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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947
Maroon and Gold
Edited and printed by students of Elon College.
Published bi-weekly during the college year, under
the auspices of the Board of Publication.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Of
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THOUGHTS
What rights are his that dare not strike
for them?
-Tennyson, IDVLLS OF THE KING
Who builds a church to God, and not to lame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.
—Pope, MORAL ESSAYS
Opportunity is ever worth repeating; let
your hook be ever hanging ready. The fish
will be in the pool where you least imagine
it to be.
—Ovid
Do It Yourself
Hold That Trash
The only sure way of getting a thing done is to
do it yourself. If there’s a condition existent which a
person feels ought to be remedied, he can’t sit around,
grumbling and wishing, and expect it to remedy itself;
neither can he wait for somebody else to come along
and do something about it. Life is too short for such
expectancy. Either one must do something about the
condition himself, or it will linger interminably, like
a bad cold unattended with the uncertainty of its event
ually wearing off or of its developing into something
more serious.
Once having put his finger on the sore spot, if he
is genuinely interested in effecting a cure, it remains
up to' the individual to take the initiative; otherwise
he deserves to suffer the pains of his own shortcom
ings.
Complaining about the state of affairs is universal
and good for what ails us,—an army without griping
is an army without spirit,—^but complaint without ac
tion is as vain as trying to convict a man against whom
there is no evidence. The state of affairs may concern
the life of a person or a community, or involve
international politics—^the instance doesn’t matter.
What does matter is whether or not something is done
to right the wrong, to dispel th« misunderstanding, to
cure the cold.
At Elon, in recent months, we have heard con
tinual; bitching,—an ugly word, but the one that wiU
he understood by every realistic person on- campus as
;i)est depicting the actual fact,—bitching about the food,
.about the lack of entertainment on weekends, and
about countless things in general.
Fine! Wonderful! Everyone knows progress is
made because people become dissatisfied with things
as they stand—but we know also that we move for
ward only because the ones dissatisfied do something
about it!
The never-absenf complaint about the food has
been levelled in the right directon and has had some
xesults, though somewhat inconsistent, if recent dining
hall fare is any indication. Now it remains for us
to take action regarding the morbid lack of compus ac
tivity on weekends, and to take action on those count
less things in general.
In regard to the latter generalizing, we must first
separate and make specific the conditions responsible
for the most constant “beefing”; then do something
about them. If we wait for someone else to do the
curing, human nature tells us they’ll never get cured.
The same holds true in the question of weekend enter
tainment. If we really want it, we must do something
about it other than talk. The next guy’s not going to
do it for us. We must remember the slogan “Do it
yourself,”—and do it!
This is another reminder about the appearance of
our campus. At least one editorial has been writ
ten concerning the thoughtlessness of students who
throw all kinds of trash, including paper napkins, cups,
lipstick tissue, candy wrappers, and the like, upon the
ground instead of in the cans where they belong. Ap
parently there are a great many students who either
missed reading the article or who have no pride in the
upkeep of our campus.
It seems to us as though a sense of cleanliness
should prevail in every person; but, unfortunately, this
is not the case. Either folks are too careless, too
lazy, or both, to hold onto their trash for those few
extra steps from the place where they usually toss it
aside to the nearest trash receptacle.
Perhaps we need even more receptacles and signs
along the walks. Wouldn’t it be better to clutter up
our campus with oil drums and barrels than with
scraps of paper? Or would it? Why can t we just,
remember that our beautiful camous would look better
without too many of either the barrels or the trash?
We do have a beautiful campus when it’s kept
^clean. Why not help Nature in its work and refrain
from marring her beauty. It doesn’t require much
effort on our part—just a little thoughtfulness. Or
is that asking too much of college men and women?
It would also help out if each of us did his own
part in picking up trash left about by more thoughtless
persons. The bit of additional exercise would probably
do us a lot of good.
Behind The Mike
with WALLY MACK
“Life Can Be Beautiful” Fans Flame
With only two weeks of sheet music sales behind
the tune Life Can Be Beautiful,” and without any of
its recordings going like wildfire, LS-MFT picked
“Life ’ as its number nine song on the “Hit Parade”
a few weeks ago. Music men ail over the country had
been waiting for something like this to pop up. They
jump at the chance and have brought suit against the
American Tobacco Company to find out how the na
tion's ten top songs are determined.
The “Hit Parade ’ survey is supposed to be taken
from record sales across the counters, songs most
requested of band leaders, disc-jockey lists, and juke
box plays, but it just so happens that “Life ’ hasn’t
been out long enough to create any great commo
tion on anyone’s list of hits.
Even though this reporter does smoke “Luckies,”
he remembers the raw deal handed Joan Brooke (full
story in last issue) by them only a month back. It
may be that the cig company has been pulling wool
over the eyes of the public for over a decade with
their so-called ‘survey.”
Best-Dressed Man
Whqp Perry Como was first being signed for the
NBC “Supper Club,” he was asked to dress in formal
clothes because of the supper club atmosphere, but
Perry didn t like the idea of the penguin formals be
cause he simply couldn’t sing while wearing a stiff
collar. He won his fight and has worn his informal
clothes ever since. The well-tailored, single-breasted
suits, soft, loose collars, and easily knotted ties won
for him the title of one of the best-dressed men in the
country last year.
Jones Jamboree
Examples of the nlBsical satire which has made
Spike Jones a household word for riotous excursions
into cowbells, whistles, razzberries and rustic harmon
ies may be heard on a re-issue of a Victor record.
These hay-seed, corn-cob classics by the inimitable
Spike Jones and his City Slickers are “Cocktails For
Two” and “Holiday For Strings.” Jones, his Slickers,
and these two wacky tunes are now being featured in
the Paramount flicker “Ladies’ Man.”
It’s A Fact
Bobby Sherwood plays trumpet, strums a guitar,
sings, and occasionally takes over the piano chair.
Swell handy man to have around . . . Sherwood and
Charlie Barnett are now fronting newly organized or
chestras . . . Another laugh-infested “Road” picture
with Crosby and Hope is in the making. This one
is “Road to Rio” . . . Les Brown is planning to form
a new band in the near future . . . Frank Sinatra was
recently dropped by Old Golds because of lack of
listeners. Read it again. It’s a fact.
We Find New Station
Yours truly has removed his records from Burling
ton’s pioneer radio station, WBBB, crossed the street,
walked a block and a half, and made his lounging
quarters in the studios of B-town’s newest radio sta
tion, WFNS. Give us a listen on “Sunrise Serenade”
every week day morning from 7:15 ’til 8:45.
Poet’s Column
THE HANDS OF TIME
Around the clock the hands of time
Have moved at such a rapid pace
That ere we think we have begun
We find we’re at the parting place.
You friends and teachers left behind
We leave our heartfelt wishes to
And may you keep the love for us
That we will always hold for you.
ThoMgh memories will make us sad
Let’s part with joy and smiles instead
And not regret a backward glance
As we and time both march ahead.
! V. —^Rilda Gray Neese
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of campus events....
Seeing all the doting couples strolling about the
campus these fine days reminds one of the old saying
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” except
that our vision is Spring hops eternal in the human
beast.”
♦ ♦ * •
Visions of spring vacation dance through our
heads as exam-time thrusts it? ugly head into our day
dreams . . . Guess it’s about time we resorted to study
ing, eh?
* * * *
“True love never runs smooth.” The truth of
that old adage is proved again as Paige and Bob decide
to bury the hatchet, for keeps, mebbe?
* ♦ * *
Say, can’t Olin Leonard take a hint? Want some
body to throw a brick atcha, huh?
* ♦ * ♦
SCENE OF THE MONTH: Calvin Milam and
Carl Allen searching for their lost chalk behind the
Boy Scout cabin . . .
* * * *
Tommy and Flo are on the bottle . . . not what you
think . . .
* * ♦ ♦
INFORMATION PLEASE: Wonder why Dixie
(OhI that kid) Dowd is so suddenly interested in short
wave radios? . . . Why does “Mo” hang around West
Dorm so much? Could it be accounting or “Viv?”
* * ♦ »
The most downcast girls of last week were Betty
Jo Chilton and Frances “Butch” Branson . . . not
from the rigors of initiation but because Jack and
Lou were down at Cherry Point . . . Since they re
turned, all is sunshine and smiles again.
* * ♦ ♦
Bus Wigmore goes home via Farmville State
Teachers College nowadays . . . Purely an academic
interests, of course!
* * * *
Jack ‘Preacher” Meredith seems to have a pretty
full schedule these days but he found time out the
other week to dash home long enough to put a dia
mond ring on Annabelle’s third finger, left liand. Con
gratulations!
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Have you heard why Richard wouldn’t open the
door? He was waiting for portal to portal pay! Yak,
Yak!
* * * «
Ask Mary S. to tell you the limerick about “The
Young Lady Named Schuster.”
All was excitement in one of the sororities Mon
day night, when the girls sent out their pledges to do
a little “grave” research—the scums got lost along the
road and searching parties had to find and rescue them.
Somebody said they were found playing pool in Os-
sipee. Hm-mmm. If true, one might say they went
from “grave” to “worse.”
North Dorm occupants needn’t worry about A1 and
Joe’s dog any more—Carl Coggins took it home with
him last weekend. The boys stiU leave the door open
at night, though, just out of habit. They claim the
pup was housbroken.
* « * *
Seven more days till vacation
Then we leave for the station
Back to Father and Mother
Back to somebody’s brother
Back to kisses that smother
Who cares what relation?—
We're in civilization T
Why go any futher?
Science In The News
Thanks to SCIENCE NEWS LETTER, the weekly
sununary of current science, we now know these things
which we didn’t know before:
STATIC in automobile radio receivers is due
sometimes to static electricity developed by tfre fric
tion, some automobile engineers claim.
Mine TELEPHONE systems that allow trapped
miners to communicate with rescuers are lessening the
dangers of this hazardous occupation.
The four enemies of PAINT on metal surfaces are
rust and scale, oil and grease, moisture, and salt de
posits; unless removed before paint is applied the coat
ing will soon need renewal.
The presence of sugar in the mouth encourages
the growth of bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus
and other acid-forming micro-organisms associated with
tooth decay.
GOLD LEAF is made of a gold alloyed with 2 per
cent copper and silver, for strength, which is rolled
and re-rolled until a two-inch bar of the alloy becomes
a ribbon 12 yards long; by beating action this is wid
ened and made much thinner.
COPPER, lead and zinc, metals which may become
scarce in the United States within a few years as re
serves are diminished, will probably be in short supply
throughout the world in less than 40 years.
Another li^ht metal, TITANIUM, may soon join
aluminum and magnesium in the construction field.
The principal present use of This abundant, but little
known metal is as a chemical compound, a white pig
ment in white paint. Now because of an improved
process of reduction of its ore, it will be available for
use as a pure metal in machinery and in structures.
S.ITTLE UM3
LITTLE Bi
Listening to Sam Beard’s program, “Moonglow,’'
as I write doesn’t make for a good column; but then
I'll have something on which to blame the sarcasm
that may creep into Little Bits. If you can’t sleep,
some night around eleven-fifteen tune in on Beard
over WPTF, Raleigh, and see what you think of him.
Jeanne “White and Day” Meredith and Bobby “Hub-
ba” Harris number among the said admirers of this (as
Bobby says) “radical,” , ,
Pokey “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens”
Fulton is crowing aboiit the sequel to “The Egg and
I ’ which he is hatching up for publication. He plans
to title the book “The Ham and Eggs,” and his inspir
ation is the two egg-producers he haS quartered in his
room at Vets’ Court. That’s no yolk, son!
For Pokey, we found this “Anatomical Observa
tion” by Lenore E. Fisher:
“A chicken’s skin hides
Its interesting insides.”
We can’t play cupid (we have the arrows, but
not the beaux), but if Baxter “D.D.” Twiddy wants
we will tell him from whence cameth the anonymous
valentine he received.
If the\ good die young, some people we know will
be around longer than Methuselah.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
BETWEEN DEADLINES: We Saw: Sorority and
fraternity pledges taking initiation ... A rough in
tramural ball game. fLook, girls; we are supposed
to be the weaker sex) . . . Verona Daniels’ valentine
flowers from the chemistry professor, and we don’t
mean Dr. Brannock . . . Betty “Angles” Benton driving
Jack “The Jerk” Burch’s car around. We heard: The
primary piece, “By The Sea ” floating from the music
building in “Ace” “Bunny Rabbit” Harrell’s best boogie
manner . . . Tom “The Missionary” Fulghum and Roney
“Bones” Cates talking about themselves, as usual . . .
Dot Salmons wishing for a letter from “Chuck” ... A
long sigh from A1 “Ye Editor ’ Burlingame when he
told us that this might be his last issue of the M.&G.
. . . Miss Thiele, Ema Carter, and Faye Rickard are
middle-aisling it soon.
We Wished: That we were too . . . For a huge
steak . . . That we could print some of the jokes we
have heard . . . That Ed “Easy Does It” Nash would
get “riled” just once . . . That exams were over . .
That spring would hurry along.
College Humor
Patient: (coming out from under ether): “Why
are all the blinds drawn, doctor?”
Doc: “Well there’s a fire across the alley, and I
didn’t want you to wake up and think the operation
was a failure.”
♦ ♦ * ♦
“Hey,” cried Satan to a new arrival, “You act
as though you owned the place.”
“I do,” said he. “My wife gave it to me before I
came here.”
■t ♦ ♦ ♦
But then you’ve ALL heard of the two little mag
gots that were caught necking in DEAD ERNEST.
* ♦ • *
Vernon Phelps: “I’d like to buy a book.”
Clerk: “Whatjvould you like—something light?”
Vernon: “Oh! it doesn’t matter. I don’t have far
to go.”
• ♦ ♦ ♦
Miss Muldrow: “Will you have your pie now?’'
Atalita: “Is it customary?”
Miss Muldrow: “No, it’s apple.”
♦ ♦ * »
Argenbright had a little swing
It wasn’t hard to find
For everywhere that Elinor went
The swing went right behind.
* ♦ ♦ ♦
Jo Watts: “My father used to train dumb animals.’*
Shirley Woods: “Do you know any tricks?”
* * ♦ ♦
J*hn Taylor: “Did your watch stop when it drop
ped on the floor?”
“Lew Lawrence: “Sure, did you think it would
go through?” j
* ♦ * ♦ ;
Employer: “Jerry, don’t whistle at your work.”
Jerry Domenick: “I wasn’t working, sir; only
whistling.”
* ♦ ♦ ♦
She: “And are mine the only lips you have ever
kissed?”
He: “Yes, and they are the sweetest of all.”
♦ * ♦ • ♦
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: If all the Elon history
students who sleep in class were placed end to end,
they would be much more comfortable.
♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦
Jack: “Every time I kiss you It makes me a better
man.
Betty: “Well,, you don’t have to try to get t®
Heaven in one night.” ,
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