PAflK TWO
Maroon and Gold
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MAKOON AND GOLD
CHURCH AND CHAPEL CUTS
'I’akinj:: rumors at tlniir fac« value, we iBUst
decide that only two seniors will p"aduate next
May. Since the list has b»‘-n posted announcing;
those students who lost stanester hours for delin
quent chur;b and (rhapel attendance, such rumors
have lH‘(:n well circnlat‘d aroiind the campus. To
late however, no credeiice has b«!t!u placod in thesf^
n^ixirts. Also there has b«'‘n a terrific amount of
eomplainiu" and dissatisfaction concerning these
cuts.
No uystem here at Elon is claimed to be per-
ff-ct, and Ixifon^ we start remindin}; you of the
disadvnntaj;cs of such a procedure we would like
to mention nii advantafce that came into btung only
this past wmest-er. Disrt^ardinj; the issue of
whether it is ripht or not for us to have compul
sory chap‘l and church attendance, we think you
must aRriH! that, if attendance is to be chetik-
a1 at all, it is unfair to those who attend if the
checking is not done accurat^dy. The new way of
bavins' students sifni individual cards ('ach meot-
inp: elimiuat«!s for the most part mistak(is that oc-
cured under the old system. Those who are ro-
s|K>naihle for this proct^dure should be conjpratulat-
o»l.
On the other side of the fence, a majority
of the students insists that compulsory attendance
■should not lie ret^uired. It hardly s('ems fair to a
senior, who comes up at the end of the year re^dy
to graduate, to be preventini from reanving his de-
pre(' b(>cause he has cut church or chapd a couple
of times too many.
It seems to us that the sv.stem pn^viously us*d
here worked out more satisfactorily. Instead
of havint; semester hours taken away for excess
ive al)»('.nceg, the student lost quality points. If
this plan could Ix' reinstated then those students
who have mad(^ exex'llent grades would oe excused
from church and chapel sessions as a reward for
their good work.
One other im^iortant item should be brought
in, the fact that many of the students attend
church oif campus and fail to leave a note, for the
Dean indicating such attendance. When tlie («id
of the semester arrives, the student is surprised to
learn that he has an excess of absences. Jlf- liien
has to go through tlie process of getting these «its
ex(Mis'd by bringing notes from the church where
he attended. All this can Ix* avoided if wt; will be
a little more careful about such matters as we go
along during the semester.
REELING ALONG
This Friday the army air corps will (^oiuc
zooming across the Elon screen in the picture “I
Witntcd Wings”. Starring in this fast moving
picture are Kay Milland, William Holden, W’ayne
Morris, Brian Donlevy, (Constance Moor.', and
that girl with the hair, Veronica Lake. This pic
ture not only gives you a .fine story of men with
winirs but proves witliout a doubt that Vi ronie^t
is not criwseyed.
Tlu' next week-end brings to Elon a (^xrl^'^^.v
called ‘‘Our Wife” starring Uuth IIusM-y, Melv>’a
D.Jiigla.s, and Ellen Drew. This picture is the iJd
t.f.')ry oi the otlier woman, only it is given a ncTv
twist; the wife is the romance breaker for a
change.
JUST BOUNCING ALONG
Sr/ufulron (]omrnatuler
While bouncing through our home town pa
pers, we came across an article announcing that
Lieutenant Albert Prewar had just lieen named
l^uadron Commander at the MacDill Air Field
in Tampa, Florida
A1 Progar took the Civilian Pilot Training
Course here at P>lon, and was a varsity catcher on
the bai«'ball U^arn until he left to join the air corps
last year.
This column would appreciate any informa
tion readers may have conwirning the whenra-
l>outs and progress of lOlon men in service.
Burlinqlon Airplane Factory
Bt'ginning with currently popular introduc
tion, “from unindentified but usually reliable
sources,” wo hear rumors that a large airplane
factory, to b* lo;ated adjoining Huffman Field,
is in the blue-print stage. Last year a new airport
for Burlington reached that stage and was heard
of no more; they camouflaged it well, to say the
least.
Hhow Y'our Ears
In order to get rtiir pilots’ license reihstated,
besides Irtters of recommendation, hirth o(!rtifi-
cate, and fingerprints, we have to submit two pic
tures showing boti ears. Is that the reason all
these Klon cxi-eds are cutting each other’s hair to
show their ears? Perhaps the girls want to prove
t.heir hair didn’t cover ‘loving-cup ears’ as was th\
case with “Cherry-blos.som”, the movie star in Lil’
Abner, a comic read daily by every conscien
tious Elon boy. Quoting Koy Mansfield, “I’d
like to learn to woo I)ogj)atch style.”
The Sophomorf* want to know why the girls
are n6t brought Ix^fore the Student (zovemment
and fined for cutting eac^ other’s hair. If they
will look closely they will find that the head of
'the women’s Council also got in the road of the
‘flying scissors’.
The Vegetable Counlrr
Orchids to the women’s Council for finally
coming back into circulation. We thought th3
Council had been choked and buried.
Onions to whoever got the gr(x*dy inspiration
to jack up the price of Coca-Cola’s to ten cents at
basket-ball games.
Orchids tf) Lillian Dyer for making the “Vs”
and to Nelson Snyder and Louis Adair for blow
ing taps at the “Victory Club” prc^'ram in Chapel.
Onions to the girls who said they thought it
was romantic to walk to breakfast these mornings
under the moonlight. “War-time might have some
advantages, but we don’t consider that one.”
inquiring reporter
I>o you think that int/!rco'.le.gikte sports
should give way to intramural sports for the du
ration of tlie war ?
Ix>uis A."TPs*^a: 1. rKTsonallv, 'lo not rhink
that we should discontinue intercolle^ate sporta
tx*cause tnest' sporis ncJp lo unuj ouj uauon. i[
helps to have a contact with f>eople outside our
own circle of frieuds.
Stuart Casey: Sf>ort8 have done a lot to make
Elon College. Why do away with them ?
Honk Sarrow: I’m agin it. .Vmt*rican sports
and American spirit go hand in h.iud and at this
time, I think that the country should not try to
abolish any form or sourcx- of .(Vri.tjrican spirit.
W. L. Hobson: Guess I’ll go hou»e tomorrow
if they do cut them out.
Irvin Troxler: If we discontinue them, where
in the world can I take my girl'
Johnny Clayton: 1 think tliat interoollegiat«
sports ahoud be continued at any cost. SpoKs -will
help the .young man to prepare himself for tlie
army.
Jaci Boi'ne: Iiitercollcgiat'' sports should
not be discontinued but more i*mj»liasis .should he
placed on intramurals. Intramurals in most
schools involve all the students but inter-collegiate
involve only a select few.
Bernie Daher: Athletics are a part of the
American way of life. AtJiletics deveJop good
(K>ldiers and btdieve me, that is mighty important
today.
R. L. Gilliam: No. That would be just like
closing the door of the collt^e.
Prof. Hook: Intwcollegiate sports play a
groat part in the makeup of any collie and per-
.wnally 1 do not think that they should be aban
doned ; however I do think that evi^ry student who
wislies tt> participate in them should be given a
chance to do so.
Don Iseley: Alf work and no play makers
Johnny a dull boy.
A. D. Cobb: Now, what do th^ want to do
that for ?
Charlie Jones; That's crazy as the dickens.
It would take away all the fun of school as the
most fun that anyone gi'ts is competing with the
otbej schools.
BORROWED
Two little morons went fishing one day and*
caught so many fish that they'decided to mark the
spot so that they could come back again. So one
of them put a great big “X” on tne liottom of the
boat. When they got back to shore, one of them
said, “Did you mark it ?” “Uh-huh, I put'a ‘X’
on the bottom of the boat”. “Aw, you dope. How
do you know that the next time we’ll get the same
boat?”
Undertakers are saying that the funeral-
business is dead.
4f * *
Fowler in “Stories and Toasts” says, “Wo
man n?eds no introduction; she speaks for her
self.”
* * *
One of the professors says that you can al
ways tell the seniors but you can't tell them much.
('arolinian
* * *
In short, an icicle is “a drip caught in the
draft”.
C arolinian
* * *
War Hit Parade:
1. Harbor Sights.
2. I’ve Got My Guys on You.
3. You and The Nisjht and Munitions.
4. You Are My (Jun Shine.
.5. Be Honest With Me (The Draft Board theme)
(■«. Lights Out.
7. I’ll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal
You.
8. We Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good.
, * * *
The reason the man in the moon is not mar
ried is very simple. He stays out all night, is
full once a month, and only gets a quarter a w'eek.
* * ■*■
From the Richmond Collegian comes this
joke that we are sure you will stop and chuckle
over.
A guy appeared before his draft board and
pleaded insanity. A psychiatrist was simuuoned.
The psychiatrist looked the man over and said
that he could find nothing wrong with the man so
finally after almost giving up in despair, the pro
fessional man asked:
“Why do you claim that you are insane; You
look perfectly all right to me.”
Then he noticed that the man’s face was dis
torted and he was plucking at his chest and sto
mach. The psychiatrist was astounded and askcxi:
“What in the world are you doing ?”
The examinee answered, “Picking off dra-
Rons.”
QuicJcly jumping aside, the psychiatrist yel
led, “Well, for goodness’ sake, don’t kick ’em on
me”.
* * *
Then there was the professor who was so bor
ing that one day two of the empty seats got up
^nd walked out.
Appalachian
* * *
A thousand years ago today
A wilderness was here;
A man with powder in his hom
Went forth to hunt a deer.
But now the times have changed somewhat
Along a different plan,
A dear with powder on her nose
Went forth to hunt a man.
The Appalachian
Looks At The Books
For a fine day we have a theory that all use
ful work should be postponed to a rainy day;
when the rainy day comes it seems good for noth
ing but looking over old things and reading books
we have been saving up.
The last few weeks have been a kind of rainy
day for us in that being the first of the term they
gave us time to catch up on some things. Instead
of catching up we spent them with a book we had
want*d to read for some time but kcjjit putting off.
The lKX)k we read is "Oliver W'iswell’’ by
Kenneth Roberts. It is a long book; 830 pages
to be exact, but is worth reading. It is a book
based deep in the history of the Revolutionary
W'ar. Out of this conflict Mr. Roberts has written
a great story in which the little known and mis
understood loyalist cause is boldly set forth. He
has taken as iiis background the American, Eng
lish, and French world of the late eighteenth cen
tury. His characters form a cross-section of that
world. Full of action and gxeat battles, some im-
^lertoctly knowTi, some almost lost in history, the
uovel’s style is full and moving.
In Oliver Wiswell, Yale undergraduate, sin
cerely loyal to the established government, the tel
ler of this story, the author, has created a charac
ter whose steadfast loyalty to his ideals and his
love of justice and tnith make him a symbol of
the best forces in any nation.
As we have said before tliis is a long book,
but it had to be Jong. The ground it covers is so
exten^iive. The events in this book may have
happened long ago yet it is truly a story for these
times in which people question themstdves as to
what their loyalty and bdief in their govemment
should be.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1042
SNIP AND SNOOP
So, if yon will be kind enough. Ladies and
Gentlemen (and I hope you are Ladies and Gen
tlemen) to listen to our gossip column this week,.
I trust that we may tell you a thing or two that
you don’t know or get you straight on the things
that you have heard about but don’t know tlie
straight of.
First, wp want to call attention to the fact
that Lib Scott still contimies to sing, “I Only
Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart”. But: She
can’t help being, adjnired for singing. So many
jM'ople don’t bother in these days and time.s.
Ah(1 yet Jewel ^erns is plenty .happy tof>
Even though HE is on the Western Coast, she still
continues to receive letters.
The biggest fight on the campus now is the
one betw(K>n two certain femmes fatales over Rich
ICvans. Who was it that said Rich cared nothing
for girls? Well, may the best girl win and good
luck, Kvans.
Your worries arc over, Coach! Peggy Mac-
(^lennan seems to have a knack of making athletes
of all the Elon College boys.
It has Ix'en wondered why Ike Perry sent a
contract home to his girl to signi Gould it be an
option that he wants ?
Guess you have all seen the “Campus Kid”.
Watson, which is it, Bowden, Smith or Slvoe—
maker ? ,
Three playful palsies, Donato. Palantoni(7
and D’Ant«-nio, surely did fix up Leroy’s window
pane. Wonder which head did the dirty work?
Questions to ask and run:
Will Spring find “Chick” Dameron still
shivering on the road to W. C. ?
We wonder what lil’ brunette was serenading
Elliott Schmidt from the music building last week..
What system of signals does Mary Deane-
KroVvne use when John Gilliam is in the library ?
MHiy is Doris Bayne so interested in expand
ing her knowledge of music ? Could it be Darden {
I Who was ilike’s valentine from?
Why don’t more people buy Victory Buttons
when they are for such a good cause ?
Too bad that some Elon co-ed couldn’t take
Worth Coble’s mind off Newton Grove.
What Marjorie Reidt would like to know is
why (/Oach keeps a certai:r). basketball player on.
the bench so much. Nancv Fowlkes doesn’t have
to worry about that as she picked her out an S. P.
on the first team.
Quote Irvin Troxler: I don’t know how much
da,y light this system is saving but it surely is
hard on the night light. . (Or did he mean night
life?)
It seems that an article in the last issue of the
Maroon and Gold caused Billy Johnston to get a
terrible tongue-lashing from a certain girl in Bur
lington. Sorry, Bill; it wasn’t planned to get you
in trouble. .
Picture Dr. Hirsch coming to class an hour
late on February 9, 1942. He forgot to turn his.
clock up.
Why didn’t Hachael Crowell believe John
Pollard when he told her that he was a senior?,
(lie started in 1938 A. D.)
“(Jhuchatuck” really looked good with
XXXDATEXXX at the Spaulding Concert.
Does every girl that dates Jack Coplin fall ii;
love with him or is that merely what he thinks?
The new sweetheart of Kappa Psi seems to
be Virginia Jeffries. She has all the boys singing
“I’m coming, Virginia”. Can she be trying to
give all her brothers a break ?
We wonder how' the “We Ixive Jeanne Can
non” club is doing these days. Could anyone en
lighten us ?
Buster, what were you doing during the
black-out the other night?
Does it seem to you that Warren and Judy
are really serious? Congrats to both
Seven pretty lassies left for Durham this
past week-end. Seven campus males did not seem
too/excited when they returned . . . why?
Who was it that said ‘‘You can always tell a
lady by which dorm she lives in” and was she
looking for a fight ‘cause methinks that when this,
issue comes out then there will be one grand free
for all on campus so if you will excuse me now I
will stop and beg-in preparing , . . Setting up ex
ercises start tonight in the halls of West Dormi
tory at 10:00 on the dot. But . . . musn’t forget
that Ladies don’t fight.
Anyway, you’ll hear about how the whole
thing come? int and in the meantime. Adios 1
Open Forum
Dear Editor:
Elon after the fire looked like a storm had
hit It. Things were everywhere. Strangers see
ing this sight would almost have taken our campus
for a battle field.
N"ow as conditions slowly get hack to normal
^ the time for us to have a general house cleaning.
We should all want things to be better than what
they were so let’s get to work.
inere s lots .ij oe aoin,. W’e are far too care
less with paper, for one thing. We st*em to take
the attitude tliat one more piece won’t hurt any
thing and we let it fall v.here it may. I^t’s stop
that. Let s even take time to pici up what’s al-
the bairron'ing "
We all want to be proud oiV-ar school so let’s
tTme Tf' Nov^ is the
V. • ° ® scratch. Let’s all
pitch m and clean up. Bv ^vay of a challenge we-
say: We bet you can’t do it. “i«.ni,e we
Pickett Upp