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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, October 24, 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, N. p., under
the Act of March 8, 1879. Driivered by
mail, $1.50 the college year, 50c the
qujrter.
editorial board
Lynn Cashion Editor-in-Chief
Matt Currin Associate Editor
Edward Engles Associate Editor
J. B. Pickard Feature Editor
Cooper Walker Art Editor
Happie Wilson Dramatics Editor
William Bmke Staff Photographer
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
BUSINESS BOARD
Matt Currin Business Manager
Joann Carson Circulation Manager
B. G. Frick Printing Advisor
Edward Engles Press Operator
SPORTS STAFF
Joe Spivey Sports Editor
George Etheridge Sports Assistant
Sophia White Sports Assistant
REPORTERS
Joe Brankley Rachel Matthews
Rosamond Bromley Bob Niemyer
Faye Caddell Billy Rakes
Hiram Coble Charles Russell
James Cole Dueward Scott
Reita Durham Wenonah Taylor
Oscar Holland Nancy Vaughan
John Holton Joan Wickham
Edward Johnson Roger Wilson
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951
CONGRATULATIONS
On behalf of the staff of the Maroon
and Gold and the entire student body, we
extend our heartiest congratulations to
Dr. Leon E. Smith, who rounds out next
week twenty full years of service as presi
dent of Elon College.
During the two decades we have come
to think of Elon and President Smith
almost as one, for he has become a part
of Elon, and we feel sure that he regards
Elon and its fortunes as literally a part
of himself.
He came to Elon in the autumn of 1931
when the college was staggering under a
huge burden of debt, and,, with consum
mate skill, guided the college through a
number of trying years. By 1943 the debt
was cleared, and since that time the Elon
College Endowment Fund has been.greatly
increased and an expansion program
launched to build a new and greater Elon.
Doctor Smith was not new to Elon’s
campus when he assumed the presidency,
for he had graduated from the college and
was already imbued with the spirit of
Elon and the Fighting Christians. His ad
ministration has been marked by a Chris
tian spirit and guidance, and we are proud
of him as we are proud of Elon. Hats off
to a real “Fighting Christian!”—L. C.
A WORD TO THE WISE
Half of the first quarter has now taken
its place in the past. Time waits for no
one. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, leav
ing many waiting for tomorrow. Time is
measured by events. Performance takes
advantage of the present. When planning
for tomorrow, weigh the accomplishments
of the past.
There are many who have watched the
clock before. Some know why and for
what they are watching, others are blind.
Some know the way they are going, others
are like driftwood that tosses back and
forth against the shore.
Once there was a fellow that went
abroad to study, and he was a diligent
student. He took very accurate notes on
every class throughout his college career,
and upon graduating he left college with
his diploma nd notes. While journeying
home, his ship was sunk in a storm. He
was rescued, but his notes were lost. His
college education was at the bottom of the
ocean. Four years were wasted.
The main point of this little parable is
obvious. If the boy had depended more
upon memory and less upon notes, his
four years would not have been in vain.
Let us not be like this fellow during our
college years. Let us consider college as
a vocation, preparing us for life, a one
way road into the future.—L. C.
DREAMERS
There are two kinds of dreamers: those
who envision great things and do them
and those who enjoy dreaming so well
they are content to do no more.—Selected.
the
moving finger
y/rites
By MATT CURRIN
TO A NOBLE LEADER
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
With the coming of November we cele
brate the twentieth anniversary of Dr.
Leon Edgar Smith’s leadership of Elon
College. If all of us could give of our
lives in as unselfish a manner as our Pres
ident has given of his, the world and all
who dwell therein would be in a better
condition. If all of us and the faculty sup
ported Elon College as conscientiously as
Dr. Smith has down through the years,
our college would certainly be the best
anywhere.
So congratulations Dr. Smith! We all
appreciate what you have done and are
doing for Elon College. For certainly we
can all agree that you are making your
monuments, cutting your paths, and plant
ing your trees by time’s immortal river . .
all to testify that you are passing this
way.
m * *
SO SAID HARRY TRUMAN
The President of the United States made
a visit to the state of North Carolina last
week at which time he broke the ground
for the new Wake Forest College at Win-
ston-Salesri. This was one of the few times
that Mr. Truman has made a speech in
which he said anything. I suggest that
anyone who has not read that bit of lit
erary history do so immediately. Due to
limited space, I only want to occupy only
a few lines, but I feel that these few lines
are vitally important in these trying
times.
“To the sowers of suspicion, and the
peddlers of fear, to all those who seem
bent on persuading us that our country is
on the wrong track and that there is no
honor or loyalty left in the land, and that
woe and ruin lie ahead, I would say one
thing:
“Take off your blinders, and look tow
ard tJie future. The worst danger we face
is the danger of being paralyzed by doubts
and fears. This danger is brought on by
those who abandon faith and sneer at
hope.”
♦ ♦ ♦
OUR CHAPEL SPEAKERS
I’m sure that everyone in the Student
Body has obsei'ved that the attention in
clrapel during the week has improved
considerably from last year. I am glad.
I think that it is the rudest and most
inconsiderate thing in the world for peo
ple to talk or make noise while a speaker
is speaking. Whether we agree with what
the speaker is saying or not we should
all be considerate. After all the talks are
short and the visiting speakers receive
no remuneration for their services.
I feel that as long as we have good
speakers we will have good behavior; how
ever, poor speakers stimulate unrest and
disorder. Let’s have good speakers or
none at all.
+ ♦ ♦
THE WILL TO WIN
While attending the Elon-ECTC foot
ball game several weeks ago in Greenville
I overheard a conversation which I would
like to repeat to you at this time. One
of the students of ECTC was talking to
another fellow student during the closing
minutes of the game when the “Fighting
Christians” were in the lead. The first
student said that Elon must be a large
school to boast such a powerful football
team. Why ECTC has about 2,000 students
and they were not a match for Elon's
“Fighting Christians.” After this brief
discussion the two students settled back
pleased with themselves for justifying
their defeat. I could wait no longer. Eag
erly I leaned forward and told them that
our total enrollment was only a little oyer
550. This shows what the will to win and
determination can do.
♦ ♦ »
IF WINTER COMES
If the school work, book reviews, tests,
and exams are interfering with social life,
then I can offer but a little consolation.
The last four lines of Shelley’s Ode to
the West Wind is the best consolation I
know of. These lines are strangely ap
propriate both in the physical and philoso
phical sense.
“The trumpet of prophecy. O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?”
VOICES THAT RIDE THE AIRWAVES
Typical of the activities in El jn’s drama and speech classes is the above picture of a group
working on a radio" skit. Watch .g their scripts closely (left to right) are Jce Brankley, Joan
Wickham and Tom Targett, with Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith giving the ’cues at the right. From just
such class practice as this, the Elon radio classes have gone out to offe.r regular programs on the
air, and individual students have gone on to regular work with indio stations from Burlington to
Tokyo.
Of Speeches And Speakers
The rumor that a new religious
cult has sprung forth on the Elon
campus is untrue. That this myth
ical cult was designed solely to
defeat the existing church regula
tions is an equal falsehood.
It is undoubtedly true that great
chants of “La Allah, Ilia Allah,”
have been heard on the campus,
but these and other mysterious
utteiings and mutterings are, at
last, tracked down.
There is no great Moslem,
movement on our campus. The
facts of the matter are quite sim
ple. This mystic chant is but one
of a series of vocal calisthenics
that the speech class is put
thfcfagh each morning at 9:00
o’clock.
So you heard these chants and
utterances at night also? Well,
they also practiced at the express
order of the Speech teacher.
Those night-time chants are
merely your reporter doing his
home assignments (bang, bang).
This fascinating class, small
though it is, creates an amazing
amount of havoc at the early hour
of nine. Brains this class may be
short of, but volume it has in
plenty. .
Radio Reaches Far
This class may take the floor
from any other in the department
of noise, but don't be misled. The
radio class, also under the same
supervision, while it may not be
By J. PICKARD
quite so audible, has even more
far-reaching results. From Bur
lington to Tokyo the effects of
Ihis calss can be heard. In Bur- kbers of this organization. There
A banquet and a series of spec
ial awards are given each year to
the active and outstanding mem-
lington, under the auspices ot
WFNS, one can hear E. V Engles
sounding off on almost any sub
ject; and in Tokyo one of last
year’s classmates, one Ken Jacobs
is holding forth on the armea
forces radio station.
There aref rom 40 to 50 stu-
flents per quarter enrolled in these
classes Some of them are in only
for the credit that is given towarc
an English major, others are
there only for the needed hours,
and still others are there because
^hey feel a need for assistance in
the field of public speaking.
Many cf the students who take
courses in the dramatics field
Tere go on to do graduate work
n this field. As an example, 1
was given the name of Ray Day
a recent BHon graduate, who is
nov/ teaching speech and public
lelations courses at the University
of Iowa.
And Dramatics Too
The Elon Players, an, off-shoot
jf tile above-mentioned dramat-
cs classes, are also an interesting
and integral part of our camput
activities. The real objective of
this group is not to train actor.-
for the professonal stage, but
rather to develop poise and con
fidence in the student himself.
is also an active chapter of Alpha
Psi Omega, the national dramatic
fraternity on our campus. Stu
dents who have done work of out
standing merit in the various pro
ductions are invited into this fra
ternity.
Perhaps you are one of those
campus citizens who has pauseid
to wonder where Mrs. Elizabeth
R. Smith obtains (or digs up) the
characters she sends on the stage
■vhen she gives one of her prc
luctions. These great, near great
and not so great thespians are ob
tained by one of three methods.
One Was Kidnapped
The first methods is an acciden-'
tal one. I was kidnapped into the
Cion Players one night after I
A^as heard making a brief speech
at a local night spot. (All I said
n’as, “More coffee, Kermit.”) The
next thing I imew I was in for a
lock of flattery, a bit of back-
lapping, and there I was, an ac-
ive member of the Elon Players.
Investigation of method num-
oer awo of conscripting members
for the Players called for a sacri-
iice above and beyond the call cf
duty. I had to sign up for a
jours.e in dramatics myself (that
n the speech course mentioned
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HOW DRAxMATIC Sl ARS ARE FOUND
One of the fir.st steps in finding Elon’s dramatic stars is shown in the group of would-be thes
pians “reading for parts” in one cf the Elon Player productions. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, who di
rects the Elon Players, is shown with her back to the camera while the assembled group tried out
for parts in “See How TJiey Run,” which is to be given soon. Left to right on the front seats are
Roger Wilson, Barbara Chapman and Lynn Cashion, and in the two rear rows, also left to right,
are Dink Underhill, Louise McLeod, Louise Spence, Ann Wilkins, Ann Worley, Happie Wilson and
Joe Brankley.
of
cabbages
and kings
By ED ENGLES
In the opening paragraph of my last
column I used Doctor Smith’s name ta
further the perpetration of a light joke
concerning stadium conduct as related to
chapel conduct. No malice or ridicule
was intended, unless it was directed at
the local chapter of the National Yahoo
Club, an organization seemingly dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created
as babies and consequently must remain
as such, fighting vaiorously against the in
sidious influences of natural maturation;
and common sense. However, as Doctor
Smith himself felt that the remark wa.s
directed at him and his conduct, I hereby
apologize for it and hasten to reassure
him and any others with the same idea
that the remark was meant to be neither
denigratory., malicious, defamatory, nor
sarcastic in any way.
♦ ♦ ♦
Also, there seems to be confusion in
man^ circles as to just what was attempt
ed in th^ remainder of the column. What
the column meant is Just what the column
said, but, unfortunately, there were too
many people who either didn’t knov/
what it said or who didn’t want to under
stand it. So, bringing it down to its
shortest and clearest possible form, the
opinion I was expressing ran as follows;
1. There is a rule here that says all
dormitory students must attend church
on Sundays.
2. There is resentment against this rule
among the student body in general.
3. If .the rule didn’t exist, neither would
the resentment.
And that’s it, as clearly and objectively
as I know how to state it. Merely an ob
servation, unembellished with personal
opinion or excess prose, unconfusing, un-
a musing.
If you should ask now why I didn’t just
state it that way last time, I can only re
mind you that one encounters consider
able difficulty in filling up 48 square
inches of empty space with a list of ter.se
facts.
And now, with your kind collective per
mission, I will go back to writing about
cabbages.
— ♦ * *
A cabbage is a rather common vegetable,
found in most temperate climates, growm
in what is quaintly termed a cabbage
patch, and distributed by cabbage sales
men. It has many uses, none of which
are very practical, but many of which are
quite effective; it is the latter we will now
discuss.
Cabbage is unexcelled for smelling up
run-down apartment houses, and for run
ning down previously un-run-down apart
ment houses. Also, it is a boon to re.stau-
rant owners, as it frequently nauseates
customers, causing them to run for the
nearest exit without having had any des
sert. Many efforts to popularize cabbage
have all ended rather dismally, with the
result that civilization is now resigned to
eating slaw as the least objectionable
method of doing away with the world’s
prodigious cabbage crop. There has never
been any serious cabbage shortage on rec
ord. The Russians, in fact, have access
to a great deal of cabbage, and it is com
mon in the Soviet Union to eat cabbage
f^oup even for breakfast, which probably
accounts for their present day mental set.
Most pigs and some people actually like
cabbage, but this proves nothing except
that pigs are even bigger suckers thar*
people, for cabbage has little nutritionaS
Value and is extremely hard to digest,
forming, as it does, voluminous amounts
of gas in one’s digestive tract. This is-,
hardly a desirable state of affairs, as youi
just can’t let it seep out through your
pores, you know.
There has been some talk of mobilizing
cabbages for defense, but as it is difficult
to teach a cabbage anything, this idea
was abandoned in favor cf a new plan
for drafting a greater percentage of col
lege students, who take to discipline more
1 eadily, who are more easily regimented
and some of whom can read and write;,
N^rally, they have it all over cabbagejk-
as prospective soldiers. i
Cabbages cannot swim, ride motorcycles,
hemstitch, bake cookies, get a government
job, write poetry, repair a radio, or figure
out income taxes, so whatever you do,
don’t marry a cabbage, or you will be get
ting the worst of a bad bargain.