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Show THE DIXIE NEWS preciation for the beautiful no EVOLUTION woman can inspire it in her home. Although Evolution is a term All a to keen this has relation that is m very general use, Published there to cost national the are prosperity, differences of many Subscription Price opinion, of living. The production of especially among the ed. laity as How can our brain develop if we never use it? We know shoddy cloth, poor laces, and what the doctrine is, EDITORIIAL STAFF and that if we dont use our arm it becomes useless. The brain acts furniture is truly waste. Time vhat basis it rests. It isupon The Class in Newswriting th much the same way. It must be used if it is to function. and money and strength wThich purpose of this to Put paper BUSINESS STAFF Have you ever stopped to think why so many people dislike might have been spent in the forth in a simple manner the Elvis B. Terry algebra? It is because that subject requires individual thought. production of things of perman- content of the Business Manager theory as it is Clark Frei The average student has developed a condition of mental laziness ent value have been spent in held in the Circulation Manager scientific world to and it is hard for him to adjust to the process of thinking. things w'hich have no enduring day. TYPISTS Roland Stucki, Bessie Everett and Ruth Seegmiller. qualities. The term evolution, in its simThe condition as here pictured Thanksgiving has come and gone again. It might be very inplest sense, means merely the CLASS REPORTERS teresting to have each student who enjoyed this welcome holiday has not always been approved by act of evolving; development or tell just what it meant to him. The answers would be varied, but the American woman. We find Henry J. Nicholes, Evelyn Harris, Florence McArthur, The term is common to growth. Arvilla Graff, Abia Judd and Bessie Atkin. would some find perhaps everyone past thing to be thankful for evolt after revolt against the every field of inquiry. Our preand delights in looking back to that happy family gathering. absurdities and SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE unpracticablity sent civilization has evolved : Here is by arises the not there some question Le Roy Cox, Bessie Thurston phase of Thanksgiv of her costume. And out of her process of so too, our evolution, we While we are thankful for the past, with its evolt has come the most defining neglect? to look back upon, does not the real spirit of Thanks- ite devolpment in American cos- government. When applied in blessings the field of biology, evolution is The short articles on this page are the initial attempts of the giving demand that we look forward to blessings of possibilities, tume which we have had. That students at editorials. The lengthy article by Miss Pendleton was and be thankful for a tomorrow as well as today? Be thankful is the sensible street costume, specifically used to mean the deread in Faculty meeting. We think it bears a vital message that next year will bring so many more blessings to life, and so which, in spite of attempts to rivation of all forms of life by especially to girls and their mothers. The introductory portion strive giadual modification from earthroughout the year to bring about these blessings that distort and displace, has held lier and has been greatly condensed and other minor parts eliminated. simpler forms or from next year Thanksgiving can look forward to still greater possibili- its own against fashion. Here, The Editor. one rudimentary form. Spencer ties. Isnt it a fine thing to have one day to stop and get your then, has been developed and says of evolution : is in gen- It between 365 of efforts and 365 bearings days of established a standard of one of eial a law, that as life worthy days AN AIM endures those great principles of sensible generation after its generation To succeed today man must concentrate all the faculties of dress, and that is fitness. This character, as shown in structure In looking back over the Thanksgiving time, it appears, that achievement shows that the true his mind upon one unwavering aim and have a purpose which and means death or victory. He must suppress the other inclinations to us, the students of the Dixie College, Thanksgiving holidays attack on the tyranny and cor- nstant function, undergoes codifferentiation and speciafor they are dangerous. The great men of this world who have should not be merely a vacation of perfunctory gratification, but ruption of clothes lies in the es- lization. succeeded are the men who have had an aim. One talent utilized one of sincere gratitude. We have much to be thankful for. We tablishment of principles which Evolution, contrary to the in a single direction will do amazingly more than ten talents scat- should be thankful that our lot is cast here in this wonderful Dixie are strong, sure, and good idea, does not attempt popular tered. It is the single aim that wins. The constant changing of College, where we have the opportunity of moving onward and up- enough eventually to impose to answer the question of who in to become strong, upright, and aspiring citi- themselves. ones vocation is fatal to success. How many young men fail to ward qualifying created the world and living orof zens this fair land of ours. We should be thankful for those reach the point of efficiency in one line or work before Briefly these principles are: they get but ganisms, attempts to show who made to it 1. attend this wonderful institution, The fitness of dress depossible for us discouraged and venture into something else. How easy to see by what process or processes the the thorns in ones own vocation and the roses in that of another. and for those instructors, who sacrifice their all for us. We pends upon the occasion. We see on every hand hundreds of young men and women flittershould be thankful to the Giver of all good things for the blessings 2. The beauty of dress de- diverse forms of plants and animals in our world of life came ing from one occupation to another and from trade to trade. The we have enjoyed, and each one of us should resolve to make the pends upon line and color. to be. 3. The ethics of dress dequestion is what do they attain? coming year even better and bigger than the past, with less The scientist has now come to of self and more of service. To fix a wandering life and give it direction is not an pends upon quality and the relaeasy thought as a mere statement of a accept tion of cost But to task. a life which has no definite aim is empty and purposeones means. fact of nature that the vast varless. A healthy purpose is a remedy for many of the ills of such THE DRESS PROBLEM If girls are taught early in life porting not only themselves, but of forms of life upon our iety the life. The man without a purpose never leaves his mark principles of correct dress others. upon the OF THE AMERICAN have been produced by a globe world. He has no individuality. will not He is lost in the crowd. He appear at the ofThis ugly side of the clothes they WOMAN of process is weak, wavering, and incompetent. fice in evolution, and the the It is a great purpose which morning in a costume problem does not begin at the only now is, how is contraversy that for gives meaning to life. It unifies all our powers, blinds them toonly evening wear, this One of the most domineering bottom of society. It exists but came fact to be. That is, will wear gether in one cable and makes strong and united what was weak, clothes that they impulses of men and women is there because it is at the top and are there are various retheories separated, and scattered. comfortable, practical, and that bidding them to make filters down. Women of great the forces garding and procesclothes appropriate; that will themselves beautiful. In the wealth frequently spend prince- make it possible for them to give ses which have influenced and THE VALUE OF THE LIBRARY stone age man sought to decor ly allowances and then run overare influencing progressive dea good full day of intelligent ate himself probably more than whelming accounts just for velopment. In the struggles for universal education the school clothes. The difficulty in these service. library is woman did. Today in the leadThese theories and postulates of Appreciation is one beauty indispensible. It lies at the root of the new pedagogy of individ- ing countries of the world he great expenditures is that they are of by no means all modern, the main roads of civilization. ual differences. It is the heart of any program of socialized ef- clothes rather than arrays him- set a pace. In order to keep up, In the matter of some of them antidating the dress if women fort and individual responsibility. The new curriculum calls for self. But woman has not har- or rather in an attempt to keep Christian would Era over a thousand spend more time in traintools of learning which shall be as good in their fields as women all over the country imple- nessed the instinct. In the old- up, Osborn years. the mind to comprehend real ments of modern industry are in theirs. (08) states that er countries marked distinction are spending a disproportionate ing as early as 550 B. C. Thales it would beauty be If education is a worth sum much g for clothes. It has been more to project, one must develop in the exists between the people of her than half a dozen postulated that water was the school library, habits, attitudes, and knowledge of intellectual re- rank and the peasantry. With set down as a rule by investiga- dresses that she may wear only mother of all life. Centuries besources which will lead him to use public libraries and build tors of small household budgets up his the coming of democracy we once and own. perhaps not at all. fore this, however, the Hindus, sought to destroy this outward that as the income increases the The American woman has a m their religious ritual expresThe factors and standards which are Under democracy percentage spent for producing this new distinction. keenly school have a direct hearing upon the developed love for cloth- sed rather primatively the more rapidly than for place of tomorrows school we can do housework in silk es. If we take this as a basis of evolutionary idea. In the fourth library. The school of tomorrow will be built around the library dress and go to the ball in calico any other item. our ideal we as a center of activities and organizations. may in time work century before Christ, Aristotle if we will, and we often will in It is impossible to overlook toward The growth of the library is an expression of faith in the im- order to advertise our perfect in dress. advocated that necessity was the equality. the industrial and ethical results It is a matter of artistry cause of adjustments and adapof the race. provement Class costumes destroyed the of such a condition, taking pains and particularly above all obeying our intellig- tations in nature and belived in principles back of them ; that is, the indifference to quality it has ence. The woman whose sense prenatal influences. The A long, long time ago some fitness, quality and responsibil- engendered. The very heart of of extremely smart fellow who alview held sway until the is well beauty were developed will forgotten. The old the question of clothes of the never be a ways got cs and bs in the ology classes (Ive forgotten whether ity, slave of the Eighteenth beginning of fashion. instinct for ornament broke America women is imitation. he was in Mr. Smiths or Mr. Harrisons class) wrote a paper loose. So when Century Concerning there were markthe third We now have in the great not developed a true about Eve being made out of Adams rib, or great ed like that, something of advances principle in correct the scientific Bedress. American Democracy wealth is the only and it was written in the scriptures. Well, it went on for a costume in spite of fore the women of America field. Many keen observers and long our standard can accepted for time and people didn t think much of it until the measextravagances. From top recently some other urement of costume develop an appreciation for qual- conscientious investigators turnto bottom we are fellow wrote a song about I Want My Rib and today. copying. The ity to it jazz and put they must develop an appre- ed their attention to the field of With a primitive instinct let wealthy women go to Paris and of course that set everyone to thinking seriously on the subject. loose the woman ciation of textiles. It is because Natural History. Fossils in the of America are Vienna for their most beautiful As a result some of the smart fellows about ot school, fresh-methe ignorance of the great rocks were recognized as the restlessly racing here and there costumes : The great designers and others, are attempting to locate their ribs in consumers missing of textiles that so petrified or mineral substitusearch of something which and dressmakers go to the same in a most unsatisfactory and unscientific manner. Now of course will much worthless prove that they are better place. Those who cannot afford material is put tions of animals and plants of the girls dont object to the boys having their ribs, but it certainon the market. than to their If we were wide ages past. Many other phenomseek inspiration abroad ly is annoying to have fellows stationed in the halls to stroll the one neighbor, at least in copy awake to our ready we from job would know ena have been observed which down with every girl who comes along and those who have gone, or particular of having begin measuring for more when we can only be explained were to from money libs with their arms as a mesure. Assuming that spend. d getting an imported fashion plates. by the every fellow doctrine fabric The of organic evolution. when heart we of knows the exact size of his rib and hopes to find it with very the had dress paid Imitations, cheap as they may enough to these evid The scientist finds evidence of buy a piece of all wool pioblem, is social and economic. seem, are a ences, it is suggested that as arms vary in greater extravag- material. A it would be This length, evolution in four great organic problem is one of those ance for the much more accurate to carry a tape measure. And textile girls of the poorer manufacturer prominent after all, great said on one occa- branches of study, namely, Commatters on classes than the everyday wouldnt it be a calamity to get the wrong one from original model using the which the moral and physical was for its buyer, because the sion, Women must learn to ap- parative anatomy, Embryology, wiong methods, when the right ones are much more satisfactory. well preciate textiles in order to Paleontology, being of society rests. One latter came from Experimental the class where make of those matters which intelligent purchases when Breeding or Genetics. From does money rightly not count while the the matter of clothes is Are such competitive projects as the undei concern- - these fields of study we have Essay, Chem- life stood fills the everyday former is of a class where every ical Essay and the Washington Day Oration Library with what Morgan (19) calls the big meaning, shows it penny counts. The contests worth while of it is This is the question that is pity elated i to Four It will every great movement that the Great Historical Speculatake time, no doubt, for confronting each of us and it is worth girl who puts all her us to our due thought and consideration. tions We will find that the value for the betterment of man. with learn a few minor postulatthese into such cheap imitaearnings principles but es. enved from cur participation in such contests, the stimuli we can learn them. The economic side of the mat- tions is they When bravely ornamented but have we . afiord us in the conquering of bigger problems each day, will more ter presses hard on the whole never trained the eye to recog-mz- e Lamarck, advanced properly clothed. More than recompense us for the time and the first real theory of the cause country. The chief economic over, her the have demandthought difference they between purchases are not praced. To be sure, we cannot reckon the the value of the exoerience we concern of a large army of tical because they will not give beautiful and the grotesque of evolution, known as the Use gam m mere units or hours, but rather by the generaf mm, and when we have restor- and Disuse Theory. This application American women is to earn satisfactory service. hat can be made m our daily activities. Let us ed the sense of consider them as money to dress, not as that by the use of certain The habit of they beneiits for it is our privilege to direct those benefits. buying poor im- giandmother quality which our organs should, but as they want to. itation they were developed, as does not end with had, then in Because a large per cent, but the we will begin certainly the neck to of the giraffe, the realize that the by purchase of clothes. When no means a the art of hind Does our modern system of education correct of and legs dress majority, these girl marries she carries tail of the Kang-erohas no relareally develop thinkers it into tion to women spend all their Oi is it merely a system of and money. the We her anterior limbs of home. Decoration and will then be earnings memorizing the thoughts of others on clothes they are not nearing the time am inclined to think the latter is often to acwilling when fine and es at what true. From our child-oo- d cept low urmshmg is the keynote of her cu may be called a sound ured taste will win wages. This is hard on touches. ve aie taught practically nothing but and win mode of dress makes a real cofacts facts, Appreciation that others industry because the of beau- easily have thought out. As a result we become wage earn- ty is one of the against the more lavish. ntribution to attributes of But after society. All the content to accept the statements of othersmentally lazy We are er who can afford to work for.a true all is said the matter without in the culture, and the best place f schools of clothing in America low salary pulls down diess them. the wages to encourage and questioning is an individual prob-e- are Why not stop to analyze the statements oi of develop it is in other thousands who are working for these three and every woman sup the home. But without an who sol- great ap- - ves it for appropriatness, herself, that is, arriv- - beautyprinciples, and quality. A. P. THE D others to see if we really do agree ? What the school needs is more thought courses, such as algebra, physics, arithmetic, etc. Such courses stimulate thought. to learn how to think clearly and distinctively before he by the Students of the Dixie College One has By so doing his power to think is increasOne Dollar per year can solve his problems. 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