are the other three boys. Bart. that enjoy danc- ing with each other in the foyer every afternoon? Open letter to Agnes Hicks, Fr. lc Dear Agnes. You may place your advertisement in the TowER LIGHT for a minimum amount. More people read the Towian LIGHT than those who go in the Book Shop. IEd.'s note: Thats what he thinks!j Yours truly. P. Cv. and L. M. Does Shock have Emily on the end of a String? 26 Sophomore Scandal l Bob Reidt makes frequent trips to S. T. C. Could i be his love for the school or Barbara? XVhy did Bob buy a new car? Did his old one ge clogged up? Is the Naval Academy better than Towson or Hagers town? Or is it the picture? Only jane Stottlemyer can furnish the answer. Junior J-S Peters: VVhat's the name of the book you're read ing? Nan: XVhat 20.000000 XVomen Xilantf' Peters: May I see it? I want to see if they spelled my name right. One of our spies reports the presence of Mr. johr Edward Koontz and a young lady in the new shoppin center at Homeland. Can you explain this. jack? Senior Stuff How many people know that the poet laureate of th senior class wrote a three-page poem for a certain youn lady in Sr. 4B? Then they spent a whole period togethe reading it. ln case you're not familiar with the case. th initials are and M. R. Betcha Charles Gross will never forget his Zlst birth- day. thanks to his class. Let's all hope that Stotty can pronounce her nam better than some faculty members do. XVe hope that you will take notice of the new blooc injected into this column this month. Next Inonth yoi may look forward to a super So XVhat with part of the column written by a famous person. Our February an- niversary number will contain a review of many happen ings of the past. Vive trust that you will hold your breatl until it comes. Until next IllOllll1 and our guest col- umnist - So long and. So Mfhatl Editor's Note-Mr. McCarriar is having his Tribull- ations also. ,bf Youth is a wonderful thing: it's a shame it must be wasted on children. -GEORGE BERNARD Snxw. TOWER LIGH 'a 1 1 '! Y F I I I: ji I .ji 1 i i in -I 1 ll I 1 I I I 1 I ANOTHER LETTER fCO11fI11llCd from page 61 to universal peace is adop- tion of universal military training. And so 111 every na- tion which fought 111 the XVorld XV ar there were the dis- ciples of peace by yvar, security by fear. love by hate. Reason could have told them no'lg they yvaited for ex- perience to convince them. Adding to the poisons of past wars, preparations for future wars give fresh cause for disputes over strategic territories, arouse nationalistic hysteria 111 011C country, excite suspicion 111 all others. and thereby sabotage every attempt at just and peaceful settlement of differences. john. it seems the lesson of all this is, if we yvant peace yve inust prepare for peace. The third oppressor yvhieh holds us all enslaved is na- tionalism, supported by an ill-conceived brood: racial antagonism. secret treaties. power politics. national rights and honor, and national sovereignty. National sovereignty. rights. and honor should be better knoyvn as international anarchy, license, and disgrace. As III- dividuals you and I realize that my freedom ends where your freedom begins. 'xVe are subject to law. But hocus- pocus doininocus national-iiational-national - yve are perfect. irresponsible, divine. It used to be the Icing can do 110 wrong. Noyv it is the state can do no wrong. The state has rights any decent individual clespises. from the right of A'sell1ng opium in China to Uprotect- ing Ethiopia, or 'Abuying Panama. Every nation calls every other nation the despoiler 2ll'1Cl treaty-breaker, the beastly coward, all the yvhile modestly confessing them- selves to be paragons of virtue, and angels of light. For example, I-Iungarian school children were required to repeat twice a day the national creed: I believe 111 one God. I believe 111 one Fatherland. I believe 111 eternal justice. I believe 111 the resurrection of Hungary from the dead. Amen. Today 111 the U. S. A. ive teach our children to sing uCod Bless Ainerieaf' ignore our oyvn shortcomings, and in a sweat of righteous yvrath shout oppressor. aggressor. liar, a11d thief at everyone else. Is it any wonder inter- national conferences Hnd understanding and arbitration so difficult? Nationalism, militarisin. and imperialisin - they have kept Europe divided, they have blinded us to our real brotherhood and plunged 11s into insane wars, they are CLASSIC CAIWIPUS STYLES from IIUCIISCIIILD K 0llN 8 C0. Baltinlore jiflanufatturina Zemeler anh watcbinaker HARRY C. LANGGOOD Skilled Watch, Cloclc, Jewelry, Eye Glass and Fountain Pen Repairing 402 YORK ROAD TOWSON, MD. LEXINGTON AND HOLLINS MARKETS PHONES: PLAZA 2510, 2511 D. CAl.l.AHAN'S SONS, Inc. Highest Quality SEA FOOD City and Subiirlian Deliveries Also Specializing in berving oi behouls and lnstitiitirms Telephone 7 PLAZA 2056 F. W. KROI-I 8c CO. QR. T. BURKE. Ownerl WHOLESALE FRUITS and PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCI-IANTS 210-212-214 W. 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IXIANUFACTURIZRS or School, College, Club, Lodge, RINGS AND PINS See Our Display In The Book Store BANQUET Ffxvoizs -:- Tnoifnnzs 310 N. PACA STREET VERNON 1052 NEED SOMETHING IN A I-IURIQY? CALL SARATOGA 6262 STEWART'S PERSONAL SERVICE WILL SI-IOP FOR YOU OI? WIII-I YOU. THE MENACE IContinued from page 139 Isn't that a coincidence? laughed Babs. I've got a cousin exactly like that. They whiled away an hour chatting. Suddenly Babs saw her companion's eyes popping with stunned amaze- ment as his glance traveled over her shoulder. Then to Barbara's mystihcation, the stranger called quickly, IVinnieI Hey, VVin!l' G. G. halted in consternation. I'Ken! she gasped in horror. Babs' head reeled as she put 3 and 3 together and I I I I got 9. So his cousin and her cousin was the one, the I only, the dizzy XVinnie. And all the exploits G, G. had been gloating about were mere fabrications. XVhat have you done to yourself, Kid? Ken was yelling. O. G. sank to the sand weeping heart-rendingly with the humiliation of being publicly stripped of her dis- guise by a man, rather a cad, who, she had boasted, was crazy about her. 'AI wish I was dead, she sobbed dramatically, if ungrammatically. You'll be dead if you keep running around looking like a harem dancer. Ken hauled her to her feet, and started toward the Milton cottage. Now, let's hear the explanation of this. ordered Ken when they arrived there. NV here did you get all this junk? He indicated her glamour girl finery with a sweep of his hand. Mother let me buy all my clothes for the summer, howled XVinnie. I bought these duds and charged them. The maid helped me pack. so mother never found out. I got the make-up from the dime store. I even bought the orchids myself with my birthday mon- ey. and I made up all that stuff about my boy friends. I just wanted to be grown-up. so I could go around with Babs and lack and their friends. They never used to want niefl XVith this NVinnie developed hysteries. The next morning she awoke pale with determina- tion and loss of make-up. She had come to the decision that her parents must be missing her terribly and was leaving for home immediately. It was a much chastened little girl who sneaked out of Baylor's Beach by the midnight train. Ken and Babs saw her off. The former. who was quite fond of his cousin re- marked, She really is a pretty kid. Yes, agreed Babs, crossing her lingers behind her back. TOWER LIGHT I I I I I MUSIC QContinucd from page ZOQ and first clarinetist of the Baltimore Symphony, has been with Paul YVhiteman's and Glen Miller's Orchestras. Norman Young. the 'APrince of Song, is a lyric bari- tone and protege of Robert VVeede. According to Nor- man, Mr. VVeede is None of the finest men to be found. Because of Normans youth most of his experience lies ahead, although he has done concert work and has sung in many church choirs. Elizabeth Bilson. the Princess of Song and dramatic soprano, was the toast of vaudeville at sixteen. She sang with Robert VVeede at the old Rivoli. Miss Bilson has been soprano soloist in a church choir for many years. She and YValter Linthicum were staff singers at the opening of XVBAL fifteen years ago. ,err ANSNVERS TO THE MUSIC QUIZ l. Flute - a present-day wood-wind instrument of the symphony orchestrag mute - an attachment to mu- sical instruments to muffle or soften the tonesg lute - a Grecian harp-like, stringed instrument. The equivalent to a 'Lhancl harp. Z. Eddie Duehin's orchestra uses it for a theme. 3. Bach, Beethoven. Brahms. 4. Sehmaltz means with sweetness, deines sweet swing. 5. A rhythm pattern played by the left hand on the piano or on other base instruments of a swing band. The pattern is carried out in Octaycs or Tenths. 6. ln olden days we had one elef of eleven lines. This caused a confused eonglomeration on the staff. To simplify the situation they took out the middle sixth line which was C and corresponds to our middle C. The two groups of lines being separated, there was room between for words to be written. The bottom group of lines was called the bass or E elef: the top group of lines was called the Treble or C elef. The bass elef is only then. a continuation downward of the treble elef. 7. Edward lXIaeDowell. 8. Sigmund Romberg. 9. Franz Peter Schubert. l0. Antonius Stradavarius. ll. The top curve at the end of the violin or other simf ilar stringed instruments. l2. Cab Tsehaikovsliy. Sth Symphonyg Cbj Debussy, Reverie. JANUARY - 1941 WATCH REPAIRS GUARANTEED F OR oNE YEAR .... . . 'Neill's Charles Street at Lexington Compliments of . . TOWSON THEATER LOUISE BEAUTY SHOPPE 32 YORK ROAD - Phone, TOWSON 1022 CONVENIENT FOR COLLEGE Specializing in Individual Styling and New Wella Hair Treatment The Straub jaaticmal Eank nf iliutnsun, JHHU. .'I1'r1ix1,r', Slgn lI'l'1itf'r'.r' mn! 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The game had its beginnings on land, Far back ini history early people amused themselves by some form, of hockey. They used a bent stick and a stone withi which to play. The present name hockey is supposedlyi derived from the hooked stick used. The Irish called the game shinty g the Scots, hurley . The present name 'Ashinny Ca game resembling hockey that is played in most city streets and playgroundsl is a logical survival from the Irish. Many of the low countries of Europe began to play this game on ice. As early as the 16th and 17th Cen-' turies there were paintings depicting ice hockey. At the time the game was known as bandy . The game as played today is little known in Europe. Canada and the United States are the real hockey-minded countries. Hockey is second only to lacrosse in Canada. Every manchild in Canada cuts his teeth on a pair of ice skates and grows up with a hockey stick as a playmate. Today. boys from 6 years up play and have organized hockey teams. All this training has turned out excellent players and excellent teams. Many United States teams! use Canadian stars on their squads. A Cradually the game has become organized in Cauaclal and here. Leagues have been formed and interest runs high. Hockey is really drawing the fans for there is? plenty to be seen. Cood hard body checks, hard spills,7 flashy skating and an occasional fright give the fans' what they want. Hockey has taken the place of wrestling' for those who want to see a hard-lighting. thrilling? contest. Lately. Baltimore's hockey interest has been on the-y I upswing. The team, which amounts to an amateur club. won last year's league championship and is on its way to another this year. Many of Baltimore's players- are sold to good professional teams where they are likely to become hockey standouts. i Most of the teams in the American Hockey League' R 1 . are composed of young players. However. many of thef - veterans are playing just as hard as ever, or so their Opponents say. Some of these men are actually being held together by bandage and adhesive. Still they are rough and ready and their body shocks can be felt on lt I l fa the last row of' stands. For a real spine-tingling, hair- .11 raising experience. spend some money and go to see the fastest game in the world. Q TOWER LIGHTIA ,I i , DEEDS--Not Words! llIRLS, I lIate to admit it. but we are inconsistent. This -ls what we have done: I If In 1939-I9-I0 as 8025 of this student body, we girls liw to it that - 3625 of the presidents of popular' organizations were boys. 2121, of the Inain oflicers of these organizations were boys. - 7525 of the class presidents were boys. REMEMBER that only I ZOYQ, of the students were boys. I 3 This year as SZQVQH of this studenty body, we girls saw lo it that - of presidents of popularl organizations are L boys. i 2620 of the Inain officers of these organizations are boys. SOQQ, of the sectionl chairIIIe1I are boys. l 4025 of the sectionl secretaries are boys. f 5571, of all sectionl oflicers are boys. of the class presidents are boys. REIVIEMBER that only of the student body are boys. ' uno' I as 7595 I VVC talk about the unfairness of the existing inet ualf I I as l Ii of salaries of Inen and women. VVe sav that women pY U . ire just as good as men and perhaps better. Yet we :ream from the hilltops that we aren't as good as men. phen we can find only one girl class president in 8221, rlf our college student body. VVe choose as 752, of our ,lass presidents, individuals whom we have called 'lcon- leited, drowned in self-pity, and inconsistent frllOXVER l.IeHT, October I9-lOl. VVhat is the matter with us? XVC re building up the very attitudes and situations we call ,nfair when we tell the Inen we have to choose them recause we can't find girls who are capable of leading us. 5 No wonder the men think of us as they do! ll 1. Are the men actually more capable? No! I 2. Are we girls susceptible to manly words and deeds? lfm afraid so! fl Come on, girls! The New Year is here! Let's change yur ways and act instead of talking so much! . Female Biped. Footnotes - il 1 Popular refers to organizations to which both Dorm I and Day students, men and women belong. Organi- i zations which tend to be made up of all men or I' all iwomen fMen's Club, all-girl sections. etc.l were l excluded from this study. 2 The percentage of girls and boys as voters varies in both directions under different voting situations. l l QVANUARY - 1941 l l l l HUTZLER BFQTHEIQ Q A MARYLAND INSTITUTION CONGRATULATES THE STATE TEACHERS' COLLEGE AT TOWSON ON ITS SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY And then there was the young grocery clerk who was so conscientious in his work that when the boss told him to straighten up the store, he untwisted the pretzels. Civic Clubs. Churches, Fraternal Organizations, and All Social Gatherings XVIII Profit by the SPECIAL CIIOUP PRICES I B E C R E H m pp l3altimore's Finest Ice Hfllzuay '.i' Good Trzxfzf' rctlm' Also Special Molds and Ice Cream Cakes for Birthdays, Holiday Parties and Home Gatherings Order from Your Nearest DELVALE Dealer or Telephone UNiversity Il5l DELVALE DAIRIES, INC. 2050 HARFORD ROAD - - UNiversity 1151 To the Editors: May I say a few words about the Music Section of the TOWER LIGHT? Throughout my four years at this institution, the Music Section has consisted solely of Glee Club or Orchestra Notes. May we still hear of Glee Club and Orchestra activities, but may we also hear of activities of others in the music Held? Three cheers for Miss Celwasser. She has done a line piece of work. A SENIOR. Open Your Bank Account With Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOVVN, IXID. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited 31 COLLEGE NEWS QContinued from page 2-ll Since modern inventions have brought the world close together. a spirit of broth- erliness must exist. XVc must acquire an historic pros- pective on the situation for only by this means have the Chinese people rebuilt their country after each in- vasion. Mr. Lee believed further that Christianity has the answer for which we are looking. Under its teach- ings national differences can be forgotteng a world brotherhood can be substituted for national sovereignty. DECEMBER Z - The music and rhythm of our southern neighbor, Mexico, was brought to us today by Mrs. Laura Bolton, through slides, motion pictures, and lecture. Mrs. Bolton first presented a brief resume of the Indian problem of Mexico. a complicated and interesting one. The inhab- itants of the country range from the very primitive na- tive to those of pure Spanish lineage. Colored slides and reels took us travelling through Mexico. VVe noted the agriculture and the skillful pottery making. as well as the various periods of Mexican history. After our trip. we heard several recordings of music. The instruments of the Archaic period were fascinating and included the conch shell, clay flute. bronze bells, and notched stone. The music of the Colonial period distinctly showed the Spanish influence. By the end of the year. it seems that we shall have visited much of the territory in our southern hemisphere. DECEMBER 9 - Mr. Crook: A Naturalist in the Rockies As Mr. Crook explained the work of naturalist rang- ers, a student teacher's life seemed a nine-weeks, vaca- tion by comparison. Not only do they conduct campfire lectures. short nature walks, and all-day hikes, but they also must continually study the history of the park. the geologic forms found in the area, and the wild animals and Howers there. Mr. Crook himself was stationed at Rocky Mountain National Park. Although the park is only four hundred and five square miles in area. it con- tains three mountain ranges. Nine hundred elk live in the park. Each year they migrate to the tundra above the timber line at an alti- tude of eleven thousand feet. Irlere they grow their new antlers. and the cows and calves wander till autumn. The mating season in October brings the lights among the bulls for their mates. Although these combats are wasteful of clk lives they serve to preserve the line of the Strongest animals. 32 NVC saw several of these animals in Mr. Crook's ex-f eellent motion pictures. It is impossible to list all the animals and plants which he showed us in their native settings. From awe-inspiring heights we saw dark blue' lakes in the setting of slate gray mountains. His camera' caught the colorful hikers and members of the photo- graphic automobile caravan. As interesting and Well chosen as his Elms were Mr. Crook's stories and in-I formation. I'm sure every bull elk will henceforth bf' thought of as john L by students of S. T. C. Mr. Crook used an effective but often disregarded! technique - 'Astop while your audience still wants! more - and we do want more, Mr. Crook. f ,sf CHRISTMAS ASSEMBLY SYLVIA GELXXVASSER XVeeks of feverish dashing to special rehearsals and carolling in the College halls culminated in one gath-. ering, the Christmas Assembly. A'Singing to Father, Song and Holy Ghost. thus joyous voices blended in one grand swell. yi The carols and hymns of the C-irls' Chorus, Ieanie Group and C-lee Club revealed fine cooperation and di-A rection. Outstanding was the delicate 'ACarol of the? Doves and equally so, though in contrast, was the at-f tractive styling of Praise to the Lord. Miss Weyforthy deserves credit for instilling and maintaining a liighl sense of musicianship in choral singing. I As should be. instruments took an important part in' the assembly. The efficiency of the orchestra, under Miss Priekett, was a delightful surprise. A college or-5 chestra has many obstacles to face, but the playing of Mendelssohn's A'Nocturne showed how these had! been overcome. A A voice also spoke at the assembly. It told a story ofy children. of a mother. and of a Christ Candlef' Perliapsl it was the simple way in which the story was told orb perhaps it was the lovely tone quality of the voice itselff that made The Christ Candle an unforgettable tale. The gay-colored programs, the decorations of greensf and lights, the blending of sopranos and basses, horns and violins - all of this, was augmented by a prevailingl spirit of happiness and peace. XVhat a wonderful send- off for sixteen days of vacation! ' . ,rf - They all laughed when I showed them my new type' of dynamite. but when I dropped it - they all ex-. plodedf' ' :Y :': :': Being an old maid is like death by drowning - really delightful sensation after one ceases struggling. 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Less nicotine-in lbe sumke! 28' 2 less nicotine than the average of the other brands tested-in rlve xmoleef Less than any of them-in lbe .v1zo.5e.' And it's the smoke that reaches you. TryCamels...the slower-burning cigarette...the cigarette with more mildness, more coolness. more Ha- vor, and less nicotine in the smoke! And more smoking, too-as ex- plained beneath package at right. SMOKING OUT THE FACTS about nicotine. Experts.chem- ists analyze the smoke of 5 of the largest-selling brands . . . COOLN ESS A - W ADVANTAGE FOR YOU IN CAMELS- C5317 , HPR f 9:9 . fi ',-, J ' J Q, 1- 1 T' J 0 TS,-lc 5 if By burning 2573 slower than the average of the 4 other of the largest-selling brands tested-slower than any of them-Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the average, to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK: find that the smoke of slower-burning Camels contains less nicotine than any of the other brands tested. 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SU SCIENCE AT TEACHERS COLLEGE il IIUMOR . . . . ,. 33 STUDENT COUNCIL DISCIPLINE OI YESTERDAY 5 XYIIAT THEY SAID AT IVACULTY MEETINGS To COVER DESIGN .....,,.., . , Avolxlfx' I'1:.vxx1se1u'1'1'ia THE TOAVER LIGHT is published inonthh'-October through june-by students of the State Teachers College at Towson. Md. 51.50 PER YEAR ..... IO CENTS PER COPY DR. ALBERT S. COOK STATE SUPERINTENDENT or SCHOOLS Dr. Cook. since 1920, has COIl5i.Yf6l1f1-1 welded fbe most sigfzificazzf paris of the pus! edizcafiomzl pbilosopbies of Mary- land. and at the same time bas led in derelopiug iz modern scbool system which is equalled by feu' for sound progressive nzeasures. TOWER LIGHT QA6 QOV6Ul0Z'.4 'ceelfin K AY I extend to the school authorities and to the student-body my sincere congratulations upon the oe- easion of the celebration of the Seventy-lifth Anniver- sary of the founding of the State Teachers College at Towson. It would be dillieult to even attempt to evaluate the splendid influence that has been exerted upon our State and its people over these many years by the grad- uates of your Institution, which today, despite its ven- erable years, or rather, I might say, because of them and the experience gained therefrom, is one of the most valued assets of our State's splendid educational system. The State Department of Education and the of- lieials of the College are to he congratulated upon the excellence of the standards that have been maintained. I sincerely wish for the State Teachers College at Tow- son future years of service Without number. l'lERBl5R'l' R. CTCONOR. FEBRUARY . 1941 SO THE WALLS SPEAK . . prayer Amr.-x MeAvoY IN THIS, the seventy-fifth year of our life, we are thankful for the many blessings bestowed upon us. XVe are thankful for the government that has seen fit to foster our grovvthg for those who have brought educational enlight- enment to the people. NVe are thank- ful for the fine instructors yvho have sent their pupils forth with something more than printed matter, for the young people who have taken advan- tage of our colleges humble olfterings. XVe have nurtured the ideals of our forefathers - freedom and equality under the law. Iexv and Gentile. Cath- olic and Protestant, essaying to under- stand, have met in brotherhood under our roof. not merely to tolerate one another, XVith a maniacal. vvar-mad. pseudo- civilization about us, there is much to be done to keep our ovvn young people of today frcc from bigotry and the evils of a disillusioning world. NYC have the courage: xve ask you. Cod. to give us the strength to face our task more clearly, to bring closer to the hearts of children a living knowledge of the worthy life, Thus may our succeed- ing years repay the confidence of those preceding generations to vvhom yve give thanks today. 3 Thezeghzir About rf. Newell by RTAYOR L-irRoBi2 MAYOR LATROBE said, He had been eoimected with the Public Schools of Baltimore for ten years in an official way. and there was not a man in Maryland to whom the Public School Education was more indebted than to Professor Newell. One feels a deep sense of gratifica- tion that the cause of education had a man so thoroughly acquainted with his duties. He was the right man in the right place. The success of the Normal School was altogether due to the man who had conducted it for 25 years. During his adminis- tration he increased the mimber of pupils from eleven to more than three hundred. ln 1868 he was ap- pointed principal of the State Nor- mal School - also ex-officio State Superintendent. As a teacher he was pre-eininent. as air educator his rep- utation was national. The proficiency of the Public School system in Mary- land owes its success to his energy. perseverance, tact, and foresight. He 4 A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR NEWELL LIZETTE XYOODXYORTH REESE lust. liberal was this man, And held his work so high, It brought a touch of opulence To every work and to each act of his, Sure of his dreams as of himself, Sure of himself as of his dreams, He kept a steadfast track, Nor swerved from what was just and liberal. As scers and shepherds do, He saw a strangeness in the sky: He saw a cloudy structure towering up. Between the clods and stars: Cloudy but fair, and with a look As though it leapt to sound of trumpeting. And year by year he watched this towered thing, Between the stars and clods, Cave it his heartg blood. all his hopes, His visions of a wise and nourishing state, His confidence in plain and splendid men: XYould it not grow. because of need and love? XVould it not last. because of love and need? It grewg it lastedg ours is it this day. Soon, all too soon. The Master went about a greater task: The staH dropped from the Shepherds hand: The Dreamer. done with dreaming. fell asleep. 'k 'A' 'A' 'A' 'A' ir 'k i' 'k had a singleness of purpose in all that he did for the cause in which he performed such unreinitting la- bor. He had a great deal of interest in the establishment of the Manual Training School, The Maryland State Normal School furnished teachers for Public Schools in the entire State and they compared fa- vorably with the scholars of older schools in any other State. The high and pure principles of philosophy and life which he incul- catcd and infused into his educa- tional work have exerted an influ- ence for good through our whole school system that cannot be ineas- ured and will long be felt. The world is better and brighter because he lived in it. He left an impression which time will not efface. E. Bemfeff Peefljfeeeem LLD. Second Principal of the State Teachers College of Aiaryland MANY visitors from foreign lands to this country are highly impressed with the universality of education in America. No exhibition of coni- munity life so expresses the essential democratic spirit of this country as its public schools. In the ongoing of public education in the State of Maryland we must take note of the large contribution made to it during the period presided over by the sec- ond principal of the State Teachers College. E. Barrett Prettyman, LL.D. Dr. Prettyman found the educa- tional system well up to the highest standards of the times. His contri- bution was distinct and lasting in the general character of Maryland life and thought. Dr. Prettyman brought to his ofhce of principal of the Maryland Teachers College a full-orbed scholarship. and a conse- cration born of his supreme valua- tion of this school. Basic to all his TOWER LIGHT I K v v I 4 I 1 l leadership was a thorough familiar- ity with English literature. lt may be doubted if there was at the time a scholar more thoroughly versed in the whole range of English litera- ture. He was an omniverous reader in the whole field of letters, and a devout student of all that could be classed as literature. He lived in an atmosphere of English writers, and had a profound and critical appre- ciation of their interpretation of life as embodied in their books. Back of his easy familiarity with the English language, he had a thorough ground work of ancient classic literature. He was especially versed in Creek and Latin, and the masterpieces of these languages gave grace, beauty and profundity to the course of study in this school. Back of these fields of thought and built upon them was his outstanding personality. The best of the classics lived anew in his own life: refined. chaste, learned as he was. He sought to give to the stu- dents of this school a sympathetic l appreciation of the true and beauti- ful in past achievements of all men fand nations. The education which he had to give was applicable to all r classes and conditions of the citizens of the State. Under his leadership the school 1 . . . I grew in wide favor in every commu- nity of the State, and every scholar- ship provided by the Legislature was i eagerly taken. Through his persistent Heftort the State provided free books for all the schools of the State. A lforty thousand dollar building was ll O l I l 4 1. added to the school. So, on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State Teachers Col- lege we may pay tribute to this sec- 'ond principal, and point to him as a teacher who taught the worlcl's best thought, who built upon the classics of all literature. who won the V highest devotion of the people of W'Maryland for their school, and who if sent out a relay of scholars equipped lgfor their high task. Qi or l FEBRUARY - 1941 De. Henry Sfeemeee Wert LENA C. XZAN BIBBER DR. HENRY S. VVEST was prin- cipal of the Maryland State Normal School at Towson from September, 1917, to Iune. 1921. He resigned from the Towson school twenty years ago, and for the past sixteen years he has lived and worked out- side of Maryland. For these reasons, many readers of thc TOWER Lrer-rr and, indeed, most of the present student body and staff of the Col- lege, are not acquainted with Dr. XVest. his personality and his con- tribution. lt is, therefore, a pleasure and a privilege for one who knew him well and worked with him dur- ing the exciting years of his incum- bency to recall him to the field he once filled with such vitality and intelligence. Dr. XVest, who is a native of Mary- land, received his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of Maryland. and was grad- uated with honors from the City College in 1890, Interested in art and architecture, he graduated with honors the same year from the Mary- land Institute of Art. Thus equip- ped, he began his teaching career. ln 1891 he began his studies at lohns Hopkins University where he re- ceived his BA. degree in 1893 and his Ph.D. in 1899. Although still in- terested in art, Dr. XVcst developed his interest in English and became an instructor in that field. His talents. abilities, energy and fearless integrity soon won him rec- ognition and promotion. and. in spite of his youth, he was appointed principal of the XVcstcrn lligh School in 1901. ln 1906 he became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Baltimore City. From l9ll to 1917 his paths of endeavor lay out- side of Maryland, but in 1917 he returned as principal of the Mary- land State Normal School. His appointment to the Normal School came at a most critical time. The entrance of the United States into the First YVorld YVar had most disturbing effects upon the Mary- land schools. There was rapid de- pletion of the teaching forces and of candidates for teaching positions. Many of the ablest teachers left the profession to serve their country, and at the outbreak of the war, all but one of the men students of the Towson Normal School enlisted or were drafted. The rapid rise of the price levels, coupled with no ad- vance in the salaries of teachers had most disastrous results. Dr. XVest arrived in Towson on the flood tide of these tragic devel- opments, and all during his three years at the school the enrollment continued to drop. ln his three clas- sic annual reports he tells of his tre- mendous labors during this period. He tells of new courses and new methods that were introduced, of the first summer school, and of war work. He tells of the resignation of some of his best teachers to under- take other work at higher salaries and of the reiection of his sugges- tions by his immediate superiors. llc casually shows how inultifarious were his duties. how long his hours. and how his work was a twelve- month job, But not by a single ex- pression docs he betray wcariness. discouragement or ill temper. To read Dr. XVest's annual reports is to read a saga that reveals a real man of tough fibre. of vigor and courage - a man interested in his work and determined not to be de- feated by the slings of outrageous fortunef' 5 A Vision Becomes az Rmlify Xl. THERESA YVEIDEFELD HEN discussing seventy-live years of the life of the Maryland State Normal School. now the State Teachers College at Towson. we need to remember that perhaps its greatest profes- sional growth has taken place since 1920. That is due not only to the changes which took place in the insti- tution itself. but also because of changes in the State school system during that period which made it possible for the Normal School to throw oft the fetters that bound it and to emerge into the position of leadership which it now holds. At the time of the 1915 State school survey the Normal School was held tight in the grip of mediocrity: it was blocked by the poorly prepared stu- dent material which fed into it: its morale was stifled because of the lack of opportunities and the discourage- ments which faced many of its graduates: and it was strangled by economic poverty, The most important objectives toward which any school system should work as the surest means to a maximum of benefit to the children of the community are those of making the individual teacher vocationally independent and economically secure, The achieve- ment of that goal in Maryland during the past twenty years has been the most important foundation step on which the State school system now rests. a step which made possible the rebirth of its teacher training insti- tutions. The Maryland School Law of 1865. which established a Uniform System of Public Schools, considered a nor- mal school for the education of the teachers of the ele- mentary schools an integral part of that system. Trained teachers were considered essential to the success of any organized system of public education. There were very few high schools in the counties. The requirements for admission to the Normal School. therefore. had to be very low. Students were required to have completed eight grades of the elementary school to be eligible for entrance. The Normal School Catalogue of lS51 gives the following Requirements for Admission to the Erst- year class: Spelling-To write correctly from dictation three verses selected from the New Testament. Reading-To read accurately and intelligently lforal readingl. XYriting-A legible and moderately rapid hand. Arithmetic-To the end of Yulgar Fractions. 6 C-rammar-Dclinitions. litymological Forms. Easy Parsing. Low as the requirements were. the first two principals of the Normal School, Dr. RI. A. Newell and Dr. E. B. Prettyinan complained continuously that many of the students were unprepared for the work and that the Normal School could not take time to give instruction in the elementary school subjects. They maintained that the trouble could never be remedied until better teach- ers taught the schools from which these students came. The Public School Teachers of Maryland are the product mainly of the Public Schools of Mary- land and what those schools have been for the last 15 years. the average of the teachers must be. The stream cannot rise higher than its source. . . . XVhatever may be the native abilities of a teacher, he cannot be expected to keep a school of a better kind than any he has ever seen. The Normal School faculty was gradually supplied from its own graduates, beginning with Miss Richmond, who was a member of the First Normal School grad- uating class. Dr. Newell deplored the lack of supervision for the teachers of the State and urged the appointment of a State Superintendent. saying. lt is necessary that a State which spends about a half-million dollars annually for the support of public schools should receive some assurance that the money is properly expended. For thirty-four years the principal of the Normal School served as ex-officio State Superintendent, and not until 1900 was a State Superintendent appointed. By that time the Normal School had made as much progress as it is possible for a single unit of a complex organization to make when so many of the other units which should operate in coordination with it had failed to do their part. XYith the exception of a few of the richer counties QBaltimore County in particularl. the State school system continued to rank low among the nation's schools. NVhen measured by all available stand- ards. Marylands schools stood near the bottom of the list of the State systems. The Normal School was in the position of an inland town with a poor hinterland. The Maryland School Survey of 1915 disclosed the many weaknesses of the State system and the conse- quent school law of 1916 provided ways and means TOWER LIGHT 3 ti fl li l l i i 1 s n which made improvement possible. That law caused comment from all parts of the country. The journal of Education, Boston, August 3l. l9l6, said concerning it: Maryland has made the longest leap ahead in educational legislation that any State has ever made in one year. lt is such an extensive and intensive reform that we catch our breath for fear that in practice it will be a nightmare rather than a vision. If Maryland will accept it, will live up to it, she will soon lead the Union educationally. As was expected, the enforcement of the new law met with many obstacles. Albert C. Ritchie, the newly- elected Governor, was determined that it was not to be a nightmare and, in l92O, there was a reorganization of the administration. Dr. Albert S. Cook, who had been Superintendent of Schools in Baltimore County since 1900, was elected State Superintendent of Schools by the State Board of Education. He had developed a county school system which was nationally and interna- tionally known as the outstanding county system of schools in the country. He understood the condition of the State's schools as perhaps no one else did, and he visioned for all the counties what he had accom- plished in Baltimore County. His vision encompassed the teacher training institutions as a part of the larger educational program. He brought Dr. Lida Lee Tall, who had been one of his supervisory assistants in Balti- more County to Towson as principal and entrusted to her leadership the work which was to be done, A study of conditions in the counties which affected Normal School graduates indicated the nature of the work which had to be done in the counties. Many of the students were still entering the Normal School poorly prepared for the work. They came from one-room rural schools and found themselves in compe- tition with students from larger schools in the more progressive counties, and with some high school gradu- ates. The school attempted to help this situation by es- tablishing a two-year academic course designed to prepare such rural students for the two years of pro- fessional work. High school graduation could not be required for entrance if all the counties were to profit, for as late as l92O there were only thirty-four First Group High Schools in the counties of the State, sev- eral olfered no high school training to their pupils. To- day there are one hundred thirty-five high schools ac- credited by the State Board of Education and approved by the Eastern States Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. The one saving factor in this situation was the evident fact that those students who came of their own volition, without the counsel or advice of trained guidance such as they have today, and suc- FEBRUARY - 1941 ceedcd in spite of all obstacles, must have been the best of the county students. lt might be thought that these students. Hue in every way. meeting every requirement for the highest eertihcate which the counties issued. should have done much to help raise the professional standards of the schools back home. This assumption is only partly true. ln Baltimore County where there was Hue pro- fessional leadership the greatest opportunities were open to the new Normal School graduates entering the teaching profession. Their individual aptitudes were studied and appraised and they were afforded the ut- most by way of encouragement, professional assistance, and opportunities for growth Such was not the case in the majority of the counties. The Normal School graduates who returned to the Hhome county to teach too frequently had little op- portunity to exert any influence. Little or no consider- ation was shown them and no advantages offered them because of their training. The great majority were placed in one-room rural schools. There were l,l7l one-room schools for white children in l9ZO. Today there are 260. Of these, the majority are located in the mountainous and tide-water sections of the State, where consolida- tion of schools is impractical. These one-room schools were poorly equipped, few materials were suppliedg and the teacher made and cared for the fire and cleaned the school buildings. There was no course of study to serve as guide, the schools were poorly graded, the promotion standards were determined mainly by the teacher, per- centage of attendance was low and of over-age-ness high. Previous to the survey of l9l5 only a few of the counties were able to employ elementary supervisors. This left many of the Normal School graduates to work out their problems entirely alone. Except for the anmial visit of the County Superintendent and the casual visits of the local trustees, the young teachers received little or no help. There were few opportunities for promotion. The graded schools were located in the county seat. and the other towns in the county. The politicians and res- idents of these communities helped the home girls to get positions in these schools. XVhen a vacancy oc- curred, and the time soon arrived when that ceased to happen, a uhome girl teaching out in the country was brought in. These positions were political plums in a sense. This meant discouragement for the Normal School graduate who saw that the only opportunity for advancement was determined by other than professional standards. Even in the counties having several graded schools there were few opportunities for promotion to a principalship of any but a two- or three-room rural school, because graded elementary schools were usually housed in the buildings with jCO11ff1lUCCf on page Hi 7 How Firm a Foundation THE MARYLAND STATE SCHOOL LAW OF 1916 LID,-x Len rly.-XLL. President, 1920 - 1958 ARS always bring changes. The Civil XVar was being fought to a finish when a new State school system was organized in Mary- land in the year 1865, and immediately reorganized in 1867. The Maryland State Normal School was opened in 1866 - a great step for the State to undertake in its still unsettled condition. The principal of the New Normal School also became the State School Superin- tendent and secretary to the State Board of Education. positions so blended until the year 1900. Throughout these concurrent administrations Dr. M. Alexander New- ell, the founder of the Maryland State Normal. advo- cated separation of the three-fold functions into two distinct offices operated each by a different head. But it takes a long time for the public or the law-rnakers to effect radical changes. From 1865 to 1900 there had been only three superintendents to serve the State, the Rev. Mr. Von Bokkelen from 1865-1867, Dr. M. Alexander Newell from 1867 to 1891, and Dr. Prettyman, 1891 to 1905. ln 1900, a superintendent was appointed, who served as a part-time person for twenty years. In 191-i came the great XVorld XVar with its upheav- als before and after, and in 1916 there was framed a new school code which had its beginning years before 191-is it became articulate in 19161 it will hold as a foundation for years and years to come. XVhat brought about the revision of the law in 1916? ln the early years of 1900 a young group of educators in the State and Baltimore City had been meeting together and thinking about bet- ter things, better times for education in the schools of the State. There had been a journal established as the organ to voice their ideas and ideals. But as usual it is always some straw which blows with the wind and points the way. A State welfare organization, well- meaning but uninformed about school trends and edu- cational philosophy, began to advocate uniform cur- ricula and uniform textbooks for all the counties of the State. This caused great agitation among teachers and laymen. A survey of the schools was suggested and the pressure broke when an article appeared in the Balti- more Sun on December 1, 1915, written by Mont- gomery Gambrill of Teachers' College, Columbia Uni- versity, who had been a teacher at the Baltimore Poly- technic lnstitute and editor of the aforesaid journal. 8 This article outlined the educational status of Mary- land and suggested a survey. Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough. who took oflice in 1912. accepted the challenge and the State Legislature of 191-f. through his efforts, authorized a grant of 85,000 to begin prelim- inaries for the study. The commission the Governor ap- pointed was made up of B. Howell Griswold. Ir., Chair- mang Dr. McPherson Scott, Mr. Albert Sisk. and Mr. XVilliam Coleman, a young and promising lawyer ly now judge Coleman of the Federal Court of Marylandj, secretary. About that time there were two other State surveys of schools claiming the attention of the public- The Missouri Study of 1910 and the Vermont Survey, just being published 1191-H. The Carnegie Foundation had made the Vermont Survey. Surveys are expensive. XVho was altruistic enough to finance the study in Mary- land? The General Education Board, administering the Rockefeller donations to education, was receptive to the call of Governor Goldsborough's committee and by 1915 the work was in full swing with Mr. Abraham Flex- ner as director and Dr. Frank Bachman in charge of ed- ucational phases. Mr. Flexner, in his autobiography I Remember, just published 419403 , devotes a chapter to the Maryland survey. One real reason the General Edu- cation Board advanced for its willingness to undertake the survey was that there was no good school system or- ganized in the South to point to. But let Mr, Flexner tell in his own words: HI went to Maryland for the purpose of talking with Governor Goldsborough, Mr. Griswold, and Dr. M. Bates Stephens, the State Superintendent of Education. Governor Goldsborough , . . convinced me of the sincerity of his wish that politics should be forever banned from the field of education .... The General Education Board was at that time co- operating with many Southern States .... lt was hampered by the fact that no Southern State pos- sessed a sound general school law. a thoroughly adequate central department. proper supervision. and sound methods of raising funds. lt seemed to me that by taking Maryland, a State lying between the North and the South, with many of the prob- lems which were perplexing Southern educators. the Board might render a service. thc effects of TOWER LIGHT i l I 1 2 i i v .1 4 1 1 which would be felt beyond the borders of Mary- land. A survey takes time. Governor Goldsborough was suc- ceeded by Governor Emerson C. Harrington and Gov- ernor Harrington adhered to the same non-political pol- icy as Governor Goldsborough's and the survey com- mission finished its work which culminated in the law of 1916 drafted by Dr. Bacliinan and the General Edu- cation Board and which Mr. Flexner said. henormously simplified and repealed every school law upon the stat- ute books. That commission deserves the undying grat- itude of the teachers and of the people of Maryland. Its plan of implementation makes a story in itself. VV hy should you as an alumnus or alumna of this school be interested? Read the survey account, a small volume published in 1920. lt is written in non-technical lan- guage for Mr. Flexner saw to it that none of Dr. Bach- man's pedaguese should creep into it. Following in the wake of the 1916 immediate revolu- tion came other great changes growing out of the pro- visions of the law. each of which deserves a chapter of its own: 1. The equalization fund written into the budget of the State Department of Education in 1922 and ac- cepted by the Legislature. 2. The establishment of a minimum salary schedule in 1922. 3. The teachers' retirement system of 1927. 4. Certification laws for teachers. 5. The raising of standards for teacher education- to a three-year course in 1933, to a four-year degree- granting eourse in 1934, to the change of the designation of the Normal Schools of the State to Teachers' Col- leges in 1935. All of these are firm foundations for building up the happiness and progress of teachers, and of the State. Mr. Flexner, in I Remember, mentions the Towson Normal School in the following sentences lin 19209: t'Changcs in personnel came about voluntarily and spontaneously. Dr. Stephens was succeeded by Dr. Albert S. Cook, one of the ablest educators in the coun- try. A new head assumed control of the State Normal School of Maryland which became a model. Mr. Flex- ner pays tribute to Dr. Baehman in these two lines: l'Dr. Bachman left other monuments to his ability and zeal, but the Maryland survey remains pre-eminent. lt is a pleasure to report that Dr. Baelmian was always appreciative of the progress of the Towson Normal, and for many years, after he had allied himself with the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, he kept in close touch with it. frequently lending his advice to, and his appraisal of, its activities. About a month ago, in Baltimore, a luncheon was given by the Dorchester County branch of the XVom- en's Eastern Shore Society at which both ex-Governor Goldsborough and ex-Governor Harrington spoke, and each with pride paid unseliish tribute to himself in speaking of the Maryland survey of 1916 as one of the high lights of his administration. The foundation is iirm! The superstructure will con- tiime to rise strong, durable, imperishable! The Moonlit Door NIARGUERITE SnxrixroNs '3-l Is there anybody there? said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door, And his horse in the silence eharnped the grasses Of the forests ferny Hoorg And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the '1'raveller's head, And he srnote upon the door a second time - Is there anybody there? he said. THERE IS a kingdom neither of heaven nor earth but of the worlds between where dwell the lovers of biog- rapliy, the eonnoisseurs of human experience, the gar- nerers of the quintessent. lt is a great. calm, shadowy place - a land where the heart does not betray the mind nor the mind betray the heart. To iind the kingdom is simple, as places in a dream are within easy access. One follows naturally enough directions that read, Let your hunger lead you. Ride upon it. Or again, Over three FEBRUARY - 1941 - De La Mare. hills and down a cobbled street. There on a road in the evening one joins a clan that rides in strange proces- sion past a house with doors as thick as those of Cedars of Lebanon in the Temple of Khufu. lt is the moonlit door and the goal of all travellers who thrust their way across mountains and far places. They pound their lists and sometimes beat their heads and hearts upon it. Is thcrc anybody there? ask the travellers. 9 Other minds and hearts drawn by thc moonlit door have passed this way. XVhat did they find? XVas there a giant behind the thick. stout doors? Could he stretch forth his hand and soothe man's questionings with Bralnnin calm? Did he let fall one word to serve as key to open up the way? Fell one chink of light through some slight fault within the door? NYas there a talisman to haunt those who came and went only to return and say, 'Tin come. NVhat now? and to find Silence only to greet them? How much of this elusive Silence did the recorder of life, he who went before. harken to? XYhat secret did it reveal? XVhat of the Far Things did this Pcri understand? Invited by Silence and by some unrest. it is a strange people that gathers round to seek the ancient answer or to listen for one welcoming sound of Cod-approval. Beggars. kings. thieves. adventurers. knaves. and good people of the world, why, when no answer comes. do these return to keep their vigil? Is it a kingdom of en- chanted spiritual wanderers or those whose thirst leads them to drink sparingly of spirit wisdom? Cry those avid for life's understanding to those whose way lies there for all to see. Oh, you who have gone before. 013611. and let us in. But in the square where gather the lovers of biography quiet people are standf ing, waiting quite normally for close of day. Vesper shadows slant across the city. Copper tongues of church bells sing. How long. my children. how long? All in good time - in good time - time . . . time . . . The new moon rises. An early night wind stirs the leaves. XVas there a sigh behind the door? ON THE GROWTH OF AN INSTITUTION 01. S. T. C. at Towson - Tith Anniversaryl IAMES IETT The worth of greatness lieth in the moulder's hands. And is proportionate to the taster's gain. That first idea 'ATO do should not remain, But rather Ubuild. to satisfy demands - For growth is all the wealth of all the lands. XVhen growth lies stagnant is the greatness slain, And all the doing has been done in vain. The worth of greatness moveth with the sands. To that great staff who built these college walls Attribute honor. Knowledge of the world XVas theirs - its modes. its changes. its desires. They moved in culture's changing intervals. And now their worth and greatness is unfurled. Their acts are seen - burn on ye raging fires! 10 Belle Caples Morris M. S. N. S. Poet. Class of '91 BELLE CAPLES was born December 6. 1868, near Cockeysvillc. Baltimore County. Maryland. Upon her completion of the elementary school at Towson, she entered in September, 1889, the Maryland State Nor- mal School. under Dr. E. B. Prettyman as principal. After graduation, she secured a school in Dulaney's Val- ley, Baltimore County, where she taught for a num- ber of years. She later taught in Kent County. where she married on November 27. 1895. XV. S. Morris. She lived here until 191-f. when she moved to Towson. In 1929, she was awarded the Bachelor of Science the degree by the Iohns Hopkins University. She is mother of five children - three daughters and two sons, the latter of which both died young. Her home is now in Vienna. Virginia. Three of her lovely poems are herewith printed: Springtime In Kent Dear Blastin. I must write you that 'tis honeysuckle time. And snowy ropes of fragrant bloom make sweetness where they climbg The lilacs now are faded, but the dogwood. all ablow, Upon the hill by Henry XYard's is like new-fallen snow. In peaceful. shady country lanes there's music all day long. XYhere mocking-birds. in quiet nooks. are rollicking in song: A wealth of lovely blossoms sheds perfume on the wayg The sweet scent of inagnolias invites our feet to stray. The fishers on the Sassafras are singing at their work, .-Xnd while they search the finny deep I listen where I shirkg Their slow nets swing, the while they sing the chantey, line by line. Or draw them out with heave and shout. with tribute from the brine. The time seems long since you were home: arc you not coming soon, Or do the bright eyes where you dwell for you turn night to noon? I know you must be home-sick for the sweet green lanes of Kent. For the year has turned from XYintcr to Summer since you went. Summer Boarders Ilornets and honey-bees and wasps. Bumblcsbees. ticks, and midges. Swarm, an innumerable host, In valleys and on ridges. Each busy at his summer task, lfeeding and multiplying: No other good than this they ask: lust living -- and then dying. TOWER LIGHT I L V. .1 r V 4 x I h Fr 1 r i I i l 1 1 'G .1 V i P Renascent Ifor many years I tried to write Thus blooming I am beauty's self - My love of lovcliness in words That which was mortal is alive. XVhich should express my souls delight Ifleedless of poverty or pclt In trees and fiowers, bees and birdsg No longer need I seek and strive. Now I bear a magnolia tree To uttcr beauty, for my tlieiue That sheds its beauty all around, Is held aloft for all to sccg Deep hidden in the heart of me Beauty is tangible, the dream Its roots are nourished underground. Blossonung from the heart of ine. Q i i I I i l i Ill. 9 I S il A I , l SIDNEY M. CHERNAK, 28 I fVice-Principal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton School, No. 93j 1 I i THE DOZEN years which separate me from my alma mater have brought me evidence which convinces me more than ever that there is a definite correlation be- tween the smile of enthusiasm and teaching success. I ihave been in numerous classrooms and have observed iteachers in a variety of situations and believe that as a group those who can smile on occasion succeed better in gaining the confidence of their students. These t'smilers have litle trouble convincing their students that learn- ing is a cooperative enterprise in which the teacher yworks with the students. These smilers have a distinct ledge over the somber-faced 'fsuperserious' pedagogues 'who pour out book leamin' as one would a cement mixture. i Don't get me wrong. I do not refer to the oft-men- tioned frozen perpetual variety of smile which is re- corded for posterity and the edification of some erst- while popular dentifriee, No, my friends and potential colleagues, l am talking about the kind which has thc property of placing students and associates at ease. On any rating scale of smiles I label this one Smile Smile A is a no resisting one which gets automatic : yes's in overwhelming abundance. The next time you fgo shopping look for smile You will find it possessed Irby the salesgirls who sells you a pair of hose when you Vreally only intended to buy shoes. You will find it a 'useful tool of the station attendant who wipes your windshield when you buy gasoline. The soda clerk who lserves you a tall glass instead of the small one you had i QFEBRUARY - 1941 i i in mind has capitalized on Smile A. Teachers, too, use Smile A to advantage. They use this personality vitamin as a wedge to open minds as a catalytic agent in the molding of young personalities and, yes, apply it as a salve when young feelings have been hurt and need the healing qualities of Smile A. How can you tell whether you have f'Smile A ? VV ell, you don't have it: If children are reticent about asking you questions for fear that they will get a scathing sarcasm in return. If people will not ask you to do something special which might involve a bit of inconvenience on your part. If children become completely absorbed in conversa- tion or in the bulletin board or their library books when they see you approaching. If your opinion is not sought in matters of moment to your students and colleagues. If you, yourself, are not the recipient of Smile A. If you cannot detect it in your own dressing-room mirror. How can you acquire Smile An? Yes. it can be ac- quired - through practice. First, you must build it up within yourself. Inoculatc yourself with optimism and make it part of your mien. Then determine that the old adage dealing with soft answers is still effective - practice that, too. Smile A will then become a con- comitant of your personality. I 1 Brief Histor of Student Government Go1inoN Foiuzniz Siiuisns HE historv of student government organization at the State Teachers College seems to resolve itself into three distinct periods. In l92l the students of the Blarvland State Teachers College drew up an agreement which was to give the students jurisdiction over Hthe management of all mat- ters concerning the conduct of the students in their college life that are not academic in nature except such matters as are hereinafter withdrawn from the jurisdic- tion of the organization. These included matters per- taining to absences. latenesses, household management of Newell Hall. school propertv, and permissions for leaving the campus. Disputes concerning jurisdiction were to be decided upon bv a joint committee of stu- dents and faeultv members. The facultv was given power to withdraw or increase the powers given bv the docu- ment. A clause also was inserted to the effect that the agreement should not be valid unless signed bv the principal and the social director and the Student Gov- ernment Organization. From a teclmical standpoint the present student council is not a legallv constituted bodv inasmuch as its existence rests upon this document and the copv which we have does not contain the principal's signature. The minutes of the meeting of Klav 26. 1921, report that. ln the presence of the entire student bodv, Miss Tall . . ithe principall and the others so re- quired. signed the agreement. At the same time a con- stitution was drawn up stating the name, purpose, mem- bership. officers. committees. elections, duties of the offi- cers and committees. impeachment. quorum require- ments and the pledge to be taken bv all of the members. Of significance was the resolution that the students ob- serve an honor svstem devoted to technical aspects of school living. In the 1922 revision of the constitution the name. pur- pose. membership. and oilicers were as in the constitu- tion of l92l but there was the addition of another func- tioning bodv. The Student Gouncilf, consisting of the president, vice-president. and the sccretarv-treasurer of the Student Government Grganization. the house presi- dent of each dormitorv. the chairman of each section. and the president of each class. The president of the Student Gouncil Organization acted as chairman but had no vote. The section of the oonstitution concerning committees was eliminated. and the sections on elec- tions. meetings. powers and duties amended. A set of bv- 12 laws were added. greatlv adding to the efficiency of the organization. Of significance in these bv-laws were pro- visions for student responsibility for collection of asso ciation fees. distribution of copies of the constitution, conduct in the dormitories and dining room, punish- ment for violation of rules. and the distribution of mail in the dormitories. ln March, 1925, the second period in student gov- ernment began when two student bodies were formed, one for the dav students and the other for the boarding students, each with a separate constitution. The board- ing student council had jurisdiction over the conduct of the boarding students onlv and meted out punish- ments for offences against the rules which were made. That dav and resident councils were merelv convenient divisions of the students for the purpose of acting with more efficiencv in regard to their problems is inferred from the existing minutes of both bodies for the entire period. The main student council acted on matters which affected the whole student bodv. The third period began with the school vear of l938. It was then that the three student govermnent organiza- tions were joined into one student association repre- senting the entire student bodv. No revision was made in the constitution and matters relating to the various subdivisions of student life were delegated to commit- tees. This proved to be an improvement upon the old tripartite council. Student government since its beginning in the col- lege has shown a definite trend toward democratic ideals in the increasing of student responsibilitv. There has been no struggle for unbridled freedom but a freedom regulated bv obligation and responsibilitv has assured government for the good of the governed. This organi- zation demonstrates the effectiveness of and the bene- fits to be derived from orderlv procedure carried on where the rights of the individual and of societv are mu- tuallv respected. In itself the student council is a small matter but its significance lies in its symbolism of the nations government. lt is a lesson in effective deinoc- racv and a constant reminder of the necessitv for free- dom of expression and the rights of individual opinion. It represents the power and effectiveness of concerted action and is certainlv of as much importance in teach- ing our wav of life as our scholastic studies are. TOWER LIGHT Thanks! '1'1IO1NL-XS A. XIAN QAeting Director of Adult EIELLO! State Teachers College. You were not so com- ilieatcd when we lcft you. lrlowevcr, considering the naterial with which you worked. we feel that you did iswell job on'l us. You gave us a foundation in teach- ng techniques and skills that has been of inealculable falue. Qver and above that you gave us something far iner, a respect and a love for the work in which our ife has become absorbed. 1 lust how you gave us that, we do not know precisely. Many of us believe it was because of the close personal interest the faculty took in each and everyone of us. To the faculty, particularly our faculty. we wish to express fi deep and grateful appreciation. You were more than lrnere teachers and more than mere educators, you were lrmderstanding and sympathetic, and these traits made lfou worthwhile teachers and worthwhile educators. lvlany times. you must have been amused or irritated by our rash behavior or our uninspired arguments, but you SANT, IR., '25 Education in Baltimorel never let us know this. Yes. as we think back. we realize that the time you gave us after class, or in our informal meetings was perhaps as valuable to us as any other part of our training. VVe are sure that we have been better teachers because we have tried to develop a little of this in our relationship with our students. Thanks, many thanks for the Hextral' time. There is a vitality and a strength to be secured through the informal contacts one may develop with faculty members. XVe of the past, classes long since graduated, want to pass this inside information along to you of the present. Get to know the faculty of your school. even those Hyou don't like. and even those you believe don't like you. The faculty of your college has something to give you over and above that which is given in the classroom. Get it before you leaveg we are certain it will be as valuable to you as it was to us. umulative ecards Rmsizeca C. 'TANSIL Qllegistrarj N the Registrars Ofhce may be found the com- plete academic records for all graduates of the col- lege since Iune. 1866, when the first diplomas were given. For the period from 1866 to 1921 these records are 'ound in five large bound record books. divided into the ollowing volumes: Volume 1, 1866 to 18774 Volume ll, to 18865 Volume 111, 1886 to 18983 Volume IV, to 19155 Volume V, 1915 to 1921. Each volume 1877 1 898 -ontains about 'Atwenty pounds of academic records. The college is indeed fortunate to have these records if e' rlier davs preserved in such perfect condition 'md a 1 . . ve are grateful to the administrators responsible for the ireparation and preservation of these records. Not all olleges approaching the venerable age of 75 years can noast of complete records for its graduates. Fires in col- buildings have taken a huge toll of student records many semester hours of credits have gone up in .ege nd 'moke with the result that students have often been renalized because they could not present paper proof If their credentials. ln looking over the records in these around books one is impressed by the clearncss with vhich the entries stand out. The ink of those days had g qualities and the handwriting reflects the period -astin vhen handwriting was an art. This was before the .lays of mechanized devices for record keeping. 'FEBRUARY . 1941 Anyone interested in the changes in record systems has only to page through these bound record books from 1866 to 1921 and compare the individual records with the cumulative personnel records that are used today. ln the period between the bound records and cumula- tive records carne various methods for the accumulation of data designed to meet the educational changes that were taking place. Qualitative admission requirements and testing programs have come into use since the days of 1921 when the college departed from the bound record period. lust by comparing the space required for records one learns something about rapid growth of records. From 1866 to 1921, the complete records, as stated above, are contained in tive volumes. These yol- umcs, covering records for a period of fifty-Eve years. could easily be tiled away in two or three letter tile drawers. Since 1921 the records have been kept on cards and complete individual files of student data. including correspondence, student teaching materials and other data have been kept. These records and tiles arc pre' served in steel letter files and occupy T-l lctter tile draw- ers. For this last twenty-year period the records and ma- terial for students require eighteen times as much space as the records for the first fifty-five years. This gives objective evidence as to QContinued on page 181 13 A Vision Becomes ez Reality lCO11fiIlUCd from page Tj the high schools and ad- ministered by the high school principals. In 1920 there were very few certified elementary school principalsg today there are 233 elementary principals, each holding a certificate which ranks with any in the country for a similar position. There was no state salary scale. In 1920 the yearly salaries paid elementary teachers ranged from an average of 5371.66 in Garrett County to S927 in Baltimore County. These differences in salary among the counties and also within the same county caused great injustices to the Normal School graduates. particularly to those who returned to the home county to teach. The con- dition caused many of the more progressive teachers to leave their native county and go to other States for work. For some. teaching became a stepping stone to other professions. Now that salaries have been equalized these conditions no longer exist. XVhen the law of 1916 provided for a primary super- visor in every county having one hundred or more teach- ers there were few persons in the entire state quali- lied to take the positions. The superintendents had to go outside Maryland for their supervisors, or. as was done in several of the counties, appoint the teachers who most nearly approached the qualihcations necessary and allow them opportunities for study. By 1917 eighteen of the counties had appointed supervisors. Because Bal- timore County continued her live supervisors then in oliice. the number of supervisors during that year was twenty-three. Of this number seven were from the coun- ties and sixteen were brought in from outside the State. Such a condition was due in the main to two principal causes: tlj The lack of encouragement to the Normal School graduates prevented many from continuing their study. t2j The low standards for admission and conse- quently for graduation from the Normal School proved to be a handicap to the graduate who presented himself as a candidate for a degree from a standard college. All except those who were high school graduates before en- tering the Normal School were required to make up the high school credits which they lacked. before being permitted to matriculate in a college. Such requirements made the road to a degree so hard and so long that many capable and talented teachers were prevented from pur- suing it. The reorganized state school system provided the ma- chinery to correct these evils. Summer schools, exten- sion courses, in-service training, increased supervision, all aided in lifting the level of classroom teaching and raising the morale of the teachers. During the year 1939- 14 1940 there were forty-two county elementary super- visors. Of that number, thirty-one are products of the Maryland school system. The remaining eleven came originally from out of the State. The state school system has changed during the past twenty years from a condition of relative stagnation to one of high professional achievement. During that pe- riod the Normal School has been able to lift itself from its low place as a semi-professional school to a rank among the best of the teachers' colleges of the country. It boasts of membership in the American Association of Teachers' Colleges and in The American Council on Education. Every graduate of the Teachers College has many op- portunities for becoming vocationally as proficient and as independent as he is capable of being. Because of constantly improving salary scales determined on a basis of training and experience and a retirement system which guarantees him a pension for physical disability or old-age retirement. the teachers' college graduate now has economic security for all time. The state's elemen- tary schools, secondary schools, and teachers' colleges function as an integral part of a highly coordinated State school system. To Dr. Albert S. Cook and to all who supported his program and cooperated with him in making a vision a reality. so that the Normal School surpassed the hopes of its founders. State Teachers College at Towson is eternally grateful. ON ANNIVERSARIES BIARY SIBION 'Tis a time of retrospection, A time for wakened memories, XV hen we honor teachers of the past. And with them plan our lot to cast. 'Tis a time for celebration. XV hen with humble. thankful hearts, XV e accept the many blessings XVhich our heritage imparts. 'Tis a time when we determine. I-low our future mold is cast, And so build a highway onward. From this observation of the past. TOWER LIGHT lDlll9llIlINlllllllfDlINllS U saritiiioiiaiiarair l HAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE CHANGED YOU? , A IARGARET XVELLS 'HAS STATE Teachers College changed you? Have vou any different attitudes? Do you think in different channels? If anyone approached me with these ques- iions, I would, with some hesitation, say yes Because lxhanges are usually so gradual, I would probably not readily realize them until for just a moment I thought nack on my attitudes and opinions when I was a fresh- man. Having just completed high school, I had a feeling -that I had learned as much as I could have at that stage -of my education. Entering college as a freslnnan, I ifound myself again at the bottom of another ladder of four years. The more courses we had and the more deep- ly we moved into them, the faster all of us were learning :now much there was for us to learn. Each fact we did rind opened five or ten other chaimels we knew nothing about. r I entered college with the hangovers of high school issignments - definite. concrete, and limited. All of a zudden I was thrown much more on my own resources. Find out about Chaucer and his works. I Shall I go to a briefly written encyclopedia or shall I ook around the reference room for fuller accounts? Maybe I could even read parts of the Canterbury Tales :ind discover some of their characteristics for myself. After these four years I, without one single doubt. know that I shall gain from the assignment exactly in propor- yiion to my efforts. If I sit in class and put in my two rents' worth, I'll probably get out no more than two zents' worth. Because in high school marks were the major consid- tration, the first few weeks of my freshman year I was inclined to be particularly conscious of them. Although the administration dwelt on marks, we in high school received much more pleasure from outside activities - 'ithletics and clubs. I had not been at college long be- fore I was reassured that being a well-rounded person 'vas much more important than getting all A's. Of NIOLITSC, in every class there is at least one standard Waiser, who spends all her possible time on studying. although she gets A's, if you view her from all angles, lou will usually find that she is a rather dull, uninterest- 4ng person because she finds no time for outside activ- JFEBRUARY - 1941 1 I ities. She makes few social contacts, takes few responsi- bilities, and lacks social initiative. One should find de- light in taking responsibility and receive great pleasure from seeing favorable results of his plaiming. More than in any other profession everyone must assume many responsibilities in student teaching. XVhether the chil- dren learn or not depends on you. Maybe for a while you can see no change, but when a definite growth is evident, you cannot help but feel a certain satisfaction. There is little to be gained from always backing away and watching someone else carry on. Since student teaching, one thought is ever present: the ignorance behind the often-spoken statement, Oh! Teaching is easy! Nine to three-fifteen and all Saturday and Sunday for holidays! Three months in the summer to go to Europe! How can we teachers change the view- point of such citizens? ,er MY LEARNING PATRICIA HERNDON February, 1939 - I stood at the lower end of the driveway, looking up at the main building. As I wondered and speculated at the amazing amount of knowledge I had acquired since September, honesty and pride made me smile sadly at the York Road travelers, at those not blessed with the intellectual riclmess I now possessed. I gazed down at them from superior heights and wondered vaguely how St. Peter would separate the scholars fmeaning mel from the f'York Roadersu when we all applied for ad- mission on some future date. For how could we all min- gle together when I knew the number of bones in a man's body. not counting his teeth, what key a piece of music was written in, the name of the dictator of Hungary and the generally accepted cause of condensa- tion? Ha - we eouldn't! Most likely. St. Peter and I would segregate ourselves and discuss the opera, Shakes- peare, or classical art, holding ourselves gingerly above all the masses. That was two years ago. February. I9-fl - I am a little more than halfway up the driveway now - and on the way up, I've discovered a few things that didn't seem either apparent or important in '39, Of 15 course. I still glean useful information from the profs.: Roger Bascom is the best person to consult when in- vesting a million or two. Fort Mel Icnry faces the Port of Baltimore and it costs a dime to go through it fthe fort, not the portj - Montaigne and Ascham opposed each other as to the value of travel in the social realistic period of education. Yes. I've learned all that, but I also believe I've gotten a little more information that will stick with me long after Mr. Bascom exists only as a name on a page of my Economies notebook. I've learned that a sense of humor pulls you out of many a tussle and lands you rightside up: that cooper- ation is a pretty fine wordg that honor is something you don't talk aboutg that reasoning and not bellowing is the better means of discussion, that college isu't a banner, a hot dog and a ball-game, but a place to be proud of and to look up to. And there's another thing I've gained - probably the most important of all. For, on some future occasion when I and the York Roaders shall timidly present our calling cards at the Pearly Gates, I shall not stand apart with St. Peter and look down on the throng. For I see that just because I am learned in the fields of Science, Math, or English, it doesn't mean that I'll get the best pair of wings or the fanciest harp - I'll have to be much better and know quite a lot more before I get to talk opera with the gatekeeper. I've found that out. ,ef FRESHMEN THEN - SOPHOMORES NOW NORLIA KIRCKHOFF IT YVAS 'way back in September of '39 that we entered State Teachers as freshmen. Those first few weeks of becoming accustomed to college seemed a maze of tea dances, entrance exams, library instructions, big sis- ters fwho did - or did not show up to claim their younger relativesl, name tags that labeled one as being fresh , the beauty and unusualness of the Glen, and the heartening feeling that we freshmen were consid- ered - and treated - as Something Special by the upper elassmen and faculty. It didn't take us long to become adapted to the col- legeg to learn to A'root for Hart. Shock. and Stottle- meyeii as they kicked the ball down the field to beat. tie -or lose to Frostburg and Salisbury: or to thrill along with the seniors. juniors. and sophomores at the sing- ing of Alma Mater. As time went on. several new impressions - favorable and otherwise - formed themselves and now stand out as the most vivid in my memory. First. slowly but in- evitably. came the realization that males at S. T. C. are 16 a special division of homo sapiens - because of thci number - or lack of it! Poor. unfortunate, numerous' females! Then. as schedules started into full swing, 1, concluded that double periods in science and botanyi were too much to ask of anyone who has the slightest tendency to get hungry or sleepy. Moreover. there was the library which, for some students, should have been renamed the Foyer for Day Hops g and please, Dr.- Lynch, or Mr. Crook, or Mrs. Stapleton - we were all confused and couldn't remember where the classroom were. It didn't take us long. however, to pass through' that privilege stage. And now we are sophomores, and what a differenc that makes! There is no doubt that we are beginning to assume a degree of professional attitude - of respon sibility - and common sense. XVe've learned through the past year and a half that faculty members are human if properly approached and appreciated, that 'Aadvisersu are not merely honorary names or sineeuresg that there are still courses in our schedules that are cinches -I if that is all one cares to let them beg that observations and practicums - not merely words now - are the real beginnings of our teaching experieneeg that such things as math tests are the burdens that we all must bear some time in lifeg that complaints about student council decisions, dance codes. and advertising have no' justification unless one tries to remedy the situation in a prescribed manner. Oh. there are countless things we have learned. Possibly the greatest. however. is the real- ization that college spirit does not mean hip. hip. hoo- ray alone. It implies, instead, a genuine individual re- sponsibility to maintain - through loyalty. high ideals, and achievements - the seventy-live-year-old reputation of S. T. C. at Towson. rt! A SOPHOMORE'S THOUGHTS I.et's Keep the Flame Aglow ALLEN OYNEILL i TODAY amid unsurpassed facilities for learning we findi the most profound ignorance. amid unequalled oppor-I tunities to make man's life happy, the most abject andi widespread misery. XV hy? ll-Ie have facts. great mountains of cold facts ar-I ranged in convenient theories and put to cold. imper-i sonal use. I went to a high school that taught facts. audi when I first thought of college. I thought in terms ofj more facts. There was so much to know. If only every-Q body knew. Yes. the truth would make us free. XVithI high hopes I set my sails for a glorious adventure intoi the sea of knowledge. fContinued on page 'SZJ TOWER LIGHT: ji The History of Men' s Sports 1 11 1 1: 1 '1 1 1' I 1 1 i l 1' yi 1 1 1. ll 1 1. ll 1 ,ij .. 1 1 . 1 , i , 1 W i p , . , 1 1 1 1X1UI,,AN CIHPMAN IN SEPTEMBER, 1921, fifteen Usturdy, eager men enrolled at the Maryland State Normal School. From that date until today, men and their athletic games were and will be a part of this institution contributing talent, spirit and leadership far in excess of their numbers. The story of men's sports at the college is a story of a growing movement. ln September, 1921, Morris Touchestone, now at the Naval Academy, directed ath- letics by visiting the school several times a week. Thir- teen men, three of whom knew a soccer ball from a man-hole cover, reported for fall practice. A team was formed which managed to win two games of twelve played with high school soccer teams. There was a bas- ketball team also which woii more games than it lost. And so the seed was planted. In 1922 about 33 men were here and sports enjoyed some success. ln 1923 Harold Callowliill took charge of athletics. Baseball was played for the tlrst time as a major sport. There was little success in the woii-lost coluiini. A strange policy was advanced - 'Alu all cases possible, boys and girls are going to play the same team on the same day. This practice was followed in varsity sports for some years. Through 1924-25 more college j. v.'s were scheduled and more games were being won. ln 1925-26 there was evidence of growing and spirited rivalry with Frostburg. Normal men competed in P. A. L. track meets in the Armory and placed in several events. A tennis match was played between two faculty members, both men retiring exhausted after one set. lnterclass sports were a regular feature attended with much enthusiasm. ln September, 1926, Henry Shanks became Athletic Director. The soccer team compiled a fair record of VV,,T.,L,,. The baseball teams had the strange record of XV4L, and 9 called off because of rain. Tennis matches which we lost by 9-0, 6-0. 7-0 were played with high Schools in '26. ln '27 we played S matches and won several. ln September, '27, Donald Minnegan replaced Shanks as Athletic Director of the Normal School. The soccer record was XV .,'1',,L,. In basketball, peculiarly, we beat Franklin lligh 61-10, Blue Ridge 32-7, and lost the next game to -XVcstminster 4-6. ln 1928 Towson played its first college varsity soccer game with XVcstcrn Maryland. The soccer record was VV.1T1L11. ' FEBRUARY - 19M Through 1929-30 Mr, Minnegan became full-time director. ln basketball the team of the two-year school was playing varsity teams of four-year colleges and win- ning its share of games. 1n 1931-32 the soccer team won eight straight. The tennis team had included three college teams on its schedule. VVe were growing. ln 1932 a fencing team was organized which fought 7 matches. The soccer record was a good one - XVHL, ln 1933-34. the year when the Normal became a three-year school, the soccer team was undefeated and won the Championship of Normal Schools and Teach- ers' Colleges of Maryland and District of Columbia. The basketball team also did a great job in XVML3. During the years from 1930-34 the soccer team won 44. lost 4, Again in 1936 they were the undefeated Champions of Maryland. Basketball was also highly suc- cessful froin 1936. ln 1937 ping-pong and badminton were being played. ln 1938 Towson joined the Maryland Intercollegiate Soccer League and proceeded to win the championship of that group. The college also became a member of the Mason-Dixon Track Conference and had a team repre- senting us at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. ln 1939 the college joined the Mason-Dixon Basket- ball League. ln 1940 softball was introduced as a sport with several games being scheduled. So much for our history. of which we are proud. XVhat does the future of athletics promise? First, intra-murals for allg second. 90 per cent of the men playing varsity sportsg third, a complete schedule of intercollegiate games in all sports. And we'll do it, too! A PIECE OF MUSIC A succession of majestic tones. A blending of exquisite sound. A story innnortality enthrones. A melody from notes unwound. The flaming of creativelfirc. The theme that grew within a heart. Forever, it shall life inspir.e,,. . H . A tribute to its master's art. 1 ' -I. F. 11.1 Senior 1. 17 Not lust A Step, But A Whole Flight Cnsnuzs Gnoss IT HAD always been considered necessary. but. when in the course of events it became possible to erect a separate building on the campus for the purpose of housing the elementary school children, all persons connected in any way with the school were overwhelmed by the obvious possibilities of such a venture. Few, however, were as highly elated as the children them- selves. VVith pride and joy they took up their new abode in 1933 when ours was still a Normal School. As it was said at that time, uArchitects and builders so well blended material and design with the adjacent the Normal the original buildings that this one takes its place in School group as if it were conceived in plan. The pioneers of that project of beauty and util- ity seemed to have cherished their newly-found posses- sion and, having used it both wisely and well. have passed on the spirit of pride and joy even up to this very day. In perfect harmony with the design, the tone and the general purpose of this integral part of our present sys- tem is the following selection from one of our earlier publications: Here Is A Building M.sRoUER1'1'n SIMMONS. '34 Hands of men builded of brick and stone A school - and placed it clean in the wind On a hill. Deep silence followed clamor. The school looked quietly out On the hills hugging their purple. On the shimmering green of summer mistsg Felt the tingeing of autumn leaves. And held close the deep joy of the nights alone. Outside - nature. Inside the long halls - a loneliness. Echoes of the first footfalls - thin and hollow. Soon came a thronging of echoes, Came work and children's laughter. Something began to stir within the building - A slow, clumsy awakening to a spirit. All loneliness fled. It seemed as though in two great kind hands Xlas held a low light - slnelded. And a voice from the mists of all Beginning Cried, Here is a building. You who are rich with understanding And wise in the ways of beauty. Make of this a holy place. 18 RECORDS tContinued from page Ill the quantity of material on hand regarding students. The quantity of material is not so important as the quality of material and the use made of it. The only information contained in the records of earlier days was an accounting of school subjects and numerical grades. From time to time letters come to the college request- ing information that will establish birth dates for for- mer students who are now applying for pensions under the Social Security Board. The only answer that can be given is the date of attendance at the college which es- tablishes an approximate but not a definite age. The graduate suffers because of the absence of this age data. Many students today secure employment at time of graduation or withdrawal or during the summer on the basis of recommendations gleaned from information on the student recordsg information that gives more than a resume of courses and grades. Industries want to know about the students personality, his participation in college affairs, his ability to get along with other stu- dents. and his general attendance record. It is the re- sponsibility of the college to have this material available so as to assist the student in securing employment. XVhen colleges were small and a closer relationship existed between faculty and students the need for de- tailed information about students was not so essential. Changes in records have been necessary as a part of the guidance program and the effort to make the college tit the needs of the individual student. In this program of individualized instruction there is urgent need to have more information about a student than a mere ac- counting of courses and grades. The cumulative record is a partial answer to this need. In recent studies on effectiveness in teaching many research workers have pointed out the high predictive value of personality. Although scholarship is always to be desired and fostered the achievement of scholarship alone is no proof for predicting success in teaching. Our new concept of psychology and personality insists that we place more emphasis on patterns of abilities and traits and less emphasis on individual items. Students should learn to think in terms of total growth and should be given the opportunity for con- tinual self-appraisal by frequent conferences about their records. This development of student insight is one of the most important functions of education and espe- cially so in a teacher-education program. Unless the records of today are contributing to this development of student insight and assisting the student in understand- ing his problems they are not meeting one of the most important needs for which they were established. TOWER LIGHT .- 1 Eight Years Ago in TO OUR childish fancies there was, of course, some- thing thrilling about moving into a new and up-to-date building of our own. Wfe could not understand the import of such a change. But now with the experience of increased years and the viewpoint changed from that of the pupil to the prospective teacher, the movement becomes significant. A wider scope for enriched activi- ties - a laboratory for clarifying the professional in- sight of the inexperienced teacher - these and many other less tangible qualities of the new Campus School I, a student of democratic education, can distinguish. Eight years ago, I was a nine-year-old pupil in Miss Logan's fourth grade. I was highly excited over the im- pending event. Let us, then, go back those eight years and recall the enthusiastic beginning in a new enviromnent. Every- thing had to be moved but that was immaterial. The procession of desk carriers from the second floor of the State Normal School to the second iioor of the Campus Elementary School was a sight that would make a passer- by stop and look twice, It took two of us to carry one desk, but we took being punched in the stomach or pushed from the rear when a person was out of step all the Campus School ELIZABEFII Kumi in the spirit of fun. XVe struggled with great stacks of books. Before a return trip to the old school, we would gaze fascinated into the mysterious Clen, which our new abode overlooked. Of course. then, the Clen had not yet been developed. XVe explored the cloak-room, peered up into the mystifying darkness of the ventilator. XVe even ventured into the basement with its playrooin and workshop. VVe examined every corner. The new school was built around the needs and in- terests of children rather than those of prospective teachers. For example. when we entered our new li- brary, we felt that we were not trespassing in a grown- up's domain. Our assembly hall was a place we entered for participation in our own activities and one into which we were invited as guests of the big students. XVe had an inexpressible delight in the life that we lived here - one that I shall never forget. Today, as l walk through the corridors or watch the children frolic- ing on the playground, memories come fiooding back of my days in the Campus School. emocracy--Then and Now EVELYN R. GIRARDIN, '29 QSupervisor of Kindergarten, Primary Department, Baltimore, Marylandj A SEVENTY-FIFTH birthday seems an appropriate time for teachers and prospective teachers to recall the function of the school in that far-oft day when the State Normal School at Towson began its career and to contemplate the role it must fulfill at the present time when the State Teachers College at Towson pre- pares teachers for their work with children. ln 1866, just one year after the close of the XVar Between the States, it is possible that the school was concerned with the problem of development of a feeling for solidarity among the States. No doubt teachers found it neces- sary to foster a spirit of oneness and to promote toler- ance and understanding of other people's problems within our Union. Certainly, it became the task of ed- ucation to engender an appreciation of the sacrifices which had been made for the preservation of our united nation and to inspire a desire to continue it and to improve it. FEBRUARY - 1941 XVe have gone a long way since then. and still the duty of the school seems clear. In the light of recent world events, it becomes increasingly important to pre- serve those democratic ideals which our forbears have established for us if our children are to benefit from them. Understanding and appreciation of the demo- cratic way of life as well as intelligent desire to improve it constitutes the school's major responsibility. Individual schools and teachers who are truly cog- nizant of their obligation plan definitely to meet it. Some schools are finding that pupil councils and safety councils are effective in having children function in ii democratic manner thereby identifying democracy with daily living. In such a program, children are faced with the necessity for selecting capable members to repre- sent them, These representatives engage in discussion and debate before solutions to school problems are dc- cided upon. Such children must have the interests of 19 the entire group at heart in order to make wise and just decisions. Children in these schools get real experi- ences in exercising self-control. in obeying laws which have been made by elected representatives. Then. too. the whole social studies program is planned to provide knowledge of and attachment to one's country. Aware- ness of individual responsibility in the school. commu- nity. and nation. as well as freedom of choice within the common good are tenets which are basic to the social studies. Respect for individual development of personality is likewise fundamental in a truly demo- cratic school? Thus. it may be seen that the school, then and now, had and still has. a vital role to fulfill in the ultimate protection and preservation of our democratic ideals. It is to be hoped that succeeding anniversaries of the State Teachers College at Towson will find it produc- ing teachers who are enthusiastic about their opportu- nities and well qualified to discharge their obligations. 1 For specific illustrations of programs designed to foster appre- ciation of our democracy. sec the Baltimore Bulletin of Ed- ucation, November-December. 1940, Volume IS, No. 2. Wilna DR. JXLLAN HULSIZER ON MY arrival at the State College. an excellent cam- pus school, and similar excellent adjacent Baltimore County schools were the only centers of practice. In 1923 the centers of practice at Towson were on such a high level that students had difliculty in knowing what to do when they went farther afield in Maryland to where less progress had been made. Consequently, in 192-l, the students in the Rural Club and the Rural Department, with the help of Miss Tall and Miss Van Bibber. secured a one-room school in Harford County, XVilna. V XVilna had suffered from neglect physically as well as in the matter of teachers. Travel by train, car, or bus was difiicult because of several miles of dirt road. tStu- dents during their practice in this school travelled by milk truck during a part of the timefl Living conditions in the neighborhood were far from ideal. To keep the over-average Polish boys from throwing all the stove- wood into the schoolhouse cloakroom, timed relay races were instituted on the first day. Remarks about cigar- ettes and wind followed. On many a Saturday at NVilna volunteers from among the students helped to spruce up and equip the school. A parent meeting with an overwhelming attendance showed every kind of vehicle. including a bullock-drawn cart. Attendance and school work improved. Gertrude Hartman and Vera C-reenlaw gave generously of energy and time. Conditions were completely democratic. but never- theless citizenship standards were high. One incident serves to high-light these conditions. Miss Creenlaw. and practice and upper-grade students. in order to build scenery. were doing more than a little hammering. C-ertie. a second grader. reading aloud to the first grade. 20 found that the pounding interfered with her reading. Seven-year-old Gertie, therefore, stepped over to Miss Creenlaw and very seriously requested less pounding. The children cannot hear me. for your pounding. said C-ertie. Amused but impressed, Miss C-reenlaw agreed to cooperate. XVilna students gained several years in reading and other skill abilities in a single year, but XX-filna was chiefly outstanding for the direct approach to problems by student teachers and for its achievement in real de- mocracy among pupils and teachers. That this direct approach is sound is evidenced by similar work of the students of New College at Canton. N. C., of the stu- dents of the Lincoln School of Columbia University in Georgia, and in the Shenandoah Valley. Some practice in doing something about situations typical of the conditions which beginning teachers face is the only way to provide for real achievement under such conditions. This the XVilna Experiment accom- plished. The achievement of such democratic condi- tions was an aim throughout the whole school at Tow- son. Schooling in gracious and abundant life is the part of the picture which comes back most vividly to me - along with Rural Club picnics. corn huskings. and dra- matic club competition nightsg faculty parties, where Miss Tall played hostess so effectively: and. faculty dis- cussions on the improvement of methods and teclmique. Dr. Allan Hulsizer was Director of Rural Prac- tice and Founder and Director of Rural Depart- ment and Rural Club at Towson Normal School, 1923-1926. He is now Supervisor of Secondary Ed- ucation. U. S. Indian Office. YVashington. D. C. TOWER LIGHT Greetings From California AGN1-is M. NIeLi:,xN, l89-H906 FROM SEA to sea my message crosses the continent to my dear friends, the alumni of the Maryland State Teachers College. My father and mother were Cali- fornia pioneers. They lived on Rincon H ill, which was then a residential section of San Francisco. At the age of two years. I had my first adventure in the great world. XVith a little neighbor, also two years old. I started out for the business section of the city. The noise, the traffic of horses, buggies and carts delighted meg but my little friend was frightened. Her tears at- tracted the attention of a policeman. In answer to his questions we two little babies could not give him our address. Thereupon he escorted us to the police station, where our distracted parents found us. I will pass over the trip our family took across the continent when the overland railroad was first completed and speak of my next adventureg which took me far afield. After high school graduation. I went to Boston to study at Dr. Curry's School. Those were wonderful years in which to be living in Boston, for that was the day of famous artists and musicians, and opportunities of seeing and hearing them were included in our courses. just let me give you one of my experiences. I was in a class studying Shakespeare with Henry Hudson. the Shakespearian scholar. I expressed a wish to see the poet Longfellow - just to see him. Professor Hudson was a friend of the poet and when he reported my desire to see Mr. Longfellow, the poet set a day for a call. As you know, the poet's home had been XVashington's head- quarters and was a beautiful colonial house. XVe were received most graciously. He invited us to see the house and the beautiful garden in the rear. In the din- ing rooin there were single shelves containing one au- thor's works. YVhen Dickens visited this room and saw his novels. he smiliiigly said, I see you have the best authors. VVe know the poet's love of children from his poems. Ile expressed this love beautifully when he said that with joy he lived his life over again in his little friends, the children. XVhen we bade the poet good- bye, we knew we had been with a great and beautiful soul, understanding and gracious toward all mankind. For nearly ten years, under Mr. Prettyman and then Miss Richmond. I enjoyed my Baltimore adventure. I found inauy delightful students and friends there. I will repeat what I have said many times, that I simply revelled as a child does in a fairy story. when so much of interest opened out before me. as I read Maryland history. My Baltimore adventure was carried on with a sincere desire to assist in preparing pupils for service as FEBRUARY - 1941 teachers. That this desire was fulfilled, I have heard with joy, from time to time, and from many sources. May I close this message to my friends in Maryland by this stanza from a California poet, Ina Coolbrith. which expresses the ideal of Lifes purpose that we all hold: 'iLife is not ours to shame, not ours for play, Not ours in idle ease to dream away: But ours for whatsoever work Cod sends, For faithful service unto noble ends. Thus have we joined East and XVcst. I CAN DREAM, CAN'T I? PATRICIA IJERNDON I worked all day and half the night To get the theme exactly right. I wore down pencils, ruined my pen Scratching away like a tlustered hen. At last 'twas done. My brow was damp: My Hngers ached with writers' cramp. I turned it in with a gladsome song - But the EDITOR said, It's much too long! My second try was a work of art fOr so I thought with thankful lieartj I polished off the edges rough. But the EDITOR said, Not long enough! Once more I labored, hand and head, I thought it was good - till the EDITOR said: The length is just exactly right - But the theme of the thing is much too light! ii So now I've laid my pen aside - In inkless state I'll now abide: For a day will come when we'll graduate - The EDITOR, I. and my penless state: Then I'll be principal of a school: I'll lay down law and set up rule. And when the EDITORS lesson plans Fall to the mercy of my two hands - VVhen I know he's labored for weeks on end And his backs acquired a permanent bend - I'LL glance at his plans like they're so much stuff- Tlieii I'LL glibly say. Not long enough! 21 An Kindergarten Nnw MEXICO Mrxiijoiziig CZXVYNN MY FIRST station in the Indian Service was the Kin- dergarten on the Acoma Indian Reservation in central New Mexico. The Acomas are Pueblo Indians, and wards of the Government. Their 1100 population live in three villages on a 28,000-acre reservation. Part is semi-desert, part mesa or tableland. Only the valleys are of use for farming, There were two day schools, six teachers, several Indian housekeepers, assistants and handy men. The nurse had quarters and oflice next thc school and she, the doctor and the six teachers were thc only white people on the reservation. Eighteen kindergartcners arrived. They came to school, colorful, black-eyed, hopeful, knowing but two words of English. They were at least as competent as most ten-year-old white children in handling themselves and their affairs, and their radically different back- ground made life in the kindergarten a surprising ad- venture. Life was devoid of half the nuisances of the usual white school. There was no course of study and there were adequate material things, and always the assurance of receiving any reasonable requisition with- out undue delay, there were no parents who had read a book on how not to squelch Iohnnie's spirit - and here were all these little children untouched by radio, movies. tabloids, or neurotic adults, but who had had intimate experiences since they were babes with family foodf preparing, home-building, ceremonial dancing, animalf tending, planting and harvesting. Their manual dex- terity, innate good taste, orderliness and gentleness were a pleasant revelation. XVe were concerned principally with the things which affected the family life: the irrigating in spring, the har- vesting in fall, the fiestas, the good housekeeping of the home, the infrequent trips to the trading post, the pottery-inaking, the legends of the grandfathers, the hatching of eggs, the arriving of eolts, the drying of fruits and vegetables, thc care of traehomatous eyes. The usual pursuits of a kindergarten or pre-school group were received with delight, as they would be by any similar age-group. They made doll houses and dolls, and airplanes one could sit in and Hy tthe T.XV.A. went overheadj, strung beads, painted big pictures on big paper with bright colors, sang in Indian and English and even Spanish, and were always nosing around the village and environs en masse. The adults were interested but shy, and so we dropped hints in the ears of a few likely ones and shortly organ- ized a Ulvlothers' Club whose activities started in with 22 IN CENTRAL N1eI1oLsoN, '27 a demonstration at the meeting on Ulrlow to help my child get ready for school each morning, which re- sulted in a run on the comb and soap department of the local store. Our lectures and demonstrations ran the gamut of such miseellany as how NOT to get trachoma, how to keep out flies, how to prepare earth colors for sale. We studied the authentic old Acoma designs. VVe resurrected their almost forgotten embroidery. VV e made a trip 150 miles to the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe for a good soaking in the exquisite examples of true Acoma art there. tTry that with 15 non-English- speaking adult Indians for a restful week-endlj The fathers began to feel neglected so a delegation awaited us one evening to say the men folk were over- whelmed by the urge to learn some Spanish and would I, please? XVith fear and trepidation, since my Spanish was Castillian and they wanted Mexican, I demurred. But they were six to one, and won. On the first evening of the course they were sixty to one, and the place stifling. But the class reduced itself to twenty and we proceeded. I am not sure they learned much Castillian Spanish grammar but they thought that after a length of time they could bargain each on his own ground with un Mejieano, and also astound the local storekeeper by asking for azucar instead of sugar. The fathers were invaluable in coaching the little ones in the tribal dances for school L'programs and in telling the old stories and legends, and for giving ex- teinporc explanations on such things as the best way to let the irrigation water onto the corn and chili, the best place for the threshing ring, or how much straw was needed for adobe bricks. They made a set of Acoma pot- tery and embroidery designs with meticulous care, to be used as a permanent possession of the school. The governor tchiefl would appear periodically and harangue all the children gathered together, in Indian, on the advisability of doing what the teacher says. This was a custom of long standing. I-Iis interpreter, elected by popular vote, would deliver the same oration in sincere, if broken English. Then there would be a hand-shaking all around and everyone would go home. Sometimes one wonders if it isn't prodigious conceit on the part of the white man to think he can teach any- thing to the red man. lXfIarjorie Gwynn Nicholson was assistant in Cam- pus Elemcntary School in 1928. TOWER LIGHT l. l' i 3 I 4 4 i 1 l l ,l ji i I I I I I I I Pmneenng I-Ionzons! V IRGINIA CABLE VVnr'rr:, '34 SINCE MY graduation from State Teachers College in 1934, I have had my share of experiences. Looking back over the intervening years, I find that my emotions have been varied - sometimes sad, sometimes regrctful, sometimes joyful. I had looked forward to the day when I would be a teacher but I taught only a comparatively short time. In 1936 I married but continued to teach for a while. My husband, who is a chemical engineer in the United States Geological Survey, is subject to fre- quent moves. So. after having taught about two years, I was informed that we were to be sent to New Mexico. Needless to say, my emotions were mingled -' regret at having to leave teaching and deep sadness at having to leave parents and friends for the first time, There was also quite a large amount of wonder, chagrin and not a little fear because of the things I had heard of New Mexico. But the Department said, Move, and on April 26, 1937, move we did - toward New Mexico. I eamiot go into detail about our trip. It was made by automobile. Part of it was through terriiic floods in VVestern Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania. VV e both heaved sighs of relief when we remembered that where we were going there was no such thing as a Hood. Yet. one month later there was a Hood in Carlsbad. New Mexico. The population took to the foothills. Unpre- clietable New Mexico! Having heard so much about New Mexico, I dreaded to see it. After driving through Oklahoma and Texas. I confess I became speechless when we entered the State. As far as the eye could reach lay flat, level land with nothing to break the monotony but the numerous types of caeti, yucca, inesquite bush and tumbleweed in which, here and there, sat a long-eared jack rabbit. XVe had reached the State where you can look farther and see less than in any other State in the United States. Have you read the poem Out VV here the YVest Bc- gins ? It seems that the sky is bluer, the clouds are whiter, the hand-clasp is strong, the people are real. I was a stranger in a strange land and they took mc in - took us both in. To know New Mexico is to love it. XVe have made lasting friendshipsg we have learned some quaint western customsg we have sloughed off some eastern formality and donned some of the western neighborliness - the kind that causes the great western artist Peter Hurd to stop and say Coed morning when he meets one on the street. May I tell you a little about Roswell and my every- FEBRUARY - 1941 day life there? Roswell is a town of about l.3,000 pop- ulation. Thc chief occupation is ranching and most of the people are ranch people who live in town during the winter and on their ranches in summer. The town itself is beautiful. There are large homes with lovely lawns. Since there is little rainfall, much money is spent for water in order to keep the lawns perfect. NVhilc one is in Roswell, it is hard to believe that just a few miles away, on each side of town, the prairie stretches and separates Roswell by some two hundred miles from any large town. My husbands duties in New Mexico carry him to various other towns and cities in the State and I always accompany him on these field trips. VVe have both be- come quite interested in rocks and minerals and have a splendid collection of which wc are quite proud. I have learned to pick up, without revulsion. a horned toad and to recognize the warning of a rattlesnake. VV e have traveled extensively since being in thc Southwest - Southern California. Death Valley, Sea quoia National Park, Yellowstone. Boulder Dam, Crand Canyon, Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, and Old Mexico. But. one of our greatest joys is when we turn our car east and come back to see our relatives and friends. I am writing this here in Baltimore, where we are stationed until the end of january. Then, it is back to 'LFair New Mexico. Much water has passed under the bridge since I left State Teachers College. My recollections of social life there and of teaching evoke pleasant memories. Yet, I am grateful to Uncle Sam for the opportunity he has given me to see new horizons. R E V E R I E LORELLI5 I-IEADLEY, '37 If I would learn that you had ceased to care. I would not cry. nor show an outward sign: I could not let the world know what despair XVas raging 'neath this calm repose of mine. I'd wear my brightest clothes, my sweetest smile, I'd be so gay - no one would ever guess That 'neath that mask Qfor every little whilcl I'd sigh, and catch my breath in loneliness. But now. just when I am about to speak. I hear your voice, feel your sweet face so near. Now I can greet the day, its beauty see - Sure that your love will ever dwell with mc. 23 'H R Enrroarars M R Q AS WE LOOK BACK M. NEUNSINGER THERE XV ILL be many words written and spoken of places, of events. of people - their dreams and hopes. Pages of dates, figures and accounts will stretch them- selves before us in a long line. Pictures and stories will fill our eyes and ears. VVe shall look into the faces of those who had been here before and they will tell us many things. They will want us to CTF' when they cry and to laugh aloud when they smile. Our knees will bend in homage and our eyes close in reverence as the past parades itself before us. Through all of this will there be none of us to ask, to doubt, to challenge? The day called Founders' Day will come and go. Participants will say hello and good- bye. But there must be more to make the day live and become a part of this school. Records and photographs and many other things have been saved through the years. They are the things you can see and touch. They are the things you think you remember. Yes, they bring to mind many pages of remembered facts. They throw into these minds of ours, jutted bits of happen- ings - sticking straight out of a building built of de- votion, love, and unrecorded guidance, The things which make our building strong - are they the written evi- dences? . Far away, if you stop to listen, are the voices of those we have forgotten: those who dared to make this school a better school because they placed their feet upon untrodden paths - those who guided this school through many black days and cared not to have their thoughts and deeds filed away: those who have lived, un- knowingly. and been made desperate by hard decisions with students and fellow-workers: those who have worked daily with drums and cymbals, those who have spoken a student's language and have thought a students thoughtg those who have believed in a student more than in himself - all of these are founders, too. Their names- forgotten, lost or disregarded. Perhaps in our vanity or pride, we do not want to re- member all of them because they dared to question us as they instinctively went forward and left us . . . standing. Now we are beginning to catch a bit of their light. Soon we shall take the path they so gracefully Z4 placed before us. Founders . . . all of them . . . those whose names we have and those whose names we do not have. They are founders only when the young faces we see about us are willing to step into the future be- cause of them. ,er SEVEN TY-FIVE YEARS YOUNG LENA C. XZAN BIBBER MORE THAN seventy-tive years ago on a certain day, this college or, rather, this school had its beginning. ls it not then seventy-five years old? Or is it even more truly seventy-five years young? XVe have often heard that peculiar expression applied by the facetious to our friends. perhaps even some of us to ourselves. But in those circumstances we recognized the words for what they were, a clumsy attempt to console or to camouflage. ln the case of an institution, however, especially an educational institution, the phrase seems singularly apt and thought-productive. The law in our country regards a corporation as a person, but one imbued with per- petual life. On the contrary, the individual human being has but a single fragile thread of earthly life, which will one day be quickly and irrevocably snapped asunder. The institution, like the corporation, lives on and on. Men are born. pass through life, perish, the institution, like the river of the poem, goes on foreverfl The educational institution. furthermore, is bound to have perpetual youth. Youth streams through its front portals perpetually. Each individual remains but a few brief years, departs on a wave of growing maturity. But there is no gap left, no room for missingg each place is instantly filled. The never-ending stream of youth flows on. And this is not merely physical youth that thus gushes in, filling our schools. lt is more particularly the spirit of youthfulncss, the spirit of doing, of trying, of daring, of impatience. of optimism. The teacher-education institution has a youthfulncss still more pcrineating, still more inspiring, The young people in these institutions are themselves of necessity concerned with child psychology, are continually occu- pied with childhood. They work with children. Thus there can be no staleness, no decadence. no wearing out. Indeed, the very fibre of our teacher-education institu- TOWER LIGHT in 1 1 i i W 1 it 1 E 2 i i I tions is the fibre, the bone and sinew of perpetual youth, ever self-renewing. There is, in addition, another point of view of the perpetuity of the youthfulness of school or colleges. The natural person is born weak, passes through a pro- longed infancy or immaturity, has but a brief heyday of full power, during which are beginning elements of eventual decay leading step by step away from growth and produetiveness and the spontaneity of youth. Not so is the course of the educational institution. From its earliest initiation. it begins an unbroken career of births, succeeded by rebirths. The DICH and women who are the founders and builders bring to the scliool their vision to shape its pathg they breathe into it their ideas and aspirationsg they traiisfuse it with the life blood of their energy and hard work. Each livesg each brcathesg each gives of himself. each has his brief day, but when he leaves he does not take from the school what he has given. That contribution remains to be taken hold of again, to be reshaped, to be reformed, to be rcjuvenated by those successors who follow. Thus does the educational institution possess perpet- ual life and perpetual youth, in its fibre, in its spirit, in its objectives. It cannot grow old, it is ever young. Founders' a P 1' 0 g 1' 61 m ACADEBIIC PROCESSION Processional Hymn t'For All the Saintsu ....r Barnby Audience SYIXIPIIONY XV, B FLAT TYTAIOP First Movement i.,...r...., Orchestra . . .Haydn INVOCATION Reverend Forrest Prettyman, son of Dr. E. B. Prettyman, Principal, l89l-1904 Substitute: Reverend Augustus Hackmann, S. T. C. ,297 THE LORDTS PRAYER .....,....,.. .... A flalotte-Deis Glee Club GREETINGS Dr. M. Theresa XViedefeld, President, State Teach- ers College. Towson Mrs. Daniel H. Carroll. President, Alumni Asso- ciation, State Teachers College, Towson PRAISE TO TIIE LORD ..........,. CllOI2llC-Cll1'lSl.'l2l1lSC11 Glee Club ADDRESS-MTTIC Business of Teachers is to Teach Dr. A. L. Crabb, Professor of Education, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville. Tennessee OMNIPOTENCIQ . , . ........... . . .Schubert Glee Club PREsEN'rA'I'IoN oif PREsInEN'rls PoR'1'RAI'I' Mrs. C. A. Kuper, Miss Lillian C. Compton, for the Class of 190-l NOC'I'URN12 .....,....,..,.... . . . lXIendelssohn Orchestra ALTXIA RTATER . . .,,.....,., . . . College Song Audience FEBRUARY - 1941 BENEDICTION Reverend Augustus Hackmann The music was furnished by the College Orchestra, the College Glee Club and augmented by the Alumni Or- chestra and by the Alumni Glec Club. Orchestra Conductor - Miss Elma Pickcttg Glce Club Conductor - Miss Emma AA7Cf'fOl'tl1 THE BUSINESS OF THE TEACHER IS TO TEACH Reported by HELEN PROSS At our Founders' Day Celebration on Sunday. Ian- uary the nineteenth, an eager audience filled our au- ditorium. After a prayer, music, and greeting from Mrs. Daniel Carroll, alumni president, Dr. YViedefeld intro- duced the speaker of the day as a man who knows the past and can build the future oII it. Dr. A. L. Crabb of Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, addressed the gathering on the subject The Business of Teachers is to Teach. After giving a salute to Maryland. Dr. Crabb went on to compare, in certain respects, teachers' colleges of the past and present. One memorable thought included in the talk was Last year's thinking is never fresh enough for this year's students. Gradually changing to the topic ot primary schools. Dr. Crabb said that some of the best teaching is done in the elementary school. The teacher of young children has no easy task. To begin with. she never finishes learning. She must be a know- ing individual. She is close to the child and must be able to see all around him: that is. to have a full under- standing of the children she teaches. ln spite of the fact that these desirable characteristics are widespread among teachers, there is also present in some teaching a totala 25 itarianisiii. This menace consists of contempt for sub- ject matter not in a teacher's own field. This attitude on the part of many teachers is undesirableg more than that, it is an ailment. Democracy demands educational equity for all children. For a child to dislike a subject is not normal. yet that condition exists and its cause lies with the teacher. She is inadequate. The best way to improve teaching is to improve the teacher. It was on this premise that our own college here at Towson was founded. A good teacher is charac- terized by Dr. Crabb in the following way: she knows her subject matterg she desires others to knowg she knows the motives that make others desire to knowg and she creates and understands conditions under which chil- dren learn. In conclusion, Dr. Crabb said that the teacher's mis- sion is to save the good that man has done and to see that it is increased. Let all of us who heard this address continue to carry out that mission. so that we, too may have a share in increasing man's stature. PRESENTATION OF DR. WIEDEFELD'S PORTRAIT Reported by ALICE CARR After Dr. Crabb's interesting and often humorous talk, the members of Dr. XViedefeld's Normal School graduating class of l9O-l presented her portrait, by the artist Stanislaw Rembski. who put in oil that which her 1904 representatives, Mrs. Kuper and Miss Lillian Compton, painted with words. Mrs. Kuper told of our president as she has known her during a life-long friendship. She spoke, too, of her scholarship and pro- fessional preparation and emphasized the fact that she has kept the idealism, dignity, perseverance, and sense of justice with which she entered the school at Carroll- ton and Lafayette. Miss Lillian Compton gave a glowing description of Dr. VViedefeld's supervision which fits her perfectly as president of our college. She has not lost the ability to supervise creatively Her methods are analysis, co- operation, and stimulation, not dictation. As the pic- ture was unveiled the audience felt with Mr. Allen of the Board of Trustees that it would not hang on the wall but rather adorn it. Dr. XViedefeld thanked the class with a few eloquently reserved words. She expressed gratitude that she lived and worked in a State where neither religion, nor sex, nor politics kept worthy indi- viduals from advancement. She closed the program with Bliss Davis' words: quoting a little child. Tm eight go- ing on ninef Our school is now seventy-five and going on. In this steady advance may she always as in the past Be on her way attended By the Vision Splendid. 26 HYMN USED AT FIRST COMMENCEMENT or STATE NORMAL scHooL JUNE s, 1866 I have a wondrous house to build. A dwelling humble, yet divineg A lowly cottage to be filled XYith all the jewels of the niinc. My Cvod hath given the stone and clayg 'Tis I must fashion them aright - 'Tis I must mold them day by day. And make my labor my delight. This cot, this palace, this fair home Must be in all proportions Ht, That heavenly messengers may come To lodge with him who tenants it. Oh! noble work of toil and care, Oh! simple but most arduous plan! To raise this dwelling place so fair, The temple and the home of man. AQWQWllBlIMlliIlbllfffY HELEN Paoss IANUARY l3, I9-fl - The student body today met a gentleman who was described as a singer, composer. and trilloquist. That was before we really knew him. From now on he will remain in our memory as a singer, composer. and whist- ler tnot the painterj, Mr. Robert MacC-imsey believes in informalityg at least that is the pleasant impression he leaves with his audience. Beginning with an anecdote of his boyhood, which he asserts to be the origin of his whistling days, Mr. MacCimsey went further to explain, rather humor- ously, the advantages of that form of music. He dem- onstrated quite skillfully his ability in handling dual tones and controlling them perfectly. Familiar classical music, including Beethovens Minuet in C, Brahms' Lullaby, and A Song of India. was interpreted through his versatile whistling. Later in the program, we heard Stardust similarly presented. The clear bell-like quality, almost resembling the tone of the Xylophone, could not escape notice. In a slightly different vein. we were taken into the realm of American Negro music, familiar to all who take Music lOl. Hearing such imisic in person is prac- tically the only way in which one can get it. XVe heard the first spiritual ever to be tContinued on page 363 TOWER LIGHT i I I 4 4 I THE LIBRARY jlAT Youn snnvrcr: E il ,1 R lixnv Di PICPPI i li EPreston, Dr. Ceorge II., Psychiatry for the Curiousg j 7' N. X ., Farrar and Rinehart, 1940. fl Dr. Ceorge lil. Preston, Commissioner of Mental Ily- lgiene for the State of Maryland, is well known to most ii of us here at State Teachers College. The upper-class jinen will remember him as the tall, redfheaded gentle- 5 hiuan who lectured to the freslnnan psychology classes li on Mental Hygiene. XVC all recall that he was a yilecturer who tried as far as possible to omit technical terms and to make his lectures more understandable to ius by means of pictures and diagrams. ii ln Psychiatry for the Curious Dr. Preston uses the same method. In one chapter he states that Psychiatry lisuffers from words. He then proceeds to list the words 'he will not use, adding that he will say what he has to say in the same terms he would use to tell about a base- lball game or a hold-up. ln addition to this, there are many little pictures throughout the book which the doc- j tor has used to elucidate some point he wishes to make. lf you are interested in regard to the cause and effect yof human behavior, you will find this book chock full 'jof down-to-earth information on the subject. Those of lyou who have listened to Dr. Preston's lectures will find linany familiar terms, such as, f'XVhy he does what he fdoesf' the feeling of insecurity, and Udefense me, jeanismsf' Dr. Preston starts by giving a clear explana- j tion of psychiatry and what it includes. Then he tells of the types of behavior which eventually lead to some .branch of mental illness. Because we and our friends are humans who behave in certain ways, we can recog- .uize the fact that mental diseases are as important or more so than physical diseases. Another thing which Dr, IjPreston drives home is the fact that the mind and the body are closely associated and that mental illness is lillness of men, not of minds. Read Psychiatry for the Curious if you would like to iibecomc familiar with one of the most vital problems of i today. 3-Nathan, Robert, Portrait of Iennie, New Yorkg Knopf, l9-ffl. - Robert Nathan, author of One More Spring. and Wfin- j ter in April, has written another book with the intriguing l title of Portrait of Iennie. The story is a fantasy about a FEBRUARY - 1941 I , 1, W -W 1 . , '3 V- We , . xr' f i , lx young artist and his inspiration, Iennie. Eben Adams, the artist, is just a struggling landscape painter when Iennie comes into his life. But Iennie, you see, is a ghost and a delightful one at that. She comes into his life and then leaves as suddenly as she had come, but not before Eben Adams had painted her portrait. It is this portrait that starts Eben off to a famous career as a portrait painter. To make the plot less confusing to you, let's start from the beginning when Eben first meets Iennie. The author sets the meeting in a park in the evening. The despondent artist is walking aimlessly through the park. llc sees a little girl playing alone. A conversation begins between them. The artist finds there is something queer about the child, as queer as the song she is singing: XVhere I come from nobody knowsg And where l'm going everything goes: The wind blows, the sea flows - And nobody knows. Thus Eben Adams first meets lennie. '1'here are more meetings between Eben and an older Iennie. Each one marks a crisis in the life of the artist and each one is an event in the tender love story of the artist and his in- spiration. XVhat is it that makes Iennie a character in a fantasy? NVhy do I call her a ghost? These are questions you will want to answer for yourself if you wish to enjoy this story to the fullest. 'l'he whimsical mood of the story and the sense of other worldliness portrayed by the characters make this book one to be remembered. You have the feeling you are reading a modern fairy tale and you believe in it and enjoy it as much as you enjoyed your first reading of Cinderella. Portrait of Iennic is a treat which no one should miss. 27 THEN AND NOW IN PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC Exist.-x E. AVIiYI OR'I1II CHILDREN must have been smarter about learning music than they are now, said a prospective teacher engaged in turn- ing over the leaves of an older music reader. A'But. interposed another. uthey ought to be happier about their music lessons now than they were then. The latter remark was prompted by the bright pages of one of the more modern music books. Let us compare the types of books under discussion. In the one we see many songs. it is true. but also pages of technical exercises, pages which a child once described as those without any music. Many problems are consecutively and rapidly set forth. Print is small and there are no pictures. The new book has. in addition to its bright newness, many attractive pictures and large print. But best of all, it is all songs! They are good songs, though easy. and they progress in difficulty by easy stages. Our young teachers know that while the old books are logical in structure. the newer ones attempt, at least, to be psychological, that whereas music lessons were once planned by grown-ups who knew what there was to be learned and methodically prescribed it, there is now an attempt to consider the interest and capability of the young learner. The idea is that the greater inter- est and happiness of a modern music period may actually kindle more tire than the teclmical logic of an earlier day. NVe are patting ourselves quite complacently. Let us hope we are right. If only we had sound movies of school music in the old days, we should be able to compare f'then and Snow. at least as far as achievement is concerned. and learn under which system children were usmarterf' XVe think we are on the right path, but it would be fun to compare the nmsic as performed. as well as the books, wouldn't it? ,sr THE GLEE CLUB RUTH B I.xL12soN The Glee Club this year is celebrating, too. Along with the whole student body, faculty. alumni and friends. it is celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of this institution. But this year is also the twentieth anniversary of the Glee Club, Z8 IVIUSIII l C Before 1921, the students in the Mary-, land State Normal School had many courses in music and singing. A chorus was usually mentioned in programs of events before that year, but it was made up of the student body, and was not a club. In 1921, under the di-. rection of Miss Helen M. Shurtz, instructor of music, a separate organization was formed. It had no officers, no dues, no tests for voiceg. it was a gathering of an enthusiastic crowdl of music lovers. The lists of those faithfuli in attendance calls attention to the fact that, there were many more sopranos than theref were altos. In March there was an advertise- ment for new members in the school paperg in May and Iune, that C-lee Club sang once. at Shepherd Pratt Hospital, once in a program for thef Alumni Association, and iinally at Commencement. I In February, 1922, a triple quartette, made up of C-lee Club members, sang at Annapolis for the Legisla-i ture. The school was then working for a new dormi-. tory, and an article claimed that the Glee Club helped: to sing its way into the hearts and pocketbooks of our' State educational representatives. . The Club became a permanent organization. with officers, in October, 1922. In the school year of 1922- 23 the Glee Club gave a joint night concert with the orchestra and soloists. Miss Edna McEachern followed Miss Shurtz as director of the Glee Club in 1924. At that time there were two separate clubs - one for girls and one for boys. In 1925, when the city and state normal schools were combined, there were three parts to the C-lee Club. Miss Rose Barry directed the resident students' club and the lXfIen's Glee Club. This triple alliance gave a concert on May 5, 1925. In the school year of 1926-27, Miss Emma XVeyfortli took charge of the Glee Club - now one organization -and, for the first time, incorporated the men into the regular club. Under her direction the Club became the largest in membership it had ever been: 125 students. And, as far as we know. for the first time the Cvlee Club and the Alumni Glee Club sang together at the Found- ers' Day Program, lanuary 19, 19-ll. This made it the largest organized singing body in the school. This modern Glee Club still. however. follows the earliest ones by singing for the school assemblies. and outside functions. The list of concerts given is larger than it used to be. since today it includes singing on the radio. for P. T. A. meetings, in other schools and at educational meetings and old-age homes. There has been and will always be. a deiinite place in the school life for the Glee Club. TOWER LIGHT STOKOWSKI AND GOODMAN VERSUS YOU AND ME Davin NELSON There is only one Stokowski, one Toscanini, and one C-oodman, but there are millions like you and me. 'The great majority of musicians are average performers, 'while only a very few are brilliant artists. That ability 'to play a imisical instrument enriches one's life will be lsubstantiated by any amateur musician. Instrumental 'music is just as important as any part of the school cur- riculum and a place imist be made for it. A The trend is for development of orchestra and bands Yin elementary schools. This movement has grown by lleaps and bounds, not only in the number of schools ladopting instrumental classes, but in the quality of in- fstruction, instrumentation, orchestration, equipment, ,-performances, repertory and competition. The First Na- ftional Band Contest was held Iune 4, l923. in Grant lPark, Chicago, l5 to 20 bands competing. Approxi- iamately 400 children participated. In 1940, there were ,436 bands in competition with 41,256 participants. lThere are now in the United States about 25,000 school .bands and about 40,000 orchestras, comprising 2,000,- -000 young musicians. l A brief summary of the California State Course of ,Study will give an idea of how the instrumental pro- 'gram may be carried out. xl First, awaken and develop the interest and enthusi- ,iasm of the children and their parents. Cather all infor- H mation concerning the previous training of the chil- Qdren, their preferences and their abilities to buy instru- iiments. Usually the parents buy the melodic instru- iments. The school may have to buy the oboe, English and French horns, bassoon, cello, etc. I' Plan of Instruction i ll. The basis of instrumental music should be vocal music and perhaps participation in rhythm bands in the first three grades. Instrument playing would I therefore start in the fourth or fifth grades, with pro- F, visions for talented children in the second and third Q grades. r l,2. I-Iomogencous grouping is the best plan. After the l , various groups have received sufficient preliminary - instruction they are brought together for further de- velopment in orchestral work. Later on, the groups may be divided into smaller sections to provide for individual differences in talent, ambition and rate i of learning. ll 3. Heterogeneous grouping must be resorted to in case 1 1 of limited time. l VFEBRUARY - 1941 l i 4. The music library should include easy marches waltzes, overtures, descriptive pieces, and an occa- sional operatic selection. Programs may be pre- pared for school assemblies, parent-teacher meet- ings, and other school activities. v 5. Teachers must be well-trained musicians, good teachers, know how to play the piano and have a playing knowledge of every instrument in the or- chestra. There should bc a separate department for instrumental instruction, with specific time allot- ment in the schedule. Maryland is trailing in the wake of the more progres- sive Wfestern States. As soon as you finish this article get any copy of the School Musician. Five minutes will show you just how far behind Maryland is in this field. The progress of the XVestern States in instrumental music is amazing, thrilling, and inspiring. It is the new teachers fyou and Il who must awak- en, not only the Maryland public, but also the lNIaryland educational department to our weakness in this phase of education. Other States have been competing in national, State and regional contests and in anmial mu- sic festivals for the past twenty years. At least we are awakening. Let's make this awakening complete and permanent. At present the students of State Teachers College devote only a limited part of the program for preparing teachers of instrumental music. The students from Teachers College can further this movement. lt is not an easy task. It will require the best talent of the best students and the best teachers. Another Stokow- ski may be developed, but what is far more important. the millions like you and me can become good amateur instrumentalists with ample opportunity to play in school and community orchestras. TO MY MOTHER Doizoins IX Iunn, '54 If beauty is a thing sublime As sages say it be. Then the place wherein true beauty lies Is very plain to me. 'Tis not where snow-capped mountain peaks Lift up their heads to C-od. 'Tis not in meadows sweet with bloom VVhere dainty flowerlets nod. 'Tis here within my very reach. That beauty really lies. For me it is the light divine Tliat's in my mothcr's eyes. 29 4f3lDlIMIllllllNll4l3f lIlifJVllE5lINllGlIfS February 17-Monday Assembly - Mr. lohn ll. Coon: Life in Colonial XVilliamsburg. February 18-22-Play at Hopkins Playshop - No Final Defeat, by Hedwig Elizabeth Rossi. an Australian refugee. Using an in- cident in the life of Voltaire, Mrs. Rossi champions the cause of liberty eyerywheref' February 20-Basketball with Hopkins. at 'Towson. February 21-Deadline for March TowER LIGHT. Museum of Art - Opening: XVorks by the jury for the 19-ll Maryland Show tthrough hlarch 2ndl. 1 February 2+-Monday Assembly - Mr. Richard Carl Medford, Director of the Baltimore City Municipal Museum. February 26-Bach Club Concert at Museum of Art, 8:30 P. M. The Kolisch String Quartet. Basketball at XVestern Maryland, 8 P. M. February 28-Museum of Art - Opening: hllaryland Artists' Exhibition lythrough March 30thj. Basketball with Salisbury, at Towson, -1 P. M. March 3-Monday Assembly - Arthur Murray Dancers. March 5-Bach Club Concert at the Museum of Art at 8:30 P. M. The Old Harp Singers of Nashville. Tennessee. March 7-Rural Club Dance. Basketball with Frostburg at Towson, 4 P. M. March 10-Monday Assembly - Paul S. Mlatson. Curator of Astronomy. Maryland Acad- emy of Sciences: Other XVorlds Than Ours. March 13-Girls' Demonstration Night. March 1-t-Lyric - Nelson Eddy. 30 rowth of a Library KA'rH13R1NE P1zTRo1f1f LEAFINC THROUGH a number of old and new cat- alogs brought forth a wealth of knowledge concerning the growth of our library. The Normal School catalog for Iune, 1887, informed its readers that there were to be a limited number of students who shall pay twenty- Hve dollars per session for tuition and purchase their own textbooks. Students appointed by County or City School Boards are under no expense for tuition. or Eng- lish textbooks and school stationery. The 1902 catalog designated that the use of textbooks was given to all students free of cost. provided that each one paid a deposit on entrance five dollars to guarantee good care and prompt return. VVe are told that in 1906 the library contained four or five thousand volumes to which are continually be- ing added current and other books of greatest interest to teachers. Leading literary magazines and many other high-class periodicals were to be found in the reading room. At that time the Pratt Free Library placed its books completely at the service of the school. The li- brary's system of 'students' cards enabled one to keep a book for four weeks. while on the Uborrower's card a second book could. if needed. be held for two weeks. The tive dollars required from each student was returned on his final withdrawal after deductions for loss. damage or any arrearage to the school. ln 1912 the Building Commission issued a bulletin which aimounced that the new school building proper fpresent sitel would contain a library. Prior to this, in 1872 the Normal School had a small library in the Atheneum Building at Franklin and Charles Streets. By 1926 the library consisted of an office and two large reading rooms. containing nearly thirty thousand volumes. About seven thousand were charged out as texts for the term. and twenty thousand were maintained for reference and reading during the day and circulated for overnight use. The report said that during the past two years the school has made a stupendous effort to meet national standards for teacher-training institutions of our size. Between Eye thousand and six thousand new books were purchased. The most notable additions were made in the collections for teaching reading. ge- ography, history, hygiene. and industrial arts. There was also a small but carefully chosen fiction collection. ln the year of 1925 the Teachers Training School of Baltimore merged with the State Normal School at Tow- son. The gigantic task of combining the two separate libraries fell to Miss Mary Osborne who was. at that TOWER LIGHT imc, the Normal School librarian. To her do the present ind future students of this college owe a deep apprecia- ijiion, for under her guidance the books were put into flJ1'ClC1', cataloged and classified. The stacks were also in- stalled under her supervision, for the infiux of books iad become so great that extra shelves were necessary. Y I 1 l. jfhree thousand shelved pamphlets. Most of these were jeirculatecl for overnight or weekly use. The Reference lRoom had books reserved for special assignments, pam- fphlet files and a picture collection. A ln 1930 our library had thirty thousand volumes and f 'vw The catalog or l9Jn said that the main Hoor of the 'north wing of the Administration Building was devoted I jto library purposes. The two large reading and circulation rooms and the Reference Room together housed a col- lection of thirty-five thousand volumes and four thou- sand shelved pamphlets. Most of these were circulated .for weekly, two days or overnight use. The picture col- jlection at this time had expanded to five thousand items 1 The periodical department. located in the Annex. iiineluded more than one hundred general and profes- psional magazines by the time 1938 rolled around. The jimain room had books on fiction, fine arts, literature, jtravel, the social sciences and a juvenile collection. iBooks on psychology. education, science, and industrial Qarts, as well as pamphlets and magazines, were located in the Annex. All entering classes received instructions .designed to develop a working knowledge of the library. The year 1939 brought forth many new features in the progress of our library, The picture collection consisted of six thousand pictures. ln the Reference Room were the standard encyelopedias, dictionaries and reference books on special subjects. The system of classification that was in use and that is still being used is the Dewey Decimal Classification. September, 1939, marked a new day for the periodical department. More than one hundred and fifty current periodicals were arranged al- phabetically on open shelves in the new magazine room, located on the third floor. Moving the magazines, and the picture collection to a separate section has resulted in more space and comfort in the two reading rooms. This year. 19-ll, we have thirtyasix thousand volumes on the shelves. This number is a smaller amount of books than we had in the peak year of 1938 when the total reached thirty-eight thousand volumes. The change is due to the fact that in the past the library bought many duplicates of one certain book. Now we have more titles and a greater variety from which to choose. There are seven thousand items in the picture collec- tion, one hundred and sixty periodicals in the magazine room and close to two thousand books in the Campus School Library. FEBRUARY - 1941 The present State Teachers College librarians rcsponf sible for the continuation of the success and efficiency for which our library is noted are Bliss Yoder. Miss Holt. Miss Stitzcl, and Mrs. Krebs. who work together under the able supervision of Miss Barkley. Science at Teachers College flbrinciples and Theory of Practice - Field Vlfork and Preparatory Units are the Alain Coni- ponents of This Coursej AT PRESENT the college requires four semesters or two full years of science. Although not listed along with the sciences, the Health Education courses. personal and public, are certainly scientific in their subject-mat- ter and applications, They have undergone a similar expansion and naturally exercise a much wider influence among the college students and indirectly in the ele- mentary classrooms. Science, like any other subject. cannot be taught without materials. Meager as the supply once was. there has now been enough introduced to meet the needs of the college itself and also to establish a loan bureau for student teachers. Not only has the equipment list been enlarged but also a generous amount of space has been allotted to the department. to comply with its growing needs. There are four store rooms, three teach- ing rooms, a large work room and, of great importance. a science work room in the Campus Elementary School. Of no less importance is the consultant who aids the student and practice teachers as well as the children. The stream and pool in the recently constructed Clen serve both the botanv and zoologv classes as well as the Elementary School the year round. To see the progress in its proper light let us set up our six-inch telescope and hope for favorable weather con- ditions. Turning the small end in the direction of the past we find a very modest department with one teacher. The present and future, however, are spread out before the large objective lens with a magnitude rivaling even that of the well-known Sirius. The present staff of three instructors are constantly extending the scope of their department by supervised field trips and projects. 31 STUDENT OPINIONS lContinued from page 165 Soon I paused to take my bearings. XVhen I looked back I felt puzzled, lost. XVherc was all I had learned? The facts had come and gone like water under the keel. I looked ahead. The seas spread out to thc horizon, and with each day's journey the horizon retreated before me into the never-ending distance. Suddenly I thought, I can never hope to travel but the smallest part of the whole realm. But what docs it matter, the joy is in the sailing. All that mattered was that I wanted to sail on, that I saw some good had come of it. Some good come of it - why go on? People will never know allg they merely de- stroy themselves with what little knowledge they now possess. Even that partial knowledge is being censored and obscured. The intellect is playing second fiddle to the will. Goodwill! the world hungers. and thirsts, and cries out in the night for it. Knowledge and goodwill- the road to Hell is paved with good intentions - beau- tiful, sleek. deadly bombers. Knowledge and goodwill- one without the other worthless - the rhythm and the melody of life. XV e have the factsg we know how to get moreg now goodwill? Before coming to college I in catalogs, and I had no way of cal- how to achieve did not find it culating for it even if I had sought it then, Intangible. ineffable. it smooths the road of life, and shapes our dealings with each other. Like the form of perfect poetry or the style of beautiful prose, we know it best when least aware of its presence. For a year and a half now I have been unconscious of its presence here. I have been taking for granted the friendliness of our College, the genuine spirit of help- fulness of the faculty, and the comradeship of fellow students. VV e have no patronage or condescension from our teachers, no caste system among ourselves. Adminis- trators and instructors, freshmen, and seniors, all have a job to do, and find they all can do it best together, XVe are learning goodwill the only way it can be learned, by living it. VVe have the Ere and light of human warmth in a cold. dark world. Let's keep the flame aglow. ,er MEDITATIONS OF A FRESHMAN AGNES Hrcrcs . . . And so I'm here - and I like it! I like the cozy atmosphere which makes one feel as if he really be- longed here. Maybe this is true because the College is such a vital part of the Towson community. 32 Inside, thcrc is the library, which is a place for more than just reading books. It wouldn't be S. 'l'. C. with- out thc Book Store and Mrs. Clark catering to whims, counting the cracks on the oatmeal cookies, and chang- ing dimes to nickels for the coke machine. The class- rooms are like any other rooms. The auditorium is a place in which to hear lectures and sing. I like the faculty. For mark-ed reasons, l'd better stop. How could I forget the congenial f?l student body? At first, it used to be, Hello, Miss So-and-So, and now it's, Hey, Peanut, come here! I like the way the upper classmen talk to you Qwhen you can help them outj. The class presidents are generous at class meetings in giving you a minute and a half for important notices. QSophomores, please note.j VV ith exams being scheduled, term papers due and projects long overdue, I begin to think I'll be a mem- ber of the February graduating class. Seriously. I don't understand how I can come to class. concentrate. take notes and still be so stupid. Have any of you this same trouble, or am I being egotistical in thinking anyone Qoutside my relatives! will read this article? Naturally, the extra-curricular activities are best. All the clubs seem to want you land your duesl to enroll as a member. The Art Club is a brand new thing here, too, and it is so much fun! IYITI still working to be a cheer-leader. The Towrziz Lrerrr is a neat publication. Some day, maybe I'll be one of the select few to have an article in it. I've been trying since I came here last fall. I like the way everyone shows up at the dances. The same upper classmen who approached you in the hall and got you to put their ideas across, smile as if to say So little junior took a nap and is out tonight. XVell, ninety-nine cents is ninety-nine cents. Anyway, I Qthat is speaking for myself and not my escortj have a good time. Of course, maybe next month I wou't be fixing to stay. I'll rent my locker CNG. -l5l , lend my books, dance in the foyer once Knot with another girl, eitherj and be accommodating. I like it here at State Teachers College. I hope I stay! Anyway. it's fun while it lasts. t'XVhat is the mortar board I hear mentioned so often? asked the little girl. I'll try to explain, said Miss Cayenne. although it is a slightly complicated matter. A mortar board carried by a builder often has cement on top. and worn by a college professor often has concrete under it. TOWER LIGHT I I 5 I I I 1 1 1 ! I l xlltlltlltlllklltilllllli l I l r .lest Some Iollification l l?VE CQULD have entitled this article Humor - jflien and Now, but instantly, you clever readers would pave known what to expect. Consequently. we decided 0 tease and taunt you by yon upper Mysterious Mon- ker. j To really show the public how far Towson has come iii its comparatively short span of existence, the humor ?l column brings you a compendium of the striking lvit of our earliest inmates, as gleaned from early Townn ,rGHTS, Orioles, and Crystals. A jorciss FROM mrs OF YORE Conductor - How old is the little girl? l The Child-Mother, l'd rather pay the fare and keep any age to myself. l 5 -Humorist jLondonj . j Supposing there were five boys sitting on a fence and one of them decided to jump offg how many fellows vould be left sitting on the fence? 'tFour, of course. 'tVVrong again. The fellow only Clecided to jump. He lidn't do it. -Ollapod. And did he have the dentist take an X-ray of his vife's jaw? He tried to, but all they could get was a moving iicturef' Dolly was just home after her first day at school, tWell, darling, asked her mother, what did they each you? 'ANot muchfl replied the child, 'tI've got to go again. Prof.-XVhy does a Clog hang out his tongue while 'unning? Stude-'1'o balance his tail. junior-YVhy does Missouri stand at the head in raising mules? Senior-Oh! Because that's the only safe place to Itand, I guess! jFBBRUARY - 1941 1 l l NEWS! Our personal representative Miss CAROLYN GINSBERG Cl Sophomore 3 - Box 188 sl is now ready to help you select the very latest in CLASSIC CAMPUS STYLES HUCHSCHILD KOHN 84 00. Open Your Bank Account lViIb Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOXVN, INID. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited 713 HIVIEHT ON THE THBLE' By EDGAR A. GUEST I sing this glorious land of ours, Here your ambitious troy may he Its motor cars and shows, Our President if has able. 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CALL SARATOGA 6262 STEWART'S PERSONAL SERVICE WILL SI-IOP FOI? YOU OI2 WIII-I YOU. R1'IMNAN'1'S FROM 'l'IllQ POli'l S CORNER Miss Birdsongz XVith smiling lips and eyes intent. Our specialist in Measurement Of Education trots along. Long may liye our Miss Birdsong. Miss Munn: Firmncss, pep, and laughter Dignity and fun, Put these in our English teacher, 'l'here she is - Miss Munn! Miss 11olt: XVith businesshlike, yet gracious mien, Miss lflolt about the library goesg She charges books. she charges Fines, Of eyery book the place she knows. Youre dumb and yOu're dumpy. You always look frumpy. XV ith pencils cocked Over both cars. VVith your disposition, You have my permission '1'O stay a school marin for years. He calls a spade a spade, Does IOC, Save when he drops it On his Toe. XVC offer, for your own comparison, a few samples of the humor an average Towson stooge considers Howl- ing : YVifc-ls everything shut up for the night, dear? 1lusband-Everything else, dear. The difference between a bachelor and a married man is that when a bachelor walks the floor with a baby, he's dancing. '1'here goes my last pupil, said the professor. as his glass eye rolled down the drain. The State of Michigan pays her State Superintendent the munifieent salary of SLO00 a year. Last April the Legislature considered the question of doubling her salary, and for the next three-quarters Mr. Pattengill was paid S500 instead of 3250. Now it transpires that after all the law did not pass, so Pattcngill has had to pay back the 5750, Alas for Mr. Pattengillg alassissime for Nlichigan-School Bulletin. March. 189-I. TOWER LIGHT l I Student Council Discipline of Yesterday l i The Misses ----- were brought up for standing lat the fork in the road on Friday evening, talking to their gentlemen friends. As this has not been absolutely lforbidden by a rule, no punishment was given, but the fgirls were simply told that they are not supposed to do this and were warned not to let it happen again. i The Misses ---- for standing at crossroads after lan entertainment talking to their escorts. They were given the choice of a punishment of one week's campus or a fine of fifty cents. All took the fine. T It seems that the rule prohibiting students from com- ing in the dormitory through the kitchen and basement has been broken many times. especially by the boys. Anyone caught in this act may be reported. The Misses ----- were summoned before the council for smoking cigarettes. This being their iirst polfense they were eampused for two weeks with the un- lderstanding that they would write an apology to Miss Wall or show her in some way that they were sorry for ltheir actions. Mr. ----- was brought in, reported by a proctor rbecause he refused to sit at the table where she asked him to. He said it was an end chair at a table of girls. 'He suggested further that a table be reserved for the bovs. l Miss ----- was reported for having talked a long time outside of the dormitory with her friend after the last dance, She denied the charge. saving she talked with a girl wearing a boy's cap. This was proved and the ease was dismissed. l Messrs. ----- were reported for having stepped up in line. They said there was a gap in the line due to a group of girls talking and they thought they belonged at the end of the line. Mr. f-- and Miss --- were brought before the council. They left the movies after the comedy and Mr. --- escorted Miss --- to her home in Tow son and remained with her until 10:30. This suggestion was given to the chairmen to take back to their sections: About smiling at the servants for llarger helpings. T This problem was brought up: That the telephones were not serving as many students as they should as some students talk over a continued length of time: some achieving -T0 minutes. Also some students use pennies instead of the required amount. Miss - ---- was reported for laughing loudly in :the hall during study hour. Punishment: To remain in her room during study hour until December Zlst. FEBRUARY - 1941 T WATCH REPAIRS GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR . 'T U 'Neill's Charles Street at Lexington Compliments of . . 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Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 Mason's Service Station Betboline - Richfield Gasoline Othcial AAA Station 2-I-Hour Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 COMPLIMENTS OF - H. STREET BALDWIN BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. HAUT COMMISSIONERS OF BALTIMORE COUNTY ASSEMBLY ICOIIITIIUCCI from page 26p written down bv the speakc -one that an old Negro had tallegedlvi heard in 4 dream and had later sung for Mr. MacCimsev. The re ligion of the Negroes is not the philosophical type rather it is looked upon as something to be used and en joved whenever possible. The spirituals express event mood of the Negro concerning his religion. These songg have a steadv rhvthm. a movement, picturesque lani guage. and beautiful melodies. Several examples were sung unaccompanied. XVe. too. could almost see Mr MacGimsev's hair grow kinkv and his face turn blackf Concluding the program, Mr. MacC1imsev accompanied himself in two ucomposedn spirituals. one about Shad- rack. the other about Ionah. Both were excellent. TVG hercbv extend to Mr. MacCimsev an invitation to re- turn at anv time: programs like his are not easv to tind' but are oh. so good! What They Said in Faculty Meetings NOLAN Cnnurxx 1908-The Faculty met at 3:lT P. M., all being present except Mr. - who. through oversight lfore- sight?b was not notified. and Mr. ---. who was ill. 1Both apparentlv old hands at attending Faculty Meetings! l909-After reading of the minutes. it was moved and carried that the word interesting be stricken oft in the phrase Man interesting talk . 4The sec- retarv's onlv chance to be funnvl and that here- after bare facts be put on record in the minutes. The minutes were then approved. Report of Committee on Assignments - Student body undoubtedly' spending more time in studv than thev should. XVhere is the trouble? Student bodv not using their time to advantage. 1906-New students were reported to be. as a body, earnest and attentive in their manner. 1Somc good material for Mummers' Club?J 1909-4There's nothing new under the sun.: It was suggested that Seniors have one or two periods a week for excursions. 1910-Miss Richmond reported that the interest among the legislators toward the Normal School Bill 4CvvmJ was good. but that the appropriation would not likelv be made this vear. IQI6-XYork Grade IV: Stories expressing national spirit are desirous. QA somber note of l9l6 and probably' 19-il.j TOWER LIGHT -l l 1906 1915 -fCommittee to conferj with reference to the work of the gentlemen while the ladies of the classes are taking Physical Training. -QMaybe some fresh air will hclp.j Mr. R. gave an interesting Qllas the momentous resolution of 1909 been forgottcn?j and instructive talk on Ventilation. llc stated that air was not bad through composition, but by its lack of circula- tion - 1906-Miss --- presented the special topic of the 1907- 190 5- 1906- 1905- 1909- day: The Modern Conception of Ceorgaphyf' She followed this with an interesting account of the work now being done in reclaiming the arid regions of the VVest by irrigation. QCould any topic be drier?j From the discussion it was the consensus of opin- ion that it is for the best interests of the schools that teachers should not devote more than eight hours a day to school duties. CVVhich proves that the Faculty has a sense of humor. It is for the best interests of the teacher that he make 55,000 a year. So whatlj After discussion, this resolution was passed: Re- solved, That every teacher in making up the Hnal term grade take into account the student's daily work as well as the final examination number. fS0me Faculty members must have heard of this being passed, some haven't.j Ordered, that the student returning to school from a family where there had been diphtheria be required to burn all books furnished her and that a new set be furnished by the school. fRclic of the Middle Ages.j Miss --- was reported as needing to be looked after. QVVhat's her phone number?j The following topics were discussed - Story of the Opera, The Huguenots. XV hat Children Study and VVhy the High Cost of Living, VVan- dering Willie's Tale - Scott, The Senior Class, Its Physical Condition in Relation to Brain Func- tion, The VVeather, The Development of the Radium Supply in Colorado. QA grammatical jewelj . . . who are not able to do the work of the class at the point it is at. Miss Richmond presented the subject for dis- cussion: Government as applied to this school -should it be self-governinent or discipline? After an interesting discussion, the Faculty ad- journed. QI would have liked to have heard that discussion.j The Faculty adjourned at 3:55 P. M., as the previous meeting had been unusually long. ARE YOU A HIKER? Yozflf be fzzzfercsteal Zo know that Hutzlc'r'.v specializes in outdoor' clothes and wallqfzzg 511065 for men and zuonzezz. Start Your Spring Walks at HUTZLER BFQTHEIQ 0 I have created a Faculty Xleeting from the gems of the minutes of eleven years. It is far from a typical meet- ing, which was simply a cut and dried professional af- fair of planning school policies, schedules. regulations, teachers' assignments, etc. Through the diversity of topics discussed, seemingly trivial, even ridiculous to us, one sees an earnest group. devoted to making the Normal School a better place. VVouldn't a comparison of present Faculty minutes reveal the same trait? And yet. wouldn't the minutes of that or of any group seem trifling to a reader twenty- Hve years later? Time often distorts the truth! U SOME QUESTIONS FROM THE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION TO A BALTIMORE HIGH SCHOOL AROUND 18-H VVould you be admitted? A. Show the difference between 'tpurityu and pro- priety. B. Explain: simple, florid. nervous. concise and dif- fuse styles. C, VVhat is meant by the obliquity of the ecliptic? D. january 1, 1627, the longitude of Venus will be SOZ7'10 , latitude IOZ9' North. 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R I Iiuvrullls'lmliam-Ulwnxipnnxxx' Winsmn-Snlmll Nortllfnrnllnn Q .....,...,..,,,.....,. 2 I THE STQFF EDITORS C1r.u1LEs Guoss PAT1uCr.x ITERNDON FRANCES SHORES IAIXIES IETT BUSINESS MANAGERS JOHN EDWARD KOONTZ CATHERINE GRAY CIRCULATION ADVERTISING Margaret Heel: Muriel Frames Norma Ganilnrill Margaret Lowry Margaret Gunnells Virginia Roop Annetta AVriglit DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Art Fashions Audrey Praniseliufer Ellen Elste Marguerite AVilson Shirley Hicks Katherine Decker General Lffel'cZlll1'6' leannette Ulrieli Minclclle Kann Milclrecl Snyder Alma L. Gott Allaletirs Nolan Cliipnian Iolin Horst Audrey Mercer C H E t Humor o e e vents , g Lee MeCarr1ar Iule Tlionipson , Q Alma MeAx'oy Frecleriea I31ecler11iann3Imgarct Zmmor Sllnyl Davis Helen Pieelc Naney Metzger Ediloriulx Lfbnuy, Mary D1 Peppi Doris Klank Katherine Petrolf Catherine Swain Genevieve Ilaile Mary Simon Gordon F, Slinles Axsemblies Nfzzsic Aliee Carr Sylvia Gelwasser H elen Prom R utli lX Ialeson ALICE MUNN - - lAIa1iaging Editor OWEE3 EH EIT VOLUME XIV - MARCH ISSUE NUMBER 6 ea-nlteali P,xeu TIIE IRISH, THE FRESHAIEN, AND SPRING SAINT PATRICK AND I . . , 7 TO LAUGH .....,.,.,. , , , 2 ANOTHER LETTER TO A FRIEND , . A , -l IT IS AYORTII IT-. .,. . ... ,..., 5 OF HONOR AND REPUTATION , Cu DEAR COUSIN .,......,,,.,,. .. 6 TIIE NEAV ORDER ......................... 7 THE VERMONT IIORACE IS LOQUACIOUS 7 S MEDICINE IN IRELAND .,,.,, , . , . . , . 9 IRISH AND PERFECTION, . . . , lll 'TAINT FUNNY MCGEE. . . . , , , 4 , , , , , , lll TIIE O'REILLY'S, O'HANNIGAN'S AND O'XIALLEY'S ll INDOLENCE ....,. .. .H ,. ,. , ll CANNED MUSIC .... . I . , , , . 13 FACTS ABOUT THE MUSIC OI IRELAND l-I TIIE BAND FROM OUT OF THE XYEST. li EDITORIALS ............. . .,,.. . . , , 16 THE LIBRARY .,..,.., , IS ACCENT ON SPEECH ..., . . A . . A , , lk? LOOK AYHAT THE AVIND BLEXV IN I , IU SO XYIIAT? . . .,,..,,. ,. . , . , A . fl ASSEMBLIES . .. . , 22 COMING EVENTS . . , , 1+ COLLEGE CALENDAR . Ir, ATHLETICS' , , , , 4 . , - ADVERTISERIENTS . . 20,32 TIAPI CUT - Iigfxx CONNI-YR TI-PI CUT - RALP11 B.-xnmwl' THE TOAVER LIGHT is publiSliecl inontlily-Oetolier tlirongli lune-by students of the State Teac-liers College .it 'l'oxx'mn. Alrl. S150 PER YEAR ,,.. A 21' CINIS PTR tiLll'Y The Irish, The Freshmen, and Springi l' XY.-XS on the day Mr. Charles Cross thought he had the flu and decided on the mind over n1attcr theory that we agreed to make this IIIOXVER Liciir an inte- grated tDcwey or Kilpatrick's defi- nitionl trilogy featuring the Irish, the freshmen, and spring. Our rea- sons were three-fold. On March Zlst the sun will beam benevolently on the equator and begin vacation- ing toward Cancer. Four days earlier the Irish will pay respect to old St. Pat and fellow-editor Herndon will celebrate her natal day. Lastly, the freshmen will begin their seventh month of sojourn in this structure of Norman-C-othic build. But - there have been many drafts in the chimney since the day Mr. Cross decided upon the mind over mat- ter theory. So, in case this issue does not live up to its original in- tent. these incidental inurmurs are to pay respect to the aforemen- tioned. There is something very touching about the freshmen - especially the way their adviser can say something like Trichodemium crythraeuin and then gently murmur my class. The place wouldnt be the same without the team of Fishpaugh and Mc- Cauley. the unique salesmanship of Agnes Ilicks. thc scholarly Katen- kamp, who needs only a toga and a forum. and the girl who beguiles the maestro tor vice versa IJ. One feels a bit concerned about them when they sec the ponderous textbook Dr. Fos- ter Dowell had them buy via the bookshop. Otfhand we wonder if Socrates could have waded through it in eighteen years. And now, the Irish. In that con- nection there must be a brief diver- sion to a certain Xlr. Iames Ictt who is intensely interested in the conti- nuity of culture. Ile was instructed by the high command to round up 2 FRANCES SHORES those who traced their pedigree to the C-reen Isle. Any Irish selections appearing herein are the results of Mr. Iett's profound search. In case they dont appear before the dead- line, consult the Iune issue. The Irish among us, though not clan- nish, are quite a reputable bunch. There is a certain Mr, Iames P. O'Connor who tries his proselyting zeal upon souls and who sings Qto the best of his abilityj Irish tunes to a Teuton. Mr. Allen O'Neill, who has the look of a man from Eire, vows that his grandsires came from the Kilt country so we shall take his word for it. As for the rest of them - they are quite a crowd - as ettervesc- ing as a Nazi bomb in Dublin. And spring - ah, spring! There is something about its greenness that reminds one of the freshmen and the Irish. Many springs ago, before I knew about number senses and social studies curricula, my mind was free to go off with the breezes I or the snowj on the Zlst of March and SAINT PAT SAINT PATRICK IDE,-XR SIR: I have been leaiing through the Encyclopedia in search of confiden- tial information on the private life of Columbus. and was both sur- prised and pleased to End that you probably hailed from Scotland. This now makes us have three more things in common: for our names are prac- tically the same. I am Scotch by na- ture and descent, and I claim the lTth of March as the day devoted to my initial appearance upon terra tirma. And the more I look at it. the more distinctly do I see that you and stay until Sol started for Capricorni But times have changed. Spring'S advent this year is heralded by the, usual queer contraptions classified' under headgear. Convention decrees that a lady must wear such to be stylish. Perhaps there is adequate' reason to question convention. And, in the spring. if what Mr. Tennysonl says is correct Qand he should havei knownj, a young man's fancy light-I ly turns to thoughts of love. Obser-i vations being accurate in these parts, Q' indications are that spring camel early this year. A Now, having finished what I didn't start out to say, I shall herein de-i sist. XVhen Mr. Cross peruses thisl he will probably shake his head de-I spairingly and when Mr. Iett reads? this he will label it trite and fall tot thinking about the Pleiades audi Plato. But. sometime - maybe -g I shall write about the value of thei activity movement in science ftoi please Mr. Grossl and the impor-3 tance of the continuity of culturei tto please Mr. Iettl. Until then -I oh well! Q RICK AND IS I are pretty much alike. Of course, you write your name with a St, in front of it, and I write mine with a Miss : but in 20 or 30 years. with, a reasonable amount of courage,4 stubbornness and luck, perhaps I' shall have changed that to some-. thing else. At least thc family hopesl so. ' But to get back to us. I can never remember whether itl was you or the Pied Piper who led' the snakes out of Ireland. but I be- lieve it was you. So perhaps if I can lead the red ants out of State Teach-I ers College. I. too. shall be knighted and honored: if Mr. Moser happens TOWER LIGHT to be reading this, Ill settle for an A in math and be properly grate- ful for my reward In addition, I hear that you were something of a botanist yourself. I say yourself because I can name three eultn ated flowers on sight rose yiolet and buttercupj, can spot a botanist at one hundred yards although I am nearsighted, and have gotten poison oak only twice from examining Virginia Creeper, YVell, I could go on ad infinitum, telling you of myself, but I must get back to my history, just having found that Columbus was quite a man! Yikes! So best regards to you and St. Columbag in closing may I sin- cerely hope that he and Christopher had not as much in common as you and I? Sincerely, Par. P. S. - I do hope you are from the southern part of Scotland, my pappy having been ZI years of age before he knew that damn Yankee was two words. This morning to I hid ample opportunity to and one young The bus was row ded and most of us had become esigned to being mere straphangers. suddenly however a shrill female .force pierced nn ear drums. Let me y and as she mished my lunch n her triumphant passing to an mpty seat I Uritted my teeth in l nvy Then I heard 1 titter - a gig- l and Gradually. a round of early it was, auvh at the xx orld lady m particular Fhen I saw A huge fat man - too arge for ordinary bus accommoda- ions sat sprawled next to the vmdow m the desired seat! He had eft space beside him, oh yes, but 1 pace lust large enough for a postage tamp 'Ihe energetic young lady, in iaughty isolation remained stand- g the corpulent man, in humble solation remained seated. My heart rent out to him P I stood on my head in gym this norninff. I really stood, too, and did not use Ginny as 'i leaning post. As iny legs rose slowly into the air in a nomentarily perfect balance, I felt , wonderful sense of accomplish- nent and power surge through me. sneer it was. too how rosy the world ooked upside down. It gave me a rew perspective of things - and .nade me laugh. In fact. I think I'll uggest that we read present news- vapers from the upside-down angle . . All except the funnies. MARCH 1941 1 ' ' 1 ,rr n - A Y A C 1 c , ' 1 ' . I o - 2 D . -s , 1. 1 ' A l ' I X. , D . 7, ' 1 J - ' Y 2 v . 13 7 ' , D ' 2 . 1 I ze-' ' au hter. I glanced ua. Surely . . . D A . g . 3 ' ' f N ' no 1 ' ' H 5 i , I - f . U f r 1 I D J I . 0 r . I 1 s ' I I V I Q . i To Laugh...? NORMA KIRCKHOFF In geography class this afternoon I had an opportunity to make an in- teresting analogy. XVe were told - by our honorable instructor - that rivers, large or small, always widen with age. It made me laugh to think how people are so like rivers. It had begun to snow when I left school at 4 o'cloek. As the bus came along, I noticed that it was accom- panied by a terrific rattling resulting from its snow chains. As I climbed aboard, I could hardly suppress a giggle. Then, as each outburst of clanking grew louder, I had an over- whelming desire to laugh. It was too funny how my fellow-passengers were trying so hard to ignore the rattles and to maintain their cus- tomary dignity. Then I realized that they were making no effort at all . . . the situation just wasn't funny to them. Gradually a truth dawned on me. For the past year or so I had been greatly disturbed by the dis- couraged. despair-filled faces that had greeted me on the ears every day. Now I saw the reason for it. These people had lost one of their greatest possessions - a sense of hu- mor. Ancl it probably wasn't entirely their fault. Constant. daily work. with little time for play, and an in- definite, dreary future are not con- ducive to laughter. So I reflected . . . and so I ceased laughing. Then this evening I felt that same unhappiness even more poignantly. For a moment I believed that hu- mor and laughter were the empty, hollow inventions of selfish, ignor- ant people. I was listening to Major Bowes' amateur hour. One young lady, before singing, was being inter- viewed and the usual question was asked. She answered to it, f'Oh, yes -I have a heart interest. He's learn- ing to fly for Uncle Sam. Oh God! She sounded so carefree and happy . . . and proud. To Hy for Uncle Sam . . . possibly . . . 'fTo kill for Uncle Sam. XVhat place has laugh- ter in a world which trains its young people that it is grand and glorious to die and kill for a cause that, if they only knew, can never be saved in such a way? . . .As I slowly started to go to bed, my little cousin, aged 3. came bursting into the house. His round. innocent face was rosy and his eyelashes were fringed with snow- flakes. So excited was he from his recent excursion to the f'pitehccs fmoviesj that his tongue couldn't keep time with his thoughts. But I was used to his jibbering and man- aged to decipher what it was all about. It seemed that hc had seen Mickey Mowse and cowboys and Iniuns and the bad manies fmenl tied up the pitty dirl tpulchritudi- nous femalel and took the money and then the dood manics came on the 'orses and got the bad manics. 3 .Xnd everybody was happy again. I understood him all right and suddenly I was happy, too. There is trouble in this world-yes-but there are spots of blue at frequent intervals that serve to cancel all the worry that has gone before. The break in the clouds may be in the form of udood manies on 'orses getting the bad manies , or per- haps it will simply be the revelation of something to live and iight for in an erstwhile empty, dreamy future. Then il again, the patch of blue in the gray sky of daily routiilj may just be something to provoke laughter . . . to malw one roar until the sides ache, or to shake inside wil: suppressed giggles. That last, I have decided, is the mod important. If one learns how to see the funny side of lift' then there won't be any necessity of reading the nevi papers upside down to escape reality. Another Letter To A Friend DEAR IOHN: So far in our quest for peace we have reached these conclusions. XVar as the way to security, to lasting peace is hopeless. It fails to defend, prevents the just settle- ment of disputes, and now threatens to defeat man's priceless advance of centuries of toil and aspiration. No nation, no people have been all iimocent. VVe have all been and to a large extent still are mental slaves to the ideologies of nationalism, imperialism, and militarism. It is our own weakness capitalized by unscrupulous leaders that has kept us in subjection. Now how are we going to throw off these mental shackles? It is a tremendous problem worthy of the work of many a scholar, teacher, and statesman. XV e cannot expect to be finished tomorrow. but we need not despair. Imperialism and nationalism have already sown the seeds of their own destruction. Dr. No Young Park in his book The Retreat of the YV est shows so clearly how the white man sold with his manufactured prod- ucts the machines that made them, and how, becoming industrialized, the previously undeveloped land and col- onies are disappearing as markets on which imperialism lives. Not much longer will the huge loans. which so often were the foot in the door. be needed. Rudely and barbarously treated. japan, China, Egypt, and India have had enough of the visitor. Imitating the white man. japan now has its own navy and India its own nation- alism. Unchecked, militarism. nationalism. and imperial- ism, will destroy themselves. but in the process they will also destroy the best of our civilization. Yet there is no reason why they must do so. They will last only as long as people continue to accept them and serve them. The ideas of progress by means of national- ism and imperialism foisted themselves upon the public mind and grew upon conditions which no longer exist. They fed on the economy of scarcity: today there is abundance for everyone if we would only make in- stead of destroy. Improvements in transportation and communication have brought closer the fact that we are all fellow travelers on a short trip of life. that our 4 destinies are inextricably bound together. XVe are begi ning to look beyond our own back yard to see that i and large profit for one is profit for all and that sufferirl for one is suffering for all. Individual and group. n tional and international security are not at odds bi coalesce into one. VVhen looked at in this light quarr become problems which are not won or lost, but solve The idea of exclusive individual profit motivation an the way of life based on that motivation is beginning I get an awful drubbing. In Wfe hlove in New Directio H. A. Overstreet examines the profit stimulus for liti Ends it wasteful, spiritually unsatisfactory, and even the base of much of the insanity and crime of our mo ern world. And what is more, Mr. Overstreet has son concrete suggestions for improvement. He and mar other scholars agree upon the need of a new evaluati of life, a human evaluation of economics. of proht a loss. YV e need more than ever a rediscovery of the almo forgotten wisdom that the way to overcome evil is good, and by suffering if necessary to convince tl enemy of our sincerity. And good-will is not enoug there is need of acute intelligence to apply that wisdo and good-will to each speciiic occasion. Mortimer A ler decries the over-use of science in human thouffht ai philosophy. It seems to me there is a lack of use. W uses tools developed by scientific reasoning for ends rived at by reading the newspapers, singing songs. ar attending political oyster roasts. XVhat a wonderf world it would be if the methods of science were a plied to politics .... I guess this dreaming appears wit drawn from the rush of life about us ohn but as som one once said. Klan is only the result of what he h thought. Out of his dreaming man fashions his ma -1 rial world. If he would change this inattcr-world, l lirst must change his thought. Suppose the changes I have touched on were starte One immediate outcome would be a chanffe in edu tion. Instead of emphasizing competition and diffcrenc among people. schools would iContinucd on page Ze TOWER LIGH I I V D have the products of science without the thought. M 3 1 l D Q I play of the equipment. Since yve had been to the store lr It IS Worth It! I lELi2N.r rl1OXYNSI'IEND AND M.xRe.rRr:'i' XVLZLLS IlA l' does a Yearbook mean to you? lt is something to buy. look at. and put ayvay. or is it something to be cherished for the memories that it holds? As it is a permanent record of your school days. classmates, teachers. and activities in the college. it should be one of the most treasured hooks in your library. XVill you be satisfied vvithout this record when you yvant to recall the names of your classmates? XVon't it be a great source of pleasure to keep track of 'i ll your friends. to yyatch them rise to fameg and isn't it Ay alyvays a great satisfaction to say, I kneyv her yvhen--? l To some. publishing a yearbook may seem very easyg l lr ii if HF ll l. but when the yvork is actually begun, there are many unex Jected items yvhich Jresent varied and trvinv prob- l A l - . :rl I lems. For instance. there is the problem of getting advertisements. It takes a combination of nerve, a des- perate attitude. determination. and a large dose of anlied Jsyeholovv to a Jnroach the hard business men. ll l . I es. ll g You have to discard that amateur ex Jression. assume a . . 1 professional air. and use all of the most tactful ygapproaehes possible. Possible approach to a funeral director: lil ri YVill you give us an ad or do yve have to die first? Wor 'Tm pretty sure there are plenty of prospects among Wythe students in the midst of student teaching. nr A certain member of the committee must have plenty lriuon the ball . After asking for an ad. she received this imansyver: 'Tm neyv hereg l've been here only tyvo yyeeks. gTil'm going to give you an ad, not because l think the com- Unipany' yvill profit by it. or because I knovv anything about ijjtate Teachers, but because I like your looks. XVho ll? lxvvas this?-that's the question. lll XVere tyyo of the girls surprised yvhen they yvent into ,l3g,1bL1llCliI1U yyith an 'AOfHce sivn on the door only to find f 'J D . viii lot of yvorkmen doing construction yyork. Hoyv much Jninore embarrassing yvhen they calmly put doyyn their .rhgyools and just stood and looked---. pi As a bit of information to help the situation along. .illilW0 girls told the advertising manager, lt is our 75th ,mji1iniy'ersary '. YVith a look of surprise. the man remarked. h,l'VVliy', you don't look seventy-five years old. mi Hoyv yyould you feel if you yyent in to see an adver- ljising manager yyho sat through the yvhole thing yvith his hat on? YVhat yvould Emily Post say? Or yyould the .Tinian care yyhat she says? lllfl 'NVith all their personality beaming forth. tyyo girls .millet up yvith a very determined man. Girls, he said. all yvouldn't give you an ad even yvith your prettiest 3Hil'vIARcH - 1941 i l smile. That was a men's clothing store. Does that give you a hint of any reason for refusing. One out-of-the-ordinary approach brought immediate results. All they had to say yyas. Do yve have to buy a piece of furniture before you'll give us an ad? and he asked the prices. Pretty good, eh? Never expecting anything unusual. tyvo of us yvent into into a sporting goods store and asked for the adver- tising manager. The clerk directed us to the hotel doyyn at the COTIIGT. XVere yye surprised yvhen. on entering. yve sayv a meeting of baseball equipment dealers. and a dis- once before, the man recognized us. Thus tyyo free coca-colas and a good time. Iealous7 A certain member of our oyvn faculty. on hearing that yye had reached our minimum goal. vyantcd to knoyv if yve yvere going to declare dividends. Could he have a little Scotch in him? We yyonder. The next task is to ask for donations. give a dance. hold a contest and do all that you can to finance the publishing of the first yearbook since 1932. While the present staff has been doing all these things. there has prevailed a spirit of determination and cooperation. ,Xt last our goal is in viexv. The Yearbook yvill succeed. This all goes to prove that old expression. XYhere there is .1 yvill. there is a yvayf' 5 0 Honor And Reputation CATHERINE Gnu' In Imitation of Francis Bacon? I N every 1Hk11'1.S life there is a goal set to be won. The winning of honor is one goal which many set and approach in totally different ways. To attain this goal man must show his virtue without disadvantage. To do this. some affect honor and reputation. These men are much talked of. but secretly, little admired. Others. contrarily. make a great show of virtue. so disgusting their colleagues. that they are underestimated. Neither of these two groups has proved his virtues to advantage. This remains to the man who attempts a difficult task and does well. he will appear to advantage. Should he also succeed in satisfying all concerned, he will have completely attained his goal. The attainment of honor and reputation through performance of a difficult task is full of hidden pitfalls. The man who would enter into a field where the chances of disgrace are great and the chances of honor small. is a wastrel. Likewise the person who gains reputation only to lose it foolishly, is merely a reflection in a swiftly-moving stream. But there is still another road to honor and reputation. If a man has competitors in the field of honor, he can best defeat them by outwitting them in their own games , First let him learn that discreet followers can help much in building a reputation, thereupon choosing these wisely. Then. he must know how to deal best with the inevitable mud-slinging. and how to gain place through friends. His greatest enemy will be jealousy. To conquer it he must seek merit in the place of fame, serve humanity instead of ego, and attribute success to Providence rather than to his own abilities. But all of this has to do with the ordinary man. There are separately degrees of sovereign honor in relation to state affairs: closest to the goal are founders of states and commonwealths. such as Romulus and Caesar: second in succession are the second founders or lawgivers and jusf tices. for they govern after they are dead. such men were Lycurgus and our Supreme Court Iustices: in the third place are the liberators who iight oppression. tyranny and discontent. who preserve the state after it has been established. as Augustus Caesar and our own Abraham Lincoln and George XYashington: in the fourth place of sovereign honor are the defenders and the military lead- ers who enlarge the empire and light invasion. as Clive of India or Foch of France: and in the last place are the numerous governors who reign justly and make the times prosperous-among these we place certain presi- dents and kings. 6 v ln all of these instances there are degrees of honor fo the ordinary man. There are first, those who, appointed by the president, accept their responsibilities, becomin his right hands -these may be illustrated by member . of our cabinet or by the Prime Minister of England. Th second in honor are the courageous leaders who perfo great services in war-who lead the battalions and pla the strategies, who, like General Pershing. march wit the armies, the third and, in a lesser place, are the favor ites who solace and comfort the rulers with harmless words and caresses, they may be necessary in providing a restful period in which energy may be gathered to attempt serious tasks, in the fourth place of honor stan all of those who hold places and execute them with honor and efficiency. These last two groups are numer ous and often unseen by the public. The greatest degre of honor to be obtained is not appointed by a sovereign but is taken on voluntarily. lt is the supreme effort fo honor, for it entails the greatest sacrifice-the sacrifice o life for the good of the country. ln all degrees of honor can be found the opportunity to prove. through actions, numerous virtues-courage honesty. loyalty, and persistency. In all degrees of hono can be found the same opportunity to prove throug actions true worth and to prove it without atfectatio or boisterousness-to prove it without disadvantage. Le he who would set honor and reputation as his goal. proii by this essay and practice its recommendations County Cork. Ireland Y , J I l F October 6. l9-l0, i 7 Dear Cousin: . Your welcome letter received and me and your Aun j Bridget thank you kindly for money sent. We have had E- seven masses said for your Grandmother and Grand ' father. God rest their souls. i Q.. You have gone high places in America and l hope tha 5 you will not be putting on airs and forgetting your nativ fa land. Your cousin Hynie O'Toole was hung in London . if derry last week for killing a policeman and may God res his soul and may Gods curse be on Iimmie Rogers. th if informer. and may he burn in hell 'till the place freeze .r over. .gg Times arcn't as bad as they might be. The herring w TOWER LIGH'lTm E i 1 back and nearly everyone who has a heart is making ends meet and the prices of fish are good. YVe had a grand time at Pat Muldoon's wake the other night. He was an old blatherskate and it looked good to see him stretched out with his big mouth shut. He is better off dead and he will burn in hell. He had too many friends among the Orangemen. Cod curse the lot of them. Bless your heart l almost forgot to tell you about your Uncle Dinny. He took a potshot at a turncoat from in back of a hedge but had too many drinks in him and missed. Godis curses be on the dirty drink! I hope this letter finds you in the best of health and may Cod remind you to keep sending the money. The Brennans are IOOSQ, strong around here since they stopped going to America-they have kids running all over the country. Father Flagherty who baptized you is now feeble- ininded and sends you his blessing. Molly O'Brien, the brat you used to go to school with, is married to an Englishman. She will have no luck. May Cod take care of you, and keep you from a sud- den death. Your cousin, Timothy. P. S. Things look bright again, all the police barracks and Protestant Churches have been burned to the ground in County Cork. P. S. Don't forget to send the money. The ew :der AL?-IA MCAVOY TURMBURG was one of those picturesque little 1 L hamlets you see on penny postals but never ' expect to really come across. Tucked away neatly at the foot of the hills, blase tourists were apt to pass it 'by to seek nearby bizarre resorts in southern Germany, while at the same time querulously telling themselves they wished there was a spot where they could be just :hemselves again. But still Sturmburg was passed by. causing little con- :ern among its two hundred residents. Everybody went iis way doing his simple work, whether it were in the :obbler's shop or out on the hillside pastures, stopping imnly now and then to call out a cheery f'hello to a iassing neighbor. There was no tomorrow to dread. Fhere was only today-today, with but the unassuming nope for a steaming bowl of potato soup after the day's york was done and a pot of beer with Heinrich across the way. and after supper the chance to play audience to :he young people who streamed to the square to dance 'and sing and revel. But that is an old tale, a tale of Sturmburg five years go. My story is of a happening there three years ago. I relieve thcre was never a night that was so in keeping iith the tidings it bore as the evening of March third. .Jnly a few old men were left to carry on the customary aiety. but they had not ventured beyond their doors iris night. The little village had long since given its ouths. boy and girl alike, to protect. to build. to glorify ie Fatherland, To return to my real story. thc night was litch-black, only a lamp glimmered feebly through a 'indow here and there. A whipping wind snarlcd and Li IARCH . iam bit at doors and windows, a shutter banging now and then broke the close silence. Frau Schmidt. the baker's widow. totally oblivious to the wind and weather, was seated by her fire. Round and jolly, fingers fiying with her knitting needles, she stopped only to draw from her pocket a well-creased letter and croon the contents to herself. f'Fritz, my big boy, he's coming home tomorrow. 'Mama' he says. Lmake your best chicken duinplings for XVednesday's dinner. The kind troop leader has given me permission to come home for three days. Oh. Mama. l'll be so glad to see you again, bustling about the house and scolding me for stealing a cruller or two. lt will be like heaven to come home again after a year away and find some place where things and people are always unchanged. The captain tells me l am to he promoted, so perhaps. you may see the stripes on my arm.' Inst to think, he's only twenty and to be prof moted. Such a good boy and so proud of working for his country! The old hands picked up the needles. only to drop them at the sharp click of boots. military boots. on the wooden steps. F1'itz. Oh. it's Fritz home early. The contents of the knitting bag rolled helterskelter over the floor, the Frau was at the door bcforc the knock- er had dropped once. On the sill stood a uniformed young man. a man slender and straight and young like Fritz. but not the beloved son. 'AFrau Schmidt? Oh, yes. come in. come in. Are you a friend of my boy Fritz? He is a soldier like you. so handsome and so 7 proud in his uniform. Cold eyes and grim lips returned her greeting. I aiu a Patriot. My orders are to give you this box from your son. But why doesnt hc bring it himself? He comes home tomorrow. The face worked now. showing a sardonic smile. Per- haps you had better read this letter for your answer. The old woman fumbled at the paper. a foreboding of sorrow draining her of strength. then read: Frau Schmidt. Your son has been convicted of an act of treason against his country. In the accompanying box you will find his ashes. You are not to bury them or to speak of this to anyone. under penalty of death. Destroy this letter immediately. Oh, Father in Heaven, why this to my boy? He did nothing. but love and sympathize with others all his life. Oh. God, tell me l'm dreaming. This isn't real. it can't be. You tell me it isn't true. The Vermont Horace Is Loquacious Lib. I, Carmen 9. KENNETH BIILLER See how old Moosilauke stands all white XYith snow, and how the snow weights down the treesg And every brook is still. frozen quite Down to its rocky bottom. But if you'll please Come in and sit beside the fire. l'll throw Some birch logs on. and we'll watch the cold slither Into the corners. While the back-logs glow Drink some of this cider. I pressed it either Last Autumn or Fall a year ago. lt's strong. Of course. for nothing soft can drive away The chill of early Spring. but held along The blazing hearth you'll see Eres dance and play In your glass you never saw before. Outside That wind coming up from Canada way Can whistle as he will. but we inside Need have no care beyond enjoying this day. And thats the answer-why, you've had just three Small glasses. try another-don't forget 8 n I The young officer gazed calmly back at the woman ignoring her plea. I Schmidt was found guilty of giving coins to a jewish beggar on the street. Such a reward as his is justly deserved by a traitor to his own people. So hard, so cruel, so unapproaehable. XVhy do the young never question their blind ideals? This supereili ous young creature stood unmoved before the ol womans grief. then turned on his heel and left. XVhat happened to Frau Schmidt? She died, o course. Oh, not at once. but within a year. People say death was due to old age. But I know better. Her sou died with that letter, just as all Sturmburg will gradu ally die, and all the Sturmburgs everywhere. You may well ask where I heard such a fantastic story when the whole was enveloped in secrecy. and why I tel it now. I have hope that under the veneer of brutalism the good that I know is there will rise and sanity will b restored to my people. You see. I've never forgotten th agony pictured on Frau Schmidt's face when she rea the letter I handed her three years ago. To thank your Maker you're still young and free And able to have a day like this. And yet XVe all, I know. get such a trifling share Of love, and not because we don't desire It. but simply because we don't exactly dare To take each day just as we do this fire. As good in itself. XYell. it won't be long Till the lake is free from ice. and the sweet fern XYill make a different sort of living along The upland roads. Come back then and learn We haven't ice in our veins in summer here: The late evenings are misty. Even with moon At full it's black along the roads. and deer XYalk boldly, frightening lovers down along And you'll hear whispered music all the night. Maybe you'll see our Northern Lights. or take One of our winter-shy girls some August night To show you more than cider helps to make Vermont a place for living-even real delight. TOWER LIGH I I 'I U i i I i the I edicine In Ireland Rosnxrfxru' CALLA1-LIN O much is said of Ireland's roguish smiles, lilting laughter and unpredictable temper, but withal in moments of repose, an extremely tender-hearted people. Perhaps one of the most interesting phases of Irish history, the development of medicine, progressed so well because of their innate tenderness and compas- sion. They believed in affording proper care to fellow mortals in suffering, and provided the means for such. The marked contrast between such provision made by the ancient Irish and that made by the ancient civiliza- tions, renowned for the promotion of human progress. such as Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, etc., is found in the mortals to whom the respected knowledge of medicine was applied. The great Ancients gave hospitalization to those who could pay the temple fees, the Irish minis- tered to those who could make no such remuneration. This hospital, one of the earliest on record, was found- ed in Ireland in 300 B. C. by Princess Maslia. It was called Broin Beorg-The House of Sorrow. This erup- tion of the hospital provision for the poor in Ireland was probably due to their clan system of goverinnent. A man was not merely another citizen of his country, but first of all a member of a particular clan. and for this reason a person of more than individual importance. The clan made certain provisions for the welfare of its members and the hospital was among these. This tradition of hospitals continued all down the centuries in Ireland. There grew up special families of physicians whose practices were greatly influenced by a wonderful old code-The Brehon laws. One of these specihcations was that each doctor's hospital be built on the bank of a running stream or with such a stream pass- ing through its precinct. VVater in various forms was freely employed for treatment. I-Iot compresses and hot baths were particularly valued. Shampooing was a favor- :ite practice among the Irish physicians and was consid- ered by them to be eflicient for clearing the brain, and consequently the intelligence. Above all, cleanliness was considered important in the care of the sick and Wounded. Another requirement was that the building was to be provided with four doors, one at each of the principal points of the compass. One door was to be left open all the time. according to the prevailing wind. Thus the Irish practiced a belief in ventilation. Of course. there were other reasons for the open door, one being the legal Jbligation of open-house for the sick and wounded, and IMARCH - 1941 again that every such house was considered a public insti- tution and thus must be open for inspection. The hospitals arranged for the training of young men for practice. Any physician was expected to keep at least four medical students in his house, and to teach them, this teaching consisting mainly of their observation of his methods of treatment, Thus each doctor had a good clinical knowledge of medicine, The Brehon laws made provision for protection against quacks: If an unlawful physician treat a joint or sinew with- out obtaining an indemnity against liability to damages and with a notice to the patient that he is not a regular physician, he is subject to a penalty with compensation to the patient. And again according to the old law, a physician was held responsible for his treatment of patients. For instance, if a wound that a physician had healed broke down again within a certain time, he was obliged to refund the fees that he had collected for the cure. These fees were to be given to a better physician who might heal and keep the wound healed for the time prescribed by the legal regulation. This was a year for a wound in the hand or arm. a year and three months for one on the leg. and three years for the perfect cure of a wound on the head. Still. according to the ancient code. the man who inflicted a wound on another was bound to secure a physician's services for the wounded person and pay for the services until a cure was eifected. And thus we get an inkling of another side of the Irish-their cleverness, their sense of justice, and their will to do and to carry through that which they believed to be right. LEGEND OF IRELAND XVhen Patrick the Sainted touched IZrin's shore The snakes had charge of the isle. Now Patrick was fretted at this state of affairs And sought to liquidate the vile. So he chopped them up with the blarney stone. Begorrah. the goo was grand! And ever since, from Patricks wrath. 'Tis been known as Ire -land. 9 Irish and Perfection qsvnonvmousp Acxns KERNAN IT'S HARD. if not impossible. to criticize the perfect. but some people try to do just that in regard to the Irish. Perhaps its because not being perfect themselves tnot of the Irish raced they don't understand us. Here are some popular beliefs about the Irish and the true meaning behind them. I'm explaining them as fallacies to some misinformed people. Quick Tempered-It's not so. YVe're just rapid think' ers and rapidly comprehend when people try to put something over on us. Stubborn or Bullheaded-Nothing could be more untrue. Wie just know we are right and want others to understand, XVe'll give in any time-if you have our point of view. Thinking Ireland Is the Only Country in the World- XYell. is there any other? lkjhllfl another thing we don't think it-we know it.jJ Superstitious-XVe're just careful. Nosey-XVe're simply intellectually curious. Narrow-minded-XYe just know the Irish point of view is the correct one and won't give it up for an incor- rect one. By this time you are probably accusing the Irish of trying to cover up or excuse their had traits but we arent We just know we haven't any had traits and are trying to set you straight about some misapprehensions under which you folks labor. Editors Note. We had to print this because one of the editors is Irish. Otherwise we would have labeled it too nationalistic. 'V Tain' t Funny McGee' ' XYE HEARD a crack the other day when a certain member of the faculty was incapacitated with a periferal fracture of the knee that the students weren't getting Munn-y orders anymore. XYC also heard a complaint. we won't say where. that the 'TOXYER Lrcirr was sadly lacking in good humor. When the informant said the humor wasnt racy enough we popped out with the catch phrase for a member of the sophomore class. On your mark. get jett. go! But sympathy was sadly lacking in our attempts and we tried to revive the drooping patient with one of those impossiblcs that happened in one of IO Mr, XValther's favorite sections. NVhere said th learned Gentleman is the hottest air located in thi room? In the front, was the blurted reply. XVe, as von can clearly see, are not in a verv sensible mood. So we correct the situation by considering a situation which wc encountered the other day. Downtown, noticing a mai who was busily engaged in counting and recording dat: about people entering one of those ant-tank traps knowr as revolving doors. we were so much taken back that W had the audacity to ask him what he was doing. H informed us that we were witnessing the compilation 0 data which would prove his thesis that the majoritv 0 people were wasteful of energy. NVe were mildlv inte ested. It seems that he was seeing how many people tak advantage of the push given by the person who precede him and he was Going to vet his doctorate soon or these findings! NVe also hear that the folks who are help ing their countrv bv doing Red Cross work at the Col lege are having a simply splendid time wrappin bandages. Gosh, it's just like a party. And, will the youn man who has been interpreting the dreams of variou members of the college students a la Freud please tak care? the future be investigated bv the Dies Committee for wc are certain that they are Fifth Columnists of a pecu liarly pernicious sort. They are demoralizinv in their effect and sadly abusing the freedom of the press. Yeah we know 'Tain't Funny McGee Surrealistic Spring or Spring to a Befuddled S. T.C Student K1 us LEE Cvorr FILBIY VEILS and flower-bedecked hats. the song of a lark. longer days. shorter nights. pastels. suits with longe jackets. kites. units. new student-teaching assivmnents Kolinskv skins. Navy blue. violets. Bock beer Uree grass. Sunday afternoon rides and walks. the Clen. sheer blouses. walk the first fare. trees. sun. breezes. Easte eggs. gardenia corsages. and oriole. the Orioles. patenn leather and gabardine. early picnics. student inertia spring fever. white doeskin gloves. new snapshots Charles Street. spring vacations for other college stu dents. loose ends to be connected before US. T.. soft ball. gym out-of-doors. open windows. fresh air. a good smell. It's spring! TOWER LIGHT y . D 7 t . 4 7 i l I D 'J D ' In ending may I suggest that all humorous writers i I D . . D 5 D :J 5 F . . ' 'J I i fl i r F I I I i The 0'Reilly's, 0'Hannigan's and 0'lVlalley's CATI-IERINE GRAY Bridget O'Reilly crocheted-tat-tat-pearl-tat-cliek . . . the rocking chair ereaked under her fifty-nine corpulent years in syncopation-creak-eek-eek-creak . . . ta-ereak- pearl-eek Maureen rippled purrs with a cool, sensitive, moist nostril nudging the ball of yarn as an overstuffed comfortable-looking fur piece glided under the rocker to tat and out to Meek . You see Bridget was Irish, Maureen was Irishg the sun was shining, so life was beautiful. For two St. Patrick's days the two Irish men had lived in a small greenish room, knitting greenish sweat- ers, socks and scarfs. Mrs. O'Mulhaveny did not quite understand as she informed her ufence audience - and there she sat, a-knitting and a-knitting. as comfortable as ye please on O'Reilly's pension. Oi'd be afraid, oi would. Me with a cat and money in the house! But the daily rag reckoned not with the efiieieney Freshman Days MARY K. NEWCOMER HOXV DOES a Freshman feel when she has left home, parents and friends to be transplanted into an entirely new world-a world in which she expects to increase her knowledge to such an extent that she will be enabled to share it with others? The first glimpse of stately buildings impressed me tremendously. I soon learned why Alma Mater re- 'sounds so effectively around a bonfire in the early evening air. After a few days of adjustment and exam- inations the upper elassmen arrived. YV ith them came added opportunity to meet delightful colleagues, Meanwhile social events were rapidly succeeding one ianother. One evening we were solemnly inducted into itlie Student Council. Open house. teas. and receptions .were staged in our new home. About this time classes ibegan in earnest. r No doubt most of us remember the first fire drill and zthe first letter from home. Even a more memorable occa- ision was the first week-end spent at the paternal home- stead. . Freshman days have been days of inspiring adventure '-intermixed with hard work and a few heartaclies. Never- ithelcss. I am quite proud to be a Freshman in an insti- tution celcbrating its seventy-fifth anniversary-State Teachers College, 'MARCH - 1941 of Maureen, the police-dog cat, who having learned all the principles of protection from tom-cat, Tommy O'Shay, who knew, from a distance, all the watch-dogs in town. One thing Maureen could not do. She could not ffftt at an Irislunan because-Tommy was Irish. That is why Burglar O'Hannigan decided to t'case the O'Reilly's. Everyone respected Maureeirs claws from experience, but it was common knowledge that her weakness was the Irisli-slic couldnlt lay a claw on one. O'Hannigan had his eye on the sugar bowl cash box, so one dark night, he elainbered up the black fire-escape. He put one foot over the sill and heard Uffffftttn. He smiled and put the other foot in and proceeded to the sugar bowl. Fffftt turned to A'meooowOw g which turned to sharp white teeth and sawtoothed nails. O'Hannigan yowled. The sugar bowl crashed. Maureen took another helping. O'Hannigan took steps. Of course, Policeman O'Malley caught Sugar Bowl O'Hannigan and took him to his mother who. of course, waited with a greenish hair brush. The sugar bowl was fairly whole. The money was safe. But what had hap- pened to Maureen. She had attacked an Irislnnan. Some of the truth of the matter carrie through the eat grape- vine. XVhen Maureen had gone to visit her Lochinvar O'Shay. she had found him in the paws of that pickle puss Catherine Aherne. After the dust of battle had cleared away, Maureen found herself cnamoured of alley-eat Solomon C-oldifobb because of his help in the battle. Now the police are watching O'IIannigan's pal. Izzy Rubcnstein. for further developments!!! Blind Dates Irl.-xnviir S. SUSSMAN YVHEN A girl calls a boy on the telephone and asks him to take a strange girl to a party. he is stuck with what is known as a Blind Date . Blind dates arc usually girls who are either too short or too tall. too fat or too thin. They may be cross-eyed or knock-knced. but you may be sure there is something wrong with them. Exceptions to this rule are as follows: When all the girls decide on holding a blind date party. or when a girl decides that this is a convenient way of making a wanted young inank acquaintance. The most difficult moments connected with blind ll dates are when thc two people meet. No matter what type of girl she may bc. thc boy is expected to keep a pleasant face, I nmst admit. however. that on most occa- sions that is quite a difficult task. The boy should start thc conversation. but it is surprising to see how an other- wise talkative person can become tongue-tied at such a time. Once at the party. however, the boy can begin to relax and enjoy himself. I know a fellow who took a blind date to a party. respectfully danced the first dance with her, and then forgot all about her until it was time to leave. He then took her home and, as if to add insult to injury. did not even request the usual good-night kiss. However. in spite of all facts which intend to discour- age boys from accepting blind dates, there are usually several of these boys at every party. Perhaps it is the love of adventure that makes boys accept these blind dates. or it may be the pity they feel for the girls. However, I believe that it is all related to a famous saying by P. T. Barnum: There is a sucker born every minute. Indolence IQ.-XTHRYN DECKER A SHAFT of lazy sunlight touches the garnet of the divan, setting off a pool of warm color from the shadows. Down the path of light swarm whirling flecks of dust. They settle on her saucy, tilted nose. The sun's warmth delights her. and she tentatively opens an eye, the better to peek out and consider it. She meditates. The dust flecks rise and swoop in graceful accompaniment to the dainty puffs of her breath. She reaches up and pats the flecks as though to smooth them into order. Her sleepy efforts only cause the dust to caper more madly. The movement pleases her, and languorously she stretches. To the tips of her beautifully shod feet she stretches, delighting in the pull of muscles. basking in the glow of coursing blood as it stirs in her veins. The downy white of her Angora jacket rises and falls with every beat of her heart. XV ith flexible young body drawn out to full length, a symphony of flowing. swelling curves, she lies there, all unmindful of her teasing beauty. The delicious drowsiness which weighs her eyes and binds her limbs rises up and holds her fast in a motionless stillness. There! Her pink lips part in a gasping yawn. Her small teeth click as her mouth snaps shut. She stretches again, then curls her body in an arc so the sun floods over her in an engulfing tide of light. Her head droops lower and lower. Slowly. she relaxes. until it would seem as if her body were one with the cushions on the lounge. A door slams! Her eyes Hy open-green. insulted, plaintive. Her soft mouth opens in a tiny voice of complaint. 'tlfeow-w-w, she says. 12 Rapiditis j DOROTH1' Smxruxr UHURRY, HURRY, girls, or we'll be late! That is th theme song quivering in the air as the girls rush fron classes at lunch time. They dash down the hails, searcl frantically for their keys, find them above the door, ja futilely at the lock, and end up by going in through thei suite-mates' door. Once inside their room, they divest themselves in on gesture of any books. They splash a few drops of wate over their hands, dispense with the idea of a towel, an drag a comb through the top curls. If they are in a expansive mood, they might stop to smear on some lip- stick. Usually they get out of that task by reasonin aloud, L'Oh, what's the use. I'll just eat it off anyhow. Now for the lunch room. They sprint out the door only to remember that they forgot their lunch ticket tThey're lucky! Sometimes one doesn't remember i until she is within smelling distance of the cafeteria.j XVell, here they go out the door. with the ticket. They careen around corners and run down stairs two at a time They arrive at the foyer on a dead run. only to b brought up short at the sight of the lunch line. The cafeteria soon opens. and then they are happy but not for long. just look at those people ahead o us, they groan. 'Tm so hungry I could die. they moan This conversation doesn't last long because it doesn' help them move any faster. It doesnt matter. becaus there are better things to talk about. Did you notice Mr, Mosefs new suit? XYhy ean't Bill dress like that? hjust wait till you hear, girls. Iohn asked me to that dance I was telling you about. I'm so thrilled! fAside, from one girl to another, How do we know she didn't ask hirn? j But enough of that. The chimes boom near. All talk ceases. The thought of food so close at hand is over- whelming. No one even breathes until she has come at least as far as the napkins. Then all you can hear is Ten, fifteen. twenty. No. I guess I can't afford a salad today. Once out of line they spy a vacant table and light on it like a Hock of birds. They eat. well, never mind how they eat just so they can finish in a hurry. They wait impatiently for Sue to eat her cakes. Finally everyone is finished. and they race madly to stack up their dishes to see who can get to the foyer first. And now they sink down breathlessly on a bench. only to look at each other and say, YVhat in the world can we do until class time? TOWER LIGHT Q XX I I ' Canned Muslc SYLVIA CJELXVASSER ' MPOSSIBLE! lt can't happen here, at least y not for fifty years or so, argued the little I men. Their voices rang loud and firm and did not betray the new born fear secretly being nursed in their bosoms. These men lived comfortable, middle- L class lives. They brought home S60 a week and some- ! times as much as S90 for extra shows and rehearsals. 5- Moreover, they were indispensable to the entertainment f world. They were the musicians in the movie house - orchestras-the flesh and blood that added warmth to il dull Celluloid. Movie-goers enjoyed the silent figures on 1 the screen only because the musicians added the back- ground. Seemingly over night a startling newcomer burst into 1 the world of sound-talking pictures. talkies with movies combined. People gaped unbelieving at the musical '4SOLl11ClS emerging from the lips of one Al Iolson in The .. Iazz Singer. lt was this innovation that was planting fear fi in the hearts of the movie house musicians. The tech- nique these men had for fifty years been trying to forget . was developing at an astounding rate. By the end of the L f P i , twenties the Gaynor-Farrell team was starring in Sunny i Side Up and the Gold Digger series was well on its way. 1The theater-goiiig public was enthusiastic and satisfied i with what the movie house musicians sareastically labelled canned music. These musicians with pseudo- confidence were still laughing, i'lt's only a fad, only a passing fad. Once again they were wrong. . The early talking pictures depended very little upon background music to set the stage. Obviously, such a reli- Q ance would not have worked out successfully since the sound production was of such poor quality. Still, mu- sicales were being produced by the dozens. Though poor. 'they were not merely a passing fad. From the Gold Digger series they progressed to the much more highly developed Broadway Melodies and from that on to such 'extravaganzas as F orty-Second Street. Dick Powell be- :came the singing matinee idol and delighted the public with his 'fcannedu jazz tunes. The musicale improved until today it has reached great heights possibly because of the perfected sound system that has developed. Film companies spend millions for .lavish productions. They employ musicians such as .Tiomkin, Stokowski, Iansen, Copland and Kostelanetz. 'Deanna Durbin sings La Boheme for them, and Grace Moore. excerpts from 'fhladame Butterfly. Such excel- lent films as Strike Up the Band, Down Argentine 'MARCH - 1941 l l Wfay, and Bitter Sweet are shown all over the country and people fiock to the theaters to enjoy them. As far as music for background is concerned, thc music world has come a long way since the importance of such music was first established. Music is the reason for one half the success of such dramas as Rebecca, The Mortal Storm, Escape and the delightful Pride and Prejudice. Background music establishes a mood and plays upon the gamut of emotions. The recent film The Great Dic- tator has seventy musical sequences most of which pro- vide background music. The Brahm's Hungarian Dance No. 5 is responsible for one of the most amusing inci- dents in the entire film-Chaplin as the wistful little barber shaves a customer in exact time to this popular melody. Continually music is being composed for each individual film and the importance of the name of the musical director and composer for a film is over- shadowed only by those of the actors and drama director. Together' with the musicale, background music has accomplished great things. Yet Hollywood has not stopped experimenting. Music is going to fill yet another place. Recently, there was the world premiere of the Disney-Stokowski-Taylor Fantasia. Here is a picture in which the music is the all-important factor and Disney figures on the screen interpret compo- sitions of Bach. Tschaikowsky. Dukas. Stravinsky, Beethoven. Ponchielli, Moussorgsky. and Schubert. Al- though at times the interpretations of the music are poor and show lack of understanding, this production points the way to a new field of conquest. As far as the popular trend is concerned, music in Hollywood has been vital. alive and fiourishingg but the inestimable facilities of Hollywood have not brought the populace closer to the lighter classics such as Strauss or to the wonderful operas themselves. Perhaps Fantasia will be a step in this direction. As I drove down the old York Road XVith twilight hurrying on The faded sun, the restless wind Left all the world forlorn. XVhcn suddenly-the world was changed For there to my delight All the sombre lamp posts Blossonied into light. ll.rzr:L XYooim1xiui. 13 2 Facts About the Music of Ireland IULE TIIOBIPSON IOHN MCCORMACK said , Ireland yvas singing yvhen the breath of history lirst parted the mists about her coasts. All down through the ages she has sung, yvhether on the battlefields amid the elangor of arms, in the quiet cabin where the wandering bard tuned his harp to gentler lays, or out among the hills under the stars yvhen the shepherd voiced the yvonder of the heavens or the yearnings of the heart. The harp has become Ireland's 'ftrade-mark g it is found on her money, stamps, and flag, the only flag in the yvorld in yvhich a musical instrument is embodied. It is said that as early as the seventh century harp play- ing was so general that at entertainments and parties the harp was passed around among the guests, and any- one unable to play hung his head in shame. Like the Russians and Spaniards, the Irish had songs for various occupations: songs for ploughing, milking cows, spinning, yveaving, blacksmithing, and so on. XVorkers sang whenever inspired, whatever the occupa- tion. In 1720 pipers were provided for football matches and led the march as the contending teams entered the field. One very striking feature of the Irish music is its great range, sometimes extending over two octaves. Tunes are subject to enormous variations in different parts of Ire- land, just as language dialects are. It is not generally known that the Irish founded the first conservatory of music in existence in the tenth een- tury. The conservatory was established at Saint-Gall, Switzerland, because it was very diflicult to get to Ire- land. It was conducted by Irish teachers who were mostly monastics. In general, Irish music may be put into three classifi- cations. The first is called XVeeping Music and has to do with what is known as Caoine fpronounced keen j. Caoincrs sit around a corpse for hours voicing peculiar wails, and lamenting-a service for which they are in great demand. An Irish funeral without this dramatic- ally picturesque assembly is considered poor indeed. The second division is Laughing Music, which in- cludes native dances of three kinds: jigs, reels, and hornpipes. These are marked by distinct and irresistible rhythms. For instance, the jig is always in a six rliytlnn with very heavy accents. The reel and hornpipe are in common time, each with its characteristic rhythm. The last classihcation is Sleeping Music, lullabies and 14 other delicate tunes of the kind usually sung at the cradle' bv nurses and mothers. I Noyyadays here in -Xmeriea too few of us stop to real ize the influence of Irish music on art literature an the drama. Some feyv know that the old Irish tune Th Last Rose of Summer was featured in Flotoyv s Oper Martha Xlost people do not knoyy how ever tha Shakespeare was influenced musically by an Irish luteist Doyyland. It is reported that there are but five plays fo which Shakespeare was not advised about music by Doyvland. And of course closer home 'Believe Me I -Xll Those Endearrnv iounff Charms with other yy ord and called 4'Fair Harvard has been the sonv of Harvar University' for over two hundred years Interesting people are the Irish Their customs an lives bear the stamp of musicg and in turn, music has been tinved with Irish sentiment. All the yvorld loves a . Irish tenor, and a gay lilting jig will help keep heart young and feet tripping forever Smoky--A Comedian M nyjorzm COULSOB Mi DOG is a wonderful invention His qualities are many and varied. Right noyy he is puslnng a red ball inte my Nlother s hand and daring her not to take it in a low eoaxrng growl In fact he is Mothers little helper H rides on the mop chews the dust cloth and chases th onto the floor In the past few months he has becomd quite an artist leay mfr muddy desivns on the dark Hoorsf That his remarkable abilities are not limited to yy ork 1 shoyy n by the fact that he can sleep quite comfortably-r any place you wish to sit. If Mother wants to crochet- hell be obliginff and do that too especially if she let him haye the ball of cotton Ey en if she doesn t let hind hay e it hell probably take it because thread is one of his favorite foods Of course Smoky thats lns namel possesses tha He 1S our yyatehmanl NX hen the man comes to read the was meter Smoky bobs Gaily doyyn the steps and Ureets him like a long! lContmued Bottom IX eyt Pave attribute common to all dovs TOWER LIGH'Il 1 v 'l ll ' ' T 7 . - , , 7 7 7 A I ' 7' I 7? V' V i D D . o lu I - 1 . I . I b . K . . y Q ' M I , l 1 ' 7 I I i ' an ' f- Y 4 , . ,, 6' . . , . broom. Several times a day he empties the trash basket-. . ' , . . 7. I V . I ' 7 D . D . f ' I - .Sl o - A f , . 1 . , ' . . .5 , D ' - ' za .' I ' ' Pa I' A - -i 'zu l ' 2 3 l The Band From ut f The West jorrN HORST jIMMY DORSEY is one of jazz's first and foremost. In the past two years his name has skyrocketed to fame. He breaks theater recordsg he jams ballrooms to capacity, he cannot make enough records to satisfy his host of fans. jimmy has been in the game a long time, he knows all the angles. Yet it wasn't until 1938 that people started to listen to that other Dorsey. jimmy Dorsey. the older of a great brother team, first took lessons on the trumpet. He then shifted and began to study on the alto saxophone which he plays today. jimmy f'jobbed with many small bands and gradually worked into two of the finest dance orchestras in jazz history, jean Coldkette's and Paul XVhiteman's. In these bands he played with old stars as well as new such as the great Bix Beiderbecke, 'Pee VVee Reissell, Frank Trumbauer, Bob Chester and jimmy's younger brother. Tommy. Around l930 jimmy and Tommy formed their own band. This was known as the Dorsey Brothers' Orches- tra, a true milestone in jazz. Tommy led the band and jimmy contented himself with playing the saxophone. It didn't take long for the two emotional temperaments to clash. Tommy and his trombone left, and for a while the brothers weren't on speaking terms. jimmy kept the band together, and it became known as jimmy Dorsev's Orchestra. lost friend. But strange solicitors get the heartiest greet- ing. If he could speak, I'm sure he'd say. Come right in. Clad to have you. Don't think he's a sissy though. just let a harmless cat or a little squirrel cross the yard. Then 4he's off in a flash to clear those dangerous creatures out :of the way. He'll chase dogs too-if they're little dogs. From morning until night Smoky is a comedian. Peo- riple on the street say, 'AIsn't he cute? when they see his :bowed legs, floppy ears, stub tail, and soulful eyes. The :fact that his legs are short and his body long doesn't help jto make him more beautiful. He eats anything from the jcigar butts and chewing gum that he finds on the street jrto cellophane and juicy rocks. Gloves are a favorite deli- jicacy. He ate two pair last summer. In all fifteen months jlof his life he has never learned to walk. He either flops jor leaps. XVe think he comes from a long line of jack- ljrabbits and whatzits. But would we let you have him? lNot for the world! j'MARCH - 1941 I l XVhile Tommy stayed in New York and started to build his fine band. jimmy's boys went XVest. They played on the Kraft Music Hall program with Bing Crosby and were busy on the coast for a number of years, Before renewing the contract with jimmy, the Kraft Company asked him to enlarge his band to add stringsg jimmy flatly refused. jolm Scott Trotter took his place. jimmy continued working in the NVest. He toured from Wfasliington to Texas. He made records that were excellent, but he could not achieve any outstanding suc- cess. His musical ideas were ahead of the times. The pub- lic did not understand them. Tommy's sweet trombone. on the other hand, had become the toast of the land. His music was simple. sentimental and easy to follow. Tommy had money, jimmy had headaches. jimmy came to New York. A hotel engagement was followed by some Hone-nighters in the East. By a stroke of luck. Frank Dailey booked Dorsey for a four weeks' engagement at his Meadowbrook Club. jimmy stretched the engagement to ten weeks and drew l.600 people when the place only seated 900. This record has yet to be exceeded. Now the recordings jimmy made years ago are selling by the hundreds. His recent recordings are sensational and he has just been awarded a commercial radio program, jimmy has done a fine job. He was not content to go down to the public's musical level. He aimed high and has made the dancers appreciate his particular brand of swing. Faith LOUISE GETTIIZR I shall not be afraid XVhen tomorrow comes. Yesterday has fled As has today. Now I stand benefited For their passing. I shall not be afraid For I shall bc in heaven. XYhcre is heaven? Where Cod is-tlierc is heaven. I5 l EDITORIALS Eg WE ARE FREE TOO! Cr:N13v1Ev13 Irlixrrrz THE EDITORS of 'TIOXVER LIGHT are guilty! YVe did encourage the contributors to this March issue to add a dash of Irish flavor to their writings. XVe urged them to cxtol the Irish people QSt. Patrick in particularj, Irish customs and Irish literature. Now, to relieve our guilty consciences, we assert that Ireland is not the only Free State. nor is St. Patricks Day the most important event in March, 'Wife challenge you members of a Maryland State Teachers College with March 25. March ZS is celebrated as Maryland Day. Certainly you will agree that Maryland merits one day of every three hundred sixtyalive for its very own. Consider her qualifications. Her State motto is Manly deeds, womanly words. She ranks high in being the Hrst State in the United States to build a railroad, to construct a railway steam engine, to use electric street cars, to build iron steamboats, to erect an iron building, to produce metal writing pens, and to refine sugar. She also ranks high in her oystery oysters and erabby crabs! On March 25th the Ark and the Dove will emerge from the shadows which have hidden them for over three centuries to renew again their message of peace and good-will, The three hundred-ton Ark and the Hftyf ton Dove. under the direction of Leonard Calvert, set sail across the perilous Atlantic on November 22, 1633. A terrible storm split the sail of the Ark, rendered the rudder useless, and caused the ship to drift like a Ndish upon the water. The people gave themselves up for lost. but after two days the storm ceased and they had excellent sailing. Fearful of the Indians, but excited over the beauty and promise of the land, they sailed up the Chesapeake Bay and into the Potomac River. Here they found a wooded island which they named St. Clements, and here they disernbarked and planted a rude cross. Two days later they found a suitable place for a permanent settlement ou the banks of the St. Maryls River, where they bought a village from the Yao- comicoes for axes, hatchets, hoes, rakes and pieces of cloth. These colonists dedicated the new land of Mary, or Terra Mariae. in honor of Henrietta Maria, the French Catholic Queen of Charles I. From these earliest colonial times, Maryland has been a pioneer in fostering and promoting religious, political 16 and educational freedom, thus having become nation- ally known as the Free State. In the wake of the Ark and the Dove came a gradual development of the basic principles of a representative democracy wherein the people are the real source of power, where liberty under the law and equality before the law are the unchallenged right and possession of every citizen. Today, as in the early history of Maryland, democracy. the world around is engaged in a fateful struggle - al struggle with the forces of despotism and reaction. The efforts of those people instrumental in the developmenti of our democratic way of life are at this moment being threatened by autoerats, tyrants and dictators. VV hy not pause on March 25th, Maryland Day, to re- new your faith in democracy? VV hy not do more than that? VVhy not plan to give the youth of Maryland at vision of the meaning and possibilities of this demo- cratic way of life that will capture their loyalties and- will encourage them to recall the ways in which our fathers of old defended democracy with their lives,i their fortunes, and their sacred honor? , y 'l ON ANNIVERSARIES VV ith Apologies to Dr. Newell , in INTINDELLE KAHN y I CONCRATULATIONS! XVHAT a multitude ofi ul I occasions this significant looking word can conjuref :ii . . . . . I up. Birthdays, weddings, founders days. the acquisition' ia of a convertible coupe, your sister-in-law's eousin's, mi i engagement. All of these events give rise to an acceptQ ir ed. standardized procedure, commonly known as social an etiquette-shaking hands, backslapping, kissing, dreamyl iii eyedness, prospect Qof getting food prepared in honon ipp of it alll, and retrospect. lim An anniversary. with all its accompanying nondei script aspects- is upon State Teachess College. Its approach was detected long ago-the duleet tones of ' committee chairman pleading with her friends for everyl ounce of their support. Miss lXiIunn raking in every desirable article for her reserve stock for the Anni-T15 versary Issuef' the faculty references to 'fYou don'1 lint remember. but in former years --. the little greeiiissm books in education. iupi TOWER LIGHTMA v Ii VV e take years of practical knowledge from those who profess to know and immediately transfer it to the sieve compartment of our brain, while we give them all the wisdom of three years of college experience. VVe take time from beloved library study, while we give our affirmative to something or other that has already been decided upon in a previous faculty or alumni meeting. Yet, we like anniversaries, and more of them. THE ANSWER lor-rN MCCAULEY HOXV GFTEN as we think of this troubled world do we wonder what tomorrow will bring? YV ar? Perhaps, for today, even as in 1870 and 1916 entire civilized human- ity is in bitter conflict, whether in body or spirit. Fatal- ists tell us the world of 1960 will even so be at variance. XV hy must this be? Do men by nature hate each other -is it our natural course to light? Hardly, do we not inherit hatred-are we taught hatred? A parent's preju- dice becomes his son's prejudiceg a teachers bigotry becomes that of her students. This world is bitter because neighbors caimot effect an understanding. Each has been taught that the other is wrong, that the other is evil. Biased teaching, then, has been the agent of our wholesale disruption. Mothers, their sons lost in futile battle, are pointing an accusing finger at the schools, our schools, the last bulwark of-Democracy? Yes, Democracy here, Equality in Russia, linperialism in Italy. Our schools must be bulwarks of truth, of un- biased scientific quest, leading to understanding. Teaching is the greatest of all professions. No one can talk to young minds without producing an effect. whether it be for the better or for the worse. The teacher may open vast worlds of sacred cultureg he may lead trusting iimocents into the dungeon of prejudice. Today's children are tomorrow's leaders, tomorrow's thinkers, they must not be tomorrow's war-mongers. lt is the privilege, indeed, the God- iappointed duty, of the teacher to control the future for the forces of Love and Brotherhood. ARE WE SO SMART AFTER ALL? l KTARY SIMON i j'TlS SAID we have passed the era of witches and gob- lins. Theres no such thing as a ghost you bravely jassure your two year old cousin as you push him back jup the dark stairs, while you turn back to the light and gMARCH - 1941 l i i i warmth of the living room. VVith that benign good humor so characteristic of the 1 am superior creature, you laugh to think that even George XVashington knew no better than to believe in the magic power of horse- shoes. You may suspect your neighbor of plenty of other things, but you will never descend to calling her a witch. XVe're scientific now, not superstitious. XVC experiment and prove our conclusions. XVe can't go around playing hide and seek with a spirit-not in this materialistic age. Yet we'll have to admit that there are still some things that can be explained in no other way. Wlhy is it that we can starve ourselves for two weeks in the interest of a streamlined torso and hnd at the end of that time that the scales say we have gained four pounds? YV hy can we breeze through a term and get a UB average and reform the next term by working hard and get the magnanimous reward of a UC average? VV hy is it that the York Road street cars are always held up when we leave the house five minutes later after getting up ten minutes early? XVhy do some people always seem to get to the Library first after an assign- ment is given and get the books when we can run just as fast as they? XV hy does it seem so long from Monday to Friday, while the weekends fly? Could it be that Yehudi is responsible for these things or is it possible that science in due course will solve all these intriguing mysteries with some startling new formula? ln the meantime our ancestors are prob- ably laughing up their sleeves at us. YVe're too smart to believe in the old explanations, but there's certainly something supernatural going on. Hope fXL1XIA LEE GOTT Bombs, mechanized units, goose step: Nations crumble, democracy dissolves: And a new-green sprig of grass heralds the approach of spring. Dictators, supremacy, hate, hateg Lusty thirst for power quenched with bloodg And a boy and girl walk hand in hand and vow to love even unto eternity. Kill, inangle, torture, subducg The survival of the iittestf' strength is inightf' And C-od's touch brings forth a new- born babe. 17 TI-IE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE BIARY Di PEPP1 Keith, Agnes Newton: Land Below the W'indg Bostong Little. Brown and Co.: I9-IO. Land Below the W'ind. the picturesque title of this charmingly told book of adventure. is a translation of the native Malayan term for Borneo, Borneo, that little-known. British protectorate in the Pacific, is the adopted home of Agnes Keith and thus becomes the locale of her story. The name Borneo conjures up in the average mind a vision of man-eating savagesg dense. untracked jungles, the beat of tom-toms and tropical heat. It comes as quite a shock to learn that Sandakan in North Borneo is a city where English ladies sit in the garden of the Government House while they sip tea and exchange the latest gossip, Meanwhile. their British husbands fritter away their time playing a game of cricket. But don't get the idea that Borneo is a tame, unex- citing place! There is the other side of the picture to consider. Go along with the Keiths on the trip into the interior and you will leave the civilized life of Sandakan entirely behind. Here you will meet the betel-chewing. tattooed head-hunters and the ever- present pests of the jungle-sandfiies and leeches. Here, also. you will follow the safari over dangerously swollen rivers and along their muddy banks to native villages. Finally. after days of treking through mud and water. and nights of sleeping under leaky tents. the Keiths head for their comparatively safe and comfortable house in Sandakan. Mrs. Keith writes in clear. forceful. descriptive language which makes you read the book at one sit- ting. The pages are interspersed with original pen-and- ink drawings of her native servants. her animal friends. and many scenes of local color. Sea Tower-Hugh Walpole. Dorus KL.-xxx And they were married and lived happily ever after. Did you ever challenge these final words of the author as you closed the book? Have you wished that the author had taken you farther into the lives of his hero and heroine? If you have. Hugh XValpole has gratified your wish by writing Sea Tower. Christine 18 Z '-T-' and joe have barely begun their wedded life as the book opens. They are on their way to his beloved home by the sea where they have planned to live. Everything is strange to Christine, including her in-laws whom she has never met. An observant reader will know from the minute they reach the house that there is trouble ahead for the newlyweds. And what trouble could be more threatening to a happy marriage than mother-in-law trouble? joe has been tied to his mother's apron strings all of his life and when he brings home a lovely young wife. to whom he is devoted, his mother is insanely jealous. The ends to which her jealousy carry her are inextricably woven into the lives of her son and daugh- ter-in-law and finally threaten to destroy their happiness. Indeed, the book is chock full of suspense and the climax will leave you breathless. For your Must Read list, may I suggest that you add Sea Tower. Blake Bright the Arrows-Edna St. Vincent Millay. C.fXTHERINE Swaix To those of you who enjoy reading poetry. but who do not feel quite equal to the task of delving into over- sized anthologies, may I suggest iXIake Bright the Arrows by Edna St. Vincent llillay. This. her latest collection of poems and sonnets. expresses Miss Millay's reaction to the present world situation. The main theme. the spread of the war as a result of indifference and treachery. is developed by means of two recurring trends of thought: sympathy for the fallen countries of Europe and the position of America in relation to world affairs. Memory of England and I Forgot for a Moment depict with sensitivity and vividness the countries Miss Millay once knew so well. TOWER LIGHT l 1 I ,l jl I 'I ll gi I i I I .I 1 1 1 i r F I i. f'Dorset and Hampshire were our home in England: the tall holly trees, the chestnuts that we found Glossy within their shaggy burrs on the cold autumn groundfl llflemory of England, p. 5. In There Are No Islands Any More she taunts the iso- lationist with: XVhat calm compromise will defend Your rock, when tides you've never seen Assault the sands of XVhat-has-been, And from your islands tallest tree, You watch advance XVhat-is-to-be? Although tinged throughout with a great deal of sentimentality, the collection is skillfully written and leaves the reader with something to think about. ccent on Speec K. PETROFF EFORE the editors of the Baltimore Evening ' Sun sound a death knell on the discussions and letters on Baltiinorese and other accents, I should like to put 'Amy two cents worth in the cur- rent verbal battle. Last year I had occasion to compile certain of my experiences with speech habits that I have encountered here and thereg so Without further delay I shall proceed with my tale. I find that the study of speech habits of the people who live in the various sections of the United States is an amusing and a somewhat thought-provoking pastime. Eliminating Pennsylvania, the old home state, of which I have no personal recollection of any language peculiarities, I shall begin with my hrst encounter with a certain group which occurred while I lived in Louisi- ana. As I was quite young at that time, I remember only the soft slurring of southern voices and a slow, easy way of speaking. Of Arkansas dialect I remember nothing. Soon thereafter my family found itself up north in Indiana. Although still quite green as to years, I clearly recall the differences in the tones of voices of Nortlierners and Southerners. Our next step was Detroit, Michigan, and that is the place which created the most lasting influence on my manner of speaking. Our last answer to the call of the Wanderlust occurred when we entered the portals of that land of fried chicken and Southern t'gentility -AIaryland. For one week we lived in I-Ialethorpe, a town south- west of Baltimore. Next door to us lived the landlady and her family. One day Bertha. the daughter. told me to get the tahr which was in the corner of our cellar. Bathed in the glory of my ignorance- I followed instruc- tions and spent fully ten minutes peering into corners in order to End that tahr . I Hnally returned empty- handed. Bertha led me back and, without a mornent's hesitation, went to the corner and rolled out an auto- MARCH - 1941 mobile tire. l'But you said tar. I couldnit find a can of tar. I didn't say tahr. I said ltor'. YVhat followed may well be called a comedy of errors. From Halethorpe we moved to Baltimore. The last name of one of my friends was Starr, pronounced a la Baltimore. Stor, but because of my inexperienced ear, I lived for two weeks under the impression that the name was Store. But store the people told me was stoor. Now I was mixed up. By degrees I became accustomed to Baltimore's eecentricities in pronunciation. Iunior high began. The same old question kept popping up. XVhere are you from? 'ADetroit was the answer. Later I was introduced as the girl from Dectroit. After a few weeks in school. I began to say daown for down and aout for out. I was cured quickly enough. One day after school I was in the locker alcove gathering my belongings from a kneeling position, I quite suddenly raised myself only to hit my head against the locker door. L'Aoueh , I exclaimed. No one looked surprised. Only to my ears did the word sound silly, affected and unnatural. From then on it was Northern accent or bust. Many natives of Baltimore pronounce coal oil as cohl ole . water as wooter . oysters as t'oyshters and towel as tal , The little word on seems innocent enough, but when said by Baltiinoreans. it emerges as Hoon. I mentioned Detroit as being pronounced Dectroit. This accenting of the first syllable in similar words rather than on the last seems to prevail throughout the South. Detail appears as deetailg idea becomes i-dca: and cement is converted to ceeinent. The latter was very recently uttered by a college history student. XYhen corrected he didn't seem to sense any difference and blithely repeated 'ARomau roads were built of ccementf' Baltimore seems to be a melting pot. Ilere I have 19 met people from all parts of the country. The people from California and out XYest have a speech that is unique. Most of them speak in the Northern way, yet there is a XYestern-Southern drawl or twang that makes their words sound delightfully ditiercnt. I have noticed two types of Brooklynese. First, one group. says. uwoitking goil for working girls. and second the cultured Brooklynite, speaks in a clipped British mode of speech coupled with an accent that stands out dis- tinctlv as New York. Most Pennsylvanians have a Northern accent. yet they fall quite readily into the Maryland way of speaking. I have encountered Harvard accents, Oxford accents, the various foreign accents. and the American sectional accents, and it is nothing short of amazing to note how the English language is converted to suit the habits of the various peoples. I think that the English language has about one hundred million ways of being expressed in the United States, for no two people say their words exactly alike. During these past two years I have had a greater opportunity to notice the pronunciation of words and the colloquialisms peculiar to certain groups of people. Students attending the State Teachers College represent all sections of the state and the faculty hail from every part of the nation. Some time ago one of my col- leagues asked me how long I had been in this city. I replied, Five and a half years. And you still talk the way you do?', came the surprised question. XV hen I answered in the atiirniative, I got what is generally known as the hee-haw or the Bronx Cheer. But I warn you, my readers, if you ever send me for the tahr, don't be surprised if I go to the nearest hardware store and return with a can of coal black tar. 'QLOOK WHAT THE WIND BLEW IN H. M. L. YOU MUST think my effrontery terrific when I pre- sume to review a movie when I don't know the first thing about the movies, and when I prepare a report on Cone YVith the XVind without having first read the book. But I've come to the conclusion that we've got to have more abandon in our movie review, and after all, who can exercise more freedom than he who knows nothing? This was a forty cent picture lyou know, nothing cut but the pricelj and from all outward indications four hours for forty cents sounds like quite a bargain. But somehow I can't reconcile myself to the notion that it is worth all the strain on the eyes and the anatomy just to see Scarlett's face run for two hundred eighteen minutes. I've tried once and I tried again, but I can't see it. The flikker was terrific. The settings were uncannily real and the story moved fast most of the time. But Scarlett never could, as Rhett so properly says. have a kerchief about when there was need for it. So we get a super-colossal boxoflice draw and this reviewer just can't see it again. Speaking of Scarlett. we must pause to say that the picture was a significantly bitter. but wistful. state- ment of a deep-seated longing for days and practices of old. But Miss Mitchell was resigned to the fate of the Old Aristocratic South in the Hrst place, even though she did mutter things which sounded some of exjpost facto. So she probably let the pictoriographers play up the run in Our Heroine's nostrils to symbolize the run- 20 ning out of the Old Order, so to speak. That explains that. You would think that after all the talk and putter about Miss Vanderbilt being tested for the role of Scarlett in GXVTXV that we would not Hnally award the part to a Dark I-Iorse, etc. But after the B. O. is taken-care-of in the proper style, bother the publicg you see, we reviewers don't hurt the B. O. because if the people don't want to see a Cplayj they won't anyhow . So there. Nobody did anything terribly well this time, except Selznick. who is still counting the coin pouring in. XVe can't think about a single individual who worked over- hard, excepting it be Thomas Mitchell, who might have left Our Friend Clark way back if he'd had the sym- pathy. And one more thing bothered me. You know how in the movies people always get excited when somebody says something out of the ordinary. XV ell. I will bet my gloves that 6591, of the Second Nighters are missing the point of the picture by spending four hours or so on edge for Clark Gable to say, l'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a d--.U And the audience gasped. Oh. yes. The point was I and listen carefullyl that if you're ever in trouble, and nobody's around to help you out. pull the trigger. And if there's nobody to shoot, just jerk out a kerchief. which by law. you probably won't have. Then wipe twice carefully. sing i'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. and hang out to dry. If by this time he hasn't come retire to your estate and think about it tomorrow. The above means simply that it is a pity to have to watch the high-strung jContinued on page Z9l TOWER LIGHT SGD WHAT PEGGY GUNNELLS AND LEE B'1CCrXRRIER This being the anniversary year of the college, we, the writers. have browsed through old T OXVER Lrerrrs with the thought of reviving memories. One of the favorite columns of the TOXVER LIGHT four years ago was f'Under the Tower Clock and Behind the Desk, writ- ten by A. Nony Mus. QYVe still would like to know who wrote it.j From the October, 1937 issue we find the following: Under the title Observations, we find that Miss Blood and Dr. YVest are interested in stars. QTelc- scopieally speaking?j Miss Scott is now a one arm driver. Clt seems that life is just one big eycle.j A request that Miss Stella O. CG. for Glenj Brown give a demonstration on how to make a fire in ten minutes. Noises: One, two, three, four. five, six-Mrs. Brouwer Counting out supplies. VVe like the way Miss Berseh pays attention during assembly: compared to two others who like to sleep. QRefer to last part of alphabetj Open letters: 1. To Miss Bader: Keep on wearing that happy smile, it's becoming. Z. To Mr. Moser: How about coming to dances sometime? You don't dance? VVe bet you look line in a Tux. The November. 1937 issue disclosed more letters to the faculty. To Mr. Minnegan: Wliat would happen if someone placed a micro- phone before you during a basketball game? ln the same issue some general activities were listed. 1. Miss Hazel lda Bailey Allen XVoodward taught some of the students how to cook with a Dutch oven and how to pop popcorn. Z. Mr. YValther was sent a certain message for tak- ing a drawing board out of room 2. 3. Miss Scott tapped her foot during all the music for Play Day. VVe felt that she would make a fine hill billy. QTexas stylej ln the Ianuary issue. 1933 we find the faculty up to their old tricks despite New Year's Resolutions. Miss lVlunn, don't you know the purpose of the rail and the line in the cafeteria. What does Mr. Walther do with the pile of books he carries home with him? lt really becomes serious MARCH - 1941 when Freshmen mistake him for a student teacher. XVanted: A baseball initt for one of the instructors who cannot seem to catch successfully the piece of chalk he must throw around while he concentrates on the deep mysteries of number. In the March. 1938 issue we learned of the child- hood days of the faculty members. tPrceocious, weren't they?j XVhen Dr. A. was a baby, she ate aspirin tablets. Miss Bader drew pictures on the wall-she was a doodler. Miss Berseh always had a dirty face. Miss Brown always played in the woods. Miss Daniels jumped up and down. Dr. A. Dowell greased chairs with lard, while Dr. F. Dowell put taeks on chairs. Dr. Lynch cut heads off flies and Mr. Crook chewed on rubber bands. Miss Munn caught lightning bugs. QYVas there a purpose in that?j Mr. VValther took all the ivorics off pianos. fThat's not the way the Seniors heard it.j Bliss XVey- forth took the pickles out of the jar and tucked them away with the linen. Enough of the past-we'd like to write about some of the former students, but most of us have never heard of them. 1-lere are a few belated comments and a few that are up to date 1. XVhere did the girls in Richmond Hall learn the dot and dash system of communication? They used it to good advantage the night before the Shenan- doah game. 2. ls Elaine's heart in New Iersey? Not now. 3. A couple of girls caught in the smoking room after 1UL30 were hiding behind chairs. XVhen asked why they were hiding, one replied, 'Tm nervous. -f. XVhat is the 7th Commandment? A certain young lady broke a date two weeks in succession with the excuse that she had flu. Now she really has it. 5. Ed Fishel seems to be having a marvel tousj time lately. VVe realize that puns are the lowest form of humor. but Iames Iett. M. P. gave us one at Mr. Roosevelt's inauguration that ean't be omitted. Someone asked what song would be played as the President took the oath of oflice and Mr. Iett repled, Only Forever . Since this is the last edition before the graduation of Leon L. Lerner in April, we feel impellcd to write a soliloquy to him. The Last Decade Only a decade ago, a freshman of powerful ramifi- cations entered the portals of this institution. Ile startled everyone in the school. including himself. with his great amount of knowledge. tContiuued on page 301 ' 2 1 ASSIBIIMIIIEIIBIIIBS JANUARY 27, 1941 .ALICE CARR AS PRINCIPAL of the Girls' Vocational School in Bal- timore. Miss Engel knows the history and the aims of the school. The warped attitude against work which has grown up in the United States has long defeated such schools. It has taken the defense program and similar crises to raise manual labor to the place of respect and importance it should occupy. The school started as a dumping ground for mishts, truants, and the mentally handicapped. Today these people do not enter the Vocational School. Only those who meet the stand- ards on Aptitude, Clerical, Art, I. and Reading Tests are allowed to enter. These tests are also used to guide the girls in choosing one of the seven types of work which are offered: dressmaking. millinery, high power machines, beauty culture, tea room service, com- mercial work and salesmanship. After each girl com- pletes her course, the school attempts to place her. If she fails, the employer tells the school why she is unsat- isfactory. and an attempt is made to correct her faults. In accord with the best educational principles. mental and social needs, as well as vocational ones. are cared for. Academic work in subjects related to the course goes on. Art, music. anatomy, menu planning. and bac- teriology are included. For further personality develop- ment there are clubs. a school paper. a year-book. a May Day celebration. and fashion shows. In keeping with the defense program. classes in coil winding and assembly work are being given. Miss Engels talk stressed what all liberal-minded. far-seeing educators. employers. and just ordinary peo- ple are beginning to realize: that all education from medical school to occupational classes is in part. voca- tional education. and should not be held in contempt. VVell planned. intelligently staffed vocational schools are in part the answer to the employment problem. The fact that the Girls' Vocational School has placed 9505 of its graduates has great social significance. FEBRUARY 10, 1941 HELEN PRoss THE PHILOSOPHY of educational practice of the people in America from ISEO-1900 as shown in the novels of that period -such an impressive greeting was 22 hurled at us through the peaceful morning air of a Monday assembly, and then-the hour passed pleas- antly, more pleasantly than we had anticipated, as Miss Harriet VVells, of the college staff. lectured on the aforementioned subject . Between the lines of the novels prevalent between 1870-1900 lie many interesting theories of education, contrasting in many cases abruptly with those main- tained today. Miss XVells has delved into these novels with sufficient intensity to discover these underlying ideas that peep now and then from the otherwise com- placent fiction of the times. She has not only delved, but she has brought these facts to our attention in a most interesting manner. Some of the novels fought for the education of Negroes, which was not the accept- ed practice of the period, others showed a cross section of public opinion favoring discipline and barbarous punishment for misdemeanors of the classroom. Social studies then engaged in were humorously mentioned and the students life was described as far from ideal. By her many well chosen excerpts, Miss XVells enlarged upon these and other points of interest. In conclusion, she voiced a developing faith in education. a faith which has grown with the years. The day's program was fine, indeed. May we. in behalf of the student body. com- mend Miss XVells on her excellent research on this topic. FEBRUARY 17, 1941 BEGINNING XVITH the statement that factors lead- ing to our form of democratic government need to be studied and reviewed more than ever today. john Henry Coon lectured to the faculty and students at S. T. C. His topic was Life in Colonial W'illiamsburg. By means of a long series of colored slides depicting the chamr of the restored city. Mr. Coon endeavored to give us some idea of the daily life of the colonists of Virginia in the eighteenth century. At that time. Virginia was the largest and most populated colony. contributing much to the political and social life of the people. Locat- ed in tidewater Virginia. XVilliamsburg is situated on a peninsula between the York and james rivers. It was founded in 1632 as Middle Plantations and was the colonial and state capital from 1699-159. One of the high spots of its existence was the found- ing of XVilliam and Mary College in 1693. the first col- lege to be thus begun by royalty. Passing from the college to the rest of the town, there were many varied and interesting sights in store for us. XVe passed down wide. impressive Duke of Gloucester Street to the buildings in which Virginia legislators once convened. 4. Continued on Page 32j TOWER LIGHT YOU CAN WIN! ATTENTION, POTENTIAL artists and writers, and even you who think you can't draw a straight line or spell correctly! XV ho knows what latent talents lie beneath that doubtful seowl of yours. Here a challenge! Accept it. There is nothing to lose and ten dollars to gain. If you don't win first prize you'll get those flowers that are next in line. XVhat could be more enticing. Mr. Bowyer of Stevenson's Flower Shop, a graduate of the Campus School and the Maryland Institute of Art, is making you a generous offer. If you are artistically inclined, make a poster. Use fiowers and a holiday for your theme. For you who can't draw a straight line, or any other kind, take your pen in hand, put on your thinking cap and write an article or even a poem about flowers and holidays. Mr. Bowyer offers Ten Dollars for two first prizes and flowers for a second prize. He will use the selected materials for advertising. The three judges will be impar- tial outsiders. Aside from the prizes he is giving the Au Revoir a most generous gift. The yearbook needs your support. Get out your paint brush, your pen, and your imagination and see what you can do to help yourself and the L'Au Revoir. THE GLEE CLUB RUTH lA'I,-XLESON IN ORDER to help the Peabody Conservatory in its drive for funds. the Glee Club held a concert on March 6 during the Assembly period. There was a minimum admission of five cents and the collection was given to the Peabody. The program presented was a varied one. lt began with a eliorale arranged by Christiansen, Praise to the Lord, sung by the whole club. as was the next number. Carmencita, a Mexican folk song. Mr. Leon Lerner and Mr. Harry London sang a duet. Cahn as the Night by Goetze. followed by a solo. Bonjour Suzanne. by Dilibes. sung by Miss Phyllis Cohen. The Ieanie Group sang Dream of Summer fhlerry YVidow Wlaltzj. by Franz Lehar. The concert ended with the singing of Roses of the South. by Strauss. KAPPA DELTA PI CATHERINE GRAY THE ANNOUNCEMENT in assembly of the new Kappa Delta Pi initiates was the first step in a cere- mony to induct recently selected members into the MARCH - 1941 organization. On Saturday, February I6, the final step was taken-the initiation ceremony was concluded. In the presence of twenty-eight Kappa Delta Pi members, which included several faculty members, alumni and undergraduates, Helen Eickelberg and Genevieve llaile took the vows necessary to complete their induction into the society. Mrs. Harriss. the president of the organiza- tion, instructed the new members on the meaning of the insignia and the words Kappa Delta Pi. At the con- clusion of this ceremony the organization heartily welcomed the new members and congratulated them. expressing the desire that they make the motto of the society the slogan for their careers. Later, during the meeting, Dr. YVest spoke to the group, particularly to the new members. on a pointed and well chosen subject-what Kappa Delta Pi should mean to the college and what the college should mean to it. He gave, from his experience in Kappa Delta Pi chapters in other institutions. suggestions for growth- the establishment of a scholarship and an open anmial banquet. One point that was made in which students may be particularly interested. was that each should not and must not work with the aim of getting into the society-forcing himself by obvious methods on the societyg rather, every student should so develop himself as to make the society want his membership. In Iune there will be another initiation and the whole college hopes that many new members will be found who have a definite contribution to make to the society. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS COLLEGES MEETING THE DINNER meeting of the American Association of Teachers Colleges was held at the Hotel Ambassa- dor Friday evening, February Zlst. Dr. NV. XV. Iaker. President of the State Teachers College at Camp Girar- deau. Missouri, Vice President. presided. The United States Commissioner of Education. Iohn XY. Stude- baker, spoke on Education and the National Defense. The Choir of the State Teachers College at Trenton. New Iersey. sang. Dr. Charles YY. Hunt. Secretary of the American Association of Teachers Colleges. spoke on the work ofthe Association during thc past twenty-five years. The first meeting of the Association was held in Chi- cago in 1917. lt was attended by five men. The member- ship of the Association now includes ISS institutions, representing -li states. The development of these institutions within these twenty-five years constitutes a remarkable chapter in the history of American LCoiitinucd on Page illr 23 flB4DlIMIlIllININl3f EVENTS l,-Assembly: Federick Essary, XVashiugton Correspondcnt of the Baltimore Sun. March March 21-Deadline for April 'TOXYER LIGHT. March March '7 2 4-Assembly: An Hour with Music. 8-Men's Revue. Museum of Art: National Ceramic Exhi- bition tthrough April 1345. Prints from the XYerther Collection. YVork of Best Baltimore Potter tthrough April ly. Assembly. One Act Play by the Mummers. March 31- April 3 April -f -New York Trip. -First half of second semester ends. Museum of Art: One Man Shows. Rebecca Davis, Selma Oppenheimer gthrough April Zfj. April ,-Assembly: Discussion of N ew York Trip. April .-Lecture at Hopkins Playshop The Drama of Ideasn by Aaron Gurwitch. Visiting lec- turer in Philosophy of Iohns Hopkins Uni- versity. April 9-Easter holiday begins. April ll-Museum of Art: Design Decade qi through May 23l. April 15-l9-Play at Hopkins Plavshop, City Called April Heaven by Richard Rohmann. va young American playwright- A startling and unusual fantasyf, I6-Regular schedule resumed. Bach Club Concert at Museum of Art. 8:30 P. M., The Busch String Quartet. THE NEW YORK TRIP XVednesday: Sight-seeing or i Radio broadcast, Thursday: Visit public and private schools of New York in the morning: Visit museums, planetarium and such buildings in the afternoon. A play to be selected for the evening. Regional conference and a general meeting of the Kappa Delta Pi. 24 Friday: Student conferences in the morning tl0:30-l2.00 P. Mg, panel discussions. XVhy Student Cooperative Associations in Pro- fessional Schools for Teachers? tMargaret XVells, members of this panel.j XVhat Should Be the Essential Characteristics of the Organization of Student Cooperative Asso- ciations? How May XVe Adequately Finance a XVell-bal- anced Program of Student Activity? XVhat Areas of Subject Matter Should Be Includ- ed in the General Education or Cultural Back- ground Areas of the College Curriculum? How May the Professional Aspects of the Col- lege Curriculum Be Made More Functional? t'XVhat Guiding Principles Should Be Established in Assuring a YVell-balanced Extra-curricular Program? YVhat Type of Guidance and Advisement Do Students Need From the Standpoint of Personal Advisement? How May XVe Improve the Quality of the Com- position in Student Publications? XVhat Problems Are Involved in the Adminis- trative and Mechanical Aspect of School Publi- cations and How Are XVe Solving Them? Group meetings relative to the panels in the after- noon 12:00-2:30 P. MJ. Democraticizing the C o lle ge Community Through Faculty-Student Cooperation. NA Suitable College Curriculum for Professional Colleges for Teachers in View of Changing Con- ditionsf' Student Enrichment and Growth. The Improvement of College Publications. Student banquet and dance in the evening. .Q I. 1. cr U Saturday: i Assembly of students and faculty delegates tl0:00- lziool. 'Summary of Friday's Conference Groups. The Friday Conferences Viewed by a Faculty Observer. Greetings of Eastern States Association. Visit Radio City Music Hall in Afternoon. Evening. free. Sunday: Church. Sightseeing tour of Radio City. Betty Steuart. Margaret XVells, Henry Astrin. lack Koontz and Genevieve Haile will represent the College at this meeting of the Eastern States Association of Professional Schools for Teachers. TOWER LIGHT r r li in ii v l r i w J. SIX MONTHS OLD-OR WHERE ART THOU? IVE IMIAD an agonizing time deciding on a name: Club D'Arte was discarded because it sounded a bit too much like an archery try-out: several other French names were rejected because of pronunciation and spell- ing difficulties: Ars Cratia Artis was ignored when we found that our President did not speak Latin flu- ently. So, in order to embody the aims, purposes, and work of the club in a title understandable and spell- able' to all, we called it the 'Art Club. Being quite hilarious at the naming of our new organization, we all cheered. sang Cod Save the Kingf' and retired to the Coca Cola machine for stimulation. But even more bitter arguments attended the choice of a place of meetingg a few hardy romantic souls wished to sojourn in the C-len, but they were quickly silenced by a light tap on the skull: three others were desirous of any warm spot in the building. but this was too difliicult a demand to satisfy. So at last we decided on the Little Theatre, always having heard that artists flourish best in a bare, cold place with very little food to satisfy enormous appetites. That suited exactly. Thus did we begin, and we have great hopes of some- thing even better in the coming months. In fact. a group of the members were pleasantly encouraged when, upon their entrance to one of the art galleries of the city, XVhistler's Mother stood up and gave forth with a rousing chorus of Stand Up and Cheer, XVe are justly proud of them. In closing. may we extend a hearty for arty 'J welcome to all to join us as we splash among the oils in our rea- sonable facsimile of a URembrantian atmosphere. So here's to a brilliant future for the Art Club-Long mav its brushes wave! ALUMNI NOTES Mrs. Charles Cohen, formerly Cecile Goldstein '37, is the mother of a baby girl. Arthur Bennett. class of 1939, is Sergeant of the Mess in the army's l04th Medical Corps at Fort Meade. XVinnifred Toole Scarborough '34, jacob Epstein '39, and Josephine Toro '34, have been named as deinonstra- tion teachers for the Montebello School. Marriages. Ieannc Kravctz, class of 1940. to Murray Under- wood. Ruth Dietz. class of 1940, to Louis lrlenderson. MARCH - 1941 The Other Morning The t'mob waiting at 39th Street was picked up by the college station wagon which also stopped for the Dunkirk-Towson trckkcrs. Iohn Koontz was observed. as usual, jogging down the hall. but with a green bag slung over his shoulder. C. Shules was spotted a few moments later with a shiny yaller briefcase. And they said Cordon was the one with the Santa Claus complex. The oihce announced schedule changes for all spec- ials. These changes will rcverse their present schedules and enable them to have basic courses before practicums. Many S. T. C. students spent free periods ice-skat- ing on the frozen tennis courts. QCourtesy of the Physical Education Departinent-and more fun!!!! J The Other Afternoon The 4'Coke salesman said that since sales had been so high, the machine in the bookshop would operate gratis for a week. XVord was oflieially released that construction of our new gym will begin April l, l94l. The Science Department finally consented to lend its tools to art students who simply had to finish art projects. The Cafeteria doors opened immediately upon the arrival of students. thus eliminating the line. Music classes sang Tuxedo junction and In the Mood which by virtue of the ASCAP ban have become classic. The Other Night I ate half a dozen hamburgers before I went to sleep and dreamed this article. Miss Cutting: So sorry I couldn't see you when you called, but I was just having my hair washed. Miss Sharpe: And the laundries are so provokingly slow about returning things. Mother: I'm afraid Robert is burning the candle at both ends. Father: Huh! That boy has cut the candle in two and lit up all four ends. The conductor and a brakcnian on a Montana rail- road differ as to the proper pronunciation of the name Eurelia. Passengers are often startled upon arrival at this station to hear the conductor yell: You're a liar! You'rc a liar! Then from the brakeinan at the other cnd comes the cry: You really are. You really are. 25 fIl34DllblIt-QIIEBQIRIIITQ fllEA,lII9llli5lNlllDA.lIR February S Dr. XVilliam Dc Kleine. Medical Director of the American Red Cross, spoke at a Te Pa Chi club meet- ing on February 5. Ilis talk centered around hygiene, nutrition. and personal health. State. local and school health departments, as well as adult education, are help- ing to improve sanitary conditions. The lack of food and the lack of the right type of food will help people die. Dr. Kleine said. He advocated eating moderately during a lifetime, and also making meals variable. The Red Cross is the organization which helps out in emergencies. Since the present war 20,000 donors have supplied blood for transfusions in England through the cooperation of the Red Cross organization in Amer- ica. Some blood is even stored for future emergencies. In order to have good blood. good nutrition is neces- sary. Dr. Kleine emphasized, Everyone was impressed with his wealth of practical suggestions and informa- tion and therefore enjoyed listening to him. February 13 THE VALENTINE DANCE SYLVIA CvELXVASSER On the eve of February l-lth, a little bit of fairyland was spirited away through the clouds and deposited within the halls of our S. T. C. The gateway to this haven was a heart and through its center passed the sophisticated young of 19-ll. The hall was all hearts and lace and sentiment. the sentiment being reflected in the dance programs flut- tering most enticingly from white wrists. Cunning little cupids. so pink and soft. graced the velvet curtains. XVith the help of their ablest assistant. good dance music. Cupid's venture apparently proved successful. Then to maintain the light-heartedness so essential to fun and pleasure St. Valentine sent along some of his cool nectar known as punch. and into each dancer's hand was slipped suggestive verse on candy hearts. The Sophomore Dance turned out to be a true Sophomore delight. February IS Tuesday evening. February IS. Boslev Royston. gradu- 26 ate of the class of 1937, spoke to the Rural Club on l Soil Conservation . Mr. Royston was formerly a mem-0 ber of the Rural Club and he has continued his interest in the activities of the Club by his association with the Agricultural Conservation Program of Harford County. Mr. Royston further stimulated the Rural Club to 1 ll make Arbor Day a most spectacular part of the College? celebration on its seventy-fifth Anniversary. February 18 NATURE HISTORIANS DINE INEZ SCHULTZ The annual dinner of the Natural History Group held tl 'I in Newell Hall, February 18th, was a very friendly affair., The symbol of the Natural History Group-the camp-Q fire-constructed by means of a few pieces of wood,' some red cellophane and a flashlight was placed in the I center of the triangle formed by arranging the tables. Adding to the camphre spirit was the group singing of several original songs put to familiar tunes. Perhaps the best-liked song was the Bug Song sung to the tune of Tramp, Tramp, Tramp . I quote the words which run like this: Tramp, tramp, tramp the bugs are marching. Up and down the log they gog Some are green and some are black, And of spiders there's no lack And the daddy-longlegs they go marching. too. Our guests of the evening were Dr. and Mrs. Comp. Dr. Comp, who is from the Maryland Academy of Sciences. gave us a very enjoyable and informative talk on the Natural History of the Slime Mold . The slime mold. much to our amazement. is neither slimy nor moldy. It is a naked mass of protoplasin exhibiting every color of the spectrum. The slime mold is found growing in old stumps in damp parts of the woods and one particular kind of slime mold has been mistaken often-times for puff-balls. To supplement his talk. Dr. Comp showed us movies on a species of slime mold. XVe saw the protoplasms move along in the little canals of the plant and suddenly there would be a reverse move- ment. The means of obtaining food is like that of the ainoeba. Those of us attending the dinner went away feeling that we had had a very profitable evening. XYC took with us a knowledge of something which we didnt know existed under the title of slime mold. but were familiar with it after all. And how soothing was the fact that the slime mold was neither slimy nor moldy. TOWER LIGHT i U I ll ls 5 1 is l v l I' I 0 f E il: U i: ll l l .li I 4 I I K. i Bl e P I I i I 1 l i LONG AGO THE B:XSKlil'l'BALL situation here has eertainlv eonie a long rvav sinee about tvvo months ago when Paul Menton spoke his piece about the quality of the eur- rent edition of State Teachers varsitv basketball. Or perhaps you didn't know that Paul Xlenton had said anything, Mr. Klenton is sports editor of The Evening Sun in Baltimoreg in addition, he is head of the loeal referees, and somewhat of a exar in his ovvn rights in loeal basketball. Reeentlv he inserted one of his less ironie notiees into a dailv eoluiun. 'l'he View point, in rvhieh he said fand l quote from memorv 5: Coaeh Donald Klinnegau. of State 'l'eaehers, is xvor' ried about a squad vvhieh is the rvorst sinee the sehool beearne a teaehers eollegef' lt he didnt use those vvords. he meant the same thingg in taet. there vvas hardlv anv mistaking what the gentleman rvrote. XYell, the quintet has eertainlv eome a long vvav. The Coaeh notes the Change Lit sueh things ean be plaeed verv dehnitelvl in the seeond halt of the lohns Hopkins game of February -l, last. ln that 30 minute period, 'l'orvson's eourtmen outplaved fto the tune ot 25-Zll a llopkins aggregation rvhieh had earlier eon- quered the U. of N. MARCH - 1941 rrsrrrrrrr C Noxv the bovs have plaved Wilson 'l'eaehers the game ot their lives. and have given Kit. St. Xlarvs a tough nut to eraek. The nature of the Court teams here latelv has shorvn a defined pattern of rise and final eliniax. Consider the anatomv ot the morale. 'l'he loeal tive has entered nearlv all ot its games vvith hardlv a ehanee to xvin-and this in itself is a terrihe nioralegdegrader. Seeondlv rand this is bound up intimatelv with the tirst v. apart from morale, laek of size and inexperienee alxvavs eount against the eourtmen here. So as the season progresses. eonlidenees are built up and there is a palpable aeerek tion of ball-handling rvisdom and eoolness, rvith the inevitable result that elosing games are eloser and oftentimes. 'thopelessn games are non, lt all makes an interesting proposition. 4CjUl1ilI1llC4iUl! Page il r 27 ANOTHER LETTER iContinued from page -tj teach cooperation and our overwhelming unity of needs. interests. and security. Science and art are already free from national chainsg literature and history would free themselves. Emancipa- tion frorn herd-thought would become a revitalized goal of education, and patriotism would take on a new meaning. Instead of blind arrogance and fanatical na- tionalism. it would mean loyalty to our countrymen, and their highest ideals. And as individual, national and world ideals are one, it would mean loyalty to the whole of mankind. XVith the new thought would come a new sense of security. Armaments would no longer be considered necessary. And with armaments would go the secret treaties. fears. suspicions, and propaganda of hate al- ways required to persuade people to pay the back- breaking cost of wars. Kirby Page, the author of lNfIust W' e Go To XV ar. and National Defense, proposes that the United States go even a step farther and add to the Cabinet, a Secretary of Peace, whose duty would be to cultivate friendly relations with other nations. A De- partment of Peace would provide for research into the problems causing conflicts. Instead of XVest Point and the Naval Academy we would have a college to -train youth in the techniques and disciplines of paciiism. In- stead of preparing for war the United States would or- ganize for peace. NV ith our country disarmed and striving actively for peace there yet remains the economic sore spots: colo- nies without self-government, l,00l different money standards, and unending tariff barriers. You may very well say that here are questions defying answer. Profes- sor E. M. Patterson of the University of Pennsylvania has studied the various theories of economic organiza- tion from economic nationalism and autarchy to com- plete internationalism and regionalism to conclude There is no final solution. but merely a series of ad- justments. XVar, we know, merely interferes with satis- factory adjustments. XVe reconcile our national differ- ences peacefullyg there is no reason why we cannot reconcile our international differences peacefully. The machinery is already set up. Many of the largest corpo- rations such as General Electric. General Motors. and Ford are now international. An international chamber of commerce was created in 1919. and there is no limit to arbitration. All that is needed is the sense of trust. security, and good-will - mental peace. Strangely enough. john, this mental peace is also the catalyst required to effect the political unification of v 28 Europe. The League of Nations was tried and failed, and for good reasons. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, and Charles A. Beard have summarized the reasons thus: The infant idea fell among thieves and was hatched in a hotbed of Parisian intrigue to become A league to perpetuate historic wrongs. No one expects the peo- ple of Europe to settle all their quarrels overnight, but just like the machinery of economic arbitration. the ma- chinery of political arbitration needs but the oil of men- tal peace to function. Bringing about these reforms in world politics, eco- noinics, and education, freeing ourselves from the ty- rants of militarism, imperialism, and nationalism is in- deed a long-range plan, and I can almost hear you say, But we are dealing today with things as they are. NVhat can our country and I, as an individual. do right now to tear down this war system and build for peace? Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, H. G. XVells, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and many of the world's leaders be- lieve that wars will cease when men refuse to fight , and that in loyalty to his fellow-man the individual, first having searched and reformed his own thought and will, should henceforth refuse to serve the god of war. Again I can hear you say. t'But suppose our country did disarm, suppose it did offer to put its present colo- nies under international mandate eontrol, suppose it did stop fanning the fiames of nationalism and instead go out of its way to cultivate world friendship - sup- pose after all this. some nation whose suffering had been more than our new policy of trust and good-will could requite. suppose some nation which had not freed itself from the old delusions should invade us. Fantastic as the possibility is. what could we do? XVe couldn't just sit down here and let them come. john. that is just about what we could do. Stretch sitting down to stopping transportation and communi- cation, shutting down the factories. Let the invader come, but refuse absolutely to carry out any of his or- ders. to submit to his will, to cooperate in any way whateverg at the same time, however, being extremely careful not to harm a single invading soldier and using every opportunity to c'onvert him to our side. That is the essence of defense by non-violent resistance. From the individual sacrifices of martyrs for religious tolerance or scientific truth the movement has grown to the uni- fying force of the massed millions of India. It earned Hungary a constitution from Austria, it enabled the Finns to resist conscription by Russia be- fore the XVorld XVarg it enabled Ireland to resist con- scription by England in l9l7g it forced the French army to leave the Ruhr Valleyg and with the inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi it has earned civil equality for In- dians in Transvaal, Africa. and is well on the way to TOWER LIGHT I l 5 6 1 i I i I 4 l freeing India entirely from the grasp of English imper- ialism, lt is not a panacea, a perfected and complete an- swer to every objection. There is suffering, death, and destruction involved, but nothing comparable to that of war. It takes the discipline, loyalty, and bravery de- manded by war, the heroic virtues, and adds to them the virtues of humanism, respect for human life, forgive- ness, mercy, and intelligence. YVhen the virtues of hu- manism are present, the plan worksg when they are ab- sent, it fails. And I believe it is based on rock-bottom psychology. Violence feeds on violence. Non-violent resistance helps remove the cause of violence and there- by changes the assailants will and converts him to its side. VVhole battalions in India have had to be court- martialed because they refused to tire on the passive na- tives. Convineed of our good-will the people of an at- tacking country would refuse to pay the cost of inva- sion and we would have made instead of a lasting enemy, a lasting friend. There are responses in a human being which tend to strike back when struck, but there are also responses which make the whole man shudder and rebel when war demands that he rip open his opponents belly and have his own ripped open in return. In man there is also intelligence to guide his action. Wfhatever the imperfections of passive resistance, we know that in war at best one side has brit a SO-SO chance of winning , and usually both sides lose. If half the effort and money that is wasted on war were used to organize and train our nation for peace and non-violent resistance, who could predict its possibilities? A change must come. VVhether it comes after the world is prostrate, exhausted by sutfering and destruc- tion, or whether it comes in time to save the best of our present civilization will depend on mans rising his in- telligence to end war. He has used his intelligence to do the impossible', beforeg let us work and hope that he does the impossible again. A new day is dawning, Yours for peace, ALLEN O'NEILL. A REVIEW OI' G.W.T.W. CCOIIfI11lIC'Cf from Page 203 Aristocrats slipping off their pedestals toward a position where they must not look down tat least superiiciallyj on others less gifted in blood and money. It is so pitiful that even Miss Mitchell couldn't face itg and now lS0 million Americans are laying out dough because they want to help Bliss Mitchell shed a tear or two for Yesterday. ln present- day terminology it's called: Reaction, and Rlay the Devil Take the Foremost. MARCH - 1941 Fashion-right Styles for Spring HDGIISCHILD, KOHN 84 00. Open Your Bank Account Wfitb Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOVV N , IVID. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited V175 HIVIEHT ON THE THBLEH By EDGAR A. GUEST I sing this glorious land of ours, Here your ambitious laoy may he Its motor cars and shows, Our President if he's. at-le. Its little gardens, gay with flowers, But what spells USA. to me its phones and radios, Is Mme-at upon the table! If fZ 4 Ziifaaq .Qualify find UK THE WM. SCHlUDERBERG-T. J. KURDLE C0 BALTIMORE, MD. su Civic Clubs, Churches. l raternal Orgziiiizatioiis, ind All Social Catlicrin s Hill llrotit by the Siuzcr.-tr. 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CALL SARATOGA 6262 STEWART'S PERSONAL SERVICE WILL SI-IOP EGR YOU OR WITI-I VCU. S0 WHAT CContinucd from page Zlj Up Very soon the name Lerner became synonymous with a huge vocabulary. Their he departed. only to reenter six years later. Since his reentrance, he has aroused the curiosity of more than one student. XVhen he leaves us, many people will have some diilieulty in carrying on. For example. Mr. Minne- gan will have no one to explain affinity to the basket- ball team. the street car conductor who always asks Leon for his car token card will have no one to prey upon. and the halls of the college will no longer ring with the famous voice of L. L. L. Before he leaves us, may we, through the voice of this column extend our best wishes and say that we hope he will carry on in his own inimitable way in whatever walk of life he enters. 6. And in closing let us quote a poem found recently. He stood on the bridge at midnight And tickled her face with his toes For he was only a mosquito And he stood on the bridge of her nose. TEACHERS COLLEGES lContinued from Page 23j education. The teachers col- leges have grown to be a major influence in American education during the last quarter century. The number of students has doubled. The typical library in 1915 had 7,000 volumes. In 19-I0 the typical library had 28.000 volumes. These institutions sprang out of the basic needs of, a young democracy. Their primary purpose is the edu- cation of leaders to facilitate the transfer and improve- ment of the national culture of all the people, Their responsibility to the common people makes them at this time especially significant institutions in the con- tinuance of the democratic process. Faculty members who attended conferences: Progres- sive Education Association Meeting in Philadelphia,- February 20-23. Bliss Steele, Miss Owens, Bliss Blood, Miss loslin. American Association of School Admin- istrators. February 21-ZS-Dr. XViedefeld. Miss Brown, i Dr. XVest. Dr. A. S. Dowell, Dr. Crabtree ISaturday and Sundayl, Miss Hill and Kliss Grogan were sent as representatives of the Epsilon Chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi to the Council meeting and dinner of the fraternity. TOWER LIGHT' I 2 Q I I I v i i I I I 1 CContinuecl from Page 275 But after all, no discussion of a team is in perfect order without mention of the individuals who comprise the team. Before we start, keep in mind the fact which often gives us a bit of consolation. Towson, as a rule, seldom gets a boy who has built up a reputation Qand skillj in high-schoolg whereas the other schools against whom we compete often can show live, six, or seven scholastic aces. YVitness Loyola College who is now leading the Mason-Dixon Conference, while going undefeated. Mainspring of the squad is Senior Bob Cox, well- known throughout the state as a powerful scoring man, what with 19's and 20's to his credit per game. He is an ace on rebound play. with the sum being an all- round-good-man to have around. It goes without saying that he will be sorely missed. Howard Stottlemeyer is another victim of the gradua- tion. Ile has been shooting lots more lately. and his score percentage has gone up. He, too, is a stalwart on defense and is a good feeder. It goes without saying . . . But some of the best news of the campaign to date has been the work of Dick Coleman, a newcomer this year. As Coach says, here is a boy who is 'Asettling well into college competition. He has the sharpest cut and turn of any fellow who's been seen hereabouts in years. He, therefore, makes an excellent defense man. He is perhaps the brightest thing we can look ahead to, since as a freshman, he is evincing talent, and getting himself invaluable experience. Ed Fisliel, lanky sophomore, is coming fast in a drive to lill Cox's shoes when the latter unlaces them. He -fakes, shows deception, Uruns doors, and on the whole is getting much faster. Big Frank Dorn specializes in the twist from the cor- iner. and is making an excellent pivot man. He is able to score in every game by virtue of the characteristic twist. Itzy-Bitzy Schkloven is the 'Ilind of the year, ac- cording to Mr. Minnegan. He is fast, like the proverb- ial 'Igreased lightning and is excellent on defense: he handles the ball well, and is unsellish, being caught very seldom in the act of shooting. Could one ask more? IVVell, if this fellow Ca sophomore, alsoj had the endur- ance and the size so essential to college-time ball. we'd shut up and let nature take its course. But for every- IJody's sake, we're holding our breath and praying for Ii few more pounds. and a couple of hours more of wind. :In the St. Marys game he was outstanding. ' Several of last year's jayvees have made the transi- 'ion into this varsity season quite effectively. In addition Zo Fishel, Seidler and Little Izzy. we have D. Thompson. a junior, whose speed is excelled only by his IMARCH - 1941 GOING ON THE NEW YORK TRIP? Take along new spring clothes from Hutzler's. If you can't take time to buy all the small things you need when you're in the store, write or telephone us and we'll send you the little traveling necessities. IIUTZLEII BFQTIIEIE GE Howard, Saratoga and Clay Streets SAratoga -ISZI ew! Urigimzlf Distinctiffef ill SUBSCRIBE TO THE A Li fe-long Treas- ure with which to Re- E E 5 , call Your Classmates Compliments of . . TOWSON THEATER The instant: jliatinnal ?Bank uf Zllutnsun, JHIIU. .'Ir1irI.v', Sign IIf'ri1er.v' and Ellgfllflllillg Supplies - Sfmfio, Srhool und Dfllfflillg Room FIII'III-Hifi' -- Drrm'1'11g dltlfffliilf 55 scHool. T HWS b e fff!!l ' ,X----f SUPPLIES 214 WEST FRANKLIN STREET BALTIMORE, MD. VERNON 3700 31 owson Lufseries lNCORPOR.-XTED TowsoN MARYLAND A Deposit of 31.00 Opens a Checking Account in the CHECKMASTER Plan at Uliije Ulintnaun jliatinnal igank TOWSON, MD. Our only charge is five cents for each check drawn and each deposit. Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 Masorfs Service Station Betboline - Ricbjield Gasoline Oflicial AAA Station 2-I-Hour Service TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 COMPLIMENTS OF - H. STREETT BALDWIN BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. HAUT COMMISSIONERS OF BALTIMORE COUNTY light. He got hot against Loyola lfirst gamejg he feeds- wcll, and scores his share. You would have heard morel about Big Sam Clopper. were it not for fill his ill-j ness, and now lilj student-teaching. . Aaron Seidler, also a junior, is called by the Coach the 'Amost improved player over last year. He works well on the floor and in back-court, and rebounds in redoubt-H able fashion. His best game to date has been the Febru-' ary -I Hopkins tilt. He also is student teaching. john Shock, all-Eastern soccennan, who has seen little actioni this year. leaves in june. to close a colorful athleticl career. Arch Krieger, a sophomore. is improving ini feed and rebound, but has a lot of work to do withi his shooting. l There is only one more fellow who will be heldi next year for breach of promise if he doesn't come. through. He is Billy Mines, who showed early stuff, but had to withdraw. And don't forget a host of cur- rent jayvees who look good for the coming season. I Lastly, our attention is called to the fact that this Mason-Dixon Conference will be a good thing for bas- ketball here. Such teams as Loyola and Catholic U. will. provide the best of competition from this region. and the result should be added interest. and sharpened play lyou know. survival of the Httest. etc. 3. So I think that while wishing a rather oblique fare- well to a l9-tO'-ll squad which has been coming strong, we mustn't become too noisy and superimpose a lot of rosy hopes upon a very insecure foundation of about fifteen if's . But there is no reason why we shouldn't announce, even if only quietly, that a sort of New Deal is afoot, and perhaps in the coming five years leven the coming yearij a fast, lighting quintet will add another quality: a victorious quint. ASSEMBLY jCO11ll11l1Cd from Page 22 L While there, we noted the precise architecture and exquisite interiors of the build- ings. Formality was present everywhere. Xiandering through lesser streets of the town, we passed quaint apothecary shoppes, famous taverns. lovely colonial homes. beautiful formal gardens. and yes. even the town's jail and instruments of justice . We noticed the unusual brick walks, the uniquely designed chim- neys, and the colorful herb gardens. 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I 'V I I .V Il I Q0 if N 'f xt? ef -' Q, zaxf-4'jix,ei f 3' .947 Y, A W ' C ff , t' ' ll 1 . 9 I 15776 I Hr, I e CWWAMX OUR owN PATSY GARREU aftl, It IW! out in front with Chest '12 LA cmd Fred Wc:ring's Pennsylvonians erfields fi lt trc m-ulv for snmkcrs like . . . for Chester e t s a . t yourself. with the three ill1p0l'tlllll things you want in Z1 Cigll1'CllC...,UlLDNlfSS. HETTER TASTE lllltt l.'UOl,IfK SIIUKIXG. Clloslcrhcltll right Qoluhillatioll of tht' worhll host ciga- ' -N 1 tkcr likQs...tlzut lll O IITIHV IIIIHUF 21 alll! rcttc tohaovos as f . rt ' ' ' 1 'U l I 3 l1Olt't'l'.S Cigarette. Clzvstvlifivlfl is just llllllllflllvt falltcl I ze sz WIIFH Gflprif - 1941 60 WET Ezqkf THE sMoKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS elves You EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR AND than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested- Iess than any of them--accord- ing to independent laboratory tests of the smoke itself T'S NEWS! Not the picture kind-but news of first importance to smokers. Independent laboratory Endings as to Camels and the four other largest-selling brands tested-the four brands that most smokers who are not Camel fans now use -show that Camels give you less nicotine in the smoke. And. the smoke's the thing! But that's only the start of the story! Camel brings you the extra rnildness, extra coolness. extra flavor, and extra smoking of slower-burning costlier tobaccos. Get Camels your very next pack. Why not get a carton-for economy and convenience? ll J, Reyxmlds Tuhur-co Company, Winston-Szilun, Nux'tIi1'umIin:I 4,4 EXTRA MILDNESS . AND A Ftfxvoa THAT I A N ,- . WX 'M,4f.f .'.,,t.a is HOT AFTER HISTORY! It's Donahue of Pathe who follows the news the world over with camera . . . with Camels! He's olf again for more exclusive pictures. Below, you see how Bob Donahue gets exclu- sive extras in his smoking. He smokes Camels. of course. Only Camels give you those extras of slower-burning costlier tobaccos. CAMEUS SLOVVER WAY OF BURNING IS ACES FOR MY KIND OF SMOKING ALWAYS HITS THE SPOT vast +L I'I.I. TELL YOU, said Bob when he got his picture taken Cabovel, I smoke a good bit in my job. And my cigarette has to be more than mild-it has to be exlra mild. Camel is the one brand I've found that gives me extra mildness and at the same time a Havot that doesn't go Hat on my taste. Make Camels your next cigarette purchase. Enioy that Camel Havor with extra mildness and extra freedom from nicotine in the smoke. ' By burning 2596 slower than the average of the 4 other largest- selling brands tested-slower than any of them-Camels also give you a smoking plux equal, on the average, to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! 64 1- me szowfk-eukfvfma clenkfrre r o aaa an A tau' X4 VOLUME XIV APRIL ISSUE NUMBER 7 THE STQFF CHARLES Grioss EDITORS PATRICIA HERNDON FRANCES SHORES IAIXIES IET1' BUSINESS MANAGERS JOHN EDWARD KOONTZ CATHERINE GRAY CIRCULATION Margaret Heck Norma Gambrill Margaret Gunnells Annetta WVright ADVERTISING Muriel Frames Margaret Lowry Virginia Roop DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Art Audrey Prainschufer Marguerite VVilson Katherine Decker Athletics Nolan Chipman Iohn Horst Audrey Mercer Harry London College Events Nancy Metzger Frederica Biedermann Sibyl Davis Inez Schultz Editorials Genevieve Haile Mary Simon Gordon F. Shules Assemblies Alice Carr Helen Pross ALICE MUNN - Fashions Ellen Elste Shirley Hicks General Lil eralure Marjorie Coulson Ieannette Ulrich Mindelle Kann Mildred Snyder Alma L. Gott Norma Kirckhoff Humor Lee McCarriar Iule Thompson Alma MeAx'oy Margaret Zillmor Library Mary Di Peppi Doris Klank Katherine Petroff Catherine Swain Nlzzsic Sylvia Gelwasser Ruth Maleson - Managing Editor PACE RICHARD YARDLEY .... . 2 PRINCE OF VILLAINS' 3 RECIPE FOR LAUGHTER ..,..,.. 4 TEACI-IING AS A PROFESSION ..,, . S SPRING VISITING PROGRAM ...,..,.....,.... ,,...i. , . . 6 SELECT SERVICE ACT AND THE COLLEGE STUDENT ..... . 6 AMERICAN HUMOR , .,,,.,,.., ,,.,...,.,........,... . . 7 CREATION OF AN ARTIST ........,.. . S AN INTERNATIONAL PERIODICAL I . . . 9 XVIIAT XVASHINGTON HAS .....,. . . IO GLEANED FROM THE CENSUS . I0 APRIL INTERVIEXVS? . . , ,... . . II MUSICAL IOKES ..,. . , I2 AVE RECEIVED I ., I3 EDITORIALS ....., ...... ......... . . l-I THE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE . , . , I5 COLLEGE EVENTS ,.......,.,.,,. . I6 ATHLETICS .,....... . , IS FASHIONS . . . , 20 BACKSTAGE .,..,....,.. . ZI TO SET YOU AT EASE ,....,..,...r.,,,......,. 'Z CAMPUS ELEMENTARY SCIIOOL CREATIONS .... -3 XVHAT IS HUMOR? ...,.,,,,i.,. .i.....,..,. , I-I A PRAYING MANTIS STORY.. ZS HUMOR .,...,.......,,.,,. 26 ADVERTISEMENTS , , . IO OFFICERS ...,,., In SO XYHAT .......,, . , ll DON'T YOU AGREE? ,,.. 3 I Cut by Richard Yardley of The Sun Cut hy Ellen Elste. . . .. ll THE TOAVER LIGHT is published IIIOIIIIIIY-QDCIODCI' tlinaigli Iune-by students of the State Teachers College at 'l'.m'soii. Mil, 51.50 PER YEAR .... IU C'lfNl5 IIIQIZ, ffUI'Y 0l.lb ME 'I 0 O 11-111'0N11 11151 tukcs it for grunted 111111 X111 '1'gl1'111cy's 11.11110 is UXI0- c0 . No o11c cvcr e1111s 111111 any- thing else. Out of curiosity 11c was giskcd 1111111 his 1'c111 1111111c is 111111 how 11c ever got the 1111111c h1oco. He grinned 111111 10161 the story. It seems 111111 111 Io 'Qll111i.'L'. Ll co111ic strip 111 t11c papers. t11crc was Ll 11l1gC Eskimo n11n1cd X10co . He was 11111 111111 broad. with 21 b11by11ike face. Upon incctiug Xlr, EYL11'C.11Cf'. t11c author of Io Quincc 11ow1ed. MXV1153 theres nn' Ijskiino 'Moco' The naine stuck k111C1 today o11e would never suspect 111111 Mr. Yardley 11as L1 per- fectly good Hrst 1111111e - Richard. Contrary to 111e way 11e draws 111111- sclf, 11e's so 11111 tllllt 111e doors are too 511011. XVhcn X1oco is visiting, he sizes 11p 111e c1111irs 111 the 100111 111111 says. A'Nope. 1'd crash right t11r011g11 111111 oneg 11's an antique, 11 1 so 11111c11 as put 21 11nger O11 that it X f 0 fe 31 861' SHIRLEY Auto f oJ5ffw7 A 1 1 LQ N99 co on-D HEL-P Z me 31111 C3321 DQ 891035 12 6 95 tgwaqs 2066111515 YWLZZW by S1-11RL1cY AULD 1 would break. And after 1111 t11e chairs are taken. Yardley USllH11y e11ds up by sitti11g O11 a footstool, 111111115 011 his knees with 1115 cherubie face beaming. During t11e su111111er Mr. Yard1ey may be found s1tti11g 111 t11e river - 1101 s11'in1111ing - just Sitfillg. He draws, too: 1111 over 111e neighbor- 11ood kids' beer jackets. YVhen we had 11151 n1oved i11to 0111 new house and Mr. Yardley was being shown t11rough it, 11e stopped to draw 11 0 fC 5 -3 EV pioture of 111111: NIoco , guess who written beneath it, 011 t11e closet door. XII. Yardley and his very attrac- tive wife spend 111051 of their sum- 111ers 111 11 cottage 011 t11e Severn River - that is, of course, when they 11101111 011 O11 0116 of t11ei1 many trips. OIIC 11ig11t t11e Yardleys decide to take a trip - the next 111or11ing thefre go11e. From a trip to Guate- 111a1a they brought back Indian 1hi11gs - 1111ge hats and wild-colored bathing suits. 1In1agine Moco 111 t11ose.J They liked Gu11ten1a1a so 111nc11 that they went again, and brought back n1111ari11. Xhfhffll I asked Mr, Yardley for an i11ter1'iew. 11e just 1aug11ed and said, XVe11, gee. I d0n'1 know what to te11 you 11bout 1Tl1'SC1f - you come down to the ofhee and 1'11 draw you a picture. fixlld if you'11 1ook. y0u'11 1:lllC1 11.1 THQSE NO S1122 STALE Q01-SES OF N YOURS' CANT HAPPE HERE -I S P512 5Df77O,V ?P1?2n1EE' 91301465 Z1 ,lf WMM 307 1 1 4 4 1 UDY, IUDY, my dear! Indy! can't you answer, my dear? Do these l words recall to your mind a funny little marionette with a long, hooked nose, a crooked back, and a ,high, nasal voice? As you think of this little fellow, can you see yourself as a child sitting on the edge of your chair, laughing, as this curious creature beats one after the other of his comrades to death? VVho is this person who is responsible for so 'much childhood merriment? Of course you know - Mr. Punch, of the famous Punch and Iudy team. Perhaps there is no actor more ii Widely known than Punch, his name and his performances are familiar to llall nations, ranks, and ages. In spite ,fi of this, little attempt has been made to make inquiries regarding the ori- iigin, biography, and character of a iiperson so distinguished and notor- ious as Mr. Punch. The contrast be- itween the neglect Mr. Punch has iexperienced and the industry em- Q ployed in collecting particulars relat- ing to other performers of far less reputation is remarkable. If an actor I today attains only a moderate degree ,of eminence, hundreds are on the Talert to glean the minutest particu- .i lars of his birth, parentage, life, char- i acter and behavior. Even though jMr. Punch's background has been 'neglected it seems that he suffered no lack of popularity. l Mr. George Cruickshank was one tof the first ones to trace the history iof this amusing actor and record it Qfor us. There are various theories ii concerning the origin of this beloved irogue. L'Punch, says the Century Dictionary, is the descendant of the lclown, or Puccinella. of the Neapoli- tan comedyg the part is thought to have been created by Silvio Fiorillo, 'a comedian. about l600. An old -Neapolitan legend aseribes another legend for the fascinating Mr. 'Punch. It says he is the copy of a IAPRIL - 1941 Prince of Villiiiiif if by HELEN EICKELBERG if real person, a fellow with a huge nose and humped back, whose name was Pucco d'Aviello, a name which in time became slurred by soft Ital- ian voices into Puleinella. His funny antics became so popular that a host of inarionette Pulcinellos soon took possession of the puppet stage. At any rate, we feel sure Punch origi- nated in Italy and then travelled to England. 'fPunch was Punch - bad as they make 'emf' And how they loved him through the centuries. Perhaps you have forgotten the story of his notorious badness. I had, until I read the play recently. Briefly, the story is as follows: UML Punch is married to Mrs. Iudy, by whom he has a daughter. Une day when the child refuses to stop crying, Punch throws her out the window. lust as he has completed his dreadful act, Mrs. Indy enters armed with a blud- geon and applies it to her husbands head. Exasperatcd, Punch seizes an- other bludgcon and kills his wife. In succeeding scenes, Punch beats to death the doctor and a servant. Next, the constable arrests Punch, puts him in jail, and prepares to hang him. By trickery, Punch manages to get the constable to put his head in the noosc and hangs him. Finally, the Devil comes to get Punch. There is a terrific combat between the two. Punch is victorious over the Devil and whirls him round in the air exclaiming, Huzza! Huzza! the Devil's dead! XVhat a category of crime! Vkfhat a very prince of villains is this Punch! And yet we enioy him so. XVhy? Perhaps Tony Sarg has the answer when he says, Something primitive within ourselves, deep bur- ied within the subconscious, takes delight in this sly and consistent rogue, this jubilant and ruthless scapegrace, Mr, Punchg and is glad- der when he cheats the hangman than if he had paid the just penalty of his crimes. There is something fascinating about these relics of the far-distant past which still live and breathe in our own times: their sur- vival through the centuries is the best evidence of their vitality. Thus survives the Punch and Indy Show- if motion pictures have not backed it off the board altogether in the last two decades. SAYS TALL STORY O'REILLY, THE COP by IAMES G. IETT Have ye heard 0' why the traffic lights are green and red? - 'Tis said old Thomas More could see a hundred years ahead, And he and Bobby Burns, one day, began to disagree: Tom said 'twould be a sight worth living for, to sec The motor cars go speeding through the streets of Dublin town. But Burns spoke up and said Hoot Mon! Now Xlore. you Irish Clown, Ye couldna' stop the clashing 0' the cars - 'twill not he so! Now Thomas More was Irish and the other Scotch, you know. So Tom a bit more wit possessed. and to the Scot replied: Sure they'll hang lights at every corner for a guide, And one shall be as green as Shamrock. just for Erin's sake, And at its shining, motor cars can go. thus Tlioinas spake, Then for stopping, lights shall he as red as any Scotsm ink hair l viecii Cried Burns - and that's why lights are either red or greeii. '7 by KATHRYN DECKER , IVILXY Oli THE avid comic strip and cartoon readers of the day stop to realize the difficulty of the cartoon- ist's job. Seldom, if ever. do we study Chic Youngs Blondie or Herbert Iohnson's witty drawings long enough to wonder if any real work went into the making of those squares of laughter. To the contrary, we are more likely to sigh enviously and picture the artist as enjoying an hour of fun with pen and ink, his drawing punctuated with merry chuckles and guffawsg a lazy meeting of the deadline date - and a day's work done. Indeed, we cherish the idea of having a fling at this easy- going profession ourselves. At least one thing's cer- tain. XVe can draw better'n that! The cartoomst has no royal road of ease and leisure to fame and success. Rather, his way is fraught with ob- stacles which only the cleverest can scramble over, and only the most tenacious and persistent can win past. His is the exacting job of sorting the obvious from the subtle, his is the task of ferreting out humor where humor is not: his is the problem of Etting technique to purpose and idea so that the whole is congruous and complete in its effect, his it is to face the editor with frolicsome gayety on the day the editor's golf game has hit a new low, his stocks are down, and the European correspondent is waiting to crack open a diplomatic scandal - and can't get to a telephone. How does the cartoonist go about making us laugh? First of all. he gathers together his equipment. Fore- most in importance is his enthusiasm for life and living, a sense of humor that withstands any editorial barrage and external setback. Armed with this essential, he can create with charcoal and a wooden slab, without it the most expensive pens, inks, papers, and art training are useless. As he considers the cartoon to be done, he knows that the idea is paramount. He follows Foster Coates' sage advice, Never be satished with the first idea that oc- curs to you. Cast it aside and think of another. Then cast the second aside and the thirdg and keep up this process of elimination until you are sure you have the best idea possible on that subject. After he weighs his idea, discards this phase and pol- ishes that, he turns his attention to the more mechanical side. Since there are two types of cartoons, those that tell the story completely with a bang. and those that merely suggest a point and leave the rest to the reader: he must decide which type suits his idea best. Presentation of the idea is next in importance. The cartoonist knows that in order to preserve freshness and punch in his work, he must plan mentally the en- 4 I l tire action before touching pen to paper. He strives for, simplicity, for simplicity is his greatest aid. He uses def tails and uses them generously, but with a firm hand Each detail has a duty and contributes something to the whole, If it does not, it is eliminated. In the actual drawing of a cartoon, the artist has ar enormous stock of tricks with which to beguile a gri . from his readers. He uses exaggerations of form. of e ' pression, and of action. These three are his mainsta i If all else fails, he is sure of their support. To augmen' and embellish exaggeration he can tickle the brair with double meanings of words, phrases, or sentences To add final touches he makes skillful uses of littli quirks of character and humor. He builds on newnes and surprise. He varies his mechanical technique to E the subject. Curved lines for jolly sailors, dry brush fo elaborate beauties, crosshatch for mystery - all lenc color and atmosphere. He endeavors to catch some glimpse of life as it can be in all its freshness and fu It is his capture of these details of human interest an his depiction of them that assures his success. His styl is the finishing touch, and it is influenced by the pu pose of the cartoon. For instance, if he is drawing a pr Democratic cartoon, the donkey is sleek, merry, if th cartoon is supporting Republican movements, the don key is shabby, sad, motheaten. VVhen the artist has his drawing on paper, he chec it carefully. In this check-up he often eliminates o adds tiny items that put the spark of true humor in hi work. He checks to see if the less important factors ar subordinate. He examines the cartoon to see if an spot is A'busy or confused. He looks for good arrange ment of the center of interest. He has a fine trick u his sleeve here. lf his hero is in danger, his back is t ward the reader, if he is triumphant or has a chance, hm faces the reader. XVhen he sees that there is rhythm emphasis, and unity, the cartoonist searches his iigur for consistency. Are the actions, expression, clothin and conversation consistent with the idea the iigur represents? If the character is a stupid one. do his ey droop, is his mouth slack, is his clothing baggy. and ar his movements sluggish? Only after every line and word has been scrutinize weighed, and checked, does the cartoonist lean bac with a feeling of accomplishment. He has put hours 0 thought and hours of careful drawing into that smal sketchy square we so lightly chuckle over and quickl leave. Perhaps the next time we read Blondie o A'Oaky Doaksn. we'll take a minute or two to analyz just how the cartoonist worked to get his effect. TOWER LIGH 1 j, A u ar i i i r i eaching as a Profession , by KENNETH P. MILLER , OR many years teaching has been the ugly duck- - line of the Jrofessions. Teachers have been Joorl an l l D Y aid and have not been res Jected bf the Jubhc. P I I I Fhe average man has usually thought more highly of loctors, lawyers, and ministers. Furthermore, some of iur more intelligent writers have taken pot-shots at the leaching profession. Bernard Shaw said, f'Those who ran, do, those who can't, teach. And Baltimore's own .mad boy, Mr. Mencken, said, in effect, that teaching is imply a refuge for third-raters. I have been asked to define teaching but it is about is necessary to define teaching to you as to define snow 0 an Eskimo. And from your own wide experience - not teaching, but with teachers - you surely have earned much about the kind of work we teachers do - nr try to do. i You know, too, that in spite of unfavorable criticisms 'if teachers the standards of the profession have been igoing up. Once, almost any high-school graduate could teach in the grammar schools, then a two-year normal lehool course was required, then three years, and now inly college graduates can teach in the Maryland Tehools. Thus we cannot encourage anyone to consider teach- ng as a career unless he is college material and unless -ie is financially able to go to college. But there are other qualifications for a good teacher. Here your own ex- iierience with teachers should help you. You all prob- rbly consider that the good teachers you have had have ieen good because of their personality and intelligence. believe, though, that what we call personality is in irge measure intelligence - good common sense. But, iowever you may define personality, it is Still necessary In a teacher. I Because of rising standards in the teaching profession I ind because it is attracting better students from year to I ear, I believe that its prestige is rising. At the same Mime, salaries have become better - you can actually K ive on a teacher's pay now. Certainly no one needs now i QD be ashamed to be a teacher. I But I imagine that you, like most of us, are concerned .lfith some cold facts about teaching. Maryland, by law, 'i legins both high school and grammar school teachers I it the same salary - 51,200 per year. I can speak with ikssurance about elementary school openings only. At i 'resent there is a shortage of trained elementary-school 1 preachers. There are, therefore, more jobs than teachers. i his condition will certainly exist for some time. You an be assured of a position, therefore, if - and it's a ..llPRIL - 1941 fairly large 'if - you can graduate from one of our teachers' colleges. And remember - only first-rate Y teachers colleges can prepare you for teaching in the lower schools. Not only are beginning positions open. but we also need principals, supervisors, and superintendents. VVomen can fill these positions, but men can go far in the Maryland school system. Men seem to be prefer- red as principals and superintendents. There are other practical advantages to the teaching profession: long vacations - and they are a blessing - good hours of work, pleasant surroundings. In fact, I'in afraid that teaching attracts some who are looking for an easy berth. But, fortunately, such idlers soon find out their mistake. Teaching demands the best anyone can give. I believe, though, that many of you are interested in more than practical advantages in your life work. I am no optimist, nor yet a pessimist in regard to modern youth - of whom we hear so much unfavorable com- ment. I remain a hopeful skeptic concernin-g youth and its purposes. Lewis Browne makes clear the attitudes of the optimist, pessimist, and skeptic: At the breakfast table, he says, the optimist says, Pass the cream, please. The pessimist says, Pass the milk. And the skeptic says, '4Pass the pitcherf' So, being hopefully skeptical of modern youth I hope that many of you want a profession that will contribute to society, not to yourselves only. Certainly good teach- ers are greatly needed, In these days we hear much talk of immediate national defense, but what greater help to our nation in the long run is there than education? Do you realize the enormous responsibility of the grade-school teacher? He has thirty to fifty children in his care for a year. He can make or break them for life. True. the results are never immediately apparent. but some twenty years after their early schooling, men and women will be keen or dull, kind or cruel, tolerant. or intolerant, in large measure because of what teachers did to them or for them. On these teachers. then, may depend the future of our country and its way of life. Teaching is to me. therefore, a more challenging and demanding profession than any other. I have enough faith in American youth to believe that they yvant LI career that demands hard work and sacrifice. that offers some material rewards, but many more intangible coin- pensations than selfish gains. If you have what teaching takes, you should, I believe. seriously consider teaching for your life work. 5 Spring Visiting Program by COMPTON CROOK IN THE spring visiting program which Mr. Minnegan and the writer are conducting in high schools through- out the state. the reactions of students and teachers alike to thc filin on school activities is significant. Stu- dents enjoy the color and action. But principals, poten- tial hirers of teachers. are impressed. Our method of presenting the film is not pretentious. XVe stress the necessity for training for a profession and offer that of teaching for consideration. Courses of study, living conditions, costs, entrance requirements, chances of placement, advancement in the teaching profession, teacher salaries, and similar information is given in condensed form. Students interested in further information are invited to ask questions informally at the end of the presentation. Then the film is shown. This. in a concrete fashion, illustrates better than words that most of our play and club work actually grows out of or is related to our class- work. and as a result, the courses are well-illustrated and supplemented by pleasing and practical application. The presence of our men in the pictures elicits nu- merous questions. Students seem unaccustomed to thinking of men in connection with the elementary school field. The need of the field for men, the contri- butions which they may make, not only as classroom teachers in the upper grades, but as administrators and directors in a variety of fields simply has never oc- curred to the high school boys whom we meet. Many express themselves as determined to make us a real visit before the semester is over. Comments of principals might be summarized as fol- lows: VV e want teachers who have had the benefits of a good extra-curricular program. Yours seems good. VVe like that type of training. 1t's important. Teachers who are good at routine classroom teaching no longer com- pletely fulfill the need of the school interested in provid- ing situations from which each child may receive maxi- mum benefit. ln fact, if classroom teaching involves too much routine, it isn't good. Even among the lowest grades, individual play programs, music activities, and small club groups are given much attention. VVe want teachers who can direct such varied activities. VVe don't have enough such individuals in our schools now. The 'teacher who, in college days, has enjoyed full participa- tion in a good extra-curricular program would seem to be the answer to at least some of our problems. 6 i l The Selective Service Act and the College Student by COL. XYVILLIALI H. DRAPER, IR. QSynopsis by CATHERINE SVVAIN, i PRONOUNCED effect of the present war on the, United States was evidenced on September 16, 1940,, when the Selective Service Act became law. This act,l the first peace-time conscription law in the history off the United States, has, in some way or another affected everyone in the country. Men students in our colleges and universities are no exception. In order to more clearly define the position of these men in relation to the Selective Service Act, Col. VVilliam H. Draper, Ir., recently delivered an address at the University of Mich-' igan to a group of officials representing various univer- sities and colleges. I Colonel Draper stated that this law provides thatp each man without dependents who is physically fit and is not a key man in a key industry is selected for a year's training and service in the army. Since the first call for men came in November, after the beginning of the col- lege year, provision was made by Congress for deferment. of those men attending educational institutions until the close of the college year in Iune, 1941. However, in, order to successfully carry out a national defense pro- 1 gram great as that being undertaken by the United States, the nation must be assured that all its citizens, . regardless of wealth or position or occupation, are ready . and willing to serve where most needed in the national - interest. 3 Greater opportunity always demands greater respon-. 5 sibility, and, as in 1917, leadership must necessarily 1. come from those attending our colleges and universities. Only those men students who are being technically . trained for special skills should be deferred for indefi- if nite periods of time, for their particular training is nec-, 1 essary to the preservation of national health and safetyj The purpose of Colonel Draper's address may be. 'l summarized by the following questions which he left, ,Z with the group for their consideration: Qi f'Can college students afford to ask for privileges de-5 nied the other young men of their generation? Can theygif be accused of wanting to serve only when and if it besttfi suits the convenience of the individual student? Xifouldril that attitude on the part of those to whom the nation looks as its future leaders raise the national morale? 'rowr:R LIGHT.'H Q l ef477fl61 iCd7Q Humor by RUTH DURNER OME may believe that in an hour of interna- tional strife, laughter is the last thing to ponder upon. To me there is no hope for the present world of ours without humor. Think of what would happen to us here in America if there were no humor- ists - life would be one long Congressional Record, says Stephen Leacock. In discovering ourselves, we Americans have discov- ered many phases of our experiences together. Has our knowledge of our own humor kept pace? VVe do not mean by American humor, all the wit and jest produced in America, nor do we mean humor with characteristics discoverable in the comedy of no other nation - for. apparently, there is no such humor. American humor is national in the sense that it is impregnated with the convictions and associations of our people. During the first years of the colonies, the outlook for humor here in America, and chiefly in New England, looked rather dim. Here on the spot was the Indian, and probably no less humorous character has ever been recorded in anybody's history. Scientists tell us that humor and laughter had their beginnings in the exul- ta-tion of the savage over his fallen foe. The North American Indian never got beyond the start. Many early writers failed to develop American humor because they were too earnest about subjects which later proved amusing. Proof of this is discoverable in the works of Francis Higginson and john Smith, who were so serious in their treatment of details, that though their works now provoke laughter, they themselves did not realize that their materials were funny. Theirs was indeed the humor of exaggeration, so often called typ- . ically American. From the seventeenth century, comedy had lurked rin the mingling of people of many civilizations and classes on one sparsely settled continent. Sara Kemble lKnight and William Byrd came nearer to cultivating, rat that early era, a most fertile field for later American humor - that of effective comic portraiture. Then came the Puritans who so mistrusted laughter they left a land where there was plenty of it. In their the very dullness of their lives, we find hilarity. VV e look in vain in the Bay Psalm Book for humor, as such, yet to our irreverent eyes it is a fearful and wonderful achievement. The Puritans were not satisfied till they had bought an English press and made a psalm book of their own. The type came out upside down, the spell- I I 1 piety, scenes of super-excitement, bred from li! APRIL - 1941 ll ing bore little resemblance to our present orthography, and the punctuation would have made Arteinus VVard ashamed of his own. Alongside the Bible and Psalm Book, in many a log cabin, hung a copy of the most in- dispensable yet the humblest of all books, the Almanac. The notes that were written in them had a touch of the griminest humor. Speaking of grim humor, we must not forget the significant quality of the old gravestone epitaphs where often met laughter and tears. Benjamin Franklin was, in a sense, the first of the great newspaper humorists. He probably started more things on this continent than anyone else who has ever lived here. For American humor, a great event hap- pened when young Franklin published in Philadelphia, the first of the animal editions of 'LPoor Richard's Al- manac. He had a remarkably keen wit which was al- ways founded on a sense of justice. Popular leaders had, as they still do, to be extremely careful not to con- vey the impression that they were humorists. Franklin, like Lincoln, was one of the few great men who was able to rise above his reputation for being a fun-maker. VV e are all familiar with the prudent maxims from his Almanac: VVhate'er begun in anger ends in shame. None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing. Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Pov- erty, slipped with Infamy. From Franklin's time, the columnist has always flour- ished in American newspapers. Probably no writer in America ever attained such universal fame in such a brief space of time as Arteinus YVard. In his written work he revelled in bad spelling in a day when a good speller, like Abe Lincoln was an eminent man by vir- tue of his own scholarly art, There is little doubt that as a platform lecturer Artemus Ward achieved a suc- cess almost equal to anything in his day. In life. he was a merry creature with a ready smile and pleasant laugh. On the platform he was solemnity itself. He aifected an intense dullness. His face was stamped with melancholy. He assumed an air of utter embarrassment. and in this mood, he got off the little sayings and epigrams that he called his lectures. The name and fame of Mark Twain towers oyer all others who might claim a place among the American humorists. His reputation even in his lifetime had reached the furthermost corners of the earth. His work has been translated into every language capable of ex- pressing an American joke. His real books, Torn Saw- year, Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The Connecticut Yankee at King gXrtliur's Court, and Huckleberry Finn are among the worlds great books. The humor of Mark Twain was ncyer forced, He started with a hcrcc passion for righteous- 7 ness, a hatrcd of tyranny. and fitted his history to match it. Leacock says of him. To him every king called Louis was a tyrant. every noble a dungeon keep- er. and every bishop a torturerf' He came into his own when wc needed him badly. Our world had become overgrown with conventional points of view, accepted interpretations and standardized judgments. Samuel Langhorn Clemens' looked across at Europe with the eye of innocence from the altitude of the Nevada mountains and saw it in a new light. Humor is with us yet, with plenty of laughter still in the foreground whatever the shadows in the back. It is almost impossible to enumerate the names of those contemporary fellows worthy to be classed as American humorists. Robert Bencliely is perhaps the most finished master of the technique of literary fun in America. His work is pure humor. one might almost say pure nonsense. There is no moral teaching, no tears. VV'hat Benchley CREATION OF AN XVho has felt the urge to do great things, To make, create, to build a monument of everlasting beauty, And, feeling the urge, his amateurish art applies? XYho has known the hours of search, Of endless study of well-known masters, Vvhose work and art are living testaments to their greatness, In an endeavor to End that magic key XVhich will allow him to set free That flood of feeling which sometimes swells the soul to bursting, Then, having found a narrow, dimglit path, Sets forth upon the journey which he hopes will be climaxed XVith a great symphony, a wondrous opera, a stirring drama: Replete with fire, emotion, love, and pathos, struggle and triumph? The manner of the telling is of little consequence. The possible success and public fame are secondary. The only purpose is to share with others the inner feeling of exultation, The powerful urge to satisfy this self-same urge with a living monument of art. At last the time arrives, after hours, days, weeks of ceaseless labor, The first attempt is done, and ready for a critical analysis. But this is trite! It is barren! This initial opus is the stuff of which literary trash is made! It is awkward, unoriginal, and worthless! Is there no just compensation for the hours of labor? XVere all the hours of study done for naught, and all the work useless? The inner urge has now been sublimated. Must it be rewarded by a valueless piece of work? The exultant feeling has been quenched. Not by physical and mental exhaustion following such exertion, But by the growing doubt in his ability and power. XYas he mistaken? XVas that urge a mere desire for fame, Desire to imitate the artists who are truly great? 8 pursues is the higher art of nonsense and he has shown in it a quite exceptional power for tricks of words and phrases. Among the younger humorists of the day he ranks very high. His Of All Things is one of the most remarkable volumes of humorous essays. Benchley's fellows, Ring Lardner and Christopher Morley, belong with Irvin S. Cobb and Stephen Lea- cock in f'The American Academy of Humor. Dr. Lea- cock is by profession a political economist and has writ- ten a number of things in connection with his Political Science, among them college textbooks. He is loved especially by those who enjoy his screamingly funny sketches such as My Financial Career, and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich. Twice recently have I put away my copy of Literary Lapses on the street car and in the train terminal lest I should laugh so loudly as to attract the curious eyes of my fellow passengers. His sketch beginning HVVhenever I go into the bank is one of the funniest pieces I have ever read. by DAVID H. NELSON Time marches on. The work lies dormant, as does the desire to create. On occasion he examines that original composition, Finding solace in the fragmentary bits of excellence. Perhaps study, exercise, experience will develop those latent powers, If they are present at all. Then unheralded, unannounced, the urge returns. He must create, he must do something to release That pent-up pulse of power. Once again he tries expression of his feelings in a work of art. This time he has more experience, more knowledge than the last. Once again he comes to the end of his self-made task. The second attempt is better than the first! Much better! He can see the difference! He can feel the difference! He can feel a tiny bit Of the self-same power he felt when first beset by the urge to create. Perhaps he does have something to say But universal opinion does not yet accept it. That does not matterg he knows what he can do. He knows that he is right, that he has something to say. Some day he will learn how to say adequately what he feels. XVhen he can Gnally create something that will contain To the fullest degree everything he has felt. He will be satisfied. Satisfied with the mechanical aspects of his art. He will be done only when the desire to create never returns again. Fame may come, and fortune also. but his greatest reward Is the feeling that his urgent internal power has been adequately recorded in a work of art. XYho has felt this inner urge, And seen this pow'r emerge, ls an Artist. TOWER LIGHT 11.3 ntewmtiomzl Periodical by CHARLES GROSS OR one of the truly greatest thrills of your life sit in on one of the regular performances staged by our inimitable Mother Nature in Yellowstone National Park late some summer evening. To achieve the best possible effect, plan to come to Old Faithful at about six-thirty in the evening. The sun is setting in the VVest just over the tops of the broad expanse of pine bordering the Park Road. The long, slanting, shingled roof of the rustic. five-hundred-room hotel casts a compass-point shadow across the road as you drive by. Directly opposite the hotel. on the other side of the road is the geyser f'Old Faithful. lncidentally, the entire settlement, consisting of a main hotel. the museum, swimming pool, general store, coffee shop, and lodges have acquired the name of the geyser. The geyser will erupt once or twice before the event of the night, which occurs at about S: 30. lf you are wise you will wait until then and see the phenomena in all its grandeur. I'm sure you will agree that the waiting is more than justified, when I tell you that at this time the usual beauty of the natural wonder is unbelievably enhanced by an artificial device. At the top of the hotel across the road there is attached a searchlight which casts a powerful light blue beam. This is turned in the direc- tion of the geyser and at the sound of the first hissing spurt is switched on. As the stream of super-heated steam and water rises to its full stature of more than a hundred feet the blue light is played up and down the snowy column and you Wonder if anything could be more beautiful than this. Of course since Old Faithful performs in a similar manner on an average of every fifty-five minutes. it may be seen during the day as well as at night and from many different spots in the near vicinity. An especially good view may be obtained from Observation Point. some three hundred feet above the geyser bed. which may be reached after a fifteen-minute walk up the sharp slope not far away. The geyser's greatest claim to fame is its beauty, and certainly it arouses a genuine feeling of awe and hu- mility unequaled by even the Grand Canyon. But, con- ltrary to most people's ideas concerning a thing of this nature, a logical explanation of the natural forces at work actually increases the real appreciation on the part of the observer. Geysers are nothing more nor less than indirect out- APRIL - 1941 i I i 1 I I 1 i i 5 i I l lets or safety valves for the energy of molten lava bc- neath the surface of the earth, This lava heats the ground and surface water that finds its way into crcviccs pref viously opened up in the earth's crust. As the water is heated it is caused to boil, and rising in the creyices, reaches the surface in the state of steam and boiling water. Some geyscrs erupt constantly for hours and even days at a time, but in a very mild mannerg that is, they merely bubble at the surface or maybe exude a pungent sulphur gas. Others like L'Old Faithful have gained more attention because of the fact that they erupt peri- odically. As may be expected there is a very good reason for this seemingly peculiar activity. Instead of having a great many small branching crevices like the less impor- tant geysers, those which erupt periodically have a single opening or tube running far down into the earth. As the water trickles into this tube from the various un- derground streams it gradually fills the opening. XVhile this is taking place the water at the bottom of the tube is in direct contact with the molten lava and is being heated to a higher and higher temperature .But the in- creasing pressure of the column of water above prevents the water from boiling at the usual two hundred and twelve degrees Fahrenheit, thus causing the steam which is later formed to be actually super heated. This accumu- lates until such time as the heat energy becomes greater than the downward force and an eruption occurs. The pressure being released, the heat is lost and the geyser dies down again to repeat this cycle. XVith Old Faith- ful this is supposed to take place every fifty-five min- utes but there are slight variations. the causes of which can readily be seen. Some of the lesser lights which have fairly regular eruption cycles are 'AVVhirligig and 'Cas- tlei' geysers. lt might be helpful to add here that the names of the geysers usually grow out of their special shape or action, Around each geyser there is a varying deposit of solid material built up in a general cone shape. This is material brought up with the spurts of steam and water. Although usually thought to be just a curiosity to be observed the geyser really serves a purpose in Yellow- stone Park. The water from some gcysers which do not erupt is piped into the f'Old Faithful hotel swimming pool and is said to be extraordinarily beneficial to the human body. Even if it didn't serve this utilitarian pur- pose the geyser would still be a point of attraction for people the world over. There is but one condition which calls a halt in the action of these natural fountains - dry summers. Nara urally, when there are no underground streams to feed the geyser it will not function. So let us hope for a sufiif cient rainfall so that the thousands of visitors each year will not have come in vain. 9 What Waslungton Has by IAMES G. ji4:'rT THE MAGNITUDE of the operative forces of our democratic government is not realized until one con- ccivcs thc size of one division of one department. A senior history class recently had the fortunate privilege of investigating the Treaty Division of the Department of State. ln the llill Building in YVashington. Dr. NlcGlure lectured to the class on How Treaties Come To Be. There, in a small oflice, examining a recent original treaty, we learned of the President's power to negotiate with other countries. He does so, however, with the ad- vice of the Department of State and of members of the Foreign Relations Committee. We learned also that a treaty becomes law when voted on by two-thirds of the Senators present at the voting. In the same building a tile of treaties was being constructed. Through this file, when completed. any treaty ever made between the United States and any other country or countries may be located. The tile cards will contain all cross-refer- ences pertaining to the treaty thereon listed. Such an index is invaluable to historians in the location of doc- umentary sources. lt will also be very useful to sociolo- gists, statisticians, etc. Another treat was waiting for us at the main building of the Department of State. In a fireproof room in the building all original treaties dating from 1906 to the present to which the United States was a party, were stored in cabinets. Many had been placed on a table in personal anticipation of our visit. The treaties of' other governments are much more elaborately designed than are those of the American Government. Generally, our first glimpse of them is in a heavy, box-like container. Then the treaty-original is bound with an exquisite cov- ering, sometimes, as in the case of the Oriental countries, beautifully designed. Opening up the booklet, however, one comes to the dry, but interesting, documentary sub- stance of the pact. At the end are the seals of the various governments fusually a wax stampj, and signatures of executives and representatives of the governments. Some of the very interesting treaties we saw were the Elihu Root treaties, Limitation Naval Armaments Treat- ies, and the famous Briand-Kellogg Peace Pacts. I left Wasliingtoii with the feeling that seeing democ- racy in action, even only a small division of it, is the beginning of knowing what democracy is. Gleaned From The Census by SIBYL DAVIS LOOK CAREFULLY, ye seniors and juniors. ln two years you, too, with hope, will be going forth through every by-road and alley collecting statistics about every child in your district. And when you have the informa- tion and the parents' signatures, sit down and glance over the stack of papers. You might as well - they have to be alphabetizcd anyway. To give you some idea of what might be expected, the following have been taken from this year's census blank: Names - Annie Laurie - brother LeRoy Augustus and Au- gustus Reed Gracie Allen Tony john Smith Birthplaces - At home - Near Pennsylvania fwhich side?j Mouth of VVilson, Va. The Rocks Don't know IO Occupations - Classified laborer Defense work Unknown Family physician - johns Hopkins Eight families with the same last name - and not Smith or jones Blanks signed by husbands as guardians of their wives Both literate and A'illiterate checked by one family Stories hinted - l. The tragedy of a little eight-year-old who does not attend schoolg he has been ad- judged colored and is taught at home. 2. The mystery of the blanks of two brothers: the mother's name is on neither, just England as the birthplace, and checks beside Dead and Literate. TOWER LIGHT , VVe found Mrs. Roosevelt graciously serving tea to a April Interviews ? by IEAN CoNNoR FEELING THAT what the TOWER LIGHT needed was more articles of a significant and intellectual nature, we undertook to interview SOIDC of the more distinguished characters in the world today. April Fool's Day seemed a good topic, for it offered possibilities for uninhibited and refreshing expression, by the four outstanding peof ple who gave us their viewpoints. Eleanor Roosevelt f I group of reporters in her private office in the XVhite House. Trying to catch her attention, we resorted to a little playful fibbing. y Mrs, Roosevelt, we said, as representative of the xAmerican Youth Congress, we would like to know .what you think of - 'fGive them No. 1l365, cut in the First Lady, a listartled look in her eye. I A brusque man took -our arms and confidentially lslipped us a pamphlet. Another brusque man then took our other arms and confidentially slipped us out of the , office. On the way home, we examined the pamphlet. It was entitled 'fMy Day, or Ten Good Reasons VV hy Youth 'Had Better Gall It One. A charming, though cryptic, way for the First Lady to .tell us what she thought of April Fool's Day .... r v I Billy Rose VVe came upon Mr. Rose on the steps of the Bal- timore Museum of Art. He was looking pale and shaken. Boy, he breathed, how do they get away with it? 'Look at that Thinker. If I put a guy dressed like that in one of my shows, the Hayes Office would take me apart. f'But this is art, Mr. Rose, we soothed him. 'LWhat do you think the Aquacade was? he sallied. f'VVhat I really wanted to speak to you about, Mr. Rose, is your attitude toward April Fool's Day. He brightened, It's colossal. lt's got the old box- loflice that packs them in. And why? Because it's the one .day that a sucker can celebrate being a sucker. Good old suckers - let them have themselves a time - they made me what I am today. I Wfe left him there on the steps. wrapped in misty- .eyed reverie. . General Reckord The General was engaged in tying his tent-1nate's pa- jamas in knots Cwhat a delightful joke on his tent-matel when we arrived at Fort Meade. Matching his light IAPRIL - 1941 mood, we queried 'fAnd what do you think of April Fool's Day, General? Is it worth it? HA thing worth doing is worth doing well, partied the General, Hand, his eyes twinkled merrily, Hespe- eially since that darned tent-mate can't get back at me for this. Ye see, he confided, he's only a lieutenant- colonel. VVe left camp, carrying with us the impression that here was a man who had in him true greatness - the ability to see and enjoy the amusing side of life's little episodes. Gertrude Stein Miss Stein looked up from where she was dozing near the refrigerator Q So much cooler than a fire, and hor- ribly handy to get a snack, she explainedj and looked at us sharply. UI-Iello, we opened the conversation. f'I'd offer you some of this chicken saladf' she said, but there is only enough for 65. 'AAre you having company? UNO-I am 65-get it? Miss Stein laughed gaily. We thought it best to get to the point of our visit. f'Miss Stein, I ventured, what do you really think of April FOOI'S Day? A hint of the mystery of an oracle came oyer her face. This, then, was poetic inspiration. Ask - question mark - interrogate the man - human - that is one. And I do - with sincere candidacy - mean you. I had heard a poet. YVhat did it matter that her lan- guage had been too exalted for me to comprehend? The day, for me, had been touched with Olympian splendor. And now that we finally have some Big Names in the TOYVER LIGHT, don't you think it is on a higher and more cultured plane? You do? VVell, April Fool! A MALE'S LAMENT by RUTH BENIAIXIIN, '40 And shatters with Its fatal charni His eqnzmirnityt Its beauty puts To sorry shame The fairest floweretg Its touch inspires The fondest dream Of happiness and yet lt leaves its mark On every man XVho dares proximity. Yes. worse than all The cyils in The box of old llandora. It should he banned From our great land - This hypccritc-.lrigoraI 11 Jilusiml o K is by IULE rl'IIOBIPSON IUST AS ANY spoken language, music has its comedy. its practical joke and its burlesque humor. Wfholesomc brit low comedy is sometimes achieved by the use of certain instruments such as the trombone and bassoon. XVhen the trombone player slides , people laugh. Each century has produced its low musical comedy. Take as an example the old invention by a Monsieur dc Boigne - the Pig-o-phone. A score or more pigs of various and sundry sizes tied side by side broke forth into a swine song in close harmony as de Boigne played on an attached keyboard. Abbe de Boigne had fixed sharp spikes at the ends of wires extending from his keyboard and thus managed to reproduce effectively the proper squeal at the proper time to the amazement of King Louis Xl and his court, Besides this type of comedy. there is the highly de- veloped satire that pokes fun at the things people know quite well. There is 'fThe Minuet of the Fly by Czebulka in which a fly does the same dance that hand- somely dressed lords and ladies once did. Parts of Saint- Saens Carnival of the Animals, written for a club of musicians, are musical jokes. The lion music from this suite is full of mock bravado with the animal depicted as the swaggering monarch of the forest. The composers of today use satire to a great extent. There is L'The VVhite Knight from Through the Looking Glass by Deems Taylor. The VVhite Knight is a very gentle person with mild blue eyes and good in- tentions, but he is such a poor rider that every time he rides his horse he falls off the front. There are two themes: the first a sort of instrumental part picturing the knights own idea of himself as a dashing fellow: the second, bland and rather sentimental, more like the knight as he really is. Then there is Blitzstein's Champagne Cocktail satirizing a night club: Hindemith's ten-minute opera called 'AThere and Back which in five breathless min- utes delineates all the episodes of drama, of passion, even to the story of a wife's unfaithfulness and her loverls murder. In the final Hve minutes the music is repeated with the action and music in reverse producing a hilarious efiect. Too many people believe that the so-called classical composers wrote entirely serious scholarly works for the intelligentsia. This is not true. VVhat could be funnier than the f'Coffee Cantata by lohann Sebastian Bach? This is about a middle-aged widower who is trying to rear a pretty, spoiled, wayward daughter: and, not unlike IZ f f r i i many modern parents, finds it a most difiicult task. Theg daughters worst sin is her addiction to thc newly dis-I covered beverage coffee, and neither threats nor pleasg can change her. It is not until her father tells her that! unless she cures herself of this demoralizing habit she may never marry, that she bids a tearful adieu to coffee. f Her father rushes off to find an eligible young man and! the work ends in a storm of mirth. It seems almost be-N yond our conception that the strict part writing Of! Bach's day could be so lively and carefree. , Undoubtedly, people have found a medium which will express the funny side of an otherwise dull and! rather sad life. This medium - music, of course - still has countless unexplored shores and limitless possibili- ties. All it needs is a creative mind that can find bits of humor in unexpected places. H,ALL H'ABOUT 'ARVEY P. H. Now, Harvey was handsome to look at - His eyes were as blue as the seag And his hair was as black as a chimney-sweep's back, And his nose was as nice as could be. All his clothes were too perfectly perfect - Vilith his handkerchiefs matching his ties - And on each of his socks was a pattern of blocks Done in blue so they'd match his sweet eyes. Yes, Harvey was really a wonder - But a single thing stood in his wayg He always said h'aich when he should have said H And said apple began with a h'a. But he never especially worried - YVhen you mentioned it to him he laughed. And his thorough conviction was just that his diction YVas grand - ttill the day he went daftlj And I'll tell you the way that it happened: 'Twas this fevery word of it's truel: He was asked, one sad day, if he'd be in a play VVherc the hero's eyes had to be blue. XVell, he told them he'd surely be in it - Screamed 'Ollywood, h'l'rn h'on my way! And it would have been fine if he'd had iust one line That did not start with H or with A! But his part was the cause of his ruin: He got rattled and lost all his breath: He mumbled and muttered. dropped II's and stuttered - Till the poor fellow strangled to death! And this is the verse on his tombstone: H'it's h'a quandry h'l'ni fioundering h'ing H'I'm h'an h'unlucky pup: go h'I downward h'or h'up, There'll still be h'an 'haiche' - You can't win! TOWER LIGHT We Recei1fec!f' by N cmla BIA KIRCK 11fJ1 fif The time - 9.30 P. M. The place - The S. T. C. The occasion - The Sopho UGood evening. good evening, everybody. Yes. we'll be glad to take over now. Have many people come? Sorry were late. YV e had an inexhaustible gas supply that forgot to be inexhaustible. No. Marvel. I didn't push. Oh. here come some couples. Thanks again for pinch-hitting for a while. Of COUTSC xve'll be all right. Goodness - suppose I get the names all mixed up. And what do I do if I don't hear the names at all? Patron Saint of all Receiving Liners, deliver me from this orgy of doubt and discom- fort with at least two dancing feet left. How do you do, Miss Smith. And Mr. Smith, how u are you?7' That young man must be the girl's distant rel- ative - maybe her cousin. Heavens - are my ears deceiving me? No - it's true. L'Mr. and Mrs. Smith . . . someone further down the line has, during the course of a few hand- shakes, married the innocent freshman to her equally innocent escort. My ears feel so hot I fear they may melt my ear rings in a minute. Yes, Dr. Wiedefeld, we may sit down now. No more couples are coming right away. . Auditorium. more Dance. Later - yes - but if the Dukes don't stop playing such smooth music, I'm going to drop my Receiving Line Composure and get hep like the rest of the people out on the dance floor. YVhen we do start dancing, the orchestra will probably play Beat Nle Mamma with a Boogie Beat and I'll have to retain this Mexican lumpiiig Bean Feeling permanently. YVell, I better keep my mind on the people coming down the aisle. lust for variety, I think I'll put Dr. VViedefeld's Handclasp Test to practice. Let me see - this first young lady looks like a Languid Lily and her escort. like a Neolithic remnant. How do you do. I was right on the first. Her hand felt like a limp rag. But his - such a disappointment. I was expecting a strong, virile handclasp, and what do I get but an exact counterpart of the female's. I'm not so good at this but I'll try once more. Now this reticent, shy, bespeetacled gentleman will undoubtedly have quite a gen- tle handshake. HHOW do you . . . ouch! Oh, no - I beg your pardon for startling you. It was only the way my ring was cut There you go again, Norma, speaking too soon. I believe the people stand by the door and wait until we sit down before they come up to be re- ceived. Up and down - up and down. I'm beginning to feel like an intoxicated Mexican jumping Bean. How do you do, Mr. Spatterface. Oh - Batterlace - excuse me. The music is so loud, you know . . . I do hope you ' 77 1 have a pleasant evening. Spatterface . . . that's the limit of my embar- rassment possibilities. I should have known that a person with that appellation wouldu't be allowed to roam around by himself. I wish my escort would begin to profit by Miss los- lin's speech lessons. It's all his fault. ting into my hand. Zounds! The man nearly crippled my fingers for life. Now that was a paradox. According to Handclasp Rules, I was just in the presence of an undiscovered genius, perhaps, VV hat was his name? I'd like to remember it so I can say, I knew him when .... 7 HOh, you've come to relieve us? XX e didn't mind at all - not at all. Are you sure you want to stand in line now? VVell . . . thank you. Ah - now for some dancing. The orchestras playing my favorite number now, too. Isn't that grand? VVhat's that? I was so busy listening to the musit I didn't hear you. Oh - I see - the music has stopped i No . . . I'm not tired of receiving. We can dance Intermission? Flfteffll m1llUtC5?N llater on in the evening. D - - ll 1 APRIL - 1941 W s EDITORIALS QI Q APRIL FOOL! by Gnmsvrnvic IWIAILE. Sr. 6 SOME THINGS never grow too old. Humor and laughter are two of them. Maybe that is why the TOXK'ER Lrerrr editors never hesitate to devote one of their nine creations to hilarity and fun. On the other hand, our esteemed editors might adopt humor as a theme only to further their own glory and fame. It is well known that the average American can never say too much in praise of the people who make him laugh. He might ad- mire or even honor our great journalists and statesmen, but he loves the people who make him laugh. The month of April usually appeals to T. L. editors as the ideal time for increasing their prestige. Americans, in general, have developed the custom of playing tricks on the first day of this month. Each victim, as you well know. is called an April fool. I daresay that even you, dear reader, have been dubbed an April fool. But, for goodness' sake, never be a prig about accepting such a title. Inst be thankful you don't live in Scotland where a person who is gullible on the first day of April is known as a gowk or a Hcuckoof' Be more thankful that you arenyt a Frenchman, for it is far better to be an April fool in America than an April fish in France. Since literary authorities don't commit themselves on the advisability of embellishing for ruiningj a dignified editorial with a bit of humor, I might safely yield to the temptation of making you an April fool. But I won't. For over three weeks I was thinking, in collaboration with other thinkers, of a perfect April Fool joke for this editorial. Alas, on Friday. the dead-line for April T. L., we thinkers discovered that our joke was not fool-proof. YV e were horrified with the possibility of your being an eccentric reader who begins at the end of an article to find out whether it is worth reading from the beginning. Such a procedure would have been disastrous to our April fool joke, so we promptly gave it a proper burial. Don't forget, however, to let the T. L. editors know whether or not you approve of this humor issue. Un- doubtedly. you will find some of the iokes as fresh as newly-laid eggs, others old enough to vote, and perhaps a few trailing whiskers. Nevertheless, good jokes are en- dowed with eternal life. Funny stories are known to an- tedate all written human records. They are older than the Hindu Shastra. Even primitive men enjoyed laughing as 14 well as living. They recorded jokes on the walls of their caves in addition to cracking nuts and skulls with their stone hatchets! THEY ARE WE by NIILDRED F.. SNYDER They are we. Not story book people! Not to be read about and commented upon as total strangers. Of course in some respects, we are different. They pinched their cheeks, we wear rouge. They ate their lunches out of little tin boxes, we use paper bags. They wore rniddy blousesg we wear sweaters - but essentially, are we different? Did we all come for the same purpose - to learn to teach? Our ideals, aims. and thoughts must have fundamentally coincided and so, even after three- quarters of a century, we are still much alike and basic- ally have much in common. They are not story book people. They are we. A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER by INIARY SIIXION Ah, how we tingle to think that spring is here. VVe get our old love letters and dwell with fond tenderness on some almost forgotten memories that have been hid- den beneath winter's bustle. Studies are forgotten fthe- oretically, that isj while we allow ourselves the pleasure of contemplating nature's miraculous awakening. After all, Hwe cannot permit our schooling to interfere with our education. VVhen the old alarm clock goes off at 6:45. it is not with a shiver and a feeling that the death toll is dragging us to our doom, but with the crisp. fresh odor of budding foliage pleasantly pungent to our nos- trils that we gaily, yea, cheerfully, greet this glorious world. Sometimes we are so bursting with this indefin- able joy that we are inclined to take a two-mile hike before breakfast, but of course our corns. not to speak of slightly fallen arches, luckily prevent this risky indul- gence. Ah, then we are ready for a hearty breakfast except that we have to watch our calories. But what is food when the hunger is really in our souls! XVe can fill our plates with wonderful thoughts and drink of the beauty of nature. Isn't it strange how this mist of our own serenity can obliterate the unpleasantness around us - how a simple change in the weather can so affect our lives? TOWER LIGHT THE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE IRVIN S. COBB by BETTY CARROLL YEARS FROM now when students of American liter- ature study the past they will probably smile a bit over the writer's account of a certain Irvin S. Cobb. Very well he typifies American humor in the same way that Charles Dickens once said that chewing gum typihes the American nation, VVhen they read his autobiogra- phy they will grin Hipaniouslyn despite the fact that he may not live up to the critics' standards. Exit Laughing, Irvin S. Cobb's autobiography, is all that the name suggests and as the reader peruses it he is constantly reminded of the author's word portrait of himself, 'rather bulky, standing six feet high, not es- pecially beautiful, a light roan in color, with a black mane and a figure undecided, The New York Times de- scribes him as typifying everything that is best of our national traits - 'fthe ingenuity, the initiative. the wit. the drive, the understanding, the universal interests. the simple humanityf' This autobiography depicts the story of the people and events that have given a distinctive flavor to the world in which the author was born and grew up. The material is old but it is cast in new phrases and gar- nished with fresh anecdotes. Exit Laughing is a book that could be read over again when dark days cast a gloom over one's spirit and still be thoroughly enjoyed. MAGAZINE QUIZ by DORIS KLANK How well do you know the magazines and periodicals in our library? Test yourself by taking this quiz. Count one for each correct answer. A score of I0 is excellent, 8 or 9 is goodg 6 or 7 is fair, S or below is poor fyou should visit the Magazine Roomj. l. VVhat magazine is known as The Professional Magazine for Classroom Teachers? 2. VV hat current popular weekly magazine was long edited by Benjamin Franklin? 3 What is the magazine which makes every word count? 4. If you were giving a play, to what magazine would you go for suggestions? APRIL - 1941 . A -1? aa 'T' 5. VVhat is the name of the magazine published by the National Audubon Societies? 6. VVhat was the original meaning of the word journal? 7. What weekly pictorial magazine has risen to pop- ularity during the last few years? 8. Name the periodical which is priced at one shill- ing per copy. 9. VVhat is the best known magazine dealing with all types of music? IO. VVhat is generally conceded to be the best illus- trated magazine for use in social studies? CSee Page Z2 for Answersj Ill? Ml To the Editor - May I, an insignificant freshman, venture so far as to offer a bit of criticism - criticism which I hope will be constructive? It seems that the same music course. the one concerned with elements, is thrust upon all stu- dents regardless of their previous music training. I real- ize that a review, on the part of these students. already enriched by some musical background. is not to be dis- credited as a form of study. However. a course which is merely a review tends to put a damper on the mental processes: it stifles thc spirit of challenge: it encourages indolence and impedes the stimulus for concentrated studya Mutual benefits would result if advanced music stu- dents were separatcd from those who need to learn the ABC's of music. Students without previous training would not have to compete with those whose advan- tages in music were superior. I feel that a student who 15 is plugging painfully along with elements is Often dis- couraged by thc presence of others who. versed in music. obtain good results with little or no effort. Cn the other h.nid. the student borcd with the preliminaries of music with which he has had former acquaintance. would bcnctit intellectually from an advanced and more chal- lenging course. Why not reflect upon this problem. students? lt is yours: it is mine. I HOPEFUL. To the Editor - Can anyone account for the way the majority of the Student Council members of this college sit quietly in Student Council meetings. listening to a very few brave individuals speak? Once the auditorium doors are thrown open. these silent individuals suddenly gain their voices and begin to criticize. 1-lere's for more student discussion during Council meetings. T.xLkAT1vE. To the Editor - XYill someone venture a prophecy as to what might happen if more college students spent at least as much time reading and thinking as they spend in walking and talking? fIf31lfDlll5lll9lli54l?-llf5 llf5'Vllf5llNIlGllfS CURroUs. ASSEMBLIES February 2, 1941 - Todays assembly started in an unusual way. Mr. Moser first introduced Mrs. Harriss. president of the local unit of Kappa Delta Pig she in turn presented the real speaker of the day, Mr. Richard Carl Medford. director of Baltimore City's Municipal Museum. Mr. Medford Hrst showed us the connection between the Municipal Museum and American art - the con- nection being centered about the well-known Peale family. In 1796. Rembrandt and Raphael Peale tsons of Charles XVilson Pealel came to Baltimore and opened Peale's Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts. which operated for three years. Later, in 1814. the brothers gave their museum a second trial with a huge masto- don skeleton as their drawing card tbesides stuffed birds and animals, snakes, lizards, insects. specimens of petritication, famous pictures. etc.j Rembrandt, how- ever, feeling that the twenty-live-cent admissions were not numerous enough. abandoned the establishment to his brother. ln 1830, the museum was bought by the City of Baltimore and was used as the City Hall for forty-five years. After that, it was used for various non- artistic purposes. Until 1930 the museum was at its worst. Now it has been restored in the style of 1814. Its functions, however. differ widely from those it had in the gas-lit era. According to Mr. Medford the purpose of the muse- um is to acquire and to exhibit objects of interest to the City of Baltimore. The museum has material relat- ing to all aspects and developments in the history of 16 the city. American art is also exhibited. The museunfs acquisitions come chiefly through gifts Some other ac- tivities of the museum include cataloging and exhibit- ing obiects, references. and research work, publications, exhibitions, music. and motion pictures. The Munici- pal Museum is an active educational force in Baltimore. March 17, 1941 - I. Fred Essary. XVashington Correspondent of The Evening Sun Dr. XViedefeld introduced Mr. Essary as a man who could help us to acquire the habit of keeping well in- formed during these critical times. In fact. he proved himself not only full of information but also the pos- sessor of a fine collection of humorous and applicable stories. ln a conversational manner. he told us that XVashington has become the nerve center and the news center of the country. The work of over one thousand staff writers is to be the eyes and ears of the people who read their papers and magazines. As a member of the newspaper profession he has seen seven Presidents come and six go. XVhy any man wants to be President is a source of wonder to Mr. Essary. Only two of the seven Presidents he has known have left office happy and contented. They were Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, Another puzzling situation was the recent election. The Republican candidate was a Democrat until four years ago. and Mr. Essary feels that there is still uncertainty about the party of the present Vice- President. The slight difference between the platforms of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr, XX-'illkie was evident and per- plexing to the voter. ' TOWER LIGHT AU REVOIR BENEFIT DANCE After stating that his theme, if he had one at all, was XVherc do we go from here? Mr. Essary attempted to answer his own question. Since he knows 'Awhere we have come from, he made thc following deductions: There will be wholesale spending of the public money for defense and for relief. As long as Mr. Roosevelt is in the XVhite House, the United States will remain at peace. He optimistically predicted that it is inconceiv- able that Germany or lapan will entail the risk of a war with us. XVe will. however, continue to arm and to aid Great Britain. Digressing from the present crisis for a moment he spoke of the Constitution as a series of compromises made by men with conflicting interests. Three Presi- dents, he said, have deliberately and justifiably broken their oath to defend the Constitution: Iefferson, in purchasing Louisiana, Lincoln. in freeing the slaves by executive proclamation: and Roosevelt, in declaring the bank holiday in 1933. However, nothing that is funda- mental in our social and economic order and in gov- ernmental structure has been changed. Democracy has survived: and it will continue to guarantee freedom and liberty even in these critical times. In its efforts to have the best Year Book ever, the Senior Class sponsored a benefit dance for Au Revoir. The auditorium was converted into Coney Island. An artistically constructed Ferris wheel decorated the stage. lohnny Horst and his Dixie Land Six furnished dance melodies. Outside the auditorium were balloons for sale. Of course, the weight guesser was present with all his powers of guessing weight Ualmost correctly. The grab bag gave many pleasant surprises. All of Coney Island was reproduced in the audito- rium except the swimming pool - and who wants to go swimming in February, anyway? Thanks and apprecia- tion to all individuals and business people for generous donations. S. C. A. PARTY On the evening of March 5. 1941, from ten to ten- thirty, the foyer of Newell Hall was a scene of gaiety. The Student Christian Association was sponsoring one of its parties. The main feature of the occasion was a scavenger hunt which sent the participants hither and yon over Richmond and Newell Halls to obtain the crackers, cheese, clothespins, dehnitions in good hand- writing, bits of red hair and Tweed perfume. A box of delicious cookies was awarded the winner. Other forms of amusement were dancing and ping-pong. Refresh- APRIL - 1941 ments of punch and doughnuts were served to all present. THE NATURAL HISTORY GROUP AFIELD by Il1cr.i-ix KLINKIC On Saturday, morning. March 13. the Natural Ilis- tory Group visited Loch Raven. A muddy tramp through field and pine thicket was a part of the program. but any unpleasant feeling that may have been aroused was eclipsed by the sight of the many robins and blue- birds enjoying the sun. After so many week-ends of rain and snow, we felt fortunate in having such a perfect day for our trip. THE RURAL CLUB DANCE Not even snow and sleet kept the Rural Club from having their dance. The music was furnished by record- ings. Since the dance was informal, the barracks proved ideal. Besides, the group that came was a very sociable one. COMING EVENTS April 16 Regular Schedule Resumed, Bach Club Concert at Museum of Art, S130 p. m.: I'he Busch String Quar- tet. April Baseball with Elizabethtown, at Elizabethtown. April Deadline for May Towak LIGHT. Iunior Dance with Iohn Horst's Orchestra. Tennis: Kalamazoo at Towson. April Assembly: Concert by Teresa Calamira. April Kappa Delta Pi Supper Club. Speaker: Dr. Michail M. Dorizas. April Museum of Art: The Land Tank, Its Development April fthrough May 3 J . Baseball: Drew University, at Drew University. Track Meet: Pennsylvania Relays at Philadelphia. April Assembly: Films - Sherwood Gardens. April Baseball: Hopkins, at Hopkins. April Track Meet: YVestern Maryland and XVashington Col- lege, at XVestminster. May 1N'Iuseum of Art: One-man Show - George Leslie Engel, Contemporary Printmaking fthrough May ZSH. Tennis: Blue Ridge, at Towson. May Tennis: YVestern Maryland. at Western Maryland. May Baseball: Blue Ridge, at Blue Ridge. May Museum of Art: A'Sculpture of Madame Martins . The Fighting Plane, Its Development lthrough May 171. Tennis: Hopkins, at Hopkins. May May Day. May May May IN Iay Assembly: Movie. Baltimorc. Tennis: Blue Ridge. at Blue Ridge. Rural Club Formal Meeting. Baseball: Blue Ridge, at Towson Track Meet: lX'Iason-Dixon Track. at Hopkins. CContinued on Page 301 IT THE YEARS OUTSTANDING EVENT IN GIRLS' SPORTS by Auniuai' MERCER THREE CHEERS for the juniors who received the laurels on Demonstration Night. For being such good dancers and ball players. they are to have the class year 1421 printed on the bronze tablet. Although the juniors won, there is much to be said about thc other classes and their activities. The history or evolution of Physical Culture in our college from 1868 to 1941 proved to be interesting as well as fact-revealing. The seniors, with their long skirts and piled up hair style. could have easily passed as students of 1868. The juniors and sophomores showed the type of training in physical education for later pe- riods by demonstrating that young ladies could do more than learn the fundamental running step. The fresh- men - Dr. XViedefeld probably couldn't have done better in impersonating herself as a college student. Her ideas have changed from the time when she thought that gym, uconhdentially. - -! Much originality and clever execution made it a pleasure to watch the class stunts. Here again, the fresh- men showed how well they could put on a show. The drill and marching they exhibited would make our de- fense officers take notice. The Beauty Contest judges, after carefully looking at each contestant from the soph- omore class, decided that jane and Shirley deserved the honors. The juniors used the defense theme for their performance. The Mademoiselle Mystic fished for her numbers and caught No. 1944 - who was rejected as Small Fry. No. 1943 was rejected with t'Show Me the XVay to Go Homef' But. 1942 sailed right through and was accepted as So You're the One. The seniors were not to be forgotten. The judges marched out and interviewed three babes tfreshmenj, a very superior sophomore. and the Dead End Gang fjuniorsj. Chief justice Eickelberg said they appreciated the help each was trying to give but she wanted to see what they could actually do. The judges sat supreme as the classes were put through their paces. The Ten Pretty Girls. Black Nag and Swedish Clap dances were very good. The forma- tion and timing was quite well clone. The freshmen were the victors in end ball and newcomb. The men aided nobly. The way they cheered and gave support to the girls was thrilling. Three cheers for them! The closing of Girls' Demonstration Night was per- 18 fect. Each class sang its song. Then the entire student body joined in Alma Mater. Dr. VViedefeld then proud- ly presented the tablet to the juniors. May I say a bit extra proudly, since she is their class adviser. Three cheers for the junior Class! Three cheers for the Girls! Three cheers for our Alma Mater! MEMORIES byBoBCox There seems to be a misconception among the stu- dent body as to the 'tfun which the varsity teams have. Over the past four years, there have been some inci- dents YOU might well be interested in. All strike a humorous chord in my mind N OXV , though they seemed pretty tragic at the time. The first memoir seems to be of helping to push the dilapidated green Franklin over hills in order to coast down the opposite sides. Even though the office and President of this institution said the car was in 'AA No. 1 shape and has lots of good miles - the varsity teams found the good miles to be those which had a slight down grade to them. This same car - in the days prior to your new and modern station wagon - was AIR- COOLED and it was a favorite prank of the players to pull into a little-used service station and call to the at- tendant, ucheck the oil and water, please. Naturally, it had only a dummy radiator cap fthe motor was air- cooledj so that after some Eve or ten minutes of grunt- ing. pulling, and hauling, the station man suddenly realized his folly and retired mumbling dire threats de- spite his recl ears. Of course. 1 couldn't leave out the time our star of by-gone days was donning his garments preparatory to playing a game and found he had with him two RIGHT shoes but no left one, Nor could I forget the game at Mount Saint Marys College when another of our play- ers was hastily removing his sweat pants as a large audi- ence looked on when he discovered he had forgotten to climb into his shorts beforehand. However, he re- deemed himself by a hasty donning of the missing clothing and playing a good game. At still another game, one of our team wound up and swung a haymaker at an opposing player on VVilson Teachers' team but - he stopped just a fraction of an inch from the player's nose. The player lost his sun tan and called a time out. Then. too.. there was a game in which the cars be- TOWER LIGHT came separated - due to the old sometimes it will and sometimes 'it won't run Franklin hitting one of its sometimes it won't run - in transit and the basket- ball game with the then powerful Catholic University team had to be continued by the inexperienced man- ager, one very Highty V. player, and three disgusted varsity players, The green-horn manager was the star in a very close game in spite of his ankle wraps which were so tight he had to keep walking even during time-outs. You all wonder at the behavior of Salisbury and Frostburg players on staying here over night? Your writer remembers the year our basketball team went to Salisbury. The team clown put salt in everyones bed and did his best to persuade the others to join him in dunking our erstwhile coach in the shower. One player received a black eye from a thrown orange and still another player was the recipient of a bucket of water and orange peelings in his face - his pants were un- comfortably damp the next day. At least one other player remembers with me the pushing of a washing machine up and down the hall through puddles of water until 4 A. M. However, no property was damaged - the floors were of polished granite - and everyone had a swell time. Then there was the time one of our more elderly ap- pearing players was introduced as 'fCoach by his team- mates and the corresponding howl of protest by the Frostburg student body when 'fthe coach played the game. One can always get a smile from the newspaper clip- pings of games. Names such as One-Shot Stot and Bob Cox aren't unheard of. Some of you may remember the ham and cabbage supper just before a Hopkins game that forced two play- ers to spend requested time on the bench. How about the night before the Penn Relays when one of the run- ners was knocked out of bed by his room-mate at 3 A. M. and then given a very red eye by means of a pillow? Well remembered is the game in which a diminutive four-foot-eight-inch Gallaudet player attacked the six- foot-two-inch center on our team for taking a ball from him. A two-listed attack of featherweight punches brought howls of glee from the audience. A similar re- action was obtained this year when another very small Gallaudet player tackled and floored the surprised man with the ball in order to stop him. A severe rebuke from the Dean was the result of the soccer players' innocent venture into the girls' dor- mitory at Salisbury by going through the wrong door. The same boys took it upon themselves this year to teach an art class of Salisbury girls how to make Uhne art drawings. APRIL - 1941 Also, there was the teinperamental tennis player who missed a set point by half an inch and, in a sudden fit of rage, hcaved his racquet at a fence. Imagine his start- led surprise when it hit a steel pole and broke in half. Not to be forgotten is how our earnest coach. while playing against a raw recruit in practice, was hit in the ribs by a flying elbow and had to keep the injured mem- bers taped for several weeks. On that same day another player stopped suddenly and ducked. causing the pur- suing opponent to go flying headlong over his back into the wall. No casualties but - a wiser pursucr resulted. That brings us up to date, reader - ahnost. Did you know one of the enthusiastic freshman players travelled all the way to Loyola to play basketball and suddenly remembered his equipment was still back here at the college? Do you remember the junior varsity game when Dave Hess raised a knot the size of an egg by running head-on into an opponents head? Or did you know that one of our inconspicuous bench-warmers relieved his nice warm spot on the bench of a splinter during one of the more exciting moments of a game? So much for my memories. and I hope that the next four years will bring as many pleasant remeinbrances for someone else as the past four have for me. INTER-COLLEGE PLAY DAY by AUDREY MERCER L'In order to foster friendly relations with the colleges in our community Notre Dame is sponsoring a Play Day, and we should like to have some girls represent your college. We are planning to have three sports dur- ing the day - bowling, swimming and basketball Qfour colleges including Notre Dame will participatej. . . . We would like you to send six girls for basket- ball and two for bowling. In addition to these two sports we shall have swimming and archery. VVould our girls participate? Indeed so! XVe could hardly wait for the moment to come - but since Time could not take us to the appointed day just yet. we spent some time shooting for baskets. aiming at a tar- get set up on the fourth floor of Richmond Ilall and trying to knock ten pins out of ten down. At last the great day came. XVe started off in the sta- tion wagon for Notre Dame. Upon our arrival we reg- istered the various teams and thcn went to our assigned places. L. Knight. jones. V. Davis. D. Shinhrnn. I. Gordon, and E. Horsman displayed good teamwork in basketball They put up a good iight and defeated Notre Dame but were beaten by YVestern X laryland. Ilnwever. we came out in second place. From basketball we went lContinued on Page TW 19 ,, J' f: - 5. ' ' ' -1' J? V if sf as 1 . X Q' A l A A Ag 5 Yi, A 8 mf iff' i j Q W-T if ' .X 1 I 6 'I , . , - ,gat . J gif? Ilouiua li , - J Sff'5f'fl'-TEW ' ll? A S lltlll lll QD-lINIl SMH. RLEX - Hicks NO DOUBT you readers are laughing quite boisterously over the sketches on this page but, after all, they are rcally duplicates of what the founders and builders of your Alma Mater wore. Control your mirth. now. while - in keeping with our anniversary - we tell you a little of the fashion trends. The first sketch is the current style of 1870, about the time our college was founded. lt shows the use of draped tlounces and tight-boned bodices. Notice particularly the extremely high waist-line, which was necessitated by the hour-glass corsets. Vivid colors were used in a strik- ing array of plaids, stripes, and checks. The women car- ried decorative parasols. wore hats which had no rela- tion to the rest of the outfit and stumbled along on shoes far too pointed and heels much too high! At all times, ladies lavishly dressed Ccompletelyj 1 might say. with scores of petticoats, each of a different style and material, all serving their own purpose. The next costume shows the vogue of 188-1 when something quite familiar and amusing to us all was in- troducedg namely, the bustle. How this fashion started is an interesting thing. Because of the frailty of women caused by the hour-glass corset, the tremendous weight of the clothes could not be supported and so a support was devised which eventually became the bustle. Dur- ing this period, too, fans were in great demand, shoes of bronze leather with many little straps buttoning across the opening were worn. The next era was that of the Victorian woman. The hour-glass waist and stiffly-boned bodices were still the outstanding features although two-piece dresses took the place of the one-piece gown. After 1890 a tight effect around the hips was evident. Leg-of-rnutton sleeves made their appearance. Hats of felt, with high crowns and small brims, and bonnets worn on thc back of the head were very fashionable. The third sketch is an afternoon 20 toilette of 189-1 which represents the Victorian Era. From 1906 to 1916 a great change took place. One of the most ridiculous results of the shift in fashions was the sheath gown with its tube-like silhouette. Then was introduced the Empire waistline. Petticoats were prac- tically abandoned. ln 1910 the hobble-skirt appeared, tight and scant as possible. keeping the figure flat and narrow except for an elaborate bunching of material over the hips. This gave the wearer an unbalanced ef- fect, as can be seen in the fourth sketch. After the war and until 1926, fashions took a business- like trend probably because of the number of women then engaged in shops. Skirts remained at shoe tops for a long time, and practical materials and styles were used. Gradually, however, skirts began to shorten and waist- lines to lengthen. Bobbed hair appeared. Elaborate trimmings of all kinds were used: ribbons, sashes, artiii- cial flowers. By 1925 skirts were up to the knees. Hlt was much more desirable to have a dirnple in the knee than in the cheek. The next sketch features the uneven hem-line of 1922. We can but admit that it is rather ridiculous. The next trend was towards a scantier costume - sleeveless dresses, low backs, very narrow hemlines. The last costume illustrated is the straight-line dress of 1929 with its odd-looking vestee, draped front, and cape sleeves. Now we've said what we have to say. so laugh all you wish. Remember, though, that in fifty years, S. T. C. students will look at sketches of our clothes, laugh and say, 'LDid they really wear those in 19-ll? Aren't they silly? NOTE - Drawings for this article were copied from photographs taken by Mary Ellen Everhard's book From Hoopskirts to Nudity, by Carrie A, Hall. -ELLEN ANNE ELSTE. TOWER LIGHT 1 I l 1 1 r r r A rf! r 4 WHAT NEXT? by NIARIE PARK Today, when a husband is consulted about suitable clothes for his brood, by his very perplexed wife. he hastily replies. That is your job. I have enough to think about. However, during the Stone Age Period a hus- band, being consulted on the same subject, would pick up his axe and go out and slaughter a beast of the dc- sired size and color. Since those days. Children's Cloth- ing has passed through many strange stages and it is only recently that once again Stone Age simplicity in dress has reappeared. Until the last century, children were dressed exactly like their parents. The discovery of weaving, and the loom gradually raised the child out of his simple, comfortable garments and during the eighteenth century set him down, but- toned, starched and laced in an almost immovable state. It was not much wonder that during this period, a child, who had fallen down, when asked whether or not he had hurt himself, answered in a style quite similar to his clothes, 'tThank you, madam, but the agony has now abated. During this century, dress became very stiff and formal, The children wore the lace and satin of their parents, their hair dressed in a grown-up manner and lightly powdered. This was the age of petticoats and periwigs. Hoops were very large and sleeves reached the elbow, then ended in rufiies and lace. The boys wore doublets, breeches and rosetted slippers. The great change in children's dress came about 1770 when boys began to wear trousers and felt more free to run and play. Girls were still rather bunchily dressed in hoops and skirts but dresses were getting shorter and plumed hats were being replaced by mob-caps. Dress went through an unhappy period in the nine- teenth century. Children looked foolish and felt un- comfortable. Now again we find the starehed petticoats and pantalettes, the tunic suit, and elastic boots of the Victorian Era. Children's clothes were once again tak- ing a turn for the worse. Boys had to wear horrible little derby hats and girls were suffering under large straw ones strewn with flowers and bows. Skirts were fuller, bodices tighter and leg-of-mutton sleeves were flourishing. Small boys wore long curls. Freedom of movement and expo- sure to sun and air were not considered essential for a Victorian child. By the end of this century, the whalebone reared its ugly head and 'tlittle ladiesu floated across rooms looking like small yachts gliding into harbor. Some of the bovs at this time were wearing plaid gingham blouses, trous- ers ending below the knee. striped stockings, and to com- plete this horrifying scene. a large straw sailor hat perched on the back of the little masters head. APRIL - 1941 Ah, 'tis no wonder the babes of today dance and play joyfully in their scant, comfortable clothing. for just see what their poor little ancestors had to endure. Stone Age simplicity and comfort has really come into its own once again in this century. But what next? Time will tell. Backstage by Svrvrfx CEELXVASSER AT THE ACTUAL performance everything runs smoothly. The music played seems so effortless and pleasant. The musicians smile while the audience ap- plauds vigorously. The entire situation is quite delight- ful. Ah, but here are some of the backstage riggings that you as an audience seldom see. The recital starts as an embryonic project. of course. It has a charm and a magic appeal that nothing else can match. Very few can resist the allure of public perform- ance, so the brain child takes a step forward to the road of actuality. First, people have to be enticed into performing. At this point you always meet up with those sweet souls who find it so difficult to make up their minds. They say Myres, then Uno, then Myres - and the night be- fore the recital, the prospect acquires the jitters. But that doesn't upset the apple cart because the Uno is expected. The other musicians just do a little bit more. After the performers are engaged comes the actual program building. The selections have to be well plan- ned just as a delectable meal should be. There are the right proportions of Bach. Beethoven and Gershwin just as every meal should contain enough carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Finally, the program must be timed because an overdose can be as harmful as too many calories. And here comes the fun. Pianos must be tuned. piano stools discovered, programs arranged for, piano movers employed, lemons found for the singers. The situation is comparable to the sitting on the wooden horses that goes up and down while the carousel goes round and round. Lest I forget. with each concert there spring up a few indispensable people. They mimeograph the programs. draw the publicity posters. turn the pages. and lend a sympathetic ear to the nervous mutterings of the per- formers. They are responsible for the finishing touches that can make a recital so very enjoyable. Each time after the shouting is over. a few vows are made never again to become involved in a similar ritfiirz but the vows are seldom kept. Another magic spell is east. the golden promises glitter more brightly than ever before. and another concert prgmccs merrily .ilcug the road to actuality. '37 To Set You At Ease by IOSI-IPII IIILLYARD Liditofs Note - The Student Christian Association of our college sent as their representatives. David Shepherd and Ioscph Ilillyard. to the S. C. A. conference in NYashington, D. C. They visited several Government de- partmcnts. YES, THEY are at work down thcreg I know because I saw them. Both sides of the question are looked into and little alleys of information are thoroughly explored to see if any more possible light can be thrown on the issue. To be more specific I am speaking of the functions of the departments of our Federal Government. If you have not seen Congress in action, then you must. The whole floor is a strange confusion of news- paper readers, groups in a corner waving their cigars while talking, the chairman rapping for order while the most insignificant figure of all - apparently, is the speaker on the floor trying to defend his point or to blast his opponents. Later we found tfrom Miss Florence Kirlin, League of VVomen V otersj that despite appearances, the busi- ness accomplished by Congress is much more efficient than we might think. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee was holding a hearing on the Lease-Lend Bill fl776j when our group took their places in the audience. Major Albert Wil- liams, a former NVorld War I ace, testified against the bill. He said that our planes were needed for training pilots and for defense. Major YVilliams stated that it was possible that planes are branded as obsolete and, that statement used as an excuse to send the planes to Brit- ain. Mr. Williams made a line speech but he had few facts with which to substantiate his assertions. At the headquarters of the United States Housing Au- thority, Miles Frisbie, assistant to the director, showed our group a film, A'Housing In Our Time. Most of us are familiar with the evils of poor housing, of the dis- ease, crime, and general low standards of living that ac- company such conditions. Looking at the other side of the picture we find that after the USHA has completed a housing project that fewer police and fire departments are needed because they receive fewer or no calls at all. Schools that form- erly had to close because of epidemics have now only one or two cases of contagious diseases in a year and often these can be traced to areas that have not been improved. Strangely enough, some families tan extremely low percentagej find that they cannot adjust themselves to the new environment and move back to old familiar surroundings. Congressman Voorhis of California twho spoke at 22 our banquetj and other Government oflicials, impressed on us as young Americans that we first of all must know the facts, use intelligent imagination, and then act. Radio Operators -WBAL by MARCUERITE V IDALIS ALTHOUGH there are six specialized groups of radio engineers employed by the great networks, individual radio stations employ only two, the control operators and the transmitter engineers. VV BAL has a staff of ten operators but with the advent of the new studios the number will be increased. The men with whom the public is most familiar are the studio control operators. Each morning before the broadcast day commences, they check each piece of equipment to forestall possible failure. During the day others repair much of the studio equipment. prepare studio set-ups for broadcast, monitor the programs and join the network, according to schedule, after a local program. VVBAL's transmitter engineers man the powerful transmitter located in Reisterstown. They check high- voltage equipment each hour, make a frequency run of the lines that connect the studios with the transmitter station and keep an otiicial log of all the programs trans- mitted during each of their periods of duty. Most of them were formerly from the ranks of ship and com- mercial radio telegraphers and have traveled extensively. Some grew up with XVBAL and have been acclaimed pioneers of Baltimore broadcasting, All have ben edu- cated in Baltimore or Baltimore County Schools. Be- cause they must correct operating mistakes and fade powerful entries with lightning precision, their hearing is keenly developed, their nerves are like iron, they think and act faster and are more dependable in emer- gencies than the average person. Characteristically, they become so steeped in radio they can't leave it alone. Their days off are spent beside their own radio trans- mitter with which they communicate with other ad- dicts in all the four corners of the earth. ANSXVERS TO MAGAZINE QUIZ l. The Grade Teacher. 2. The Saturday Evening Post. 3. Readers' Digest. 4. Theatre Arts. 5. Audubon Magazine. 6. Day-book. 7. Life. S. Illustrated London News. 9. Etude. IO. National Geographic Magazine. T O WE R LI G H T GEAIIMIIIIDIILIS EEEMENEAEE sEE1uoroE JEEEQMEEEEIEK The Wind It was very, very gray One cloudy March day When up in the sky A witch rode by She hurried along And whistled a song: VVho-o-o-o-o! Iohnny McDonald Ghost! The wind is a ghost, At night it howls. Around and around The house it prowls. It shakes the windows And rattles the door. I wish it wouldn't Come here any more. Alice Hopkins Grade 3 The Mountain Top Up the mountain side I climb The clouds get thick, I smell the pine. And when I get to the very top I see blue streams That never stop. I Wish that I could always stay So near the sky The whole spring day. Patricia Bruehl, Grade 3 Spring Up in the blue, blue sky so high The fleecy clouds go floating by, The birds are sitting in the tree Singing merrily as can be. Glenora Delahay, Grade 3 Questions VV hat makes the logs move? The water. What makes the Water move? The wind. VVhat makes the wind move? I wonder. Sometime when I'm big I'll find out. Carl Dudley, Grade 3 The following reports were written on the board by Miss Owens as the children told them to the class. , fSecond Gradej APRIL - 1941 The Squirrel A squirrel lives near our house. In winter he lives in a hole in a tree. I think a woodpecker made the hole. All summer long the squirrel hid acorns and nuts in the hole. In winter he eats the acorns and nuts. The squir- rel stores food for winter in the hole where he lives. George Neumcister The Rabbit I saw a little white rabbit running through the gf21SS. He hopped and hopped right out of sight. The rabbit's hole is in the ground. He lived in it all winter. I found his hole in the ground. I saw his pink eyes and his little nose. He was white all over. Iocelyn Newell Miss Owens worked with the class on the following poems. She recorded each line on the board, and im- provements were made by the class through suggestions. Funny Bears are funny - They don't care for money, But when they smell honey They run like a bunny. Aren't they funny? Second Grade Workers Beavers are workers So they say. They work from early morning 'Til late in the day. Of course they have Some time for play. I have never seen a real one. I hope to some day. Second Grade Soap Soap is a dreadful thing sometimes. You often wonder why the refugees in England want it so badly. For one thing, it's much easier and quicker to slosh some cold water on your face and hands than to wash them with detested soap! Think of emergencies. lf I were in the army and suddenly I heard a buglc. would I wash my face with soap? I should say not! Soap is slippery, too. If you step in the bathtub and step on the soap, you know what will happen, Youll fall in with a splash. Oh, thcy'd be sorry if you eunc 23 face to facc with a serious accident. and all because of soap! I collect soap rabbits and soap models. and I guess its for the simple reason that if I collect them I wont have to use thcm, I have thrcc little soap angels, but I dont sec why thc person who madc them thinks soap is so angelic that he has to make angels out of it. I'll tell about an experience I often have: I leave the soap in the water and forget to let out the water. Thats a good way to exterminate soap. Here is a warning. If you want an easy life. hurriedly overlook soap, or you might come to grief. Alice Nelson, Crade 6 Out of a Senior' s Mind by ROSEAIARIE CALLALLAN TO NIE the cessation of that howling wind around the north corner of the Ad. building always spells Spring Have you realized that the relationship between sen- iors and under classrnen is at its most ideal on Demon- stration Night? . . . The versatility of the junior Class still amazes me .... I always recall with great delight my high school teacher who gave us required extra credit. Breathes there a senior with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, I won't crack a book now that student teaching is over! . . . One of those things that make student teachers grow old before their time lies in wondering which child-lead to take .... Oh, well, I'm told that I shall meet some very perplexing things in life, anyway. . . . I never will understand what makes the summer pass so quickly. It's surely not because were busy. XV e realize that we're seniors when we have the urge to pat these restless little freshmen on the head .... Tar and feathers for street-car conductors and their Identification cards, please. I love my thoughts on the faculty during one of those sedative Monday lectures. Did you ever have that creepy feeling about handing in an examination paper? There's something so final about it ....i :X nd, horrors. that weak-kneed nausea when getting it back! XVhat's that terrific swoop in the hall? Oh, just the between-class rush for the mail. I am amazed at the number of us who do not know how to think ,... Do you remember The Merry-Go Round Broke Down? . . . XVhat a long time ago! 24 What Is Humor ? by BETTY S'r13UAR'1' ACCORDING to publications of VVinston and NVeb- ster, humor is defined as mental capacity for perceiving or expressing absurdities. Parallel with humor is wit, de- fined as a flashing perception that darts swiftly and un- expectedly among ideas, situations. or expressions, find- ing amusing incongruities, contrasts, or comical aspects which were not foreseen. To me, wit, when used prop- erly, is delightful humor. I-Iowever, I find much dis- agreement on when to act amused and when to remain passive. Among those who are considered humorous, are barkers tyou might justly call them thatj who r I I v try vainly to attract attention by making loud, bois-I terous noises: then, of course, there are those meek souls who act as perfect audiences: add to these the rough- ' neck who thoroughly enjoys greeting you with a loud thump on the back, and likes nothing better than to see you choke and lose your equilibrium. Probably the most pitiful of all is the egotistical individual who tries so hard to be funny while he alone appreciates his jokes. There are always a few inconsiderates who delight in obtaining a laugh at someone else's expense. Then I must not forget to mention those mentally deranged individuals who contribute so much to our classroom periods. XVinston and XVebster are charitable in their judgment and call them punsters fthis applies to certain senior men students. in particularl, You are probably thinking: well, what kind of humor do I en- joy? My answer could easily be summed up in a couple of selections taken from XVashington Irving's Ichabod Crane. Especially good is this description of Ichabod, a part of which reads: His head was small. and flat at top. with huge ears, large green glassy eyes. and a long snipe nose so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfieldf' Moreover. I enjoy this description of Ichabod's dancing: not a limb. not a libre about him was idle: and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room, you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person. The above selections appeal to me through their sim- plicity and clever. subtle use of words. Such humor hurts no one, mentally or physically and usually draws a natural laugh. TOWER LIGHT I l if v K r 1 The City by BEATRICE CONLEY DO YOU really know your city? Are you acquainted with its faults and its virtues? For several weeks the Baltimore lVluseum of Art has had as its current theme 'LThe City. This exhibition is a very fine and striking effort to make the people of Bal- timore self-conscious about their city and to move them from passive indifference to active interest. As you approach the Museum from the front, you at once notice the bronze statue of The Thinker. Chin resting on cupped hand, he seriously maintains a vigil over a small group of modernistic sky-scrapers grouped about his feet on the platform. Once inside the door, you begin a sight-seeing trip through a miniature of the seventh largest city in the United States - Baltimore. As you traverse the winding corridors, you encounter very large, real-life pictures of conditions in this city. Social problems, such as poor working conditions and slums, confront you. One of the centers of mutual interest for everyone is a huge map !of Baltimore suspended high in the room. By a series of 'push buttons and different colored bulbs, you can light up the districts of the city where traffic is congested or -living conditions are inadequate. This map brings home to you in an unforgettable and surprising manner, lo- calities where conditions must be bettered. After these problems are presented in still-life form, a sound mov- ing-picture of day-by-day life in Baltimore is shown. VVhat could be more impressive than pictures of the streets we know, the buildings with which we are fa- miliar? Another highlight of the tour is the question printed in large letters, VVho Is Responsible? You then walk :lown a small corridor, open a door, and come face to face with yourself. The mirror answers the question - you are responsible! To be left with faults and problems without a way to cure them would be a cruel thing, so the exhibit doesn't stop here, but goes on to the solution - city planning. !One whole room is devoted to a miniature model city. lflere is a superb city, laid out by careful, thoughtful planning. It is a lovely city with many green parks and spots of natural beauty. Streets are wide and orderly. Lawns and back yards are spacious. Buildings are works of art. The business section is isolated from the resi- idential, and traffic faults are corrected. This is the Citv of 1951. i A You leave the model city and come back to reality! Facing you is a bird's-eye view of downtown Baltimore, hiyriads of buildings and streets, a confusion of eight if!-XPRIL - 1941 I ! 1 hundred thousand beings. But you are leaving the Klu- seum behind you! You pass The Thinker, but now you are also thinking. This city condition is not to be taken lightly. It is a thing to ponder over and one which rc- quires action. Such is the exhibit. There was untold work entailed in its creation. It has made you think and is therefore worthwhile. You determine to Udo something for Bal- timore. Therefore, a salute to its creators! A Praying Mantis Story by T. KATENKAINIP DURING A nature walk at this time of year one often notices a structure resembling a mass of hardened fat clinging to a dry blade of grass. It is a light brown wrink- led cylinder, at the top, but rounded at the bottom. Most people pass it by without a thought, not knowing the secret it holds: it is the nest of the praying mantis, the cruel cannibal of the insect world. This abode is made of a foamlike material which hardens as it dries. Inside are the eggs so placed that the head of the young mantis will face the entrance as he leaves the nest in spring. The first time I found a mantis' nest I thought it was a chrysalis. I therefore placed it in a jar, expecting to trap a butterfly. I was disappointed. No butterfly ap- peared, but a small fuzz-like material appeared at the bottom of the jar. I was about to throw the specimen away when I noticed that the t'fuzz was a mass of little mantises. Although they were dead, their black eyes still shone brightly. I have never seen the little mantises hatch, but when I open the translation of Fabre's A'Souvenirs Entymolo- gies I can read what the great naturalist has written about them. The mantis wears a covering when it comes from the nest to protect its long front legs and delicate antennae. The skin covering keeps these flattened against the body and thus streamlines the mantis as it goes through the winding paths inside the nest. The eggs hatch together and it is not long after the first one appears that the surface of the nest is covered with them. XV hen they reach the outside. they burst their skin covering, and in so doing. their long thorax, thread- like antennae and murderous forelegs are made free. Those that escape the ants, which are waiting near every nest, or the lizard, will become full grown ogres of the insect world, but one of man's numerous insect friends. For many years this nest has been regarded with su- perstition. In Provence. home of the great insect stu- dent, Fabre, it is cut in two and the iuice used .is ll remedy for chilblains. The Proyincials also used it under the name tingo as a cure for toothaches. Ho Hum and So to Bed! by Maizjonris CouLsoN CNE. TXVO. three. four, what a day! Started off with a bang - ten minutes late for my first class. VVill I ever learn to get up the sccond time I'm called instead of the third? 7, 8, 9. 10, wish I could sleep now the way I do in the mornings. 13, 14. 15, I should have read the next chapter in education instead of listening to Bob Hope. Not as entertaining, perhaps, but maybe 1 would have understood the lesson a little better. 21, 22, 23, funny, isn't it - the way things happen? just last week I saw that little blue book on the library shelf, just knew I should have taken it down and looked at the authorfs name. 43, 44, 45, some day Mr. VValther is going to ask for that report on Karl Marx and I'm going to have to think fast. VVhat if the chapter is a long one? It won't be any shorter next week. 67, 68, 69, that yearbook meeting was something. VVe really need 68 different yearbooks so that everyone will be satisfied. It will be a good yearbook . . . lots of pictures and fun. 70, 71, 72, wonder who's talking in assembly on Monday? l'm glad we don't have an assembly every day the way we used to. I can use those 30 minutes to less advantage now. 84, 85. 86, the sophomores had star study tonight. 1 hope they didn't freeze to death. VVonder if l could find Draco or even the Big Dipper if I had to? Doubt it. 92, 93, wonder how some people remember things? Must be great to know all the answers. 100, 101, 102 Q wish one of my sheep would trip over the top rail the way they do in cartoonsj. 103, 104, how can I finish those term papers before Friday - especially since I haven't started? Oh, well, everyone else is in the same boat. Tomorrow's another day. 106, 107, 108 .... if 1 1 Our father slipped upon the ice Because he couldn't stand He saw the glorious stars and stripes, VVe saw our father land. A maiden at college named Breeze, VVeighted down with B.A.'s and M.D.'s, Collapsed from the strain, Said her doctor, 'Tis plain You are killing yourself by degrees. Ak i is By The Price Tag Auto Salesman: It runs so smoothly you can't feel it: so quietly you canit hear it, has such perfect ignition you can't smell it, and for speed - you can't see it. Englishman: My word! How do you know the ballv thing is there? ' 26 Prof.: Decline love, Miss jones. Miss jones: Decline love, Professor? Not me! if 33 X1 VVhat they might have said: David-The bigger they are the harder they fall. Helen of Troy-So this is Paris. Nero-Keep the home fires burning. Samson-l'm strong for you, kid. Noah-It floats. Methuselah-The first hundred years are the hardest. IK if lk Do you hear the ocean moaning Ever moaning sad and low? fTis because that fat old bather Stepped upon its under-tow! 4 i 151 A plain face may be redeemed by a pretty nose, says a writer. But that's just the place where the average girl doesn't want to shine. 3 Sk 23 Traffic Cop: Use your noddle, lady! Use your noddle! Lady. My goodness, where is the noddle? I've pushed and pulled everything on the car. Soph: VVhy the hurry? Fresh: I just bought a textbook, and l'm trying to get to class before the next edition comes out. As a rule, the genuine antique is uncomfortable. A comfortable piece of furniture wears out in its own time. P3 if wk Ah, Me I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree, Perhaps, unless the billboard falls, I'1l never see a tree at all. ik Ik 102 Maggie, tell Mrs. Brown I am not at home. Robert has just told me a deliberate falsehood about a pie and 1 must punish him severely. FV '-lf i An Indian in the northern part of Michigan returned for the third time to buy half a dozen bottles of cough syrup. Druggist: Some one sick at your house? Indian: No sick. Druggist. Then what on earth all this cough syrup for? Indian: Mm - we likeum on pancakes. Pk is 2? Teacher: VVhat do we call a man who keeps on talk- ing when people are no longer interested? johnny: A teacher.-The Christian Observer. TOWER LIGHT Professor: And what do you know about the Latin Syntax? Freshman: Gee, did they have to pay for their fun, too? Ill is wk Visitor fto butler, who is showing him through the picture galleryj: That's a fine portrait. Is it an old master? Butler: No, that's the old missus. Ik Ik if An Englishman was visiting George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon. Glancing at the hedge, he re- marked, '4Ah, I see George got his hedge from dear old England. You bet your life he did, blurted out his American companion. He got this whole country from dear old England. ll! 1? 111 What was George Washington noted for? His memory. What makes you think his memory was so great? They erected a monument to it. H3 Ik wk Teacher: Give me a sentence with the world eclipse in it. Iohnny: VVhen my brother sees a funny joke in the paper eclipse it out.-American Boy. ill Ik if In preaching a farewell sermon a pastor is reported to have saidn I am leaving this church for five reasons: flj I have ceased to love you, for you are a bunch of hypocrites, QZQ you don't love me or you would pay my salary with something besides moldy vegetables, BJ you don't love one another or I would get more wedding fees, H- the Lord Himself does not love you or He would take more of you to Heaven and see that I got some funeral fees, QSJ I have accepted a call to be chap- lain at a penitentiary and my text this morning is, 'I go to prepare a place for you.' -Advance. wk wk Sk I believe, said the cheery philosopher, that for every single thing you give away two come back to you. That's my experience, agreed the pessimist. Last February 1 gave away my daughter, and she and her hus- band came back in August. lk 73 YY Miss Weyforth: Give me a sentence with the word impotent Student: The child is being punished for being so impotent. APRIL - 1941 Mairlun-n. The territory surrounding the District of Columbia. e.g. VVe live in Mairlun. Balmer-n. A city in Mairlun. e.g., S. T. C. is near Balmer. Lectricity-n. The inside of a light bulb when it is on. e.g. Lectricity is a necessity. Wurl-n. That section of the universe about which we know the least. e.g. The wurl is very large. Widder-n. A woman who, having lost her husband and not yet found another, is still unmarried. e.g. Widders are very fascinating. Subjex-n. Those who are under the governing power of another, as of teachers and monarchs. e.g. The king has many subjex but no predicates. Produx-n. That which is produced. e.g., Kittens are the produx of cats. Mebbe-ad. Uncertain. e.g., Mebbe yeah and mebbe no. VVoosh-v. To have a longing for. cf., The lucky part of the chicken is the woosh-bone. Serious-n. An orderly arrangement of things, one after another. e.g., The Cincinnati Reds won the World's Serious. Ketch-v. To capture. e.g., I just saw the mouse ketch the cat. Vahlet-n. A blue or purple flower that grows in the spring. e.g., Roses are red, vahlets are blue. K 17 if Since this year is the seventy-fifth anniversary of S. T. C., the humor department is presenting to you some of the humor and wit of the earlier days of the TOWER LIGHT and the Oriole. In the good old days the undertaker buried a man's tonsils and appendix with the rest of him. Our idea of a high hat is the man who eats salted al- monds at a football game.-TowER LIGHT, Nov., 1931. Ash: What will the modern coed be twenty years from now? Tray: Oh, about three years older. Miss VVeyforth fto boys who have been singing with heads downj: Now, boys, look this way and see if you can't sing when you have your faces lifted.-Towna LIGHT, May, 1931. VVhen Spinelli saw the enemy coming. he turned and ran. I call that cowardicef' But I don't understand. Spinelli told me he rea membered the earth is round and he intended to run around and attack the enemy from thc rear. -Tonrn LIGHT, October, 1931. ATHLETICS 1 Continued from Page 19 i to the indoor archery set-up. 'llicre were three targets set up. and K. Gardner and A. Mercer tried their skill at 30. -10. and S0 yards. Although our girls were arching against competitors who arch all winter. they put up a good try. Western Maryland and Notre Dame had high individual archers: Notre Dame came out ahead in the finals. Thence to bowling - and imagine. if you dare - there were two bowling alleys! H. Townshend and ll. XYells stood true to form and did well. helping our col- lege gain recognition as second place. Hurry! Swimming begins! There was the most beau- tiful swimming pool. Our girls did not participate but Western Maryland and Coucher took their places beside Notre Dame. It was fun to watch the 40-yard crawl. 40- yard backstroke. 40-yard breaststroke. a relay and diving. The encouragement from Miss Daniels and Miss Roach. as we performed. helped to make us feel more competent. They were as excited as the rest of us from State Teachers College. XVe would like to return the invitation by having the same colleges participate in activities on our May Day. Why couldnt we have an inter-college play day on the morning of May 10? WHAT TOMORROW? by HARRX' M. Loxbox We are embarking on a rather strenuous spring pro- gram. A rather successful badminton tournament has been completed. Someday soon. somebody is going to pick an athlete of the year. for mention. Somebody has got to write about this. for the three items constitute a fine beginning for a sports column. By the time this sees print. the Loyola College game will have been played, and the baseballers are looking forward to a happy season with a stronger schedule than has been played in recent years. The sad news about it all, though. is the absence henceforth from the varsity play of 'XVhitey Lauenstein and Lou Cox. erstwhile bat- tery here. and lames Cernik. who could send the ball a country mile on a Hat line. XVhitey and Lou are no mean clouters. as you probably have noticed in the Alumni game of April 4. The turnout has been rather sketchy. There is. of course. no line-up - even tentative. as we write this. XVearing the pads may be Iohnny Shock lwho gets his name in every sports column in the Towan LIGHTJ, 28 lack Hart, shunted from third to home-plate like a steal, and Dave Schneider, sophomore tosser. The fling- ers will be selected on a per diem basis from among Howard Stottlemeyer. who once played tennis, Samuel Klopper, Dave Hess, Frank Dorn, and myself fby per- missionj. These fellows will see action in the inield sooner or later: D. Thompson, Bob Lytle, Hart, ltzy Schklo- ven, Hess, Iohnny Horst, Dorn, Herold. and perhaps a few others. Of those mentioned so far, Klopper, D., Hart. Horst. and Herold have been around two years, while the rest are sophomores. except Shock who is four times removed from freshman. In the outfield you are liable to see Hart again the gets aroundl, Ned Logan, Harry Stull and Fishpaugh, and Iames Cheatham: four freshmen and a junior. No. It doesn't shape up as the best team ever seen around here. but as Iames Cheatham himself once said at assembly. watch me grow. Under the direction of Dick Coleman. the new policy of intramurals has been advanced another step in the right direction by dint of the men's recent badminton tourney. the winner of which I hesitate to predict. The policy. restated, is to introduce the game C especially such social-recreational games as bowling. badminton, tennis. etc.j in the regular gym classes. and let the fire- works follow after school. By these terms. badminton was a logical choice since everybody f?l can play it any time in the year. At this writing Stottle heads the srs., and similar ratings are coming in for each year-class. An ambitious spring intramural program is being lined up in the same manner: for track lindividuals and classesj and tennis f class ratingsl. And perhaps archery and horseshoes, etc., etc. Creston Herold is the Student Director of Intra- murals. one of the Varsity Club's many far-seeing proj- ects. Kenneth Miller's lob 'em and slam 'em lads are get- ting their tennis season under way. Only one of last year's six is missing. he being Sol Snyder. now happily engaged in teaching. Baseball is robbing them of Stottle. but don't let 'em kid you. A'I've saw it done before. Still living are Iimmy O'Connor. Bob Cox, Sheamian Bremer, and Stottle. No lines are available. Go to it! Perhaps the brightest of the spring varsities is Track, because the plans are being laid not for one or two years, but for more. Cox is the only vet. which doesn't sound so good, Eddie XViener. Ierry Kolker, Charlie Cvuertrler are all gone. There are some pleasant legs among the freshmen boys!l. XVitness Iulius-the-just Rosenbaum, TOWER LIGHT L. D. Cornthwaite, O. B. Spellman, Paul Harris. and Theodore Katenkamp. The Great Penn Relays are on tap, and this time there is going to be a good showing, saith the prophet. This and the other from The Halls of Pleasure- Coach thinks it worthwhile fand so do wel to award proper acknowledgment to several of the fellows who have been honored abroad . . , Shock in soccer is all- East, tantamount to All-American . . . Robert Cox got himself mentioned for all-State by Taylor of The Sun, and performed for Coach's All-Star team in the Coli- seum CBaltimorej for British Relief, in a giant show . , . VVho is going to be the King of Sport? . . . The Varsity Club is set to pick somebody soon, and he's got to have everything: to wit - flj scholarship. Q25 sportsmanship. and Bl of all things! athletic ability . . . This Month's Guest Star tapologies. Eddie Brietzj: I. Edgar Hoover. No. l C1-Man: Due to needs for self- discipline and cooperation in athletics, an extremely low number of athletes are found among criminals. Postscript: I think by next month Chipinan will be back. QBenevolence dispatch No. l.j ANIMAL CIUXCKERS by ANN K. NEUIXIEISTER A kangaroo Has long legs two Its offspring cute Go down its chute. Cows are creatures YVith remarkable features Their only teeth Are underneath. Vt'ith mud and dirt The pig is girt But when he's peeled Choice pork he'll yield. The eyeless mole Lives in a hole In raising bulges He oft indulges. The ring-tailed skunk Has lots of spunk Its defensive sprinkle Makes noses wrinkle. The waddling duck Can walk on muck Because his feet Have toes that meet. Fashion-right Styles for Spring IIUGHSGHILD, KOHN 81 00 RADEEAUGIHI faziafa IZII BURKE AVENUE rowsoN rss F274 HMEHT ON THE THBLEH By EDGAR A. GUEST I sing this glorious land of ours, Here your ambitious boy may be Its motor cars and shows, Our President if has able. Its little gardens, gay with flowers, But what spells U.S.A. to me Its phones and radios. Is meat upon the table! If .7104 gdfibwf .Qualify .7204 Ulf THE WM. SCHLUDERBERG-T..I. KURDlE CO. BALTIMORE, MD. 5154 Open Your Bank Account IVHZ1 Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOXVN, BID. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited APRIL - 1941 Compliments of . . . MARYLAND HOTEL SUPPLY COMPANY 227 Hanover Street CALVERT 5820-5821-5822 SEA FOODS DIACE PRODUCE C0. 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One piece is Roll Char- iot. arranged bv Noble Cain: it has the lilting. synco- pated rhythm of Negro spirituals, The other is Spring Song by Edward Grieg. a harmonious arrangement of the piece which seems to contain the essence of spring. The Ieanie Group is singing a more serious composi- tion, Lamb of God. by Bizet, a lovely, smooth and minor-keyed piece. The exercises at the college should be quite beautiful this year with such a variety of ex- cellent music on the programs. MARRIAGES Phyllis Cohen, formerly of Class of '43, to Irvin Milner, Sunday. March 30. 19-ll. Clara Lewis. formerly of Class of '41, to Carl Michel. November 18. 1940. FINAL ELECTION RETURNS FOR OFFICERS OF THE INCOMING CLASSES INCORIING SENIOR CLASS: President ........, Iona Claytor Vice-President .Frances Shores Student Council Representative . . , . . . ,Ruth Nlaleson . . . .Florence Abramson . . . . . Betty Carroll Secretary ..., Mary Rochlitz Treasurer. , . Iohn Chilcoat Day Social Chairman. . , . . . . . Resident Social Chairman .... INCORIINC- IUNIOR CL.-XSS: President .,,..., Cordon Shules Vice-President . , . Betty XYhite Student Council Representative Day Social Chairman. . , . . . Resident Social Chairman .... ....., B Iary lane Burdette INCONIINC SOPHOXIORE CLASS: President . Richard Coleman Treasurer . .Virginia Kimball Secretary.. Rose Nliddlecoft Treasurer .Morton Krieger . ...,,,. Kenneth Martin .....,.....Iean YVright Vice-President .. Paul Harris Secretary Anna Pruess Student Council Representative . . , .Iohn McCauley Day Social Chairman . . . . , . . .Beverly Rouse Resident Social Chairman , . . .,.. Mildred McCauley STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS: President . . . , ..,. . . , . . Henry .-Xstrin Day Vice-President . . .. XYilliam lctt Resident Vice-President . . Alice Crane Secretary .,.. , . , Xlargaret Zilmor Treasurer . . . . ....,.......... Crcston Herold ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OFFICERS: Chairman . . , . . , . ,Dorothy Shinham Secretary'-Treasurer . , Virginia Blochcr TOWER LIGHT 'SD WHAT by PEGGY GUNNELLS Ah! Spring! Convertibles! Skunks ftwo kindsj and LOVE!! so usual and trite, but Goodo. In the words of the famous poet? fa little help, Mr, Millerj. Oh, to be at S. T. C. Now that April's here. I To the scientifically minded: The lover's star has now appeared above the horizon. VVell, what are you waiting for? Oh, you can't find the right one. Sure you can, ithere's a sucker born every minute. By the way, that reminds me of a very interesting article in last month's iTONVER LIGHT. It seems one of our fellow students has forgotten there are two sides to every question. A girl waits hopefully, anticipating that blind date. It arrives, that elf-like creature with waist size -H. Then there's the chicken farmer that says, Col durn, yer putty. So, dear Romeos. don't be too hard on the fairer ones. They have their troubles, too. FLASHES FROIXI HERE AND THERE Seen at the Second Dorm Dance: How did you and june enjoy the dance, George - both numbers of it? iQThose you didn't dancej Among those present, two ex-students, Nizer and Russell, seemed to be enjoying themselves. I wonder why the North VVing of the dining hall was Iso popular - could it have been the glaring fmoonj lights? Seen in the foyer: Romeo Shules they call him - he dances with a dif- ferent Iuliet every day, but orchids to a special junior. Another junior girl presented him with red roses be- :ause he was in the final election. Quite a flowery life. Was I seeing things - no - I looked twice? Hess and Lytle giving Barbara Titus the rush. Was that Ed. Fishel I saw dancing with Dottie Kapp - that is, until a cer- iain classmate came? Dorothy E. jones fthe freshman jonesj and her freshman are slowly progressing. After playing the field, Miller has settled down to lancing with Shirley. XVho makes that last-minute dash from the foyer to Jlasses? You're right - Mary jane and Dick. Time just .eeins to fly by. Extras: Retraction of item in last month's issue - Elaine's ieart is in New jersey. XVho could be coming from .Virginia to take a junior girl to uTwelfth Nightn? Vifedding bells - even artists get married. XVorsc uck for us. Notice the other writer this time. It all con- jiects up with the male element of the column. 'APRIL - 1941 l I l ARE YOU IN CAHOOTS WITH THE EASTER BUNNY? Then get together at Hutzler's and choose the present you want for your best girl for your best beauj, your mother and the whole family. It's easy on you and your budget to do your Easter shopping at HUTZLER BFQTHERS Q -RECORDS- COMPLETE LINE RCA VICTOR, BLUEBIRD, COLUMBIA, OKEH and DECCA - POPULAR RECORDS Come In and Hear Your Favorite Selections Price Radio Service 13 SHEALEY AVENUE TOWSON PHONE: TOWSON 442-I Compliments of . . . 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Swivel chairs for the 'TOXVER LIGHT editors. 3. A name for the old chipmunk. fEditor's Note: Mr. Crook calls it Butch - or would you prefer to name it Ferdy?j Chocolate almond ice cream. S. Shelves under the lunch tables for knitting bags - also chairs for themft -I. 6. Individual autoplanes for junior excursions. 7. Debates between the Cal-up Poll and spirited soph- omores. S. Easy chairs in the book shop for social chats - and the new dope tiends. 9. Nlcn - who appreciate women. IO. Muzzles for Clee Club members who don't li1'1OW1I when they, and we, have had enough. ll. Muscles - fully equipped. IZ. More spirited spirit. l3. Male partners for The Ten Pretty Girls routine. l-I. Lemon in the coca-cola machine. IS. Dr. Wlest to solve th radio installation. l6. Chocolate almond ic e technical e cream. I7. A bridge table for the smoking This is subtle. HCI .c lk ff- difhculties of dorm room. Stranger: I represent a society for the prevention of profanity. I want to take profanity out of your life and- M. S. T. C. Senior: Drop around when I'VE Hnished my student teaching. Englishman: VVaitaI VVaiter: Yes, suh. 1? 25'- his you just served? XVaiter: It's bean soup. Englishman: I don't care what it's been. VVhat is it Englishman: VVhat's t now? - Our Times. I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I I 1VIason's Service Station COMPLIMENTS OF ' Betbolifze - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 24-Ho1n'Serz'ice COIVIBIISSIONERS OF MD. - Pl1OI16, Towson BALTIBIIORE COUNTY 32 TOWER LIGHT I I I I I I I I I I I U I I -N x , . 'W' V ,ek FQ Qi, .. , ft.: F1-11' -, N ' 041 '?f . , 9 T SE LOUISE STANLEY Chesterfield's Girl of the Month .jWf ' Ahead for MILDNESS...for BETTER TASTE and COOLER SMOKING ...thatk what smokers want these davs and Cllestelflelcls are quick to gin? it with their right combination of the worldk heat cigarette tohz1Cc0s...Tl1ey Satisfy. El'OlZX'1l'lI47l'C' you 1001: you see fll050,p'i0l1f1Iy zrlulv lIlll liIlQPS...i1n8 the SIl10lt'0l S Cigarette. Cx!!!-'fffkffflb WH' HW IIF .Mdy ' 1941 V Kawai' Biqkf 4: E' 'X . -- ' .sl I J - ll r ' I 1 .. ' , .4 5- . 1 -, . , A , 1 , ll g nl y 4: 0 ay fin , in li fl K n , ,. ,Q -:,. AD ought to know. Look at the wall behind him. Photo of Dad, straight and proud in old-style Choker- collar blouse, Sam Browne belt, and second looie's gold bars. And his decorations-the Order ofthe Purple Heart, Victory Medal. Croix de Guerre zvifb palm. You savvy quick, soldier. he says to his son as that chip off the old block in the new uniform proffers Camels. These were practically 'regulation' cigarettes with the army men I knew. Lots of other things seem to have changed, but no! a soldiers 'smokin's.' s-'l e. - if T 'r-Hr? R... Right! Today, and for more than 20 years, reports from Army Post Exchanges show that Camels are the favorite. And in Navy canteens, too, Camel is the leader. just seems that Camels click with more people than any other cigarette- whether the-y're wearing O.D., blues. or civvies. You'll savvy. too-and quick-with your first puff of a slower-burning Camel with its extra mildness, extra coolness, and extra flavor, why itis the front-line cigarette-past. present, and future! THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS GIVES YOU EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR AND if , - u -. SS ICOTI than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested-less than any of them-according to independent scientific tests of tbe snzoke itseg O XY'hat cigarette are you smoking now? The odds are that it's one of those included in the famous nicotine-in-the-smoke laboratory test. Camels. and four other largest-selling brands. were analyzed and compared . . . over and over again . . . for nicotine content in flu' .mznlee ilxelff And when all is said and done. the thing that interests you in a cigarette is ibe smoke. YES, SIR, THE SMOKE'S THE THING! SMOKE CAMELS! V THE CIGARETTE OF -CJ COSTLIER TOBACCOS ummm- W Z vu- if-C 'N ruR1f1.jBHL2si Jggussilc A , I GA R is-r s Q ' me E , QL K 5 iii, .. 1 ffvf.. l fl - 51 f-, iii? We: ul l ,ff 2 2 X BUY CAMELS BY THE CARTON -FOR CONVENIENCE, FOR ECONOMY BY BURNING 25 96 SLOXVER than the average of the -i other largest-selling brands tested -slower than any of them-Camels also give you a smoking plus equal. on the average, to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! ll.fl.1ti-yywl-l- 'l'iilmiinVnmpgmy Wiiiflmm-Sal4-iii, Nniili Cainlirln E E3 LL Lt Lt-H 'J' , VOLUME XIV MAY ISSUE NUMBER 8 T I-I E S T Ia F F L ig? PAGE - EDITORS I CHARLES GROSS 3 PATRICIA HERNDON ' FRANCES SHORES I IARIES IET1' I I BUSINESS MANAGERS ' IOHN EDVVARD KOONTZ I CATHERINE GRAY 3 CIRCULATION ADVERTISING Margaret Heck Muriel Frames Norma Gambrill Margaret Lowry Margaret Gunnells Virginia Roop Annetta Vklright DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Art Fashions Audrey Pramschufer Ellen Elste Marguerite XVIISOU Shirley Hicks Katherine Decker General Literature Marjorie Colulson 1, - Ieannette U rich At Ieum Mindelle Kann Iolm HOTSI Mildred Snyder Alma LI Gott Norma Kirckhoff I Audrey Mercer Harry London College Events Humor Nancy Metzger Frederica BieclermannklE3T1?4ZrXE33u Sibyl Davis Margaret Zillmor I Inez Schultz Library Editorials Mary Di peppi G w . H11 Doris Klank enellele me Katherine Petroft Gordon F. Shules Catherine Swain Mary Burdette Mary Simon Assemblies Muxic Alice Carr Sylvia Gelwasser Helen Pross Ruth Maleson ALICE MUNN - - Iklazraging Editor l l I l I I I I I I l I l I I E I Lee McCarriaI ,. i I I 1 I L l I MIRACLE .....,........ I I , Z MIRACLE OF SPRING I 3 MAY DAY AT SI T. C.. ,I ......,........ II . 3 EASTER - A SPIRITUAL REARMAMENT ,.., I -I DEFENSE UNDER XVAY .,...,........ I. I 5 IIOME THOUGHTS FROM TRIPPING .I.. 7 VVHAT MAKES US FREE? ........,....,...,.. S XVIIAT VVOULD A NAZI VICTORY MEAN TO AMERICA? .... I 9 BRITAIN'S TYVENTY HOSPITALS .......,................ I IU EDUCATION AND NATIONAL DEFENSE .,.... I II STUDENT VISITS ON THE NEXV YORK TRIP I I I I I2 OUR PART AS AN INSTITUTION ..,.. ...I. . I. I3 FOR TIIE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY .I I I-I A LETTER FROM EDINBURGH ..., ,,.,. , .I I I5 PROFESSIONAL GROXVTII AND DEFENSE ...,, ..,...,.. I I6 THE EFFECT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE ON EDUCATION ,... I IT RE: PRACTICUMS .,..,.,............,................,. 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The lnruitli of April, Swcct and wgiriii. A lnudcliiig bruucli against thc sky. 'l'lic miiziclc of spring again, Of cliitloclils iii golclcii liuc, 'l'liu mem'-splutcliccl ciirtli iii mggccl cont, Aiicl Nliiy, tlic moiitli of lifc rcgiiinccl. A lmrrcii lurgliicli glgiiiiist tliu slay. A Howcriiig briiiicli gignimt the liluc. TO WER LIGHT F FOR A FEW short weeks each year the World has the privilege of witnessing a miracle - the miracle of spring. It comes i suddenly. Then, just as suddenly it is gone and summer has taken its place. If we could but capture and hold a small part of those weeks, what a treasure we should have - a richness not measured by dol- l lars and cents but by color and beauty and happiness - a richness not of concrete things but of the spirit. Have you ever stood, on a golden morn- ing, and gloried in the brightness and color of spring? After the darkness of winter each tiny soft green leaf is a ray of light. From the distance each stand of trees, no longer bare skeletons, becomes a sea of misty greens as the leaves unfold, bringing new life and hope to something seemingly dead. As the fruit trees, fthe dogwood, and the judas trees burst into bloom, the stretches of greens are broken by white, pink, and 'lJl.-ll-1J1e'red. Suddenly, on a warm, lazy day large green buds become golden jonquils or pastel hyacinths or itulips. A riot of rainbow colors sweeps the earth and winter is gone. Spring has arrived. The imc e 0 prinq by NTARJORIE CoULsoN XVith the coming of spring comes a new outlook toward life. Some of the warmth of the sun that has caused the new plant life to appear. seems to enter human beings and give them a different feeling, a different appearance - the dull and dreary winterflife disappears into the past. People walk in the park. They go to ball games. They work in their gar- dens. They buy new clothes. They get 'fspring-fever. They sit in the sun and think. To be short, they take time to be human, to live, to enjoy their world. At least, if their world is the United States, people are free to enjoy it. ln other lands, this spring, some are not so fortu- nate. They are faced with tanks, airplanes, bombs, and marching feet instead of flowers and bud- ding trees. They are afraid to walk in the park. They are afraid to sit in the sun. They are afraid to think. May we, then, realize our privileges more than ever this spring. May we capture a small part of our present happiness, then share it with other less fortunate people. May we, during this short miracle, sit in the sun and think. May we continue to enjoy our freedom. ay ay at S. T. C. by DOROTHY IONES ERHAPS you take May Day for granted and think that it has always been a part of our col- . lege. A little research revealed that we did not lstart celebrating May Day until 1919. How was May ,Day celebrated? Very simply indeed when compared to the celebration we now have. Sometime during the first week in May the student body would meet on the campus and there participate in games just as we do on Play Day. During the pro- gram of events the junior Class President would place a wreath of flowers around the neck of the Senior Class President. The queen would then lead the rest of the lstudent body to the site of the feature event of the day. This simple method of selecting and crowning the iqueen was effective until 1925, the year a man was elected President of the Senior Class, thus making it necessary to devise some method of choosing a queen. The Baltimore City students joined us that year and this marked the most elaborate May Day celebration Vthe college has ever seen. I s .MAY - 1941 i I The school became a proud and stately castle. the dormitories, halls of powerful barons. and the campus. spacious parks and meadows. The north campus was the village green and there everyone from king to beggar celebrated the birth of spring. The Heveryone from king to beggaru included students of the college, the children in the kindergarten of the practice school. Several hun- dred costumes were made and over a thousand students trained to take some part in the gala affair. Heralds announced the commencement of the cclef bration. Iestcrs, Marshals. Pages. and Town Criers fola lowed by the Master and Mistress of the Creen. came to prepare for the celebration. The Villagers followed. some on foot, and some riding, because they had come from afar. Then came Queen Elizabeth and her Lords and Ladies, followed by Robin llood. Little john. .Xllan A'dale, YVill Sutlcy. Friar Tuck. Outlaws. Sword Dancf ers. and a band of Brave Lords who had already at quitted themselves with valor. Above the laughter and mcrrinient. joyous niusit 'J sounded and Maid Marion and her attendants ap- proached to grace the scene. Everyone knew Maid Mar- ion was to bc crowned Queen of the May. The Morris Dancers and the Singers performed before the Queen. The Villagers brought the May Pole and then followed the most important dance of all - the May Pole Dance. The Milk Maids. the Millers. and the Chimney Sweeps sang songs that had never been sung before. The Strolling Players. the Revellers. the Tumblers. lugglers. Members of Guilds and Beggars all in turn favored the queen with their performances. Venders were ever ready with wares to satisfy the needs of young and old. Gypsies telling fortunes. Knights jousting. and Wrestlers proving their skill added to the show that cli- maxed with the heroic slaying of the wicked dragon by St. George. Since l925 each May Day has been a repetition of parts of that grand affair. Much of it is now simplihed to such an extent that we hardly recognize its significance. Several of the customs have been adopted and used as a part of the Qld English Christmas Dinner Celebration As the years passed more emphasis has been placed on the crowning of the queen. The whole celebration cen- ters around her. A Herald and Town Crier announce the queen's approach. Small children from the Campus School scatter flowers in her path. An attendant bears the crown the queen is to wear. ten lovely ladies of hei court accompany her to the throne and there she is formally crowned by the king who sits beside her on th flower decked throne. Dances by the Campus Sehoo children and dances and stunts by the college student are performed for the queens pleasure. The May Pol Dance is still an important part of the celebration. Th S. C. A. provides refreshments and the Glee Club an orchestra do their part to make our May Day a me one. Dont you think it would be worth while to bring back the spirit of YS before we lose the real signifi- cance of May Day? Easter--a Spiritual Rearmament by Vracrxra Sriuuss ASTER - a word that has come to mean a joyous season celebrated by Christians all over the world! Sorrow. sin. and death are supplanted by the glory of resurrection and new life. Through time. although famine. pestilence. and war have intervened. the tme meaning has never been lost. Formerly. Easter was celebrated on the lewish Pass- over. As far back as 325 A D. the Council of Nieaea fixed Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon which appears on or next after March 21. Strangely enough the time-honored custom of using eggs at this time of the year was developed centuries ago when they were used in the churches as symbols of resurrection. The church plays a signihcant part in the celebration of this holy season. However small yours or my share was in participating in these events. a feeling of new life has resulted. ln my own church services held dur- ing the day were especially appropriate. The sunrise service was one of exaltation and rejoice 4 ing. The rising sun. filtering brightly through the stained glass windows on the flower-banked altar. seemed to repeat the Christ is risen sung by the choir. At mid-morning. children from the entire Sunday school filled the church. anxiously awaiting the completion of the cross of flowers. Before them a drab. ugly wire cross was being transformed into a thing of beauty as flowers each had brought. helped to cover it. Later in the day, sick members of the church would receive the flowers and try to visualize the part that each had had in re- creating a beautiful memory of Him who gave His life to save others. The coniinnation children kneeling at the altar-rail taking their Erst communion during the adult service added to the feeling that something new and holy and gloriied was taking place. Perhaps with much distress in their hearts many Christians were reborn on this holy Easter Day. His followers will march on through eternity. Let us not forget that He is not dead but is living still. TOWER LIGHT l i s J 1 l Defense Under Way: FACTS AS TOLD BY LEADERS IN THE DEFENSE PROGRAM by IAMES G. IETT , A S THE railroad lines run in and out of Chicago so the lines of government run in and out of NVashington. American government, in these urbulent days. is preparing to make a fight for its very ife, and Vffashington, the center of American govern- nent, hunis tlouder than any of the scattered defense ndustriesj with the business activity of this preparation. There are many aspects to the defense program in america. Foremost is the idea of giving aid to Britain. f'his idea materialized with the passage of the Lease- send Bill. In order to give aid, though, production on a arge scale was necessary. For this reason the Ollice of 7 roduction Management was created. with Mr. Knud- ren, former president of General Motors, appointed as ts head. Sidney Hillman was made assistant to Knudsen .nd also put in charge of the Labor Division of the O. '. M. lt was in this capacity that about seventy-five col- ege students Qfrom various colleges in the United itatesj, under the auspices of the Institute of Govern- nent, had the privilege of hearing Mr. Hillman speak in the work of the O. P. M. XV ith a Lithuanian accent, Mr. Hillman spoke chiefly if the accomplishments of the Labor Division. A Labor 'olicy Advisory Committee had been selected from rep- esentatives of the A. F. of L., the C. l. O. and the lailroad Brotherhoods. The purpose of this committee 3 to improve einployer-employee relations and to main- ain peace in the ranks of labor. It also attempts to se- ure cooperation of the workers in defense industries. The Labor Division has been faced with the problem rf acquiring enough skilled and specifically trained work- rs to turn out materials which will aid Britain. To over- ome this. surveys of available labor supply have been aken. Relief rolls all over the country were checked. .leturns came pouring in. But still not enough skilled neu were found, Training schools have. as a consc- iuence, been established. where men are being trained 1 specific required skills for defense industries. XVith the stepping-up of industries throughout the ountry another problem arose for the National De- ense Council. XVorkers coming into various territories p work in defense industries had to be housed. Charles 'almer was accordingly appointed Housing Coordina- Jr of the National Defense Council. Mr. Palmer spoke 3 us on the activities of his division. Stable and suitable 'VII-XY - 1941 living quarters are eonstruoted in defense industry areas. A prefabricated material is used which enables the houses to be constructed in an amazingly brief period of time. A motion picture showed the construction of one such house. During the construction a timekeeper kept time, and it was pointed out that the house was put to- gether in less than one-half hour. XVhere the workers come without their families. or are unmarried, comfort- able barracks are built and serve as living quarters for the men. The work of other equally important divisions such as the Consumers Interests Division. headed by Harriet Elliot, and the Price Stabilization Division, whose chief is Leon Henderson, will be discussed in later articles in the next issue of the Towrza Lrcnr. The force of totalitarianism is tugging hard on the life-line of democracy. The American Democratic Gov- ernment is strengthening its lines, and the process can be seen in the activities of man all over the nation. Our Government had to be remodeled, but it is still demo- cratic. It is indeed fortunate for anyone who can be in XVashington to watch democracy, though on a balance. still acting. and acting sincerely. courageously for its existence. College Editors Say-at LESS PATRIOTISM! Today in this nation there is no dearth of deep feeling for democracy and patriotism. Today in Cvermany the watehwords are National Socialism and Patriotism. To- day in Italy Fascism and patriotism predominate. And so on throughout the world. And over all is a pallor of war and misery. XVhy? Back in the dim past love was expended on human beings. not on sections of C-od's earth marked off by invisible boundaries drawn by blood and tears. XYhyT Our answer land whats yours?5 is to be found in that concept known as patriotism. XYithin its proper bounds it may be totally innocuous. But it would seem as though Articles taken from the April. lf?-ll, issue of thc liitcrtollcgiau. 5 some foiblc of the human racc prohibits a sane view to- ward patriotism. lt is patriotism which builds mountains from molehills: it is patriotism which causes wars. And since we should like to be rid of wars. why not rid our- sclvcs of patriotism? - The Tulane Hullabaloo. MORE PATRIOTISM! We have heard statesmen and pacihsts tell us not to be misled by the playing of patriotic songs and waving of flags. But why not? XVhy be hypocritical? YVhy not believe to the fullest extent in democracy in the United States? XY-hy not stand reverently when The Star- Spangled Banner is played. and when Old Glory' waves before us? That may be the clue to what is wrong with this country now. Vvle do not believe enough. Were thinking that the majority of Americans need a good dose of propaganda .... XVe might well send out a prayer for some miracle to wake us up and to give us faith before Hitler sets foot in the Independence Hall. -The Plainsman lAlabama Polytechnic lnstitutegj NO TIME FOR SILENCE As the nation grows tense under a national defense campaign. we naturally consult our teachers. XVe find that last years pacilist is either this year's intervention- ist or is being subjected to attacks and threats that would have appeared fantastic a few years ago. Almost over- night, what was a popular intellectual cause has become an unpopular one. The men from whom we learned non-intervention are not saying much. They probably remember what happened to their kind in the last war. or perhaps feel that a teacher should not take a stand on current controversial issues. This is no time to deny one's intellectual heritage! This is a time to preserve our rights. not to vitiate them by silence. - Case Tech ly Case School of Applied Sci- encel. WE ARE CYNICAL This. the younger generation. has been accused of being cynical. immoral and soft. Wie did not live through the last war. We only heard. But American youth gave generously then. They fought - and died - to save democracy. Where are the teachers who taught us the meaning of peace? The ministers who helped us pray for peace? The men who promised us peace? Today they say we are not quite capable of defending America. They see an America huddled behind the British fleet. cowering under the wings of the Royal Air Force. 6 But the spirit of American youth is different. XVe love our country dearly. XVe will die for it if necessary. But we want no part of Europe's war. Hope is eternal in youth. XVe cherish those fundamental principles of our way of life - freedom of speech, freedom of prayer, and freedom to pursue happiness as best we can, and make some improvements and leave a better America for our children. That is our heritage. Franklin Roosevelt has promised the young men of this nation they will not Hght in Europe. XVe have also heard about a promise to the boys who went before. They shall not die in vain. VVe are cynical enough to believe in peace. - University of Wfashington Daily. EBB TIDE No one would dispute that at this moment interna- tional law has reached a low ebb. So low has it fallen in even academic esteem that an Ohio university recently dropped its study as being, under present conditions, a farce. If the hope of the future for an ordered world of law and decency is to be obliterated even in the halls of learning. where it originated, the hope for such a world is slim indeed. Yet no other kind of world can conceiv- ably be worth the price that is now being paid. - Columbia llissourian. OUR FATHER by LOUISE C-ETTER We are taught to say Our Fatherfl He to us has given light. It is He who guides us onward. He alone can teach us right. lf at Erst He seems far from youg Co to Him and pray that you See Him. hear Him. love Him always lust as He has taught you to. Love Him as you would your father - Only magnify this love. He is Cod of love and mercy. He is our Celestial Dove. TOWER LIGHT T i l i Ii i i 'i i I Home Thoughts From Tripping E VVERE the beneficiaries of the I9-ll Insti- tute of Government, we were the victims of the l94l Institute of Government, we lived in hope, we lived in despair, we were clothed in uncer- tainty. we thrilled at stepping on the heels of Security. we lost ourselves in the next-door neighbor. we found ourselves self-centered, we were seasoned with belief, We were soured with skepticism, we were full of local color, we were inquisitive of national color - in short, the week was so full that we had no time to think, until we were leaving, of the acquaintances we were making and leaving within one week! Somehow we were sent to VVashington because only seniors were eligible. Cf the seventy-live students from forty-five ditferent colleges tseveral students were jun- iorsj practically all were political science majors. XVe were education majors. XV e were two of six from Maryland. QGoucher and Loyola were representedj Other 'tlnstitutersn were from the states of California, Wasliingtori, Texas, Georgia, New Hampshire and linal- ly from the state of Bewilderment. Those who had traveled the greatest distances lived most in Bewilderinent. Besides meeting the twenty-four scheduled engagements, twenty-three of which were held in different places and parts of the city. they at- tempted to see the Promised Land in one short week. You would know them when you saw them - snatching time to write a postal card in a park, leaning on the files of the deceased criminals during the tour of the F. B. I., or asking a question that someone else had asked during the course of the discussion. Yet, is not such zeal to be respected? XV e had. perhaps. the warmest possible week in April for the Institute. How were we to look or feel fresh when we were traveling from 8: 30 A. Rl. to 6:00 or ll :00 P. M? One little girl from Sweet Briar managed to sneak or skip back to her hotel frequently. Her crisp appear- ance was the envy of everyone and brought open com- plaint froin one of the men of the group. Several of the males sought compensation in an afternoon swim at the Y. M. C. A. Can you see this picture? Kant Findrefeef Sat by the window in a parlor at the Chilean Embassy. A slight breeze blew through the heavy brocaded drapes. Kant gathered the curtain into the crook of his arm and held it there during the whole meeting. Comfort meant so much. MAY - 1941 Consider this anti-climax. Mr. Mario Rodriguez, liirst Secretary of the Chilean Embassy, finished his discus- sion of the work of an enibassyg we gathered our pos- sessions in preparation for leaving. Simultaneously. Bliss Mitchell, the daughter of the ambassador. appeared at one door and the butler opened the sliding doors to the adjoining dimng room. XVho couldn't welcome the sight of a lovely table full of food at 5:30 P. RL? There were sandwiches, potato chips, cookies, mints and punch. The butler, when asked, told several of the men that the punch contained, besides the fruit juice and fresh pine- apple, whiskey, Chilean champagne, and ginger ale. Miss Mitchell appeared to be thoroughly American with the added graeiousness of a Chilean hostess. She did not go to college. She said she was too lazy. Yet she and Mr. Rodriguez invited us to the Chilean summer school for Americans. Chile has a larger number of students in American schools than does any other South American oountry. The Embassy was lovely and somewhat seasoned with age. Two especially beautiful furnishings were a huge white bear skin in the reception room and a blue and white urn in a window in the stairway. ln the second floor parlor we were served Brazilian coffee in Uthe real Brazilian manner. Later in the lobby. I noticed sev- eral boxes of a brand of coffee packed in New York. Am I simply a skeptic? Or do we drink all our coffee in the real Brazilian manner? Speech followed speech, day followed day. The week ended with a dinner and review of the activities of the Institute. It was almost unannnously voted that the tour of the VVhite I-louse was the least interesting and least profitable of all the week's events. XVe were the beneficiaries of the I0-ll Institute of Governmentg we were the victims of the I0-ll ln- stitute of Government. Wie saw YVashington in the onset of the duration, the critical period. Few people see the government in the speed and emergency of de- fense. YVe were limited to questions from which we could expect answers. and we were limited in our re- porting what we heard off the record. Yet the lnsti- tute presented a rare opportunity for us to see with unusual freedom our Government function in .ui inter- national crisis. '7 1. hat Makes s Free? by Esrix BABLAN For wliat avail, the plow or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? HAT, indeed? A question easily, though un- happily, answered by a glimpse of the con- quered countries of war-torn Europe. And by a mere glance and even only slight consideration comes the realization that national defense - defense of our nation - the United States of America - is the vital issue of the day. An intelligent people admit that education is a prime factor in social life. Education is also a prime factor in this program of national defense. From the very beginning of our national existence, education was deemed indispensable to popular government, Horace Mann crystallized the idea when he insisted lt is nec- essary to turn to universal education as the best insur- ance against mobocracy, confiscatory legislation, threats to judicial supremacy, and the spoils system. Public education, it has been repeatedly and justly argued, can and does develop good citizens, calms puiblic distempers and makes the success of democracy ftoday, the survival of democracyj possible. NV e hear much of john Public, the American man who, under our system of government is EVERY man, for Hall men are created free and equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights. john Public. or ev- ery man, then, is the government, must he not be edu- cated so that the government he constitutes be valid? Must not his viewpoint, his opinions, his attitudes be unbiased. open. and just? Must he not adhere to the spirit of the United States - be willing to respect. and, if need be, fight for liberty, independence and justice? XX-'ith a changing order of social and economic affairs, with the intense mechanization. American people are confronted by social conditions foreign to their earlier experiences. How then, since tradition is not the an- swer. is America to retain an equilibrium of ideals, of its citizenry, of its life - its democracy? Largely by education, which operates almost com- pletely within the frame of social needs, education, which must not lie within air old out-nrodcd system of social life. but which flexibly meets changing demands. Thomas jefferson once outlined the functions of edu- cation as: ll, To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his business: My A'To enable him to calculate for himself. and to 8 express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts in writing, C3j 'ATO improve, by reading, his morals and facul- ties: HJ To understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the func- tions confided to him by either, l SJ To know his rights, to exercise with order and justice those he retains, to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates, and to evaluate their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment, Q65 And in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed. A few of these seem old-fashioned and too arbitrary but essentially they are sound, and, more impor- tant, they are the outgrowth of jefferson's favorite mot- to: And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. To know the truth - the truth about all facts of human relationship - should be the goal of all men. And to make this goal possible should be the aim of all concerned in the task of education. Today the functions of government touch all phases of life and economy - agriculture, finance, employment, morals, security, old-age pensions, insurance, etc. These contacts and in-ter-relationships must be at all times clearly understood and unresentfully maintained. Edu- cation is the key to cooperation. Education must make us feel that we have a share, a part to play, a task to per- form in national progress. Schools must concern them- selves with knowledge and loyalties. They must let boys and girls know from personal experience, rather than merely from the statements of their elders. that democ- racy is worth having and worth working for. Education for democracy must especially cultivate habits of sym- pathy, cooperation, and good will, of service and sacri- fice for a common good, of joy and pride in good work- in a n sth ip . The program of education is never completed - it grows with the growth of humanity. its source is life - not merely books and laws: education embraces knowl- edge. training and aspiration. Nothing should halt the progress of education. The lamps of learning were kind- led long ago. They have burned in caves and log cabins as well as in great buildings erected by wealth and TOWER LIGHT l fi i i l I r '4 X, 1 i I v l l i l 1 power. lt is an essential phase of national defense that schools, colleges, and universities spread and enlarge and reach more and ITIOTC people. Iohn Adams remarked once: Education is more indis- pensable and must be more general under a free gov- ernment than any other. ln a monarchy the few who are likely to govern must have some education, the common people must be kept in ignorance: in an aris- tocracy, the nobles should be educated, but here it is even more necessary that the common people should be ignorantg but in a free government knowledge must be general, and ought to be universal. Throughout our history the nation has struggled to preserve its liberties and a way of life that offers the greatest freedom to its citizens. Today. in a world of chaos and disorder, this struggle is readily apparent to all and must be the concern of all. But much of thc so- lution of how to keep the American way of life safe and inviolate lies with educators. AAnd ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. That is the way. Knowledge is the road to freedom. An enlightened, wise, free people must and shall preserve the earth, having been sustained by truth. What Would a Nazi Victory ean to America? A Review by MARJORIE COULSON F THE many questions in the minds of Amer- icans today one stands out in bold type: A'VVhat would a Nazi victory mean to America? Some people claim that only evil would resultg others state that we would be greatly benefited. Taking this question as his title Edward Mead Earle proposes an answer in the April issue of the Ladies' Home Iournalff Since the days of XVashington, the United States has by choice followed a policy of isolation. Now. for the first time in its history. the United States is faced with a coalition of powers: Germany. Italy, and Iapan. seek to make isolation a condition forced upon this free na- tion. To carry out their plan, these nations are deter- mined according to Earle to control the sources of sup- ply of such vital raw materials as rubber and tin, to de- stroy our markets by cut-throat competition, and by other methods to erect a Chinese VVall around our forty-eight states. Not only will the United States be forced to follow an isolationist policy if the Axis powers win. but it will l . . . also be forced to play a defensive role in world affairs. 1 1 T r 1 l i h l 1 As long as Britain, with our aid. can keep her army and navy functioning. America will have the initiative. But what if Britain is defeated? The United States will have to maintain alone and unaided a two-ocean navy and a large, well-equipped standing army. Even then we would not be free from attack. Few Americans believe that British victory would threaten United States safety. Since 1815 Britain and the Americas have followed a cooperative policy of defense. Today, since the lease of naval and air bases in British ruled lands, the knot of cooperation has been tightened. Should Britain fall and MAY - 1941 the balance of world power shift so that Germany holds the reins, what kind of neighbors would we have? lf we are held to England by common political ideals, we are held just as strongly by common interests. com- mon language. and common cultural heritage. VVC in the United States are accustomed to a way of life. XV e believe that the individual has certain fundamental liberties and inalienable rights. For these the makers of our nation fought. Against these rights today the totali- tarian nations are directing a mighty war machine. hop- ing to banish free thinking citizens and to establish a citizen who exists only for his state's betterment. XVould we be willing to live in such a nation? YVould we be willing to have our first-graders taught to hate. to march. to carry a gun? Wfould wc be willing to deny the prin- ciples of Christianity and accept Mein Kampf? XVould we be willing to surrender our constitutional rights of free speech and press. or our voting power? XVould we be willing to live our lives according to the dictates of another human being? These are the new ideas that would face us in the New Order of the Axis powers. XVhat. then, are we to do to prevent such a situation? Mr. Earle's answer. though drastic. is positive. XYC shall not remain neutral, for neutrality is the epitaph writ- ten on the tombstones of Norway, Denmark. the Neth- erlands, and Belgium. XVe shall not work for a nego- tiated peace for llitler said. 1 am willing to sign any- thing, 1 am prepared . . . to make non-aggression pacts and friendly alliances with anybody .... lt will never Edward Mead Earle - A-Xxlllllf NYonld a Nazi Victory Nlt-.ni to Aiiiericaf''-Ladies' Home lonrnqilz ,Xpr1l. ltl-ll. pp. lo-l . 9 prevent me from doing at any time what I regard as necessary for Germany's interests. Instead, we shall use our economic power, our diplomatic services, our moral influence and, if necessary, our naval and military forces to assure the defeat of Germany. Face the situa- tion now and put an end to it. XVhy face danger with- out end? Take to heart, Earle concludes, the words of Monroe: If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining the necessary burthens, and in submitting to sacrifices to imake such preparations, it is undoubtedly the people of these states. Britain' s Twent Hospitals by M. BURDETTE BRITAIN NOXV has twenty valiant hospitals, bravely struggling to remain open, in spite of bombing and air raids. These institutions are under the British Ministry of Health's Emergency Hospital Service Scheme and, in addition to everyday work, they are scheduled to care for a certain number of war casualties. They all exist by voluntary contributions, and are depending largely on Bundles for Britain for help. The wealthy go to nursing homes and the less prosperous and really poor are treated in hospitals and pay only what they can afford. As the income from patients amounts to from two-fifths to one-third of the actual cost of attendance, these hos- pitals fmd it necessary to rely on subscriptions from vol- unteers. It seems that the donors have put forth much effort to continue contributing, but the disruptions and finan- cial upsets of the war have naturally slowed up these activities. This situation is very unfortunate, as these hospitals are in the front line war zone of London. They have undergone fires and raids. In addition to being war- zone stations, they are stations for equipment for smaller branches outside the danger area, and some of them are teaching hospitals. The effect of the war raids on children in hospitals and on orphans is quite touching. In the ease of one bombing which occurred at lI:SO P. M., the occupants of a British hospital realized that the Children's Hos- pital across the road had been hit. The doctors rushed over immediately, followed by nurses, clad in night clothes, and in a short time they convoyed the bombed youngsters to the warmth and safety of the main hos- pital, The procession went on, with flares and shells lighting the way, until every child was safe. 10 The Queen's Hospital for Children located at Hack- ney Road has served for more than seventy years a large number of children from north and east London. Since the war, one of the outstanding duties of this hospital has been looking after the health of children in shelters. Through its excellent service, fears of epidemics in shelters have been dispelled, for sick persons are sent immediately to the hospital. Some of the largest shelters in London are in its service area. lt is another institution working, despite all Hitler has done, to safeguard the health of the next generation and to relieve the suffer- ings of the present. All the financial aid which can be given is needed, since voluntary donations have de- creased, money-raising projects are out of the question, and there is a debt to be paid. The work of the Royal National Orthopedic Hos- pital at 234 Gt. Portland St., VVI should not be inter- fered with by any manls war! The cures and aids which have been executed there are miraculous! The war work, however, has ceased functioning for one big phase of the workg namely, the vocational school, in which young boys who could not be completely cured were trained in certain trades and occupations. The govern- ment needed the accommodation of this hostel, so the school has to be discontinued. But the merciful work still goes on! Although, since the war, the Orthopedic Hospital has functioned in various ways - treating many military and other service patients, caring for aged blind women, etc, - its primary obligation is to crippled children. In serious eases, the patients are sent to the country branch. but for others, daily treatment at the hospital is required and all that Bundles for Britain can do is to bring a little happiness, warmth, and sun- light into the lives of these little unfortunates. TOWER LIGHT Education and ational Defense by DAVID L. SHEPHERD A lecture given by Dr. Iohn Studebaker, Director of the U. S. Office of Education, to a group of young people under the sponsorship of the National Y. XV. C. A., the Citizenship Conference. EARLY everything - tions - and everyone - laborers and social- ites - have reflected the desire to do some- thing for National Defense. The whole nation is turn- ing its attention toward this urgent and national issue. industry and institu- NVhat part, then, does education play in this vast pro- gram of National Defense? Dr. Studebaker states his answer to this question by an emphatic, Education had a great part to playV' Education, as was stated at the conference, is helping and will help to defend our country, not only against the material mechanics of war- jfare, but also with the warfare ofknowledge, mentali- l i l i l , , 4 l ties, and emotions among the peoples of opposing fac- tions. In order to insure a triumph for our country, in this respect, the United States Ofhee of Education hopes to set up, in collaboration with the State systems, the following educational opportunities for the American public: l. There will be provided more and enlarged voca- tional and engineering schools so as to furnish skilled workers for the making of arms and munitions. Great caution which is being exercised in the vocational schools is to have these schools teach their pupils a skill which can be used both in war and peace. This is because the purpose of the trade schools is to safeguard our national future. Z. The officials of the office of education are work- ing on the principle that during a war period there is a need for more trained nurses to care for both the civil- .ians and the soldiers. The United States Government, l 1 in advocating nursing as a profession, is arranging for more nursing centers and schools. , . . 9. Elementary schools are to be built in dense areas where there is an influx of people. These newly built ,schools will be for the purpose of relieving the local ,schools in the defense areas. Of what use the new jsehools will be after the war period is still a moot ques- l v I tion. One suggestion is that after the war crisis. the schools built by the United States Government, could serve as community centers and probably. in a few cases, take the place of the local schools. MAY - 1941 l 4. The national officials state that there should be more adult education arranged by the state educational systems. Every week, it was suggested, open forums. led by nonpartisan and learned leaders, should be held in the public schools. The purpose of the forums will be to give the American public an insight into the in- ternal and foreign policies of our governmentg and a clearer understanding and interpretation of foreign gov- ernments and politics, a chance for the discussion of civic and local problems, an opportunity for the appre- ciation of cultural subjects. Individuals of the American public ,must be urged to express themselves. The spread- ing of knowledge and general enlightenment of the people, the building up of loyalty to the United States and morale in the people by giving them the pro and con of all vital subjects in the world today, and the bringing of the government closer to the people are the expected outcomes for adult education at this time. ln such a world crisis as we are experiencing. it is most pertinent that we teach the people to think in order that we may have a stable society. 5. It is suggested by the United States Department of Education that the elementary Qintermediate gradesj and secondary schools clarify for the children our ob- jectives for defense. In a schedule for social studies which is proposed by the Federal Government. it is deemed desirable that the teacher spend three days each week on the social sciences in preparing an adequate background of material for the children to better inter- pret world issues of today. The remaining two days are to be given to discussions of controversial current prob- lems. Children must be given a chance to wrestle with national problems in school in order that they may. in later life, think more justly. wisely. and deeply. The theme of all education for defense is to teach people to interpret current issues with an unwavering fairness and intelligence, The people must be taught to think for themselves. A thinking public is a stable and a calm one in time of emergencies and crises. 11 Student Visits on the ew York Trip ON FRIDAY. April fourth. students and facultv meni- bers attended and in some wav contributed to the con- ferences of the student section. These were divided into nine different panels covering most of the subjects pertinent to a teachers college. Below are typical proce- dures as well as the results obtained. 5 Panel 1-XVhv Student Cooperative Associations in Professional Schools for Teachers? Definition: A student cooperative association is an organization for attaining certain goals for a well-rounded college life. Purposes: 1. To foster a spirit of cooperation among all groups. 2. To regulate or supervise extra curric- ular activities. , . . . . . J. To provide opportunities for partici- pation in a democraticallv controlled program. Aims: 1. To develop qualities of leadership. 2. To develop abilitv to follow. 3. To develop social poise and intelli- gence. -1. To develop good citizens. In answer to the question XVhv Student Cooperative Associations in Professional Schools for Teachers? the following points were presented: 1 2 'a D -I 5 6. 12 . Bv working in such an organization one has an opportunitv to better understand others - stu- dents and facultv. . YVhi1e taking part in such an association one has opportunities to make decisions of some impor- tance. Experience is provided in selecting able leaders. Children should have experience in democratic procedures. Prospective teachers should have op- portunities to take part in a democratically con- trolled program in order that thev mav become competent in helping children organize programs of a democratic nature. One is provided with opportunities to plav and carrv out certain ideas of a concrete nature. In working in such a group one has the benefit of being a necessarv member of a functional group. One member of the panel summarized the points pre- sented in the discussion as follows: Student cooperative associations are necessarv in pro- fessional schools for teachers because they Provide experience in a democratic procedure. Provide opportunities to assume and share respon- sibilities. Provide opportunities for the planning and exe- cuting of ideas. Develop social and cultural standards. Provide opportunities for student-faculty coopera- tion. Panel 2 - XVhat should be the essential characteristics of the organization of student cooperative as- sociations? XVhat is the justification for a student cooperative association? 1. Gives practice in running a democracy. 2. Brings better understanding and cooperation between faculty and students. 3. Prepares for instillation of democratic ideas by prospective teachers. -i. Helps people to make choices and stick by them. 5. Helps students see the problems of the faculty. 6. Provides opportunity for leadership. XW1at should be the technical aspects or struc- tural organization of these associations? 1. The organization differs in the different col- leges. 2. Certain things should be basic. a. Democratic elections. b. Operation in certain defined fields. c. Close contact with the entire student bodv. d. Faculty participation. e. Cooperation with the administration. XYhat should be the essentials of a democratic selection? 1. Adequate period of contact before elections. 2. Student bodv must understand the duties of the various officers. 3. The majoritv rather than the minoritv should be the deciding factor. TOWER LIGHT 3 i i A D. Wfhat are the areas that should come under the jurisdiction of the student cooperative associa- tions? l. The areas are dependent upon a. The flexibility of the constitution. b. Faculty and student understanding. 2. The following should be handled by the associa- tions: a. ulI1ltlHflO11Sn of new students. b. Money. c. Extra-curricular activities. QThis has the widest scope.j Qlj Clubs. QZJ Soeials. d. Some problems should be taken up by both the faculty and students. r E. YV hat about faculty participation? l. The faculty should cooperate with the asso- tiation in all matters directly or indirectly con- cerning them. j 2. The faculty should olfer guidance on various problems. j 3. Faculty and students should work toward the i goal -of a better democracy. 1 F. How can the general student body be educated l to become worthv members of a student co- l operative association? l. Personal prejudice, jealousy, and waste of time must be abandoned. i l j 2. Vital issues must be discussed. 3. Students should come in contact with each other very often. j C. VVhat are suitable forms of penalties to be in- , llicted for breaking rules or regulations? QThis l i concerns the dormitory chieflyj BRONXVILLE scHooL by S. Davis Located in one of the better suburbs of New York, ilthe Bronxville School has the advantages of both public lnd private schools. Although the school is supported by 'public funds, the small classes, the flexible schedule, ,and the well-prepared faculty are typical of a progressive gprivate school. l The informal atmosphere of the school and the em- jphasis on science, physical education, and the arts are ,aimed to further the objectives desired: to satisfy the ,children's needs and interests, to develop physical well ibeing, and to encourage creative expression. i HORACE MANN SCHOOL NOTES by IULE XVRIGIIT The dull drab stone structure of Horace Mann School 4' M A Y - 19 41 changed, or seemed to change, into a very lively school building as its doors opened. The art room, domestic science room. and manual training room were wonder- ful. Each child seemed to have his own equipment from paint brushes, cake tins, and nails, to oil paints, stoves, and jig saws! All around the rooms were samples of children's work. One could hardly believe that such work could be of children's creation. More amazing were the children six and eight years old, typing their English stories. On the door of this room and also on many other classroom doors were such schedules as: radio utilization, assembly, recess, writing, and swimming. It must be realized. though, that a large tuition fee has to be paid in order that the children may attend this school on the Columbia University grounds. Our Part as an Inshtuhon by CHARLES CROSS MANY ARE the people of this institution, even to this day, who believe that Bundles for Britain are things which one reads about in the paper or sees explained in some movie short, Actually you don't have to search for facts on this relatively novel contribution nor do you have to wait for a showing of the same in the town movie house. Here, beneath the tower clock in our own college, the Red Cross is carrying on a lively program six days of every week. Do you remember that the room next to the men's shower room was once given over to Miss Keys' health classes? Do you also recall having eaten lunch in that same room when it was transformed into an eating place? At the present time and for some weeks past you may have noticed that large red cross hanging on a door of that very same room. lf so, you have located the place from which bundles of a very special nature are sent out daily. Local workers have had this spacc given to them in which to prepare bandages and dressings of all sorts. The products of each day's labor are sent to the Union Memorial Hospital to be sterilized and from there are sent abroad to help alleviate those conditions which are universally recognized as stumbling blocks in the path of civilization, as being a perfect antithesis of Mpeace on earthf' conditions which 'Acheck inid-vcin the life blood of thc human race. For further details don't turn to your daily paper, but rather speak to one of the Red Cross workers in our own building. 13 For the 75171 A7Z7ZiU67'Sd79l by Lizox L. LERNER A house of learning seated on a hill Cannot be hidden. It will be there still. After long years. alive on the living hill. Therefore we have rooted on the heights Starkly in the wind. in the light. in the night. These healthy walls. conspicuous and clean. This temple on a hill. cut into space. Sanctuary of thoughts and words and things. This home. this structure dedicated to childreng Directed to little hands. to moving legs. To wondering eyes. to happy little people. To little people - pilots setting the course Of their tomorrows by the precious plan Of their todays. A teacher is a prophet. Give her the human stuff and time to mold. Some future headlines hang on her small piece of chalk. Her pen point is an artists instrument Cutting and shaping. rounding the figure out. Into the hungry pot of youthful minds Go words and sounds and scenes and images Hour by hour. day after day. after day. Omnivorous sucking in of consciousness. Persistently the eating. bit by bit. Of stock heaped in the storeroom of humanity. Choose carefully. carefully. handle the sensitive mass Of thinking-tissue with understanding fingers. Consider. behind the madman of today. Behind the saint of ancient Yesterday. Behind the gentle wise-man of tomorrow. A teacher stands. pointing the way! Pointing down the vast road to vicious lightning Or rainbows. to sun on the blinking grass. Or blood on the ground. or peace on the giant sea. A house of learning seated on a hill Cannot be hidden. lt will be there still. After long years. alive on the living hill. Of Small Importance- Perhaps by NORBIA KIRCKHOFF THE MANY little things in daily, routine living - observations made to while away a long street car ride - items that serve to catch a passing interest, arouse the curiosity, cause a smile of amusement or a quickening of the heartbeat in sympathy - just little unimportant things compared to war news - and probably of small significance to those unfortunates who have no imagina- tion . . . Two small boys using a large billboard as a base from which to carry on subversive activities with snowballs: the way a bus driver-young but unsusceptible-bland- ly ignored the Hollywood Material lasses who yelled and banged on the door of the crowded bus: a huge pile of packages mysteriously moving down the street - human legs barely yisible underneath: the miracle- sounding advertisement in the window of an old house near the gayer part of Gay Street - Madame Baker's Hair Tonic. XVill Grow Any Kind of Hair . . . : the false-front shirt paraded by a sophisticated sophomore who has apparently forgotten the way we are prone to connect a person's character with the clothes he wears: a young, harassed mother, vainly trying to suppress her two hoodlum children who were busily demonstrating - for the benefit of the street car riders - the Gentle Art of Hair Pulling: a sign on York Road bearing the legend. Apartment to Let. See Seth Duff . . . there must be a story behind that name: the smooth. appar- ently effortless way in which a modern young lady suc- ceeded in getting her name and telephone number across to a good-looking stranger on the street car: the old-fashioned. now useless. iron horse-hitching post still standing in front of the Club Earle. near Patterson Park - a striking reminder of How Times Change: the jealous. villainous robin that broke in on the birds' house in our yard and tore it to pieces - Natures Small Scale Blitzkrieg! lust little things observed here and there. Uniniport- ant probably - except that they reveal. to those who are interested. the human part of humanity. Contentment HEALTH. enough to make work a pleasure. XYEALTH. enough to support your needs. STREXGTH. enough to overcome difliculties. GRACE. enough to acknowledge shortcomings. PATIEXCE. enough to accomplish some good. 14 CHARITY. enough to see some good. LOVE. enough to be helpful. FAITH. enough to make God real. HOPE. enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. - Goethe. TOWER LIGHT l i i T A Letter From Edinburgh MRS. ALLEN'S son, Tommy, attended the Boy Scout jam-boree in XVashington in 1937. Her son has kept up a correspondence with his friends here. At present he is with the Royal Scouts in the Signal Corps on the Dover Straits. His mother has taken up the correspondence and this is her last letter received the latter part of March. All letters from Scotland are censored. Dear Mrs. Calder: just in case my last letter to you went down. thought I'd drop you another few lines to let you know that up to the time of writing, we are still safe and well. I had a letter from Tommy this morning, and they were mov- ing to new positions to take up Coastal Defense. I felt relieved that there was no word of him being sent out East. I have just been writing to a friend whose son was posted missing yesterday. He was in the Royal Air Force and only a few days ago. I heard that he had brought his third enemy plane down, and was perfectly thrilled about it. I remarked that I wouldn't be surprised if he j brought a decoration to the Scouts yet. He was one of l I I v i i l 4 l the three Edinburgh boys who was at the American jamboree but now Tommy is the oidy- one left. I know he'll be terribly vexed to hear of his pal's death. I'm sure in America you must be feeling very wor- ried, too, about the war. It's a great comfort and en- couragement to know that America is so whole-heartedly with us in our struggle. XVe hear plenty about Hitler's going to strike before your help can reach us. VVe are continually warned to expect invasion any day. but Hit- ler must have an idea of just how successful he'll be. l l l i l l l l l i i I n Undoubtedly he'll not spare us with his bombs. XVe don't expect it, but what he gives. hell more than get back with interest. The people here are standing up wonderfully to the blitz. I have a friend in Swansea where they were bombed on three successive nights. Nearly every house in her row was ablaze, but they all worked like mad throughout the night with stirrup pumps and got the tires put out. She was one of the lucky ones. her windows were all blown out and her roof pretty well damaged, but as she said - they were not exactly homeless. even if, when they did go to bed, they found themselves looking up to the heavens. It even had its touch of humor. as her next door neigh- bour, a young French wife. working like fury with the pump kept continually repeating, My Cod, if I live to see morning. I'll go to Mass. It was a case of 'Awhen the devil is sick. I wonder what trouble japan will cause. If all the troublesome nations were as easily dis- posed of as the Italians, the war wouldnit be long in coming to an end. I hope Malcolm will never get be- yond the R. O. T. C. It's strange how keen the lads all get on their training. I suppose it's just their youthful enthusiasm. But it gives you a sore heart to see them in uniform. I sincerely hope that America will keep out of the war as far as actual fighting is concerned. The planes are very busy overhead tonight, but pos- sibly they're all our own. VVe've been having very peace- ful nights. but of course the weather has been dreadful. It has been the severest winter on record for forty-five years. continual snow. week after week, but it has all disappeared at last, and the gardens look ready for plant- ing. Iive been loath to part with the flower beds, but my husband keeps telling me that roses won't be of much use to us. Of course, rationing is getting more and more severe. However. we're going to win with the help of our friends and not forgetting the help of their prayers. So here's to happier days. Our warmest regards to you all. Yours sincerely, jig.-iN ALL.-iN. Building Loyalties in a Democracy by HARRH' BARD QSupervisor of Secondary School Historyj AT THE February 22 meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies. a department of the N. E. A.. Dr. XVilliam C. Carr. Executive Secretary of the Educa- tional Polieies Commission, said that there are three necessary ingredients involved in the building of loyal- ties in a democracy: l. Understanding. He who truly knows the history of MAY - 1941 our country will have faith in the democratic strug- gle. 2. Intelligent Practice. To understand is not enough- we would be disturbed if the swimming instructor taught the theory to students but never permitted them to swim. American students must live and work democratically as well as study the theory of our government. Strong Xiotivation. In this critical period we must -n D. be more uncompromising about our loyalties to the democratic way. Note: This article was taken from the Nlart-li-.Xpril I9-tl issue of the Baltimore Bulletin Ufi'itil1f.'1li'lU11. I5 Professional Growth and Defense by lonx Luxn LScnior Specialist in the Education of School Administratorsj Reviewed by RUTH DURNER HE policies recently enumerated by the Educa- tional Policies Commission of the National Edu- cational Association under the title of Education and the Defense of American Democracy place a heavy burden of responsibility for leadership upon schools and school systems. The speeihe activities that are being proposed are directed to the general objective of en- gaging all educative and opinion-forming agencies into a unified program for the defense of democracy be- cause that program endeavors to improve the under- standing and to quicken faith in the ideals upon which free self-government in America rests. The policies agreed upon through the National Educational Associa- tion deal with long-term objectives. They are not short- term proposals for the duration only of a so-called period of national defense activity, The impact of defense needs is forcing us to face facts more realistically and to ques- tion more vigorously than ever before the validity of our curriculum, organization. and administration of Amer- ican education. All of the proposals involve a great num- ber and variety of opportunities and challenges which make demands upon the capacity and competence of all professional workers in the schools. lt is immediately urgent that every member of a school staff from the kin- dergarten to the university should somehow ally him- self, individually and personally, with these efforts, in some form of participation in one or more of the re- lationships and cooperations indicated. If we accept these assumptions as valid. it seems clear that as we move fonvard together in frontal attack upon our objectives we shall gain in strength. Opportunities to grow in professional insight should present them- selves for school people everywhere through participa- tion in undertakings which will challenge the ablest members of the profession. Implied in the proposals are challenges for these same people to examine their think- ing and their practices more critically: to depend less and less upon their own preeoneeptions and traditional prejudices. There will be opportunities to develop skill in the techniques of cooperation such as group study and discussion. leadership and participation: how to 16 work happily and effectively with many different kinds of people, professional and non-professional. Out of the provisions in the plan for vital experiences in the de- mocratization of educational procedures. administrative and instructional. should grow a living philosophy of democratic school administration and teaching. Oppor- tunities for more active inter-relationships between teacher-education institutions and the public schools represent a clear call to high adventure. All of this involves extremely difficult adjustments and changes in thinking and ways of doing things for many administrators and teachers. First of all, superintendents, principals and supervisors should re-examine and clarify their philosophy. ln any effort to strengthen the quality of civic life in democratic America there is no place for methods which do not maintain the form and spirit of democracy in the administration and supervision of a school system. It seems equally obvious that teachers will need to recognize that their jobs include more than the teaching of classes. Unless this democratic process is to degenerate into a pooling of ignorance. teachers ev- erywhere must be encouraged to expand materially the range and depth of their present knowledge and inter- ests. Our faith and our courage and our professional competence will be tried most sorely as we weigh our school curriculum. its content and organization with special references to the objectives outlined by the Ed- ucational Policies Commission. XVe must achieve a common front in the face of drives against academic freedom. The concept of the school in the community as an integral part of its life must be tremendously deep- ened and widened. The doors of the school must be kept open. swinging both ways, as the school goes out into the community and as the whole community comes into the school. Teachers are called to improve and strengthen the quality of civic life in America. There is important work to be done and action with vigor and dispatch is the order of the day. There can be no yielding to any sense of futility in the face of such a challenge. TOWER LIGHT FRECKLED MEADOW by X7IRGINIA Doksm' In early days of spring The meadowland is seen Prodigal with freckles Peeping from the green- Forming sundry patches Of multi-colored grace: For flowers are the freckles That dot the mcadow's face. SPRING ORCHARD by XIIRCINIA Dousi-:Y I Bfyriads of blossoms Embellishing trees: Incessant hum Of searching bees: A simple fragrance Redolent of spring: XVafting of petals: Fair songsters on wing. The Effect of National Defense on Education by LOUIS SNYDER SINCE TIIE beginning of the year, legislative Ineasures have been sent from YVashington designed to activate the defenses of our country. Personal experience has Inade everyone familiar with the Compulsory Military Training - our closest friends are now in uniform. Pic- tures of the pre-depression era are reissued from our memories by the busily churning wheels of industry. National Defense has pervaded every home and hovel to demand that every American aid his country. But how has the new program affected education? The first stir in the field of learning was created by the necessity for thoroughly skilled workers in shops. Consequently. a clainorous demand arose for courses to supplement the work of those already employed. The School Board responded with introductory evening courses in addition to the demanded ones. Soon mu- nieipally controlled shops were established to give those about to enter defense work thorough training in spef cific trades. The major portion of guidance work in high schools and colleges is devoted to placing their graduates. Dur- ing the preceding decade this has proved a difficult task. The recently increasing IHOIHCIIIUIH of production has naturally broadened the need for new employees, thcref fore lightening the burden of the professional and school employment agencies. Military experts have determined that the modern American army must become well-trained. versatile. and intelligent. A much publicized virtue of the military in- duction is the opportunity given to drafted youth to acf quire a full year's thorough education in subjects varying from mechanics through the Inore aesthetic arts, to MAY - 1941 mathematics and languages. Instruction is given by well- educated officers during leisure hours of camp life. It is quite characteristic of the American people that they become intensely and fervently patriotic during a period of stress. The fervor has gone from street corners and parades into the more dignihed form of school ask semblies. In the institutions of learning. the virtues of democracy are presented to the students so that the girls and boys may be better acquainted with their form of government and grow to love it. The program of National Defense prevalent in Amer- ica today has obviously wielded a very favorable infiuf ence over the educational system, The first tradition of education in this country is the tradition of the excellence of learning for its OXV11 sake. Not learning to get a job. not learning to get anything at all. not learning to graduate cuzn laude, but learning simply because it in itself is beautiful. dignified. and wonderful .... The second thing for which our Puritan fore- fathers had respect was manual labor. I never tire of looking back to the seventeenth century and realf izing someone in my past was hewing out a home in the wilderness and at the same time loving Greek and Latin. That is the wonderful inheritance one feels in New lingland. and in all this great country - a certain synthesis between the toil of one's hands and the thought of one's head. lt is one of the noblest things in our background. -Xlaizs' I'iI.I.I'ZN Cnxsri in Connnon Ground. IT Re: by GORDON FORRER SHULES XYE HAVE hcard much chatter, much of it aimless. about Practicums. Complaints and praises have been shovclcd upon them. One student has claimed that they are an amended survival of the guilds of medieval times. with the student teachers corresponding to apprentices and iourneymen. And with the Latin name perhaps he has a point. But no one has ever proved the inherent evil of medieval institutions. and even if the student's assertion were accepted he has done nothing more than a bit of sly name-calling. XVe wonder if anyone would claim that a passing grade in one of these courses indicates teaching ability? Practicum courses do not correspond with teaching situ- ations in most schools of Maryland. The Campus Ele- mentary School has a relatively selected group of chil- dren. economically, from upper middle class families. Studies have shown that there is a correlation between economic and social status and intelligence. VVe, there- fore. infer that the children as a whole have a higher mean of intelligence than elementary school children as a whole in Maryland. The faculty is an even more highly selected group in regard to high professional abil- ity. A relatively larger amount of money is available for supplies and materials and the number of children per teacher is smaller than in the average schools of Mary- land. NVhile no specific study has been made to prove the truth of the above we believe that it can stand this test. It may be agreed that this school is above average but most of us miss the point. That Practicum classes do not present representative teaching situations is not a fault. The Campus School should be regarded as a model, an ideal to be worked for. It is not a chimerical philosophy as to what the elementary school should be like. It is a hard brick-and-mortar reality of an attained ideal. Our experiences in it give us a basis for the formation of values upon which to judge other schools. VV e believe that Practicum courses are potentially more valuable teaching experiences than they appear to the unthinking. lt is here that we get away from con- stant theory that makes us weary and see what teaching is like or. better, could be. The Committee for Curric- ulum Revisionn is open for student suggestions. Vkfe all know that Practicuins have their faults and here is our opportunity to help make them one of the most valu- able contributions to our teacher training. Let's not miss the opportunity. MY NINE WEEKS IN A QUANDARY AND HOW I HAVE CHANGED by P. H. XV hen I ride with a friend we always ride - Not shoulder to shoulder nor side by side: The distance between is like an Alpine pass - The tires don't blow out and there's plenty of gas - I'm thinking of Student Teaching. Tho the moon's shining down with celestial power. I measure its glow by the kilowatt hour. XVhen the gleam of a star is like a glittering sword, I'm thinking of plans for my bulletin board: My mind is on Student Teaching. XVhen the music's playing and lights are low, I go over the plans that I have to know. XVhen I'm out for an evening to celebrate. l'm thinking of ways I can motivateg My thoughts are of Student Teaching. Yes, I've settled down with a book and pen. But when Iune twelfth comes, I'll campaign again For it's off to the shore and a diet of trout: XVhen it comes I'll probably wish I were out Doing my Student Teaching! 18 DESOLATION by SHIRLEY G. GREENBERC I was a young tree. tall against the sky. I stood alone. through cool. soft nights and pleasant, singing days. My arms held the grey of dusk, and the throbbing pas- sion of dawn. I smiled with the laughing stars. and was content. You were a sighing wind. You came one day and thrilled my heart XVith distant gardens. and a new-plowed field. The salty spray of the pounding sea. The white snow-driven Held of a high cold peak. You gently touched my arm: You drew your Hngers through my hair: You kissed me once and then were gone, lightly. as you had come. I stand alone beneath the sky. I stroke the drifting clouds and drink the blue of heaven. And know only day and night and loneliness. TOWER LIGHT On Having Poison Ivy by ALLEN O7NEILL HERE are happenings in every mau's life that seem too strange to believe, and there comes a time in the freedom of old age as in the freedom of childhood when a man is not ashamed to recount these experiences. Few accusations are more painful to a person of my years - than that of dotage, but I am willing to risk even that allegation to tell my story for what it is worth. From earliest childhood I had been peculiarly sus- ceptible to poison ivy, developing the largest blisters anyone had ever seen, and yet I was even more inveter- ately attached to the out-of-doors. Come spring and I was always to be found hiking over the fields. camping in the woods or just lying on my back in the sun, watch- ing the shadows play on the leaves, or listening to some bird whistle a tune. Naturally, I was seldom without a pimple or itch somewhere on my skin. I can recall very clearly the events of one spring when I had just turned twenty-four. As usual I had been in the country over the week-end, and as usual I went to bed the next night doggedly repressing the desire to scratch. My sleep was restless all night, and I had vague intimations in my dreams of increasing enormously in size. YVith the com- ing of daylight I could smother the subconscious troublings no longer and awoke. Great balls of fire! My dreams had not been dreams at all! My torso had swollen to the size of a hogs-head and my left arm where the ivy had started was three times the size of a tailor's ham. Managing to roll to the side of the bed I twisted myself upright by a great ef- fort and staggered to the bathroom. In my dazed conf dition the impulse that directed me to the room was in- deed fortunate. VVhat the next moments held was fright- ful enough, but what might have happened . . . my courage fails me! Spying a pin I somehow contrived to get its head lodged between the fingernail and body of the index linger of my right hand - my fingers were as stiff as a firehose about to burst and, not knowing why, I jabbed the point into the center of my left bicep. The pin flew out of my finger. a sound like thunder cracked my ears, and a solid stream of lymph shot at an incredible speed straight for the wall. The torrent acted more like a bullet than a bomb, boring a hole clean as a whistle clear through tile. plaster, and two rows of bricks. I quickly twisted my arm so the fluid now with the explosive force released but with unabated volume flowed into the tub. MAY - 1941 I was already exhausted with amazement but the somewhat strange series of incidents was by no means over. The lymph gushed into the tub too fast for the drain to carry it away. I was powerless. I knew the flow must stop, but there was the tub slowly filling up before my eyes, the level creeping, creeping to the top. Unable to move or utter a sound I stood transfixed, hypnotized. You can imagine my relief when with the tub brim- ming full, the river from my arm subsided as abruptly as it had commenced. Thank God, I thought, my ordeal is ended: but no too soon had I rejoiced. As I supported myself on the edge of the tub, bewilderingly watching the last drops run down the pipe, I felt a queer rumbling within me like the sound of a quiescent volcano returning to life, and out of my arm burst another geyser of lymph, again completely filling the tub. All day the process kept up as regular as Old Faithful, until seven o'elock that night when drained to the last drop I collapsed and was tenderly put to bed. Ah, quick is the recovery of youth! Upon awakening the next morning to my infinite pleasure and surprise l found my torso and limbs had returned to their normal size and every last pimple and trace of the affliction had disappeared. Except for a slight weariness I had never felt better in my life. I arose. washed, dressed, ate my breakfast, kissed my wife goodbye, and cheerfully whistling. set off for work. In these days of scientific inquiry I realize that my story seems hard to believeg but I have indisputable evi- dence of its veracity. My wife's great uncle who has since died, would swear to every detail. It was published in all the newspapers at the time, and to this day I can show any doubter the small hole through the wall and a crack zigzagging from that hole to the foundation as the result of the original eruption. 7 The Play's The Thing by S. Davis UTHE PLAYS thc thing wherein to catch the con- science of the king, and the time of the student, Xnigiz- ing. No matter how much work is to be done. or how little time remains before the deadline. the student - or, more correctly. the pupil - is always ready for .i game. I9 XX'liat game? That depends. The only requirements are congenial company. a faint recollection of the rules, and a good imagination. Since tastes in games fluctuate. lets follow a group of girls through S. T. C. For the sake of convenience. call the group XVe. tYou may recog- nize yourself as a memberlj XVe is a constantly shift- ing group. representing all four classes. Some of the members may have had gilded records. some have de- parted by request. and all have visions of a good time. The freshman year has been referred to as the Hhazy daze. During our mental wanderings we did not im- nicdiately turn to games. Instead. we talked and re- sorted to childish pranks of locking people in rooms, greasing doorknobs, and performing elementary scieii- tific experiments with milk. In the sophomore year we had progressed sufficiently beyond the mist to the loafing point. Then came that wonderful night when somebody discovered a bowling game tucked away in a closet. Out of the closet it came, and out the window went the lessons. It was marvelous. Even the poorest could bowl strikes and spares and scores above a hundred. XV e learned to keep score. too. Somebody brought a deck of cards. The fever caught. From hidden corners more packs appeared and from solitaire we proceeded to double, and triple and quad- ruple solitaire. Very intellectual. Try a stiff game of double solitaire during those two fateful hours before a science test - one of Dr. XVest's variety - and see what happens. I t's guaranteed to drive away all thoughts of science. That was the same year Chinese checkers came into being. The first six around the board played. The rest supervised. XVe started bridge too. Some played contract, some played auction, and some just played. Each foursome usually contained all varieties. Such games either lasted the entire night or degenerated into a discussion of poli- tics or religion, about which all of us knew nothing. NV ith the junior year came that horribly vague un- certain feeling which precedes student teaching. For solace we turned seriously to bridge. XVe learned rules which were incorrectly stated, misconstrued, or forgot- ten. XVe began feebly to keep score, but it was still more fun to set the others. And then the senior year - that glorious year when the final bout of student teaching is over and june is just around the corner. In the beginning, someone's papa missed his poker chips. YVe had them for draw and Michigan poker until the wee small hours. To cele- brate the end of student teaching, we started pinochle. That was even more complicated than bridge. XV e were never certain whether we were melling or melding. XVhat a let-down for the next bridge hand! It always seemed to have nothing but spots. After three years, we began to play bridge with ven- geance. Because we now frowned on cheating and had learned to keep score, we became more conservative and counted our honors before bidding. Sometime about three fifteen in the afternoon when everybody has virtually disappeared. cock your ear for muttered voices and laughter. Follow your ear, and there, in all probability, will be a group of students deeply engrossed in some insidious game. If you stick around long enough, one of the players may remember about a faculty reserve book, and you may be invited to join the game. O happy day! A Fashion Poll by SHIRLEY HICKS HAVE YOU ever heard of a fashion poll? I haven't Q that is. until nowj but here is one. taken from various comments made by the student body. First of all, the question: XVhat do you think of the clothes this spring? You would be amazed by all the answers I received, but here are a few excerpts of the fervent discourses on the subject. Too much on the straight side. Should be short and full if they are to please me. Broomstick skirts are terrible! XVouldn't have one. Sure. I know. Vogue features them. but you won't catch me in one of them. 20 I abhor Dutch caps. Those frilly collars are good on navy dresses. only. They're very feminine. but so impractical. hard to keep clean and fresh. Spectator shoes in navy or brown are still tops. Of course, the loafers are really wonderful for play. and the huarachas are 'right there' to supply that Mexican at- mospheref' Violet or any other shade of purple is awful. Nothing can replace the pastels. particularly in plaids. or the de- pendable navy. Nothing as smart as a torso-length jacket. I like the masculine lines which. incidentally. help the figure. TOWER LIGHT I t'Don't you love those adorable bonnets, with perhaps a veil to make you feel just a little sophisticated? They're so much better than those little ridiculous hats perched over one eye. A'Cive me Kolinskys and I'll ask for no more. The luggage shoes and bags are the smartest thing out this spring. records bags and shoes are all right, but they're being run in the mud this year. The clothes are better looking this year than they have ever been, especially where suits are concerned. UI haven't seen anything particularly different or out- standing. Things are about the same. A'Clothes are tailored and simple, Thats why they're good. Every time I asked my question I was met by an en- thusiastic reply of I like 'em! So, here is the consensus of opinion on spring clothes. It's also food for thought. XVhat do you think? Dissertation on the Manly Art of Mastication THE ADS ASK us to employ the wrappers to dispose of used gum, but I'm sure they mean when the ehewer is ready, not when an instructor Qand it's always an in- structor!j says the place for gum is in the waste bas- ketf' or kindly desist. There are numerous occasions when this precious gum is indispensable. For instance, when in class one is called upon unexpectedly, one invariably stands up to give some asinine answer. But not the gum-chewer! The period required for L'parking his gum gives opportunity for deliberation, so he is never guilty of speaking before he thinks. Another classroom use for gum is as a metronome. VVhen a non-rhythmieal student is called upon to di- rect his class's singing or rhythm, it is quite easy for him to stay with the music if he chews in the same tempo. And then there is its aid for the so-called slip of the tongueg a social use. One has said something he shouldn't have said and, in his embarrassment, grinds his teeth together, invariably catching his tongue between them. But not the gum-chewer! His delicious masticatory inorsel cuddles and earesses his dentures, making them quite harmless. XVe must not overlook the beauty treatment con- cealed in this small package of magic. For one penny we can have conveniently a facial or whatever it is that pre- vents the development of a double chin before one is twenty. There are undoubtedly some few poorly bal- anced people who will prefer to wrap a towel around their heads and hide behind closed doors while-experts knead mud pies on their faces. But not the gum-chewer! No, sir! Is it not a disconcerting thought that one must dis- pose of this treasure before entering a classroom or be ostracized? Teachers fail to recognize the essential values of a piece of gum. VVe students don't need a lift with a Camel or a refreshing 'tpausel' with a coke. XVhat we want is a good-sized piece of Gum! MAY - 1941 A Room-mate Quiz by CEXVLINDOLYN F r3L'1's ALTHOUGH MOST of us don't hesitate to criticize others, how many of us have ever stopped and taken in- ventory of our own habits Qgood and badj, allergies, and individual tendencies? How many have ever paused long enough to consider that your room-mate would like to kick you out of the room because of something you do or say? VVhen one tires of a hat, one can throw it aside. Room-mates are not like hats: you cannot cast them aside after a misunderstanding. Here are a feyv questions that should help you to find out where you stand. If you heed not, don't say you weren't warned when you find scouring powder in your face powder and cold cream in your shoes. Let's begin with habits along personal lines. YVhen you undress for bed do you play displayer and drop your clothes over the desks, chairs, etc.? Sleep in them? Or do you hang them up? Before breakfast is your con- versation grouehy, pleasing. or somniferous? Now this is between you and me - do you think your room-mate is more attractive than you are, less attractive than you are, or as ugly as sin? VVhen discussing debatable topics, can you keep your voice and temper on a plane of 1800, or do you stamp your feet? Are you 99--HXIOO percent immune to at least three of these plagues: spitefulness, snobbishness, tactlessness, boastfulness, insincerity? Now let us consider your standing in relationship to that Great Collegiate Custom - borrowing. Do you? Do you borrow only in an emergency? Prefer not to bor- row or lend? Depend almost entirely and completely on the wardrobe of your room-mate? Finally, let's see how you act in a Collegiate Emer- gency. On the night before you arc to take an exam your rooin-mate invites in a half-dozen girls for cookies and eatting. XVould you depart gracefully for a quiet nook or the library, join the party, or commit inaylicm? So what kind of a room-mate are you? 21 RQ? TT u Q21 EDITORIALS A LETTER TO THE STUDENT BODY I hope I will 'be able to justify the faith you have shown by electing me as your Student President for I9-ll--IZ. We shall have a difficult task ahead of us - that of making our Student Government an even more demo- cratic and efhcient organization. Only by cooperation and willingness-to-work shall we be able to surmount any obstacles that may block our progress toward that goal. Yours sincerely. HENRY ASTRIN. g.-.r NO PINK TEA! by CQENEVIEVE. HALLE There was much talk of democracy and the demo- cratic way of life at the Convention meetings in New York. Now that we have resumed our casual routine of college life what are we going to do about those ideas which challenged and inspired us in New York? Are we going to make a definite attempt to be concerned with democracy in our daily lives? XV e have been told by our elders that only twenty-live years ago American citizens and soldiers were giving their lives to make the world safe for democracy, in a war to end war. XVe know, now, that democracy was not saved by their fighting and sacrifices. Today the leaders of the totalitarian powers are attempting to con- quer the world. Their victory over Great Britain would mean that almost three-fourths of the earth would be under the control of the Nazi-Fascist dictators. XVhat, then. would be the fate of our American democracy - the democracy that is our heritage. the democracy that we are proud to discuss when we gather at conventions? Var is a challenge to us: it must be removed from our lives. Of course. if we want to abolish the institu- tion of war from the earth we must act now and act together. The leaders of our nation are acting. You will admit that they have made us national-defense con- scious. Blen have been drafted and war materials are being manufactured. The United States Government will give all possible aid to Great Britain and other countries resisting the Axis system. 22 However. whatever happens on this earth of ours is the immediate concern of every one of us. YVhat can we do? Our statesmen are active. XVe can support their policies. VVe can also assume daily responsibilities to make democracy work in our college, our communities and our homes. In New York, speakers urged students to work out a scheme for democratic living. They said that the essence of the spirit of democracy rests in the recognition of, and respect for, the abilities, potentialities, limitations, and feelings of all people. Naturally, it would be difd- cult for us to learn a democratic way of life or even to teach children democracy without actually experiment- ing with the democratic process. The single word co- operation might be considered as a usable equivalent for the dehnition of democracy quoted above. Certainly at college there are many opportunities for faculty- student cooperation, especially in relation to extracur- ricular activities and clasroom procedures. There are also numerous ways in which each one of us. as an indi- vidual, can help democracy function every day. XVe can knock all the chips off our shoulders and take the time to participate actively in Student Council affairs. to vote, to make a flower contest successful. to report a dangerous hole in a Glen trail, to support a lecture ex- periment. and to know the interests and problems of our fellow students. just because the preservation of democracy requires effort. sacrifice and study. don't wait for someone else to preserve it. If you want to live in a democratic United States and enjoy the benefits it provides, you must be an intelligent citizen and take an active part every day in oiling the wheels of our democracy. ,gr ARE WE MIEN OR MICE? by BIARY Sixrox How great is life! How much it can do! Now. more than ever is the time to determine its value: that is. the mystery of its human value. After all. what good could a piece of gold. a house. a nation be without life? Yet man wants more than mere life - for that is gone in a minute. It is hard for us within our little self-sufficient worlds TOWER LIGHT to see beyond the bonds of our physical environmentg it is hard for us to think of ourselves as we really are - the Lipper level of the animal kingdom, but animals just the same. It is hard for us to get on top of this whole turmoil of a world and see the flimsy. flailing arms of this foolish animal slapping his kin, destroying the prog- ress he has labored for years to produce, using the divine powers the Creator has given him to bring destruction on himself. I Yes, he has established his mastery over the other forms of life, but within his own ranks lies disaster. Al- though he proudly points out his progress and growing control over nature, he clings stupidly to the social standards of his primitive ancestors. Ile may have a name for that something that makes up his life and that of his fellow-men, but he has no greater respect for it than the cave man. Should he meet force with force. give an eye for an eye, an ear for an ear? lf this be the goal of man, wherein is he greater than the other animals? Is there not something apart from that body - that 98 cents worth of dust? Is there not a truth, a beauty, a person- ality that is eternal? VVhy, then, should we be so con- cerned with these things that are only present for a moment? How can we sing hymns of praise and glorify the human soul? Is it logical that our shallow lives are being developed for eternity? n How Are You? People by CATHERINE GRAY GOOD MORNING. How are you? YVhizzzz . . . whizzzz . . . a cloud of dust and IT, the agent of the question is gone in a blustery spring 'Wbreezef' OR, all in one breath: How are you. Can you lend me a nickel for a coke? Comes nickel, goes person and you have yet to answer the first question. OR How are you, l'm Hue, was awfully sick yesterday, you look grand, I must dash . . . GOODBYE. Are you afllicted with these experiences? Does your head spin everytime someone asks you how you are? Are you still waiting, and not patiently. to answer the ques- tion? Vlfell, students, so am I. Every day someone is going to ask you how you feel. Most of the time you feel line . . . manage to squeeze in the word Milne between the passing breezes or Hyiug words. But there are times when you are going to feel so low - I mean, so incapacitated that you'll want to tell the world so. Then, my friends, nothing or nobody is so irritating as when IT refuses you the opportunity to air your feelings or to show where those measles or that operation was. You can rail against Fate all you will, but the world moves too rapidly to be concerned with you beyond those three words and a question mark. If you expect to give an answer and to receive sympathy, either get yourself one of those rare bosom pals or go back to the plan of the ancient Chinese who would not discuss busi- ness until several hours of conversation had been passed and several cups of tea liquidated. Inst imagine the ab- solute thrill of telling to an attentive listener . . . first, your symptoms. You know. the ones you had a week MAY - 1941 before and the prcsentmeuts you had two months ago. Second, about your illness . . . those agonizing moments when life meant nothing and you muttered deliriously. Ah, death where is thy sting? tQuoted from Hamlet by VVilliam Shakespeare, Act Ill. Scene Ill - I hope.j About, third, your convaleseence - ah, many a story unfolds from here - the relapse, the ray of hope in the valley of shadows, the Hrst flowers you saw, the first time you could blow your nose without feeling that you were dynainiting and saudpapering. YVouldn't it be heaven to relate a story so outlined and organized? There are a few people, however. who do not long to relate their troubles - frankly. they're not interested in theirs or yours. These people live in agony . . . every time someone says How are you? they expire. XVhy? Because they have yet to beat the other fellow to the punch to say Allow are you? Mentally, they tear their hair . . . more and more people say How are you? Hrst. They get hot inside, their hands shake, complete disintegration of personality takes place. All of this be- cause of three words. Somebody either ought to do something about the people who utter them or about the words themselves. XVhy not be willing to spare a moment every time you say, 'Allow are you? OR else substitute a positive statement. say nothing at all, but for GOSII SAKIZ. don't say 'Allow are YOU? XVhieh reminds me, dear reader. ISXCLISC my lack of manners, my naiveness, my lack of iinesse. l'm AO un- used to society that I forgot my conrtesies. I meant to say at the Hrst . . . HOW' ARE YOU? GOODBYE! YVhizzzz! 23 THE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE Book Review by Doius KL.-xxx Come lV'i11d, Come Il eatber. Daphne du Maurier, New York: Doubleday, Doran 8: Co., Inc., 19-il. 'NYC can never have peace in the world until we have peace with our neighbors and in our own home. This bit of common sense which appeared in an Eng- lish newspaper is actually the underlying thought of this book of less than one hundred pages in which Daphne du Xlaurier has turned from fiction to reality. The fa- mous author of Rebecca has presented true stories of everyday English people who have faced the challenge of war and are helping their country to secure peace among nations. Their arms. however. are not guns and munitions. but unselfishness. tolerance. moral strength and courage. The scenes of their battles lie in their own homes and places of business. One of the most vital stories is that of a miner who clamored for world peace but first had to bring peace into his own home. Through the infiuence of a eo- worker. C-eorge began to realize that he. through his in- temperance. was responsible for the wrangling and dis- harmony in his home. not his family whom he accused. XYhen he made peace within himself. joy was restored in his home and there was such a noticeable improvement in his work that he was given a promotion. There is another story of the wife of a retired Army ofhcer. who. by breaking down the barriers of class and shyness. was instrumental in helping a group of soldiers to win an important battle. When the furloughed sol- diers entered the quiet town which was her home. Mrs. Hills first reaction was one of dismay for she felt that their presence would destroy the peace of the village. This ungenerous attitude was soon replaced by one of humbleness and desire to make comfortable these men who were fighting for her and all their countrymen. So she took advantage of this chance to do something for her country and put the conveniences of her home at the disposal of these men, She enriched their lives with stories and advice based on her own experiences. The moral effect on the soldiers was such that all were able to survive a severe battle in which they participated. These are only two of the ten accounts of the courage and bravery of certain individuals in war-torn England. who exemplify moral steadiness and reliance on God for guidance. Each story is a valuable lesson in moral defense 24 L... l ll P- 1 for Americans as well as those immediately in the, ii throes of war. ,eff Book Review by K.-XTHRYNE P13'rRor'F Delilah, Marcus Goodrich, New York: Farrar and Rine- hart, 1941, 496 pages. Delilah was the sailors' sweetheart - as pliable. stub- born, proud and thoroughly human as a ship. and an old American destroyer at that. could be. Manned by as motley a crew of seventy-one as ever befell an ocean- going vessel. she plied the waters of the Philippines in order to break up a gun-running game among the Bloroa, to find the secret Iapanese underground river. finally to end in Cavite where she was hauled out for a com- plete relit. That in the main tells where the action takes place. Although the author denies that he used real charac- ters. we know that somewhere in his travels lfor he. too, was a navy man on a similar destroyerl he must have encountered like people. compounded several of these characters into one which. coupled with his imagination, managed to bring forth brilliant and poignant interpre- tations of unforgettable seamen. The author has the un- erring ability to analyze character essentials. He never draws the curtain over the innermost thoughts or the frankest actions of any of the crew. Therein lies the secret of the greatness of this novel. for he lets the reader see Lieutenant Commander Borden. Lieutenant Fitzpatrick. Une Blood. O'Conncl. Niarrington. Cruck and the rest as distinct personalities. Trying to define the theme of this book is like look- ing for the proverbial needle in the haystack. The closest approach to anything that qualifies as a main thread is TOWER LIGHT 1 l i i a . I T l S i 3 5 the unique friendship which sprung up between Lieu- tenant Fitzpatrick and young VVarrington. Their rela- tionship arose after the two had accidentally discovered their mutual love for books, philosophy and the arts. . The book itself is written at a leisurely pace. Mr. Goodrich has the uncommon ability to direct his prose style into many channels. Not only does he describe places and people but he can, by powerful narration and description, create a .mood by which the reader is so carried away that he comes back to this everyday world with an unwilling thud. The story on the whole consists of finely drawn pic- tures and studies of the various crew members. The author spares no punches as he writes of each in a truthful and compelling manner. At times, and there are several. the reading becomes painfully realistic when he gives accounts of the barroom brawls. of the grudge fights aboard ship when personalities clash, and most of all of O'Connel,s mad and helpless desire to get even with the ship's crew for what he thinks is their unfair interruption in his own personal affair. The latter inci- dent is a masterpiece of writing. Goodrich describes this terrible outbreak of the Irishman's in words superb in quality and meaning and makes this tragedy of death and destruction a fitting prelude to the arrival of the fateful radiogram. Fitzpatrick reads to all the men on board that the United States has declared war on Ger- many. The men's only answer is a sudden loss of spirit and a dejected quietude which is interrupted by Cruck's rough order to get the boats ready. fort to a new author who has much in store for thc read- ing public if he continues to create such novels as this. ,er Book Review by M. BURDETTE Mrs. Miniver, Jan Struther, New York: Harcourt, Brace 8: Company, 1940. Mrs. Miniver is a diary-like account of the everyday life of an average English family. Mr. and Mrs. Minivcr and their three children, Vin, Iudy, and Toby, seem to constitute a model family for harmony, happiness, health and anything else needed. The heroine, Mrs. Miniver, is an excellent wife, mother, and friend. Her intelligence and profound think- ing are illustrated in every episode developed in the book. Each chapter is a different situation - The New Car, 'Christmas Shopping. 'AA Drive to Scotland, Gas Masks. At the Dentist'sf' etc. Little everyday things which seem so common to the most of us are all made vivid and important under the clever pen of the author. XVar hits Europe - 1939 - the beginning - but it has little effect upon the Minivers. They do get fitted for gas masks and take in a group of little evacuees. but otherwise life goes on in just about the same way. Nfrs. hffiniver is a modern and light piece of reading - good for relaxation - yet, underneath it all runs a strain of deep thoughts concerning life and many of its little problems and perplexities, as well as its numerous Now the men understood why Delilah had received such a complete overhauling at Cavite. They were going yto fight something which was intangible. distant, and a thing which they had no conception of. Quite different from the native uprisings and wars which they were ac- customed to quelling along the archipelagoes. y Of women in the story there are noneg that is, there are l no women who come into the picture or affect the lives of the men directly. One might say that the only women iare those which exist in the mind of each individual man - and ones that seem to be on shipboard with them telling secrets and giving them advice. The only others are those who remain in the shadowy background, ithe women who occupy the waterfront saloons and brothels to which some nayw men know the familiar lpath. u 5 Marcus Goodrich tells of the mechanisms of an old fdestroyer, of the hardships the men must undergo in 'order to make a ship live and move, of the perilous ,adventures which accompany landing parties that in- fvestigatc dangerous territories and of events which shape i the lives of the men at sea. Delilah flows majestieally to a romantic conclusion and should prove a satisfying ef- 4 4 5 MAY - 1941 joys. May COMING EVENTS 10-Assembly: Dr. Foster Dowcll and students - Shirley Reddon, Marie Kindcrvatter, Gladys Hain, Iohn Kle- Cauley. and Iulius Rosenbaum: Sociological Implica- tions of the Draft May 20-Tennis, XVestern Maryland at Towson May 23-Deadline for Iune Towiiiz Lrerrr lunior-Senior Prom Museum of Art: News Photos by Baltimores Best News Photographer lthrough Iune llj May 26-Assembly: Nutrition Discussion May 20-Prcsident's Garden Party for Graduates Klay 30-Baseball, Frostburg at Towson Iunc 2, 3-Professionals for City Students Iune 6-Museum of Art: .X Century of Baltimore Collecting ithrough .Xugust l3a Iune T-Ioint Luncheon Nlccting of the Kappa Delta Pi and Chi Alpha Sigma Fraternities at l ol-lock in Newell llall Iune 12-Second Semester Ends lime 13-StepsSinging - Class Night Iune l-l-Alumni Day lune l5-Baccalaureate Service Iunc lf-Commencement 25 RURAL CLUB TRIP TO WASHINGTON by M. BURD13'1 1'is Saturday, March 29, dawned bright and sunny and at 8:15 found a merry group of Rural Clubbers and their friends ready and eager to start on the long awaited trip to XVasliington, D. C. Twenty-one voices sang t?j ev- erything from 'AKaty to Rhum Boogie all the way over. The Senate was not in session, unfortunately, but we looked around in the Senate Chamber, examined the murals in the main section of the Capitol Building, and took pictures on the steps. The XVhite House was to close at noon so the sight- seers hurried over just in time to be caught in a group of several hundred exeursionists from various parts of the State of Massachusetts. A letter from one of our State Senators enabled us to peek into the famous Blue Room, Red Room, etc. Pigeons flew above our heads and squirrels stared saucily up at us as we snapped a picture of the lovely white structure, which houses the First Lady and Gentleman of the land. XVith much laughter and one catastrophe Qwhich sev- eral of the girls would be delighted to relate to youj we ate a hurried lunch. The day was half over and there was so much we wanted to do! Another tough break - the bus had to be towed to a garage for several hours' treatment for relapse of a gasket for sumthin'j. So, with much gay chatter and a few aching feet, we traipsed past the Capitol and up to the new recently-opened National Art Gallery. The rest of the afternoon was spent admiring the lovely Mellon masterpieces. the huge indoor gardens with their stal- wart plants and gay fountains, and the lovely benches with soft cushions. You may be sure that the latter pro- vided a haven of rest for many feet and legs unable to go farther. The wind was blowing and the sun had escaped be- hind dark clouds when we started back to the thus. It began to snow - did someone say Spring was here? Some of the more energetic individuals Qfreshman. they werej had taken time out to walk over to the Mon- ument and Lincoln Memorial. XVhilc we waited for the bus to return. we went into the Congressional Library and gazed down on the workers there. The mosaic on 26 EVENTS the stairway is something which shouldn't be missed by any visitor. It was time to return and we hadn't seen the Supreme Court, the F. B. I., the Bureau of Engraving. or the Shakespearian Library. But that could wait. VVe were ready for food and rest. Rounds, jazz, classics, and gay nineties' songs again filled the air with just a little less vigor. It was a grand trip! Thanks to all who made it possible! VVon't you join us next year? ,er THE MEN'S REVUE The Thirteenth Annual Mens Revue was held on March ZS. Although there was no record-breaking crowd, a fair number of dudes and dudies were present. The program consisted of selections of Straus' waltzes by a mixed chorus, a medley of modern piano compo- sitions. and vocal solos. The feature event was a play en- titled HThe Minuetf' The program ended with a group of college songs by a double male quartet. Music was furnished by Dave Nelson's Orchestra, augmented by the college orchestra. A lot of spirit was shown by those who attended and everyone joined in the fun. ,if S. T. CYS BIT IN THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY XVC were represented at the National Congress of the Pasco Collegiate Fraternity, also known as the Pan- Ameriean Student Chain, which was held Friday, April lS, at the Carleton Hotel in XVashington, D. C. Miss Bader led the two-car caravan which included Iona Claytor, Lila Moore, Helen Cohen, Selma Coughlan, ldelle RieHe, Betsy Smith, Kay Emmart. Geraldine Hughes, Mitzi Goldstein and lack Koontz. ,bf GLEE CLUB NOTES by M.-xizGUiziu'1'E XVILSON Back to school. oh. what fun! Yes. Student Teach- ing was enjoyable and a wonderful experience. But, TOWER LIGHT . came Monday afternoons and no Clee Club rehearsals. Then I longed for S T. C. and the sessions in Room Zll. . At present your regular reporter, Ruth Maleson, is out on the great venturel' and I know we all wish her the best of luck. Meanwhile, yours truly will try to keep the 1 TOXVER Lrer-ri' readers posted on Clee Club notes. From now until Commencement you are likely to hear the group singing at any hour of the day. Their schedule is a full one. On May I0, the Clee Club will l participate in the May Day proceedings with their ren- I ditions of Roses of the South by Strauss and Spring- tide by Edward Crieg. The Ieanie Croup also plans to sing 'Dream of Summer which many will recognize as the beautiful and ever-popular 'AMerry VVidow i VValtz by Franz Lehar. l l l l i i i The Convocation Service, Iune I4. is next on the Clee Club schedule. At that time the Clee Club, augmented i by the Alumni Clee Club, will sing 'tLight of Dawning I by Tschaikowsky and the brilliant A'Roll Chariot by I Noble Cain. For Baccalaureate Service, Iune 15, the Clee Club 3 plans to sing 'APraise to the Lord by Christiansen. The I Ieanie Croup will sing Lamb of Cod by Bizet for this occasion and the Seniors as a chorus will also partici- pate. singing 'Send for Thy Light by Mily A. l A Balakirew. The program for Commencement, Iune I7, is as fol- lows: The Omnipotencen . Schubert A 'ASpringtide'l . . . Edward Crieg 'tCarmencita . A Mexican Folk Song A'The Lord's Prayerv . . . Malotte uAlma Mater The Star-Spangled Banner l l of i A PIANO CONCERT by SYLVIA GELXXVASSER I The piano recital given at the college on April 21 was exceptionally fine. Miss Teresa Calamara performed in a masterly fashion a varied program. The first part was devoted to the Bach Italian Concerto. This Concerto was treated in a delightful but unemotional manner as all Bach's music should be. Since Miss Calamara seems to have a definite Hair for Chopin the outstanding part of the program was the Chopin group. She. created the desired mood with the B minor Nocturne. In direct contrast of mood wasithc C minor Ballad in which she displayed both a smooth, Hrm tone and a brilliant technique. The third part of the program was given over to Ravel. MAY - 1941 The descriptive Icux D'Eau revealed still another side of Miss Calamara's musical personality, Miss Calamara came to us from Boston. After an cx- ceptionally successful debut at lordan Hall, she went to London where she studied under the great Tobias Matthay. Vtfhilc there she won the VVoodward-Smith scholarship in a contest of which Myra Hess was a judge. Teresa -Calamara is now back in Boston and is rapidly becoming recognized as a Hnc concert pianist. For a small woman, Miss Calamara has a surprising amount of power. Her playing has a clear. liquid quality. The Chopin Etudes which she played here adequately displayed her teclmical ability. But Miss Calamara also has a keen understanding of the music she plays. She is not merely all technique, instead, she uses this as an aid for the most important thing, interpretation. As a vis- itor at our concert said, I've never liked Chopin until I heard Teresa play it. Our thanks to Mr. Miller for bringing his friend to us. ,kf THE 75TH CELEBRATION OF COMMENCE- MENT WEEK ACTIVITIES FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1941 Every class 9:30-10:30 A, M. l0:-t5-11:00 A. M. ll:00-l2:30 P. M. 1100- 3:00 P. M. bas a special remzion this year P R O C R A NI -Business IX lecting Room Zll, Administration Building -Formation of Academic Procession -Academic Convocation, Assembly Ilall Administration Building -Luncheon 3100- 4:00 P. M.-Class Meetings 4100- 5:00 P. M.-Campus Activities 6:30 P. M.-Subscription Dinner Ball Room, Lord Baltimore Hotel 9:00-12:00 P. M,-Dancing Ball Room, Lord Baltimore llotcl CENERAL INFORMATION Business Meeting The principal matters of business will bc: Reports of Committees Election of Officers Induction of Craduatcs of Baltimore City Training School into State 'I'caclicrs College Alumni Asso- ciation. Academic Procession Classes wishing to participate in the procession notify the Chief Marshal, Mr. llarold Moser. State Teacliers College, and three- tions for formation will he sent. All others xx ill he seated in the auditorium. Academic Convocatioii At the Academic Conxocation our college xxill he host To resentativc delegates from the colleges .intl unirtrsities nlrich 1 - 27 .tipt our invitation, Dr, lidgar Knight of thc University of North Cimlinii will deliver the address. The portrait of Dr. Henry S. XX'cst will be presented by friends in the Baltimore City School Systcni. where he was Superintendent of Schools from 1920 to 1925, and the Alumni Association of the State Teachers College at Towson. where hc was principal from l9lT to 1920. Luncheon Cafeteria luncheon can he secured at a nominal cost in the Newell Hall dining room. Sandwich lunch can be secured on the campus. Class Aleetings Special rooms for class meetings will be assigned to classes re- questing them. Send your requisition to Miss Adda Gilbert, State Teachers College. Towson. Maryland. by Iune 10. Have you been reached by your class president? lf not, send to Miss Mary H. Scarborough, S902 York Road, Baltimore, Mary- land, for information concerning plans for your class reunion. Campus Activities Laying Corner-Stone of New Gymnasium Alumni-Varsity Ball Game Dinner The subscription dinner will be served at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Price, S2,00. Please send your reservations with check or money order. stating also year of graduation, not later than Iune 10 to Mrs. George Schluderberg, Dunmanway Apartments, Dun- dalk, Maryland. Alumni dues Sl.00, unless already paid, should be forwarded at this time to Mrs. Schluderberg. There will be no dinner speaker. A short Pageant will be pre- sented after the dinner in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the college. Dancing will follow the Pageant. Guests may be invited to the dinner, Subscription will be the same as for members, S2.00. Out-of-Town Alumni Provision has been made in the dormitories to accommodate out-of-town graduates at the rate of T5 cents for room and break- fast. Reservations will be honored as received. Requests for room reservations should be made before Iune 10. Address: Mrs. George Schluderberg, Dunmanway Apartments, Dundalk, Maryland. Dressing rooms for men and women are located in Newell Hall and in the Administration Building. Accommodations can be had at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. OFFICERS - 1940-1941 President . . . Mrs. Daniel H. Carroll of P. First Vice-President . . Mrs. Amelia Brouillet Second Vice-President . . Mr. Hammond Cantwell Third Vice-President . . Miss leannette Carmine Secretary ,... Mrs. Albert I. Groshans 9010 Harford Road, Parkville, Md. Treasurer .... Mrs. George Schluderberg Dunmanway Apartments, Dundalk, Md. Field Secretary . . Miss Mary Hudson Scarborough 5902 York Road, Baltimore, Md. Executive Committee - Miss Margaret Coe, Chairman Mrs. C. Albert Kuper Mrs. Albert H. Reifsehnider Mrs. Raymond Wilson Dr. M. Theresa XYiedefeld STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Tasker G. Lowndes. President, Cumberland Albert S. Cook State Superintendent of Schools. Towson Secretary-Treasurer Dr. I. M. T. Finney, Vice-President. Baltimore XYendell D. Allen, Baltimore Mrs. Alvin Thalheimer, Baltimore Robert E. Vining, Baltimore Charles A. YVeagly, Hagerstown Henry S. Mhiteford, Xlhiteford SIDIQI AS THE MENS spring sports program moves into full stride there are three chief sports which are the very heart of spring competition. The national pastime. base- ball. is of course getting the spotlight. XVe're making no excuses for our baseball team. lt is handicapped, how- ever, in many ways. The squad has yet to win a ball game but every game, regardless of the opposition, the score or the inning has found a fighting, driving Towson team on the field. Of course. results and scores are im- portant. but considering the game from all angles. in- cluding the short season. the limited player strength. the impossibility for many worthwhile practice sessions. and the power of the opposition. it is indeed a help to be able to say that we have a club that goes down fighting. 28 S I3 T S by JOHN Horisr The tennis squad was paid a brief but destructive visit by a hard-hitting Kalamazoo team. Again it was the same story. The boys were in there pitching every min- ute. Stottle, O'Connor and others are always driving hard, but again it is not this that they write about in the newspapers. lt is not this which beats teams like Kala- mazoo and Hopkins. The thing that beats these squads may be summed up in these words: lack of daily driving drill. The same thing is faced by our baseball squad. For the best answer as to why this is thoroughly impractical at S. T. C. speak to Mr. Minnegan and Mr. Miller after they have lost a practice session to eight other school ac- tivities. Again let us keep our eyes on the lighting spirit which keeps our tennis squad driving. The Penn Relays. an event that is a mecca for college TOWER LIGHT trackmen, is in the ofling. The track squad is gradually priming itself for a fine effort in the mile relay. A squad of approximately seven will make the trip, only four. however, will actually compete. Towson has gained some prestige in former Penn Relays, showing up favorably in stiff competition with some of the country's finest col- leges and universities. Most of the men now running have either broken or tied former marks set by last yearis team. As the result of an extremely line showing against a strong Loyola squad, S. T. C. looks mighty promising. Capably led by Bob Cox, Penn Relay veteran, and lulius Rosenbaum, Penn freshman, you can count on S. T. C. to be in among the strong iinishers. VIRGINIA WHITE GAINS IN COLLEGE BADMINTON QTaken from the New York Herald-Tribune, April 4, 19415 Eastern college badminton approached its peak yes- terday as the third annual men's and second annual women's singles opened in the Fifth Avenue Country Club. The doubles will start today and all finals will be played tomorrow afternoon. Both singles tourneys took off without defenders. Tad Murray, of Princeton, has gone to Florida to recuper- ate from a bout with whooping cough, and Miss Harriet Martin did not return to Bryn Mawr this year, thereby rendering herself ineligible. Miss Virginia Lee VVhite, of Maryland State Teachers College, second-ranking woman player in her state, as- sumed Miss Martin's place at the top of the draw and led the womens Held into the quarter-finals. Spencer Davis, of Princeton, men's No. l, was among the ma- jority in his draw from opening hostilities by the de- layed arrival of Yale entrants. Lewis Caulk, of Lehigh, No. Z, Thomas Blair, of VVilliams, No. 3. and Iolin New- bold, of Princeton, No. 4, won the only three men's singles played. SPRING SPORTS SCHEDULES AT TEACHERS COLLEGE - 1941 TENNIS Date Opponent Place Friday, Klay 2 ,... ..... B luc Ridge Towson Friday, May 9 ...,. ..... I Iopkins llopkins Monday, May 12 .. .Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Thursday, May 22 , , ,,.,. tYcstcrn Maryland Towson BASEBALL Friday. April 25 ......,... Drew University Drew U. Tuesday, April 29. Thursday, May S , Thursday. May 15. Friday, May 30 ., MAY - 1941 . ...., Hopkins ........Bluc Ridge .. . . . . . .Blue Ridge . . ..... Frostburg l lopkins Blue Ridge Towson Towson Fashion-right Styles for Spring IIUGHSGHILD, KOHN 81 00. KN HMEHT ON THE THBLEH By EDGAR A. GUEST I sing this glorious land of ours, Here your ambitious boy may be Its motor ears and shows, Our President if he's able. Its little gardens, gay with flowers, But what spells U.S.A. to me Its phones and radios. Is meat upon the table! If IM Zukag Quelafff !z 4 GK THE WM. SCHLUDERBERG-T. J. KURDLE C0 BALTIMORE, MD. SIB: Open Your Bank Account With Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOVVN, MD. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited 1 THE MT. VERNON SCHOOL OF LAW ' Founded 1935 Evening Course - 4 Years - LL.B. 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TIIE IIIHII TIIUIIIIEIIBIIIIT C0 310 GIVE A GIFT WITH A SCHOOL OR LODGE SEAL LIANUTFACTURERS OF Sflaool, College, Club, Lodge, RINGS AND PINS See Our Display In The Book Store BANQUET F.svoRs -:- TROPHIES N. PACA STREET VERNON 1052 NEED SOMETHING IN A I-IURRY? CALL SARATOGA 6262 STEWART'S PERSONAL SERVICE WILL SI-IOP FOI? YOU OI? WITI-I YOU. SID WHAT by LEE 3 ICCARRLW. New York!! Something happens every minute and it usually happens to you. Every night. pardon, every morning about 2 o'clock. just as you are getting some much-needed sleep. there comes the shrieking. ear-pierc- ing scream of police or fire engine siren. Then at T130 or S o'clock when you are Hnally asleep. the phone rings and the operator tells you that it is time to arise. The first morning in the big city! XVhy does everyone look so bleary-eyed? XVell. almost everyone! After a pleasant and educational morning and a peaceful afternoon, we commandeered a fleet of taxi cabs and dashed miracu- lously between autos. trucks. pedestrians. and police- men to the C-ripsholme Restaurant. A few of the girls filled their plates from the smorgasbord and then they were almost too full to eat the dinner. After dinner. an- other fleet of taxis scooted across town taking us to see The Doctor's Dilemma. Midnight found us with the multitude on Broadway, as quoted from our con- vention program. More were found in bed or at least in their rooms taking it easy. Friday, Saturday. and Sun- day were the same. Never a dull moment. The rain on Saturday was unpleasant, but it didn't dampen our spirits. Enough of the formal or planned part of the trip. You probably are more interested in some of the informal gatherings and fun fests. One of the Spies reports a swell pajama party in one of the girls' rooms on Thursday night. Dottie Kapp and Veneta Lambros are now qualified as first-rate elevator operators. They learned in one easy lesson. XVhy does Charles want to have his teeth parted in the middle? And what makes him think that his barber can do it? Time will tell. Broadway at 5 A. KI. is quite an interesting place. More traffic and more excitement than there is in Tow- son during the rush 4?i hour. That same morning. seven of the more hardy mem- bers of the group ate waffles for breakfast. Host of them had never eaten breakfast at -I A. BI. before. They were the best waffles we ever ate. XYill someone try to straighten Charles Gross out? He hasnt been the same since he left New York. lane Stottlemyer fell in love with New York. One morning at an unnamed hour. she leaned out of her window and cried out. 'Good morning. New York. honey. All in all. we had a glorious time. thanks to the well- laid plans of Nliss Scott and Bliss Brundick. TOWER LIGHT I I J I i Spring seems to be in the air. The writer of this col- umn is always happy when spring and warm weather come. They seem to bring bigger and better columns. There is more to write about. Along with spring comes Easter and this year as usual Towson was well repre- sented in the Easter Parade on Charles Street. Among those seen were Marie Parr in blue with her escorts, Mary Reindollar snapping pictures of everyone she knew, Norma Kirckhotf, Dr. Tansil, and a couple of our boys. I hope I haven't oiTended the Fashion Ed- itor by inserting this little comment. P. S.-Helena Townshend was also among the paraders. Along with spring and Easter comes baseball, which always supplies us with at least one perplexing situation a year. Late in the Hopkins game, big Ed Clopper was confronted with this one: A man on tirst and third, none o11t. The man on first began to walk toward second. Ed stood there watching the baserunner for a moment and then turned and threw the ball over the third baseman's head. As a result both runs scored. With a close score, it wouldn't have been funny, but as it was, everyone in- cluding the coach and Ed had a big laugh out of it. In connection with baseball, an orchid to Misses Wells, Steuart, Townshend, and Ogier for the line sup- port they have given the team at the games played away from home. VVith spring comes a new slogan from the Dorm. Lights out at IO, candles out at ll. I hope none of the girls suiTer from eye strain. Bob Lytle has become a Casanova of the Hrst rank. He's with his third girl this year. Are there any odds that he'll make it an even four? Iohnny Shock and Mary Reindollar said that they were going to proof-read the iirst returns for An Revoir the last night of the Easter holidays. Ha! Ha! In closing let me quote a comedian f?j on the radio. His comment to the students who went to New York and to many others should be quite pertinent. He said, The rising generation is retiring when the retiring gen- eration is rising. Until next month when this writer will write his last column and name his successor, according to the tradi- tions set up by Norris YVeis, I say to you, individually and collectively. So Long and So XVhat? Compliments of . . . TOWSON THEATER MAY - 1941 GRADUATE WITH HONORS IN HUTZLER CLOTHES Smart seniors have learned a lot. They know that Hutzler's is the place to buy clothes of which to be proud. They know that they prefer necessities and accessories from HUTZLER BFQTHER3 Ci Civic Clubs, Churches, Fraternal Organizations, and All Social Gatherings XVill Protit by the SPECIAL GROUP PRICES on Baltimore's Finest Ice 1 c E c n E n m C Always Good Tarts Team' Also Special Molds and Ice Cream Cakes for Birthdays, Holiday Parties and Home Gatherings Order from Your Nearest DELVALE Dealer or Telephone UNiversity 1151 DELVALE DAIRIES, INC. 2050 HARFORD ROAD - - UNiversity 1151 The Secunh jaatiunal Bank uf illiutnsun, Mb. .f1rtis1r', Sign Wriferr' and E11g1'f1rer1ng Szzpplzku' - Stzniio. School and Dmflfrzg Room Flrrlllflzrc -- Dl'iIlL'lIIg l!.1tri'I.z1 ---- f'i:fi:gi :TT! U . f CO. b Hash as at X2 SUPPLIES 214 WEST FRANKLIN STREET BALTIMORE, MD. XYERNON 37011 A Deposit of 81.00 Opens a Checking Account in the CHECKMASTER Plan at The r 0W5 012 LLV5 61165 ' illiutnsnn 3Rat1unaI Bank INCORPORATED TQWSON, MD. Our only charge is five cents for each check drawn and each deposit. TOXYSON MARYLAND Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 Spring Is Here, And: Charlotte Smvrk, class of 1940, was married to XVilliani XVillasch on April 9, 19-ll. They will live in Rich- mond, Va. Helene XVhite. class of 1937. was married to Ensign XVilliam Tait, Ir., at the Naval Academy on April 16. 19-ll. Ensign Tait is stationed in Honolulu. Gertrude Tear. former member of the class ot 1939. was married to XVilliam Roemer on March 23, 19-ll. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ogier have announced the en- gagement of their daughter. Helen. to Edward Cib- bons, Ir. On Saturday, April 12, 19-ll, Miss Marie M. Neunsinger was married to Mr. Bror Olof Larsen. Magdelene Smuck, class of 1919, died March 16, after a long illness. Marv Ann Douglas, class of 1935. and C. Haven Kolb, jr.. class of 1936, both former Townn LIGHT editors, were quietly married at the Church of Our Savior on Saturday, April 5. Mr. Kolb is teaching in the science department at the Forest Park High School and Miss Douglas teaches at School No. 10 in Baltimore. APOLOGY TO PORTIA by NANCY METZGER The quality of inertia is not strained lt starteth as a mild delay in eiftort - Upon the fevered brow. lt is twice cursed - lt curseth one in body and in soul Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The Highty student better than his guing v His face shows the force of temporal power The weakening of will, and reason, too. XVherein doth sit the dread and fear of lack: But inertia is above the teacher's sway. XVhen it's enthroned in the students heart 'Tis decadence to life itself. Masorfs Service Station Betboline - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 2-I-Hour Serfice TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 COMPLIMENTS OF - H. STREETT BALDWIN BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. HAUT COlNlMISSIONERS OF BALTIMORE COUNTY 32 TOWER LIGHT 1, 1 1 c.,M':. f1.f ' 1:.. 1,1 L', ,JW V 'A ,Wx lx J-,. ,. 4. .V W. .,. .I - H.',.4 u k . ,ik . 1 4, H , 4 x A 1 6 .LM Lf'f',i gm ' J ,. rg .EQ - '-'1... .VA -K-, w M, ',.u v r M ELLEN DREW Chesterfield's Girl of the Month curren ly s arring in P t t t Reaching for +lz.,fx- .I 1X Q 'f j ' s W ti . ' Clflfff flflb ISI Mfobr Keller Erie 0110, Cbokv fmohflg FIRST is the word for everything about Chesterfields...from the right combination ofthe worId's best cigarette tobaccos to the most modern manufacturing methods. You will find in Chesterfield everything you want in a cigarette. More and more.. . Chesterfield is called the smolcer's cigarett Nl l I. LI O N S l C pyrigl 9 I. 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Takklg For exen greater economy and con- venience, Qet Camels by the carton at g attractive carton prices. 1 ll' ' l 'l' I ' 1' 'll I l ,Nni1Ii4'.iruli uyou Bef I SIYIORE camelsp they burn slower and slnelke Extra Mild EXl'I'C Flavor always hits flue spot. Tllati wlmy I clan? fire of smelling Camels 56 ..Righr, Ben Hogan! The smoke of slower-burning Camels gives you 280 Less icotine than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested-less than any of them-according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itseU llAncl Camels ,smoke so much Cooler, fool H 421, I . . -xi THAT CAMEL FLAVOR is something very 39 special, says Ben Hogan falmt-sl. les. too-fast burning in a cigarette dulls flavor and fragrance. 2- Camels burn slower. give you a cooler. more flavor- , - ,.. f ful smoke . . . and Dlt'J'I zzzitothza Qsee alxovei. - 'gg' J '-ix' I , .T-!'? l7W J 5 4 ' 'W' O' 1' 1 3' , , 0 ' O c , QAL 52257551-I C, I - RET-rss U ' ' ,Z iff czlgurelfe 0 dsfierzlfaccos ERI LL! A lilil' f VOLUME XIV - JUNE ISSUE NUMBER 9 xi' 4' .Q X THE srnrfr Q EDITORS CHARLES GRoss PATRICIA HERNDON FRANCES SHORES IAINIES IETT BUSINESS MANAGERS IOHN EDVVA RD KooNTz CATHERINE GRAY CIRCULATION Margaret Heck Norma Gambrill Margaret Gunnells Annetta XV right ADVERTISING Muriel Frames Margaret Lowry Virginia Roop DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Ar! Audrey Pramschufer Marguerite VVilson Katherine Decker Athletics Iohn Horst Audrey Mercer Harry London College Events Nancy Metzger Frederica Biedermann Sibyl Davis Inez Schultz Editorial: Genevieve Haile Mary Simon Gordon F. Shules Assemblies Alice Carr Helen Pross ALICE MUNN - Fashions Ellen Elste Shirley Hicks General Literature Marjorie Coulson Ieannette Ulrich Mindelle Kann Mildred Snyder Alma L. Gott Norma Kirckhoff Humor Lee McCarriar Iule Thompson Alma McAx'oy Margaret Zillmor Library Mary Di Peppi Doris Klank Katherine Petroff Catherine Swain Mary Burdette Music Sylvia Gelwasser Ruth Maleson - hlanaging Editor PAGE COMMENCEMENT XVEEK ACTIVITIES. . . 2 OUR SENIOR YEAR .......,,..,, ,.,,, S IINGLES ON THE SENIOR CLASS . 6 RETROSPECT .......... .,,.....,, 7 LAST LETTER ......,. S ETERNAL CHANGE .......,,... , . , . . . . . . 9 A RURAL CHAPTER ..........,...,,.,,........ I0 XYORK ON PUBLICATION STAFF BY ALUMNI. . . I3 THE XVORM'S VIEXV .........,...,.,,,..,...,. I5 SPRING .,......,.,.........,...,.....,..... I6 POEMS .,r..............,....,...,.,,..,.. ,.........,., I 7 I MUST GO DOXVN TO THE SEAS AGAIN. . . .......,.., . . . IS ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE, AND RELIGION .,,,. Il BUILDING BODIES FOR DEFENSE ,,.., ,.......,, ,... 2 2 FALSE LIBERTIES ........,..,. ,,....,, . . . . ...,........ . Z-I SURVEY OF MARYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS COLLEGES ..,..... ...... . .,....,..,.,.....,...,. 2 5 TIIE RENDEZVOUS XYITH NEPTUNE.. . 26 STRENGTH AGAINST THE STORM . . . QS EDITORIALS ...,,,..,...........,..,. I0 CREATORS IN OUR MIDST .... 30 SEE MISS' BADER .......,.,.. Sl ASSEMBLIES ...,,,....,,........ 32 THE LIBRARY ...........,......,,.., :G PLAYTIME, CLOTHES AND YOU .... .. S5 THE STUDENT COUNCIL AT XVORK .... 36 SOME UNSUNG HEROES OF S. T. C.. . 3' CENSUS OF PERSONALITIES .....,.,. 39 MUSIC .............,...........,.. -+0 COLLEGE EVENTS ..............,. -ll MEET MR. MATH E. MATICIAN .......... -H GLEN DAY ............,. . . ....... . . . . -I5 XYIIERE TO LOOK FOR S. T. C. STUDENTS ..... -lo A SIXTH GRADE PLAY ........,... . +- SO YYHAT .......,,...... . . 'iq SPORTS ............... Ali' SENIOR CLASS PICTURE 4 TI-PI CUT IMarguerite YYils0nl . 1- -vw SENIOR-IUNIOR PROM PICTURE .. CUT tliathryn Deckerj ........... .. A THE TOYVER LIGHT is published lnoiitlrly-Oetolncr through Iune-by students of the State Teachers College at 'l'orr'soi2, --ml. 51.50 PER YEAR ..... 2-gi crisis rf. cel elf SE OU attended once on a time the Maryland State Normal School IBaltimorel alias the State Normal School at Towson. alias the State Teachers College at Towson, did you not? Your Alma Mater is an oldish lady now, seventy-live years of age. Seventy-live years to a student of anthropology seems but the space of a heartbeat. although to an Alumni Committee who have been roaming for months-on-end. all over seventy-five years of records, it has seemed quite a sizable stretch. And they made many discoveries. which opened their eyes. They wonder whether you know about all these years of romantic adventurings of your Alma Mater. For. after all. you are a part of that story - you, and all the thousands and thousands of other graduates-most of you Marylanders-who have sojourned within the limits of this institution. Now let us consider: Did you know that your Alma Mater has occupied. successively. four plants in four locationsg that she took part in the earliest movement in America to furnish public schools with trained teach- ers: that her first principal was a rare and wise Irishman of Hhne scholarly attainments . educated in universities in Belfast and Dubling that this educator was an ad- vanced thinker. 'Awho had come under the influences of Horace Mann, Henry Barnard and Colonel Francis Parker: that on one occasion Dr. XYm. C. Bagley of Teachers College. Columbia University. said of our col- lege. Personally, l think it has the best faculty in any teachers college in the countrynz that. to one of our alumni vacationing in New England, a new acquaint- ance said of our campus. that Hit is one of the country's 2 EYNSART EEIIIINIENIIEIIENE WEEK IIlllIlIlIE5 most beautiful campuses . . . second only to Princeton University ? And did you further know that one of the features of this 75th anniversary celebration has been an attempt to prepare a history of our Alma Mater? Finally, did you know that the history is even now in the printer's hands. and will be on sale Alumni Day. lune l-lth? Shouldn't you buy one to own yourself? Title: Seventy-Five Years of Teacher Education. Authors: Committee of the Alumni of State Teachers College at Towson Lucetta Sisk IgClass of l90SfI. Asst, Superintendent. Baltimore County Elsie Hichew XYilson IClass of IQOSI. Editor. Federation News of the P.-T. A. of Baltimore County Margaret Coe I.Class of l9l0l. Vice-Principal, Park School, Baltimore E, Irene Little IACl2'lSS of l9lZl. Teacher in a school in Balti- more Mary Hudson Scarborough IClass of lSQll. Field Secretary of Alumni Association I Licla Lee Tall, Former President of State Teachers College, Towson Irene M. Steele iClass of l0OSi, Principal Campus School Margery XYillis llarriss IClass of lQ3oI. President of Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. State Teachers College of Towson XYilliam C. Bader IClass of l9ISI. Teacher of History. Poly- technic Institute, Baltimore M, Theresa Xliedefcld lClass of l9O-II. President of State Teachers College, Towson Lena C. Yan Bibber IKCltlSS of lSfHl . Chairman Editorial Com- mittee TOWER LIGHT I I PLANS FOR CONVOCATION Saturday, June 14, 1941 - The academic procession will consist of four parts: The first section will include Delegates to the Academic Convocation from colleges, universities and other schools. These delegates will assemble in the elementary school auditorium. The second section will be made up of delegates representing educational associations, edu- cational fraternities and societies, and other organiza- tions and institutions closely associated with educational work. The third section will consist of members of the college faculty. The fourth section is composed of the honor guests of the school - members of the State Board, school administrators, and Dr. Knight, our guest speaker. A special student marshal group is being trained to act as guides, registrars, and temporary hosts to the vis- iting delegates. Reception centers will be located at con- venient places outside the main buildings to register guests and direct them to proper places of assembly. The president of a sister college, Dr. Fred G. Holloway of Western Maryland College, will give the prayer and benediction. lVlUSICAL PROGRAM: The Light of Dawning - Tschaikowsky-Federlein Roll, Chariot ---- ---- N oble Cain Alma Mater ----- - The College Song The Star-Spangled Banner These will be sung by a combined Glee Club of Alumni and students, numbering about 120. DR. XVEsT's PORTRAIT: The Alumni Association and friends of Dr, VVest in the Baltimore school system will jointly present a por- trait of Dr. VVest, who was principal here during one of the most trying times in the history of the institu- tion, the period of the first World VVar. The portrait has been painted by Dr. Denman Fink of the University of Miami faculty. It will be presented to the college at the Convocation by Miss Laura Cairnes. principal of Eastern High School. Sunday, June 15, 1941 - BACCALAUREATE The graduating class voted to invite Dr. Don Frank Fenn of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, to conduct the Baccalaureate services. JUNE - 1941 BTUSICAL PROCRAINIZ Praise to the Lord - Chorale - - Christinasen Glee Club Send Forth Thy Light - - - - Balakirew Graduates - - - Bizet Lamb of God fAg1lUS Deij jeanie Group The orchestra is preparing UCujus Animam for Bac- calaureate. This composition provides opportunity for solos by two seniors, accompanied by the orchestra. For Commencement, in addition to the Processional, we play Beethoven's Country Dance in C . The Alumni orchestra is joining with the In-College orchestra to play the Processional and Recessional at Convocation and also a number on the program. The last is to be the MinuettO' from the E Flat Symphony by Mozart. Tuesday, June 17, 1941 - CQMMENCEBIENT Dean Harold Benjamin of the University of Maryland will give the Commencement address. The faculty will walk in a procession. MUSICAL PROGRAINIC The Lord's Prayer ---- - Malotte-Deis Glee Club Omnipotence --------- Schubert Graduates and Glee Club Springtide --------- - Grieg Carmencita - Mexican Folk Song - - Riegger Glee Club The Alumni Association will hold. in honor of the seventy-hfth anniversary of the college. a dinner and dance at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on Saturday. june fourteenth, at six-thirty o'clOck. There will be no din- ner speaker. The dinner will bc followed by a pageant presenting episodes illustrating the progress of the school. Both amusing and serious features will symbolize the passing of time and the evolution of thc school into the college of today. Many talented members of the Alumni will sing. dance. and act. A great number of persons are expected to share this diverting cyenizig, fir the Close of the pageant. dancing will begin and c 1- tinue until 12 o'clock. '. '1 'B ,Q U Eff W' I 'P 3 ,P . Tx Vu 4 E P ! I i ' I 3 AF ii 3 'S if I a E A . :lar v 'th ,.. ii sz.: 1.u! fi V D.-Bi .gf EAST? HX :Hg ,Q KI 'ggii2z'1!s Pi-52555-E liidiiiii LSRADUA'rx5s or 194 1 1 Q3111: Semi r gear by RUBY YOUNG E VVERE Seniors! This fact was unbelievable to most of us. XVC soon realized it, however, when we saw by the Handbook that we had two weeks to get ready for the Senior Benefit Dance. Since half the Senior Class was enslaved by the duties of student teaching, the half that was free had to get to work. ln attempting to keep up with progressive education, the seniors instituted a new educational theory for that night in October. The auditorium was transformed into a schoolroom where the three R's were taught. Not the proverbial three R's, but the three R's of the new senior educational theory - Rhythm, Rhuinba and Romance. The students seemed to respond instantly to these three R's. In fact, everyone was an UA student before the evening was oycr. To have a Yearbook or not to have a Yearbook - that was the question. Many agents of publishing companies were interviewed. All the prices they mentioned left us wide-eyed, but everything comes to him who waits. XVe waited, and opportunity knocked in the form of a publisher with an eye toward the future. XVe became determined to make a Yearbook a reality. The book-to-be had to have a name. A contest was held and the name chosen was 'Au Revoir - Farewell till we meet again. Only the preliminaries were completed when half the senior class left for student teaching and the other half returned. They set to work and before we knew, the Yearbook was well on its way. Christmas, with its excitement and happiness, rolled around. This Christmas meant much to the seniors be- cause it would be their last as students of S. T. C. The Barn Dance left everyone breathless, but glowing with excitement. A new year, 1941, was here. VVithin a month, the senior class was back as a whole again, the first time for a year. We began work by planning an Au Revoir Benefit Dance. The auditorium was transformed into Coney lsf land. It was quite realistic with balloons, weight guessers, grab bags, hot dogs and pop . Despite the fact that old man weather turned the tables on us that night, the dance proved to be a benefit to Au Revoir . Demonstration Ni ht came and school snirit reached its Jeak. Com etition was keen and the final scores were 1 l close, making it hard for the seniors who were judges to make a decision. To get back to a major problem of the year, the Yearbook. Time fiew as we planned and executed bake sales and card parties which were a financial boon to A'Au Revoir . A red letter day - May 9 - arrived and with it a stately procession of seniors in their caps and gowns. Could these dignified young men and women be our same carefree classmates of the last four years? Another red letter day - May 10 - arrived. May Day with all its beauty, pomp and ceremony. The former is a mere outline of our senior year. A mere outline because there is much that is omitted. The fun we have had working together, the joy we have shared in overcoming our difficulties. the happiness we fir' 1 . 'Q perieneed together because of our success, and the bonds of friendship which are tlecpanwotcd in flu H ii it one of us - these could not be recorded in words, but they exist and mean much to us who are sc JUNE - 1941 XX rite some iinglcsf' we wcrc told Sonic iinglcs, what arc they? 'Iinkling sounds or ringing hells? Perhaps Il one-liorsc slmy. Xllnt ii minute, NYehster gives .X better meaning here: Croups of pleasing rhyming sounds. 'l'liat's not our linc I fear. NYC, the class of Senior 4. Are not poets, that we know, Still we like to write in rhyme, So, readers, here wc go! Vie would like to brag awhile, Our classmates make us proud. Listen while we tell of them In statements long and loud. Betty Stcuart is our prize. Iler beauty made her queeng And all of us are bold to say A finer pres. ain't seen, XYells is day vice-president. She has that beauty, too! Let us add - for making fun, She is surpassed by few. Our resident pres. is Heck - A smile for everyoneg XVatching Peggy iitterbug Is really lots of fun. Reindollar is next in line, As secretary she's a wow! And for her work on Au Revoir , She's also asked to take a bow. STUDENTS OF SENIOR 4B XYc must make mention of Miss Young. For Ruby is our boss: Regardless of the problems, Our pres. is never cross. Eickelbergs vice-president, A mighty line one, too. I'Iale's the one who takes the notes As very few can do. Now Thomas Counts the money, And keeps the records straight, It would really not be funny If our accounts weren't up-to-date. XVho is that gal so full of pep - One we surely wish to thankg She is our Student Council rep., No one else but Doris Klank. Our senior year would be a flop VVithout some recreationg Linzey and Tapman planned all this, Making our class a sensation. We cannot close without a word About our Yearbook staff. XVe know they worked like dogs, but still They wcren't without a laff. Shock and Tapman - editors, And Coulson with some nameg In spite of all their troubles, They worked well just the same. Townshend and Ogier sure got ads, Their record can't be beatg Parr and Tribull wrote us up, Youll see that they were sweet. lett wrote us some poetry. Far better than this stuff: McCarriar and Price were picture bugs Of that you know enough. Shepherd did our art work, XVhich really was quite swellg And of course we are indebted To those who had to sell. XVCII, so much for our Yearbook, So much for officers, too: XVe want to change the subject To include some more of you. A big two-tone gray Buick Speeds off to town each day - Barker, may we have a ride, If you are going our way? XVe all have senioritis. VVe hear from all the teachers, They surely make us feel That we are horrid creatures. For four long years we've gone to class And listened to the teachers, But after Iune we'll be the ones, The great infallible preachers. XYhen we get our B.S. degree, And go away from here, XVe'll always remember Miss Ioslin And her pleasant words of cheer. After ollege, What? byloHN SHOCK HE academic procession begins: our emotion increases as the music swells, stirring words of advice and congratulations are delivered, a small white cart is wheeled into placeg one by one dignihed figures with triumphant expressions move gracefully to the speakers stand, diplomas are awarded - the reces- sion begins. Some with smiles, some with hezny hearts and some with half-hidden tears gather with their fam- ilies. receive hosts of congratulations and bid farewell to several of their classmates. Thus a period is placed at the end of that complete four-year sentence which rep' 6 resents much joy, and laborious but pleasant work, in- terspersed with Worry. College is over only to return in memories - never, in reality, for time is a creature never caught retracing his steps. But now that college life is over, what has the future in store for us? Indeed, it would take more than the mysterious crystal ball to answer such a question ac- curately, yet it is a question foremost in our minds and we must find a release for our thoughts even though they be mere unsupported prophecies. Legal papers, such as contracts, which mean positions TOWER LIGHT in our profession, will make their debut as a part of our lives. Arduous work will follow and I've heard that our real work and education really will begin after the first four years of college has been completed. Therefore, it would be wise for all of us to adopt the Boy Scout mot- to: Be Prepared , so as to meet this task of self-educa- tion fully equipped. This new work surely will mean new friends and new contacts some of which will be more lasting than those acquired in college. Our career will present problems which may seem unanswerable Ibut we intend to answer them satisfactorily, some supe- riors may seem intolerable but we shall soon understand I ount ten and call them dears . Many will find satisfaction with this life but others lwho still have their eyes on higher stars in the heavens of success will endeavor to lengthen their names by 'adding M.S., PhD., etc. I Then, too, there is one other thought that merits con- gsideration even though men only are directly con- erned, The much discussed Selective Service Act may again make headlines in our future. Yes, regardless of 3ur contracts and plans for the future there remains a :luty which will cause many of the stronger sex to table their positions and plans until some future date. For how long - only the .Supreme may know. This new life may appeal to some of them and other opportunities may be pursued in preference to those tabled'I. XVill it be easy for those who remain loyal to the profession to take up their yoke where they released it? If after college - what could be answered, these problems would be solved. Still we can only put forth suggestive answers. As yet the entire future has not been included and possibly can never hope to be but some may feel slighted if one additional idea isn't included. Contracts or no contracts, jobs or no jobs, plans or no plans, draft or no draft, there is one natural and happy tendency which will be included in the life history of 1941 QI ean't state numericallyj - it is known widely as the Hstate of holy matrimonyf' Multitudes of students in this world C67 from this eollegej will sign the end to college life in lune. Many others will write 'Ito be continued . Regardless of the route selected at the close of it all in Iune, the success in After College VVhat? will be inevitable if a few of Shakespeare's words of wisdom are taken to heart: Things done Well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear: Things done without example in their issue Are to be feared - . etrospect by ALICE CARR EMERSON SAID, in one of his lectures, l'The ac- ions and events of our youth are now matters of calm- st observation. They lie like fair pictures in the air. He ntimates that events seen in retrospect take on beauty ind pleasure and that we remember joy rather than un- iappiness. This fact must be true, alumni confirm it. If this is so, Clee Club rehearsals will appear as mo- nents when the soul freed itself and soared with Grieg Dr waltzed with Strauss. Literature classes, in retrospect. will not be hours when you looked in Long, or Blank- nship, or Hubbell, for a choice bit about Nathaniel rlawthorne, but moments of communion with great ninds, a sharing of the noble or humorous thoughts of rving, Emerson, and Milton. When you see a large olackbird gliding in effortless flight, you will delight in ecognizing it as a Turkey Vulture, forgetful of the bird vvho walks in' the snow when your lingers were numb ind your hair falling out of curl. Some day you'll recall JUNE - 1941 I I I 1. I l I I I . I I . . clnldren may appear to be devils but we shall .I I Ia 1 I an unusual fact or a really funny pun, and youfll think of the author of it and smile a little. NVhen you see a Towson street car, you will remember that delightful morning when you found a seat, or when an S. T. C. man offered you one. You will forget the XVednesday assemblies spent in perfecting Send Forth Thy Light and remember how solemn and clear it sounded at the Baccalaureate Service. These strange and marvelous things will come to pass. for Emerson and the alumni say such miracles do occur. I suppose the next best thing to being an alumnus. en- joying such reminiscences, is the pleasure a senior has in looking forward to the time when he will be an alumnus, looking back with affection at S. T. C. state- ly rising on a hill-top, ever our delight. ln fact. just the mention of Alma Materu brings a misty feeling about the eyes, but there must be a seientihc reason for it. It couldn't possibly be sentiment - or could it7 Last Letter State Teachers College Towson. Maryland lune 10. 1941 Dear Mother and Daddy - Do you realize this is the last letter I'll write to you from college? Yes. those once-dreaded four years in col- lege have too rapidly passed. It is with a sigh of relief and a feeling of sadness that I see Commencement approaching. Before I came here a friend said to me. If you never teach a day. college and dormitory life will be worth the money you spend. Of course. I thought that was fool- ish. N ow I understand and agree with the statement. Among the students I have made many friends whom I shall always cherish. Living and working with them has meant so much to me. They have taught me a great deal about living with others - sharing work. play. joy, and sorrow. I would like to say to them what Gwendole Grandcourt said to Daniel in George Eliot's novel Dar iel Deronda: It is better: it shall be better because have known you. To the faculty I owe an unrepayable debt. I hope shall be a better teacher for the examples they have s before meg understanding patience. desirable standar for work. and sharing of materials. as well as fine cha acter and personality. To you. my parents. I owe all this opportunity. Yo have made many sacrifices both known and unknovw to me. For these, for your understanding and encourag ment, and for everything that has made my last fo years so happy. I thank you. I hope that in the yea to come. I shall be able to repay you in every w possible. Your daughter, ANNEITA. A DAY WITH A SENIOR by IXIARGARET H.A.LE Listen. Underclassnien. and you shall hear Of the toils that beset us in the senior year. Twas half-past seven by the Tower clock XVhen a senior arose, of her knowledge took stock. She said to her room-mare. whose eyes were half-closed. Had I slumbered at ten. I'd be on my toes. Last night was such fun. but today I shall dread To face Bartlett's Quotations with an empty head. Even more do I fear that Science class. While peering through microscopes. two hours we'll pass. Commencement rehearsal at eleven forty-fiveg VCe'll have time oft for lunch and a bit of iive. Then off to room two hundred and twelve XYhere into the problems of nations we delve. In Economics. too. we shall sharpen our witg 'XYe've an instructor who tells the significance of it. To the library at three we rush like mad 'Are there any books left that can still be had?' In sun. snow. or rain to the athletic call. The Seniors respond. knowing there'll be fun for all. We work for the Townn LIGHT. Au Revoir. too. The publications read by you. you, and you, Seniors need nourishment. so again we dine. Studies are next. at least from seven to nine. A short trip to Towson. a privilege that's shared Only by seniors. and by seniors 'tis aired. Trudge back to our rooms. to the books we've not read. A shower. a gab-fest. and so into bed. Then. heres to the seniors: thev're a class That is noteworthy. aspiring. and quite unsurpassed. 8 A Family Affair by IE.sNNETrE Ioxrss SOMETIMES TEACHING is a family affair. Toda right in State Teachers College, there are some W can boast that their mothers attended the Maryla State Normal School or Teachers Training School. I going over the records these are some of those we foun Student Itiother Katherine Clark '42 ..., .... B Iary L. Shipley Marjorie Hisley '42 .... ...,,..... L illian Prinz Iohn Horst '42 ............ Ada Cunningham '16 Ieannette R. Iones '42 .... Ieannette B. Russell '14 Doris Kehm '42 ....., . . .Marguerite Hruska '17 Anna Garthe '43 .......,....,..... Robert Fields Bremer Shearman '43 ..,....... Marie Hartley '13 Anne Holland VV right '43 Jule Holland XVright '43 ....... Grace Holland '14 Gertrude Bleakley '44 ...,,... Helen G. Iones '19 Theodore Katenkamp '44 .... Lucille Schamberger Betty Mussington '44 ........ Ethel Fairbanks '13 Mildred Slagle '44 .......... Bernice B. Barnes '05 XVe are proud that our 73th anniversary is being ce brated by Alumni of State Teachers College who sons or daughters are attending State Teachers Colle now. Let's continue to make teaching a family alfa more sons and daughters should attend our Alma Mat TOWER LIG I, Helen Gifford '41 ...... ....... E dna Eternal Change by ji-:AN KEBIP HAT freshman has not often gazed upon the quotation. Nothing is constant but change. in Dr. Lynch's room? Have you ever thought of yourself in the light of this? Have you reflected upon the life about you. your environment? Has there been no change? Surely no mortal sense could be so dulled that it could not perceive rapid changes in this world of ours today. Let us. though. narrow our sub- ject in this vast field and try to recall some of the changes in our college during the past three years which we have seen and which perhaps we have helped to bring about. First, the faculty which is near and dear to us can be Considered. Cf course, you remember Miss Keyes, who served so faithfully in her field of health education. Upon her retirement we were fortunate in having Dr. 'Stein to take her place. Remember, girls? Miss VVhitson 'was with us for a year substituting for Mrs. Larsen. Re- wmember. boys? Mr. Crook has joined the Department !of Science to help us in our struggle. Mr. Miller has lchosen to grace our faculty in the field of English. All of :us except the freshmen will remember Miss Van Bib- iber, and even they have been made aware of her nntir- -ing efforts and helpfulness since her retirement. espe- cially in connection with the 75th celebration of our college. Dr. Foster Dowell has taken the big task of teaching Sociology, History and American Government upon his shoulders and we dare say he's a whiz. All right? Now . . . Our curriculum. did you say? Of course it's vitally changed. just three years ago our college became an ac- credited college requiring four years to complete the course, at the end of which time we receive our Bach- elor of Science degrees. Many new courses have been added and several old ones retired or incorporated with Eothers. Last year the practicum course was introduced. It has proved most valuable in that it has given us ac- ztual experience and it has afforded an insight into stu- .dent teaching. The junior seminar. introduced this year. ihas also been of much benefit to us for we have learned much about Maryland that we hadn't known before. lThis new program provides for excursions and lectures :through which we have definitely grown. v Stand up and eheerg stand up and cheer for Teachers arCollege because welre putting her right on the map of ssports. Our college has been nobly represented at the l:Penn Relays during the past few years. For the first time a tennis team has been successfully organized this jl'JUNE - 1941 I 1 year. Badminton. too. has recently come to the fore. Hockey. due to popular demand. is now a fall elective for the girls. XVhile speaking of sports, we might men- 7 tion that the N arsity Club was fiCO1lf'f11UCCf o11 page ZSQ s The Seniors Saw It by lXI.-xB13L XX7IIITEI-'ORD DID YOU KNOW' that our privilege of wearing ankle socks is rather recent, that the day students used to par- take of their mid-day meal in what is now Dr. YVest's laboratory. and that magazines didn't occupy one whole room in the administration building? Yes. in our four years here it has been off with the old and on with the new. Our student body changes every year: dif- ferent students promulgate different ideas and idealsg and we students are responsible, in part. for the changes in the college. Our class did not have the privilege of the practicums. VVe stumbled into student teaching, hardly knowing what it was all about. Praeticums, naturally. are subject to many changes, but they are a step forward. As fresh- men. we remember those city juniors stepping out into what is termed the cold. cruel world. Now. city stu- dents as well as county. are sheltered for four years be- fore they are on their own. VVe dorm students have not been a dormant group. Tripping the light fantastic now and then. we raised the money which made possible some furniture and curtains in the foyerg radios were a struggle but evi- dently Santa Claus gave us the privilege just before we went home for the holidays. Minor. perhaps. but very pleasing to us all are the coca-cola machines. the extended time for cafeteria breakfast, the increase in the length of the Easter vaca- tion, and the moving up of Monday assemblies to quick- en the powers of digestion. Most of us are not so keen about the extra steps to the mail box in the rush between classes. Coming back to the dormitory on Sunday night has its disadvantages. too. However. these unfavorable changes are over-bal- anccd by the others. To you. under-graduates. we recommend that in the years to come. you aim for no entrance exams. non-co1n- pulsory assemblies. and a letter once a day in every student's mail box. 9 Rural Chapter by M. THERESA XVIEDEFELD ERE I lie in bed trying to get over the effects of sulfanilamidc. As if that isn't enough, I am beset with the whisperings of conscience which never lct up telling me that tomorrow is the dead line date and I promised an article for the Towrza LIGHT. Miss Munn told me once if I would just write and not labor so over my articles they would be better. So this is the time to test her wisdom on that score. lust write - but what shall I write about? XVhatever I think. I am not able to think. Streptococci see to it that their victim has a rest from all thinking. The best I can do is remember. That's it, reminisee. I have been doing that. All yesterday between naps I lived in my childhood world. I wonder if I can stay awake long enough today to write the chapter I like best. The Year We Moved To The Country My parents had four children and Robert. YVe four children were born in Baltimore City. The year we moved to the country I was fourteen, my sister was twelve. and the boys were eleven and eight. Mother had been ill for a year and the doctors advice was, Take your family to the country where you can be out of doors a great deal. Raise flowers, raise chickens. do as you please, but get away from strain and stress and people. After considerable search we found a place which seemed to Ht our needs in all respects but two: distance from the car line and distance from church. Father said, Don't hesitate on my account. I shall enjoy the walk. XVe'll manage somehow to get to church. So we moved to the country! The house was comparatively new and quite com- fortable. There was a small barn large enough for one horse and one cow. and one small chicken coop on these four acres of land. 'AYVho is going to sweep the four acres? asked XVill, whose Saturday morning chore had been to sweep the city backyard. The place was owned by a Baltimore post-master and his wife. She had inherited it from her father and they had lived on it until their children were grown and all employed. They had divided the estate into three places and built three houses on it. a white one. a yellow one, and a green one. There were thirty acres of open tillable land closed in on all sides by pasture land and wood- land. insuring it all the isolation from stress and strain and people anyone could wish Our neighbors consisted of the families in these houses. There was the owners family. all adults who lived in the best of the houses. The family in the white 10 I I . I ! house had eight children. Their oldest daughter had. a beau and the youngest child was a baby in arms. The peroxide blondes lived in the green house. They were two sisters who drove a strawberry roan and seemed to have a good time. The younger sister had a scarred face because stuff she used to beautify her got into her brains. They moved out soon. XV e moved in in early March. The trees were bare and some snow remained on the ground. It was diiiicult to explain our feelings when we opened the door and looked out that first night before starting out to meet Father at the end of the woods road. VVe had never seen night so black, but with Mother in the middle we held hands and stumbled along. It seemed very bleak indeed I suppose Mother feared many times that she had done the wrong thing but the only thing to do now was go on The first problem to manage on the first day in our new home was that of getting to school. Mother had enrolled us before we moved, so now she went with u this first day. It was the end of the winter term and a teacher was to be dropped because of decreased enroll ment. Four new children meant much. This was a four room county school quite different from the large city school from which we had come. The principal, a youn man, taught the 6th, 7th, and Sth grades, I was in th Sth grade with one other pupil - a boy who, until m coming, had had all his work with the seventh grad children. I am not sure that he welcomed me. It is no so easy to get by when only two are in the class. I re member only one grammar lesson with him. He was t correct the sentence: The boy had a three feet rule i l his pocket. For a long while he saw nothing wron with it. Then his face lighted up and he said, 'fOh! l The boy had a yard stick in his pocket. I was soon a big duck in a little pond. I don't knox valuable experience. I took charge of the room whe the principal was called out. How well do I rememb reading Enoch Arden to the other children. and I su stituted in the lower grades when the teachers wer absent or late. The curriculum of that Sth grade in eluded Myers General History. General Science. Ev books of plane geometry, VVentworth's Arithmetic, a gebra through quadratic equations, etymology. compo sition and rhetoric. and somebody's Physical C-eograph The days grew warmer and we had to get along wit our farming. That land must not be wasted. fConserv tion!! Miss Brown would have said.l Vv'e employed farmer to plow and harrow the land, lay off one ac TOWER LIGHQ l I r I If I I I .Q I. i - how the other ducks liked it but to me it was a new an l ly K 1+ S a I I r A s S V i 'i I I I I W i D , ' I pl I for potatoes, one for corn, and leave one for us to divide into patches as we wanted them. By this time the acre on which the barn was standing had been converted into a barnyard and poultry yard. Father claimed no knowledge of farming, he worked with figures. Mother was the farmer, she had lived on a farm until she was nine years old. Then she moved to Calvert Street in Baltimore. She knew how to cut seed potatoes and drop corn. Wfe begged her to allow us to stay home from school to help plant, as the other farm children did. She humored us for one day. VVe planted a little bit of everything in that extra acre, even peanuts. The peas acted very strangely fto usj. After they had been in the ground about two weeks they all came up and sat on top of the ground. Mother had to replant every one of them. Our crops were poor that year - our best yield was in peanuts. VV e knew that farmers had to use fertilizers but we thought that one year with- out such wouldn't matter so much. I suppose the people who had the place the year before had thought that, too. VVe bought a little Alderney cow and Mother learned to milk her. She turned her head quickly one day and knocked Mother off the stool. Our relatives, who were watching this experiment', very closely, talked a great deal about the vicious cow we had and insisted that we get a new one, but Daisy was merely chasing a fly and Mother learned to sit on the stool with more authority. Chickens were to have been our money crop. VVe bought some fine buff cochin eggs and hatched them under hens, By midsummer we had a Hock of lovely red and yellow chickens in the garden and delicious fried chicken on the table more often than once a week. XVe had several dozen young ducks quacking about the yard and even a few guineas. Then one morning we had a shock. Wlien the hen house door was opened we found the hens piled on the floor, at the door and under the nests, pulled there by rats, or weasels, that had sucked their blood and left them dead. The hens that were left were in a flutter on the roosts. That night Mother put rat poison about, being very careful to keep it out of reach of,the chickens. Major, a mongrel dog we had ac- quired, ate most of the poison and in his misery next day he went straight to the chicken yard. Another dozen or so of the chickens died. Some of the ducks were stolen just when we might have been dreaming of roast duck. Raising chickens did not seem worthwhile. VVe had to have some means of getting to clmrch and about the country. Soon after we moved we bought Old Grugan. He was about twenty when we bought him but he survived for many years. He had been owned originally by Dr. Grogan, a veterinarian, for whom he was named. Our Miss Grogan does not admit relation- ship to him. If so, I could claim relationship to her. JUNE - 1941 He was a lovely big bay but like jimmy XViggs' fit horse he had several bad habits. One was embarrassing and one was exaspcrating. He pulled in at every saloon, and he drew to thc curb and dropped into a slow walk whenever he thought the driver might be asleep. He had a wonderful nature which was a good thing for us. for we children often made a jackass of him. XVe all wanted to learn to ride. YVe'd stand him at the barn door and drop onto his back from the top of the door. Sometimes two, sometimes three, rode him round and round the four acres. ,I never could stick on. If he moved out of a walk, I turned over his head or slid over his tail. He seemed to'like to land me on the ground for then,.he'd whinny and trot off to the barn. Sometimes we played circus and Old Grugan had to play varied roles in the parade. He did not mind the parade, not even the dec- orations we put on him, for he could walk and he had many opportunities to stand - just stand. He did not enjoy the bare back riding stunts in which he had to run around the circle. The hardest work which Old Gru- gan had to do was hauling us about when we wanted to go. Since no carriage would hold us all we bought a light wagon - a black covered one with yellow wheels. Father put two seats in it behind the driver's. Now we had plenty of room and could go wherever and when- ever we desired. Father drove on Sunday. During the week Mother managed the reins. Father called the whip the f'persuader and Old Grugan needed it frequently. VVe children fought for our turn at riding on the front seat, for we soon got tired of riding behind the black curtains. So we rolled up the curtains and then our wagon became an open bus. A bright yellow picnic bus! It never occurred to us that we were an ob- ject of curiosity. VVe went each Sunday to church in that yellow wagon. XVe were different, to say the least. If Mother preferred the curtains down she never said so. She always said, f'Value is found only in reality, and had always warned us against false pride. VVe were putting her principles to the test without mercy. judg- ing by the way Father rubbed up the harness and shined the mounting and cared for Old Grugan's glossy brown coat, his pride had to be satisfied by the appearance of the horse. I feel sure he was greatly relieved later on when we bought a four-seated carriage. That didn't happen until about the time Robert was born. After that event we were no longer free to travel all together. His coming broke up our democratic way of living in many ways. Our cousins had thought our wagon was Hjust grand when they came to see us and traveled with us over the country side. They did not enjoy it one bit when our wagon, curtains up. filled with children. came to call at their front door in the city. The only person who didn't 11 mind was Grandfather. Ile came out to meet us at the front gate. Isle was one of those creative souls who. even at ninctv-three. was always trying to invent something. All his life he had talked about his ability to make crows talk. Now he could really prove it. He would split the crows tongue and then he could teach him to talk. VVe had one crow in a pen - how we caught him I don't know. but of course he died before the lessons began. On the other side of our back fence was a beautiful stretch of pasture lands where cattle grazed for about one week during the summer. That week was a most unhappy one for us for that field and the beautiful stretch of Herring Run which crossed it at the foot of a hill had become our park and playground. One deep sec- tion of clear sparkling water running over white sand and tiny pebbles was completely closed in by the over- hanging branches of the oaks which grew on either side and met overhead. This was a perfect bathing pool ex- cept for clinging leeches and here the boys had their first swimming lessons. Then the stream, narrowed by great boulders, ran over the stones in a beautiful cascade. Here on the boulders were our picnic grounds. XVe built a fire on top of the rocks. cooked our corn and chicken and ate while our feet dangled in the turbulent water of the cas- cade. There I gained my first love for a flowing stream, I learned to imitate the various sounds the water made as it hurried alongg there I composed songs and poems about the stream in all its moods. A small stream ran across that field and emptied into the Herring Run. For a distance of several hundred yards it was bordered on both sides by a dense growth of blackberry vines. YVe called it the jungle. VVe beat paths through this thicket until we could get into the inside. There the loveliest blackberries, many an inch long, grew in profusion. They were as sweet as any cultivated ones and had a better flavor. XVhen they were ripe we picked all day. Mother made bread in those days and one of us could be found at any time of the day spreading himself a roll or a huge slice of bread with stewecl blackberries. Blackberry jelly and jam were stored for winter and we had frequent roly-polies. XVe saw our first snakes in the jungle , and after that. berry picking was attended with some fear. In the evenings we made songs and stories about our jungle and peopled it with more than just snakes. The summer passed and our fall experiences were as rich. if not as exciting, as those of the summer. XVe had such enjoyment from decorating our house with golden- rod. Fox grape vines draped themselves over old trees that grew along our fence rows and big blue grapes scented the air. These were made into more jelly for our winter. XVe picked and dried walnuts and saved bushels 12 of them for candy making. NV e were so proud of our wal- t nut-stained hands and went to school feeling that we were no longer city kids . The chestnuts were best of' all. Hunting among the leaves and finding big brownl chestnuts was like going to Grandfather's on Easter andl searching through the barn for the colored eggs thel' rabbit brought . XVhat sheer delight to find them! YVef spent the afternoons and all day Saturday in the woods.l I can't remember the winter. Only one incident' stands out. Of course, the hill down which we ran toq our beloved Herring Run made perfect coasting. Fatherj made us .1 double-decker and went with us at night toil coast. Early in February the Run was frozen deep. All that good ice! How wonderful to have some of it dur-1 ing the summer. Mother found an article in a farm journal to which she subscribed which explained how ice could be stored without an ice house. The direc-Q tions said: Pile the cakes of ice in a shady place on thei ground separating them on all sides by thick layers 0 sawdust. T hen cover the whole with layers of burlapi and paper and put canvas over all. That looked simple,j' so off to the Run we went. I don't remember how wej cut the ice, but I still can see the size of thosej pieces and still visualize the carrying and pulling of thatj ice up the hill and hear the fussing and grumbling al Mother kept urging us on and promising the luxurie which ice would permit us during the summer. Thi pile was most encouraging when we left it. Then th warm sun of the spring days shone upon it. It soon bej gan its homeward journey back to the Run. That exj perience has served me with an expression which, like carrying coals to Newcastle , covers so many, many situations. I so often find myself labeling an instance of wasted energy carrying ice from Herring Run . i XVith the coming of spring our year's lease expiredj I was to go to the Normal School in September and Wfj had to be nearer to a car line. Mother's health was greatly improved and we all had learned many lessonsi XVe moved in March. XVe had a great deal more to takcj than we had brought and now the last load was ready to go. a load of chickens, ducks. and farm implements, Behind it was our wagon carrying the rest of the liver stock - two pigs. two sheep, the dog. the cat. and thc' guinea pigs. Daisy. the cow, was tied behind. All werq becoming restless, even Old Grugan was annoyed by thi farmfyard music. The Town Musicians of Bremen woulcj have had no show in competition. As the caravan moved off Daisy began to dance. Then the young man whgl , was driving called out a bit of advice which still mains a slogan in our family, Don't get in back of he 7 just don't get in back of her. W ith a flare of colo ' . action. sound. we drew the curtain on The Year VV! Moved to the Country. ' TOWER LIGH'fj.. I I ITHE PUBLICATION - THE INDIVIDUAL THE COLLEGE by ELEANORA BOXVLING KANE fEditor-in-Chief Townu LIGHT - 1927-28g Now in Charge of Radio, Department of Education, Baltimorej GOODNESS, MISS MUNN! VVhat a subject to as- sign a person for an article! Now if it were a spectacular title, you could be pretty sure the reader would be at- tracted by the title, and maybe he'd be carried along, for awhile anyway, through the article, no matter how dull the fare. But with a title like this. you're sort of stymied right off the bat. They tell you, in radio, in order to catch the listener's interest, to establish coniiiet at once, but I just can't think of a single device to carry any- ibody's eye one line below this title. Well, anyway - .speaking of coniiict - there's plenty of that in the life of a college publication editor: conflict with the printer 'When the galley proof doesnlt come in on time, conflict 'with students who don't want to write, conflict with 'students who do want to write and can't, and conflict iwith wary potential subscription material. But there's more to it, of course, than conflict. The Qindividual who serves on the stafi of a school publica- ition derives some really worthwhile advantages from his s-work. VV e have become so used to saying that certain .activities enable children to work well together in ,,groups, that the expression seems to be almost an edu- cational cliche. Yet, the expression does apply to the .college editors who must ignore individual and personal differences and pull together for the good of the publica- rtion. The editor not only must work well with other members of the staff - he must keep in touch with stu- dents in other classes, clubs, and all school organizations, :so that his contacts are ever expanding. Not only does 1-he widen the circle of his college acquaintances, but he -must cultivate many people on the outside as well: iprinters, guest writers, and advertisers. For a future fteacher, who will have to be able to meet andydeal with many types of people, this is a valuable byproduct of work on a college publication. Of value, also. is the sense iof responsibility that an editorial position engenders in a student. He must be capable of handling many emer- igencies, of meeting a time deadline, and of reading proof with the right attitude toward commas, dashes, and spelling! The student derives many benefits from his work as :an editor, the publication, of course, is benefited by the 'student's work and, in the final analysis. the college ibenelits by a good, well-rounded paper or magazine. 'For it is by the school publication that many laymen ijudge the college. The Publication - The Individual - The College - and it all works out like one of those iproblems they used to give us in ratio. .JUNE - 1941 WHAT DOES BEING A MEMBER OF THE PUBLICATION STAFF DO FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SCHOOL by RIARY EICCLEAN KIULQUIN qnaimf, 10371 THE STUDENT who is a member of his schoolls pub- lication staff has in many ways a11 advantage over his fellow students. From necessity he must put into prac- tice the teachings of his scholastic work. If he is a writer or proofreader, he must know and use good English in order to produce interesting material, if an illustrator, he has the opportunity to make use of principles learned in class, if a business manager, he must be able to speak clearly and thus put ideas across to others. This oppor- tunity to take part in an extra-curricular activity creates in the individual more interest in his school and its welfare. At the same time he is of more value to that institution since he is able to contribute more of himself than just scholastic work. In any college there is just as great a need for a suc- cessful publication as for a winning athletic team. Through the medium of a publication, school spirit is kept alive and alumni are informed of the progress of the college. A publication also gives students a chance to express their opinions and, as such, is an organ of student criticism. It is an approach through which the school administration can be enlightened in regard to needs of students. Finally, the publication has consid- erable outside influence, since through it, outsiders learn of the college's inner workings. WORK ON A PUBLICATION STAFF by EDXVARD A. C-ERSUK f Seen from the Tower Department, l932j VVORKING ON the staff of a publication does not bring your name to the lips of all. It causes no heads to turn and whisper as you pass. lt brings no outstanding popularity. It gives no opportunity for the great profile to be admired as in the Mummersh no chance to dis- play your physical prowess on the playing iields: no artistic creation develops as in the Daubersg and no vocal beauty as in the C-lee Club. The characteristics that make for a Rachmaninoff will not be developed nor will the Camp Fire lore be yours. All these and more are for others whose interests lie in working with the tangible. Yours, on a publication. will be the intangible. Yours will be the search for a story. Yours the nurturing of a thought, a chance phraseg a Hash of action. Yours will be the feeling of a pencil scratchingly unfolding the most delicate of man's creation - an idea. Yours will be the 13 rctiningg yours the torture of searching and pounding a typewriter. Yours thc responsibility for accepting criti- cism graciously and yours the task of rewriting and re- writing. Days pass and yours will be the intimate Odor of printers' ink on magazine stock. And to you comes the feeling of achievement. Ever since thc first cave man scratched crude pictures on the walls of his cave. history has been recorded in writing. C-rcat namcs of yesterday are forgotten. Pop- ularity is fieeting. A hollow voice of the stage is not pre- servedg the grooves of recordings of IHLISICHI masterpieces wear away and athletic prowess is forgotten. The dead past buries its dead. But the printed word lives on. Yours will be the source of the future. VALUES OF MEMBERSHIP ON A SCHOOL PUBLICATION by RUTH CAPLES fTOXYER LIGHT Editor from 1932 to 19335 MEMBERSHIP ON the staff of a college publication is helpful to both the individual and the college. To the individual its affords opportunity for imper- ceptible growth. There is, first, the feeling of belonging to a group. To feel that you are engaged in an activity which is an integral part of college life imparts a sense of self-confidence and success. Then. too, belonging to such a group gives a feeling of companionship with other Inembers of the staff. Similar interests and prob- lems result in a closer relationship between the individ- uals who work together. Parallel to this is the beneficial association with a faculty member. The individual work- ing on the staff of a college publication has opportunity for closer contact with a teacher than is ordinarily pos- sible through classroom activities. In the long ru1I it is the personality that is remembered, rather than a wealth of subject matter. XVorking on a publication offers the student a chance to accept responsibility. It gives him a job to do that necessitates cooperation and contributes toward a feel- ing of confidence and self-respect. To some extent participation in any school activity results in similar benefits to the student. However. working on the staff of a college publication affords the individual, to a singular degree, one advantage by which the publication itself becomes at once one of the most vital agencies for growth in the college. It is a means of expression and a medium for introducing ideasg it nourishes minds when they are Inost apt to need space for wing-spreading. For a certain type of person- ality it fills a need that no other group in the college can satisfy as well. 14 If membership on a publications staff is helpful to the individual it follows that it must be helpful to the I college. Any activity that furthers growth of a student if is fulfilling the purpose of the college. And if growth is . to continue. if college is just the stepping-stone, what 'g better impetus for growth is there, within the college, 'g than the publication which has fostered that questioning l mind? 1 3 AFTERTHOIIGHTS by NIARY STEXVART LEXVIS lt fEditor, 19355 if IF BY THIS time the college has recovered from ourlr' editing its magazine, we must admit, we haven't. In thei fury of editorial writing, proof Ieading, and dummyt pasting, deep and lasting impressions were being made,i although we were blissfully oblivious of them at the' I tinIe. 2 .f Like many normal individuals, we liked to write inlzf our mother tongue, but were prone to kick it aroundlii upon occasion. Our experiences on the staff did notfif curb our verbosity, nor did it make of us Maeaulayslfz However, we somehow acquired a new respect for cor-5 lx rectness in grammar, punctuation and principles of ex-'ill pression. Unconsciously practice was being given in col-I I lecting. condensing and organizing material from allf, sources of information. gs VVith the advent of each TOXVER LIGHT from the press,! I college personalities appeared in print. Hence, all of usf i were given an opportunity to read, to see and to appre- ciate the best efforts of our classmates and friends. 5 It is possible for a publication to serve the college byl is unifying it, by encouraging desirable enterprises, by in-l it terpreting the school to tlIe public and by recording thel history in its many phases. All this the TOWER LIGHT en-I '- deavored to do. Its supreme service to staff members,li+- however, was not produced by conscious effort. Thislfi value came from the association of working together inl such a way that the 'TOXVER LIGHT might emerge fromili the press a magazine with pages bound by cooperationjfl tolerance, tact and responsibility. 5 7 g I F L I WRITE SOON ' by BIARION CUNNINCHALI 5 . 7 . fTONX'ER LIGHT Editor, 1936-19371 TO LAUD THE values of contributing to a publica-5 1 tion brands me as a first-class hypocrite. This is thei - second attempt to fill the galley proofs that I havel . Inade in four years. lShud- fContinued on Page 27ll . TOWER LIGH'1l fl P V The Worm' s View , by SIBYL DAVIS ' AS SPRING prepares for her triumphal march around i the proverbial corner, she is heralded by the most lowly I creature, the most loathsome creature ever stepped upon r , - the slender, shiny, slimy worm. They appear on every jsidewalk, and if you look closely, you can see them l wriggling and glistening in the sunlight, especially after L a cool, refreshing rain. j Have you ever stopped to wonder if worms have any 1 feelings? Do you suppose they ever think of the campus l in all its beauty? ll Golden sprays of forsythia are followed by pink and i jwhite magnolia. Even after the blossoms are gone, the jcarpet of once satiny petals is pleasing to the eye. The jworms should enjoy such a carpet on their own level. I Later the worms may crane their necks and arch their backs to marvel at the shiny green leaves against the vari-colored brick of the Administration Building. And ljfdo you wonder if they, too, shudder at the three-leafed 1 i J n if 7 l Wy' jj The worms down by the drive to the car station have lla different vista. In the early spring the aroma of Iap- tanese honey-suckle permeates the air, and maybe it even ,uwafts down to the habitat of our lowly friend f?j. Later :omes the spirea, commonly known as bridal wreath. yKWhat the nauseating stuff lacks in perfume it makes up tin its green and white Ioveliness. The inhabitants of the Glen, namely, the worms and ,their arch-enemies, the birds, have a beautiful home. ly1Here the wild flowers of Maryland abound. Before the lsnow disappears from the swamp lands a skunk cab- lioage pokes its head warily upward. Quickly on its heel follow violets and May apples. Solomon's seal and - lind - ask Mr. Crook what else. NVe so hope the worm lippreciates our woodland rendezvous. As spring goes her merry way, and summer descends lin all its heat, the worms of the formal garden have their l'lg211'ClC11 party. Instead of wild flowers, the formal garden :oarty has your favorite domesticated varieties of shrubs rind flowers. Graceful iris, exotic poppies, fragrant lilacs, y .ind flowering crab apple vie for the place of honor. How jjilo you think the 'worms feel with blank pansy faces at- ijiempting to stare them down? It is a shame that all too llrequently the worms have no competitors for this ilneaceful spot. l I 1 n But who is willing to say that the worms who share jjthese places as their homes are rnonopolizing the beauty jyj:f the campus? Far from it. Before the arrival of the j jlvlay Queen the japanese cherry showers its pink through ljlmm: - 1941 ji il lil fi the air. The azaleas and rhododendrons in front of Newell Hall add their bit of color. Go through the archway just to see the narcissus, the violets and the iris. Magnolias blossom next to Dr. VViedefeld's lawn, and the locust helps alleviate the odor of adjacent in- stitutions. Above all, don't forget the trees with which our state fathers have been so generous. Sometimes we as a people lack the humbleness of the worm. We are too occupied with our own petty inter- ests to bother looking at the beauty around us. As a poet has said: Spend all you have for loveliness. Buy it and never count the costz, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. SHADOWS Shadows sing Across the night Haunting songs, VVeird songs of fright, Chilling heart And blinding sight Vfith their mocking - mocking - mocking. Sandol sings At candle light Empty songs. And empty quite Is her cradle . . . God! The sight Of Sandol rocking - rocking - rocking. - S. .-X. C. IN HEAVEN by HARRY CONXVAX' Where the tree of life is blooming, Down beside the crystal sea. XVith my friends and scores of angels And my soul, at liberty. YVhere the morning star is shining, XVhere the living waters flow. YYhere the lily of the valley And the rose of Sharon grow. In the beauty of the garden I may stop and rest awhile. See the Prince of Peace in glory, See the Blessed Savior smile. XVhere the fairest of ten thousand Left Ilis home in search of me. XValked upon the chilly water. Prayed in dark Gethsemane! 15 Spring .... 4 . by Noun Kmcmon HERRY BLOSSOMS in Xlfpnhtngtong apple blossoms at Xllnelxestert all ol blossoms at Shenyood: and - S- T- C. blossoms in The Glen. Equal in publicity? No - - - rye would appreciate it our Haven were overrun by news pho tographers or Hollywood agents jto sign the scenery to 2 contraetl- Eqml in beauty? To me it mms possible to compare the cnretully lanned and super- vned formal type ot garden to the eertam beauty that comes only when doyyers and trees are more or less allowed to spread up or out - as in our Glen- Here at State Teachers rye have za beauty spot practically to ourselves: u beauty spot that rs one ot the bqhtest on the whole complexion ot Nature. It S along about the lust yyeeh ot March that rye hrst become conscious ot a certain. ot the air-ncertarmsmellotgreenandgroyynnmgthjngs-E'or months post rre lwd been rndnstnlonsly our- sehves to getting nn education ot the mind: suddenly n teehng ot suppressed acaitement makes ns Witch to here an edurntlon ot the senses- To the Glen' becomes the ery - ot the lips or the heart - und Klupper and lvlilll- lean- with sr sigh ot resjgrrntnion- tit themselyes br-rel: onto the library shelves- Yes- rt seems ns almost overnight the great muscle ot reunulkened lite takes place- When sprung- perusing on the threshold, sees yyrlnter leaning and lsnoyrs she can more tn rylth her glory - then- prestol the leadess. brow-n-colored ynlley ot the Glen becomes 21 bmntltul gslnxy ot color and Thuls year. espec- lt seemed us the buds had appeared on the judas tree betore rt become ar mass ot pmlz. tloryerrng yeh-et. The snrnll shoots ot the yyilloyy had barely shown their endow betore the 'ryeepxing' had be-gun in The und laurel bushes were just as taltrng their plsees contestants in Natures beauty eontat - the judges ot which are- presumably. those ot us who lore to ramble slon-ly along the many nnllcs- to stop to listen to sr berutrtul bird call- or to pause to catch our redectriorn ln the tiny stream- Yet who can really decide ryhleh is the most loyely: the blushing prlnlt ot sr single bloom ot an Erin. the pi- qusnt ot Qt dofgyyood blossom- the stately grandeur ot u deep purple ms- or the silt-ery sheen ot za maple lest? No - all rye can do award El prize ot tlnrnktnlness to the Sponsor ot the ryhole panorama ot Nature. 1 6 Our spot ot beauty would undoubtedly have nrshed inspiration for poems the greatest Shehey. or Emerson. Yet who among us less r mortalscun nutlltullysaytllathehasnotbeen ibly moved by a walk through the Glen? One may know-alocusttroehomasymmore jfinspiteof Crook, me-j yet the minds eye be quite in absorbing and recording the scenes ot beauty the spirits ear will undoubtedly hearken and profil: the gmeral overtones ot paroelulness .... XVanda' with me - down along the bubbling stream, listen the symphony it plays, and consider- thel ottnnerthnstrkenformewatertomzakeiissm mprmon on those pebbles. Stop and rest a while d by the lily pond- Don't bother to identity the birds just proht the mmagm they Let your cya a moment on the nppllw splendor ot the willows spnntionzal. arent dey? Non' ramble slowly along perth that lends tarther bacl: into the Glen- Think of ools have probably heard trom tok just like us down into the grass here and mm the tume ot Nature- contemplate tor rr moment splendid tmture and oolonng ol a single blade of 9 llunhusneyermndeathlngto oqualit lt's an antidote - the Glen is - tor any type of ment. It serve to erase aa trouble or two hmm mind, to clear u vision ot the draft board from the It is not merely 21 rendayous tor oonplesg it is a at which any Nature loyer worship- As we y bool: belore leaving rr the complete p spreads below. Tall. green trees- deep purple s golden shatts ot gloriously colored bl the tiny stream. sudden dashes ot ru as birds dirt through the scent-laden atmosphme - in the Glen! SPRING MAGIC Ineyrnryihelld-.-oneyeryhmll. Bntpwetal-poppingtsmtqnrte l..rliepmuxpxprngoLuUn---rt'sW- And though lboeadkedand Tlneri:ln-tlneponr.thegreat.thes1nalll- Nonnehasseemnpetrlpup. Norhezrdnblossrmnlirll --S.A-C TOWER LIG I A ' . E1 re an i ' Lu 1- ..ihIl ..-ig , . 2 ' lin if U ali mnltitudm ot secrets and troubles these old :naples i f ss fig H HS? ,54- Fl --sl I IIE! ill - D ,illllf ll . l 0 'rt' f ff '3- . x ill - X 1 AN OPEN GATE by 1XI.aRcL'ER11ne XXX-ILSOX An e-pen gate through A garden 1 f,'i 1 ll, :sine '.'. ith ...e tm he '.1. otli pe' Qtr The netiant hills and radiant skj-'. The itr.f.'rj.' te an: gtarien s's'eet The muted hum of the lnutnble bee Then '.1. ith the an: the '.1. orst of Tien And tunefzl blue '.1,' ings littering hp: Well sing Cm 56115: ind take :gr rneat. And do our tasks of evejr dag' ln znzdst of life that round us team: Then seek setlgsfon and :elm repose At t '.1.' flight ',1, hen the heavens gleam. Vfelll travel far in the paths of men. Then btztlc tigarn thtongh the np Along the shores of sea and mere. To '.1.' here the Seite of It 's Amid the ll'lI'I':fil lg tilffs din. Bevnnd the rear and the tlang - gn: then And into the Clesett bro '.f. n and sete. The feeling 'fns - inete :nan - nov: sr' l Atross the bread plains of bowing '.1. heat HQ '.f.' insfgniitgnt ,aid lzev 11. etzsq To where the :white peaks pierte the hlne Beside the fllfllflitllfll lflii the se And 'rfvndet - Vnhjs all the fretting so. Yet. in Hrs in... HIIITKCC ,l'. isir s Vfhat gain. what gloj' when they through, He Lite- Er e en th- legst ltr these. NEXV DIRECTION A rate of men lized once in lust one One :nan said in hzs -,1. Qre we clgaj' st Sinn One man. one ',1.' ife. one ordinanr ihild. ln if-'fllbflli snth is '.1. ere. in their C: '.f.' tu flflli : One ire. one Ing. and Qne Llean-edged spear Ulell nie that ont in' '1 Jn is nft 3 eteazn To fate the new gold '.1. Qrld tlear-eyed. nnsl3'.ed. Ani not the '.1. fstl-4 nr file Agni spitrr 't s'f, 2 na Sag' but that thrs rwg 15 enrs alone And not the gzft of forte abc 1'.' e fxhigh spazfrrxs On us: and holds ns as his favorite thlld He '.'.' onld: pletzse srajr and let :ne bless this hernef' His replied: Nj: ieatl Hens: Lan j-'ou sap' But one. an Otdingfr ehrlj. hesti ,aft That this is not the gift of Hitn above Ani walked het '.f.' een has pgrentst rapt tn fit'- Vlho renders where he sees the need fn: gifts Ani spake, in ores or .hllflsh tlaritri And sees all that uae do here by night and dajrsf 'Regard the stars tahu-.eg they held JUNE 1941 KI I Must Go Down To The Seas Again! N the May lil, I9-ll, issue of School and Society, Samuel F. Ilarby, Assistant Professor of Health and Physical Education at Antioch College, Yel- low Springs, Ohio, begins an article on Adventure Cruising to Alaska with this paragraph: Travel has always been an important form of recre- ation. In recent months, however, the spread of war in Europe and Asia has considerably curtailed its use by American students. Most of the customary travel routes are now closed, and those young people who have the inclination and the money to go abroad this year, are looking around for new worlds to conquer. The slogan, 'See America First' is naturally re-emphasized, and war may even be the cue for our rediscovery of America. A cruise to Alaska, along the British Columbian Coast, through the world-famous Inside Passageway, is the writer's suggestion of an answer to the problem. VVell, my answer to this was a trip to Florida! On April the ninth, past, the two sea poems I love the best kept singing themselves over and over in my mind and emotions: First, Masefield's Sea Fever - HI must go down to the seas again To the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship And a star to steer her by! and Barry Cornwall's The Sea- The sea. the sea, the open sea, The blue, the fresh, the ever free - XYithout a mark, without a bound It runneth the earth's wide regions round It plays with the clouds. it mocks the skies Or like a cradled creature lies! XVhy was this? On that day several of us from the Maryland Children's Aid Society went to the Eastern Shore of Maryland by car, using the Annapolis-Mata peake ferry. The day was divineg the Chesapeake Bay was a magic blueg over all shone the sun. And then came the call - nostalgia, homesickncss for the sea, the open sea . out of sight of land, all in the blue! The longest trip out of Baltimore seemed to be that offered by the Merchants and Miners Lines to Florida. So, on April the eighteenth we set sail on the good ship Dorchester , There followed two golden days on the Atlantic, then the very early morning trip up the St. johns River - and jacksonville. Our boat was heavily passengered with newspaper men and women of the E. A. - National Editors Association. representing the weekly newspapers of the country, and they debarked at jacksonville for a thrcc days' convention, and subse- 18 quent sightseeing, even to flights on the Pan-American Airways to Havana. I, who had been used to conventions of another N. E. A., the National Education Associa- tion, looked upon this group with intense interest. Since jacksonville was crowded and since there was a ready bus waiting at the dock to push on to St. Au- gustine, we went too. VVe had been told to take a horse vehicle in St. Au- gustine and there, at the bus terminal, opposite the gorgeous Hotel Ponce de Lean, we saw our gig waiting - a two-seated phaeton with a fringed canopy, and jesse, the driver, in a stove-pipe hat, calmly smoking a pipe. St. Augustine is inviting - beautiful, historical, de- lightful in climate leven in April and Mayj, and its fascinating old streets and early sixteenth-century Span- ish associations lend an Old World atmosphere. Shades of Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth! There we saw the oldest house in America, built no one knows just when, but used as a chapel by the Monks of St. Francis until 1590, and the oldest school house in America, built of red cedar, used under three Hags, Spanish, English, American. A map of I788 showed this house of wood even then to be in good condition. St. Augustine is a place in which to roam, to wander, and to wonder. VVe stayed at the Spanish Guest House, a modern home on the Sea VVall, as Bay Street is called, beau- tifully modeled on old Spanish architectural lines, ar- I I .1 li l J I I i r 4 tistically furnished, and having a garden of exoticj growths so landscaped that it seemed to hold in its composition all the beauty that both Nature and man could contrive to present for the traveler's satisfaction and delight. After four days of jog-trotting, walking and musing, we traveled on down the East Coast with the town of Lake VVorth as the next objective - three hours away. En route there was Marineland. You must have seen it in the movies - an oceanarium large enough to hold all types of sea animal life in that region. There was feeding hour at eleven o'clock. first for the harmless group - sea turtles, dolphins lporpoisesj and small fish. The diver, after putting the dolphins through their stunts of jumping for fish as he held the food out from an upper platform, went down into the water to see that the more retieent fish were not neglected. Next, over to the second tank where the liercer denizens - shark, sea serpents, octopus. and poisonous green eels held sway! Here the diver armed himself with an iron TOWER LIGHT i n 4 I ! 4 1 1 l 4 I v I A pole in case of attack, since a diver, several weeks before, had been incapacitated by the bite of the vicious Green Moray eel and was even than recuperating in a hospital. After leaving Marineland the route lay through Or- mond Beach, where we saw the home of the late Iohn D. Rockefeller, on to Daytona Beach, then through the lovely Indian River citrus groves section where oranges. grape fruit, kuinquats, lemons and limes grow for man's gastric delight. Indian River is really not a river but an arm of the ocean as most of the East Coast Florida rivers are. After a drive of an hour and a half, with the physiog- rapliy of Florida unfolding before us, we reached VVest Palm Beach, and twenty minutes later arrived at Lake VVorth on Lake VVorth. The town of Lake Xvorth is really a continuation of Palm Beach, the three places - VVest Palm Beach. Palm Beach and Lake YVorth - making a triad of dependent communities. Lake YVorth with its lovely Gulf Stream Hotel fthe Gulf Stream itself can be seen from the roof of the hotel about two and a half miles out at seaj is not as wealthy a settle- ment as Palm Beach. It allows no negro homes within its limits and no negroes are employed there. VVest Palm Beach is the back door, so to speak, of the other two cities, and there the real pulse of the three communities is felt - business, cosmopolitan life, and service for the more conservative settlements. It is significant that one crosses Lake Worth by bridges to reach Palm Beach and the town of Lake Worth. Four restful days in palm forests and by the ocean! Then on to Miami for two and a half hours through Fort Pierce, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, then Miami! lust another large city, we were told - you will not like it at all. But we loved it! Nobody had given us the other side of the picture - lovely color, the wind that refreshes which comes straight from the ocean across Miami Beach. across picturesque Biscayne Bay, and on into and over Miami itselfg of the magically beautiful night lighting of the city, or of the magnifi- cent homes along Bickell Road and Bay Shore Drive, past the Pan-American airport buildings to Cocoanut Grove and beyond. VVhy recount such minor details of a trip? you are asking as you read. I answer, I had never been to Florida before. Yes, many times to Europe! Many times to the Middle VVest! And to Canada! Once to the Pacific Coast! But here was one state whose personality was unfolding with startling power. Florida is different! It is exotic! Its climate is delightful, even in April and May! Its people are cosmopolitan! Scarcely any two people one meets were born in Floridag its directory of citizens if studied would present natives of almost every JUNE - 1941 country in the world and every State in the Union. Miami City and Miami Beach arc two separate and distinct towns. Miami City held us - the lovely Biscayne Bay with its open end to the ocean separated it from Miami Beach, Miami River separates Miami from itself and through a short river leads up to the jungle country. XVhat could be seen and felt in six days? The Pan- Aineriean Airways and the Eastern Airways port: Ilia- leah Park, the negro Federal housing development, the magnificent homes, Miami University at Coral Gablesg the streets, the shops - and. above all, the brilliant flowers and the glorious palms - royal, cocoanut, pal- metto, date-four hundred varieties. But the sight of the blooming bougainvilea vines, some red, many purple, is a thrill of beauty in itself, and the flowers of Florida. alone, command more than passing notice. Naturally, being Southerriers and from Maryland where the news of the Pimlico. Havre de Grace and Bowie race tracks loom large on the sport sheets of the newspapers not only of Baltimore but of the entire country, we were interested in Hialeah Park, closed of course in April and May after its twenty-seven days of adventure. VVell, Hialeah Park was literally closed even to visitors. The Legislature, in session in April while we were there, placed an extra tax on the race course, and the man- agers, in rebuttal and in indignation, closed the beauti- ful Hialeah grounds - remarkable for their landscap- ing and beautiful pools where the slender flarningoes graced the scene - to visitors. However. the negro Federal housing project near the Hialeah track was well worth a visit. The climate of Miami and the climate of all Florida is an epic in itself. Hot in the sun, scorching but with- out humidity, cool in the shade, full of ozones and oxygen for asthmatics and impaired lung conditions - it means vigor and renewed youth for those who par- take. Shades again of Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth! VV ill you go back to Florida again, you ask? Oh, yes. And all the lovely things untouched in this land will be the next objective - the Bok Singing Tower, the glass-bottomed boat at Silver Springs. VV inter Haven for Rollins College, the VVest Coast. etc., etc. But more than any other place now I want to see the Okeechobee Lake districtg the beans and vegetable section, in Feb- ruary with the migrant camps around Belle Glade and Pahonee, the 'Aiuke-box taverns in the section. and study the way the renowned patrolinen of Belle Glade police the section - aiding, relieving and restricting by an ef- ficient and friendly technique. There. in that section of Florida, are all the problems presented in Grapes of Vlfrath. Arkansas, Oklahoma. California, Florida - all have the same problems with sharccroppers and migrant 19 gniups. Yes. the Okccchobcc Lake district calls to OIIC interested in social problc111s llllCl llllllltlll welfare. On thc return boat trip o11 t11c good ship Berkshire . there were stops at lacksonville and Savaimali, and ti111e at each placc for shore sightseeing. 'l'l1e trip up tl1c St. lfllllllb River tone of tl1c few North American rivers that flows northl i11 daylight was very i11teresti11g as tl1e boat Wllllllil fOllIlCl its ox-bow bends. XVe were glad to leave tl1c blue C-ulf Stream - where tl1e flying fishes play and tl1c sea-weed gathers - behind Llllfl seek ref- llgC in St. lOllll'S River for tl1e C-ulf Strea111 had not been kind to 11s. A head wi11d in Biscayne Bay and the cross CLl1'fC1llS of the Cult Strea111 as we sailed i11to the Atla11tic from Miami had started us out on the wro11g foot. St. lohn's River proved a panacea. Twenty-four hours after leaving lacksonville we were i11 the Savannah River which leads i11to tl1e Georgia country through Savannah, a lovely historic city and well worth a visit i11 itself. A day later, off Hatteras, a danger zone of the Atlantic, we encountered the Diamond Shoals Light Ship by night, brilliantly lighted and very near. On the south- going trip the light ship had been passed about three o'clock i11 the afternoon, and our ship, tl1e Dorchester , hove to. signalled the light ship with three blasts, and out from the light ship came a launch to pick up mail and magazines from the Dorchester , The extra stop at Savannah made us late for the scheduled Baltimore landi11g at 10 A. M. Instead, we had the pleasure of the e11tire le11gtl1 of the Chesapeake Bay by daylight. for we entered the Virginia Capes at 6 A. M. and reached Baltimore at 6:30 P. M. Our Chesapeake Bay is a notable body of water. One understands it better YYllCIl the story is told that in ages past the Atlantic Ocean encroached upo11 a river pre- sumably the Susquehanna, drowned it, locked itself in and divided Maryland and Virginia into two shores. The Chesapeake Bay - a drowned river. Interesting. is it not! A note of social life Oll the 'tBerkshire 111ay interest you. The Berkshire had been on the hliami-Nassau run all winter - making three trips each week. Now she has been transferred to tl1e Baltimore-Miami ru11. The Berkshire crew and staff had interesting stories to tell of often seeing the Duke a11d Duchess of NVindsor at f11nctio11s in Nassau ope11i11g of the Red Cross Drive. etc. But their real thrill came when. in early April, the Berkshire brought tl1e Duke and Duchess from Nas- sau to Miami enroute to Pal111 Beach for a conference with the Duke's financial advisers who had traveled from Canada to 111eet l1i1n i11 Palm Beach. From the s111oki11g-roo111 to the pilot-house, tl1e captain included - everyone pro11o1n1ced the Duchess charming, sim- 20 ple. ClClllOCfLltlC, with unusual personality. and beautiful blue eyes. The Berkshire , representing a Baltimore S. S. Line, was pleased that Baltimore could claim the Duchess. And so ended our three-week trip. lohn O'Ren, in l1is column Down tl1e Spillwayn in the Baltimore Sun of Tuesday morning, May 13, 1941, e11ds his always delightful deliberations for that day with this thought wl1iel1 fits in well with the mood of this article: The restlessness of the American people is proverb- ial. but do you know where it centers? Don't take my word for it, the Survey Graphic, a magazine so intensely respectable that I cannot think of flatly contradicting it, declares, 'If you were asked to name our most con- sistent travellers you would probably say millionaires and the very wealthy, but such is not the case. Teachers are our most active travelers, as passport statistics showf Because I, a teacher, believe so sincerely in the power of travel to educate, I commend it to you. And since many colleges and universities have travel service as part of their recreational and extra-curricular activities I am hoping Towson Teachers College will continue its good work of extending the horizon of its students in its planned trips even beyond New York City, yes, even to the Inside Passageway to Alaska, and to Florida, the land of flowers, and the Fountain of Youth. WHEN THE MIST HAS ROLLED AWAY by HARR1' CIONXVAY Listen early in t11e morning XYhen the mist has rolled away. Hear tl1e voice of Iesus calling, Come and walk witl1 Me today. I will perfect council give yo11 I will hear you XVllCIl you pray. If your friends forsake or leave you I will guide you, if I may. Out of danger l will take you, Out of selhshness and strife. Out of sin and death and sorrow. Out of doubts and fears of life. If you want to live with lesus And His wealth and glory share, Take the 11an1c of Iesus with you. Take llis Spirit everywhere. And I kllOXY at last i11 heaven. XYhen our Savior King we see. Dressed i11 white and shining raiment. He will gladly walk witl1 thee. TOWER LIGHT n the ature of the Universe, and Religion by Davin NELSON AN'S life has ever been a ceaseless quest. This quest has taken many forms: search for com- fort, new forms of art, power, knowledge, ivealth, romance, adventure, amusement, sport etc. The advancement of civilization has always been due to the sfforts of men like Aristotle, Caesar, Columbus, New- :on, Pasteur and a host of others who devoted their lives io their own particular quests. One of the everlasting and most enduring questions has been that of the riddle -if life, of how everything came to be. In our thirst for Iznowledge we usually turn to well-established sources, yo reliable histories and textbooks. Yet there are times when we can find the answers to our questions almost , yinder our noses. Among the papers of XVilliam Gam- .mel, my mother's father, were found a number of dis- russions dealing with the nature of the universe and xvith religion. It is not to be wondered that he thought ibout such things for he wrote them while he was a ,teacher of Hebrew in the small town of Bresne, near I :iyovna in Eukraine, Russia, about thirty-five years ago. fde was looked upon as a rabbi because he carried on lnany of the rabbinical duties for the town. In addition lo his teaching duties. he was also postman, carrying y ieople and mail to and from the railway depot at Rovna. Q fly mother has often told me how, after his work was one, Grandfather would walk in the woods with the mhildren and tell of the things he had read. For. al- though Bresne was far removed from the large Euro- ! can cultural centers. Grandfather kept in touch with .i in iodern discoveries in science as well as communication I icilities would permit. In consequence, he knew much lbout electricity, chemistry and kindred subjects while i-is fellow townsmcn knew nothing of these things ex- .ept through his teaching. Often Grandfather put in 'riting the ideas which developed from his reading. I ' fhe following is taken from these writings: l f il August 12, 190+ .iran asked me i question which caused me to rey 1ew 373111 niy theory concernmff the Oflglll of the uniy erse. for a twelve-year-old he grasped most admirably my ex- llanation which was, of necessity, far from simple. In irief, I told him. all things have an electrical origin. A 'polecule is the smallest part of a substance. Break it QXIUNE - 1941 i l P rg, Today, during the morning recitation, Sammy Gold- li: b I I 4 'I if l down any farther and you no longer have that substanccg you have an arrangement of electrical nature. an atom. Break down the atom and it dissolves into a burst of tre- mendous energy. Carrying this further: By slowing down molecular action the state of a substance changes pro- gressively from a gas to a liquid, to a solid and finally at -2730 C. all activity ceases and the substance disap- pears. The mass has disappeared, but the energy has not, it has merely been converted into another form. In both cases the molecules and electrons have been rendered apart, destroying the mass but retaining the energy in a potential form. Now let us combine this analytic hypothesis with a synthetic hypothesis. XVhen electrons are drawn to- gether into a certain arrangement they form a molecu- lar substance, its type depending upon the arrange- ment of the electrons about a nucleus. Combining these two lines of thought I conclude that at the beginning there was nothing but potential electrical energy. In some way, but without external influence, since there was no exterior nor interior, this energy changed from a static state to a dynamic state. QAS soon as this hap- pened the basis for the universe began, for motion is the keynote of existencej Energy became concentrated into nuclei, motion increased, electrons became attracted to the nuclei and as soon as electrons formed certain pat- ters around central nuclei Qnuclei being positive charges of electricity and electrons negativel substances were formed. Since the substances were moving at such a high rate of speed they were principally gaseous and neb- ular in form. From these were formed the stars and planets. The Nebular Hypothesis carries on from here to further explain the origin of the Earth and other planets. August l3, l9O-f I must say that Sammy is a most accurate correspond- ent. The whole town is buzzing about yesterdays lesson. 'Alt is bad enough that we waste our money on you while you teach what you think the boys are interested in instead of what you should teach, but to place the seeds of atheism in their childish minds is to destroy our whole religion, they say. Yet in my mind there is no conflict between my religious views and my scientific views. Religion is an internal and personal thing. The efforts of primitive man to glorify gods as the all- powerful rulers of the universe were the only ways in 21 day and night in factories to prepare for the grave which hc could rclicvc his fcar of the unknown. He built up religion to protect himself from his spiritual fears as well as from the physical dangers that externally befell him. liarly religion took the form of animism and spirit worship. Later worship was transferred to idols. In the times of the early Egyptians each tribe had their set of gods. If one tribe conquered another it forced its gods upon the conquered people. The real struggles amongst the tribes resulted in the deaths of most of the lesser tribal gods. The tendency was toward worship of the most powerful deity that survived. Amenhotep IV guid- ed by his mother's teachings made an unsuccessful at- tempt to make the Egyptians believe in one God only. But his dreams were realized by the lews and the Chris- tians who based their religions on the love of an all- powerful. yet benevolent divinity. Yet this was no dis- tinct separation from the types of the religions which had evolved from the early Animism. It was merely a narrowing of the field of divinities to one. True, he was assigned many wonderful attributes. But the belief in a real Deity was tand isl a necessity for the common masses who otherwise would have no moral restraint, other than that of the state. They had to have some one to fear. That is why the shamans and priests and medi- cine men preserved the fiction of a living god. It follows then. that the common people because of ignorance and mistrust of their fellow man. placed their faith in some one whom they thought would help them in time of need. Besides, a deity was their only way of explaining I i But there is something which, although explained byi science, is not governed by scientific principles or rulesgl that is, the relationship of man to man. That is wherd religion functions. And it is an internal function. Thel quality of tolerance, of consideration. love, generosity, all the attributes supposedly induced in man throughl the combined fear and love of God should be self-gen-V erative. The belief in an external living God was a ne-' cessity and was justifiable because there was no better explanation. The writers of the Bible knew nothing. about anthropology, electricity. physics. medicine, etc.Q They didn't know any better, so they made up a beau-' tifully wrought myth which served its purpose well. Butl now when we have the knowledge of the scientists Wei can forget the supernatural and superstitious explana tions of physical phenomena and of religion and throug education awaken within each person on earth that in-i ternal religion which teaches the true brotherhood 0 man. That is the true God. An internal God. That is what is meant by uthe essence of God is present in ev-i eryonef' Every child is born with this God within him i It is only through the perverted teaching of bigoted parents and teachers that this God is superseded by zf l belief in an external God who is omnipotent and om niscient. This belief still persists so that on Sunday thfl common mass will fear the wrath of an outraged Deity if they commit a crime. Yet on everv week-dav thescl crimes are perpetrated without any fear outsideithat oil the state laws. i the natural phenomena. YVith the discoveries of science The people must be educated: and through educ l we learn that everything, absolutely everything. can be tion they will come to know this true God. the one an answered by some branch of science. only God, the personal, internal. spiritualistic God. i l l Build'ng Bod'es Fo Defe se i 5 by HELEN EICIQELBERG i HE keyword of every American today is hde- to become healthy citizens - the kind of material needs fensef' Millions of men and women are working ed to defend America. 5 crisis which is facing our country. However, the fac- tories and industrial plants are not the only places which are building for the defense of America. Through- out the country this summer hundreds of camps and institutions will be building the tired bodies of under- nourished and underprivileged children, helping them Z2 I wonder how rnanv Marvlanders are aware of thi work that is being done for just such children at thai Miracle House at Claiborne. Maryland. The Miracldl House. a preventorium. is operated by the Marylane Tuberculosis Association. It is called a preventorium bel cause its aim is to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. It is located in a beautiful situation on the Eastern Bayy TOWER LIGHT i I x i i l l .4 I i 4 l ll n , 4 E a branch of the Chesapeake, The spacious white build- ings, consisting of a girls' dormitory, boys' dormitory, dining room, iniirmary, and staff quarters in a setting of grass, trees, and flowers, are a welcome sight to tired little minds and bodies. Each year the Maryland Tuberculosis Association sends approximately one hundred thirty children from the ages of six to twelve to Claiborne for ten weeks of the sunnner. Each child comes from a home in which there has been tuberculosisg they are selected carefully according to their need. The Miracle House is true to its name, for miracles are performed there every summer. These children ar- rive physically tired, suffering from malnutrition. pale, and under weight. ln ten weeks they leave completely rested, beautifully sun-tanned. and many pounds heav- ier. They have been under the care of the staff doctor, dentist, and nurses. Also, they have been made aware 'of a healthful way of living. Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how these children spend a typical day at the Miracle House. .At 7 A. Nl. a bell sounds throughout the building, it is rising time for the children. At a signal from the coun- sellor, the children hop out of bed eager for the fun they are to have that day. They strip their beds and ijump into their clothes - a pair of khaki shorts. Under the watchful eyes of the counsellors, they wash, brush their teeth, and comb their hair. At 7:25 they are hap- pily singing, waiting for the breakfast bell to ring. At the sound of the bell, the children walk into a large, sunny dining room containing small green tables and chairs, each table seats six children. After grace is said, they are seated and enjoy a healthful breakfast. Breakfast is over and they are ready for flag raising and organized ring games. At nine the children go back into the dormitory and make their beds. They are proud Jf their beds, and each child tries to have the neatest Jne in the room. The counsellors check for square corners and smooth blankets and sheets, From 9:30 to ll the children have a free play time under the shade trees on the lawn. The little girls play i'mothers in the playhouseg the older girls play jacks. lo handwork, etc., and the boys play various games on their playground. From ll to ll:30 the children sit quietly in groups while the counsellors read to them jfrom some of the excellent books in the children's li- fararv. This gives them time to rest before their most rveleome dinner. j Following dinner, there is a sing-song, when the chil- ilren learn new songs and sing many of the old ones they like best. Next there is a health lesson by one of the ifounsellors. Through a planned program, the children lIUNE - 1941 become acquainted with the main facts of personal health. From Z to 3:30 there is a rest period - a time of complete relaxation for thc children. Next comes the time best loved by all - swimming. For three-quarters of an hour they have fun in the water under the close watch of several counsellors. From then until supper the time is filled with showers, hair drying in the sun, and quiet games or singing. After supper there is another play period and then flag-lowering. lt gives one a thrill to see one hundred thirty youngsters standing at attention against the back- ground of a red sun disappearing into the water as the flag is brought down. Next there is Vespers for the whole group. They gather to sing ehildren's hymns and to hear the stories from the Bible told simply so as to be understood by the youngest child there. By T130 the children are washed, teeth brushed, in their pajamas. and eager for a story. ln a few minutes there is in each corner of the huge playroom a counsellor holding the attention of her group by telling a fascinating story. Anyone looking into the girls' or boys' dormitories at live minutes of eight would see something he would never forget. At the foot of each white bed kneels a little child in white pajamas saying his own prayers. Outside the window the water is softly lapping against the sea wallg stars are beginning to twinkle in the black sky. It is a scene of perfect peace. At 8 P. M. lights are out, the children pull up their covers and, tired from their happy day, sleep under the care of the night coun- sellor. These little ones might not be sleeping so peacefully if they were at home. Many would be out on the streets until twelve o'cloek and then go to bed sleeping four in a bed. They would not be getting the vegetables and milk that they receive here, nor would they be able to play on the grass and be in the sunshine, At the end of the summer they would be tired - an easy prey for the colds and other diseases so prevalent in winter. But, thanks to the work of the Miracle House. they return home physically, mentally, and spiritually uplifted. ls this work worthwhile in helping to increase the strength of America? The answer is obvious. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The Maryland Tuberculosis Association aims to prevent tuberculosis before it secures a hold on these little bodies - thus saving the state the hundreds of dollars it would have to spend in sending patients to sanatoria, money which is sorely needed in many places now, ln addition. these youngsters are taught the healthful way of living so that they may, if the opportunity presents itself. rise above their circumstances. Thus, human bodies. as well as ma- chines, are being built for defense. 23 Iv 'llllj world today there arc two totally different concepts of liberty. both of which arc wrong. One erroneous form of liberty can be called the liberty ut necessity. It is the rising error which belongs to the new slave states. The other and equally erroneous form of liberty has often been termed the liberty of indiffer- ence. It is the vanishing error of a decaying social order. The totalitarian states accept Frederick Engels defi- nition of liberty: Liberty is necessity. For example, a stone is said to be free when it is released from the hand because it obeys the law of gravity and falls to the ground. So. too. man is free when he knows what he must do and does it. In Germany, Russia. and Italy the will of the dictator becomes the law: thus if a man is free when he obeys laws, he is free when he obeys the will of the dictator. In Russia. a person has the freedom of speech and press only so long as he uses that freedom to support Stalin: otherwise he is a NVrecker. In all dictatorships the freedom to vote means the freedom to voice approval of the will of the dictator. This type of freedom has been appropriately called the 'fright of echo. Liberty of necessity as it is in Germany and Russia is wrong, because it assumes that we can be dealt with as he would deal with economic goods and that man's soul can be placed under the same regulations as farm- ing and commerce. At one end of the swing of the pendulum we have the concept of society where the State is supreme, at the other end we have the equally absurd society where the individual is supreme. ln this latter type of society the liberty of indifference finds its stronghold. This form of liberty is so called because it is indifferent to truth, morality. justice, and the social good. It inevitably has been defined as the right of an individual to say, do. or think anything he pleases. It has dominated the world for centuries and still finds favor among the Hprogres- sives of today. Assuming that there is no absolute stand- ard of right and wrong. it sets up the individual as the supreme authority and regards all regulation of liberty as unwarranted and unjustified restriction. In writing of its various false manifestations in philosophy, education, politics and economics, Fulton Sheen says: In phil- osophy, it is contended that there is no such thing as Truth with a capital T3 truth is purely ambulatory - we make it as we go. Truth is merely a point of view. for each man is his own measure of what is true and what is good. Naturally, such a system produces as many philosophies as there are heads. In order that the world might be safe for so many conflicting points of view, broad-mindedness was cultivated as the most desirable of all virtues. The man who still believed in truth was often called narrow. while he who cares not to distin- 24 False Liberties by jaixnzs O'CONNOR 3 guish it from error was praised for his breadth. In edu-. cation it held that all discipline is a restriction of libertyg and an unjustified attack upon the individual's right to, what was ingloriously labeled self-expression. In the political order it assumed that the State has merely a negative function, namely, to protect individual rightsg Morality was regarded as a question of arithmetic and right and wrong was determined by counting votesl quite forgetful that right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. I The liberty of indifference is wrong because it give the individual the right to ignore society, because it rel sults in license, because it is indifferent to truth, becaus ' it creates wealth at the cost of personal ldnerty and lastly, but most important, because it is freedom withfi out purpose. In a society where the liberty of indifference is suf preme there is much talk of being free from somethingi but an ignorance of the facts that freedom from some' thing implies freedom for something. Freedom from blindness is intelligible only because one wants to seel Forget the purpose of freedom and freedom is absurd? No one wants to be free just to be free, but to be free to fulfill a purpose or attain a goal. XVe want freedonil from rheumatism in order that we may walk. 1 Since these two forms of liberty are erroneous, they must be shunned, one - which forgets the purpose 011 freedom, the other - which claims that liberty resides only in the State, not in man. If we avoid these two ex-A tremes. we come to a more positive and correct ideal of liberty. Liberty is not the right to do what one pleasesr nor the necessity of doing what the dictator dictatesi rather, it is the right to do what one ought. Monsigno: Sheen says: A'That little word ought signifies that mar is free. Fire must be hot, ice must be cold, but mari ought to be good. Ought implies morality, i.e., 2 moral power distinct from a physical power. Freedonit is not the power to do anything you please. So often exly pressed by the modern youth as: 'I can do it if I want to. can't I? XVho will stop me?' Certainly you can dei anything if you please or want to. You can rob youl neighbor, you can beat your wife. you can stuff mattress es with old razor blades, and you can shoot your neighl bor's chickens with a machine gun. but you ought nog to do these things because ought implies moralityi rights and duties. Unlike doing what one pleases. ought implies pur pose. XVhen I say I ought to study the word ought involves the purpose of study: namely the acquisitio fl TOWER LIGH'1E l P l ll of knowledge. There are a thousand little oughts , each inseparable from purpose - I ought to go to bed, I ought to be kind. Underlying all oughts there is one supreme ought, namely, I ought to attain the end for which I was made. Behind all purposes is one great pur- pose which is given in the answer to the question - Why do I exist? Does one exist in order to raise a family, in order to get rich, or in order to be educated? No, these are only partial answers. Everyone desires happiness, and wealth and education are only means of realizing that happiness. A man dying of thirst will ask for water, but what he really wants is life. Life, happi- ness, truth, are things we all want. We do not want life or happiness for the next fifty-two minutes, we want it forever. VVe do not want the truth of science alone, but all truth. Since the attaimnent of eternal Life, Truth and Love cannot be realized in life it follows that there is attainment beyond life for if there were no food there would be no stomach, if there were no things to see there would be no eyes, and if there were no Perfect Life, Truth, and Love, there would be no mind or will or heart craving and striving for them. Since the purpose of one is the attainment of Perfect Life, Truth, and Love, then it is logical to conclude that freedom has something to do with the choosing of the means to realize that purpose, or to reject it alto- gether. Man was given the moral law to aid him in realizing the purpose of life. Real freedom comes from action in- side this law rather than outside it. As long as I obey the law of gravitation I am free to live but when I say liberty means the right to do whatever I please, and I jump from a ten-story building, I discover that I am no longer free to live. So it is with the moral law. C-od had implanted in human nature those laws which en- able us to realize the purpose for existence. 'fThose laws are not like dams impeding progress, they are like levees preventing the water of selfishness and concupiscence from flooding the countryside. If I obey, or do as I ought, I am free. QAII quotations used in this article are taken from Freedom Under God by Fulton Sheen.j THE 1941 SURVEY OI' THE Maryland Public Schools and Teachers Colleges Qllflade by the lldaryland State School Survey Commissionj Selections by SIDNEY BLUIXI DR. VVILLIAM C. BAGLEY, it may be remembered, visited our college in October, l940, to gather data for JUNE - 1941 the School Survey Commission. Students mav also rc- member answering a questionnaire which asked for such information as family income, family size, parental oc- cupation, etc. These and other data along with Dr. Bag- ley's observations have been summarized in the report of the Survey Commission. Dr. Bagley has this to say about the quality of teach- ing in our State Teachers Colleges: The present writer can merely say that, in his judgment, the general level of teaching in the Maryland State Teachers Colleges is commendably high. Almost without exception, thc in- structors are enthusiastic regarding their work and tend to iinbue their students with a like enthusiasm. XVith a few exceptions, the teachers are well in command of their subjects and with few exceptions their teaching procedures are such that prospective teachers can profit by the example their instructors set. Student teaching is one of the most important phases of our college life. Says Dr. Bagley, On the basis of these personal observations, the writer does not hesitate to say that the system of supervised observation and student teaching in the Maryland State Teachers Col- leges is one of the very best systems with which he is acquainted. Dr. Tansil was singled out for praise by Dr. Bagley. Student records seem to be exceptionally well kept at the college. The registrar at Towson, indeed, is a recog- nized authority in this field. So much for the faculty. I-Iere are some facts about the students: The median age is I9 years. 87.372, of Towson students are natives of Maryland, Baltimore and Towson together supply 57.875 of stu- dents at Towson, l9.lQTQ, come from Baltimore County foutside of Towsonj, ZZUQ, come from counties other than Baltimore. ISTQ, of Towson students have other members of im- mediate family who are or have been teachers. Only 1.32, are children of teachers or former teachers. The median aimual family income of students at the three white colleges is EBZ000. Towson's median is high- er than this figure, however. The median annual expen- diture for these students is 313300. Towson's median is lower QSZSOQ, because many students live in Baltimore City. From this . . . it is clear that hundreds of fam- ilies are making serious sacrifices in order to prepare their children for the public school service. For several years Maryland provided normal school education at a very low cost to the student - all things considered. perhaps the lowest cost among all the states for this type of education. This condition has now passed. and it is a question of prime importance whether the time is not ripe for at least an initial step on the road back. 25 '.v' l 1 ff, A ,, 2 5 V 94 . 'H The Rendezvous ith eptune by RUTH T,rPxr.xN .XL'l llOUGll 'l'lllfl king hiniselt was absent. the recep- tion br his subjects was cordial and colorful. typical of a inonarch whose laingdoru carried its guests tar from the world of stark reality into one ot illusion and iniaginaf tion. At measured intervals stood his guard ot shiuunerf ing sentinels. stately silver seahorses peering Sidewise at the horde ot treasure the sea had taken in tribute. Silver. too, were the gleaming stars shining in the deep blue ot the heavens and rellected in the starhsh caught up from the sea tloor by great tishernien's nets inade heavy' with gleaming seaweed, vivid coral lash and sea animals ot strange fantastic shapes and colors. Great shells gave forth sott lights over the rolling waves, inarle 26 ing well the deep purple sea cacti, the huge jelly fish and a nianr'-armed octopus. The absences of the iner- niaids was scarcely mentioned owing to the color and variety of costumes of the visitors. XVhite. red. prints. and pastels iningled and blended in a kaleidoscope of color. Sonic preferred to wander hack to reality where the garden bedecked with lanterns proved a popular pa- rade ground. Here the only reminder of the scene thefd left was the sea green punch and deep blue sky. Faculty' and students dancing to the smooth rhytlun of the Cour- tiers expressed appreciation to King Neptune and his retinue for their hospitality in the lcingdoni under the sea. TOWER LIGHT ON PUBLICATIONS fContinued from Page 1-fj der if you like, dear reader, at that period of time.j And yet, I am convinced that the results of such efforts are worthwhile. In college, the assignment of a descriptive paragraph, a short essay, or even an article requiring some extensive research, gave me no qualms. Successive courses had made such demands, and one faced them with a philo- sophical resignation. In fact, if the topic were partic- ularly appealing and one were able to discourse on his I highly original theories, the resignation was accom- panied by a feeling of enthusiasm. It became intensi- fied if the student were an avid disciple of all English courses ffollowed by an intense dislike of mathematicsj . At that stage of education ideas and words flowed fiu- ently through my pen. There was little attempt to re- ivise or reorganize, and the finished product seemed of I literary note. The first draft was submitted with no mis- ilgiving as to its inadequacy. If the printed article ap- ypeared in considerably cut and altered form, I felt no I' personal slight to the original nor any hesitancy to con- tribute further. Now, when I am asked to record a few hundred words, I dread the hour I must attack the task. I remember the importance of an eye-catching first sen- itence. Repititious words annoy my senses, which grope ifor perfection. Short, simple statements remind me of reading charts composed by a primary child. Sentences and paragraphs are crossed out angrily. The thought isequence is poor. I have said nothing. As a contributor to a college magazine the crystal- lization of thoughts into words, limited though the vo- cabulary, requires a certain discipline that helps to clar- ify the thinking process. The tangible evidence of words iimay produce dissatisfaction that leads the writer to search for improved expression, a wealthier vocabulary land a more logical development of theme. Thus, the aexercise of writing has a personal value, for somewhere yialong the line improved standards are set up. Despite the fact that there are some people endowed iwith thc gift of apparently speaking extcmporaneously, I :have always had the feeling that the casual ease of ex- .pression was preceded by some profound thought and 'a share of writing. ' The college benefits from the staff participation. ,College events. seen through the eyes of many, are re- .Iported with school spirit. Philosophies are aired for pub- iifie view which are often a result of some thought-pro- voking incident of the classroom. Reaction to stimulus i LIJUNE - 1941 f I should be gratifying to the faculty members who can read their influence through the words. The pride of staff members take in the small changes of the publica- tions - a new type of headline - revised size - has a contagious effect - it is certain to stir others from apa- thetic appreciation to action. If you are certain you have nothing to offer the school by working to become a member of the publication staff, take a selfish stand. Consider the personal advantages and you'll add to the growth and glory of the college never knowing that you have. VALUES OF STAFF MEMBERSHIP by DOROTHY XIOGEL fi-Xdvertising Manager, l939Al YES, I YVAS on the Towisrz LIGHT staff and I wouldn't have missed it for anything. It did mean extra time and effort, but it was worth it. How can anyone benefit to any great extent by being a member of a publications staff? In my estimation, both thc individual and the in- stitution derive something worthwhile. I..et's begin with the individual since we are all ego- tistic to a certain point. You, the individual, attending college, are appointed to the staff of the publication of that college. You are going to be a member of a group. working with a common purpose. You will make many friends - people with whom you had seldom come in contact before. You can learn a great deal from them and will find their friendship valuable. Someone might lend you a guiding hand, or you can do the same for a fellow staff member. YVe hear so much about personality, XVhat is your score? Being a staff member can raise it tremendously. You will begin to express your opinions, give your ideas, see them develop, feel success and thus travel upward on the personality ladder. Interviewing teachers, stu- dents, and friends, selling advertisements, putting your magazine on the market, writing articles for publication. and then seeing them in printg all make you a stronger. better rounded individual. Did you ever have the thrill of meeting a teacher as a person? Or hearing someone comment favorably on the result of one of your inspir- ations? YVorking with the staff will give you a bird's-eye-view of that cruel. cold world we hear about on graduation day. You will learn how to approach people falso how and when to retreatl and you will realize more fully the importance and value of initiative. Most valuable of all, you will become an integral part 27 uf the college you attend. You will not be classed as a dorm-student only. but you will bt-coinc a necessary addition to thc institution. Reinem- bcr. wc get just as much out of life as we put into it. You arc spending four good years of your life. XVhat will bc the return? So much for you. What about the college? How will you have helped it? First of all you will have a part in spreading thc name of the college. If your publication is a good one the college will be rated high in the esti- mation of your friends. Certainly the institution benefits when a good reputation is set. Since you will become a vital part of the college. you naturally will be interested in its welfare. as are your colleagues. As a group the staff is very active. putting forth efforts in all lines of endeavor. Such activity makes for a growing college. You can serve your Alma Mater. You will have the satisfaction of really going to college. day-doclger or a ETERNAL CHANGE lx Continued from Page Qj formed last year for those men who have athletic letters and who participate on teams. So you see. it pays to exert your surplus energy and become an athlete. Clear the decks for dormitory progression! The Resident students can fully appreciate the constant changes which are going on in the dorm. Remember way back when we all had to turn out for a formal breakfast at 7:30 on the dot? flt was a mental and phys- ical strainfj Now that formality and dreaded task of serving has been eliminated by cafeteria style: breakfast served from 7:30 for the early birds, to 7:50 for those snoozers who so enjoy that extra twenty minutes' sleep. The additional privilege of radios in our rooms has added much to the general pleasant atmosphere of dorm life. Our appetities have been appeased by the candy and coke machinesg these have also added much in other ways. XVe have only mentioned a few of our new at- tractions - we're constantly on the lookout for other improvements. Even the Towiziz Lrerrr which you are reading now f I hopej has taken great steps. Our monthly editions are now bigger and better than ever before. Have you placed your order? If not. do so now fplugl. The first Yearbook ever edited at our college is the sen- sation of the year. The class of '-fl has completed this Z8 enormous task and has set a precedent which we may l well be proud to carry on. Orchids to '-fl for Au Revoir. 1 XVith an eye to such constructive changes in the past, I now let us look to the future and each contribute his ' little part to make our college a better and better place 4 in which to live. It can and shall be done. Strength Against The Storm by Hmm' SPRING VVAS everywhere. It drifted through the air in the fresh, clean smell of new plants growing in moist earth. It came on waves of fragrance from new-opened blossoms as they stirred in a gentle breeze. The blos- soms themselves were fragile masses of color, blushing pink, virgin white, and gay yellow, accepting an earth of green and a sky of blue. Clearer and sweeter than any trumpet call came the songs of birds heralding spring's arrival. Life was awakening and quickening the pulse of a world grown sluggish with winter's inactivity. I l i r w v 1 Over this glorious world of spring so full of new vigor ' and swelling life a shadow was suddenly cast, just as a shadow is cast on the earth when violent winds toss a storm cloud into a calm, bright sky. This was a cloud of war borne on winds of greed and selfishness and in- humanity. The war's shadow of suffering and sorrow to- day falls on thousands all over the globe. Visions of bomb-wrecked cities, of homeless refugees, of dying soldiers came to my mind. f'How, I asked. can hu- mans face these storms of hate and suffering and yet battle on? I looked around. The blossoms still swayed in the breeze. Fresh green was everywhere. Birds were flying to and fro. Therein was the answer to my question - in this rising tide of vitality and lifeg this is Nature's salvation for her children, this she gives for their de- fense against the storms of life. In humans this vitality is not physical strength alone but also courage. loyalty, and determination to defend that which is dear. The storm may be fierce and at times the fighting seems fu- tile, but a God-given flow of vigor sustains those who are fighting for their ideals and beliefs. XVhether worthy ideals and beliefs eventually triumph depends on the vigor with which they are maintained. The air was fragrant, enveloping a green and glowing earth in its softness. Spring was everywhere. her streams of vital energy bearing witness to the sustaining force with which God-directed Nature arms her children. TOWER LIGHT l v 4 I I l 4 K i I v I l I W EDITCD IK RIALS IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR by IVIARY SIIXION ABOUT THE. end of May and beginning of june there occurs a sudden transformation of a good part of our delicate female population. That is the time for pulling on their healthy out-door looks, when they grow tired of the rose-petal complexions employed in the wiles of winter's social whirls. Indeed, it is a very convenient tactic to vary the monotony of one's appearance. All that is necessary is an adequate. or more correctly speak- ing, inadequate play suit or swim suit or in some cases a sun parlor where Mother Natures gift is sufficient, a nice sunny day, and a couple of concoctions to insure a slow sizzle instead of a quick frizzle of the outer epi- dermis. Equipped with these simple elements and some undesired advice and warnings about the dangers and hardships sure to be encountered in the process of sun- tanning, the procedure usually followed is to place the body prostrate on some comfortable surface. Now one can relax and think or dream or snooze or whatever else one does when he doesn't have anything else to do. VVhen the period of incubation is over, the first impres- sion is that the bones have been dried and the skin punched with a thousand pins and -horror of horrors - what a beastly red skin! Several days later one is still daubing cautiously at tender skin, avoiding the bath-tub doggedly, and wishing there would be some way to invent a bed that wouldn't require lying down. But, heaven help us, it is all part of our healthy complexion and the wonder of it is that as many survive the probationary process as do. gr WHITHER BREAKAGE FEE? This article is not a criticism of the administration of this college, nor is it to be considered as a relief valve for any pent-up grudge or pet aversion. In every way possible, from the president down to the most immature freshman, we are supposedly striving for a more just and democratic functioning of our in- stitution. However. there seem to be certain points about which many of us are relatively ignorant, points which would certainly change to colors of a discordant JUNE - 1941 nature when exposed to the light of day. May this serve as a plea for the necessary enlightenment of any unsus- pecting students who, like myself, find themselves con- fronted with a most distasteful situation concerning the use of one's breakage fee. It was just recently my misfortune to damage a record belonging to the music department. Feeling somewhat embarrassed I returned the record and, of course, offered to buy a new one. fully expecting to pay for it out of my own present income. Then I remembered that there is such a thing as a breakage fee in the college which is paid on entering to take care of just such things as this. Upon inquiring at the office it was discovered that a breakage fee of five dollars was paid in full four years ago and that I had not, up until this time, broken or damaged any of the school equipment. However, I also found to my amazement that there was little more than a few cents left out of the original sum. Now we were informed, at one time, that a few cents had been deducted from our fees to pay for library books which had been lost. If this has been the sole purpose for deduction, a staggering number of books must have been lost, the value of which would approach two thou- sand dollars. If this is the reason for the rapid deple- tion of our breakage fee, then we have little apprecia- tion for our library. ,bf , DEPARTING by AGNES Tiioxras As freshmen looking forward to the four years at State Teachers College we thought june, 1941, far distant, indeed. To tell of the many things we have done, the people we have known, and our many cherished mem- ories would perhaps make these four years appear to be endless. But they have not been. These very experi- ences have made them so short. XVe have experienced a change in administration and changes in the curric- ulum. XVe have seen classmates come and classmates go. XV e have known the departure of teachers and the coming of new ones, not to take the places of the ones departing, but to make places of their own as a vital part of the college. One finds that being a senior means doing so many 29 things for the last time. In the fall wc participated in our last Play Day. This was the first major activity of the year we felt we would not experience as a class again. This year we were not contestants in Girls' Demonstra- tion Night. As seniors we acted in the capacity of judges and officials. In making preparations for our prom, mem- ories of other class dances returned but this seemed the climax of them all. Early in the year our commencement rehearsals warned us that our college days were numbered. The re- alization of the end was never so poignant as when we first donned our caps and gowns for installation of officers. One thing that remains to keep these memories alive is Au Revoir - our yearbook, a lasting souvenir for each of us. Creators In Our Midst by RUTH MCCARTY MHOXV CREATIVE must one be to be a creator? XVell, could be the answer, usometimes one is es- pecially creative in curling hair, making clothes, fixing flowers. or even making assignments or tests. But that is so natural - so ordinary. Then, could be the reply, one is creative in writing books, composing music, painting, sketching. Oh, in that way! Too bad - I have created nothing. Thus one is led to believe that there are many cre- ators in our midst who do not know the values of their creative efforts. Such a range of creative expression pro- vides all with ample opportunity for confession. For this issue of the TOWER LIGHT all the faculty mem- bers were asked to make known to us their creative work. To date these are the replies that have been received: Dr. Abercrombie: Has worked with Dr. lohn R. Aber- crombie in starting the first Girls' Camp in Mary- land - Camp Robin Hood , at Herrington Man- or, Garrett County. Has started the medical work in the Child Labor Bureau, Baltimore, Md., and made observations and recorded the effects of oc- cupation in industries upon adolescents. Miss Bersch: Has written an article for the Iourrial of Educational Method. Has written a state bulletin: t'Making the Most of Supervision. Has edited and compiled a Course of Study in English for the elementary grades. Has written a course of study for Social Studies in the Fourth Grade. Has pub- lished and revised 'AA Guide to Study of the Mod- ern Elementary School. Miss Birdsong: Has drawn, sketched and painted in oils. Miss Blood: Has written Geography of Maryland ffor Sth or 6th gradel - Allyn and Bacon. Has written factors in the Economic Development of Balti- more, Maryland - Economic Geography, April, l93T. Has written 'Oystering in the Chesapeake - Iournal of Geography, Ian., l939. Has written Preparation of Geography Units by Student Teachers - Iournal of Geography, Ian., 1936. 30 Miss Cook: Has worked with Miss Barkley on a Library Test and Mrs. Stapleton on an English Test for en- tering students at Towson Teachers College. Dr. Crabtree: Is co-author of a series of basic readers for elementary school - f'The Crabtree Basic Se- ries by Eunice K. Crabtree. La Verne Crabtree XValker, and Dorothy Canfield - University Pub- lishing Company. The program for grades one and two is completed. The books for grade three are in publication, The rest of the series will follow. Dr. A. S. Dowell: Has written Physical Disability of NVhite Elementary Teachers in the Public Schools of Baltimore City - Johns Hopkins Press. Has written with Mary Spencer f'Health Education in the State Teachers College at Towson - Metro- politan Lite Insurance Company. Has written ar- ticles in Hygeia and Pi Lambda Theta Iournal. Has written Report of European Travelling Fellow- ship fmimeograph formj - American Child Health Association. Miss loslin: Has composed melodies on the piano. Has written magazine and newspaper articles on educa- tion. Has designed one wing ot a private school building that cost a million and a half dollars. Has built many unique children's programs. Has worked with clay modeling. Mr, Minnegan: Has done some clay modeling such as setting up heads in a portrait. Has written the boys' part of the high school course of study in physical education for the State Department. Has written the course of study in physical education for the Teachers College and for the elementary campus school. Miss Prickett: Has written Teaching Music in the Ele- mentary Schoolf' Has written 'tMusical Results with Small Orchestra in School lylusician. Has composed violin obligato to Cantique de Noel TOWER LIGHT and violin obligato to 'Unto Us a Son is Born. Has made some arrangements for groups of instruments. Dr. VVest: Has written several scicnce texts for chil- dren ftwo people from University of Chicago are collaboratorsj and Teachers Manuals, work books, etc. Has painted in oils as hobby. Miss VVeyforth: Has worked with the productions of choruses for the Clec Club. l ee Mlss Bader! An Interview by HELEN COHEN SHADES OF pioneer days! Hearken ye students of Co- lonial life and those of you who are in search of a Hobby. Have you ever wondered what faculty members do after the last bell rings, after the last class is over? I have found the answer for one. The answer, ua Hob- by, the one, Miss Bader. Miss Bader and her sister, Miss Edith Bader, who is the Assistant Superintendent of Aim Arbor Public Schools, have been interested in weaving for some time. During the summer of 1940 they visited Hartland, Mich- igan, a little country town 30 miles from Detroit. Some years ago a philanthropist wanted to revive weaving both as means of recreation and also to supplement the income of the people of this community. He devoted his energy and his money to restoring handicrafts in this community. As a result, people throughout Hartland and the surrounding rural areas are doing beautiful weaving, and this craft has put Hartland on the map, so to speak. There are two concerns in the town making looms, and teaching weaving to those who wish to learn. These shops also have display and salesrooms where the work done by the people of the community is sold. The Misses Bader visited the C-allenger Crafts Com- pany with the intention of purchasing a loom. They found that looms are very complicated affairs and also quite expensive, They decided to find out more about weaving before they invested. So they enrolled in the weaving class. The course lasted for a week and the school day was from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., with an hour for lunch. Miss Bader tells me that it was really hard and fatiguing work at first. At the end of the first day at school, each of the students had made a rag rug. I know they were as proud of their handiwork as if they had been magic carpets. The course included instruc- tion in assembling a loom, threading and operating it, and the technique of making intricate designs in many different colors. There are many varieties of looms - large oncs and small ones, simple ones and complex ones. The larger JUNE - 1941 the loom the wider thc material that can be woven on it. Before leaving Hartland Miss Edith Bader purchased a large loom which weaves material 32 inches wide. This type can also be used for rug-inaking. Miss Bader has a lovely rug in front of her fireplace which her sister made on this machine. At Thanksgiving our Miss Bader received hcr loom. It is one of the smaller types and can weave material 20 inches wide. Miss Bader has been working with linen thread, plain and mercerized cotton thread and woolen thread. She has made many beautiful scarfs, towels. luncheon sets, pocketbooks, and belts. She has quite an ambitious list of things that she is going to weave this summer, one of which is window draperies. The mercerized cotton thread comes in lovely pastel colors as well as vibrant, vivid tones. She has used a variety of designs, many of them old colonial patterns with such names as The Honeysuckle. Lincoln's Rail Fence, Rose Path, Twig Rose, and others. She can even weave ini- tials. The type of pattern is determined by the way the loom is threaded. Variations in patterns are accom- plished with the use of different weights and colors of thread. I wish I could tell you more about the loom and the art of weaving. There are bobbins and shuttles, heddles and treadles. To my inexperienced eye. weaving on a loom seems as complicated as the politics of the Latin- American Republics. Miss Bader assures me that once the teclmique has been mastered, the actual weaving is comparatively simple. Miss Bader's hobby doesn't stop with weaving. She has made several lovely needlepoint pocketbooks and is now working on a needlepoint cover for a fireside chair. She is interested in knitting and has made suits and sweaters. And last but not least. I saw an exquisite Bat- tenburg lace collar which she made for the dress she wore at her graduation from Normal School. As an inquiring reporter, I am a rank amateur. I am certain that I have not done justice to my subject. so be sure and look in the large case in the Main Hall. If any students are interested and curious about weav- ing. here's a bit of advice, See Miss Bader. 31 A S S E B L ll E S by HELEN Pnoss May 5, 1941- Mavtimc in Sherwood Gardens - what a thrilling spectacle! Once more by the medium of colored film, students of S. T. C. were carried to a spot of rare beauty, one of the showplaces of Maryland. Hundreds upon hun- dreds of lovely breeze-swept flowers and shrubs greeted us in myriad patterns of color. Many different varieties of tulips and azaleas were shown in close-up and their peculiar ligurations were explained in a most interest- ing way. Especially arranged music was played, via re- cordings, by Robert Iula and the Little Symphony Or- chestra. We were transported tmentally at leastj to the original tulip gardens of Holland as typical Dutch dances were interpreted by pupils of Friends School. The garden scenes. the music. the dances - all were blended to give us a completely enjoyable assembly. Surely. many students were stimulated to visit the gar- dens this Year and others, no doubt. recalled with pleas- ure manv familiar scenes. May 12, 1941 - Colored motion pictures are becoming habitual at S. T. C. assemblies, fortunately. Today we met an old friend - Baltimore. Every imaginable location was vis- ited and every imaginable activity was seen: steel pro- duction plants. shipyards. broad highways, historic mon- uments and homes, fox hunts. races. Familiar vicinities were also included on our itinerary such as Annapolis, XVestern Maryland, and outlying country districts. ln all of these aspects. the narrator. Lowell Thomas, em- phasized Baltimore's growth. accomplishments and sig- nilicance as a rising metropolis of the United States. Baltimore does not concentrate on one or two lields of endeavor, but has a variety of things which make for well developed and well rounded living. The Hlm pointed out many details of life in Baltimore which we are apt to take for granted. It was a really worthwhile and educational motion picture. And, a note to prospective teachers: the film may be obtained for showing from the Tourists' Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. by ALICE CARR May 19, 1941 - Dr. Dowell introduced the assembly which was a student-faculty forum on the sociological implications of the Selective Service Act, as a noble experiment. The program was made possible by the work of fresh- men four and six. lts purpose was to bring up the prob- lems inherent in the Selective Service Act. Since the act affects sixteen million young men, these problems are important ones. 32 Scvcral students discussed briefly various aspects of the act. Iohn McCauley spoke on Marriage and the Se- lective Service Act. Judging from the figures for New York State, 116,000 marriages will be prevented by the act this year. Evidence indicates that postponed mar- riages are not usually consummated. Therefore, about one-eighth of the young men in the United States who would have married this year will not do so. Ruth Ham- ilton concluded that 35.000 births will be prevented. However, this is only 1.552 of the total number of births per year. The Balance of Sexes was discussed by Gladys Hain. Since no figures were available for the present balance, data from the XVorld XVar period were used. ln France and Germany after the war, the ratio of women to men was 122 to 100. The ratio in England was even higher. This kind of a ratio usually exists among primitive peoples since the men face grave dangers in hunting and trapping animals. Elizabeth Beatty stated that the Selective Service Act will affect the popula- tion not only quantitatively but qualitatively. Those men who need physical training are exempted and do not receive it. The physically and mentally unfit remain in civil life, marry, and propagate their untitness. Marie Kindervater presented data on the marriage of the Et and the unfit which semed to neutralize the pessimistic evidence of Miss Beatty. There is a higher death rate for unmarried men than for married ones. Therefore, it can be assumed that either marriage is a more healthful state or the most lit men marry. The higher degree of insanity among unmarried men leads to the same conclusions. During the discussion period, many interesting points were brought out. In answer to the question, will mili- tary training prove helpful in later civilian life. Dr. Dow- ell answered that the main aim is to procure a powerful military machine. Question: XVill the ,low salaries of draftees tend to lower wages in industry? Answer: Already people have argued against strikes because the draftees get only S21 per month. Question: 'XVill the program militarize our national life? Answer: There are guards against this. The Army and the Navy are under civilian heads. the President and the Secretaries of YVar and the Navy. The Selective Service Act provides that civilians shall serve on the draft boards. Forums such as this one are a very real expression of democracy, and the great interest shown in such discus- sions as the Chicago Round Table, on Sunday afternoon, and the Town Meeting of the Air, on Thursday night, prove that the people of the United States no longer know only what they read in the newspaper. but de- sire to become well informed from all angles on topics of importance. TOWER LIGHT THE LIBRARY AT YOUR SERVICE REVIEW OF REVIEWS by Dorzrs KLANK HOVV VVELL do you remember the book reviews which were presented by the Tower: Lrerrr this year? Test your memory with these questions and score your- self as follows: 10 correct-Excellent S correct-Good 6 correct-Fair -l correct-Poor 1. Exit Laughing is an autobiography of the famed humorist ------ . Z. In the book of the same name, Delilah is not a woman but a ------ . 3. lyfake Bright the Arrows by Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay is a collection of fab plays fbj poems fel short stories. 4. VVhat recent book is a series of stories telling of the moral courage of the English people during the present War? 5. VVho wrote the novel Sea Tower? 6. This book tells the story of an artist who attains success through the inspiration of an imaginary girl ------ . 7. The locale of Land Below the Wfind by Agnes Keith is ------ , a British protectorate in the Pacific. S. Sister of the Angels is an unsophisticated and re- freshing novel by ------ . 9. Mrs. ------ is a diary-like account of an average English family. T 10. This book by Richard Llewellyn is one of the best novels about YV ales ------- . QAnswers on Page 49j i' Miss Susie Slaglek, Tucker, Augustag Harper and Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1959. hffiss Susie Slagle's is a novel typifying student life in ia high ranking medical school. Iohns Hopkins was taken ras the example. Augusta Tucker has exemplified in a ibiographical description the usual everyday life of med- it ical students. The theme deals not so much with ideas but with individual character studies. The main action .center is located in Miss Susie Slagle's boarding house for medical students in 1912. 11 C3 Z l 'l co .cs +mjiQ,- ff , In order to better appreciate and more fully under- stand the incidents which take place, a short character description will be of great help. Miss Susie Slagle is an old maid housekeeper who, through her wisdom and understanding, has aided successive generations of mcd- ical students through their most critical periods. Hizer is the trusted and solitary servant of the boarding house. As one of the student types, Elize Howe, is the spoiled egotistical brat of a successful physician. Pug Prentiss is the ugly duckling of the crowd, but he is well liked. is conscientious. and is a jovial companion. lsidore Aaron is an intellectual, race-conscious product of his times. He has an extreme inferiority complex which manifests itself throughout the story. Clay Abernathy is best described in an opinion given of him by one of the doctors. The doctor said. 'fmedicine is like every- thing else. lt has its deadbeats. The profession is not immune to skunksf' Alex Ashley is a conscientious. cos- mopolitan type of student who commands the respect of all those with whom he is associated. Silas Holmes resembles Clay and Elize, Elbert Riggs is a hard worker but is rather quiet and timid. Ben Meade is still another character who was conscientious. well liked. but talk- ative. l was particularly interested in Miss Susie Slaglc's because of my close contact with the medical profes- sion through my brother, who is a recently graduated doctor. Since many of the problems of a medical student have been discussed in our home. l felt more akin and in sympathy with them when they were referred to in the novel. The purpose of the book was to portray a medical students life and the problems encountered in his ar- duous journey toward his designated goal. However. there are two incidental ideas which. because of the 33 current interest. stand out in my mind. The first was Dr. llowes philosophy concerning a medical man's position during war time. At the outbreak of the last war. Dr. Ilowe called his son home from an extended trip to London because hc believed that hc should fin- ish his education .md try to prepare himself for the con- ditions which would result from the war. In his opinion, Dr. Ilowe considered a man studying for the medical profession a coward if he went to war and did not stick to his training. I had not thought of it in that wav before. The second idea which was stimulated is this. XVith the present-day significance directed along the lines of Iewish persecution and racial confiict. I was interested in the problems presented along these lines by the au- thor. As an example of Hebrew philosophy the follow- ing passages will serve to represent some ideas of the race as put forth by Isidore Aaron. He said, I like the feeling that when I am a graduated doctor I shall be able to travelg in almost any kind of confiict without the fear of violent death. But perhaps that is because I am a lew. lews fear violent death. He says further. You can never defeat an aristocrat. You may beat him but you cannot defeat him. You may strip him of his pos- sessions, but he will live along until he acquires strength to recapture them. A material crushing does not annihil- ate him as it does a Iewf' Another point Isidore brought out is this: Money is vital to the Iew. Money has brought him freedom from death. bondage. and from battle. yet no man rots under its presure as quickly as a jew. Miss Tucker has captured the carefree yet reserved abandon which typifies the medical students' boarding house. The flounce and flourish of style has been elim- inated along with the emotional aspect and in return the intellectual approach has taken precedence. For in- stance. instead of using flowery language and description to open her novel. the author simply begins with Clay Abernathy's going to Baltimore. He finds the boarding house and meets his fellow students. Then the students talk medicine for page after page. The stark realism of the students' lives is derived from conscientious honesty rather than from a desire to be sensational. The descrip- tive ability with which the author so ably portrays stu- dent life and scenes is possibly her strongest attribute. For instance. she describes the school library in this manner: Since it was the Hrst day of medical school. the library was almost empty. only an occasional desk light was burning. only an occasional white coated in- terne was visible. An air of intangible fatigue filled the long. oblong room. and it was as though these books. weary of being pawed by people. stayed on from duty. not desire. as though they felt a relentless permanency 34 in illness and human frailty. Here and there a birdlike little woman moved among them, sorting, cataloguing, disturbing their calm. In describinv the harbor, the author in the words of o . one of the characters. said down there the land and it water melt into each other and the air is kin to the sea. if Miss Tucker also employs figures of speech that I like i very much. She refers to draperies as diaphonous dra-1 peries. She speaks of the shimmering scales of fish and the richer reds of beef and pale pinks of veal. F From reading this story, I believe my knowledge off human nature has increased. The character of the peo- ple was presented more completely than I could have seen it in men and women around me. An example of this was the frank and outspoken conviction of Isidore A Aaron when he said that Iews are afraid of violent death and that they have tradition and money because money has brought them their freedom. 'AYet. he said, no man rots under its pressure as quickly as a Iewf' Elize Howe is another example which gave me a better insight into human nature. He is an example of what can be done by kind and loving parents who are thoughtless about matters concerning character develop- ment. Throughout her novel Miss Tucker has shown the glory of the commonplace. She makes Baltimore's red brick row houses and white stone steps beautiful. She calls Baltimore the city of many tints and says. a sun- set here means not merely resplendent cloud banks but also different-hued series of brick reiiections almost as intricate in their shading as is the Grand Canyon. The author also makes Lexington Market appear as a spot of great interest and glory. She talks about each stall in the market. About one of them she says: Here and there, sandwiched among the food stalls. would be that of a produce dealer, whose pyramids of celery hearts shim- mered like white silk beneath the electric lights. Mounds of green lettuce which had been sprinkled caught the reflection of the glaring lights in diamond-studded leaves. Overhead. toward the back of ascending dis- plays. were his array of fresh gold pumpkins .... After reading this description. I became a little proud of Lexington Market and no longer thought of it as an eye sore. Bliss Susie Slagle's appealed to my emotions. I felt contempt for Clay Abernathy. particularly because of the following incident: As he was getting ready to go out one night the phone rang. He answered it and took an important message for one of the other boys. Clay, however, did not deliver the message. It was for one of the boys to report to the hospital for duty. The next day when he was asked about it he blamed it on Hizer, the old servant. tContinued on Page 491 TOWER LIGHT ul 4, 1 i. ta ii 1 .I il il if l li il. il ll ill we ii ii 1. I I? I l E I l l s I 5 V I I 3 .,- Y 1 O h ,I . Q-1 lf I Xl f X V29 Playtime, lathes, and You by SHIRLEY HICKS BATHING SUITS! Shorts! Tennis dresses! Slaeks! VVhose mind isnlt on all these things as those anxiously awaited days of rising thermometers under scorching sun approaches. Many of you are making definite plans as to how you are going to spend your days. If you sojourn Of course, the vital suit. This year, the at the beach. what will you need? costume there will be the bathing rubber suits are again gaining favor after a few seasons' absence. Lastex and cotton will be By the way. the dashing prints of your day-time eottons are being carried over into your beaehwear. Now that you have decided upon your bathing suit, what next? XVhy shorts, of course. They'rc indispensa- ble. Look for the :nan-tailored ones this season. They're unusually smart, in sharkskin, gabardinc, or pique. The white blouses you have been wearing with skirts are just the thing to complete this outiit. Another popular costume will be the playsuit and full peasant skirt to match. For those of you who have made those attractiyc skirts. fashion yourself a pair of shorts and you'll have an outfit unequalled. Perhaps you aren't going to the beach. Maybe your summer will be more diversified. You'll swim surely, but prevalent however. I then you'll play tennis, badminton, or golf. YVhat,'then, I i I 4 I l v will you need? XVell. if you haven't seen the tennis dresses. you'll want to stop in the sport shop next trip to town and look into the matter. If you are a fervent tennis fiend. your best bet for the correct tennis attire will be a white dress of sharkskin or pique. This goes for the badminton dress, too, which is merely a longer JUNE - 1941 tennis dress. Remember those skirts I was talking about? VVell. they'll be wonderful to wear to the courts or to the pool over shorts. Then, too, perhaps you are going to sec something of your country this summer. Your best bet is to stick to good-looking sport dresses. They should be dark in color and of material that will not crush easily. Riding in a train or auto plays havoc on clothes. The reason I say stick to dresses is this: you are always prepared to go anywhere when you get to a town or a city. You never feel as though you aren't dressed properly for any oc- casion. Besides your dresses. carry a serviceable top coat and sweater that slips on easily. Une last suggestion. I have only told you of styles that have already been in circulation. Be different or original or whatever you want to call it. Put on your thinking caps. Create a sensation in your ingcnuous play togs. fi' by R Iaam PARK ONE OF TIIE leading woman's magazines begins this month with the following challenge: XVhich is sum- mer to your looks - friend or foe? It can put a bloom of health on sallow cheeks. or give you a beeterccl huru. a pealing nose. It can put a glint of gold into monsey hair. or drv out nice hair so that it looks like old peatamoss, It caii make your eyes clear and bright or squinty from sun and hloodshot from the salt sea. Remember. ladies. that although the sun. the wind. and the sea are all three 35 old friends. they can still be very rough at times. lt isn't iicccssary to miss .ill the fun and stay inside all summer but it also isn't necessary to rush outside pell-mcll with- out taking the proper precautions. 'l'lic sun can be your best friend. If you're the healthy out-door type who longs to acquire a beautiful tan. get out in the sun by all means, but take it gradually. Take your sun in very short doses at first: rub in plenty of good sun-tim lotion and don't think that because you can't sec yourself getting brown that you aren't being burned. Often you can't tell how much tan you've re- ceived from the sun until later in the day. For that shiny, bronze look, take a dip in the ocean first and rub your legs and arms with salt water to prevent scales and peeling later. Your skin is not the only part of you that needs protection from the sun. Always wear sun-glasses. but not cheap ones. Be sure the glasses have well ground standard lenses. A moderate amount of sun will give lustre to your hair, but too much will dry out the natural oils and take away the color. YVear a loose scarf around your hair if you sit out in the sun for any length of time. XVind may also be a friend or enemy. VVindburn can be just as dangerous as sunburn. Your eyes, skin, hair, all need protection from the wind, too. Protect your skin with a thick coat of special cream and use powder over it. XVcar dark glasses with sides to them and apply cool. soothing eye-pads after being out in the winds to take away that burning feeling. YVater is our friend in many ways. Swimming in salt water is very stimulating to the sking however, you should take a shower as soon as you emerge, for allow- ing salt water to dry on you also dries up your skin. Salt water makes the hair sticky so don't go into the water without a cap. Dont wash your hair after every dip. but try to brush the stickiness instead. Your nails will become soft so keep them oiled and well manicured. Bright red polish flatters your hands when they are tanned. So this summer get plenty of Sun. wind and sea, but dont acquire the weatherbeaten appearance. Be friends with these three - but don't trust them without pro- tecting yourself first. The Student ouncil at Work-- 1940 - 41 by BETTY STEU.-iRT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL EARLY IN APRIL several of us had thc opportunity to take the New York trip as representatives to the East- ern States Teacher Association. Wie were overjoyed to find how progressive our student council is in compari- son with similar organizations of other colleges. It was particularly interesting to us to find that one of the 36 main topics under discussion was concerned with the curriculum. ln Iune, 1940, one of the topics presented in the student council platform was to have student par- ticipation and cooperation with the faculty on a curric- ulum committee. A committee was forrned and has ac- complished outstanding work in organizing and evalu- TOWER LIGHT i F , l 1 G l I 'N ll I ll -1 Eli A i ,l 1. ig I, .i fl l l l l i . 'E ,I I iii l ating students' suggestions and then presenting them to the administration. Several colleges have written for in- formation concerning our curriculum committee. Another suggestion presented in june was to further unify the council by designating the relationship be- tween the general student council and the resident council. A resident council constitution, specifying this relationship and the powers of the resident council, has been written and is ready to be submitted to the students. Last year the Athletic Association became a part ofthe student council, however, there was much controversy concerning the powers, duties, finances, and offices of this association. Now a constitution, which discriminates between the Athletic Association and a Department of Physical Education, has been accepted, thus conclud- ing the incorporation of the A. A. into the general council. As the problem of progressive representation had been solved on behalf of the faculty, we suggested that it also be solved on behalf of the students. A system has been devised whereby there will never be the possibility of having all new oflicers on the executive board at one time. This plan will be voted upon at the next meeting. Our Play Day was such a success that another one was planned for the spring. However, the weather, which has been diflicult on every important occasion, changed our plans. Next year, we expect to see a Play Day in the fall and one in the spring. From remarks that have been overheard. we can say that May Day was quite a success. It was held on Sat- urday in order to enhance the celebration of the seven- ty-Hfth anniversary of the college, so it had to be more elaborate and inclusive. In addition to living according to our platform, other work has been done. Three permanent committees have been added to our constitution - the Records Committee, the XVays and Means Committee, which have been functioning all year, and the Publicity Coin- mittee. which has just been adopted. Years ago a charter was written giving the students the power to organize a student council, however, this charter was never signed. This year a new charter was written, defining the specihc powers of the student council and giving it power to function as a student government. This has been included in our constitu- tion as Article l and Article ll. In inserting the charter, the entire constitution was revised. Besides the Curriculum Committee, the Honor Sys- tem Committee has also done much research, in in- vestigating and evaluating systems of other colleges. The latter is not really an 'Ahonor system committee, but one working on a judicial system that would succeed in our college. A plan is still in the process and will probably be completed next year. Several other committees were formed whenever the occasion arose, thus allowing more students to partici- pate in the work of the council. So far we have stressed the student council, but much of our progress we must allot to Dr. VViedefeld, who has aided and encouraged us by her trust and coniidence. Not only Dr. Wiedefelcl, but many of the faculty mem- bers have been inore than willing to help. Our faculty adviser, Dr. Lynch, and assistant faculty adviser, Mr. Miller, patiently have given much time, and good ad- vice. to all of us whenever we needed it. And now some of us are Umoving out while others are moving up to take our places and carry on. XVe know, Henry Astrin, that you and the other oijricers for next year will be accorded the line spirit of cooperation that we have received and will enjoy your work as much as we did. Some Unsung Heroes of S. T. C. by lVIURIEL FRAMES VVE'VE BEEN to assemblies and class meetings and May Days. And we've listened to long, loud laudations of the virtues and accomplishments of some of our fac- ulty and student leaders. And far be it from us to mini- mize any of their glory. But we should like to here pay tribute to a group of individuals on our campus who we believe are the real Unsung Heroes of S. T. C. - the campus school children who provide sophomore prac- ticum material. If you're a mere senior or freshman and have never JUNE - 1941 had the rich and rare experience of a practicum course. consider your education as sadly neglected. And so for you poor unfortunates here are some highlights from a certain popular practicum class. The surprising thing in a practicum period is that it is hard to predict the success or failure of a fellow class- mate until that classmate has had at least one ten- minute experience. The aggressive braggadocio of your section may prove to be the very soul whose voice trem- bles and hands shake until the whole class is tense with 37 fear for him. Of course, that before class nervousness is one tlnng which clearly indicates who is to brave the dangers and hazards of the first or second grade each day. But then there is another sign-post-for the girls, high- hcclcd shoes, long stockings, and a street dress, for the boys. no sweaters or sport shirts but stiff collars and business suits. Dressing up is a sure sign that some- one's fate is in the oiling that day. One of the most amazing features of praeticums is the unexpected frankness of the student teachers. For instance, there was the student who calmly introduced her lesson by saying I know you don't want to sing, or the one who, after a trial and error accompaniment on the keyboard. commented quite truthfully, A'VVell, I guess you did better than I did. XVe can't help but wonder how the campus chil- dren in the upper I. brackets restrain themselves, as they almost invariably do. One college class might have done well to have followed their polite lead when a cer- tain young lady taught a line of O Susanna as the red, red rose was in her mouth instead of in her hand. Not a giggle from the fifth grade - but oh, those sopho- mores! And then there's the student who carefully thanked the children throughout the lesson for every effort they made. Of course, the numbers are legion of those stu- dents who cheerfully and heartily commend the children with that's line and you did that so well when in reality the pitch was off, the timing wrong, and only one-third of the children participatitng. But it's hard to think of everything and always re- main perfectly composed, and so we give credit to the young man recently who turned from giving directions to the children to strike the key note on the piano. XVhile his back has been turned, some other students had decided to move the piano to a better position. So as he reached for the key, the piano persistently and mys- teriously backed away from him. But he pursued it most diligently and remained poised to the end. All in all, practicurns are the source of much agita- tion but also much fun. On rare occasions everybody concerned - the children, the teachers, and the stu- dents - have an opportunity to come down to one level with a laugh. The classic example of this for the year, we believe. involved a certain sophomore gentleman well known to everyone for his dignity, culture, and candid- ness. In writing his lesson plan he had decided to call on one child during the lesson for a solo. This was to be a reward for outstanding work during the instruction period. Believing that preparedness is most admirable, this student went one step farther in his thinking and decided he would call on L-, knowing that hc was always a good worker. Came the lesson - and it pro- 38 gressed most smoothly. And now, said our distin- guished sophomore as he carefully inspected the group and mentally recalled his lesson plan, I've been watch- ing one boy who has been working so hard - he's had good singing position and held this book properly, and cooperated very nicely. L-, you've helped us so much today, will you sing alone for us? And then a chorus from the entire class - But L- isn't here - he's been absent all day! gs' A PROTEST by SELNIA COUCHLAN 4. The time has come, someone said, To talk of many things. So give your tongue unto your speech, Your spirit to its wings. Thus I have risen beyond FEAR. Above the limits of Convention, And in this issue dare to bring Injustice to your attention. ir I'm speaking for those specials now, XVho've been encouraged here . . There are jobs for all. Dear Specials - have no fear! Maturity, experience and wisdom will count plenty Our superintendents will value you As they do the YOUTH of twenty. it 1. But that's not so - we're on the shelf, The school men want us not. They come to shop, and pass us by For the YOUTH we haven't got. Now my contention is just this - If we women of thirty-odd Be considered too old to teach Then these men with their measuring rod Should hold it up to themselves and see If they are not quite as old as we. And unfit, by their own misguided rules To guide the youth in our public schools. MOTIVATION by DOUGLAS E. LAXVSON We are told, concerning education, that Uwe Can lead a horse to water but we can't Make him drink. It is diflieult for Him who teaches to be certain that his pupils Drink at both the well of idealism and knowledge. If we are to make man the Salt of the earth, we must induce Him to season his judgment and his actions Well with both sympathy and understanding Before comes that day on which we Hand to him the reins of our frail and human destinies. - Published by permission of The Educational Forum. TOWER LIGHT Census of Personalities by Bois Cox IT SEEMS remarkable that year after year, year in and year out, each class seems to have a quotablc and delin- able number of personalities. In looking over the present freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes and meditating on the alumni of the last three years, I find I could name people who ht the yearly pattern. Does it ever seem strange to you that all four classes have a member who is from five to ten years older than the youngest of the class? He usually has ubeen around and is quite amiable but also quite temperamental. However, he is as full of fun as can be, can sing rather well. and has a marked ability to organize. Perhaps you've never wondered why your class - and all the others - has a punster. This is a fellow or girl who is always on the lookout for fun. The same person is likely to accept responsibility with a smile and work hard. He or she is very pleasant and likable. This per- son, too, is usually gifted - perhaps in literature or music. Do you have him marked? Do you have a person in your class who says little but is quite interesting if you draw him out? Could he or she be a good athlete if the will were there? Does he or she study hard and go either to the orchestra or glee club as an extra-curricular activity? Is he conspicuous for dry humor? Does he or she accept responsibility ungrudg- ingly? You do have such - if you look hard - every class always has one!! Does your class have a member who is quite effemi- nate? Does he or she avoid people until pressed and then suddenly take it, as well as dish it out? If you are a freshman or sophomore, watch that individual de- velop into an average athlete and person by the time he is a senior. Funny about those individuals - they're usually studious and professional with an interest either in the orchestra or glee club. There's one in every class! Your class should also have the fellow who is every- thing. He's an athlete, studious, social-minded, fun- loving, and has a professional attitude. Everything this person does is either done well or not at all. Have you someone in mind already? You should have! How about that fellow almost exactly like the one above. He. too, is an athlete, very capable. and will be responsible if asked but - this person hasn't such a good professional attitude, is a bit on the noisy side, and is quite temperamental. His biggest asset is that he's never too busy to join in the fun. I-Iave you got him picked out? lust a word about girls in general now. Vlfatch those hilarious, silly, unprofessional underelassinen - they'll be sophisticated, serious seniors. Watcli that girl who JUNE - 1941 can't find a beau to suit her now - she'll be settled with a fellow in her own section when she's a senior. Keep an eye on that girl who's settled with a fellow in her section - she's likely to be engaged to someone outside the school when she becomes a senior. Take stock of your class. reader! If you can prove my classifications false, come and tell me about it. See if you can convert me to your point of view. Intercepted by PEGGY GUNNELLS Towson, Maryland May 24, l94l Dear Catherine: VVhen it comes to writing letters you should get a medal Qbut not a gold oncj. XVith all my studying Q?j I endeavor to keep up with my correspondence. Do you? Oh, no, if I get a few words scrawled on note paper from you every couple of months I really feel elated. lust as a matter of principle I shouldn't be writing you now. but I have so much to tell you. There have been quite a few red letter days on my calendar lately and one of the most important was Nlay Day. In preceding years May Day was on a week day, but this year we held it on Saturday as a part of the 75th anniversary. The weather appeared to be against us in the morn- ing, the sky was overcast, and the wind was having a jam session. In the afternoon the clouds seemed to dis- integrate and the sun shone forth. The celebration took place on the Athletic Field be- fore Dr. VViedefeld's home. Some of the students and alumni with the help of several faculty members ar- ranged the stage, which was a raised platform. The blue throne was very imposing against a background of gold and white. After many last-minute details were settled. music announced the approach of the parade, This consisted of two students from the college bearing the colors of state and nation, dancers from the campus school and college, the faithful cow. flower laden cart, balloon men. flower girls, and lastly. the court itself with one ex- ception. The king unobtrusively slipped onto the stage and waited the arrival of his queen. VVhen the court had assembled the queen knelt before the king. He proclaimed her queen of the May and placed a crown upon her head. So the reign of our queen began with the festivities. An announcer suminoucd each group to do its bit in honor of the queen. Several interesting dances and songs were the campus schools contribution. The traditional May Pole dance was performed by college students. The 39 Lllcc Club and orchestra under the careful guidance of .Xhss Xvciforth and Miss Prickctt. respectively. trans- forinctl tlic spring into lilting melodies. lu carry out thc festival idea three dogs attended. with their trainers. from The Dog Owners' Training School. The animals had been so well taught that their activity seemed almost human. The climax of the program was a gypsy dance executed by some college girls. The program ended with the court leaving the ticld of events. A tea dance was to be held later in the afternoon but incidentally the orchestra didn't show up. Record- ings proved to be a crutch for this emergency. Of course the cookies and punch weren't wasted. Catherine, I always said you missed a lot by not com- ing here to college. It's too bad the home town held so much attraction for you. By the way, I have some interesting news to tell you the next time I come home. In case you've forgotten my address. look on the en- velope. It may disclose the secret. Collegiately, Pacer. It's Up To You by Simms CEELXVASSER THE CURTAIN rose upon the first opera I had ever seen, Rigoletto. I felt the magic of music, singing, acting. dancing and bright costumes - a curious fan- tasy crowded into three short hours. The most important part was that of Rigoletto. sung by Robert Xlleede. Rigoletto is a deformed court jester whose daughter is killed by his own mistakes and trickery. Through line dramatic acting Mr. NVeede con- stantly maintained the illusion of the tormented jester- hunchback which, combined with his vibrant voice. created a character never to be forgotten. As I sat watch- ing. I could only marvel that the pathetic creature on the stage was the same tall. genial man I had inter- viewed early that afternoon. XVhen I went over to Glen Esk to interview Robert XVeede. he was rehearsing with his accompanist for a concert in Virginia. The accompanist. in a good tenor voice. was singing along occasionally to fill in missing quartet parts. YVhile he sang. Mr. XYeede's whole being became a part of the music: he paced the floor and snapped his fingers feeling every part of the rhythm. In between snatches of song he answered my questions. and his manner was so pleasant and frank that I can easily understand his success as a popular operatic star. Mr, lYeede feels that the present world turmoil will do harm to the opera. Up until now the opera has drawn its musicians, singers. and composers from Eu- rope. Since the present European situation is not at all conducive to developing musicians. the opera will have to depend solely upon Americans for its continuance and growth America will have to grow its tomato plants from native seedlings rather than from imported hot-house plants. But this is the disheartening factor - most Amer- 40 ican musicians are not interested in the opera. It is difficult to get new operas produced and the money angle is not too inviting. Mr. YVeede's accompanist also suggested that there are not enough good singers, with the exception of a few like his employer who are worth writing for. This is probably the opinion of many Amer- icans, and so encouragement and stimulation are the missing elements which will have to be supplied for creative results. Since it is so vital a part of the musical world, opera must survive. Its perpetuation for the coming genera- tions can be insured only by America. Now it is Amer- ica's turn to mold and shape bountiful raw materials into glorious works. Mickey Goes To The Symphony by HARRY M. LONDON DOROTHY THOMPSON says Fantasia is fascist, being. also. a very blunt knock on the great composers in our vast musical library, viz.. Bach, Beethoven, etc. Most of the critics are raving away their stolidness. Somewhere along the line is me and mine own. Logic dictates that if the ear can be attuned to math- ematical formulae, which is what music is, then surely the eye can be taught to appreciate such mathematical formulae as Dr. Disney is calling forth on his screen - one of which has flashed such revolutionary ideas as Snow XVhite and Pinocchio, But then you wouldn't expect a fellow to show just plain pictures on a screen and expect you to appreciate them. So from all indica- tions, you are being prepared in Fantasia to spend some time just observing land likingl motion with your eyes. Mark my word! XVhat has here taken place is an attempt by the Dis- ney organization to record certain individual reactions to some of the great music we hear. As is platitude by now. one thousand people may hear a composition, and give up one thousand different responses. Remem- ber. though. that Disney's reactions are but his and TOWER LIGHT V: I. -1 I l l y I l ll l i li ti l 1 4. ,T lb 'I 4 l Qi gl i I, ll lf . lf is li is Qi I lt El sl fl 11 -i I 1 l I l above all tl1ey should never be taken as the final, ulti- mate result of listening to, say, Toccato and Fuguen by Bach. VVhat Dis11ey gets is his, to be rendered unto him. YVhat prompted Bach is hisg and NVll21t'S yours when yo11 listen is yours, so111etl1i11g Dr. DISIICB' does not desire to take from you. XVhat Miss Thompson must have been worried about is the same which very often troubles the consciences of some of Mr. Miller's students: Have we the right to say just what an artist meant when he created? Miss Thompson is probably much concerned thereoverg she is probably objecting to the sterotyping of definition. But if yo11 look at it my way, you will realize that tl1e interpretations are Dr. Disney's and only serve as his setting forth what music provokes within l1i1n. Another consideration is the self-respect of the av- erage listener, which gets a hearty boost from Fan- I tasia's idea. Here is john Doe who sees stars when he hears Rite of Spring, and is very self-conscious about his ideas. feeling them to be quite inferior to what the next fellow gets. Along comes Disney and sees stars fmaybej in the same place. Can't yo11 just picture Doe's l face brightening up and his desire for, and comfort with 1 great music heightened manifold? Disney has done better here, I think, with the frankly 1 abstract. Absolute music exists for its own technical and :auditory qualities. But it has more than one type of Ilistener, as does all music. Either you listen for its own 'sound, or for the delicious visions and sensations it ibrings. So Disney whipped up his pastels, and pro- duced a lot of flighty blots and dashes - on their own hook, rather silly. But with a Stokowski sound-track running alongside these aberrations, you appreciate ,them as what you might see. The Bach piece was ,I treated in this manner. 1 1 Mr. Deems Taylor leads off the humor spots after j shadows of orchestral artists have taken their seats. Mr. Taylor is a11 American composer and music critic, and he is warm and outspokenly congenial. Halfway 11p the w show you will have an interview 'twixt Mr. Taylor and 1 the sound-track which will provoke you to good sound, spontaneous laughter. It is a lesson in music apprecia- Ition - and appreciation of the Disney technique. The iehairman for the evening holds everything well in hand ,l for Disney, Stokowski and Co., and would, I think, be aa good prospect for some symphony program. such as ,yt the New York Philharmonic Society 011 Sundays. l l It is, of course, not easy to concur - any great m1111ber of us - on the matter of picking the best llLl1Hl'JC1'. I jl know, for example, that Dr. XVest, whom I met i11 the jillobby during intermission. fell for one number - Stra- j insky's Rite of Spring. - head over heels. as it were. if JUNE - 1941 ,f lr ll sl It is a sequence dealing with tl1c tirst few billio11 years of earth and life thereon. covering everything up to the death of the dinosaurs. Very scicntilic. Mr. Taylor said: Science wrote this scenario. Life's law of httcst surviv- al is clearly put, i11 IlIlIIIl1ICl1'lg pictures. The battle be- tween the two huge lizards Qdinosaursj is almost ter- rifying. But I would rather say that Bach's k'Toccato and Fuguen was treated with more all-around perfection, It is frankly abstract, and works entirely with apparently witless symbols. This was by far the best selection for me and I won't hesitate i11 saying so. More controversial is the Beethoven 'LSymphony No. 6 fPastoralj. Some say it profancs the Great Masters work, which dealt with life O11 a European countryside. and is here turned to mythology and fable. But you and I know that truly great music cannot be profaned. There is a little winged black horse which will bear watching. And frisky, rollicky Bacchus, red IIOSC and all. Aside from these three, there is nothing at all big. Disney tried to whip the audience into tiny emotional frenzies with the shocks from A'Night on Bare Moun- tain by Modest Moussorgskyg and then tried again to soften the audience into tears with Ave Maria by Schubert. It didn't work with me, at any rate, because the iirst piece was too wierd, and the second was not well sung. This, incidentally, was the lirst time I had heard tl1e orchestra at all, of which more later. The kiddies will enjoy Mickey Mouse in Dukas' Sor- eerer's Apprentice. This is the story of a lazy f?j lad who uses the mystical to get a broom to carry water for him, but he cau't stop the flow. But as Mr. Donald Kirkley suggested, you may have to park the children outside till the Bare Mountain number is finished and get them back right for Aye Maria. The pictures are, to say the least, fascinating, with the result that one does 11Ot hear tl1e music too well. If you are wide-awake yo11 will hear little musicg if at all sleepy, toward the e11d you will actually shut your eyes and hear only music. This is important to consider. You know that the Philadelphia Orchestra led, espe- cially by Stokowski, is IIOI exactly ugly to hear. And when you fail to hear them when they are playing right before your very ears, there must be a11 attraction. I tl1i11k so111e sort of experiment was tried recently in the campus school, i11 which children were exposed to certain music and asked to depict what they saw o11 paper. It's a coming tl1i11g. XVhen Miss Tl1o111pso11 hit Fantasia on the head with her typewriter she got the same effect Mickey Mouse did when he chopped 11p the broomstick. He got a crew of many broom' sticks, all carrying water. So1111ds ominous, doesn't it? 41 l KAPPA DELTA PI SUPPER CLUB LECTURE by Manefxrwi' HECK THAT IS the sawed-off Caesar: there is the sourpussf' Referring to Mussolini and Hitler, Michail Dorizas, our Supper Club lecturer. displayed a sense of wit and wis- dom which left no doubt in our minds why he was voted by the senior class of the University of Pennsyl- vania the most popular professor. Michail Dorizas was born in Constantinople of Greek parentageg he graduated from Robert College, Con- stantinople. with the degree of A.B. VVhile at college he represented Grecce as a member of the Greek Olym- pic Team and won the world's record in the javelin throw. Dr. Dorizas traveled extensively with a broad outlook for the customs and habits of the people whom he visited. His first trip to America was in 19095 he later returned to study at the University of Pennsylvania for his Ph.D, He was in the American Army during the VVorld Warg and being a linguist of rare ability as well as a geographer, he was called to the Peace Conference in Paris. Since returning to America after the war, Professor Dorizas has been a member of the faculty of the Geography Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At the Kappa Delta Pi Supper Club lecture Dr. Dori- zas lectured and showed movies. There were movies of the Greek war not a month old. A German propaganda film confiscated by the British in Bermuda was pre- sented. Could the experiences of Ian Valtin in 'Cut of the Night really have happened? According to Dr. Dorizas they could have occurred, but perhaps not nec- essarily to one man. He gave us a vivid and under- standing picture of the conditions in Europe as he saw them. , . . . These Supper Club lectures are planned to be made annual affairs. They will greatly benefit the students and teachers of the college and the people of the community. ,er THE S. C. A. by IEAN GRAY The Student Christian Association is making sure of 42 ll' in s If II I EVENTS ET a fine beginning for its activities next year by the simpler' expedient of planning them ahead of time. This feat is' to be accomplished through the S. C. A. cabinet retreat,f a new feature which was just adopted last year. It is justi what the name implies, a retreat of the officers or cabinet to a secluded spot where they can plan for the futurel activities of the association. But even such a far-seeing organization must culmi- nate the activities it has already begun. At the S. C. A.' dinner on May 15, the old officers relinquished theiri positions to the new ones in the final activity of thef year - the installation service. Thus even though thef dinner was a summation of the year's work, it stilli served as an inauguration of the coming year's program.I Next year we shall see if their foresight will be rewardedf by a fresh and stimulated Student Christian Association? I ef I I THE A. c. E. by AGNES LINK Are you one of those persons who does not belong to a club, or feels that he should join another one? Ifl you are, I know just the club for you - the A. C. E. I A. C. E. stands for the Association for Childhoodl Education, but that is too long for us to say in onei breath, so we cut it down to plain and simple A. C. The group is made up of students who are interested in nursery, kindergarten, and primary education. lncidentally, in case you didn't know, our branchy I Ithe Towson Teachers College A. C. EJ is a mem-. ber of the National Association for Childhood Educa- tion. For one of our meetings wc had a most interest-I I ing talk by Miss Benner, who came from the Nationaly I I Headquarters located in Wfashington, D. C. Other re-I cent interesting speakers were Mrs. Margery Harriss, a, graduate of Towson State Teachers College. and Iudge' H. Hamilton Hackney of the Iuvcnile Court. VVinding up our highly successful year under they presidency of Kay Pcltz, Miss Ioslin gave the A. C. iuembers fMiss Ioslin's childrcnj a glorified picnic inf I I the Glen. The menu was perfect. But feasting was not! the only thing we did at the picnic: we elected our new. oflicers for the coming year. They are: I TOWER LIGHT? I I I I President ....... .,,. E ileen Bautz Vice-President . . , . .... Ruth Werner Secretary ....... ...., D oris Kehm Treasurer ......,, ....... A gnes Link Social Chairman .... ,,... P lenrietta Kenny Publications . ,..,......,... Margaret Carter V So next year start the new term out right by joining y the A. C. E. ,if WASHINGTON COUNTY ALUMNI LUNCHEON . The Washington County Alumni of S. T. C. held . their annual luncheon on May 17 at the Women's Club 3 in Haverstown This group represented bs lift pro res - 1 .' Y l 3 ' sive wbmen, have this year added to the Towson Schol- L. arship Loan Fund and aided in the selection of high 1- school students for the teaching profession. Six young ii women attended the luncheon and guests from S. T. C. i. gave information and invited them to inform them- selves further by coming to Towson before September. ir A large delegation has chartered a bus to attend State .Teachers Convention and Commencement Activities, fl june 14 to Iune 17. Such intelligent groups as these make education in ?Maryland progress. gs' . Lila Moore, chairman of the Natural History group, j was awarded the Natural History group's scholarship ri for two weeks, study at the Audubon Nature Camp 1 during the coming summer. This loan scholarship was 7 held by Katherine Paula during the summer of 1939. i ,gy ALUMNI NEWS Mannraeizsr Elizabeth Melendez. class of 1940, to Arnold H. Coates, on lannary 23, 1941. Lilyan Elizabeth King to Barnard Harris, class of 1938, z on April 27, 1941. y Eleanor Barbara Sterbak, class of 1934. to Iohn Rob- ert Bedford, on May 3, 1941. T Nannette Trott, class of 1940, to Ceorge Berbcreck, 4 on April 26, 1941. 'i Phylis Larue Kemp. class of 1937, to Earle Monroe . Sommerlield, on May 29, 1941. JUNE - 1941 ENCACEMENTS: Mr. and Mrs. Edmund B. Fladung of Covans an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elaine Othilia Fladung, to Mr. Earl Henry Palmer, class of 1935. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford VVilliamson of Dundalk an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Eleanor VVilliamson, class of 1940, to Mr. lliwall Bledyn. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Croom of Rodgers Forge an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss lane Groom, class of 1941, to Mr. VV. Maurice Clark, of Greenville, South Carolina. The wedding will take place in Iuly. Mrs. Angela K, Reinhardt announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss lean Reinhardt, class of 1941, to Mr. lames McCuirk of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stembridge announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Miss Inez Stembridge, class of 1941, to Iohn Lyburn of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Iolm Klein of Brunswick, Md., an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Rena Klein, class of 1941, to Mr. Philip Altfeder. Mrs. Francis Kelly announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Margaret Mary Kelly, to Norval Byrd Keen of Aberdeen, Md. The wedding will take place in November. TEACHERS BORN OF INSPIRATION by DOUGLAS E. LAXVSON Someone once said that teachers are born - Said that silk purses are not made from sows' ears. There are many potential teachers, however. Three or four years in college, combined with certain Kinds of teaching experience sometimes create Teachers from crude, raw material. Those who catch the spark of inspiration sometimes Are born without apparent promise. Those who find this spark fanned to flame Are re-born into a service dedicated to children. And who shall deny the worth of that service? Those who really teach are perhaps those whom we Never should have known were it not that they Have been warmed with a passion which was itself Born of another's inspiration. --Published by permission of The Educational Forum 43 :I eet Mr. Math E. Matician by Lvnrx ZIEFLE and HENRY ASTRIN IIOXY MANY Oli' our readers exhibit delight in work- ing mathematical problems? I dare say the number is small. for when a person admits his interest in math- ematics. the listener often presumes that the self-alleged mathematician delves in the theory of relativity. Such is not true in the case of average persons who engage in mathematical recreation. pleasure and relaxation. Fur- thermore, no college degree in calculus is needed to pur- sue this hobbyg one only needs interest, imagination and curiosity. A few years ago a boy began thinking and became curi- ous as to why things fell down. Later he formulated many theories that explained this force. and today these theo- ries stand practically the same as Newton dictated them in his Laws of Gravitation, The moral of this story is not to ponder why some things go up and others come down, and thus invent some laws of ascension and descension. It goes much deeper. For eons of time creatures have known that most things fell down. In fact, they knew it so well that they dismissed the occurrences as every- day common-place happenings. However. N ewton's cu- riosity was aroused by these taken-for-granted events, and his interest and imagination did the rest. The types of mathematical interests are numerous. One may be classified as interest of a practical aspect. There are many opportunities to study mathematics today if one only opens his eyes to the many problems in his daily life requiring mathematical solution. Here are some which you may have encountered. l. XVhy does my tennis serve bounce over the net or go far beyond my opponents base line? The so- lution is merely a case of geometric tangency if we take for granted that the athlete has a serve that will at least make a noise when it strikes the clay. Z. How much of my salary as a teacher should be put aside for a cloudy day? The arithmetic of a budget will help me decide. There are some people who prefer to look at mathe- matics as a means of enjoyment rather than as a solu- tion of practical problems. They might delight in try- ing to solve some of the problems stated below. l. Two balls are touching the wall on one side of the room. Beginning at the same time the balls start to roll across to the other side of the room. the center of each moving at the same horizontal 44 -I speed. One ball reaches the opposite wall in one- 'g half the time required for the other ball to reach A. it. How is this possible? ' 2. Substitute numbers for letters: SIR LETTER IQVISIGN I 3. I have a sign four feet wide and four feet long. I can increase the size so that it has twice the areal it originally had, but I do not have to increase the height nor the width. How can this be done? 3 I A person interested in mathematics is not unusual,I but he is often interested in the unusual problems and I I . I haps the easiest type of unusual proof occurs when two Q equals one. I those containing fallacies. The most popular and per- l. X:-XZZX2-X: Ix - fx - xl : x Ix - xj Factor both sides of the equation Zx : x Divide the equation by fx - xl I I 2 : l Divide the equation by x I Although this example is used, many still do not see that one of the factors fx - xl is zero. The division of a , number bv zero is impossible. ' I I Z. In higher math we may ind one of Zeno's para- 1 doxes which states that since an arrow in flight is at any instant in a certain position. and that the If flight is made up of a number of such successive I instantsg the motion of the arrow and other moving bodies is merely an illusion. I I I I I This paradox is of such a nature as to defy us mor- , tals who have our high school work as a background for II our numerical pursuits. ig There are several reasons why these students found .I pleasure in math. First of all. there is a feeling of con- I fidence in knowing that one understands the necessary processes. Second, there is not only understanding but the student gains satisfaction in being able to apply i these principles practically. Third, they are gaining a growing mathematical appreciation - a realization of I the tremendous amount of work which has helped to I make this part of our culture possible. I This question of mathematical interest has been in I TOWER LIGHT I I 4 i l I i li .. i 1 T 1 1 N i evidence here in the collegeg students have devoted one evening a month in solving problems at the Math Club. Recently this club organized a program including thc theoretical development of measurement at one meet- ing and the practical applications of the same problem as projects were set up in thc Glen, Students worked on such problems as finding the height of a tree, measuring the height of a slope, and placing a point on a map. Remember that the next time you sec a classmate la- boriously working over a math problem and enjoying himself in doing it, he is telling you, that Mathematics can be fun! Glen by DORO'I'H1' KNIFE - THROVVING, magicians, hot-dogs, and bon- fires. That was Glen Day. Oh, you didn't know about Glen Day? VV ell, I'll tell you. Every spring the Te-Pa-Chi Club holds its final meet- ing in the Glen, but this meeting isn't just an ordinary meeting. It is a picnic. This year the gala event was scheduled for May twentieth. The morning of May twentieth dawned bright and clear. The thermometer read seventy in the shade. By noon-tirne it was so hot that even the most active little volcano on the play- ground was content to listen to a story book read in the shade of a tree. By four-thirty, when the picnic began, it was as hot as mid-july. Wliat wonderful weather for a picnic. The Glen was overfiowing with people. Some were sitting on the stone walls, some were sitting by the paths, some were walking by the stream and others were crowded into the amphitheater. Children and grown-ups were talking excitedly to their friends. New acquaintances were being made. Teachers and parents were learning to know each other better. Pupils and teachers were meeting each other on common ground. Everywhere you turned, there was a general air of friend- liness and good-will. As soon as everyone arrived, the fun began. You never saw such ingenious games. Everyone played - children, parents, and teachers. The most popular game of all was the knife-throwing contest. The spectators stood by and watched with fear and trembling as the knives slipped out of the thrower's hand. Several people scored a bull's-eye, but no one was good enough to outline a human target. If you weren't so viciously inclined you could enter the horse race or 'tcap the cork . Some of the women tried their skill at throwing the rolling pin and at flinging the fiour-flattener as the master of ceremonies aptly termed it. To climax these events, Mr. Zerrl, the magician, worked his black magic. The people had all been talk- ing busily to each other. Suddenly there was a loud clash JUNE - 1941 Day SHINHAM of cymbals. There in the amphitheater stood Mr. Zcrr. He announced that he would do the spectacular stunt of escaping from a tightly-sealed box. First Mr. Zerr asked two of the fathers to come up and tie his hands together. Then he stepped into a huge canvas bag which covered him entirely. The two men tied the bag top so that Mr. Zerr looked just like a bag of flour. The amaz- ing thing about this bag of flour was that it picked itself up and put itself in a big wooden box nearby. Then the men put the lid on the box. They still weren't satisfied. They bound the box securely with stout ropes. They even put a few nails in the lid. Finally the men rolled the box into a small tent that was behind them. At first there was silence. Then there came a strange thumping noise from the tent. The magic was taking effect. The top of the tent rose and fell! The sides vi- brated violently. For two minutes the crowd stood breathless. Suddenly there was a loud explosion and Mr. Zerr popped from the tent. He wasn't in a box. he wasn't in a bag, and his hands weren't tied. Now do you believe in magic? By now it was after six, so everyone scrambled to one of the three fireplaces to get some food. The fathers smilingly handed out food to the hungry crowd. VVhen the people were served, they sat on the most convenient stump or log to eat their supper. VVhen all had finished eating the people moved slowly to the playground, where Mr. Zerr had lighted a huge bonfire. There wasn't any magic this time. He used a match. VVhen the fire was burning brightly and the sparks were flying heavenward, Someone started to sing. Soon the whole group had joined in song. They sang the old favorites which are dear to all friendly gather- ings. As dusk settled deeply over the campus. taps was sounded in the still air. For a minute no one stirred. Then everyone moved slowly homeward. 1 Mr. Zerr is the father of one of the boys in the campus school. 45 Where to Look for S. T. C. Students During the Summer by Doizorrn' IONES ONLY A FEW' more weeks and college will be closed. Hope I can get a job for the summer. There are some who prefer to stay home and take life easy or. as Ver- onica Puzycki said. Relax and enjoy the comforts of home, 'recapitulate' from a long, hard winters work. Oh yes. and have a grand time all summer long. You can find many who are planning to indulge in Veronica's Summer Tonic. However. there are some rugged individuals who plan to take additional responsibilities for the summer, regardless of how hard the winter has been. Let's snoop around and find out just what some of these students plan to do. Charles Cross, perhaps, has the choice position. He will keep right in line with his past four years at Towson by teaching science during the summer session at the Radford State Teachers Col- lege. Virginia. Iames Iett might be wearing khaki and writing letters for maybe poetryj home. Lee McCar- riar might also go ro bat for Uncle Sam. Marge Coulson will teach at Rodgers Forge Playground again this sum- mer. Kate Gardner is going to don slacks and help on her fathers farm. Ruth Tapman will continue her studying at Johns Hopkins summer school. Sibyl Davis is going to play tennis all summer - if she can keep someone in line to play with. Otherwise, rain is the only thing that will stop her. Dave Nelson plans to study music. Can you think of anything better to soothe the nerves for the ordeal that is to follow in the fall? Richard Coleman is going to be an apprentice carpenter. Creston Herold has a job with the Gas and Electric Company - if he doesn't join the army. Howard Stottlemeyer will work in an airplane factory. Bob Cox will again work at Bethlehem Steel Company as an ac- countant. Playground and camp work is a favorite type of sum- mer job for Towson students. lack Hart is going to um- pire baseball and work for the Department of Recre- ation. Joseph Hillyard and David Shepherd are planning to work at the Fresh Air Farm at Bel Air. Doris Carr has a job with the P. A. L. and Peggy Heck and Venita Lambros will also do playground work. As I have already stated. the most popular answer is Find a job and work. There are many who haven't the slightest idea of what they are going to do. Don't worry. Those who want jobs will End them. The gen- eral attitude is - If there is something to do, I will do it. MY HEART REBELS by MARJORIE COULSON Each time that men uproot a tree My heart rebels that humans blind, serene, O'erlook the hundred years or more it took To grow that silent sentinel of green. George XVashington passed here - Perhaps that tree, a sapling still. Comfort and shade the weary traveller gave, VVho paused to pray 'ere lie'd breast a Tory hill. Soldiers. blue and gray, must have passed 'Neath the sheltering, friendly boughs On the way to gory battles, grim and vain. Or cavalcade of empire. freshening hope, or early vows. These great green temples watched a city rise And stretched long arms that wisely hid XYith wooded hills and fragrant blossoms o'er The sordid, the unlovely that the city did. 46 Now tliey're butchering these. our trees. Symbols of God which interfere with roads so cold and hard. Of what avail is civilizations vaunted stride. Or the oft-sung song of Natures earnest bard? TOWER LIGHT l I i 1 l i 1 l . I I l L l i v 4 i 1 i . i I v I l ll 'i li I rchids To - - - by F. ROBISON I. Miss Bader - for her progressive education idea of a culminating activity. QOh, that more teachers would end a course with cokes and jokes.j 2. Dr, VVest - for being among the first to give a class a chance to put an honor system in practice. 3. Miss YVoodward - for her ability to produce any- thing from a woden Indian to a boot-jack for har- assed student-teachers. 4. Miss Neunsinger - for her Cod's in His Heaven- All's Right with the XVorld attitude. 5. Mr. Crook - for his bravery in performing autop- sies on guinea pigs - both human and otherwise. 6. Mr. VValther - for his interpretation of a course of study as uwhat you teach when you can think of nothing else to teach. 7. The following unsung heroes: a. The brave souls who sit near the demonstra- tion desk in Science 30. b. The person who will carry a Roberts Rules of Order to a junior class meeting next year. c. The mad geniuses who create decorations, place cards and posters for all occasions. d. The rugged individualist who dares play a Strauss waltz when the jitterbugs rule the foyer. e. The person who is brave enough to vote no when everyone else has said aye in Student Council meeting. f. The 9895 of the student body who never have their linen aired in USO VVhat. S. To everyone who realizes that student-teachers, as well as prospective student-teachers, are apt to be irrational. A Sixth Grade Play IT IS NOT often that Pandora, Epimetheus, Hope, Troubles, and all the other characters from Paradise of Children come to the Campus Elementary School. This year such a visit is being made possible by the sixth grade. The sixth grade decided to dramatize this Creek myth to conclude their work in campus school. They have ,E VVe know a brook, by a shady nook, VV here ferns and mosses grow. And when we want to wade and swim, 'Tis there we often go. VVhere honey drips from the branches high, And flowers nod and sway. VVe pick our dinner from the trees, And eat and dance and play. Pandora, now wonyt you go with us, To spend a happy day? Tra la la la. tra la la la, Oh, let's be glad and gay. -NANCH' KENNEDY, Grade 6. JUNE - 1941 rewritten the story for this reason and have gone so far as to compose the songs, both the words and the music, and to create the dances they are to use in the play. The teachers and children are looking forward to Iune l3, when Paradise of Children will be presented for the parents and children of the campus school. Here are two of the songs: VVe're happy all day: it's always spring, And all we do is dance and sing. VVe gather hgs, we're always gay, YV e live in happiness every day. The things we eat just grow on trees. There are no thieves: doors need no keys. XVe laugh and play, we sing for fun And sing some more when day is done. For don't you see that we are glad! Not one who sings with us is bad. Each one is young who dances here. Theres always fun and never fear. 47 S WHAT by LEE R IcC.xRRLyR BEFORE STARTING to write this. I looked at the So XYhat column of june. I9-PO. I wanted to see how XYcis felt as he wrote his last colunm. He said that he had a sinking feeling in his stomach because the col- umn was his brainchild qEditor's Note - Brain. Ha! I. Since I can't claim the column as my own idea. I can only say that it has been great fun writing So XYhat. It has been fun because it was about YOU. My only hope is that every reader of this column lboth of you ll will continue to make news for my successor who. incident- ally. will be named at the end of this letter. But enough of this. let's hear what has been going on of late. BIY LAST ROSIANTIC NOTES I. The freshman class. after the customary slow start. has come along with the usual spring rush. I remember writing last fall about four of the frosh boys dancing together in the Dorm. Little john McCauley takes at least an hour to walk to Dunkirk Road with a certain young lady who is just his size. In spite of student teach- ing. Ned Logan is stepping along with Mary XVaugh. Bart Spellman, Carl Refo. and XVindy Cornthwaite can be seen most any Friday evening with their dates either at the movies or on the campus. 2. In the sophomore class there have been several startling changes and quite a few holdovers from last year. The most surprising change occurred recently when brother Hess moved to a different street in the same town. His cohort. XVilly Gaver. has been very con- sistent for two years. Bill Iett and Iule continue at the same pace, while Gordon Foyer Shules is the same lady killer tht he has always been. George H. and Mickey Sharrow had a change of heart this year and Ralph Lanci hasn't changed a bit. 3. The seniors Ifooled you. didn't I? You thought the juniors would be next .J seemingly have settled down with a few exceptions. johnny Shock was tied up once during the year. but now he is loose again. Charles Gross gets more involved every day. Nobody seems to under- stand what he is doing Idoes he?J. so you may have this information to ponder over during the summer. On the feminine side of the class. we have several young ladies who have made up their minds. Misses Ogier. Groom. Klein. Armiger and a few others have said yes and we give them all our heartiest congratula- tions. It's too bad the draft had to come along this year. isn't it. Bettie and Marie? This goes for plenty of others. too. 48 4. At last. I come to the juniors. XX-'hat have they been doing this year? I put them last because that old bugaboo. student teaching. has necessarily interfered with any kind of romance that should have happened. But they have weathered the storm, as every good junior does. with only a few casualties. Ed Clopper and Cres- ton Herold have stood high on the honor roll of ro- mance. Iona Claytor and Frank Dorn haven't hit the headlines. but they are doing all right. john Horst and lack Hart are playing tennis quite frequently and both may make the grade before this article is printed. 5. Last year there was a faculty romance. Of course, you remember it. Are there any possibilities this year? That's another thing you can think about this summer. Isuvanssroxs Of course. in four years, there are many mental im- ages that will be permanent. Here are some of them: l. The way jim Iett gets jokes. 2. Phelps leaving the Men's Room by the side win- dow because the door was guarded by a faculty member. 3. The wonderful responses that Ned Logan gave this writer when he heard my jokes I?l. I think Ned should receive a medal and of course I'm entitled to my own opinion. 4. The flooding of the Men's Room last year. 5. Student teaching and all of its ramifications. 6. That winning smile that Mary Reindollar always has. 7. The day Mr. XValther granted a breathing spell to his tired and very warm Economics class. 8. The trip to XVashington with Dr. Foster Dowell. PROGNOSTICATIONS Competition never has hurt everyone. l. Sam Miller - a second Maurice Evans. 2. Dave Nelson - conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. 3. Helen Cohen - raising rabbits on a big planta- tion in her native Virginia. -l. Catherine Gray - a supervisor in Baltimore City. 5. Edith Barker - star player on a softball team. 6. Sidney Blum - the greatest parliamentarian of his time .. Gordon Shules - a second Edward VIII because of his abdication. Coxctusrox As I stated before. since this is my last column. I must name my successor. After carefully thinking over all possible contenders jEd. Note: Contenders - who wants the job?l and noting the qualifications of each according to the standards set jContinued on Page SZQ TOWER LIGHT TTHE LIBRARY fCO1lfI1lllCd from Page 3-tj I felt sorry for Elbert Riggs. After completing two years of medical school, he sulftered from hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis. Instead of completing his course at that time. he had to go to Saranac to recover. I admired Alex because he understood everyone. Al- though he had troubles of his own, he burdened no one with them. XVhen his father died, hc told no one. Ile did not want to be pitied and given a job because of this. He wanted to earn his placement on his own merits. I piticd Isidore Aaron because he was so race-con- Scious and had such a feeling of inferiority. I admired Miss Susie. She was like a mother to the boys. Their problems were her problems. One night IlNIiss Susie had a talk with Ben Meade. Ben had re- ceived some bad news at the time of his examinations. He was very upset and Miss Susie was afraid that he might fail. She asked Ben to come over and sit beside her. He came overg sat on the floor like a little boy and put his head in her lap. Miss Susie's voice had that per- suasive gentleness one uses with a child. UI want you to promise me that you'll go upstairs and go to bed 'right away. You have spent four years studying just as fsteadily as you could. lust let what you know settle it- -self. If you do that. you won't fail - and I couldn't istand to have you fail, Ben. Ben did exactly this and came out seventh in his class. For anyone interested in any phase of the medical jisciences, Miss Susie Slagle's will give a living and inti- .imate picture. For good, clean enjoyment scattered with jhuman anecdotes. I suggest the reading of this novel. l It is a heart-warming story - lighted by comedy and tragedy, romance and high hope of several young men mentioned, their classmates and their professors in the four years they attended medical school. It is told with such loving knowledge and such intimate acquaintance with the medical students' lives that the much over- worked adjective 'unique' can honestly be applied to this novel. I As I read, I wondered how Miss Tucker knew the medical profession, Baltimore, and human nature so in- timately. Perhaps a bit of her life will explain this. She was born in Louisiana in 1904. The second of live chil- rlren, she has lived in thirteen towns and cities all the way from Seattle to Mobile. Baton Rouge to Baltimore. She went to work at the age of seventeen as a school :eacher and has been a stenographer, an insurance sales- rnan and hospital historian. written features for the :Sunday Sun. Baltimore. and reviewed books for the .Nlew York Times. Her chief interest has always been medicine and Miss Tucker has worked upon this novel for six years. Part of the time she boarded at a medical JUNE - 1941 boarding house. She attended autopsics and operations with the students, rode ambulances in New York for week-ends, stood .ill night in accident rooms, and haunt- ed johns Hopkins. She likes the medical profession be- cause it always tries to reply to the word XYliv? ANSXYERS 'IU LIBRARY QUIZ l. Irvin S. Cobb. Z. Battleship. 3. tbj poems. -t. Come XYIIIICI, Come W'eather. 5. Hugh YValpole. 6. Portrait of Iennie. T. Borneo. S. Elizabeth Goudge. 9. hliniyer. IO. How Green W'as Bly Valley. Fashion-right Styles for Spring HUGHSGHILD, KOHN 81 00. Ulihe banana jliatiunal Bank uf Uliutnsun, jllilti. KX HIVIEHT ON THE THBLE By EDGAR A. GUEST I sing this glorious land of ours, Here your ambitious boy may be Its motor cars and shows, Our President if he's able. 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More Intercollegiate Sports y for Girls 5 by AUDREY lNlERCER - ONCE AGAIN our girls were invited to take part in ei Play Day at Notre Dame. ln the fall many of us went in to Baltimore to compete with Notre Dame, Coucher and XVestern Maryland at Notre Dame. On May 7, wc girls tried our luck once again. The arrows flew fast and struck many a bull's-eye a I Kate Gardner, Cornelia Anderson, Bayes MacCauley and Ruth Hamilton released their hold on the bo strings. When the final score was added our girls swelled with pride, for they had won in archery. Cornelia An derson took over Martha Sehnebly's title of Diana ol the Hunt for she came in second high. The total score for a single person was - First high 210 and Second high 209. Neil had the 209. The badminton score did not stand as high but the competition was keen. Margaret Wells played singles while Helena Townshend and Helen Ogier, Ieannett jones and Peggy Heck, Iola Clay and Ieanne VVilhelrri played doubles. Did you know we have two tennis champs? Su Baker and Betty Steuart won the tennis singles. The others giving support were Edith Barker, Peg Lowry and Veneta Lambros, Frances Pula and Virginia Lord Excitement ran high and our girls were pleased as they returned to their college. They were glad to boasti representatives from each class in the college. They say: Girls need to go out for competition. Boys compete with other colleges. VV hy can't we? VVe should become better acquainted with other schools. It's a good idea to have intercollegiate sports. W'e should have them more often and include more col legesf' lllt gives you self-satisfaction to feel you can com-F pete with other colleges and come out ahead. 'AI loved it. I think we should return it by having theml out here. VV e girls don't have enough intercollegiate . activities. lt was wonderful. YV e came back more enthusiastic . about our sports. However, we should put more empha-3, sis on our tennis, badminton and archery. VVhy not start instruction in these in the freshman year instead of the senior year? There you have it. A high feeling for more intercol legiate sports for virls. TOWER LIGHT I I I I ev I . lj S I say - XVork toward it. XVhy not have a girls' intercollegiate day on our campus? Other colleges do it - so can State Teachers College. Prove it by working for this and make people stand up and look as our S. T. C. comes forward. ,ef ARCHERY by ROBBY Hoon Every afternoon at 4 P. M. I walk to the barracks of State Teachers College. About that time I can see a number of ruddy womenfolk engaged in an ancient but revived and rejuvenated sport. Five times, I see them shoot arrows and Eve times. I see them walk out to re- trieve what they have shot. In the shade of my favorite llapanese yew, I begin to wonder. I say to myself. There must be something to this sportfl Still coniiding to my- iself and yew, lobserve, t'How did America get its pres- ent form of archery? Modern American archery is a direct result of two -Schools of thought, The American Indians, exponents of a short flat bow. were an important factor. The IEnglish, exponents of the long bow, completed the pic- iture. American archery is a composite form embracing if the best principles of both methods. The Indians were great stalkers. They killed their .game with a short, but powerful, bow. Besides power. .they needed a bow that was easily handled in dense for- fests and on horseback. Because of these needs they dc- iveloped a short but flat and wide bow. ' The English, whose longbowmen have made much of the world's history, used the long bow because of its I greater killing power at maximum distances. These long bows were easily made and were extremely accurate. ilThe English long bow was 6 feet in length and every 'Englishman was required by law to be a master of it. '1These bowmen were an important reason why England grew in both prestige and territory owned. They shot .six times as fast as other bowmen, and their arrows could 'easily pierce any chain armor. Around 1781, the English began to make archery a 'popular pastime. In 1828. American societies took up the game and gradually brought it into national impor- tance. Road-side stands. college matches, are all out- ggrowths of this. The Americans have done their share in -the development by perfecting the best bow in the world, a combination long bow and Hat bow which is imore accurate than any bow yet developed. Underneath my yew tree I say. This is good. Robby. you should try your hand at it. I tried. The results? 'YVell. you can't hit the target every time. QJUNE - 1941 It I I l CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1941 HUTZLER BFQTTIEIS Q Civic Clubs, Churches, Fraternal Organizations, and All Social Gatherings XX'ill Profit by the SPIQCIAL CROUP PRICES on Baltimore's Finest Ice I U E C H E H III C 4 ,-Ilwrryf Good Time mam- Also Special Molds and Ice Cream Cakes for Birthdays, Holiday Parties and Home Gatherings Order from Your Nearest DELVALE Dealer or Telephone UNiversity 1151 DELVALE DAIRIES, INC. 2050 HARFORD ROAD - - Uisiivefsify 1151 Open Your Bank Account With Randallstown Bank RANDALLSTOYVN, IVID. Checking and Savings Accounts Invited ,'lI'll-iff, Sign lVr'z'fc'rx' mm' El1gfl16'Fl'flIg Supplies -- Studio, School and Drizfting Room Fllflllilllft' ea Dlllllflillg .llizleriizl be4fg 0' W5 f ? PPLIES 214 WEST FRANKLIN STREET BALTIMORE, MD. VERNON 3700 I II I A Deposit of 81.00 Opens a Checking Account in the CHECKMASTER Plan at L The ' r OWS 012 LU' 5 61165 ' Uiutnsun jliatinnal Bank INCORPORATED TQWSON, MD. Our only charge is five cents for eachcheck drawn and each deposit. I TOXVSON BIARYLAND Est. 1886 Telephones, Towson 4 and 5 i S0 WHAT IContinued from Page -fSI up bv VV. Norris XVeis, the founder of this column. I herebv proclaim the new writer of So What to be none other than Miss Peggv Gunnells. I trust that she will carrv on in a verv credit- able fashion and that vou will be the objects of her writ- ings. Until some time in the future, I sav to vou all for the last time - So Long and So XVhat? IEd. Note: XVhere the Hicks McCarriar these davs?j Prices And The Consumer bv IAMES G. IETT TVVO DIVISIONS of the National Defense Advisory Board are vastlv important to the common man. The first of these two is the Price Stabilization Division, under the direction of Mr. Leon Henderson. College students, under the sponsorship of the National Insti- tute of Government, had the opportunitv to hear Mr. Henderson speak of the work of his division. The primarv purpose of the Price Stabilization Di- vision is to prevent inflation such as occurred when the war industries began to boom in IQIS. An incident of inflation would mean economic disaster to the United States. The chief measure to prevent inflation has been the setting of price ceilingsf' that is. maximum prices Mason's Service Station Betboline - Richfield Gasoline Official AAA Station 24-Hour Serrice TOWSON, MD. - Phone, Towson 554 are fixed for certain products. For example, when Mr. Henderson spoke to us, he told us that he had justx fixed a ceiling price for steel. Steel prices had been rising. and in spite of the fact that wages in the indus- i trv were also increasing. a maximum price had to be: established in order to prevent prices of other commod- I ities Ias well as steelj from going up. XVhen prices rise the cost of living rises. and likewise wages rise. hVl1CIlil Government wages rise the cost of Government opera- Ii tion increase enormouslv - thus monev without suf-QI ficient collateral would have to be printed. and the cur- rencv would be infiated. If the process were to expand, bankruptcv would follow. Such is the condition whichl the Price Stabilization Division is trying to prevent. The second division which affects the common people is the Consumers Interest Division. under the leader-. ship of Miss Harriet Elliott. This division has recently I been put under Mr. Henderson's Price Stabilization Division because of the close relationship of purposes.I One of the chief purposes of the Consumers Division is to contribute to the maintenance of living standards byf keeping a constant watch on prices of consumers'l goods. Unlike Mr. Henderson. Miss Elliott possesses no power to control prices, However, steps are being taken to advise consumers in the purchasing of goodsf and to assist them to get the most they can for their monev. I COMPLIMENTS OF - 1 H. STREETT BALDWIN I BREMEN A. TRAIL JOHN R. HAUT COMMISSIONERS OF I BALTIMORE COUNTY I ,g-fifr.-' .91 V I sz I,-:ful I' II ' TOWER LIGHTS I I I I I I I I I PATRICIA MORISON Chesterfield's Girl of the Month currently appearing in Puramounfs The Roundup xx i , L it Ag ' Ryde X 5 X- - J . , ,W 2 ,J ' A '1 as-lf' 'W?5fI ,bf ' fe, ,-',' g g1f152.,,.1 , , l ap-ii! , 1 fl' ' 'Wm ,NNV fl, at -- 1 , . . A ' f . 4' I K V ,j.g5,5.l,,3f fy 2-'f' ' fd 'J f ff f fi t f TV: ffl H 51. L fl fl ' I : ,' 5 I V D . , 'A .E ' E f 1 Jff 4 ,. E .. E 3 Q Sfy f R Q l 0 LE Rs 0 SA11 M T 2 l cz 'CK Copyright 19-al. Lrcorfr X A Yes, you will quickly like everything about Cl1este1'Iielcls...they're cooler and milder with plenty of good taste. 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