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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948
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
fice at Elon College, N. C., under the act of March
8. 1879. Delivered by mail, $1.50 the college year,
$.50 the quarter.
EDITORIAL
BOARD
Editor-In-Chief
Ted Parker
Sports Editor
Rocco Sileo
Assistant Sports Editor
George Stanley
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LOBBIES AMOK
It is with Deepest regret and a sense of shame that
we find it necessary to bring before the public eye
the antics of the baser element of Elon. This element
is composed of a scurrilous minority who, with their
contemptible devices, endeavor to make miserable the
existence of the more honest and intelligent among
us. We can call no names, for those who perpetuate
these nuisances are endowed with such a rodent-like
. slyness that one can do no more than suspect.
In certain of the dormitories are to be found slimy
creatures who, so that they may giggle foolishly to
themselves in vain self-appraisal, will fill a cylindri
cal paper receptable with water, and from some point
of vantage, cause this missile to be dropped upon or
near some innocent and unsuspecting victim. This
monster of mean intelligence then slinks back into his
filthy den even before he sees the results of his han
diwork, in fear of reprisals, to gloat that he has out
witted his neighbor and caused him humiliation and
expense.
We ask ourselves—why should a human being re
ceive pleasure from the discomfiture of his fellows?
The answer can only be that in all phases of life can
be found certain perversions, deviations from the
norm of civilization, quirks of the mind which even
today baffle the greatest of psychologists. So, as we
curse and justifiably revile the water-bagger, we may
add the name of pervert to his long list of horrid ap*
pelations. We can only look with disgust and loath
ing upon him, and should he be apprehended, hound
him with oath and stone from the realms of our
abode.
Last year, we of Elon who have no great income
were highly pleased when automatic washing ma
chines were installed beneath Ladies’ Hall. Only after
long negotiations was this installation effected. These
machines have been a source of great economy to
the veterans and their wives, as well as to the dor
mitory students. Now, because of the miserliness or
thoughtlessness of a few of us, we may lose the ma
chines. It is the practice of a number of unknowns to
pound the machine or to rip open the back of it to
reach the mechanism, rather than to pay a measly
quarter of a dollar, whereas the same amount of
laundry they wash would, if sent to a commercial
laundry, cost them many times as much.
The business men who have placed the machines
on Elon’s campus have threatened, quite justifiably,
to remove them. It is easy to see that with the loss
of revenue from a machine which runs free and with
the cost of repairs to the machines which are abused,
the company loses money. Who will not agree with
us that one must make money to stay In business?
Why cannot we, who are supposedly intelligentsia,
let our minds project themjselves toward potential im
plications before we perpetrate some untoward ac
tion? Why does not the rabid fool of a water-bag-
rodomontade rampant
By ROBERT RUBINATE
Ambled into the Grill the other night to find
Coach Pope busy questioning the loiterers about the
best locales hereabouts for squirrel hunting. It is
rumored that there is to be a squirrel hunt right
here on the campus over the Christmas holidays.
That’s one way of getting rid of our pesky friend, eh,
Mr. Plybon?
This paiper has harped on school spirit long
enough, so when someone suggested hat we run an
other editorial emphasizing this topic he was rudely
interrupted. There is more school spirit in Gib-
sonville than you’ll find under any of Elon’s Col
onnades.
The best buy on the campus: One season ticket
from the Elon Players.
The faculty houses are supposed to be ready for
occupancy in about eight or nine days, which nar
rows down to October 26. When this was called to
his attention, a prominent member of the faculty
groaned, “If they’d only put windows in. I’d move
in tomorrow.”
Intellectual Interlude . . . . ?
Give to any man all the time that he now wastes,
not only on his vices (if he has them), but on useless
business, wearisome or deteriorating amusements,
trivial letter-writing, random reading, and he will
have plenty of time for culture. “Time is endlessly
long,” says Goethe, and so it is. Some of us waste
all of it, most of us waste much, but all of us waste
some.
Watched Gallaudet, a school for the deaf, get
get beaten severely by Guilford College at Greens
boro Stadium the other night. A tip of the “Rubi
nate hat” to a great and courageous bunch of little
guys.
Why not wash behind the ears, people? Let’s keep
Elon free of floating cigarette butts and similar
trash. It only takes a little effort to keep that litter
from standing out like a white poodle on a coal
barge.
John Sjpirko |oyr tennis star of old) has a constant
complaint from his wife. Apparently he’ll go to the
extreme of preparing pancakes with syrup flor
“Cokie,” his expectant cocker spaniel, but shudders
when wife Betty pleads for two eggs. Incidentally,
that cocker had better have pups galore. Good-
hearted John has already gfpen away thirteen.
While we’re on the canine subject, wooden handed
Jim Haley’s Mexican chihuahua isn’t satisfied with
her Saturday bath—it’s a constant howl until she’s
properly perfumed.
Jean Parks, pleading a headache, masses rehearsal
for the coming Players production; so what does
Mrs. Smith tell her? Take an aspirin—the show must
go on!
From this issue forth, this space will be devoted to
inculcate remarks and this writer’s own random
thoughts while lolling. Should it at anytime smack
of intellectuality, notify old "Bodacious” Ted Parker
of an attempt to copy his “Truth and Travesty.”
ELECTION REGISTRATION NOTICE
Persons wishing to vote in the local, state and na
tional elections Nov. 2 must register by sundown Sat
urday, October 23rd. The books are closed at that
time and no further registrations are permitted.
In order to be eligible the person (1) must have
lived in N. C. for at least one year; (2) must have
lived in the precinct in which he is to vote for at
least four months.
Note: If a person has moved from one county
to another in the last four months, he is not eligible
to vote unless he registers and votes in his old
precinct.
Registration in this precinct will be at the local
High School next Saturday from 9:00 a. m. until
Sundown.
ger, before he does his unnecessary deed, think of
his victim’s newly pressed trousers and clean shirt,
of the damage done to the floor of the gymnasium
which is in poor shape as it is? Why does not the
person who abuses private property, such as the wash
ing machines, think of the loss to his fellow students
should the machines be removed? What is the ans
wer? Must you, be shoved into a comer and threat
ened with a bludgeon before you will think? Are
you a drooling imbecile that you must be repeatedly
told before you can understand? If so, you, have no
place in an organized society—^there are a number of
institutions where your every need will be supplied
by brawny young men and women in white JacB,ets
who are trained especially for the handling oi the
blunt-witted and the violently insane.
letter to the editor
Dear Sir: >
Elsewhere in this issue there is probably an ac
count of the loan fund which is being initiated by the
Student Christian Association to benefit needy stu
dents whose security for these loans will simply be
their names.
I should like to suggest that in rendering this ser
vice, the SCA will be practicing principles of an hon
or system as those principles have never been prac
ticed since I first came to Elon.
I have complete confidence in the success of SCA s
venture.
—^T. Femeyhough.
M and G Quiz
1. What is the deadline for registration
for the local, state and national elections?
2. Who, in the early days of he college,
gave first aid to Senior Oak?
3. WOio lost what football game in the
last minute of play?
4. Name one Jayvee football player lately
promoted to the Varsity.
5. When does work begin on he Elon
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium?
6. When did Elon last beat Catawba in a
football game?
7. What recognition will be given the
winning decoration in tomorrow’s dormitory
decoration contest?
8. What will the Elon band attempt for
the first time at the game tomorrow night?
9. Name a campus friend whose death is
reported in this issue.
10. Who will see the first performance
of "What A Life?’
Notice To Reporters And Would-Be
Reporters For Maroon And Gold
It is the opinion of the Editor nd the faculty ad
visor that Maroon and Gold can be neither pleasant
reading nor an instrument of training for the stu
dents if its material is written in anything less than
professional style.
Each issue of Maroon and Gold is born at the
expense of bloodshot eyes and much lamentation in
the small hours of the night on the part of those re
sponsible for seeing to the last details of the paper’s
production.
V.
We believe not only that those lamentations and
long hours are unnecessary, but that as long as they
exist, the paper is failing to serve its function as a
student organ.
It is a point of fact that nearly all difficulties
arise from the inept writing of student reporters
(who are not blamed for their inexperience) and
from their inability to meet deadlines.
In an effort to make the paper meet certain stan
dards of readability and serve as a training ground
for writers, it has heretofore been necessary to at
tempt, at least, a rewriting of all the material sub
mitted by reporters. This is the equivalent of hav
ing two workers write and make up the entire
paper.
A complete rewriting of the material is obviously
impossible, and the paper has suffered from the ne
cessity of printing un-edited or hastily edited work.
A properly trained staff can turn out a paper of
twice this issue’s merit n half the time taken to
produce it. And in turning out one issue, they will
have learned more than they could possibly learn
in a year’s work on a mediocre paper.
And now, to those students interested enough in
the paper’s problems to read this far, there is be
ing offered in this precious paragraph an oppor
tunity to learn the fundamentals of journalistic tech
nique at no expense to themselves.
Every Monday night succeeding the appearance of
the paper on Friday, Mr. Bruton will meet with stu
dent reporters and would-be reporters at 7 p. m. in
105 Mooney. Instruction will be given in news
writing and news gathering, with emphasis on actual
writing to be done on class.
However, only those students able to meet cer
tain provisions are invited to attend the classes.
Those provisions are: 1) that the student attend
classes regularly, 2) that he be willing to read some
newspaper for 30 minutes each day, and 3) that he
have a sincere interest in news writing or in working
on the Maroon and Gold.
—The Editor.
thinking it over
By JENNINGS BERRY
'‘The one thing in he world of value is the active
soul. This every man is entitled to.”
Emerson made this remark, and it is the scholar
who must heed it. When the “general run” of the
people is mentioned, we refer to those who, follow
ing human nature, are in the middle of the on-rush-
ing stampede of unthinking crowds. The word
“crowds” is intentionally used here instead of "in
dividuals,” for there are no individuals in such a
mass.
The student or worker, it matters not which, is not:
an individual, and has not his own soul, unless he i&
a “man thinking.” It takes no great mentality to
follow the utterances of past genius; looking forward
on the other hand, is the mark of an active soul.
How has this whirling world progressed thus far?
Has progress been furthered by those who are satis
fied with that which they find before them? Cer
tainly it is inspiring to find a great revelation in a
book—but that revelation is the accomplishment of
another man. He is the one who turned the crank
—not you. It is much more gratifying to find for
one’s self the ideas that make progress.
However, the ideas of old cannot be discarded. They
are needed for a foundation for ci^rent thought.
The proper use of ideas of the past is a matter of
right degree. One may delve into the Ubrari’cs, be
lieving it his duty to accept all the conclusions or
theories of Plato or Bacon, but he is a bookworm, not
a thinker. Actually, the thinker can be subdued by
too much influence of past thought.
A traditional mistake made by many college stu
dents seems to be the “cramming” the contents, as it
were, of books into their heads, leaving little space
for reasoning. There exists within the social tradi
tions a certain pressure that forces the student to
rely unconsciously upon sources already laid out.
When circumstances change, the student should
change tqp,. and it is because of his hasty use of bor
rowed philosophies that the picture in his mind is
hazy.
This is not a sermon written to persuaae
“dear reader” to merely drop out of sight and come
up later with a grand and original notion. It is
suggested, rather, that instead of plunging headlong
with the multitude, he raise a searching eye to those
around him, in order that his observations may un
lock the channel to acquaintance with himself. Ulti
mately he may become one to which others may look
in order to follow his forward movements. These
movements are forward because they are indepen
dent of, and free from, the well-worn "accepted’*
ideals.
Observe, scru'^nize, pondeir, change about and
strike out the falsities of the foundations laid for
you; then build your own life on a foundation check
ed and approved by yourself. This is creating an
active soul.
Thus the more serious side of this column is com
pleted. We might take a theme of apparently per
manent interest and say, “Chilly, isn’t it?”
Forsooth, good one, I see the thrill of nature in
kindled in your soul. But observe further than the
feelings of those “goose-pimples.” See the golden
waxwork set in an envious green, or those brittle but
gentle leaves scudding along the fading greenery? As
you gaze upon this beauty, isn’t it your desire to
feast your eyes upon it endlessly?
I say, my good sir, ah . . . hm-m . . . some other
part of God’s creation seems to have proved more at
tractive—well, there they go. That’s more confirm
ing evidence that this inanimate beauty is taken for
granted.
Did anyone of you notice the gang imiproving our
circle in front of the campus? Some who have noticed
looked with longing at the position held by him who
carries the “double barreller.” Could it be that he
finds little argument?
Enough of this abstract rambling; so until another
time here is something for the politically minded.
The time is drawing near when it will be possible
to tell how much of the Presidential timber is mostly
bark.