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THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1942 The Western Carolinian The Campus Interpreter The Campus Guide STAFF Editor-in-Chief Cathryn Creasman Associate Editors Helen Hartshorn Alma Jackson Headlines Selma Boyd Sports Editor John Crawford Assistant Sports Editor John Tyree Society Editor Vera Hosaflook Fashions Editor Edna Hawkins Feature Editor Juanita Fisher Exchange Editor _ Barbara Dodson Typists Betty Bird Kate Wykle Moore Faculty Advisor Mabel Tyree P. L. Elliott Business Advisor Ruth Oliver Hinds Circulation Manager Grace Leatherwood Business Manager Marion Arnold Special Reporters Anne Brittain Elizabeth Gahagan Columnist Zelda Murray Around The Campus By O. I. SNOOPABIT doesn't sound much like enjoyment when three- fourths of the student body dread to see Monday, Wednesday, and Friday come. We aren't objecting to the course, but we are i definitely opposed to the dictatorial manner in which it is carried out, and to the idea of its being forced Tf. ... . . . " "~ ... „ on us without our being allowed any cuts, when weL2 ^t^lST^Z^EZZZ*. a cut. was . sleepy eroup ttat cai See absolutely no value being received from it. themselves into pseudo South couple also. How long are you back t0 the campus at twelve Americans. "Pearl" Barger, so going to keep it up kids? o'clock the following Sunday far, has made the most of old If there was one happy girl nigrit. But between that Mon- Sol's rays and has one of the when the New Orleans crowd duy morning and that Sunday smoothest tans around these started it was Lois Pryor. If Dight there were so many con- there was one happy girl when Way Down In New Orleans It was a sleepy group that boarded the college bus at four o'clock Monday morning—and it EQUALITY FOR ALL Member *"*«*, Associated Golle&icrle Press Distributor of <j Golle6iate Di6esl SYMPATHY The students, the faculty, and the staff of the Western Carolinian wish to extend their sincere sympathy to Cathryn Creasman at the death of her aunt. A PROPER TRIBUTE Let it hereby be known to the faculty, the students, and the friends of the college that this paper along with other clubs on the campus is waging a campaign to see something done to the Madison Memorial. It is fitting and proper that some factions should bring pressure to bear until something is done. This so-called spot of dedication to the "grand old man" of the campus is not only a disgrace to him but to a so- called progressive college as well. Many students who have been here more than a year do not even know where it is. Do you wonder that they haven't recognized it? Before any more is said, the Madison Memorial stands across from the Baptist church between the steam plant and the driveway. There is no marker or any indication that it is a sacred spot, dedicated to the founder of a thriving institution. The one and only sign indicating that it is a college has fallen down. We preach campus beautification and have men sowing grass around the classroom and administration buildings. Will someone please enlighten the interested few as to why we do not have a beautification program around the memorial, a living milestone in the history of the college and the entrance to the school that he founded? This paper feels that now is the time to show Professor Madison that we appreciate what he has done and the work that he has thus far nobly advanced. Several of the faculty members and many of the clubs are interested in seeing its completion and in building up this spot to be a memorial to a man we all love and admire. It is time that the student body as a whole became highly conscious of it and set out with grim determination to see something done about the existing situation. There could be no better project for several clubs to take for the coming year than building a memorial worthy of the one for whom it is supposed to stand. In a nation of democratic freedom we consistently hear the phrase " a sense of justice, fairness and equality for all of its citizens." It has been the policy of the college heretofore to maintain this well established principle of democratic fairness. Recently there has been evidence that some of this equality has been violated. The administration furnishes bed linen for all boarding members so that everyone will be on an equal footing. That is well and good because then the less fortunate financially have no reason to suffer. The administration has said that those persons who board on the campus and eat in the college dining hall shall all be served the same quality of food. If this is one of their principles, it should be carried out. Soft peddling one of the colored cooks or one of the waitresses should not bring special delicacies to a few tables in the dining hall while other students gaze at the special dishes, wondering why they too may not have it. To insist that all students be served the same quality of food is not being jealous or unreasonable; it is just a plain sense of fairness for everyone eating in the dining hall. Students as a whole have responded beautifully to the requests made of them concerning the conduct in the dining hall, but the empty stomach does call for fairness in treatment. In other words, if one table has "cracklin" bread they all want it. An Appeal To Student Pride Men In Service MILITARISTIC COURSES No student enrolled at Western Carolina is not more than willing to do anything he considers his patriotic duty in a time of national emergency. Neither is there a student that isn't willing to cooperate with the faculty and the administration when properly consulted about policies vitally affecting him. But the student body as a whole is fed up with things being pushed over on them, and if they fail to click in the performance having their credits threatened. The college catalog is supposed to be the law of the college for the school year in which it is dated, but in some matters this is no longer true. As a concrete example take the new physical education fees, the book rental fees and now a physical education course required of every student that at least 75 per cent of the student body utterly detest. The physical education fees were listed in the catalog but no explanation was given; the text book rental fee was not even listed, and the compulsory non- credit physical education courses must be a la Western Carolina, because at a recent meeting of twenty- seven state schools we were the only school represented with such a course. The methods courses teach that the primary purpose of physical education is for enjoyment; it Every son and daughter of Western Carolina and every faculty member takes a keen pride in the college campus. Located as It Is on the top of a sizeable mountain covered with stately forest trees and equipped as it is with modern buildings, winding walks, and lovely shrubbery, the campus draws surprised exclamations of delight from every visitor, at its breath taking beauty. Because many of us do appreciate its loveliness so much it is also a matter of concern and shame that we do not keep It ln better condition. Paper cups, cigarette butts, chewing gum wrappers and candy papers litter the walks and pile up under the shrubbery; leaves and brush are banked in like shrubbery and cover what would be grassy hillsides; dry broom sedge waves disconsolately in the spring breeze in sharp contrast to the budding trees and the fragile beauty of the dog tooth v'iolets; Intersfersed with the blooming forsythls, red bud, and iogwoods; and Madison Memorial stands as an eyesore in jux touposition to the lovely landscaping about the gymnasium, on the main highway where travelers from all sections of i,he United States get the only impressions they have of our college. Everyone Can Help Recognizing a.s we do the financial straits the budget is in just now and the impossibility of the maintenance department of the college spending the money to give the campus a spring cleaning, a group of students and faculty members nave been discussing the possibility of organizing a cooperative faculty-student clean up campaign during which w e would all "pitch-in" and give he campus the raking out prun- ng and mowing of its life. Most jf us feel that the natural oeauty of the mountain side should be preserved and we do not necessarily yearn for the formally clipped hedges and ;losely mowed lawns of the ur- jan university, but we do not feel that bare red patches of raw earth, dead weeds, dry broom sedge, and banks of brown leaves add a single element of beauty to the campus. And if we plant cultivated shrubbery about our buildings and mow patches of lawn here and there to be consistent we should rate, prune and sod the rest of it. Some of the largest most exclusive institutions in the country sponsor cooperative work programs feeling that work with the hands is a vital part of education. The "Western Carolinian" goes on record favoring a project of this sort to clean up this campus. It is felt that a great good will come out of a cooperative effort between faculty and students for a common Gray Hampton, a graduate of W. C. T. C, has recently been named the typical flying cadet at Moore Field, Mission, Texas, •vhere he is completing his ad- /anced training as a pilot in the army air corps. Gray is cadet japtain of his class and will nave received his wings and a commission as second lieutenant by the the time you read .his. He has made application tor foreign combat duty. At AC e s t e r n Carolina, Cullowhee, J ray was noted as a baseball player and made letters in both .ootball and baseball. Joe Higdon, class of '41 is enlisted in the United States Army Medical Corps at Morrison Field Air Base, West Palm Beach, Fla. Joe, who enlisted in September, is expecting a furlough soon. Charles Glagener, a former student of this college reported recently at the naval training school at Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Glagener of Rosman. Roy Phillips, United States parts. I'm wondering If Goodson and Anne are going back together. They were at the show together the other night. He's a dandy window washer, isn't he, Anne? "Bumps'" why don't you wear your hair up? Are you really afraid Brown will have his cut off? Have you heard about that childish Bateman? He's in the infirmary with the mumps. Eddie's in too; Wonder what Joyce is doing. Mary Alice, did you know that Allison can write poetry? Ask Margaret about it; it's true. Be glad when May 1 comes, Lomia? Knox will. Letters help an awfully lot, don't they, Betty? How's Gudger anyway? Mary Lib, sometimes don't you wish you could see Gene? Now really—. Let Catherine tell you why she's eager for summer to come. Wish I had a faithful Ted. The cutest thing around is Dot and Cherry directing the glee club. Do they teach those kids things! Neil Scott and Lib have been walking around all evening. Do you think he likes her?—He acts sorta like it—Ah, love! Betty and Bob are making most of this spring air, too. And Joy and Willie aren't wasting any of it. Bill Gheen is plain maddening. He doesn't seem to be interested in anybody. How about it, Bill? What were you doing in front of Moore today, Bobby? Was Jo they got back, it was Lib. Maybe she was glad to see Paul—Maybe. Do you guess Nell was inspired to name her room Dove Cottage? I think she might have been. Dr. Killian, what did you tell your class that your wife wouldn't like? I don't want to start any family quarrels, but Have you heard the corny joke John's been pulling? It's an extra clean one. "May I hold your Palmolive?" "Not on your Lifebuoy." "So I'm outof Lux?" "Yes, Ivory formed." John, that doesn't sound like you. Printed by Request: Miss Virginia Hill, better known as "Jakie Foster's constant shadow" has been named the dunce of Spanish Class. Why? Because she hasn't outgrown her high school days yet. Girls, Isn't it wonderful that levee and the river were always vention meetings to attend and so much sight-seeing to do that no one realized he was tired or sleepy. After driving all day Monday and starting again at six o'clock Tuesday morning we realized about noon Tuesday that we were almost to New Orleans. At one-thirty we were actually going down Canal Street, and suddenly there was the Roosevelt Hotel! All off! Everyone filed out. After rooms had been reserved for the week—with most of the party staying at the Roosevelt and New Orleans Hotels—we were ready to get down to the business at hand—the convention and the sightseeintr. The first thing we saw was the Mississippi River; a short drive from the heart of the city and there it was. And the imposing structure over it is the Huey P. Long Bridge. The river winds around the city and no matter which way we went, the we can now pick our own man for the May Day celebration? A chance that comes only once in a lifetime. Have you noticed? Fisher is taking a lesson on being faithful lately? It's wonderful; do you suppose she'll keep it up? As usual, Selma Boyd has come back to school in love again. It's getting to be a habit, but what's so fine about it is that It's always the same boy. So long, kids, Keep it up, and don't let those newly posted notices get you down too much. I don't think you.ve been lounging. cause, and that a clean tidy campus will generate such a feeling of pride among the student body that public opinion will operate to eliminate the waste paper, cigarette butts, soft drink cup evil. This newspaper hereby moves that this campaign be organized and promoted. Do we hear a second? Army Infantry, visited on the campus last week end. Roy is stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Garland Adams, who was a freshman here last year, is now a Radio Technician Instructor in the Army Air Corps at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama. *■■ Cecil Yount, football star of 1942, has arrived safely in Australia. He is from Waynesville and was a Junior here in 1940. Charles McLaughlin, United States Army Air Corps, is now stationed at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, training to be a navigator. He will receive wings and a commission as second lieutenant about September. Dan Pryor, class of '37 has been stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska, since the first of the year. He is now a navigator in the army air corps and is commissioned as a second lieutenant. Johnson, "Tucky" Saunders, Jr., class of '40 is somewhere in Australia. He was sent there about a month ago from Jack son, Mississippi. Tucky, a second lieutenant Is a ground officer in the Army Air Corps. Elmer Stahlman, class of '41, has re-enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He is now on a ninety day furlough, completing the school term at Andrews where he is a member of the high school faculty. looming up. A ride across on the ferry and later a trip on the show boat made us think that Ole Man River is a pretty nice fellow. Second was French Town. Bright and early Wednesday morning a number of the group headed for "Vieux Carre"—we found that bit of French means "Old Quarters" or something. Then it seemed we were in another century. There were the old French buildings with their lovely iron work—the narrow streets with carriages jogging along—the quaint shops—lovely jewelry stores—perfume shops— antique stores—lovely old French Courts—so much that we were breathless. We had to hurry along, though. We saw the museum where there are all sorts of relics of the Napoleon era— pictures and statues of him— his death mask—his weapons. We saw the beautiful St. Louis Cathedral where a wedding was —Continued On Page Three H. L BATTLE Cullowhee, N. C. Nazi Power Wanes By ZELDA MURRAY In order to bolster German morale, Herr Hitler promised his people an offensive this spring. Thus far his spring offensive has amounted to nothing more than a few weak counter attacks on the Russian front. What has gone wrong with the Feurher's plans? It is certain that something has prevented a major move against Spain, Turkey, Russia, or the Middle East. In all probability, Hitler has suffered the loss of a great many trained officers both in the land and air forces. Among these are Werner Moelders, the ace tank- plane fighter, and Pilot Yegner. According to Russian reports, (and we must allow for a slightly exaggerated report) Germany has lost 40,000 airmen. Because of the deficiency of trained officers to replace these losses, it is evident that many inexperienced men are attempting to fill positions for which they are not trained. Too, the steadily growing number of occupation forces on guard in the conquered countries of Europe serves to cause an ever greater deficiency in manpower. For weeks, the British Royal Air Force has been dealing blow after blow at the major industrial cities of the Reich. From their past bombing attacks, we may be assured that the ace fliers of the RAF have dealt considerable damage to Germany's war production. This is verified by Russian reports that only small tank units are being used on the Russian front. From several sources comes the report that the dreaded disease of typhus fever is spreading in the ranks of the Nazis army. And the spread of this epidemic is not hindered by the reported unsanitary conditions among the Nazi soldiers. Certainly, the entrance of the United States into the war has not helped German morale. In a like manner, the continuous defeat suffered on the Russo- German front has resulted in a defeatist attitude among the Nazi soldiers. Spring has come and is swiftly passing, but Hitler has failed to fulfill his promise. Time grows short, Herr Hitler! But, before you make another move, you must remember that Ireland is swarming with American fighting men. Just as we "Remember Pearl Harbor", you will "remember the Hindenburg Line." VELT'S CAFE The Home Of Good Food Sylva, N. C. Sylva Pharmacy The Rexall Store DRUGS — FOUNTAIN SERVICE LAUNDRY AT REASONABLE PRICES- DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY THE WAYNESVILLE LAUNDRY Waynesville, N, C. "PARTICULAR CLEANERS FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE- REPAIR AND SAVE MONEY Cullowhee Shoe Shop Cullowhee, N. C. LEADER DEPT. STORE THE LATEST STYLES — THE RIGHT PRICES Come In and Look Around Sylva, N. C.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Western Carolina Teachers College
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• Date
  • Date original: 1942-04-25;
  • Date digitized: 2017-07-05
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  • Dimension: 20" x 16"
  • Pages: 11 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1942-04-25
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library