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MAROON AND GOLB
Wednesday, AprH 8, 195-'^
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EDITORIAI. BOARD
Matt Currln
Lynn Cashion
James Rhodes
Patsy Melton
Cooper Walker
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. Assistant Editor
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1953
LIBERALISM DEFEATED
in the current era of international poli
tics. there has been a widespread tendency
towards liberalism—a tendency curbed in
Great Britain by the return of Winston
Churchill's ConservaUves to pov.er and in
tin United States by the overthrow of
Trumani.^.T' and the establishment of con
sidered republinnism.
A similar return towards sound student
political policy has recently been witnessed
on this eampus. Not cne of us oppo.se liber
alism as it may serve constructively to
build stable progress; liberalism is vitally
opposed, however, when it is used as a
shield for unconcientious, dangerous and
unwarranted revolutionary steps.
Elon College must not fall into a “rut”
of extreme conseratism, but she is not in
a position to foster liberal attitudes which
break with tradition or safety.
What must be achieved both in the na
tion and here on our campus is a right
path of studied conservatism on which may
be built a fundamental Christian attitude
-—Christian in character but not Christian
propagandistically.
Let the students of this college strive
for new unity, not ba'ied upon sectionality,
but let sectional representatives ever re
alize that a college campus is not the place
for civil misunderstandings.
Indeed, this is a period of trial for the
small church-related school. It is a time
when understanding of native conceptions
is e.'iscntlal if not completely necessary,
Foreign clemer.ts may sometimes be sub
versive and most often proclaim unproved
doctiines hidden in their annals of so-
called liberalism.
Is the American system at stake? Is re
publicanism which guarantees the minority
a voice about to be replaced by a dicta
torial anarchy, fostered from without? Not
if sound progress re.mains our goal—a pro
gress reiipective of liberality as 't may af
fect a continuation of fundamental re
publican system, but in addition a progress
ever cognizant of conservative stability.
Let each of us recognise his part in de
termining the future of our nation, our
way of life, and yes, even cur school. If
we stand firmly upon the pillar of sound
progressive experience, Uien we, too, may
proudly and fearlessly sing with Long
fellow:
Thou too, sail on, O Ship of State'
Sail on. O Union, strong and greitt!
Humanity, with all its fear.
With all the hopes cf future years, |
Is hanging lireatliless on thy fate! ' /
cash
on the
spot
By LYNN CASUION
EDITOR S NOTE. Tom Tr.rcett i- cne'^t
columnist for "Cash On Thr Spot" in
this issue.)
PIECE MEAL — Jimmy Rhodes won a
$1,500 grant to Ohio U . . Bill Black-
stone wen an $850 grant from the Phi)0‘-
ophy Department at Duke. . . David Crowle
has won a $300 scholarship to Oberlin
Seminary . . . Page Painter won a like
amount to Hartford Seminai-y ... The set
for the next Pia/ers' shew is to be
i>nique . . . Graham Heath says it will be
the first for the Elon stage . . . It s the
season for the frat and sorority banquets
Joann Newman's engagement to Bob
Tucker, of Burlington, has been announced
. Jackie Smith and Ted Hackney, ’52,
were married two weeks . . ■ Spring
has hit Elon . . . Saw some faculty and
students baiting their hooks; . . .. Spring
Quarter half over . . . Quarterly invitations
tor visits have been extended by the Dean
. Stuoent-Faculty Committee thinking
ot m;.king North Dorm a Freshman Donn
next year . . . Hail the Class cf 1958 . . .
Most used pieces of equipment at Elon
are the ping pong tables in the SU . . .
Music major concerts underway . . Worth
attending . . . Negley, Chairman cf Duke
Philostphy Dept., to be on campus . . .
Heard that a boys' softball team is ready
to challenge a team from West . . . Dog
woods along the walk from the P.O. are
in full blocm . .. Wish we had a few
more . . . Chairmanship of the Freshman
■Orientation Committee announcement due
. . .. Need of: One "Pick-up Tiash Joe” to
trail behind "Throw the Trash on Campus
Joe.” . . . Know who can qualify? . . .
Needed by the Student-Facul'.y Committee;
one linguist . . . Requirement: be able
to wijte twelve languages . . . What is that
Committee up to now? . . . Only 40 per
cent oj the student body voted in the
primaries . . . "Hasty Heart” to be last
production of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith as
director of Elon Players . . . It’s Elon’s
s.ixty-third commencement program this
year . . . Tentative courses for summer
stnool have been arnounced by the Dean
. . . Joe Harvey won the Greensboro
YMCA ping pong tournament . . . Library
has some of the best sellers in fiction . . .
Good Saturday afternoon reading . . .
Walter O’Berry, Student Government secre-
tao-treasurer, says the Student Govern
ment is working "in the black” . . . Oscar
Holland soon to become papa . . . Home
Ec Department fixing up the Student
Government office . . . It'll be the best
in the North State . . . Hope we win the
Messick Sportsmanship Trophy . . . Sigma
Phi to give suggestion box . . . Which
Student-Faculty listed as a suggestion , . .
From a good source, a bill to be introduced
in the Student Legislature saying male
students will have to wear shorts during
Summer School's Saturday afternoon
classes . . . Have you seen an Elon base
ball game yet? . . Vetpers services each
Monday and Wednesday evening . . .
Colonnades to be published soon . . . Year
books are under way . . . Date for distri
bution to be announced . . . Congratula
tions are in order to t)ie newly elected
officers . . . One Bromo Seltzer for each
cne. please !!-... Susan Fuchs engaged
to "Shorty” Jcrnegan, brother of Ginny
Jernegan . . . Stop in and ?ee the birth
day present vihich the students gave to
Judy Burns in her cffice . . . Worth it . . .
Theme of May Day; Snow White . . .
Snow White is Golda Brady . . . Wonder
who Prince Charming could be? . . . Matt
Currin s column on Dimensional movies is
his best of the year . . . Wonder who was
■;ho!.en "Miss Elon" by Kay Kizer .
Thoughts about a trophy case are being
heard about the campus . . . Eleanor Stew
art to wed Bobby Gentry in June
Rumor has it Painter and C.ishion to seek
political exile at Myrtle Beach in Demo-
crLlic South Carolina after inauguration
Laveme Brady off to France this
summer . . Phelps brothers to work in
Yellowstone National Park this summer
Combining work and pleasure Prof.
Cunmngham and Carl Woods lost tennis
match to Black.stone and Painter, 6-4
Reciember and let's clean up Elon for
May Day , Jeter Wilkins' and Ann Mat-
kins wedding coming up this summer
. Tim Holt back on eampu.s. all natty
and neat in his itaff sergeant 4 uuifbrm.
ELON COILEGE !MAY COURT FOR 1932
moving tinge
writes
The Elon May Queen of ’9^2 . ..v-n above with members cf her court. That Msy Court in that
early observance, as shown left t) ri^ht in the picture. Inclucl.’d the follcv.ing; BACK ROW ON
STAGF^Dorcthy Btwden, Maid- ‘f-Honcr, now Mrs. W. L. Shoffner, cf Burlington; Mary Elizabeth
Rogers, May Queen, now Mrs. P -il Cobb, of Burlington; and Jennie Frances Walters, Maid-of-
Honor, now Mrs. J. K. .Snyder, of Winston-Salem. MIDDLE ROW (Slight Back cf Main Front Row i
— l.effio ,'iones. Ma\ Ccurt Page, now Mrs. W. E. Lowe. Jr., of E';n Collcgf; Rebecca Con.stable
(wearing hat), now Mrs. Thomas M. Leei cf Elkton. Md.; and Naomi Steed. May Court Page, who
lest her life as a nurse in World War II. STANDING (In Main F’-nt Row) — Evelyn Richardson,
nrw H. f.;,-^.en. Jackstnville, Fla.; Frrncc-, C??andler, new Mrs. Cecil Wilkins, of Vir-
gilina, 'Va.; Margs-et C!-and!er. now Mri. Thomas Brr.d'-haw, of Burlington; Mary Sue Rawl-'. now
Mrs. J. E. Parker, of Suffolk, 'V.i.; Frances Baynes, now Mrs. James E. Hall, of Burlington; Anna
Virginia P-.-itt. nov Mr E A. Warfield, of Alexandria, Va.; Dorothy Marlow, now Mrs. H. D. Ram-
saur. of Charlotte; Miss Jeannette Neic’erlander. 1932 member of Elon Music Faculty, who staged
the May Day pageant: IMargaret Boland, now a .secretary in Burlington; Loaite Thompson, now
Mrs. p.'ul D. Smith, cf Greensboro; Lucy Caddell, now Mrs. K. K. Hughes, cf Elon College; Edith
Bowden, now a secretary in Bur'.ington; Marietta Moore, of Chuckatuck, Va.;* and Peggy Sechrist,
of Thomasville. The small child en standing in front of the May Court attendants, also left to
right, are Charles McCam and Jewell McCarn, whose father wa-, then an Elon student; Rhodes
Moffitt, Jr., and Peggy Moffitt, grardchildren of Dr. E. L. Moffitt, former Elon president; and
Patricia Hook, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. A. L. Hcok. The two smallest girls in the ruffled dresses
are (left to right' Jean Miller, of Burlington, and Lacala WiiKins, now Mrs. Lacala Frazier, of Lib
erty. The other three children behind the two last named are unidentified.
May Dav Rulers Of Days Gone By
Observance of May Day as Elon
College str.:’cnls know :t today is
a comparatively recent thing in
the long history of the ollige, for
the annual May Day pageant has
been staged in less than one-third
of the sixty-three years since Elon
opened its doors.
Extensive research through Elon
records and questioning many for
mer students revealed that the
First May Day-.obsp/vanee was
htld in 1921, but dancing of any
type was strictlj taboo on the Elon
campus of that day. ,ind so many
hands were thrown aloft in holy
horror at the sight of girls dancing
about the May Pcle that no other
spring festival was attempted for
ten years.
Ruling over that 1921 pageant
as Elon's first May Queen was
Essie Mae Truitt, sister of Dr.
John Truitt, who is now Mrs. Es-
ie Truitt Simpson, a member of
the faculty at Stokesdale High
-School. The maid-of-honor wa.^^
Vliss Lucy Eldridge. now associ
ated in New York with the Youth
r)ivision of the Missionary Edu-
ation Movement, That first pag
eant was staged on the campus in
‘ront cf West Dormitory under
the direction of IMiss Ruth Hawk,
^t that time a teacher of voice
and expression at Elon
Paceants Start Anew
The next .May Day observance
came in 1631 under the direction
of Miss .'eanette Neiderlander
also a teacher of voice and expres-
^on here. She directed May Day
pageants for two years in 1931
and 1932, but they were followed
by another break of three years-
before the ob.:ervane» was re
sumed in 1936 That spring pag-
?’ant in 1936 became the first of
a continuous practice, which hat
produced .May Day festivals each
v'ear until the present.
Ruling as May Queen in 1931
was Johnnie Sharpe, of Elon Col
lege. now Mrs. J. Hinton Rountree,
of Greensboro, and among the
members of her court were Ann
Sawls. now Mrs. Joseph B. New
man. of Burlington, and Sue
Watts, now Mrs. George Colclough.
of Elon College. They recall that
the 1931 May Day was marked by
unseasonable cold, which caused
much discomfort to the girls in
their evening dresses.
The 1932 May Day was ruled
ever by Mary Elizabeth Rogers
now Mrs. Paul E. Cobb, of Bur
lington. She and her entire court
are pictured eLsewhere in this
issue. Her chief attendants as
•Maids - of - Honor were Dorothy
Bowden, now Mrs W. L. Shoffner.
of Burlington, and Jennie France;
Walters, now Mrs. J. K. Snyder, oi
Winston-Salem. There were no
male students in any of these earl
iest May Day pageants.
A King Takes Part
A May King was introduced into
the scheme of May Court when
.'cntinuous annual observance wa.-
begun in 1936. Rulers that year
were Esther Cole, now Mrs. Johr
R. Kernodle. of Burlington. a.‘
May Queen, with William W. Kim
hall, of Manson. as the first May
King. Maid-of-Honor was Heler
Barney, daughter of Prof. J. W
Barney. She is now Mrs. E. L
Smith, of Elon College.
Blanche Wagoner, of Brown
Summitt, now Mrs. C. H. Shoffner
of Burlington, was the May Queer
in 1937. and ruling with her as
May King was Leon Newman, o
Virgilina. Va.. now a resident o
Spokane, Wash.
The 1938 May Court was rulec
over by Nell Loy. of Alamance, a:
May Queen. She is now Mrs. Jas
per W. Clapp, of Alamance. Tht
king that year was LeGrant
Moody, now a Methodist ministei
in Ware Shoals, S. C. Chief at
tendant to the Queen was Mar
garet Earp. now Mrs. Kesley h
Friend, of Pikevllle. Ky.
(Continued On Page Four)
A hme )’ T\{>e Or Two
■By PATSY MELTON'
only the beauty of their own
words and did not think of the
consequences of their actions. Was
the world ready for their pro-
po^-als of reorganization?
There was opposition to their
ideals, but they strove valiantly,
deceitfully on. employing any
method at their disposal, dissre-
TIIE DESTRirTIVENESS
s OF INXOCENCE
A young man got up before a
mall gathering of average people. ■ girding all law and order.
He made a speech, rt was a beau-;
tiful speech, W'ell-delivered and
well-prepared. The young man had
a great effect on his audience
.because he was full of himself and
his topic. He had a great com
mand cf his words. He knew how
to express himself in such a subtle
(hypnotic way that the people ■ , j .l,
couid not help but listen and be-
lieve, if they allowed themselves
to fall under his spell.
"Here is a good man,” seme of
the innocent, easily-led listeners
said. "The things he talks about
are morally right and the only
decent thing to do."
Thesf people began to work.
I.'icv,!;-. heautifully. . in the voung I Others have, so, I think I'll filli-
man s own nibtle way. They heard ^iiu-iter too.
The faction opposing the do-
gooders began to fight with zest.
One small outbreak lead to an-
cther, and more and more people
began to take sides in the issue.
Soon the fight had spread far
from the boundaries of the origi
nal group. Before very long the
ithe world.
Hitler had accompi/shed that
part of his long-desired dream.
He had succeeded in pitting
brother aga,^ist brother, nation
against nation, race against race
it could happen here!
I The linotype i.'-- a machine for
producing printing type. Its name
eOFTU'S from its product, a solid
bar of raised letters in a line-
line of type. The operator sits
before a keyboard which contains
ninety keys. He touches a key
which releases a brass mold from
the metal case at the top of the
machine The mold, or matrix, i:
carried by a moving belt to it;-
proper place in line. Spaces be
tween words are formed by wedge-
shaped spaeebands, which prt
automatically in.serled when thr
operator presses a key. When the
operator has composed a line ol
matrices they are transferred tc
the ca.sting mechanism, where
molten metal is forced into the
faces of the matrices. The metal
hardens into a slug with raised
! letters formed on its face. The
I linotype then slides; the line into
ja galley.
Interesting? About as much so
as a few other song and dance
routines I’ve heard or rather, been
exposed to hear, lately. Ah, well':
MATT CLKKIN
i:u-i ^ i; >wn:." to the Souf'.-. ^
Cl n-.. ;.'i'-*i I th' Congregational-Chnst-
ion . r- -h. It is not cperated by Ui«
Southern Convention, rather it is run by
a B afd .:f Tr^stfand the President of
the CvUi ~
Who ' jppfrtt- Elon” The answer from
study'", the records is only too clear.
' r.e S lithem Convention does not give
tkin t ough per year lor our colloiii.- to
operate auccesslully for four weeks. The
Northern wing of the Congregational
Church -...tin't give iilon enough for them
to operate successtully for one weeiv.
Who then gives Elon her money? The
;-n»v.er, again from the records, is most
- Ifar. It ci)me; directly or indirectly from
Alamance :'>unty.
Elon College is a southern school. It is
cwned by the Souti. .:n Convention and is
located in the heart ol the South. The
majority of her students liail from the
surrounding territory, and reports from
alumni show that they are the ones who
support the college most actively when
the class days are over.
Elon is now struggling for her very
existance. All around her schools are
growing by tremendous leaps and bounds.
The University of North Carolina is spend
ing millions on buildings and staff. Wom
an's college in Greensboro has just opened
a fabulous new Student Center, complete
with colored lights and sunken pools.
Davidson has just completed new dormi
tories. Duke has built a new Graduate
Center and other buildings. Lenoir Rliyne
is in tiie midst of a large building program,
and so is Catawba.
Wake Forest has over $75,000,000 and
is in the process of moving to the magnifi
cent Reynolds Estate in Winston. All over
the nation powerful State Universities and
large colleges are snuffing out the historic
denominational schools, which are the
re^l hope of our future. The small college
must survive.
The struggle reminds us of the last
days of Rome. Rome fell, you remember,
not because her leaders wanted her to, but
because of rot and decay within. She be- '
came dividtd and, while her kaders strove
for survival, her citizens fought each other
and brought down their Empire on their
own heads. She became split at the most
crucial time in her history, and when out
side might hit her tottering walls she was
not ready for them.
Dr. Hollis Edens, president of Duke Uni
versity, declared recently in Greensboro
that in order for the denominational
schools to survive they must have a united
front nt home. He was speaking about
faculty as well as students. This is our
job—to support our alma mater in her
time of struggle and not leave it ike ists
fleeing a sinking ship. Our president i
working harder now than ever fo.' Elon.
He told a group of us last week that hi
is now working harder for Elon than -ver
before. We must back him and our Trust
ees. The least we can do is cooperate with
them.
No one, neither students nor faculty,
is forced to stay at Elon. We are free ta
do as w'e please. If Elon does not provide
what a person wants, then they can leave
Elon. No one is forced to stay here.
There are always those who hide be
hind the cloak of idealistic philosophy, and
who use the sacred name of religion as a
shield for ulterior motives designed to
destroy the set order of things. This kind
of thing at Elon’s crucial hour could well
destroy what the late Dr. William S. Long
dreamed of when he founded Elon in 1888.
Dr. Long was a native of Alamance County.
To whom does Elon turn for help each
year?—Alamance. Who has kept her doors
open since 1889?—Alamance. Who sends
more students than any other group or
section? Alamance. Whose name is on the
main building at the heart of the campus-
—Alamance. To whom did Elon turn in
1931 when the college's future was in the
balance?—Alamance. More Elon alumni
live in Alamance than in any other sec
tion. Alamance is the heart qf Elon Col
lege Without her Elon would fold up.
Elon College has served the Southern
Convention and the young men and women
of this section well since her doors were
first opened. We all owe her a deep debt
of gratitude.
No college can last unless it put, scholar
ship first For that reason Elon was con
ceived and planned. She has lollowed that
course all through her history, and she
must continue in the future. Only through
us can she live. And live she must
We are proud of Elon's past, her present
•s good, and the future is in our hands wl
can ung her death knell or her victor’*
song. s