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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY. BECEMBElR 7
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THOUGHTS
’Tis not what man does which exalts him,
but what man would do.
Robert Browning, SAUL.
An honest man is the noblest work of God.
Pope, ESSAY ON MAN.
Hang s*rT8w! care will kill a cat.
And therefore let’s be merry.
-George Withers, POEM ON CHRISTMAS.
ON EARTH PEACE. GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN!
We hear these words of St. Luke poUnded into our ears
every Christmas time. They ring forth from a thou
sand ministerial voices as the theme of Christmas ser
mons, echo beneath candle-lighted windows and re-echo
op lamp-lighted street comers from the throats of
countless bands of merry carolers, spring from the
bright-colorefl faces of un-
told numbers of Christmas
1 JrllL cards, and resound in sonor-
oniDT’T' tones from the editorial
Or UVl 1 'Lrr pages of a host of newspa-
AQpers. ON EARTH PEACE,
V^OlxlD 1 1VL^*Jgood will toward
MEN!
Yes, they cry, Christmas is the time for peace on
earth, and for all men to forget their grievances against
one another, to lay down their differences for a while,
to spread cheer and good will throughout the strife-
weary world. GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN! This is
the spirit of Christaas.
But why only of Christmas? Why must men cast
aside the meaning of these words at the last echo of
Christmas carillons, throw them off like a new coat
they have tried on but have decided not to buy? Is
the cost of the coat too expensive? Is the material not
of the best quality?
No, no! To the contrary: Good wiU can be bought
or sold for a smile—a possession that even the poorest
man can spend as freely as the rich. As to the quality
of the material, is it not the same as that which was
sewn nearly two thousand years ago by the finest tailor
of them all?
Good will is a year-’round garment, as becoming on
April Fool’s day as on December 25, a coat that wears
better the more it is worn. The spirit of Christmas was
not meant to last only for one day; it is a spirit for
EVERY day. Every man can afford it.
PEACE ON EARTH! This too is the spirit of
Christmas. Now, at this Christmas time, more than
ever before, is there the need of peace. Faced by a
world of atomic bombs, civilization-destroying gases,
and jet-propelled airplanes that fly at supersonic speed,
every man clearly recognizes that need, and prays fer
vently tkat at the last there SHALL be peace on earth.
That recognition is plainly displayed by the Unit
ed Nations movement. Once before, that need was
recognized, but we were unwilling to pay the price of
peace—unselfishness. Now, we and the other nations
seem to have learned at least part of the lessen; the
price is slowly being paid, but it is an agonizing pro
cess. When if comes to the purchase of international
harmony and accord, some of us, both men and nations,
still are penny pinchers. But the UN shining down on
history like the star that shone on Bethlehem, is our
greatest symbol of hope for peace on earth.
ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN!
And a Merry, Merry Christmas to all!
Everyday we rub elbows with all types of students.
As you read the descriptions below, you may recognize
someone you know. Kindly do not give away his iden
tity.
COLONNADE COMMANDO: He is the ex-GI,
who bends the ears of his fellow students with how
long he was overseas, how many battles he was in,
and how many medals he has been awarded. In reali
ty he had never left the states, and had been awarded
only the Good Conduct Medal.
PROVERBIAL SAD SACK: The "take it easy
type,” who wants to cut classes and doesn't attempt to
obtain a better grade than a “D” because it isn’t worth
the effort. He has no ambitions, and his personal ap
pearance rating reads zero:
CHOW HOUND; He is Boted for breaking his neck
to be ffrst in chow line to await the opening of the din
ing room doors. He takes a big helping of everything,
devours it hastily in order to assure himself of a second
helping. His eating can be heard throughout the din
ing room like a suotion pump. He hates to see a plate
filled with food; therefore, he empties all the plat
ters on the table before leaving. Before going, he
makes a few sandwiches to satisfy his lust for food
during the night. Often he can be seen complaining
to the school nurse about a pain in his epigastric re
gion, and winds up in later life with the gout and ulcers.
B.T.O.: You all know this chap, the one who
knows it all. He can tell you the outcome of every
game, and also how to pass English under Professor
Barney. He seems to have his proboscis in everyone’s
private affairs a»d in all school activities. He has a
special plan of his own for success in this worH. After
trying it out for ten years, he will probably be found
running a corner newsstand or acting as a porter in a
gents’ washroon.
HABITUAL COMPLAINER: Everything and ev
eryone is wrong according to his views—except him
self. If he had his way things would be different. He
gripes daily to his teachers and friends, and as a result,
he receives the cold shoulder fnom his associates.
SOUVENIR COLLECTOR: The fellow who picks
up odds and ends of every description to decorate his
“dorm” room. He has everything from pin-up girls to
stop ’ signs in his collection. He finally finds an ar
ticle with an explosive content and winds up with a
harp.
WOMAN KILLER: He boasts of a mailing ac
quaintance with twenty different “femmes" to whom he
is known to have confessed his love. He has an in
flated ego, which rates him a zero with the fair sex.
As a rule, he has to get a buddy to get him a date or
else tie has to go stag. Conceit, thy name is “Wom
an killer.”
SHY TYPE: This bit of innocence has never been
away from home before; he has never betn out with a
girl; he has never smoked a cigarette; he has never had
a glass of beer; he doesn’t know the meaning of moon
light; roses, and “woo.” In short, he hasn’t any bad
habits. One night such a fellow was persuaded to go
on a double date; his date turned out to be a “female
woK.” Before the evening was through, our shy mate
walked home because he remembered something his
mother had told him.
BUCKING CHARLIE: He’s the fellow who's al
ways in there punching; but after gazing at his grades
at the end of the quarter, he decides to let someone
else do the punching instead.
SACK TIME HARRY: This character likes his
sack. He is so lazy he takes a shower only when he
can’t stand himself. Generally he goes to bed with his
socks on. He never hangs his clothes on hangers; he
drops them on the floor. His bed is never made un
less inspection makes it necessary. He has the ambi
tion to be a roving reporter for the HOBO NEWS while
adorning a park pench, and watching the world passing
in review.
ZOOT SUITER; This “groovey” character w#ars
loud clothes and is “jive” happy—really "hep” from
way back. While in the service, he had his GI clothes
modified in that flashy re-pleat style in order to feel
natural. Generally he tried to take over the USO, and
knocked out himself and everyone else on the dance
floor. Now he can be found with his ear glued to the
juke box in the soda shop. His fad is collecting the
latest “swing” platters, and his music keeps the other
students in the “dorm” awake at night. He may be
a “hep-cat,” but he has his woman admirers.
THE BORROWER: This fellow is the “lend me”
type. We all love him. He comes into your room, helps
himself to your clothes, and forgets to bring them back.
He is always promoting a big deal of some kind or
adding another step to his social cHmb. Usually he
finds little time for studies; therefore, he comes
around singing the blues so sweetly that you break
down and lend him your homework. At the end of
the quarter he ends up with "A’s” and you get “C’s”.
STUDIOUS TYPE: He is always seen with an
armful of books. He spends all his spare time in the
library or in his room studying; he never goes •out. He
has the ambition to be a college professor, and con
fesses that he is training himself early in order to ac
custom himself to his future double-spectacle life. . . .
A. S.
(This is one man’s conception of different types of
male college students. Having read it, how about one
of you lovely co-eds giving us your conception of some
®f the female students?)
College Humor
Experience is what you get while you’re looking for
something else.
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Jane McCauley: There must be some mistake in
my grade. I don’t think I deserve an absolute zero.
Mrs. Hirsh: Neither do I, but it Js the lowest grade
I’» allowed to give.
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Garage Mechanic: There’s a short circuit in your
car battery.
Patsy Wrenn: Can you lengthen it while I wait?
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Day By Day
Keyhole Peepings
Since all the keyholes were jammed with copies
of the Maroon and Gold, there will be no dirt—so this
will have to be just MY DAY.
In September ’46, Elon started its fall quarter and
the Maroon and Gold went to press with such head
lines as: Fourteen New Members Join Faculty, G. I.
Return Brings Record Enrollment, Rush Parties Begin
As Bid Night Nears, Players To Give “Junior Miss,” and
Program Set For Returning Alumni. The new faculty
aren’t new to us any more; we know them and they
know us, but well! GI Joe is now College Joe, with no
change concerning his wolfish outlook. Bid night has
passed and all the little BID-ies are now slick chicks.
The Players strut like peacocks because “Jun’ior.Miss” ■
was a success—real hit parade stuff. Homecoming ex
hibited an Elon spirit which predicts a future for
OUR college. The fall quarter was real fun and there's
plenty more fun to be had in the future. Congratula
tions are in order for the football team for the fine
spirit they showed. We may have a championship
basketball team this season, incidentally, so let’s get out
there and cheer. Let’s cheer anyway!
As for keyhole peepings, my eyes are swollen
and my back is sore (leftovers from injuries that I
received because I did not regard the ethics of journal
ism.) Come on, guys and gals; give me a chance f6r
blood this quarter! It doesn’t hurt now that we are
friends. If there is a love affair you wish to foster, any
dame or guy you’d like to meet, any throat you’d Hke
to cut, or if you’d enjoy a chagce to exercise your ego,
just say so. It can by YOUR DAY any day in DAY
BY DAY.
RAY.
Behind The Mike
with WALLY MACK
One of our favorite comedians has been awarded
the medal of merit, highest War Department decora
tion for a civilian. The medal was personally bestowed
by Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff. The
award was accompanied by a citation from President
Hcirry S. Truman. And, oh yes, the comedian’s name—
Bob Hope.
A note of interest to campus music lovers: On
November 22, the “Spotlight Band” program over Mu
tual was terminated. The program, which featured such
orchestras as Guy Lombardo, Harry James, and Xavier
Cugat, was on the air for four full years. During the
war the programs originated from army camps and
naval bases.
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SHORT TAKES—Michael Douglas, the smooth vo
calist on the Kay Kyser program, has quit Kyser to
take a stab at acting with Republic Pictures . . . Get
set to laugh. Red Skelton is makng another fjicker.
The name of this one is “Hold on to Your Hats” . . .
Billy Williams, for four years the featured singer with
Sammy Kaye, has left the swing-and-sway music. ’Tis
rumored that Billy the Kid wants to do western bal
lads—and we thought he had such a nice voice . . . Sy
Oliver, trumpetman extraordinary, one-time arranger
for T. D.. is planning to debut his own “ork” some time
this month . . . Have you caught Dinah Shore’s new
Wednesday night airing? Swell deal . . . All you
kampus kids lend an ear—make it two ears—to the man
that sings as if he is in a barrel—Vaughn ivtonroe—
every Saturday night at 7:30 . . . Harry James( the man
with the luscious wife, and his Music-Makers are tak
ing it easy for eight weeks before hitting Hollywood
. . . Claude Thornhill is out of a N. Y. hospital and back
at the Eighty-Eight at New Jersey’s Meadowbrook. The
man with the band of renown, Les Brown, is still pack
ing ’em in at the Capitol Theatre in the tall city . . .
Elliot Lawrence, the twenty-one-year-old pian* sensa
tion, returned to the Cafe Rouge at New York’s hotel
Pennsylvania November 25 . . . Hold the press! Spe
cial! Perry Como has signed up as star of the NBC
"Supper Club” for another twenty-six weeks, effective
December 8 . . . From New York we hear that Fred
Allen’s threat to retire from radio has resulted in a
flock of stage offers. He is expected to accept one
the minute his present air deal is completed ... As foi
local air news: Am making a deal for a live comb* on
“Jive at 4-0-5.” Hope you listen in.
Poet s Column
PHANTOM MDERS
I dreamed about a sunset.
And marveled at the sight.
For from the flames came riding
A thousand men of might.
In flashing robes of scarlet
And sashes sparkling gold.
Wild nomads of the desert.
With fa*es ageless old.
Where do you journey, riders,
Grim phantoms of the tomb, '
The song upon your chanting lips
A sacred, ghostly tune?
Do you ride o’er burning sands
In pursuit of ancient foes?
Or do you search for promised lands,
Where Fa.fth, eternal, grows?
—Alex Schiffelbian.
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LITTLE
1,1-TTLE BI
The funniest story to come out of exam week con
cerns the predicament of Everett Daniels. He took
his place in Miss Muldrow's class room, began his exam
and halfway through—came the dawn! He was taking
a French exam and he had been studying Spanish all
quarter! Seems that he had had French in high school
and in the exam-citement, it took kim a little time to
tell the difference. Confused, senor? Pero oui!
Reminds Little Wun of the time she took a re
ligion test on Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and because
she thought the test covered John put down “John”
for every fourth answer.
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Polly “I-go-with Harris” Qualls: My goodness, Bob,
you’re pretty forward.
Bob “Hubba” Harris; Thanks. You’re pretty for
ward and backwards, too.
Heard about the near-sighted snake that Married a
rope . . . and the joke about the side-waLc. It’s all over
town.
We don’t like to give too much publicity to Tom
“The Missionary” Fulghum, but we do want to bring
K) attention his chief gripe about Elon. “The women
aren’t old enough,” he complains. Mr. Fulghum has
lived 23 years and he wants a girl with at least as
many years to her credit. Okay, you Cleopatras, step
forward and meet grandfather Marc Antony.
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Girl from East Dorm to girl from Ladies’ Hall:
Do you think Dalton really loves me?
Ladies' Hall: Sure, why should you be an excep
tion?
A cute little trick from St. Paul.
Wore a “newspaper dress” to a baU; ^
The dress caught on fire
And burned her entire ^ ;
Front page, sports section and all.
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Much as we hate to admit it, that faction of Vir
ginians must get credit for one of the smartest deals re
cently-chartering a bus so the whole “kit and ca
boodle” could get home and back in fine style. But any
way it was a CAROLINA Trailways bus.
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“College life is okay, pop,” says George “Teddy
Bear” Parker. “I’m doing fine in everything except
school."
Science In The News
By BILL STAFFORD
Artificial man-made snow may be used in the fu
ture to clear dangerous clouds from over airports. By
using dry-ice fragments against a cloud ef super-cool
ed droplets in a laboratory cold-chamber, Vincent J.
Schader has found that lie droplets will form ice crys
tals and fall as snow.
As a further test, a natural cloud over Greylook
Mountain in western Massachusetts was bombarded by
solid carbon dioxide, and snow fell. It is believed that
by using this method of snow-making aircraft may be
protected from the dangers in super-cooled clouds con
taining droplets .whose temperature is below freezing,
but which are not yet frozen. Science has not yet
found the explanation for this “s«per-cooled” state of
water.
A colorless liquid called ethyl silicate promises new
paints when the liquid is mixed with pigments. The
paints thus made resist heat, retard fire, and do not
darken with age; they are expected to be useful in
decorating and protecting theatrical scenery, industrial
fabrics, furnace castings, and walk and chimneys of
chemical plants. Pigments wbich may be used with
ethyl silicate include ochre, sionna, chromium oxide,
iron oxide, titanium oxiie for white, and carbon black
for black.
Are men better drivers than women? Tests con
ducted by highway safety engineers at the Ohio State
Fair showed that the men had a quicker reaction time.
That is the time it takes to apply brakes after seeing a
hazard. Tests were given to more than 1,000 drivers.
MORNING
In sorrow’s gl*omy garden once I stood,
My hopes and aspirations dead and gone.
And ev’rything seemed vain that once was good;
The flowers wept with me that misty dawn;
No sunlight clethed the statues on the lawn;
No laughing fountains hailed the nearby wood;
In silent grief the tear-eyed morn crept on.
And I bore with the day as best I could.
But suddenly, as if the voice of God
Commanded, sunshine garbed the naked sod;
The flowers dried their eyes—they too had heard
That note of promise, sweet and silver clear.
Which whispered “Courage!” to my searching ear-
The happy, warbled greeting of a bird.
5 . —A. W. Burlingame.