PACK TWO MAROON AND GOLD Tuesday, Npvember 21, 1950 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, 50c the quarter. EDITORIAL BOARD Edward Engles Editor-In-Chief Robert Wright Associate Editor Walter Graham Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor BUSINESS BOARD Matt Currin Business Manager Wynoma Womack Circulation Manager B. G. Frick Printing Advisor Jack Steele Press Man SPORTS STAFF Joe Spivey Sports Editor George Etheridge Sports Assistant Charles Myers ; Sports Assistant Jean Pitman — Sports Assistant ART STAFF Neil Johnson Roy Gsant Tony Diamond Cooper Walker REPORTERS i Samuel Barber Billy Love Hazel Barker Virginia Pla Jane Boone Lester Squires Harry Farmer James Snow William Hunter Happie Wilson TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950 NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON T Take a quick look at this before you rush off to celebrate Thanksgiving Day Remember who you are, where you live, what you’ve got. Ponder a bit on the history of the country that is about to devote an entire day (bless us) in giving thanks. Sit for a few minutes and com pile a list of many things we have here that cannot be had anywhere else in the world. The list will grow so fast you will not be able to keep up with it. America is the only country in the world that celebrates Thanksgiving Day. This is a conveinent and fortunate situa tion. Imagine Thanksgiving Day in Asia or Europe. hat a travesty. Thanks for the rubble of shattered cities, broken homes, twisted lives. Thanks for chaos, hunger, the right to do as you’re told. Thanks for the magnanimous foreigners who direct your life as they see fit. Stop and think of it aU this Thursday, while you're patting the little round drum of a full belly. How long can we go on in our smug and comforting assurance that freedom and the good things of life are ours just for the taking? Freedom, like a beautiful woman, must be guarded and occasionally fought for, as there is al ways some sharpy around waiting to take it away from you. There is too great a similarity between the France of yesterday and the America of today. We are now on the edge of the whirlpool that swallowed Europe, and if we do not swim free of its influence we shall inevitably be sucked down the drain and into the cesspool of war, ignorance, bate, fear, slavery and lies that waits be low. France was complacent ... a free nation, burning with patriotic zeal, ready to take all comers, strong in its freedom. So everyone went around singing La Mar seillaise and shouting “Viva la France.” Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong. But they can be decadent, lazy, and care less about their freedom. We all know what happened to France, but we refuse to see the parajlel in our our own country. Freedom belongs only to the strong and alert, only to the coura geous. What happened in France defi nitely can happen here, but it must not, else civilization as we know it will com pletely fade from the world. Think about it a lot. And happy Thanksgiving to you all. AND HERE’S YOUR PARALLEL We, the members of the student body, are proud of our right to vote. We like student government; we believe in it. But that is not always enough. For, while vve, would fight if it were taken away, we don’t seem to mind throwing it away ourselves. At the last meeting of the Student Leg islature there were just seven out of 27 members present. That pitiful minority represented cur voice in student govern ment, and a wee, small voice it was. This is where our fight for freedom be gins, and we can fight by electing people who will do their jobs properly. Student government can't last without active sup port of all students. Let’s get on the ball. of cabbages and kings By ED ENGLES In the last issue of the Maroon and Gold there appeared in this column a tirade against a few of the many types of people we get tired of listening to. There was an instantaneous and soul- warming response to this when several of our more literary-minded students tried the shoe on and found it a good, close fit. They drew up a column of their own, which, for the edification of the un fortunate readers who did not gain ac cess to it, we hereby reprint in its en tirety, exactly as it appeared, punctuation and all, on its mimeographed sheet. OF SAUERKRAUTS AND SERFS By BEARDED PROPHET In the November 8th edition of the MAROON AND GOLD, we have a peo ple “We Get Tired of Listening to De partment—the “We in this department seems to consist of one self-conceived, highly intellectual boob. The boob who after having one cup laf coffe« stumbles into the MAROON AND GOLD office just to let everybody know what a rake he is . . . He singles out student body, which doesn’t give a tinker’s ham mer whether the Jack-mule spits or goes behind, wobbles over to his desk and proceeds to type out some fatherly ad vice to his “fellow” students whether freshman or Senior. The stupe who will break into an INTELLIGENCE CONVERSATION and dominate it with his own well-worn, highly revised and amazingly uninter esting ideas—WHICH ARE NOT always right but never wrong—as is evident In all his classes—iwaits like a vulture to pounce on the pause that will let him get in the opening word of endless line of trivia. The Yankee Peddler may not be mad but we are. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Unfortunately, lack of space prohibits a critique of this great essay—as good an example of rewriting as I've ever seen— but it speaks for itself. the yankee peddler By BOB WRIGHT Hah! Bet everyone read this column in last issue—even if it took the under ground press to make them do it. The Christian gridders have managed to put all sorts of mementoes in their trophy room except a Bear skin. The loss of that skin will mean a long cold winter. We trust that everyone got their quar ter’s work done last week. Pet Peeve I certainly hate to berate ’er. But WHY does she call it the-ay-ter? ♦ ♦ * Similes As burned up as a person who had to buy another book for the last week of a course. As quick as someone senaking a second dessert off the chow line. As conspicuous as lipstick on a cup in the cafeteria. As snappy as one of the new school hats. (By the way, have YOU got one? Hmmm?) * ♦ ♦ The Players appreciate the response that everyone gave “The Man.” The grapevine has it that “Rope” will be the next offering. - SARA F. DODSON » -«|.a JOE ERICKSON ART FOWLER BILL KIVETT BILLY MITTEI.ST.-VDT JEANNE PITTMAN GalleryQf Who^s Who The fourteen Elon College stu- new edition of collegiate “Who’s esting careers on the Elon camp- fourteen students are offered be- of those chosen. SARA FOSTER DODSON, who acquired the Dodson name by marriage, was an honor student at-Greensboro’s Senior High and has continued that honor rating at Elon. She has also been ac tive in religious work on the campus with both the Ministerial Association and the Student Christian Association. She was a member* and secretary of the Honor Council last year and worked three years in the office of Prof. A. L. Hook, and this year she is director of religious education for the local church. She is a member of Tau Zeta Phi sorority. JOE ERICKSON came to Elon from Bay Shore, Long Island, N. Y., by way of Wake J"orest. Af ter playing football, basketball and track and captivating foot ball at Bay Shore High, he was grid captain one year at Malinus Military Academy. After thirty- three months in the Army and be ing wounded in the Pacific, Joe was at Wake Forest one year and then came to Elon. Out of ath letics one year, he won the block ing back post last year and was named co-captain of football this year. He belongs to Iota Tau Kappa fraternity. ART FOWLER, who Hails from Erwin, is the only repeater on this year’s “Who’s Who,” having made the list last year. Active in basketball, baseball, dramatics and class affairs in high school, he has continued extra-purricular interest in college, having play ed varsity baseball three years, along with intramural sports. He was president of the sophomore class, student body president as a junior and senior class presi dent this year. He also represent ed Elon at the Statewide Student Legislature as a sophomore. He is a member of Kappa Psi Nu fraternity and of the Pi Gamma Mu social science fraternity. He had two years in the Navy. BILL HOPKINS, of Hampton, Va., played basketball and was active in journalism and dramat ics at Hampton High, after which he saw thirteen months Army duty. At Elon he played varsity basketball two years, served two years on the Intramural Council dents honored with places in the Who,” have had varied and inter ns. Individual sketches of the low, along with a picture gallery was on the Spring Dance Commit tee last year, had two years with the Elon Players and membership in the Student Legislature and the vice-presidency of the SCA this year. He was in the May Court last spring and had belong ed to both the French and Spanish Clubs. He belongs to Sigma Phi Beta fraternity and the Alpha Psi Omega dramatic fraternity. BILL KIVETT hails fwsm Bur lington and propped at Burling ton High, where he was with the high school band. He has con tinued with the Elon Band for four years and has worked with the Elon Players two years, serv ed as chairman of the dance committee last spring and treas urer of the student body this year. He is to represent Elon at the Statewide Student Legislat ure. He is a member of Alpha Pi Delta fraternity, of the local Square of Sigma Alpha Chi and of the Alpha Psi Omega dramatic fraternity. He was in the Navy twenty-two months. PETE MARSHBURN hails from Gi'eensboro, where he played football, basketball and baseball at Bessemer High, his six-man football team winning the state title. Two years in the Navy preceded his arrival at Elon, where he has played four years of football, one year of tennis and one year of J-v' basketball, along with intramural sports. He is co captain of football this year. He has been president of the “E” Men’s Club and a member of the German, Spanish and Education Clubs. He is a member of Iota Tau K^ppa fraternity. BILLY MITTELSTADT, who comes from Wentworth, played varsity basketball, was active in FFA work and was a class offi cer at Wentworth High. He at tended State College one year and then served twenty-two months with the Navy in the Pa cific. Since coining to Elon he has been on the straight “A” honor roll throughout his college career, been in the Radio Club and is a member of the varsity debate team. (Continued on Page Four) bill HOPKINS PETE .MARSHBURN NASH PAF.KER LAVERNE KUSSELL FRED S.lflLMAN BILL TOLLEY WORTH WOMBLE bob WRIGHT

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