tl19501128-000 "EDITORIAL We are many things. We are what we think we are, and we are what people think we are. Politically, we are this ; socially, we are that. Our loyalties are diffused into numberless creeds ; our sentiments arm a thousand causes. We are sometimes indefinable to ourselves. For sometimes, what we say we believe is not what we do believe. We are divisible. And no one is shocked, no one is alarmed because every-one is. self-divided. We do not always know whether we bring our ethics to ourselves or whether we bring ourselves to our ethics. The ethics themselves are indivisible. They are not to be divided. They are not to be diffused. Take gossip. Ethical-ly, gossip is indivisible. Call it character assassination � call it what you will�it is still gossip. To some, gossip can be all things to all men. It can be dressed up to suit the spe-cial occasion. It is not hard for the busybody�the ill-inten-tioned altruist�to justify his own snobbery. But it would be difficult for the sincere practicing religionist�whomever he might be�to loosen his definition of gossipry, just as it would be for him no simple expedient to whitewash an act of murder or an act of thievery. For did not God command Moses: ""Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor ?"" Gossip has no moral stature. It would not stand up in L. court of law. Yet gossip does exist. It is a disease of the intellect which, insiduously, warps the integrity of an in-dividual much in the same way that a physiological disease, Fay poliomyelitis, would wither tissue. Gossip is destructive. To gossip about an individual is to destroy, at least moment-arily, the effectiveness of that individual. Clandestine gossip is one thing. Open appraisal is another. To gossip is to defeat understanding. To appraise is to enhance it. We .do not gossip about ourselves. But, if we are honest, we learn from self-appraisal. We are what we think we are. We are what people think we are. Somewhere between lies truth. Appraisal, not gossip, comes closest to what we actually are. P. D. C. McKeldin To Speak Here Mr. Theodore R. McKeldin, govenior-elect, will address the regularly-scheduled student as-sembly on December 5, according to Dr. Bre,Nagton, chairman of the Assembly Conunittee. No preliminary statement about Mr. McKeldin's talk was made. Mr. McKeldin will enter office officially January 6. GLEN PLAYERS The play ""Anna Christie,"" which was previously to be given in De-cember will be produced the 11, 12, and 13th of January. It was postponed due to a previous corn-mittment of Miss Mariner, who has the leading role. Kip Chappel will play one of the leading roles. Mr. Paul states that ""Lady In The Dark"" is tentatively being consider-ed as the musical which will be presented later in the spring. alml? Vol 4., No. 6 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. November 28, 1950 CURRENT and UNDERCURRENT By E. Curt Walther Most people believe that the Uni-ted Nations is an association of some fifty-nine independent nations. All of these nations regard them-selves as free, independent and sovereign states. Bertrand Russel, the winner of the Nobel Prize, ob-served recently that such was a great delusion and that there are in fact, but two really sovereign states in the world today, the So-viet Union and the United States. Even Britain, proud and austere, is but a satellite of America. All the nations of the world find themselves in either one of two groups, either they are wholly within the orbit of their central sun or they are on the border revolving about one or the other as the circumstances demands Gradually they are being gathered together into the systems of either one of the two sovereign systems. The question on everybody's mind, today, is whether a world so divided can long endure. Some peo-ple, like President Conant of Har-vard, believe that such a condition will continue for some time and recognizing this fact, he demands that we put our house in order by making the proper social and educational adjustments. Wtih uni-versal conscription reaching out for every ablebodied man and woman, he would try to save the intellect of the nation by making available to them a large number of na-tionally subsidized scholarships awarded through rigorous, com-petitive examination. It is a good plan, long overdue, no doubt, and will help to salvage one of our most precious resources. Neverthe-less, it will do little to reach the basis of the present struggle. It will do little toward reducing the ten-sions and anxieties that we find within our nation. It will do little to diminish the suspicion and mis-trust which we find between na-tions. It will do little to lift the confusion from the minds of men that will lead to overt conflict. The great mass of ""common"" People of our country in whose (Continued on Page 2) NINE WILL JOIN FRAT Our chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, a national service fraternity and professional organization for teach-ers, has recently elected their new member prospects for this year. These people have received, or will soon receive invitations to join the fraternity: Helen Seipp, Gretchen Stein, Dorothy Tomasik, Bill Ham-merman, Larry Lyng, John Zvonar, Harold August, William T. Jones. and Doris Mellor. The main objectives of Kappa Delta Pi are to better teaching methods and render service to the schools whenever possible. Its mem-bers are under-graduates and alumni who have shown outstanding leadership ability, well-balanced and likeable personality and good (Continued Page 3) Projects Committee Sees ew Organ Purchase Soon The Special Projects Committee takes pleasure in announcing the great possibility that the college will soon own the organ which has been a goal since 1948. Faculty and students through careful planning and 1:ontribution of funds have made this purchase possible. It all started with the gift of fifty dollars from thl. .class of '48. Later additional contributions from grad-uates of 1948 (both Teachers College and Junior College) brought this sum to $276.50. The Variety Club under direction of Kenneth Web ar that year added to the fund $525, the proceeds from the 1948 Variety Show. BULLETIN All chairmen of Faculty-Student Committees please turn in reports to the Tower Light office after all meetings which you deem im-portant. DE BALLA SCOU'1S NEWS IDEA OF F'RANCO SPAM -1 believe Spain to the political and military situation in Europe,"" . said Dr. Valentine De Balla as he spoke before the Inter-national Relations Club ori Thurs-day, November 6. Dr. De Balla con-tinued, ""Europe has twelve divisions of infantry now, however, it is sup-posed to maintain sixty divisions for logical defense, and Spain could supply those divisions."" The gist of his lecture was along the afore-mentioned line. He ex-plained that Spain, his residence for two years, but not his homeland, was not as tyrannical under Franco as misinformed and uncompliment-ary American newspapers painted it. In the national .elections of 1934, the people expressed their dissatis-faction with the virtual annulment of the spare gains of the republic when the moderate Left-Repub-licans obtained a complete victory. You remember a republic had been proclaimed after King Alfonso XIII fled the country in 1931. Dr. De Balla continued to explain that actually General Franco was to be by Bob Fritts the key justified in overthrowing the repub-lic because the elections of 1934 proved that the people were dis-satisfied with the government. Com-munist factions were in command Oi the army, and the Russians were sending aid to the republic. He explained further that Spain could not be considered tyrannical since Franco was in power through the ""consent"" of the people. Dr. De Balla said that he realized that the temperament of his audience was anti-Franco due to our environ-ment, therefore he extended his apologies if he had shocked anyone. Dr. Curt Walther, advisor to the International Relations Club, intro-duced Dr. De Balla explaning that he had been lecturing at Camp Holabird, base for United States ! Counter-Intelligence Corps, on Spain and Russia. He was well qauli-fied to speak on Russia after spend-ing several years trapped behind . the Iron Curtain in Hungary. His family was originally from Belgium. After escaping from Hungary he went to Spain, and from there he came to this country. AVIATION CLUB IS ACTIVE On Tuesday, November 22, 1950, the Aviation Club had as its guest speaker of the evening, Mr. Louis Herman, who gave a most impress-ing talk entitled Parachute Jump-ing. The agenda for the evenings en-tertainment also included the show-ing of a film about parachute jump-ing. The meeting was open to all who wished to attend. The Link Trainer program is back in operation again and those wish-ing to.participate will find 'a sched-ule of the instructors posted out-side the door of room 3. The instructors are now giving lessons to college students and have supervised several elementary school groups. . Students in the Science Methods Courses are now required to take at least the orientation work in the Link Trainer. In this work, they learn that they may bring their classes for instruction in the Train-er at any time during their teach-ing, and see what excellent motivat-ing and learning experience it of-fers. As LIGHT (Continued on Page 3) Circulation of this issue, the TOWER will be found in the mailboxes of the student teach-ers. This is being done to assure them of getting their copy. The Alumni Class of 1908 pre-. sented a gift of $101, as a tribute to Miss Mary Hudson Scarborough, their class sponsor. Another small gift and interest on the funds brought the total to $923.64, as of September 1949. An additional anonymous gift of $100 and a probable further $200 from the Senior class brings the cur-rent total to $1,223.64. After thorough study of available funds including the allocation of portions of Book profits and Cul-ture Fund, the committee found that the proposed organ price of about $4,000 could be met froin these sources without further gifts from students, faculty, and alumni. In a meeting on November 21 with the Junior and Senior classes, those students who have been in the student body since 1948 and most concerned with the acquisition of an organ, the Special Projects Corn-. mittee made its first official an-nouncement regarding the organ fund. The committee also made a report of its attempt to choose ""our"" organ. The members of this committee and Miss Weyforth and Mr. Geriak spent Saturday, November 18, studying the various available or-. gans and listening to demonstrations in Baltimore halls, churches, and studios. Dr. Hathaway who is a member of the Organ Guild of America, played each instrument and discussed his findings with the committee. The group favored an instrument priced at $3,750 and made the recommendation that the college consider the purchase of this organ. The Juniors and Seniors express-ed pleasure in the fact that an organ can be purchased very soon, and that they will have an opportunity (Continued on Page 2) "
