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MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, April 30, 1948
Atalita Chegwin Tells
Of Events in Colombia
I
Miss Atalita Chegwin, an instructor
in Spanish at Elon last year, who is
now living at her home in Barran-
quilla, Colombia, recently in a letter
to Dr. and Mrs. Hirsch told of the
revolutionary activities wdiich have
taken place in that country. Since
these events are of world wide im
portance and because Miss Chegwin
has many friends at Elon, we think
Dr. and Mrs. Hirsch for allowing us
to publish the letter.
Dear Dr and Mrs. Hirsch;
I suppose by now you are very
well informed al>out tlie situation in
Colombia; however, Esilda and I have
been thinking that both of you would
he interested in hearing some details.
These are sad days for our country.
We people on the coast have prac
tically no way of knowing the exact
situation in the interior, since the
Government has control of the press
and radio stations.
I was at the office last Friday after
noon when the news was heard for the
first time. Our office faces the Paseo
Bolivar, Barranquilla's main street;
so r could appreciate the immediate
reaction of the people, when they first
learned of Dr. Oatin's death. Flag-
waving, speeches, long live the Liberal
Party, etc. You know how this is a-
mong Latin people. There was a
"Junta Revolucionaria,” the mob took
the Alcaldia, tried to burn “La
Prensa", a conservative paper, etc.
However. Barranquilla is a very
■‘pacifica’' city, and at nine o'clock
everything seemed quiet, especially
since the radio stations had been taken
over by the Government, which an
nounced that the situation in the in
terior was good.
However, the next morning we had
to hear bitter news. During the night
several of our commercial buildings
had been set afire. Robbery had been
great. The Cathedral of San Nicola’s
and the Colegin de San Rogue had
been attacked also. This, of course,
was a job done by the Communist
Party to the Conservatives. This last
party, perhaps, did not take any part
here in Barranquilla, but I do believe
they have taken part in other sections
of the country.
In Bogota the fight is still going on.
We know it because our uncle, Rafael
Borelly, came back today from the
capital. Thank God he could get a
special plane and permission to leave
the capital with some other members
of the family. His office in Bogota
was burned. He is the only civilian
that has left the capital since all
communications were interrupted.
The conservative party is in power,
but the “gabinete” has been divided
between the two parties—six liberals
and six Conservatives. Right now no
body knows how things w’ill be to
morrow or day after. Time w'ill tell.
We are not allowed to go out after
IT SAYS HERE (
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tation diamonds may be had for the
small sum of $2.95.
Being an habitual ipipe smoker I;
don’t know why 1 don’t take advan
tage of the tremendous bargain in
pipes which the newspaper advertis
es. For only five dollars I can ob
tain twelve different shapes! 11
they’d make it a baker’s dozen, 1
might be tempted. On the other
hand, though, if I had five dollars
I’d be reading “Esquirer” instead ol
a ten cent tabloid. Here’s an item
that wil appeal to the girls. For just
$4.98, I repeat, $4.98, you can have
for* your very own a marvellous 5 in
1 glamour kit. Honest girls, you can
do everything with it but change a
tire. It contains a flashlight (built-
in) mirror, cigarette case, lighter, and
Up brush. For no extra charge you
even get it monogrammed. Be the
first in your dormitory to have one.
Everyone will be nuts about it. You 11
be nuts too if you order one.
How Times Change
Recently while purchasing some
photo supplies in town I was waited
upon by a most charming and at
tractive young lady who looked as
though she’d fit in any Junior class
in colege. Duripg the course of our
conversation I discovered that she
was a student at the high school
taking what is known as occupa
tional training on which she is grad
ed. She spends several hours each
day doing this work and several hours
in the classroom. Its nothing new for
the larger cities, but dear old BHS
was never like that when we were
going there. Another change at the
school is a little hard to take for we
"old-timers”. Students, both boys
and girls, are permitted to smoke on
certain portions of the school grounds
Such things were discussed but no
action was ever taken on them back
in the late thirties. If you were
caught smoking, you might as well
pick up your books and go home un
til your parents came to “reinstate”
you. Its good to see some progress
being made at BHS eh, M.G.?
seven o’clock and the Governmen
controls the radio stations.
These are sad days for our country
and of course, they have to be sad for
us. The Pan-American Conference ij
going on. though we believe that
very “ironico”—a group of men talk
ing of peace and better relations whiU
around them people are killing each
other. 1 wonder whether these meet
ings will ever do some good in thi;
world.
Esilda joins me in sending you oui
best regards.
Sincerely,
Atalita
VET NEWS
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Housing
A three-ring circus was in the Con
gress this week as politics and personal
feuds controlled the debate on an a-
mended form of a long-dormant Taft-
Ellender-VV'agner long-range housing
bill, in the House, the Committee on
Veterans AfTairs continued beating its
collective head against a known legis
lative blockade by going through nio-
ions of holding hearings and draft-
ng amendments to the so-called
\nierican Legion Veterans’ Hom-
tead Act of 1948. This bill does not
tand a chance of being voted into
law by Congress.
V A Personnel
The new' impact of VA's loss of
5()o employees will be felt next week
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The intramural softball program
has been moving along at a rapid pace
for the past few weeks on Elon’s
playing fields. This, in spite of the
fact that the diamonds have not been
Iproperly lined off, and not backstops
erected.
Some of the games have been very
(low scoring affairs, while others
have been rather “bloody pitchers”
battles with scores coming across
home plate like eggs leaving the
dining hall on the night of the fire
In fact, at present, the girls of third
floor West seem to hold the record
with the eye-raising score of 44-4
over the hapless lassies from Ladies’
Hall. Of cours, play was halted at
,vhen VA announces removal of alijthe end of the second inning due, we
raining officers from supervision of
}l Bill training. Although Congress
jets blamed by the public and by the
/et organizations. Congress is not to
.>lame in this instance and was willing
:o appropriate money to permit VA
o retain employees but was discour-
■ged by VA Chief Carl R. Gray Jr.
)e^pite contention of Gray to House
Appropriations subcommittee, that“es-
ential and desired” services could be
hear, to the fact that a certain “ring
er” by the name of Miss Whicker
happened to be both on tlie losing
side and also in charge of the girls’
program!
Second Floor West is expecting new
blood soon in the form of Bus Wig-
more, who is being farmed out by
East Dorm for more seasoning; then
watch out for that section of the cam-
aaintained through retention of only pus.
000 of 85o0 employees originally sche- East remains atop the loop, as they
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it Vocational Rehabilitation and Ed- buting to East’s fine victory streak
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iiiniate completely already weak ser-
ice of .training supervision for G1
iill students and job trainees.
Improper supervision of on-the-job
raining led to early GI Bill “abuses”,
,hich prompted Congress to pass in-
amous ceilings law' in 1946, similarly
as been charged with responsibility
for inadequate training in “fly-by-
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jn “useless” courses.
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We have a George Case in , our
midst in the person of Jack Hanel,
who is rendering his services to Sig
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paths and often makes doubles or
triples on what usually would be
singles, and is adept at stealing a
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