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Page 2 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN FEBRUARY 24, 1943 WESTERN CAROLINIAN Bi-monthly publication of the Student Association at Western Carolina Teachers College, Cullowhee, North Carolina. WESTERN CAROLINIAN STAFF Editor -...Helen M. Hartshorn Associate Editor - Roselle Ayers Society Editor _ -...Dorothy Jeane Ensley Assistant Society Editor — Beverly Godfrey Sports Editor -..Herman Griffin Feature Editor Juanita Fisher Columnists — - Zelda Murray Edna Hawkins Headline Editor -Selma Boyd Circulation Manager and Exchange Editor — Russell Byrd Typists - - M»* B*"1 " Violet Fisher Business Manager Walter Lee Roberts Business Advisor Ruth Oliver Hinds Editorial Advisors - Mftb*l T^1* P. L. Elliott Typist Doris Ghormley Member associated Golteeiale Press Distributor of Colle6iateDi6e$t Faust The presentation of the concertized version of the opera "Faust" by the music groups of Western Carolina Teachers College was one of the loveliest and most appreciated contributions made before an audience of students, faculty and community people in a long time. As a morale builder, music "hath charms" ... and this campus was in need of a stirring and charming . . . and aptly proved its value in the succeeding attitude created in the students, as was witnessed by their complimentary remarks and criticisms. The choral and instrumental groups have made in the last two years, the most progressive steps of any organization on the campus. They have, perhaps, had more chance to progress as a result of the almost unlimited supply of talent which has appeared in that period of time . . . and, thanks to the direction and foresightedness of the music staff, use has been made of that talent for the pleasure of the student body and the individual singers and performers. We appreciate the work which was demanded of the directors and performers of "Faust" and we than each of them for making the staking of the play such a pleasurable success. Alpha Phi Sigma To Sponsor Creative Western Carolina Teachers College Expression Contest In Spring Quarter Men In The U. S. Armed Forces The Zeta Chapter of the Alpha Phi Sigma, local branch of the national honorary fraternity, announced plan? for a "Creative Expression Contest" to be held durine, the Spring quarter. The purpose of this contest is to stimulate interest >" creative activities and to bring to the attention of the public the fact that students on this campus have creative ability. Some of the local students do original work which is worthy of praise; it will be the aim of this program to see that such work does receive recognition. Since culture is generally conceded to belong to the fields of art, literature, and music, the Creative Expression Contest is divided into those three mafn groups. Each group has several divisions. 1. 2. 8. ART Black and white etching or pencil sketch. Color drawing which may be oils, water colors, pastels or anything in color. Handiwork such as— u. Linoleum blocks; b. leather work; c. metal work; d. sculpture. LITERATURE Poetry. Essay on non-fiction. Short story or fiction. MUSIC Words to a song. Music to words. Rearrangement of some tune. Livingston In Paratrop Corps Allen Livingston, former student of W. C. T. C, who was drafted in the army February 10, is now a member of the paratroup corpps, stationed at Fort Bragg. At W. C. T. C. he was a major in business education and a minor in history. He was connected with the guidance clinic. of Justice Wins Promotion Bill Justice, former student W. C. T. C and Business Manager of the WESTERN CAROLINIAN, has been promoted from Hospital Apprentice to Pharmacist Mate, third class. He is stationed at Bdhsada, Maryland. At W. C. T. C. Justice was a member of the Journalism Club, the Dramatics Club and the Science Club. aviation cadet at Miami Beach, Fa. Before being called to active service, Ray was a junior at N. C. State College. John Crawford Active In Dramatics John Crawford, who entered the army this quarter, is technician In the drmatic club of his squadron. Crawford is stationed at Miami Beach. FEBRUARY 24, 1943 Freedom To Travel In this issue of the paper is an announcement of the bus schedule between Cullowhee and Sylva. We students should, when looking at that small time table, feel a deep appreciation to Mr. Ralph Sutton and Miss Anne Albright for their efforts in securing this concession to freedom which has been granted us. The difficulty which we have had to secure passage to "town" either for pleasure, business, or homeward treks, has continually been a problem to every one concerned. The problem, which was before just an inconvenience, has lately been an acute situation because of war-time restrictions upon taxi and bus companies. Through business connections with Mr. Charles Morgan, president of the W. C. T. C. Alumni Association and Secretary of the Smoky Mountain Trailways, Mr. Sutton was able to secure for the convenience of the community as well as the students a regular and possibly a permanent arrangement. The latter depends upon us to a great «xtent. It was with us in mind that our business manager went to the trouble to secure for us a convenient means of travel . . . with a provision, however, that the arrangement be profitable and suitable to both parties of the agreement. We can readily understand the bus company's refusal to continually run an empty bus over the same route. It is our frequent patronage which will keep the bus running to our college. We've howled for the bus —now, can we keep it? The opportunity is • ours ... in fact, without grasp. . . . What are we going to do about it? It is the hope of this writer that Miss Albright's and Mr. Sutton's efforts will not be in vain. The following article was written by a student observer of the presentation of Faust. We reprint it as a recognition of our policy that this is the students' paper and we want student opinions: For those who had the idea that opera is only for those in the upper ranks of society Faust was a definite refutation to their arguments. The simple charm and dignity in which Faust was presented would awaken in any lover of the beautiful a realization that opera is only another way in which a creative artist may express the beauty which he sees and feels. The interest in beautiful music on this campus was evidenced by the large number of students and faculty present and the hearty applause after each scene. The familiarity which each one experienced after the singing of each aria was a startling fact to many of us. If we had been told that some of our favorite arias came from an opera we would have denied it without a moment's hesitation. "How could, a common student, possibly know an aria from an opera?" Well, Faust was just another evidence that most of us condemn things with which we have had no association. To the members of the music department we say "more Faust, and more performances!" Winners will be chosen in each of the minor divisions and from these three a winner will be chosen for each major group. A prize of $2.00 in war stamps will be offered as the grand prize winner of each of the three large divisions. General rules for the contest are: 1. All entries must be in one month before the end of the spring quarter. 2. Each entry must be filed with the sponsor of its main group. 8. All entries must, of course, be original. 4. One person may enter any or all three divisions. B. All students enrolled at W. C. T. C. are eligible to participated. 6. The judges for each group shall be chosen after all entries are in. 7. The executive committee of the club shall approve the judges' decisions. Sponsors for each of the main groups were chosen from members of the fraternity as follows: Art—Louise Kale; Music—Madeline Fortune; and Literature—Elizabeth Ann Hunter. The committee who drew up the plans are Roselle Ayres, chairman; Lucile Meredith, Louise Evans Kale, George Brown, and Madeline Fortune. Any questions concerning the plan should be taken to the committee for explanation. Students who plan to participate may begin work on their entries any time in order that they may be completed before the contest closes. Martin At Maxwell Field Harry Martin, class of '42, is an aviation cadet in the army air corps at Maxwell Field, Ala. Foster In Texas Jakie Foster, former student, U an aviation cadet at the army's bombardier school, Ellington Field. Texas. McLaughlin Home On Furlough Lt. Charles McLaughlin, class of '41, recently spent a ten-day furlough at home in Whittier, Lt. McLaughlin, a navigator in the U. S. Army Air Corps, is flight-line instructor at the army's advanced navigation school at Selman Field, Monroe, La. He received his wings and commission as second lieutenant at Turner Field, Albany, Georgia, in September, 1942, and since that time has been at Monroe, Louisiana. Two other former Western Carolinians, Ray Hunter and Herbert Cohn, are cadets in pre-flight school there. Higdon In Maine Staff Sergeant Joe Higdon is at the army's air base, Houlton, Maine. Higdon, who is in the medical corps, was transferred to Maine from West Palm Beach.Fla. Allison Reports To Active Duty Tommy Allison, former student, has been ordered to report to active duty in the army air corps at Miami Beach, Fla. Allison was a student at Auburn University, Alabama, at the time of his call to duty. McDonald To Take Special Course "Pete" McDonald, son of W. M. McDonald, of Larned, Kansas, has left school to train for an aircraft inspector at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. McDonald is to take an intensive eight weeks' course, after which he will be employed by the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Corporation. He is a graduate of Larned high school where he was a three-letter man in baseball, football, and basketball. In Larned he was employ, ed by A. A. Doerr Chevrolet Co., as Parts and Accessories Manager. Here at W. C. T. C. he was on the basketball squad and also clerked in the college book store. Newspapers Have Gremlins, Too From the New York Herald Tribune Hail the Conquerors! Hail the Conquerors!!!—and if anyone fails to realize who we mean, we're talking about our hard-fighting, bitterly scrapping, and half-way victorious basketball boys- The spirit which they displayed in winning an upset victory over the favored Catawba team, and in limiting the highly-touted Appalachian quint to a mere five-point win is a credit to their fighting tactics and ability. It was. with doubtful hopes and much chagrin that we of the unenlightened student body found that our team was to play the top-seeded, No. 1 team of the North State Tournament the first evening. Our feelings Saturday morning upon discovering "our boys" to be the victors cannot be described. After that our team could do anything—and they did! They didn't win, no. But they certainly put up a fight-to-the-finish, never-say-die attitude that will long be remembered by our student body and onlookers alike. It is with a feeling of pride that we pay tribute to the men who have fought so valiantly and loyally for our Alma Mater. To you . . . Raymond Rhodes, Bill Smith, Tommy Ballou, Harold Collins, Ike Olson, and Ralph Robertson ... we offer our congratulations and appreciation for yaur fine spirit and fine showing against the opponent. We could ask no more than you Jiave given us. The World At War By ZELDA MURRAY The old adage that "history repeats itself" is proving to be true. Certainly it is in the Russian campaign. If you recall, in 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia. There he encountered the force of a nation's resentment and resentment and resistence. He was not able to meet it. True, he captured Moscow, which he kept for five weeks, but the spirit of the Russian people was not subdued. At Moscow the Russian winter reared its ugly head and Napoleon tasted defeat. Napoleon realized his fatal mistake too late. This military move led to his down fall and to St. Helena. In spite of Napoleon's defeat in Russia, Hitler attempted the same thing. Just as Napoleon, he captured a great part of Russia. Then the tide turned and once again the Russian winter caught the invader unprepared to meet it. Millions of men and much valuable material have been captured by the Russians. Hitler's campaign in Russia has failed. Russia is gaining lost territory every day. Like Napoleon, Hitler now realizes his mistake. There is still a great deal of suspicion as to the ambitions of Russia. But we must believe that the Allied leaders have complete confidence in Stalin or they would not have revealed the invasion plans made at Casablanca to him. This leads us to believe that at least suspicion and doubt about the plans of Russia have been cleared away. Russia has regained most of the Crimea and the Donets Basin. She has shown her strength and fortitude to be superior to that of Germany. Yet, she has only one aim and that is to regain all her territory lost to Germany. She has no territorial ambitions. Our old belief that the Russian people were only Bolshevics is now gone. We recognize them as being solid, stable, and able to defend their homeland. If Russia had not been able For the millions who are slightly pixy-minded, the discovery of the gremlins, those devilish little sprites who mess things up for the fliers of the royal air force, has provided, one of the major excitements of the war. Come to think of it, it is as easy to believe in gremlins as in banshees and leprechauns of in any of the creatures that dance across the pages of that fine Irish writer, Mr. James Stephens. But gremlins were not enough. The alert though sometimes exasperating minds that conduct the radio industry have come forward with their set of cute little people. Those are called grohms. One type of grohm, the slobnik, "louses up" the copy of scrip writers; another, the laffinz, flattens the lines of comedians; still another, the foobus, makes noises in microphones. This, also, is an interesting discovery, sure to provide much merriment among the people of radio, to whom laughter comes rather easily. But why the excitement? Journalism itself has long had its own set of little rascals who for generations have messed up one thing or another. Various phenomena observed in newspaper offices leads to the incapable conclusion that journalism is haunted by as pernicious a set of strange folk as ever harassed an airplane pilot or made life in a radio studio mis- erahle. These troublemakers have been tentatively named mergenfellers, and they come in many guises. Most puckish of the lot, perhaps, are the eternally playful twins, etaoin and shrdlu, who have great fun slinding up and down the keyboards of linotype machines. They can inject a note of nonsense and confusion into the most solemn discourses. There are the slantites, the tiniest and meanest of them all, who have been known to bite all the members of a newspaper staff, from publisher to copy boy, giving them a depressing low-grade infection known as slantites. Victims are afraid of straight facts; they hoot at the ideal of objectivity; everything they touch must be given a "slant" or "angle." In time they begin to walk sideways. The final result is almost always fatal. Then there are the fixpixies, who are responsible for putting the picture of Mrs. Plantagenet in the spot where a cut of Lizzie tke Chimp was supposed to go; the cacklin old greeleybums, who cause people to write unintelligible or abusive letters to the editor; the orthagreves, who light on the shoulders of reporters and rewrite men and make them incapable of spelling names right—particularly in the matter of middle initials. The list is long. We recommend that the Nieman foundation at Harvard, which is studying the problems of journalism, make a definite report on the mergenfellers. Herman Griffin Herman Griffin, sports editor of the Western Carolinian, has been called into service in the U. S. Army. At present he is stationed at Camp Croft, S. C, Davis At St. Petersburg Jeff Davis, who was in school here fall quarter, is now in the U. S. Army Air Corps at St. Petersburg, Fla. Davis entered service in January and as yet the branch of the air corps to which he will be assigned is undetermined. Delozier At Miami Beach Hugh Delozier, who attended W. C. T. C. last year, is now a cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps. He is taking his primary training at Miami Beach, Florida. Gertrude Nelon Elected Secretary of Alpha Phi Signa Gertrude Nelon of Mill Spring was elected secretary of the Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Signa, scholastic fraternity at Western Carolina Teachers College which held a social meeting, preceded by a short business session, in Moore Parlors last Wednesday evening. Miss Nelon succeeds Beverly Godfrey of Black Mountain, who resigned to accept a teaching position in Andrews High School next-quarter.— Members of the Zeta Chapter are named to the fraternity by making the honor roll for two quarters or by having been valedictorian or salutatorian of their high school graduating class. Army Reserve Boys Given Dinner Party (Continued from page 1) Mr. Dodson not to register for the spring quarter at the college, because they will be called to active duty as soon as two weeks have elapsed after the close of the present quarter. The reservists will be called individually as fast as fas as reception centers can accommodate them. Charles Jones Visits Campus Charles Jones, former student, visited on the campus last week. Jones, who is a corporal, technician, in the U. S. Army, is stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss. Bob Anderws In Maritime Service Bob Andrews, former student and brother to Coach Andrews, recently visited on the campus. Bob, who was a member of the freshman class of .1940-41, is now in the U .S. Merchant Marine service. Phillip Ray Is Aviation Cadet Phil Ray, former student, is an Romanticism In Music Title of Talk to Seniors (Continued from page 1) ertson Hall. Miss Mabel Tyree was hostess. The program for the meeting was a talk by Miss Rachel Rosenberger on "Romanticism in Music." Throughout the coming months, the club plans to discuss at its meeting the meaning of such terms as "symbolism," "classicism," "romanticism,* "materialism," in art and music. Members attending were Miss Lenora Smith, Dean and Mrs. W. E. Bird, Miss Anne Hammond, Miss Anne Rabe, Miss Helen Patton, Professor and Mrs. P. L. Elliott, Miss Anne Albright, Miss Clara DeVane, and Miss Tyree. Mrs. Charles Gulley was a special guest. to think of the consequences. It certainly would have prolonged the war several years. Now, as long as Russia can hold out against the German forces, we can devote our operations to North Africa and to invasion plans for Europe. When the invasion of Europe finally takes place, German troops will be drawn from the Russian front which will assure Russian final victory. Our hearts go out to the Russians who have defended their homeland so gallantly, who have sacrificed their homes and their blood, and who have withstood the ridicule of many suspicious foreign countries. We have you, Russia, to thank for turning the tide in Hitler's battle for the conquest of Europe. The Allies will continue to send much of the lend-lease materials to you who have so success , fully defeated the German war ma to successfully defend her country, we dread chine. Letters To The Editor Robert Latham, Journalism Club W. C. T. C. Cullowhee, N. C, Dear Club Members: Just a note to congratulate you on' the paper this year. In my estimation it is A-l, in fact, it is even better than the one last year and that is saying something. I understand from your editor and business manager that you have had quite a hard job and several difficulties. Don't let that bluft* you >but comfort yourself by the consolation that every student who has ever passed through Cullo- whee's gates appreciates your efforts more than ever when news from our Alma Mater is so scarce. I have enjoyed every issue more than I can tell you, and I wish I were back to be struggling with you. The feature stories, editorials, sports news, and even the gossip column deserve special recognition. Congratulations again on your work. I as an alumnae appreciate your efforts and your position. You have an extra capable sponsor, business manager and even the editor. Yours in the interest of a better college paper, CATHYRN CREASMAN, Ed-Editor. P. S. Please don't take to heart the crack about the poor old editor. "Dolph" is my friend, even if she does show poor taste in expressing her affection. The Editor.

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
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
• Type
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• Date
  • Date original: 1943-02-24;
  • Date digitized: 2017-07-10
• Extent
  • Dimension: 22" x 16"
  • Pages: 11 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1943-02-24_Vol10_No10
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library