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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1941
Maroon and Gold
SN P AND SNOOP
EdifMl and printed at Elon Co11q?« by Bta-
donts of .lounialism. Published bi-weekly dur
ing; the Oillefje year.
JUST BOUNCING ALONG If Does Happen Here
EDITORIAL STAFF
ROY MANSFIELD ..
AlAIUOIiFE HlJNTEIi
rilK'K DAMIiON ...
Editor
. ilana,t?iii/j Editor
.... Sports Editor
HJISINESS STAFF
II. (’. Homaday Faculty Advisor
liol) Sellers ^Basiness Maiiaijer
II. M. Austin Exchauffc Elitor
Jolin I*ollard Staff I’hotof^raphi'r
NEWS ED I TO Its
Lon is Adair
I.ney Atwater
II. M. Austin
Earl Mell
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I’achel Ear))
.liiiimy Elder
SeviiKHir (joldbliuii
Judy Holloman
Don Isley
John Pollard
Ed Kolx'rtson
Hob Sellers
Isae Terrell
Irvin 'I'roxler
Charlie Waltei-s
Kidiard Welilon
PU()Dl7(nrK)N STAFF
Allen Colenda David Offinan
K«vy Kvniis Roy Mansfield
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All Or Nothing
One of the ;n'atest projects ever undertaken
l)v an Elon student body was launched two we‘ks
H!fo with the onranizatiou of the ELON STIJ-
DE.VTS; AI.L OK NOTHING (7LIin. This chib
was initiated after several plans had been under
lincussion for Elon students to participate in
raisintr rnon‘v to 1k' us‘d towanl the reiluction of
the «>Ilefje indebtednes.s.
'I'he pledjjc! n-ads in part: “I would like the
honor of Ixmii”; nnniliored with niy fellow studeiits
who are helpins^ to raise $l,()0(t to Ik; applied lo
the remaining indebtedness of P]|on Collefje. R(!-
t-Hus‘ of niy |K‘r!«)nal feelinjrs of oblif!:ation to Elon
and Ix’^Tjusj* I wish always to be proud of h(*r
aehievmients, I am anxious to Ix'come a part of
this studcMit ondoaTor.
“I nnderatanil that this is a student initiatel
and student 8Upervi.-i4'«{ campai;;n, orfranized only
for the ))urpose of aiding in the (Mmpaign to clear
Elon of its debt. I also understand that niy con
tribution will autoniaticallv make me a menilx'r
of th«' ELON STUDENTS’ ALL OR NOTH
ING (’LUH.”
'I’his pledirt' has In-en sijjiied by quite a few of
onr Elon students, but there still remain a few
who as yet do not understand the real purpose of
this rlub. This is not a hi/jli prtvssure canipai^i
to get iis much out of each individual as possible.
It is not an attempt by the administration to fjPt
a little additional cash froni you. It is simply a
sinct'fe and worthwhile effort on the part of the
Elon student IxKly to show the administration,
and all others who an> interested, and have them-
«elvea contributed to this campaifni, that we as
Elon students are interested enough in our cf»l-
lege, and that w! love our colk^o enough to i)ut
forth a little effort and a little .sacrifict* toward re-
h-iving her of this debt.
I’he goal of this e^impaigii baa Iicen set at
but this is not the only goal IVhirh wc
hojM' to reach. When the next issue of the ila-
riH>n an{ («oId annouiKVs to the public that the
goal of $1,()()() has l)oen reachc'd and pass(‘d, we
wi.sh also to l)e able to announce that each and
-verv student registered in the colI^e has eontri-
Inited toward this fund.
When you decided to come to Elon C’ollege,
you nuide the choice that you thought would Ih-
nefit you moat. Elou is a fine 8chx)l, of that then*
is no donbt, but no school is so goKl that it can’t
stand a little supjn>rt from its students. Hv sacri
fice anI generosity on the part of each of us, we
can raise this and more. So let’s all save
some of the money that we would siK*nd for candv,
ie^ cream, cigarettes, and other luxuries, and -on-
tribute it to the STUDENTS ALL OH NOTH-
IN'(i (W.\IP.\KiN. My doing this each one of us
will feel proud to call this our aihool and know
that wc had a jiart in bringing alxmt the inde-
jM‘ndenre of Elon.
\’onr contribution doesn’t have to 1k' largo,
anv amount will list you among the memlxTS of
the club. Tlien' isn’t a jH-rson on this campus that
is nnable to contribute at least a aniall anunint to
this cause. There are many who are capable of lo-
nating much more than others ,aiul so far these
jx*ople have resiHinded splendidly. The spirit of
"x>I>cration that has Ixvn nwiveI from all of the
students so far has l>e-n fine ,aiul it ia sincerely
hoiH‘l that this sjtirit will continue, until both
gtwls have been rea‘hcd. It isn’t going to lx» hanl,
if vou. and you, and vou, will do vour part, and
do it NOW.
CJenerally nothing out of the ordinary hap
pens on a scheduled band trip but the trip to Le-
noir-Khyne proved an exception, causing much
worry before the game and much laughter after
wards.
The great day arrived; cloudy and drizzly.
Fear as to the ability to make the trip was evi
denced by many of the band members. A weather
map was consultei and the weather was ascertain
ed to be good in Hickory (we hoped).
One of the cars that was scheduletl to make
the trip was wrecked the night before and another
was unable to leave town due to .parental wrath.
After much pleading these vacancies were filled
and all was ready to go.
Departure time arriveil but all the cars did
not. A hurried trip was made to Burlington and
the straggler,found. This last car wa.s to leave
8x)n cons*quently tlie other cars were dispatchiid,
leaving behini only enough to fill the last car.
They arrived in Hickory and assumtid that
all was well. But fate intervenel again. A tele
gram awaited the drum major, “Car broke down.
Five bumming. High Point now. See you soon—
we hope.” About ten minutes later they arrivetl.
The ttdegram was written at six o’clock and was
not delivered until eight.
That Elon students have Brilliant minds, was
well shown lasc week by the (|uestions paced in box
for the Monday chapel quiz? The two questions
plact'd in the box were, (^uote, 1. Why can’t I get
a date for next Friday night ? 2. Why can’t I get
more loving on this campus? Unquote. Anyway it
shows the channel that the students minds run in.
At the Elon-I^noir Rhyne game Friday
night in Hickory, there was probably no more sur
prised ]X“rson than a certain gentleman in a brown
eoat. Standing up in the back of Elon stands, he
gave his all for “dear ole Elon”, and that was
plenty. When the game was over he was congra
tulated by thost; around him on his good job.
Then it was his time for surprise and heart break,
for he thought he was giving his all for T.,enoir
Rhyne. His excuse was a bottle in his back poc
ket.
The earthquake you hear coming up the road
every morning is really not an t;arth(|uake but Ed
Rolx'rtson’s (Jhcvy. termed by him the Elon C’an-
non Ball.
Some of our day student girls who are in the habit
of ensnaring each passing pair of pants will Ix:
somewhat cramjxHi by the dean’s elict conwrning
the mixing of the sheep and goats in the automo
biles.
REELING ALONG
'I’he Elon Alovies will show “Flight (\wn-
mand’ this .week-end, starring Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor is a pilot from Pensacola who i.«:
sent to the “Hell (^jits”_ The fine cai>tf>in tliero
is such a hn?v uinn t'lat hi? negk'Cis his pri'" v
young wife. Taylor tiikes her out just to be nice,
but is later accused b'- the rest of the boys of
• stealing the captains wife.
Unable to face the acxiusion. Tin-tor plans to
resign his jxwition. 'I'lie (^aptain is injured !U
an airplane.i Koh-rt Tavlor loos the heroic th'' r
and reunites the captain and his wife. He then
keci)s his rightful 1)Ihcc with' the “IIi'll Cat,^’’,
and wins the admiration of all the other pilots.
Next ww'k-eud the Elon .Movies v. ill pn*-
sent “Philadelphia Storv”, starring .lan'es S‘*-
wart, Kather’iie Hetiburn. a'ul f'iirv OraiTt. Cary
Grant is a rich play-boy of Philadelphia. Kather
ine Hepburn, a society eirl ia also of Phil idelphia.
Grant and Hepburn are engaged. .lames Stewart,
a re|K)trer is s'nt to cover the storv, and wh^it
hapjH'us from there on shouldn’t haT)jx?ii to any
one, not even a Dog|)atcher. Stewart gets Heii-
btirn slightly woosie and they go swimming. Ka
therine passes out on him, and Stev.'art takes her
lo her r(x>m.
Katherine awakens the next morning, ami
queries everyone, including herself, as to what had
hapix'ned the night before .Appare^ntly even she
doubted her own wilHxiwer. The sky soon clears
though and everything turns out alright with Hep
burn and (irant spcj*king the w‘dding vows.
LIBRARY NEWS
Here we are on-(> again witli a chc-erful greet
ing from nuiu’s best friend—a lHM)k.'
From the sjme shelf of new librarv Ixiok^
cotnes RichanI Llwellyn’s “How Green Was My
Valley”. The storv dat(>s back fifty v('ars when
South Wales still prosfX'red and coal (bust had not
backened the greenness of the valley. It is a storv
(old by IIuw, one of the youngi'st childnni of the
lai^ family of Morgans, whose livelihoHl d(>-
ju-nded U|xni mining. It pictures his gentle t.vraiit
of a father, one of the nio';* upright and honorable
of all the men in the valley; his shrewd and im
pulsive mother; his manv bnithers and sisters.
The highlight of IIuw’s early ehildh(xxl is
Brouwer’s marriage, who is tender and beautiful
and whom “Huw is destined to love all his life.”
When Huw Ix-comes a man in his sixties in a
ni(xxl of melancholy he recalls the last days of his
golden youth. “A great gray heap has en’pt down
menacingly ufx)u liis childhoixl home and Huw is
alx)ut to leave the valley forever.”
I'he author has a touch of everything in his
story—beauty, and simplicity of sjx?ech, comelv,
tragedy, love, excitement, fighting, heroism, sacri-
fic»* and adventure.
A GaUopinq Survey
You know how we bounced over the campus
in the last issue. Remember, we bounecd into
Tony the huckster, who was gayly singing, “Yes,
1 Have No Bananas.” We then playfully swiped
a small quantity of ‘Onions & Orchicls’ from Tony,
our vegetable man, and proceeded to bounce the
same off all deserving heads.
Since surveys and polls on public opinions
arc a major six>rt now days, and bt“cause of a de
sire to figure just how much life insurance we
should take out; we took a survey to determine
how the vegetables we threw last week had digest
ed.
The Orchids were swallowed easily, leaving
a taste for more; and all surveyed expressed an
opinion that throwing onions at other people was
an excellent idea. Now, we too have something to
contribute to the Gallup Poll.
Onions and Orchids
From Tony’s fruit stand, our munitions
stort^-house, we got some fresh ammunition, and
here it goes. Orchids, bouquets in fact, to the stu
dent Ixxly for their sincere and active desire to
help their sch(X)l through the “All or Nothing
Campaign.”
Onions, bushels of well seasoned ones, to any
student who has not already jumped at the oppor
tunity to demonstrate his or her appreciation to
Elou by depriving themselves, to a reasonable de-
grt«t!, a portion of their candy, cigarette, and
such pin-money, pledging it to the “All or Notli-
ing Campaign”.
Orchids ,to the Music Department for getting
equipment with which to record students voices.
Worse than any Chinese idea of torture, would be
to make the shower-room, and corridors ‘Bing
(’roabys’, listen for an hour or so to a recording of
their own vtxial-cord exercises.
Onions, as an apjx!tizer to the next meal in
which guest-tables are served different food from
what is put Ix'fore us to be enjoyed. They are onr
guesta. Do not our g\iests deserve the same qua
lity of foxl that we get? Incidently, no matter
how you cut it, it was still Balony they gave us.
Onions, to those ambitious and perhaps,
courageous souls, w’ho can not keep away from the
beans and turnip gret'iis long enough to allow the
announc('inents to l)e read.
Orchids, Onions, or Hamburgers, our most
apreciative customer is “Bozo”, that pan-handl
ing, aircdale pup on the campus this year. He’ll
sw'allow anvthing.
Scandal, The Awful Truihsi i.
In just bouncing along the campus, we ran
across a rumor promising all the scandals, and
horrors of “human moider”. Like all such leads,
you’ll have to read the next issue for further de
velopments.
Things We Can't Forqei
Dr. Smith down on the bumming corner,
thumbing his wav to Burlington. No. it wasn’t
(luite that bad. Dr. Smith had gone down to the
highway to meet someone there in a car. A car
was approaching going in the direction of Bur-
lin-*on. so Dr.-Smith thought he would see if he
could help the boys out a little. Of course, we
can’t say what the peope on the other side of the
street thought.
How the t>ress-room looked when it was
cleaneil up. (Who can remember that far back ?)
Some of the perfectly cute ways that some
of the Frats and Sororities thousrht up to initiate
their s-ums. Honest they were killers.
The last senate meeting. Period.
Open Forum
Dear Student Body:
Do vou rememlxir back in our high school
davs when the current' football hero went over the
."oal line for a totichdown the last two minutes of
the game ? Do vou remember the roar of applause
that w'cnt up from the grandstands ? That was
school spirit! But where is ours ?
Some said we needed new cheerleaders;
others suggested new veils and some even said we
Miv'ded insoiration. So now' there’s no excuse; w’e
have all of these and the team lacks only an en
thusiastic crowd to back it un. Without school
Pliirit we are missing half of our college life;
without schf^l anirit, there is no college.
When members of the team were asked their
oninion on this matter, thev exr>lainel that thev
did not olav ball for anplause but hastilv added
(hat they coud plav only half as well without it.
Thev have heard that we'-■re eager for them to
win l'"t thev want proof.
Should one go to nep meetines and frames
because he feels it his duty? Indeed he should not.
He should learn the game, know the plavers and
the right spirit will come naturally. A little effort
on the part of each i>erson will make our school a
differe»it idace in which to live.
All the cheerleaders ask is the coojieration
and s>ip|xirt of every student in Elon (''olletro.
Every ^x'rson on campus should attend peji rallies
because he wants to and show that he is really in
terested, prove that he is wholly enthusiastic and
make the other colleges see that our shcool spirit
ia the kind that counts IS EVERYBODY
READY? LET’S GO!!
The Cheerleaders
The radio announcer stated. “Life Can Be
Beautiful,’Land I agreed: it can--and often is.
In fact, it is beautiful for some right here on onr
campus, day in and day out. Beautiful because
they have discovered what beauty is. They have
learned that purity of soul, of mind and of body
can make life beautiful—and they have learn('d
that the mind, the body, and the soul are cleansed
only through prayer. Yes sir, folks, right here on
our campus you have three students who hold their
own prayer service nightly. Amidst the blare of
radios and bull sessions on either side, these three
read aloud a selection from the Bible and then ono
speaks to God for the other two for fully two
minutes. He prays for the peoples of the workl,
for our great nation and for onr homes and
friends. He prays for strength of mind and body;
that he will leave his footprints in the sands of
time. He searhces for the truth, the light, the way
—“Life Can Be Beautiful”—and often is.
Seriously
By Louis B. Adair
Can you keep your head when all about you are
losing theirs and blaming it on you.
Can you trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too;
Can you wait and not be tiretl of waiting or being
lied about, don’t deal in lies;
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, t
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
( an you talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Oi Walk with kings—nor lose the common touch
1 o neither foes nor loving friends hurt you
Do all men count with you, but none too much;
an you till the unforgiving minute
With sixty second’s worth of distance run
li you can, yours is the earth and evervthino-
that s in it.
And which is more—^>’ou’ll be a man, my son !
ifan since the very beginning of his existence
on earth has been faced with three major prob-
enis All three deal with his self-preservation. In
the beginning which incidentally was only a few
seeoiKls ago if we should measure the age of the
world by the hands of a clock—man was face.l
with his first great problem—that of obtaining
enough food often enough to sustain himself Even
through his Ignorance he immediately realized
this and soon solved the problem bv building up a
reserve for the times when foxr would become
scarce. Thus he solved his first great problem. But
as lie looked about him and observed the vicious
beasts of prey, he became frightened for his verv
lite and spent many anxious moments trving to
elude the huge Dinosours and other types of man-
eating mammals. He finally realized the value of
stone weapons and other defensive means such as
barriers to his cave-home and protective walls
around it. Thus, he was able to make himself se-~
cure and had solved his second great problem
.Man s third great problem has not as vet been
solved. It IS the problem of Living Together. To
day man is the only animal that commits mass
inurder upon its own kind. The tempo of war has
increased today, we find them not one hundred
years apart, not fifty years apart, but twenty
years apart, loday we find not professional sol-
diers on the field of battle, but men, women, and
children standing shoulder to shoulder, bravely
iacing the inevitabe. Today we find parcticallv
healthy, able-bodied human being in the ci
vilized world hastily doing his part for the de-
struction of all mankind—of all that is beautiful;
ot all that IS worth living for—all because man
has not solved this third great problem of Livinq
logether. Each side claims the support of God for
Its cause. Each side claims the fight is for free-
dom doubt, were I German, my cause would
the German cause, were I Italian, it would bo
that of my country—and so it should be. However
J am thank Gcxl, an American and therefore 1 ani
proud of every cause for which my country
hol.ls dear. But people of the world, we cannot
continue this way of life; we must not continue to
destroy and mutilate everything which disa«-rees
w'lth our personal thinking—Think of the world
ot the future, what kind of a place do yon picture
if w-e haven’t by then learned to live together
1 o humbler functions, awful power I call thee •
I myself commend unto thy guidance from this
hour;
Oh, let my weakness have an end!
Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give;
And in the light o ftruth thv’ Bondman
Let me live!
^ on have the problem. Its your ])roblem and
mine. The challenge is upon this generation. Wo
must save mankind. You do vour part; I’ll do
mine. I^t s plant the seed at Elon and watch jus
tice sweep like a prairie fire on a wind-blown
desert over all mankind.
Lives of great men all remind us
e can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
I.et us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing
Leani to labor and to wait.