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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1943
Maroon and Gold
Edited and printed at Elon College by students of
Journalism. Published bi-weekly during the college
year.
—EDITORIAL STAFF—
Faye Thomas Editor
Gene Poe Managing Editor
Rachael Crowell Associate Editor
Mary Ellen McCants Feature Editor
—BUSINESS STAFF—
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Ann Frink Circulation Manager
Charles R. McClure Faculty Adviser
—NEWS EDITORS—
Margaret Cox Wally Snyder
Elizabeth Braddy Alma Sprinkle
Buster Butler Edna Truitt
Elizabeth Holland Virginia Wheeler
Bill Meacham Marie Ziady
Shannon Morgan Mary Moser
Vedra Lee Norris
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How Faie The Public
Schools?
Is The Link Weak?
Cooperation is but a single, simple word in the
English language, but how vast its importance to the
welfare of society. Webster defines the word as ‘‘act
ing or operating jointly with another or others to a
common end or result; working together.” It in
volves that old principle set forth by John Dickinson,
“By uniting, we stand; by dividing, we fall.” One
group working alone at odds with another can never
accomplish the given task—it requires the full support,
energy, and cooperation of all agencies involved.
The word probably seems a much overworked and
superfluous one to you, for wherever you turn, some
one is asking cooperation in this undertaking or your
support for that project. But it is not merely a re
quest you hear, and it is essential that you heed.
Without the needed support the project, whatever it
may be, can not suceed.
No doubt the term “Allies” and “United Nations”
are familiar to you. Was it not essential that each
nation which felt the urge to free the world from the
heel of the globe-snatching fiend join together and
cooperate in such a task? It is certain that no one
nation working alone could ever accomplish such an
unsurmountable undertaking. Haven’t these same na
tions continued to work together as each new prob
lem arises to face them? Cooperation is the same
whatever the situation, whatever the place.
If we accept this, we realize then that we must co
operate in order to have a better life at Elon. First,
the students must cooperate with each other, then
they must cooperate with the administration in order
to achieve satisfactorily any goal set up. There can
be no vain strivings between factions if a desired end
is to be reached. You’ve heard it said that chain is as
strong as its weakest link. When the groups fail to
cooperate one of the links toward success is weakened
nnd the chances for attaining that success are lessened.
When your cooperation is asked, give your full support
—then you can feel it is a job well done.
Did You Know?
BY GENE POE
This week we would like to give you some “Did
You Know’s” on our school paper. We found the his
tory of the Maroon and Gold to be rather interesting
and we wanted to share with you some of the facts
that we thought you might enjoy.
The students of Elon first saw an edition of the
Maroon and Gold on this campus in 1919. In Septem
ber of that year it was decided that the students would
sponsor what is today the bi-monthly newspaper of Elon
College. Up until 1935 the paper was printed either
in Burlington or Reidsville but since that time it has
been printed on the campus in the room known as the
Elon Press. In this press room the paper is printed
without having to go to other sources for help as was
customary before it was set up as a part of the college
facilities.
When we went exploring in the library we found
the paper that was printed September 16, 1921, to be
the earliest on file unless others before that dating
back to 1919 should be on other files. However this
particular edition caught our eye with a very unusual
heading that is as follows “Marriage Ceremony Is
Witnessed By Students In College Auditorium.” This
is followed by the lines which are to this effect, “Miss
Leona Stockard Hinton is wed to Mr. James Farley
Reynolds.” So far as we can learn these two people
were students in Elon at that time and today are mak
ing their home in Greensboro. (Editor’s Note: Such
an incident would m.ake good reading material today
if any of our students felt up to trying it.)
To our knowledge Miss Faye Thomas is the first
girl editor of the Maroon and Gold. Miss Gwen Till
man and Miss Marjorie Hunter were co-editors several
years ago but never filled the office of editor. Con
grats to our first woman editor.
We are proud of our school paper and we hope
that you will do everything possible to keep it one of
the best college papers in the country.
By DEAN J. D. MESSISK
Conditions existing in the public schools this year
v/ill be reflected in the colleges for several years hence.
Over 100,000 trained teachers have left the schools
since the war began. Most of their places have been
filled, but not with qualified people to a very great
extent. During the past school year, 1942-43, 39,000
teachers were removed by the armed forces; 37,000
went into war industries; and about 11;000 went into
private business. Seventeen thousand retired because
of marriage; 6,000 retired for other causes: 1,000
deaths occurred in the ranks; 5,000 went on leaves of
absence; and 7,000 left the profession for other reasons.
Eighty-two thousand individuals entered the
teaching profession between June 1942 and March
1943. Thirty-seven thousand of these went in with
emergency certificates; forty thousand were from
teacher-education institutions; and five thousand re
entered from the ranks of retired teachers.
The difference betwen the 112,000 who left the
public schools and the 82,000 who entered the teach
ing professon resulted in vacancies of 30,000 positions.
Seventeen thousand of these have been taken care of
through elimination, or by doubled-up classes, cur
tailed curriculums, decreased attendance, and closed
schools. However, there are still 13,000 vacant or
unfilled positions reported as of October 1, 1943.
We are told that our success abroad is based upon
our success at home in maintaining the institutions
that contribute to morale and productive efficiency.
From the time of the formulation of a public edu
cation plan by Thomas Jefferson to the present, for
ward thinkers have advocated an educated citizenry to
assure a democracy. That education must also have
as its core, character, or there is no certainty that our
%ay of government may be continued. Therefore, the
leadership in a classroom, which provides the hewer of
the greatest potentialities with which a child is en
dowed. must himself possess those qualities which in
spire spiritual ideals and beget intellectual aspirations.
He then, is of necessity an intelligent person with goals
tliat transcend the mediocre ideals in life.
Why is it that teachers are not considered worthy
much greater monetary consideration by politicians
and the public? They have in their hands the very
material upon which the country exists. Yet, little
inducement is made to attract the most highly quali
fied to the profession. Until something is done to
change this situation, a literate people cannot be ex
pected.
On a comparative per capita salary basis for 1942,
Federal employees received $1926; wage earners and
salaried employees in manufacturing establishments re
ceived $2043; all persons working in the United States
received an average salary of $1,596; teachers, princi
pals,, and supervisors in the United States received
$1500. But in North Carolina, teachers, principals,
and supervisors received $975 each for the year’s work.
Another view of the salary situation is obtained
when the salary level in different states is studied.
Ninety-one per cent of the teachers in Mississippi re
ceive less than $1200 a year. In Washington, Cali
fornia and the District of Columbia, ninety-one per
cent of the teachers receive more than $1200 a year.
Twenty-six of the forty-eight states are employing
teachers at less than $600 a year. In the South Mis
sissippi and Arkansas are the most handicapped with
more than half the teachers receiving less than $600 a
year. Sixteen hundred in a total of 8,000 teachers in
South Dakota receive less than $600 a year; in
Kansas, one out of every five teachers is being paid
less than $600 annually. And of the 61,000 negroes em
ployed in this country, 30,000 are paid less than $600
a year.
Although much emphasis has been placed on the
financial needs necessary to sustain an adequate pro
gram of education, the condition is obvious that dire
calamity is threatening. There are 1.200 vacancies in
the schools of North Carolina today. Many classrooms
are discontinued, and in some instances schools are
closed. In a few districts, it is my understanding that
there are schools in operation without a single ap
propriately licensed instructor on the staff. And the
worst has not yet been experienced. North Carolina,
along with the other southeastern states, is having to
bear a much heavier load than any other section of the
country. This section has thirty-five per cent of the
nation’s wealth. That statement alone opens up a tre
mendous field for exporation.
Our country is far from literacy. The number of
adults twenty-five years old and over who have com
pleted more than four years of schooling follows: In
the Southern states, including Texas and Oklahoma,
there are 4,486,800; the Northern states have 4,336,800;
the Western states have 1,281,052; and the national
total is 10,104,612. North Carolina has 433,053, or 26.2
per cent of its adult population over the age of twenty-
five years who have not had more than four years of
classroom experience.
From a remunerative standpoint there is little to
offer in the way of financial inducement to you college
students who are searching for a vocation. However,
when you consider the contribution you can make to
the cause of democracy, humanity, and to your country,
opportunities for good in the teaching profession are
illimitable. You must feel the missionary call to do
your best. The greatest compensation will come in
the realization that you are spending your lives and
efforts in a cause that is worthwhile, necessary, and
lasting. Real red-blooded, intelligent, upright and
Christian leadership is needed. Will you be one of
the group, or one who will pioneer for sufficient fi
nancial awakening to assure a teaching personnel that
will bring about all that Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Web
ster, Horace Mann, Charles Brantley Aycock. or Thom
as Dewey prayed and worked so earnestly for? Right
now, “The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few.”
Over The Shoulder
A LINE A DAY
It’s double or nothing with the snoopers this week,
and they have really been spying on the doers of gossip
on campus. First it would be wise to tag this column:
‘'Read at your own Risk.” So no back-firing, ’cause
weren’t you warned?
The question of the day: Which will come first
to Margaret Cox and Hazel Truitt—a degree or a wed
ding?
Say, Peg L., don’t take him too seriously ’cause he
is friendly with lots of girls. He’s cute tho’.
Why doesn’t Emerson Whatley put that smile in
practice on some girl instead of casting it everywhere
and consequently getting nowhere?
Add to your list of cute freshmen girls, three day
students, Dottie Lamm, Mary Waynick, and Faye
Younger.
It gets too complicated when a cadet calls for “just
black-haired Mary.” Is it Warren, Turner, or Ooxe?
A rare sight is to watch Earl Farrell and Bobby
Johnston cutting paper dolls in their Art class.
Joyce Matthews is trying something new—^wait
ing tables! Here’s hoping she gets what she wants!
Has Lib Brady already forgotten the twins—Oscar
and Jack.
The Navy takes over as Tony Festa, Paul Ridge
and Fred Albright drop anshor here. Analyze Hazel,
Alma Rose, and Mary these days.
Somebody else’s eyes are shining these days; it’s
the reflection of the third finger, left hand to which a
sparkler was added the other week. Nice work, Fran
Hayes!
So Eelanor Barnwell’s affections have been trans
ferred from Seymour Johnson Field to Wilmington;
don’t get alarmed tho’, that’s where “Smokey” Joe is
now.
A statute should be put in the center of Alamance
dedicated to Liza, with the inscription “A Faithful
Waiter.”
The definition of “courtship” was revealed t’other
day, and it seems to be holding true on the Elon cam
pus! It ran like this: Courtship is when a man chases
a girl until she catches him.
Eleanor Barrier wants to know who he is that
wants to know who she is.
Warning fellows! Restricted areas, East and West.
HE’S NOT ALAN LADD
Since “Cowboy” Poe mentioned our Sinatra and
Davis celebrities on campus, we’ve found a few more
eligible to be notice. Of course we had to take sep
arate characteristics and put them to-gether, but still
he’s not Alan Ladd. However, our perfect man would
have to have: Earl Farrell’s eyes; George Ramseur’s
ability to eat; Bob Graham’s good nature; Carl Neal’s
cloths; Jack Sunburn’s mouth; Dr. Bowden’s bicycle;
Bob Gaskin’s brass; Wayne Taylor’s sense of economy;
Wendell Howard’s ability to keep his distance; Buster
Butler’s ability to dance; Gene Poe’s wit; Bill Mea-
chum’s originality; Bob Lee’s ability to keep away from
women; Vaughn Wood’s promptness; Dwight Kernodle’s
chest expansion; Coach Adcox’s smile; and John Sut
ton’s ability to sleep.
AND SHE’S NOT LANA TURNER
Now we have an idea of what a perfect man is,
but what good would he be without the perfect wom
an? Any perfect woman would have to live up to the
following qualifications: hair and eyes as Arnold Jones;
Maxine Jackson’s figure; Ellen Barrier’s giggle; Alma
Rose Sprinkle’s innocence; Jean Brower’s clothes;
Helen Newsome’s mouth; Frances Gunter’s dimples;
Dorothy Foltz’ sense of economy; Doris Chandler’s good
nature; Miss Moore’s dainty feet; Alice Cross’ smile;
Evelyn Harrelson’s ability to eat; Hilda Barber’s sense
of humor; Mary Agnes Dodd’s indifference; Dot Wil
liams’ ability to dance; Jeanne Hook’s musical ability:
Mary Elizabeth Wright’s voice; and Charlotte Husted’s
neatness.
Satisfied? We are. Um-m-m. Going to see Bob
Lee now.
Who’s Who?
Another campus Who’s Who is Rachel Crowell,
daughter of Mrs. C. W. Crowell of Spencer, North Car
olina. Rachel was born May 10, 1923 in Spencer, and
that has been her home since then. During her first
six years of school life her future was guided by
Elon’s present Dean of Men, J. D. Mesick, at that
time principal of the Spencer high school, in 1940 she
was awarded the Civitan Citizenship trophy.
Since her arrival here at Elon in the fall of ’40,
Rachel has been an active student. Her major interests
lie in French and English, but she has contributed
much to the college through her excellent work in
the physical education department. Her sophomore
year she was assistant to Mrs. Hendrickson, who taught
the girls physical ed. Last year, she planned and car
ried out the physical education program by herself.
Rachel has held a number of offices during her
career at Elon. She was elected secretary of the
Freshman class, and reelected to that position in her
Sophomore and Junior years. Her Sophomore year
found her leading the Dramatic club as president. Last
year she served as vice president of the Woman’s Coun
cil. She was elected a Junior attendant to the May
Court. She is a member of the B.O.B. sorority.
AU this is added proof of her ability to carry on in
her present office—which is an important one, espec
ially to the girls. She is president of the Woman’s
Council, a responsible job. She has among her duties
the task of granting permissions in the absence of the
Dean of Women. Rachel is also Asosciate Editor of
the Maroon and Gold. Both these assignments -de
mand a great deal of work. She is doing a splendid
job of both, and to her we say, “Hats Off!” There is
no finer or more efficient—or more atractive—co-ed
on campus.
It has, for some time, been a custom for most young^
ladies, and older battleships, too, to keep a daily
record of their activities. Now, reading in other peo
ples diaries might classify us as being a bit nosy, but
isn’t it fun? Just to create in your readers a bit of
tliat snooping desire. I’ve picked locks, broken through
sealed volumes and even racked my brain to bring
you these most personal excerpts.
Octojber 27
Dear Diary,
Everybody keeps calling me “Shorty” and I can’t
figure it out. I know I’m way over 4 feet tall, but they
don’t seem to notice. But you know don’t you, little
book?
Love,
Joyce
October 28
Dear Diary,
And then tonight, diary, I dated Bob Lee, but it’s
sort of all in the family. You see, he’s my brother’s;
fraternity brother, so I guess that makes us a little kin.
Love,
Etta
October 29'
My Dear Little Diary^
There’s not much else for today. Of course, F
dated “Jabez,” but for any information concerning it^
I refer you to the preceding 100 or so pages.
Goodnight,
Jesse
Juvember 99
Dear Diary,
This morning I arose long before the breakfast
hc>ur and studied diligently. I attended all my classes
on time and concentrated on my lessons carefully. After
lunch I practiced my music for two hours. The re
mainder of the afternoon and tonight I wasted not one
single minute, but rather studied constantly. Now
it is eleven o’clock and time for my lights to be out,
so I must close quickly and retire for the night.
Love,
Teacher’s Dream Child
November 1
Dear Diary,
Received six letters today—one from Bill, one
from Henry, one from Ted, one from Miller, one from
Jimmy, and one from my boy-friend.
Love,
Martha
Dear Diary,
And I did so want to go to the Freshmen-Sopho-
more, but I just couldn’t decide whether to go with the^
boy who asked me or to take his best friend.
Love,
* Mary
November 6
Dear Diary,
I was really awful today. I snooped through ev
erybody’s diaries and wrote a column revealing all
their closest secrets. It’s all right for me to tell you„
for I know you won’t let it out of your covers. To
morrow night, if for some unknown reason, I might not
be able to write, you’ll understand why.
Love,
Guess Who?
Scanning The Pages
BY EDNA TRUITT
W. L. White, author of “THEY WERE EXPENI>-
■VBLE, has again written a superb story of our fighting'
men, “QUEENS DIE PROUDLY.” It is the story of
a Flying Fortress crew in the tremendous air cam
paign that saved the day for the United Nations in the
Southwest Pacific. Beginning with the tragic day iii
the Philippines when most of our Eastern Air Force-
died on the ground, Mr. White takes us with the Fort
resses from island to island southward through the fall
of Java to the heroic stand off Australia.
This book has the epic proportions of the airmen’s
world—the towering cloud canyans, the lightning
swift attack and counterattack of air combat. No
more vivid portrayal of the reality of air warfare has
ever been written.
Some of you might like Joseph Freeman’s “NEVER
CALL RETREAT,” a dramatic novel of the country’s
tiemendous years. The story begins back in 1800 in
\ ienna when a son was born to a prominent critic
and his lovely wife. This son, Paul Shuman, was to-
experience more of the greater hope and tragedy
than most of his contemporaries.
Paul Schuman is now in his early forties and is
in America. In spite of all that has befallen him, he
is not an old man. His age alone tells you some or
the things through which he has passed: boyhood in
Vienna, service in the first World War, the slow star
vation afterwards, the period of great hope before
Hitler, then Anschluss and a concentration camp.
Paul’s story is the story of a man in a world
that has been horrible and cataclysmic, but that can
now be a good world if there are enough people in
it like Paul to make it so. Profound, searching, dra—
matic, this is the voice of hope.
Another book concerned with the war, but per
haps in a lighter vein, is “SO LITTLE TIME,” by John^
P. Marquand. The scenes of Mr. Marquand’s novel
are Bragg in Massachusetts, New York City, South
western Connecticut, Hollywood, Washington; the
time, from the German invasion of Norwoy to the
800d Americans
who didn t want to face the probability of total war
in the 20 months before Pearl Harbor, something:
characteristic of Americans everywhere at that time.
The author tells the story of Jeffrey Wilson an
aviator in World War I and his relations with his son
a student at Harvard. In the ensuing conflict, Jeffrey
learns more about himself and his world than he hadt
ever known before. It is human, it is exciting, it is:
interesting. Read it.