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
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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.
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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.
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SARA F. DODSON
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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