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PAGE TWO MAROON AND GOLD r- Wednesday, May 2, 1951 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, K. 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 Lynn Cashion Associate Editor Justyn Carter Music Editor J. B. Pickard Feature Editor Walter Graham Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor BUSINESS BOARD Matt Currin Business Manager Wynona Womack Circulation Manager B. G. Frick Printing Advisor Edward Engles Press Man SPORTS STAFF Joe Spivey Sports Editor George Etheridge Sports Assistant Charles Myers Sports Assistant Jeanne Pitman - Sports Assistant ART STAFF Weil Johnson Roy Grant Tony Diamond Cooper Walker REPORTERS Sheffield Abell Virginia Pla Hazel Barker Donald Scott Jane Boone Mildred Sharpe Harry Farmer Robert Smithwick William Hunter Oliver Thomas Rachel Matthews Lester Squires Happie Wilson WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951 NEWSPAPER POI.ICY There has been dispute on the campus concerning the content of the Maroon and Gold, chiefly concerning the content of signed columns, and that renders neces sary the clarification of the editorial pol icy of the paper. The first point that needs clearing for the benefit of the readers is that the con tents of a signed column reflect the opin ion of the writer of that column alone, and they do not necessarily reflect the policy of the paper itself nor the opinions of other members of the staff. Quite often there may be disagreement on the part of staff members with the con tents of an editorial itself, but, in general the paper stands behind unsigned editori als and welcomes the criticism. However, criticism of signed columns should be di rected at the writer of the column and not to other members of the staff. There have been a few instances, too, when students charged favoritism in the amount of space given to certain organ izations on the campus. The Elon Play ers, for example, are said to get more publicity than other groups. If such is true, then it is more the fault of the over looked groups than of the paper itself, for there are numbers of organizations on the campus that never report any of their activities. Several of the staff members happen to be active with the Players and thus know what that group is doing. The paper will welcome staff members from other student organizations, the request has repeatedly been made that various groups name someone as reporter and turn in reports of events within their or ganization. That request is repeated right now. If there be anyone who feels that his or her group has been slighted, they should ap ply right now for a place on the staff and take care of the deficiency once and for all. Until they do this, the present staff will continue to cover all campus activi ties to the best of its ability, but readers are asked to remember that stories can not be written when activities are kept under cover. SCHOOL SPIRIT School spirit is the backboie of all schools, and, when one speaks of school spirit, he is referring usually to student spirit. School spirit is that which breathes life into the various activities on the campus. What, for instance, would a ball game be like if there were no school spirit? The answer would show up in the poor morale of the players. School spirit tends to draw the students to a central goal, that goal being to make farmer in the dell By HARRY FARMER I was overjoyed to find that the Under ground Press was stirred into action as a result of my feeble efforts. Needless to say, I was a little disapointed in the gram mar they used. Perhaps that s why they didn’t sign it. H it's true that the co-au thors of that thing are Vets, then 1 can only say that it is the best argument I’ve seen against the G. 1. Bill. I would like to point out that no mem ber of the staff of this paper is responsi ble for what I put out. These are my views and not necessarily shared by other members of the staff. Therefore, if some one doesn’t like something that I write, I would appreciate it if they would direct all kicks to me and not to the other writ ers or staff members. I give the Under ground Press two points for THAT any way. The worst possible predicament in which to be is that one in which you are too lazy to make an effort and too honest to cheat. We saw in the daily paper that the Uni versity of North Carolina had made history as the nrst University in the South to admit a Negro without a court battle'. Even so, we wonder if it isn’t just one jump ahead of the law. We have it on good report that one of our erstwhile students, Jerry Allen by name, is going to appear in the “Lost Col ony” pageant at Manteo this summer. It is said that he will play the role of Chief Manteo. Speaking of parallelisms, we heard a fel low compare the people singing on the decks of the sinking Titanic with the Eng lish singing ‘‘There’ll Always Be An Eng land.” “Why did you kiss me?” she asked, smil ing demurely. “Well,” he said, “Frankly, now that I’ve done it, I don’t know either.” “How dare you insult me?” she shrieked. “After kissing you, it was easy,” he re plied calmly. ' Grinding Out Neivs Of Tfie Campus The Old Press Rolls On And On By J. B. PICKARD How much do you know about Gold in the office extend back as the history of your school paper‘d | far as 1925, aUhough there is How old is the publication? Who'available only a few issues for are the people who have worked 10 make it into the publication that you read today? Statistics? Figures? Names? Follow me, sweet reader, for the real low- lown on some of these historic facts. How old is the publication? That one is easy, of course. You could figure that one out tor your self by merely checking tne vol ume number on tne tront page. That’s right, dearie, lor eight million lolly-pops, the Maroon and GoW is now thirty years old. Now, however, before delving lurtner back into the historic past, would you care to get a look be hind the scenes and see tne peo ple who strive to get out each is sue lor our devoiea followers and avid readers? TJie Present Staff First of all (and he made me put his name first) is our Editor- in-Chief, one Edwa’d Engles. This youngster works wiith the fervor of Hercules in the Augean sta bles, writing editorials that no one else reaoie and grinding out a column that ne write* lor the sole purpose of airing his personal gripes. Next in rank is one Lynn Cash ion, who is just as rank as anyone I have ever known. He is listed as Associate Editor, a fancy term to make him feel good on Satur day while he sweeps out the press room. From there we go down to the Music Editor, the Feature Editor (a great guy, he), the Sports Edi tor with his assistants, the Busi ness Board, the Art Staff, and next, the reporters. There is also one Faculty Advis or, a work horse named Luther Byrd, who aids in about seven hundred ways in publishing the paper. We are also cursed and afflicted with one other columnist, a rabble- rouser named Harry Farmer. This takes care of today’s staff, but what of those who set the stand ards in past years, the standards that we have to go by? The Olden Days Our files of the Maroon and “Pass ‘Strucky Likes’ out among your friends,” the announcer said, “And watch your friends pass out among you.” LAWS: The Arabs have a law which could be used to great advantage in our country. It provides that “a man may marry only as many women as it takes to support him.” Too bad the Plantation Supper Club burned. Now there isn’t any place we can wish we had money enough to spend our evenings AT. some of the years, and it was nec essary, therefore, to check the records in the ancient editions of the Phi Psi Cli and to talk with those who can remember the Elon of three decades ago in order to get the real low-down on those early years. The very first issue of the Ma roon and Gold appeared in Janu ary, 1920, and the first editor was Percy Elliott Lindley, now Dean and Professor of Religion at High Point College, where he is better known as Dr. P. E. Lindley. ■Mter going on for graduate duty, he used the literary abilities first used in the columns of the Ma roon and Gold in writing a couple of books, both on religious topics. Associated with Editor Lindley m creating the new publication on ihe Elon campus was Claude M. Cannon, now with the American uipiomatic service in Monrovia, i^iberia. West Africa; L. Jii. Can non, now an accountant in Char lotte; H. W. Johnson, now a busi ness man in Fuquay Springs; and l^onnie Bryan Ezzell, now a Pro lessor of Education at the Univer sity of Texas. The Faculty Edvisors The earliest recorded faculty advisor was Prof. W. J. Cotten in 1925, and he was succeeded for a number of years by Prof. J. W. Barney, still a member of the fac ulty of Elon's Department of Eng lish. He was succeeded in the 1930’s by Dr. Fletcher Collins, and he in turn was followed by Dr. Charles K. McClure. Prof. R. L. Dunlap assumed the duties in 1947- 48, with Prof. Hoyle S. Bruton directing the paper in 1948-49, to be followed by the present faculty advisor. The Maroon and Gold was is sued weekly in the 1920 s, but it was of tabloid and carried a great volume of advertising. Then, as now, the paper carried only news of the local campus happenings and did not try to compete with the daily papers for news stories. The paper has always carried more pictures than the average college publication. The girls have taken over the post of editor-in-chief only twice the school and the student body a type of which the students and the adminis tration can be proud. This is the under lying basis for the alumni association of any college, and it serves as both a check and support for the school administration and the scholastic standards. Every school should have an organiza tion to foster this vital characteristic of college life, and that organization is stu dent government. When a college has some form of student government, each student should—and usually does—take every opportunity to make that govern ment better. This is the real goal of every election. However, what happens when the elec tion is over? Are those who were elected performing their duties properly? That is where the duty of the individual stu dent appears, for many students neglect to check on the manner in which their elected representatives discharge the du ties of the various offices. Such checking on the part of the students will mean bet ter government and, in turn, better school spirit. in the history of the Maroon and Gold. During the school year of 1943-44 Faye Thomas was editor and Mary Ellen McCants guided the paper during the 1944-45 ses sion. The men regained control of the publication in 1945 and nave managed to keep it ever since. Printed On Campus There are other things that you may not know, or have for gotten, about your college news paper. It is the only student paper in North Carolina that is printed on campus, and the an tique press that grinds out the news is one of the oldest models ever produced by R. Hoe and Company, a flat-bed model that is estimated to be more than one hundred ' years old. Still, under the coaxing and petting care of operators like Jack Steele and Ed Engles, it is able to produce three-color jobs like our Christ mas issues of the past two years. It is a matter of pride that the Maroon and Gold just last week won its third straight state cham pionship in the bi-weekly class, an award given annually at the meeting of the North Carolina Collegiate Press Association, and lid Engles won first place in the state for the best column with his ‘ Of Cabbages and Kings.” Plenty of Work The average student doesn’t realize just how much work there is in putting out a newspaper. We who just happen to drift into the office to look around are always amazed at the way we are drafted and sent to work in this journa listic salt mine. One fellow drop ped in to bum a cigarette and was made editor, and the poor fool hasn’t had time for anything else since. The only outside assistance we ever use is that of our genial lino type operator, one Grady Frick, who by grace of long experience is able to croon end pet our an tique linotype into behaving some what like Mergenthaler meant for it to do. Otherwise, it is the task of staff to gather material, write it up, rewrite it, work out the or iginal dummy mark-up and all the thousand and one things that must be done before the printed' page is seen by the students. EDITORS OF PAST AND PRESENT Following: is a complete list, publication of the Maroon and 1920—P. E. LINDLEY, now Dean and Professor of Religion at High Point College, High Point, N. C. 1921—L. B. EZZELL, now Professor of Education at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. 1922—RALPH S. RAINEY, now Area Director, Division of War Veterans’ Claims for Vir ginia, residing in Dillwyn, Va. 1923—LLOYD J. BRAY, now associated with Eastern Carolina College, Greenville, N. C. 1924—SYON M. LYNAM, now a Christian Minister in Freehold, N. Y. 1925—W. B. TERRELL, who became superintendent of War ren County Schools, Warrenton, N. C. 1926—HOWARD RICHARD SON, now in school work at Al exandria, Va. 1927—ATKIN B. JOHNSON, later principal of Dunn High School, Dunn, N. C. 1928—PAUL G. HOOK, a brother of Prof. A. L. Hook, is now superintendent of schools in Clifton Forge, Va. 1929—CLAUDE W. KIPKA, and CLYDE FOUSHEE (two ed- iotrs during that year.) Kipka at least as complete as possible. Gold through the three decades is now a business man in Mooresville, N. C., while Fou- shee is a Presbyterian minister in Memphis, Tenn. 1930—PAUL MAGEE, whose present address is unknown. 1931—JOHN HOWARD SMITH, now a minister and Professor of English at Arnold College, Mil- liford, Conn. 1932 — EDITOR NOT RE CORDED. 1933—RUFUS H. ABERNA THY, now teaching at Alexan der Wilson High School, Gra ham, N. C. 1934 — EDITOR NOT RE CORDED. 1935 — EDITOR NOT RE CORDED. 1936—WILLIAM L. COOPER, now Coordinator of Diversified Occupation with Norfolk City Schools, Norfolk, Va. 1937—BEN R. LILLIEN, now an automobile dealer in Bur lington, N. C. 1938—NO EDITOR, paper produced by a cooperative staff. 1939—THOMAS M. PERRY, now a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy and doing Public Relations work in Washington, D. C. 1940—WESLEY HOLLAND, whose present address is un- of the editors who have directed since its foundation in 1920: known. 1941—DONALD G. BORN, latest known address Everett, Pa. • 1942—ROY H. MANSFIELD, whose present address is un known. 1943—EDWIN WATTS, now with Sears-Roebuck Company in Greensboro, N. C. 1944—FAYE THOMAS, later connected with the National Ad visory Committee for Aeronau tics, Langley Field, Va. 1945—MARY ELLEN Mc- GANTS, now Mrs. William Evans, a teacher in Anderson, S. C. 1946 — THOMAS HORNER, who has since been doing grad uate work at Duke Divinity School, Durham, N. C. 1947—AL BURLINGAME. 1948—^OHN WATSON, who was still in school at Elon last year. -. 1949—TED PARKER, who entered sales work after grad uation. 1950 — ROBERT WRIGHT, member of the Senior Class of 1950 and president of Elon Stu dent Body for this year. 1951 — EDWARD ENGLES, now holding down the post. of cabbages and kings By ED ENGLES Below is the greater part of a letter re ceived by J. D. Hardy from the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Read it. It is self-explanatory. My dear Mr. Hardy: « Receipt is acknowledged of your recent communication signed also by Mr. Jorin Hanna and Mr. Yono Mork, regarding present ownership of the Moon and as serting your joint claim to the satellite in the absence of another claimant . . . The jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Land Man agement is confined, in general, to the public lands of the United States, and does not extend to areas which have not been designated. If the land on the Moon should at any time be officially proclaim ed to constitute public land of the United States as a result of foreignty obtained through exploration or other means, ar- langements doubtless will be made at that time for the administration of the Feder al public land statutes in the areas by the Bureau of Land Management. Until such definite arrangements have been offici ally established, however, this Bureau has no authority to receive applications fo;; l;ind on the Moon and therefore cannot accept your letter as an official applica tion for such land at this time. . . . Meantime, however, your attention is in vited to the fact that if the present pro visions of the Homestead Law remain in cffect whenever land areas on the Moon are declared to constitute public domain of the United States, a prospective home stead entryman must present with his ap plication an affidavit that he has person ally examined the land sought and is fa miliar with its characteristics. ... In view of the long accepted fact that the Moon is conducive to the foster ing of romance and from time immemorial has been considered indispensable to lovers, it is probable that, should it be come a part of the public domain of the United States, steps will be taken to pre serve it intact in order that it may be put to use for which it is best suited. Very truly yours (For the Director) Norma Hazeltine, Information Officer. Now, Norma, you may be ninety years old and have warts on your nose, but, if you would consider bigamy, I would love to have you for one of my wives, just be cause of that letter. I don’t care if ycu never do another thing in the world. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Colonnades will appear (yes, it will!) next week sometime, barring bad breaks. Let it be known here and now that this ip probably the best issue ever published; so make sure you don’t miss getting your copy. Mr. West will be happy to reserve copies for anyone that sees him in time. Warning to all concerned: When in the print shoj^ stay away from the linotype machine. The; thing has an evil mind, snd it is definitely anti-social. The other day it squirted hot lead all over me, ancJ then, after I had duly cursed it and started to work again, it laid a nifty trap for me. When I put my finger in to to see if 1 could find out what it was up to, ;t descended with a gleeful whoop and great force, causing me to bleed considerably and get three stitches in my vfr45tgb finger. It is squatting balefully in the corner now, chuckling remini.scently, now and then humming a malicious little tune, lurking, watching, waiting, hoping, looking forward to the time when my finger gets well enough to try again. And I will try again. No machine is going to make a sucker out of me I grit my pride. Only next time I will bring my great big hammer with me, and if it tries to bite me again. I’ll smash its teeth in.
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