Crow`s Nest Dr. Bralliar Outlines Fort Nashborough Historic Landmark

HAPPY NEW YEAR
Volume IV
The
Crow's Nest
The Peptirnist Crier
Madison College, Tennessee, January 5, 1938
Dr. Bralliar Outlines
Plan for Remodeling
Chapel
Fort Nashborough Historic
Landmark
NOW IS THE TIME
TO PUT
THOSE RESOLUTIONS
INTO PRACTICE
Number 5
Winter Quarter
Opens With Much
Activity
Episodes of Frontier Life the wives and children of the men to
As those of our readers who have
the fort, the Battle of the Bluffs was
visited Madison in recent years al- Centered Around Log Fort fought. A band of Cherokee In- Resolutions are Again Exready .know, we have outgrown our
Near the heart of Nashville's busi- dians had been in ambush near-by pressed by Students
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF LIFE chapel. What td do about the matness district and on the bluff over- the night before, and early in the
ter has been a problem for the past
The first few days of 1938 proved
looking the Cumberland River, morning they slipped out, fired at
Two hundred years before Christ, two years.
to
be quite important ones to the
the
fort,
and
ran.
The
pioneers
stands a replica of Fort Nashthe Emperor Chin established a dicThree years ago when we real- borough, as it was in 1780. General considered this a challenge to fight, residents of Madison College. Stutatorship over China. The builder
James Robertson, with seven white and after much consideration twenty dents returning from vacations, new
of the Great Wall, in his zeal for a ized that we must enlarge the library, several thought it would be men and one negro, established his of them rode out of the fort in pur- students, and the usual hustling and
new China, ordered the burning of
well to use the old chapel for a li- headquarters near the French Lick. suit of the Indians. Before they had bustling occasioned by registration
ancient books and manuscripts.
brary and build a church large Here they built a fort, laid off their gone very far the Indians turned to could be seen all during the day of
Scholars who protested against this
fight. As the white men dismounted the third. There seemed to be in
enough to accommodate all students fields and planted corn.
sacrilege were buried alive. This
the air a feeling of excitement and
and Sabbath visitors and to hold
was considered a major tragedy and
expectancy.
Groups of students
our chapel exercises in it. But when
now another cruel blow is being
gathered around the bulletin boards
we came to consider the matter, it
struck at the peace-loving Chinese.
in an attempt to select classes and
was found that this would cost much
The Great Wall that was so sucarrange their programs for the folmore than to build a library and it
cessful in keeping the Mongols out
lowing quarter. The business ofwould never be as satisfactory. We
is broken through in scores of places
fice was crowded with young people
moved into our new library over a
and a more deadly foe is trampling
making
financial arrangements for
year ago, but this did not settle our
in the dust one of the most ancient
another term of Glasswork. Reunited
chapel problem.
and beautiful civilizations the world
friends gathered in groups on the
After much consideration, it was
has ever known.
campus.
The object of the Son of Heaven decided to remove the partition beA popular topic of conversation
is to spread abroad Nipponese cul- tween the old library reading room
seemed to be last quarter's grades.
ture and influence so that all the and the auditorium of the chapel,
Everywhere one could hear comments
Orient might someday be united in and the partitions between the chapel
on
various marks, and almost inone common cause. Whether a and the two classrooms at the rear.
variably these would be accompanied
country of 80,000,000 people can By doing this and moving the rosny remarks showing a strong detersuccessfully absorb and dominate a trum back into the old library wall,
mination to study more thoroughly
country of 300,000,000 remains to we would have ample room for five
and accomplish more in the ensuhundred good theater chairs in the
be seen.
ing quarter.
main auditorium. Then, by removing
another
partition,
it
was
pos* * * * *
So, it may be said that Madison
sible to make a room in the southCollege has begont. fir New Year
Iv_ large
_tat
To cultivate the di&t42r's favor, wq(i
FORr I sHBZSROrMi
right, with a new quarter, a new
Soviet editors began—CaMng 7sa en , gh or fifty or more seats. By
This fort, as Mrs. hobertson found to make a stand they were fired upon chance to do bigger and better
Stalin "Our Sun." Stalin's effigy putting a sliding partition between
things, and a new determination to
was plastered all over Moscow and this and the pulpit, this room need it when she arrived in the late spring from ambush. The horses, of course,
accomplish
more during this year.
of 1780, consisted of a log enclosure, ran off, passing near the gate of the
his life's story enlarged in the news-.
(Please turn to page 3, col. 5)
two blockhouses, and three cabins. fort with most of the Indians after
papers. On every parade day,' huge
This was to be her future home, and them trying to head them off.
posters with his likeness are carried
through the streets. Almost the
her protection from all the dangers
Mrs. Robertson, along with the
of the untried forest of what is rest of the inmates of the stockade,
entire country will swear by him.
now termed "Middle Tennessee." was watching proceedings, and at
All this homage, to a mere man
She must depend on the produce of the opportune time released a pack
seems ridiculous and reminds one
the few small fields and the game
of the French revolution with its
(Please turn to page 3, col. 1)
brought down in the woods to furconsequent bloodshed, mob-violence
We were especially privileged to
nish the food and necessary articles
and exaltation of the Goddess of
The rediscovery of a land and a
have as guest and speaker for several
of
clothing
for
her
family
as
the
Person.
people looms as a challenge for
days, Elder F. C. Gilbert, of the
supply brought with them diminAmerica to produce pioneers who
Home Missions Department of the
ished.
* * * * *
will once more grapple with the
General Conference. Elder Gilbert
From time to time different articles
If you were a radio fan on the forces of nature and free six million of furniture were added to make the
The Seniors •are beginning to spoke to the school family at the
continent of Europe, instead of tun- people from their mountain fast- cabins more comfortable and to help functiOn as a class. It was first regular evening chapel services. The
ing in on the "Hit Parade" or nesses of poverty and hardship.
manufacture some of the necessities noticed when posters were seen on theme of his talks was the absorbSuch was the message of the Fri- of life. A few of these were brought the campus advertising that the mo- ing subject of the sanctuary service
"Time Marches On" program you
would no doubt be subjected to an day evening hour, December 17, over the long water route down the tion picture "Life and Times of and its important place in this presintense ordeal of propaganda. Every given here by Edwin E. White, Holston, down the Tennessee, up George Washington" was to be pre- ent age. Perhaps no living indi`night finds the ether filled with dis- Congregationalist pastor of the the Ohio, and up the Cumberland sented by the Seniors in the Ro- vidual is better equipped to present
torted news broadcast; nations oc- Pleasant Hill Community Church, Rivers to this frontier post of homes tunda on December 28. Everybody, this topic. For many years he has
cupied in poisoning men's minds. In- Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.
and civilization; bjtt many were of course, wanted to help the Seniors labored in behalf of the Jewish
stead of educating, their object is to
During this short hour the fashioned with ax Land jack-knife by paying the small entrance fee people. As a youth he was edukeep the truth hidden as far as pos- speaker • pnesented the history of from the trees growing up to the and everyone wanted to see the pic- cated for the rabbinical service and
sible. There is one light in this these highland dwellers, their ge- edge of the small cornfields.
ture, so the Rotunda was filled to his knowledge of Hebrew history,
darkness however, for the British ographical situation, and their prestradition, and custom is profound
On April 2, 1781, about a year capacity.
indeed. The acceptance of ChrisBroadcasting Corporation has an- ent problems. An appeal to doc- after the "Adventure" had brought
The film depicted the life of the
nounced its intention of broadcast- tors, nurses, and teachers to respond
tianity as a young man naturally
Father of our Country from the
ing the truth in form of straight to the needs of an isolated people
meant complete separation from his
cradle to his death. He was seen people, but throughout the long
news, and in several different lan- who have neither means to secure
as a young surveyor in the wilderguages. It is a real privilege to live medical care nor access to schools
years he has worked faithfully to
ness, a soldier under Braddock, and
present the blessed gospel and hope
in a country that is not ruled by for education, stirred the hearts of
as Chief Commander of the Amerisome neurotic demagogue and where many to intensify their preparation
On the Wednesday evening be- can forces, driving to a successful of salvation through Christ, to the
Jews.
a man is still permitted to do his here so that they may be better able fore Christmas, a happy group of
conclusion the rebellion against
own thinking.
to answer the call of this Southern patients and nurses mingled around Great Britain. Highlights in the
Elder Gilbert is the author of
* * * *
a beautifully decorated Christmas picture were the famous ride of several books; one of the latest is
district.
Rev. White's work as a leader of tree in the sanitarium parlor. Gay Paul Revere, the Battle of Bunker "Messiah in His Sanctuary." A
The word periscope usually calls extension work in religion and soc- lights, presents beneath the tree, and Hill, and the surrender of Corn- number of these were sold at special
to mind the sinister picture of a half- ial service for the welfare of the a musical program conducted by wallis at Yorktown. The audience prices through the courtesy of the
submerged U-boat awaiting its un- Appalachian highland region en- Mrs. Goodge, helped to make a felt like cheering with the people Nashville Book and Bible House.
wary, defenseless prey, but scien- ables him to present with force and pleasant evening for those who had of the picture when Washington was
We recognize and appreciate the
tists have used this instrument to authority the wants and needs of to spend their Christmas away from elected first president of the United
a much better purpose. By use of the mountain people. His book, home. Miss Roberta Harvey, sur- States and succeeded in unifying timeliness of these lessons on the
prophecies of Daniel and the vital
an inverted periscope with a tiny "Highland Heritage" gives a most gical supervisor, played the role of the colonies.
question of the Sanctuary Service.
electric bulb, it is possible to study interesting presentation of the Santa Claus and distributed comical
On December 16, he concluded his
in detail the growth of plants.
Southern mountain problem. Mr. and useful presents. The serving of
lectures here and left for further
White is also the author of "The refreshments took up part of the
work in Georgia. Elder Gilbert is
"A great heart and a great mind Story of Missions" and of a book evening, and the program ended
It's all right to "keep your feet an old friend of Madison, and we
on Presbyterian missions called "Our with everyone wishing everyone else
has no room for memory of a Church and the Spread of the a "Merry Christmas and a Happy on the ground," but be careful they wish him godspeed in all his endeavors.
don't get stuck in it.
New Year."
Kingdom."
wrong."
By DICK WELCH
Elder F. C. Gilbert
Talks on
Sanctuary
Mountain Pastor
Tells of Work in
Highlands
Senior's Present
Moving Pictures
Sanitarium Group
Meet in Celebration
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THE PEPTIMIST CRIER
THE PEPTIMIST CRIER
VOLUME IV
JANUARY
5. 1938
NUMBER 5
Edited and published semi-monthly from October through June. and once
in September, by the students of Madison College.
Entered as second-class matter November 4, 1937, at the post-office at
Madison College, Tennessee, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SINGLE COPY $.05
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1938
[Associated Collo(Side Press
Editor-in-chief
Business manager
JOSEPH H. BISCHOFF
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JUNE BENDER
Associate editor______RICHARD WELCH
Campus
PAUL WOODS
Literary editor
FERN PITCHER
Nursing ditor________AtiGusTA EZELLE
Religious editor
GEORGE KENDALL
News editor_
JULIUS PASKAN
Feature editor
OPAL MCKINNEY
Alumni editor_____BEVERLY JUNE PRUETT'S
Reporters: Herbert Hewitt, Earline Thomas, Lois Irwin, Yvonne
Rumley, Edith
Werner, Gladys Callenler, Pearl Levison, Patricia Sullivan. Bessie Shultsmeier,
Alva Burske, Marie McCall, Stella Pajakowski, Fay Littell, Charles Kantzer,
Irene Felice.
Proofreader
Stenographers
EVA RUTH MARLEY
AUDREY HILL
AN NIS HILLIARD
New Year Presents Challenge
If Aristotle, Galileo, or Newton were to come to life in our
Activities of other
Colleges from the
Plains to the sea
"Two percent of the people do the
thinking for the remaining 98 percent and you are a part of the 2
percent." Dr. William F. Quillian,
Director of the General Board of
Christian Education of the Methodist Church, South, flattered students
at Birmingham Southern College.
"The educational spoon in America is handled by competent and
understanding teachers but the students should do the feeding themselves." Dr. Alexis Carrel, ranking
scientist, is interviewed by the Dartmouth student newspaper.
"Unemployment today constitutes the greatest threat to democracy
and all democratic institutions." Dr.
Paul W. Chapman, Georgia vocational guidance director, advocates
widespread substitution of occupational education for traditional studies of doubtful value."
Duquesne coeds are unanimous in declaring that they would not regard a man refusing to go to war as a coward, while
men students prefer to be "living cowards
than dead heroes." .The DUQUESNE
DUKE, student publication, conducted the
poll.
A "Candle Light Brigade," 250
day, and if they could stand upon a high pinnacle surveying all strong, marched into the library of
the University of California at Los
the wonders of the modern worldthe mechanical achievements, Angeles in protest against the inuse of electricity, conquest of the, air, sea, and land—what would adequate lighting facilities of the
be their reaction? They might answer that in spite of all the
great progress man has made, he has failed notably in one thing
—his sense of balance and self-control seems to be, entirely at
odds with progress in other fields. Advancement is one-sided,
with the consequent inhibition of our general sense of equanimity.
The world with all its great educational centers has little
to offer as' r panacea for humanity's—ills. The last cry of the
great philosopher Goethe as he lay on his death-bed was "Light
more light." Not even his brilliant mind could penetrate the
settling gloom. In contrast let us view the heroic figure of the
Apostle Paul, alone and unafraid on Mar's Hill, defying all
the pagan gods.
Brains and genius are cheap enough compared with the
rare jewel of character, and yet the latter is within the reach of
all.
As we enter the new year, let us not look upon the past
with remorse, or sorrow over broken dreams or disappointments, but rather look forward to the coming year as to a pleasant journey, a voyage in friendship, happiness, and self-development. The world needs upright citizens—men and women
of judicial temperament and soberness. Where could we find
a more propitious time or place to develop these qualities than
now, at Madison?
To the Editor:
busy and see that a flag be presented to the school?
After reading in your issue of
December 15 a letter signed "Patriotic Student." it seems ridiculous to me that he should criticize
the students as not having enough
loyalty to see that an American
flag should be flying from our
flagpole.
Second, he should attend the
meetings of the Peptimist Club
and find out what they are doing
b_fore he criticizes.
First, inasmuch as he is one of
the students, why does he not get
"A recent survey of 93 New York advertising agencies revealed +hat a little
more than 20 percent preferred to train
men just out of college for future executive positioeWbe general concensus,
however, was that a man with a college
background is better fitted to fulfill the
creative requirements of general advertising work."
HATTIESBURG, MISS. (ACP)
A shipment of new biology text-books
at Mississippi State Teachers College produced some fireworks recently.
A chapter on evolution annoyed
John M. Frazier, biology teacher,
to the extent that he ripped out the
offensive pages from 60 books.
His action. a decade_ after Tennessee's famous "monkey trial" renewed the evolution discussion.
Mississippi fundamentalists in 1926
had enacted a law forbidding teaching or use of books which related
the theory that man "ascended or
descended from a lower order of
animals."
The first snow in many a moon at the
University of Texas at Austin, precipitated
a free-for-all snow battle which took the
police riot squad to break it up.
FOUR THINGS I LOVE
Four things drain the fountain of
my life
and cause to spring up in my eyes
a flood of tears:
The Mail Box
He also asks why the Peptimist
Club wasn't busy doing something about this lack. To this
I reply.
building.
Studying at night, they maintained,
was extremely difficult by the bad
light, so they had brought along
their own candles to add to the illumination.
The Peptimist Club has asked
me to take up the matter of getting a flag. I have seen the man
in charge of the presentation of
flags to schools, and may I ask the
"Patriotic Student," when he sees
the flag afloat again, to remern.
ber that the Peptimist Club was
not asleep but working hard.
Sincerely yours,
Charles Derby
A farmer's song at dusk reverberating
through these scarlet hills
and lonesome coves.
The staggering trust with which a
baby's hand
can clasp my thumb
and cling to it.
A house of logs—with holly-hocks—
a tottering mother at the door
to greet her child.
The persistent grapple of an old
man's feet
upon the hill
at summer's . end.
Mildred Davidson
The Pastor's Study
By Howard I. Welch
Before the pastor takes pen in
hand to write another message for
these pages the year 1937 will have
gone into history. It is customary
for each of us individually to make
New Year's resolutions. But this
time we take the privilege of suggesting some resolutions, not for individuals, but for our entire family.
These suggestions grow out of a
sincere feeling on the part of your
pastor that we all need to come on
higher ground in these particular
matters. If you agree in regard
to these resolutions, help to make
them effective in the school and the
church. Here they are. Think
them over.
on a level becoming Christian men
and women and shun the cheap,
silly, and degrading.
We are resolved: 1. To show as a
school family a greater degree of
reverence, and to that end we will
endeavor to be more regular and
punctual at all religious services and
to do all in our power to preserve
a quiet, worshipful attitude in the
place of prayer.
MEDICAL EVANGELISM
2. To develop as far as lies within
our power a real spirit of scholarship within our ranks, raising higher
and higher both spiritual and scholastic standards.
3. To make better use of our recreational time to remembering that
true recreation refreshes body, mind,
and spirit, but that amusement, as
has been said, is but "the idle wastage of empty hours." Therefore we
shall strive to keep our recreation
4. To spread abroad a spirit of
loyalty, by our example and words
making it unpopular in our midst
to express words of disloyalty to
our school or the principles for
which it stands.
5. To encourage a spirit of good
neighborliness. To let the sunshine
of kindness, thoughtfUlness, and
sociability shine with greater warmth
among us than ever before.
Will you help us make 1938 a
happy and prosperous year for
Madison College?
The twenty students who are enrolled in the Medical Evangelism
course have seen the great need of
bringing relief to the physical suffering of mankind and are preparing to go into this field of labor.
Since this field is large and uncrowded, thousands are afforded the
opportunity to go out in this most
honorable work and to be received
with out-stretched arms by the hungering public.
The majority of people have become awakened to the necessity of
correct eating for good health. This
gospel of health is a most excellent
"entering wedge whereby the diseased soul may be reached." C.H.,
p. 535.
Have You Read ?
--11acir W ilk .17 onour: By A. A. Milne Midstream, By Helen Keller
"The American nation will not be
able to escape either its share of
responsibility or its share of disaster, if another Armageddon brings..
about the disruption of civilization."
Mr. Milne makes this statement in
his preface to the book in which he
presents war in its true light. He
tears all the glamour and sentimentalism from so-called "patriotic"
war expressions and propaganda.
What nations choose to call "national honour," he exposes as plain
selfishness.
This is a story of one of the world's
most remarkable women. She writes
with wit, charm, and deep understanding of th- men and women she
has known —Mark Twain, Caruso,
Charlie Chaplin, Alexander Graham
Bell, and others. In this story of
her mature years, the woman who
has triumphed over the double handicap of being blind and deaf, tells
of the full, fascinating years of her
life.
Mr. Milne's language is so plain
and forceful that even those unversed in the subject will have no
difficulty in following his logic. The
vein of humorous ,sarcasm which
runs throughout the book makes the
reader wonder why he ever imagined
a topic such as "world peace" could
be dry or uninteresting.
•
"The book will be read in nearly
all the languages known to civilization," for it contains a "wealth of
experiences. a lesson of faith, and
an inspiration of courage."
The Americanization of Edward Bok
An Autobiography
Etiquette, Jr. By Mary E. and Mar"Make you the world a bit more
gery Closey Quigley .
beautiful and better because you
have been in it," was the admoniDid you ever puzzle over ,how to
write on folded stationery?' Do you tion of Edward Bok's grandmother
know the correct form for introduc- to her children. That her grandson
tried to carry out that injunction
tions? Are you up to the minute
on your table "manners?" DQ you is proved again and again in the
story of his life.
keep in mind the proper relationship
between employer and employee ?
The author writes of himself as
Are you careful about the little a little Dutch boy nimble to make
things that mark you as well-bred hims:if understood in the America
or uncouth? Unless you are an tin- in which he was unceremoniously
usual individual, you need to check set down, and then as a mart who,
up on yourself occasionally to make although his education was negli,
sure that the "little foxes" of ill gible and he made no pretense of
conduct are not spoiling an attrac- style, for ten years edited a magative personality.
zine that went to the largest body
of
American readers ever addressed
Miss Mary Clark, sister to our
by an American editor.
librarian, and Miss Clark's jointauthor, Miss Margery Quigley, have
This comprehensive autobiography
presented etiquette in a most read- is fascinating, and those who take
able plc! interesting form. Remem- the time to read it will find themh_r, 'Good manners win take yon selves reading with interest and
places where money can't."
entlinsiasm7 '
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"THIS YEAR,"YOUR SHIP
and the third was so punch-drunk
from too much football that he could
God built and launched "This Year" see no way out except by playing
(Concluded from page 1)
(Concluded from page 1)
for you;
more football, either as a profesof fifty dogs. This so discomfitted
Upon
the
bridge
you
stand.
sional
or
as
an
assistant
coach.
not be used except in case of emerFrank Scully, author of the - famthe Indians that the white men were
It is your ship, aye, your' own ship,
Coaching this pathetic trinity was gency, but when the partition is
able to get back to the fort, with ous "Fun in Bed" books for convaAnd you are in command.
an all-time American fullback opened, those seated in this room
two wounded, but leaving five dead. lescents, and known as the world's
Just
what the twelvemonth's trip will claimed by his coach, who had have a good view of the platform
Fort Nashborough owed its con- most famous shut-in has been gradudo
coached no end of stars, to be the and will be able to hear as well as
tinued existence to the constant ated with honor, unfailing courage,
Rests
wholly, solely, friend, with greatest football player who ever those in the main auditorium.
watchfulness of General James Rob- and unshakable good humor from
you.
lived.
It was finally decided to make
ertson, later called the "Father of thirty hospitals, sanitoria, and clinics.
To show you how fast the all-time all these changes, including alterMiddle Tennessee." In 1783 the
He traces his breakdown in health Your time log, kept from day to day,
All-American's intelligence had run ing the ceiling to make it all of uniCumberland settlements were organ- to his athletic excesses as a student.
My friend, what will it show?
down,I need only to cite a sample
ized into Davidson County, with Once, when he was seventeen, he
Have you on your appointed way of his thinking at the beginning of form height, and the inclining of
the floor from the rear so that those
Nashborough as the county seat. The played three league basketball games
Made progress—yes or no?
his football career, and compare it in front may have no difficulty in
name was changed to Nashville in in one day. Such activities as this in
1784 and it became the state capi- various sports led to his first major The log will tell, like guiding star, with his mental inertia a dozen years seeing the platform.
tal in 1827.
Enough money has been raised to
illness and landed him in a tubercu- The sort of captain that you are. later.
The enclosure and houses are all losis sanitorium. An amputation Contrary winds may oft beset,
Our Hero, six feet tall, weighing make thes. changes and the work
made of logs pierced and splintered years later failed to dim his jour200 pounds, a terrific line plunger is going rapidly forward, but it is
Mountainous seas may press,
by many bullets. There is a great nalistic ambitions or his exhibition
but not too fast a sprinter, was be- now necessary to raise money to buy
Fierce
storms
prevail
and
false
lights
iron kettle and iron tripod in the of fortitude and cheerfulness.
hind
his own goal line, all set to five hundred chairs.
lure,
yard near a lye-hopper made of split
punt out of danger. His center
During his nonhospital career he
After much investigation, we have
You e'en may know real stress. got off a bad pass. The ball bounded
logs, with a small iron kettle sitting has been a sports writer on the New
finally located just the chairs we
Yet
does
God's
hand
steady
the
helm
under the drain. Inside the cabins r#0 ,,s4n, contributor to many magcrazily many yards off to the right. want. They are almost identical
muskets, rifles, and opwder-horns azines, a press agent collaborator on There's naught can e'er your ship Our Hero started after it.
with those used in seating the new
o'erwhelm.
hang above the fireplace. Large andIn the opposing line was the fast- chapel at Pacific Union College.
the Bernard Shaw and 'Me§ J. Walirons stand in the fireplace, while ker biographies, dialogue writer for Far weal or woe, this year if yours, est player on the West Coast. He They were purchased new about six
copper kettles and large iron skillets British Pictures, and screen writer
also started for -the ball, and in a months ago at a cost of $6.50 each
Your ship is an life's sea;
sit on the hearth. A cofee-mill, for Fox Filing, He says, "For 25
few strides more would have passed at the factory. For some reason, the
Your
acts
as
captain
must
decide
candle-mold, spinning-wheel, and a years I've watched the annual cycle
Our Hero,
purchaser decided that he must have
Which ever it shall be.
lcom give evidence of skill and of college football . . . and as far
a different type of chair to meet his.
Also
in
the
race,
but
quite
out
of
So now in starting on your trip,
indotry.
as I can see there has been no change
it up to this point, was another back needs, and as it is difficult to sell
A neat sampler hangs on the wall, through the years except in the size Ask God to help you sail your ship.
this type of chair except to instituon Our Hero's team.
a large rag-ing is on the floor, and of the box,.offic,e grosSes and the
—George W. D'vys
Our Hero made a split-second de- tions, he was willing to let us have
on the tall four-poster bed is a quilt number of half-back's who, by ceasecision.
He knew he couldn't beat five hundred of them at the surprisof patchwork. An old Engfish clock less pounding of heavy lineman, a year of their graduation, trying
ingly low rate of $1.75 each, laid
stands on a shelf, and fine china have been reduced to 'half-wits! to recapture the - Morgan loaris iii his opponent to the ball in a straight down here. Those who have examrace
so
he
dived
in
front
of
the
dishes are arranged in their cup- After careful study I
have come t9 the World
opponent and took him out of the ined these chairs carefully say that
board, A cradle and a high chair the conclusion that you don't have
But research has revealed more play. That left the field clear to they look like absolutely new chairs
are among other homemade furnish- to be half-wit to be a half-back, morbid statistics, at other campi, on
his teammate, who retrieved the ball and have not been injured in any
ings such as tables, chairs, and stools. but if you are a half-back long the subject of manufacturing halfway.
and
saved the day.
Fort Nashborough, as it stands enough you will be."
wits,
We are asking our readers, and
When you consider the general
today, is a memorial of the hardy
especially
our former students and
The
chief
complaint
most
critics
The first time my curiosity was hysteria of an enormous- crowd, the
pioneer men and their faithful wives
their parents, to come to our rescue
direct
against
college
football
is
aroused
as
to
what
happened
menfact
that
if
the
ball
was
recovered
who gave the best of their lives to
and pay for one or more of these
establish and maintain what was that it debauches sports loving tally to football players was on ob- by the opposition it meant a touch- chairs. If all of our readers will
young Americans into paid ama- serving assistant coaches, These down, and the human desire to get
then an outpost of civilization,
teurs. But that's a very superficial were always old players who never the ball at any cost, you will get respond to this call, no one need put
criticism, considering how much quite got over it, and if most of some ideas of how smart Our Hero's out very much, and the chairs will
deeper the indictment can go,
them weren't studying to be morons, thinking was, inahis particular play. be paid for. Will you not respond
to this call either by sending a check
they
wereol t studding to be Pli,a's
Fortunately
for
the
case
of
cub
In the rotogravure section of a
But here's the sad sequel to such or writing that you will make a
either,
large Sunday neWsfaper, there re- ture, some colleges have got on
a brilliant beginning. By the time donation so that we will know where
A dictaphone transcription of he was a senior his brains had been the money is coming from? The
ceritly apeared the picture of a man without football, and some of their
in uniform surrounded by a group students have even reached high their dialogue would surely have so knocked about that it was imposConference has very kindly helped
of school children. The caption places without ever knowing the rated them as something less than sible to get him through his final
us to remodel the chapel. Will you
difference
between
a
safety
and
a
was "School Children receive a presa group of Einsteins. The more I exams even with all the king's ponies
help
us purchase the chairs?
ent from government." These pres- touchback.
listened to them the more I was con- and all the king's men. It was deFLOYD BRALLIAR
ents which a benevolent government
Nothing reminded me so forcibly vinced of either (a) that they had cided by the coaches and faculty to
was so magnanimously bestowing on of this as a banquet which I attended no brains to begin with and must let him stay on as an assistant
its youth was in the form of weird, a few years ago at the Columbia have been dragged through college coach, and maybe he could "bone
gargoyle-shaped gas-ma.sks. If yen club in. New York. Columbia had on their football ability alone, or up enough" in time to slip the nooses either that they have made a mistake
or that men so young can deteriorate
could be unfortunate enough to be been my alma mater. As an under, (b) that their brains had been jellied off his various conditions.
physically and mentally so fast. So
born several years hence, chances graduate and a class president I by their junior years and the. college
But unfortunately he played some
are you would be reared in a gas- had started a drive in the years be- had given them assistant coaching professional football betweentimes, they kept picking Joe as an AllAmerican.
proof, bomb-proof shelter, seeing the fore the war for the restoration of jobs on the theory that they were and
as a result got dumber and
One player had so pulverized his
light of day only through some hid- college football at Columbia. They industrial casualties which had to
dumber, Finally, in a desperate at- native mentality that in his final year
eous piece of apparatus, Psychia, hadn't played the game there in be taken care, of,
tempt to stop this rapid descent into
he was in fact so affected that he
trists might be interested in the ten years, and there were many of
The next time I was shocked in the maelstrom of "stumble-backery,"
was making flying tackles at his
inhibitions and abnormalities such us still romantic enough to want my romantic attitude toward the
they stopped his professional foot•
conditions would produce,
college football;
great college game was at Tuscon, ball altogether and gave him a job fraternity brothers.
Fortunately
for
what
remained
of
I myself was among these roman- Arizona, where one of my friends as full-time coach. He has been
Several weeks ago Beverage Alhis
sanity,
instead
of
landing
on
—a
fellow
cougher—was
Charlie
tics,.
Though
I
had
been
knocked
trying
now
for
12
years
to
get
the
cohol was placed on trial, The trial
was held in the Baptist Temple of about as a high school athlete, in- Barrett, He had been All-Ameri- credits for his degree, and is further his head on the sidewalk, he always
Philadelphia, and drew a crowd, of juring a leg which eventually had can quarterback at Cornell and cap- away now than he was when he landed on his knee instead. That
put his knee so completely out of
3,500. Dr. Howard Hyde lfussel to .be amputated, I still swooned tain of the 1916 unbeaten team. I started.
To get back to these three All- commission that he's never been able
founder, and one who helped to with' delight at the mere mention of wasn't shocked half so much by the
sight of this athlete being used as Americans Our Hero coached on to walk like a normal man since.
build the Anti-Saloon League into• college football,
So much for latter-day All-Ameria powerful political force, was the
In the end my propaganda won a battleground between tuberculosis that championship West Coast team,
cans.
bacilli
and
their
anti-bodies
as
I
the most outstanding case history
prosecuting attorney. The jury of and football was restored to CoThe earlier ones, frequently breakwas by the fact that he told me six among modern-day stumble-backs
twenty returned a unanimous ver- lumbia
ing down with tuberculosis, rarely
diet of guilty. Dr. Russel is an old
At:the banquet previously men- members of the championship 1916 was in this group. He was a halfexhibited themselves as advanced
friend of Madison and we follow tioned was the captain of the Co- squad had also broken down with back we will call Joe Doakes.
his great work with interest.
Joe came to college a great base- cases of stumble-backs; but the preslumbia team and the star end, who tuberculosis. Barrett's confession
ent-day crop, what with the progress
was to be the team's captain the next was the greatest mass indictment of ball player, able in addition to sprint
the medical profession has made in
year. These were at the speakers' varsity football I had run into up a hundred yards in 9.7 seconds.
cutting down the death rate from
to
that
time.
He
was
so
fast
and
so
good
that
in
The age-old custom of carpi sing- table.
"But I guess," said Charlie high school he had got an offer, to tuberculosis have a better chance to
But the thing that shocked me
ing at Christmas-time found its way
philosophically,
that's better than play professional baseball. But the go through life tackling imaginary
to Madison again on Christmas Eve. was that none of the old-time foot,
college topped the offer, so he be- opponents, or viciously kicking the
The carolers began their tour en ball stars from Columbia were at walking on their heels,"
nearest pedestrian in the groin
At the time I didn't quite get came an amateur football player whenever they hear a cop's whistle.
Dr. Sutherland's front lawn by sing, this table. Twenty years before
ing the favorite of them all, "Silent the football stars wouhl have mom the signifieance of that remark, and instead. He was a fine student to
In 20 years the only change one
Night" and ended their everting of opolized the seats of honor, but on I never did get it out of Charlie, begin with, a logical and convincing
can see between the championship
debater.
this
occasion
those
gathered
At
the
as
not
long
afterward
he
died.
song with f`ft Came Upon the MidThough he could run a hundred teams of 1916 and those of today
night Clear" for the benefit qf the speakers' table were the nobodies
I got the significance much later
is that the present-day football stars
Central Heat bgys,
on the Pacific Coast when I was yards under ten seconds when he
2 9 years MO:
are knocked about the head so much
entered
college,
today
he
couldn't
Many of the liSteners opened their
I couldn't help wondering what able to observe a Coast championthat, when they break down later
windows wide and exchanged greet- had happened to the football heroes ship team in action in the Rose make up what's left of his mind in
with some disease, their minds are
that
time.
Though
he
began
as
a
ings with the songsters, while others, of my day. What discreet inquiries Bowl. Of the three stars in the
so anesthetized that they are spared
remembering the hearty appetites I made developed that this one was backfield, all .named on one All, fine student And debater, today he
the mental anguish which normal
doesn't
know
his
elbow
from
his
of the young people, distributed a chronic drunkard, that one wasn't American team or another, sobSO,
patients have to endure.
candy and fruit, seeming not to mind quite bright and wasn't going out quently. one broke his neck in his elbow,
'Editors Note : This article is condensed
the slightly muddy footprints left much any more, and a third no- last season and therefore missed his
Picked as an All-American in his
on their rugs after the carolers had body had beard from in years. The chance of ending a complete stumble- sophomore year, Joe went downhill from a similar one appearing in the
ihlasidienfieuien,r_ieedvemthb:e slt8a. Its
gone. Such is the spirit of Christ: remaining gridiron heroes of my day back; the second ended his under- each succeeding season. But foot- tCim
ametinusess"
ff
mas !
had almost all been killed, within graduate days walking on his heels; ball experts are reluctant to admit present it to our students.
Fort Nashborough
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The janitors have been putting
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Professor Jacobsen's reports show
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This exodus was most apparent at
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Good
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Mr. Wilson is the Madison College representative for Amqui GaMarshall—Beck. Frank Marshall rage, Amqui.
and Katherine Beck, former students,
were married on the evening of
December 26, at the home of Katherine's sister in Birmingham, Alabama. A group from the college
California seems to have lured attended the wedding.
the Matthews family during the
holidays. We are sure they are
having a delightful time. We are
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of Madison and now of Pewee Valley, Kentucky, were welcome visitors during the Christmas holidays.
They came to visit their son, Mark,
who is a junior in college.
While on a recent trip to southern
California Roger Goodge reports
Miss Ruth Frye, a member of having seen and visited the followour faculty for the past two years, ing persons .who have been Madison
is attending the University of Cali- students or faculty members.
fornia at Los Angeles, where she
is working toward a degree of Doctor
Seen at Loma Linda
of Philosophy.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Styre
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Moore
Mr. Byron Steele recently received
a diploma from the American Reg- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cummings
istry of X-ray Technicians, granting Willis and Eleanor Dick
him a degree of R.T. in X-ray. Lyle and Marie Herrmann
That he is digging a cellar under Rcbert and Fannie Kellar
his new home with pick and shovel Miss Ruth Frye
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tory and X-ray technician.
Joseph and Ruth Karlick
Willis and Ruth Baughman
One of the founders of the Paradise Valley Sanitarium and Hos- Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Standish and
pital, Dr. T. S. Whitelock, spoke daughters, Venessa and Juanita
at the Young People's meeting on John Toppenberg
Christmas Day, relating some of his Miss Genevieve Alexander
early experiences in Georgia thirty- Herbert Henken
seven years ago, when there was
only one Seventh-day Adventist in
Seen in Los Angeles:
the whole state. He inspired those
present with his presentation of the Kenneth and Cleo Sherriff
thought that each one of us should La Mont and Alice Yeager
dedicate himself more completely to G orge and Louise Schumacher
the service of God.
Mr. and Mrs. Other Speaker
Clets Hanahan
The latest graduates of our high Charl s Stuart
school recently mailed out the third
issue of their class letter "Thirty- Wayne McFarland
John Solomon
Seven."
Howard Cookson
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Several 1938 Jubilee Plymouths
have recently taken their place on
the Madison campus.
Ralph Moore, who is working on
his M. S. at Vanderbilt University,
spent one day of his vacation' correcting physics papers• here. The
reason for this unique way of spending part of a vacation is the fact
that Ralph is majoring in physics.
Winafred Rushing, Miss DeGraw's stenographer, has returned
Witness the modern milkman in
to work* after a few weeks' illness.
Georgia Sutherland has been assist- Charles Derby! He starts his daying with that work during Wina- light saving route at 9 A.M. and
finishes by 11:00. He feels that
f red's absence.
he can thus economize on his alarm
clock, and on the flashlight that
Professor Sidney Smith, of La would be needed for early morning
Sierra Junior College, gave a very hours.
encouraging message at vespers on
Christmas Eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Nivison, formerly
Professor and Mrs. Leland Straw
spent a few days in Michigan recently. Old friends were glad to
see Ronald Straw when he returned
with them to spend his vacation
at Madison.
Bogar—Thomas. A quiet wedding
at the home of Elder Welch on the
evening of December 18 united Mr.
Harold Bogar and Nina Thomas,
affectionately known to students as
"Ma." After a reception at the
Welch home, they were Floridabound for a two weeks' stay in the
land of sunshine.
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