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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
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 Office 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
Bob Wright Editor-In-Chief
William Sinclair Managing Editor
A1 Godwin Feature Editor
Walter Graham Staff Photographer
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
SPORTS STAFF
Rocco Sileo Sports Editor
George Stanley .... Assistant Sports Editor
Joe Spivey Assistant Sports Editor
Jean Pittman Girls’ Sports
Joe Bryson Boys’ Sports
George Seay Boys’ Sports
BUSINESS BOARD
Evelyn M. Graham Business Manager
Wynona Womack .... Circulation Manager
B. G. Frick Printer
Jack Tamormina Make-Up Man
Gray Hackney Make-Up Man
Jack Steele Press Man
REPORTERS
Jennings Berry Robert Jones
Jane Boone Maynard Miles
, Waldo Dickens Bill Williams
Hal Foster Freddie Williamson
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1949
A CAMPUS DIRECTORY
Have you ever had someone try to lo
cate you on this campus and finally be
forced to give up the job? Have you ever
tried to find someone on this campus out
side of your immeditte circle of acquaint
ances?
One of the crying needs of Eion College
is a Campus Directory which would list all
members of the student body and meiji-
bers of the faculty. Many times it is nec
essary for someone to make contact with a
person on our campus in a hurry. Under
the present state of affairs it is more than
likely that the person will not get a mes
sage for at least twenty-four hours.
This directory would be of invaluable
service to campus organizations, faculty
members, persons off the campus, and
members of the student body. It would
serve about the same purpose as a city
directory in a municipality.
Information that should be included in
such a publication would cover name,
home town, campus residence, church af
filiation, and class in college.
We suggest that oneo f the service or
ganizations on the campus undertake this
project, and thereby provide Elon College
with one more convenience.
This project could be completed with a
small amount of effort, about thirty reams
of paper, and eighteen stencils. All the
information needed on each person in the
directory could be placed on one line, thus
affording an economy of materials.
Any organization wishing to perform
this campus service would not necessarily
do it without remuneration. This
directory would be worth at least ten cents
to any member of the College.
All one has to do is think of the tele
phone calls that are- never received, the
telegrams that do not receive prompt de
livery, and the difficulty usually encoun
tered in trying to find someone on camp
us, to realize that this directory is a much
needed addition to our campus organfea-
t\ion.
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HOMECOMING
The time has come to start thinking
about that great fal levent which is so im
portant on every campus—Homecoming.
With two weeks for preparation, Elon
College should have one of the best
record this year.
al's alley
By AL GODWIN
‘For a better Elon’
Looks as if a number of people spoke a
little too soon about our up and coming
band. Sure, we have members but they
are not showng up for practice. You
didn’t see the band at the Newberry game
and that was the reason. It is hard enough
to get the band out on the field in good -
shape when everyone shows up for prac
tice and they definitely cannot put on a
show if they have not practiced.
Last time we all pulled for more mem
bers for the band. Now all together, let’s
pull to get all those who are already mem
bers to go to practice.
Please dO' not stop going to practice just
because the football season is half over.
There will be more to do after the foot
ball season is gone. Rumors have it that
there will be an orchestra.
. What will one have to .do in order to
have silver when he or she goes through
the line in the cafeteria? Buy some,
or go back and wash his own? Maybe we
will have to get some of the little mess
kits from Army surplus. That would be
unique. It sure would de different. Be
quite a novelty for awhile anyway. Every
one coming in to chow with a little me.ss
kit under his arm. Oh! Be sure to bring
a glass when you come. There may not
be any of thoee either.
♦ ♦ *
Be sure to see “Room Service.” Believe
you will enjoy the Players first produc
tion of the year. They are really work
ing on it. It has some very good lines
(I should know, I have a script). Season
tickets for the five shows to be presented
are on sale now.
♦ * ♦
I for one would like to thank each and
everyone for the grand showing you made
in the campaign for Chips. It was really
swell of you to come across for someone
who needed your help. The ‘E’ Men’s
Club^s to be congratulated many, many
times for their efforts in making this
campaign so successful. I’m sure that you
will reap many rewards for your generos
ity.
♦ ♦ ♦
Have you started making plans for the
decoration of your dormitory for Home
coming? If you have not already started,
start now. Looks like there will be the
largest crowd here for the occasion this
year that the college has ever seen. Lots
of the alumni have already made their
plans to attend. Expect it will be a rather
large weekend. The game. Decorations.
Old friends. Parties. The dance. Lots
of people are in on the planning of this,
the big days.
The college is holding its first annual
High School Day in connection with the
occasion. Let's really show the alumni
and the high school seniors what we can
do.
the
yankee peddler
By BOB WRIGHT
Fair and Wanner' -
Oh, wl»ere’s the tang.
And where’s the zip,
And where’s the air
With Autumn's nip?
The closet holds
The waiting tweeds.
But summer clothes
Still serveo ur needs.
♦ ♦ ♦
Have you noticed how a diamond ring
makes a girl start using her left hand? *
* * *
Headline in the R.P.I. PROSCRIPT:
“Night Classes In Business Prove Popu
lar.” If it’s monkey business, nobody
needs proof.
* * *
We don’t know how the various denom
inations represented on the campus com
pare in regard to membership, but the
one that uses the box outside the Dean’s
office seems to be way ahead of the rest.
4 * *
There should be some method by which
a person could get credit for a Phys. Ed.
class after he’s struggled with a tough
piece of meat in the cafeteria.
* * +
When you see errors in the M&G, just
remember" the axiom of all newspapers.
When a newspaper makes a mistake every
body knows about it, but when a doctor
makes a mistake he buries it.
J(C
College produces
Men of letters—
Not withstanding
Girls in sweaters.
They used to say that girls were like
street cars. If you mised one, you could
catch another. Nowadays many guys catch
one, ride three blocks, and then ask the
motorman for a transfer.
Then there’s the o^ne about the student
who said that his professors were just like
trig problems—just one tangent after an
other.
♦ ♦ ♦
Overheard ’neath the collonades. “Gee,
I’ve got a lot of studying to do tonight.”
“Me too.” “Let’s go to the show.” “OK.”
* * *
Notice: It will be open season on Pan
thers in the Burlington Stadium on the
evening of November 4th.
♦ * ♦
If kigmies were fact rather than fancy,
A1 Capp would probably get the Nobel
Peace Prize.
* ♦ *
If the Cadets and the Middies carry on
like their superiors in Washington, the
Army-Navy game ought to be quite an af
fair this year.
^Room Service’ Is Rib-Tickler. ..
Bob Wright, Walker Fesmire,
and John Vance are seen in some
of the horseplay to be found in
“Room Service,” the Elon Play
ers’ first show of the year. In
spite of the cheerful expression
on Fesmire’s face, he’s in the pro
cess of being thrown out of the
White Way Hotel. Seems that he
and his cronies owe that hostelry
$1,200. Wright and Vance, as
hotel officials, aren't exactly the
embodiment of hospitality. Ap
parently Vance is taking Fes
mire’s shirt as a down payment.
John Vance, as the harassed
manager of the White Way Hotel,
is telling Sue Edwards( the secre
tary who is aspiring to dramatic
heights, that there will be no
more room service for the cast
of the Gordon Miller production
of “Godspeed.” Miss Edwards’
pulchritude will be seen for the
first time behind the footlights of
Whitley Auditorium in “Room
Service.” She has previously
been seen in the -student produc
tion “Champion of the West,”
which was staged in Mooney last
spring.
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We suggest that the dormitories start
planning right now for the decorations for
the da*'. The plans for pep rallies, the
parade, victory celebrations, and all other
events should be mapped out now.
Homecoming coincides with High School
Day on our campus this year, presenting
an ideal opportunity to show the visiting
high school seniors that Elon College hae
a wide awake student body.
Abov« all things, remember
have to BEAT HIGH POINT!
that
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♦ * ♦
In The Appalachian we find Bernard
Davis writing about the friendly people at
Appalachian. I agree with Mr. Davis
about the students there this year. The
crowd that came to the Appalachian-Elon
game were the most friendly bunoh I have
ever seen from that school. Maybe some
of them are turning over a new leaf.
* *
From the Old Gold and Black (Wake
Forest) we learn that the 1949 yearbook
is just appearing. There certainly should
be a good coverage of last years activities
in that.
+ + *
From the 'All A Dream’ article in the
Old Gold and Black we learn that the
Wake Forest students are dreaming about
a new instead of an old well. And, instead
of water, the new wtbIIs will produce pine
apple juice. The campus busses will stop
running at 4 a. m. There are dreams of
a 26-story marble bookstore. Scarlet car
pets on the floors of the boys’ dorms. Es-
calatrs irt the docms. A student hospital
and the center of all activity will be in
the Pentagon Building.
All this just to try to put Duke in the
country class. A good dream I must say.
FRIENDSHIP AND KINDNESS
While passing by the college well the
other day, I saw a pale, timid-looking girl.
I had seen her there many times before,
always alone. In the hallways during the
change of classes she may be seen, too,
threading her lonely way through bois
terous and laughing students, her face
always wearing a faint smile as if she
feels herself almost a part of the gaiety.
In the dining hall she stands hestitat-
ing with her tray, eyes darting nervously
over the tables. She sees three girls from
her dormitory, sitting together a little
way down on the right, and she wonders
whether she would be acepted as part of
their sonversation. Hesitating a moment
.longer, she decides to take ' the empty
table a bit further down.
This girl I write about is not the only
student at Elon who appears to be passed
by in the rush. She represents a group,
and thank God it is a small group, which
should not exist at a small Christian insti--
tution, where friendliness ought to be a
cardinal principle of behavior.
It would be so easy ior the other stu
dents, those who have their popularity and
that intangible something called person
ality, to pass a friendly “HeMo” to the few
lonely souls and to include them in the
little threes and fours of conversation
lhat dot the campus and halls. It might
save a psychiatric case in later years. Who
knows? Certainly it would be a case
where friendliness and kindness would be
synonymous.
Bob Wright asd John Vance
are seen here getting a few tips
from George Best, manager of the
Aalmance Hotel in Burlington, oa
how to handle hotel dead beats
One wonders if Mr. Best pre
scribed the treatment pictured a
the top of the page. Vance and
Wright are probably getting some
advice on how to evict Bob Rubi-
nate, Ken Jacob, Nash Parker,
and Walker Fesmire from their
room in the White Way Hotel. As
the porducer, director, autlior,
and handyman, these characters
have feigned everything from ill
ness to death in order to hang ou
to their room until the opening
night of their great American
drama. Nash Parker is forced to
run the gamut of ailments from
measles to a tapeworm and final
ly suicide,_ in order to keep a roof
over the heads of the others.
In this picture Walker Fes
mire, as Faker Englund, is getting
ready to skip out on the man
agement of the White Way Hotel.
True, he can’t take out any lug
gage with him, but he can wear a
lot of clothes.
The stage of Whitley Auditori
um is going to be a busy place
on the nights of November 1st
and 2nd when this collection of
zany characters go through their
caper.'-, in the farce comedy “Room
Service.”
Be sure and secure your tickets
from any member of the Players,
but better still, a season ticket
purchased now will admit you to
all five of the Players’ produc
tions at a substantial saving. The
curtain time for “Room Service”
will be 8:15.
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith is the
director of the Players again this
season, which guarantees a suc
cessful season of comedy, drama,
end mystery at Elon CoHege this
year.