North Carolina Newspapers

MCE TWO MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, September 3o, Mdroon And Gold Edited «nd printed by itudents of Elon 9oUe*e. Published bl-w*«kly during the allege year under the »usplceg of the Board of Publication. Entered as second class matter at the Poit Office at Elon College, N. C.. under the Act of March 8. 1879. DiUrered by mi*il. $150 the college year, 50c the quarter. nilTORlAI BOARD Editor-in-Chief A; nciate Editor A ociati- Editor Music Editor Alt Edilor Staff Photographer Faculty Advisor T. Curt Jam It V. t'll>‘" ne , \Va ■ 'intT I’ati. 7\l-‘lii)n Cooper WalkiT Kcul)i'n Aski-w Luther N Byrd Bl'SINESS BOARD Jack I.indley lUisiru'ss Manager Hill Uuikc Circulation Manager Carl K Owen I'rinting Advisor Douglas Edwards . I’ros^ Operator SPORTS Si AH'" Gary Sear:. Sports Editor Mike Hausco . Asst. Sports Editor Cailton l.angston Intramural Sports REPORTERS Reuben Askew Staff Photographer Luther Barnes Frank Bonds Winfred Bray Stanley Bunch Uoris Chiismon Ann Kearns Ronnie McIntyre Thomas .Madren Don Pennington Louis Rangel Bill Simmons Arlene Stafford Wayne Vestal WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1953 AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION The unfortunate burning of Prof. A. L. llook'i home last Friday night brought to th’ mind of the dormitory students the problem of safety in case of fire, and members of our Inter-Dormitory Coun cil can serve their fellow students im measurably by conducting a thorough check-up on the number and location of fire extinguishers. We may observe three facts from the ac counts of last Friday night s fire. (1) Al though the fire was burning in the next room, the Hooks needed to be awakened. (21 The local fire alarm shrilled for twenty minutes and failed to arouse many of the .sleeping tudents. 13) There is available only a volunteer fire department, none of which is cn night-time duly. The greatest danger appear.c to be in failure to awaken :ound-sleeping students. During the panic of a fire, some students may not be awakened by other fleeing stu dents So. let us use foresight and meet • he need for a sepaiate fire alarm in each dormitory.—T T. CHAPEL The need to worship God seems to us, as students of a Christian college, self-evi dent. We have the opportunity to worship Him in our chapel gatherings for Wednes day and Friday. The crux of our problem Is, "Do we use this time for worship of God:-' The noisy entrance ... the automatic drone of the Doxology ... the hymn the barely audible talk . . . another hymn foptional if the speaker U lengthy) the benediction ... the dash for the door. Where is the spirit of worshipping God? Students need today a feeling of actu ally worshipping God. Is it that the order of .service is outmoded for the spiritual needs of the student? Are the leaders' feeling with the students an experience of actually worshipping God? Or has the worship of God degenerated into an orien tation program cloaked behind biblical pas sages? If the order of service not achieving a worshipful atmosphere, it would seem ad- visablc to change it.— T. T. POST TRIBUTriH Last summer an office light blinked out. A moment later a key clicked in a lock. I'-Mially this meant another day's work done, but that night it was as a conductor who places his baton on the stand and walks into the wings out of sight but not '■ut «f the minds and heart.s of his fel low workers and vsitnesses of his labors. Many of us have experienced his thoughts, deeds nnd many kindnesess. The highest tribute we can pay Dean D. J. Powden is that he is a Christian Teacher in the fullest meaning of the phrase, tor this we bless you most: You gave much. And knew not you gave at all." • . . T. T. n bullets in the bull's-eye Bt tom TARGIIT Have >ou heard about the frosh co-ed who at breakfast one moininf- i. ;>.e.i d n fried egg. :>miled sweetly at Joe Morris and ^aid, "I'd rather have mine scram bled." . . The dances in West Uoim pai- Idi s‘’cm to be a nuge jutci- r-, . . . Ciroot is entering the Linivei. iij Aniaiti- dam this fall to study English . . . Mike Moffo was back on campus la-it week end . . . He's stationed at Camp Gordon in Geoigia . . . The Bioiony Departmci.t re cently leceived a donation from the girls in West Doim . . . one old bat . . Unc.e Sam sent out many greeting cards this summer to men of Elon . . . Walt liaiding. Trank Waff, Johnny Hunter, Bill Andiev^s. Bob Hayes. Eddie Hoyle, and Don Graff. . all got invitations . . . Lynn Cashion, ex- president of student body, is now a disc jockey in Sanlord . . . Mis. Betty Smith is now drama diiector at Averett College in Danville, Va. . . . The Oscar Hollands have a baby daughter, "K.im, " born Augiiit 2Ulii. . . From a column in the Twnple Uni versity Press . . . Freshman —"What do you mean by slink ing the b»ll? ' Sopiiomore—"To sling the bull is to pi event the professor from realizing that you’re saying nothing in a gieat man> words." Junior—“To sling the bull is to say ^ little in a great many words, so as to give ' the impression that you are lamiiiar with whatever the text is covering. ' Senior—"To iJing the bull is to say as much as posible in well chosen words so as tu convey the impression that you are familiar with the material under examina tion, in spite of the fact that you have been unable to devote siiflicieat elloit to study adequately an unduly difficult as- Fignment." The Duke Ambassadors to play for Home Coming . . . I've had a sneak preview of the plans . . . Greatl . . . Let's gel behind the committee and put the plans into re- i'lity . . . Don t forget the date, Oct. 31 . . . Might as well get your dates lined up now . . . Jack James and Holland Taylor came back from a lishing trip one week end last summer with a tale of how they caught more than 400 iish . . . Wow! . . . Hut, that's what they said . . . Prof. Rey nolds has the big one that didn't get away, ail mounted and hanging in Tiie Grill for all tp see . . . Summer romances which blosscmtd in Yellowstone National Park are Bob Phelps and Meryle Mauldin, Doug Edwards and Ann Stoddard . . . The Players are busy working on tiieir first production . . . "The Glass Menagerie " Air Haid Is being heard once again as frosh girls hit the dirt , . . Only thirty stu dents have failed to pay their student body tees . . . iSveryone is pleased that the new revisions of the constitution have passed . . . Many points of discrimination have been erased ... Do you notice the lack of upper classmen on the campus? . The new hair styles for boys change every day . . , First they were Mohawks, and now they look like Buddhist monks. Did you know that North Dorm was the first coed gym in the South? ... If you want to learn to Humba, be sure to see iiilda Alejandre or Marissa Caussade The girls from South ot the Border can leally show how its done ... if you missed the slides of Laverne Brady's trip to Fiance >ou missed a treat ... It has hap pened . . . £mmy Lou Sockwcll is en gaged . . . “For Whom The Bell Toiled . . Lulu Bunker and Gerald White Jean Nunnamaker and Jack James Shirley Swank and George Chapman Jean Tew is now taking some night and"w H ■ ' Monday and Wednesday nights are successful 1 he Ph. Psi Cli staff is hard at work you have any advertisement leads be “ure to tell York Brannock . . . students can Bovvden a handsome brief ease as a going-away present ... The Student Leeis lature alloted $275 for the Home r^Jing mute: wtld'u Com. the cloci* se^ n fers frnm c campus still suf- rtrs from Suitcaseitis . Dopc ^ >he team if ' ® support FORIIER EI.OIN SPORTS STAR DIES IN WRECK Billy Rakes, a former Elon sp us star from Fleldale, Va., who captained the Chri.stian baseball team through the 1952 season, m ' de-.th in an automobile accident, which occuri^d near Frank lin, Va., early on Saturday mori ing, August 15th, while he and a party of fiiends were enroute to the beach. Honored In His Own Home Town.. Somewhere there is found an old adage that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country," but that ancient saying was never spoken in reference to Billy Rakes, former Christian sports star and Elon graduate of the Class of 1952, for the stocky little speedster was loved by all : nd almost idolized by the young- -lers of his own ho.'ne t'own. No recent graduate of Elon Col lege has been more popular with Ms college than was Billy Rakes during the four years he spent be neath Old Elo's classic oaks, but few of the Elon faculty and few of the students knew the grip which Billy held upon the heart strings of the people of Fieldale, Va., the little town in which he grew to manhood. Indeed, it is doubtful whether even the people of Fieldale it self realized the place which Billy Rakes held in their hearts and in the life of the town until the little athletic star niet his untimely hero during his high school days, death in an automobile accident and he carried that speed on to Va., early on the earn new honors in prep school at Hargrave and still later here on Elon's cv.-n Fighting Christian near Franklin morning of August 15th A feeling or profound shock settled over Fieldale when the news reached the little Virginia town that Billy Rakes was dead, iind then friends began recalling to themselves and to each other the many kind and friendly things that he had done during the all- too-short twenty-four years ot his life. One of those many true friends recalled how Billy had begun, when barely big enough to lug the load of papers, to carry a paper route and turn his earnings over to his widowed mother. That friend recalled, too, the smile and the ever-present politeness with which Billy met everyone, traits that earned him many friends. Anyone in Fieldale can tell you of the dashing play that made Billy a basketball and baseball teams, where he was ever a fav crite with cage and diamond fans. After giaduaticn here at Elon in 1952, young Rakes went back home to teach and coach in his old high school, and friends tell how he was never too busy to stop for a chat or a bit of a game with the youngsters on the vacant lots; and they tell that, on the day that he lay for the last time in his home in his beloved Fieldale. there weie dozens of thos« youthful friends and admirers who stood in the yard and cried tears as bitter as it iheir own fathers were dead. More indicative, perhaps, of the true kindness of Billy Rakes’ na ture, is the story of how—even with his own chores at home and (Continued on Page Four) Iiifaiilieide... In Reverse license now ' cnt^nce -.uirements with an end i„ and backs.” By CURT WELBORNE How some normally mature and intelligent people can be changed into hollow-headed idiots the min ute they get behind the wheel c.f a car probably gives psychia trists nightmares. \Vhatever the cause of this phenomenon—the thrill of speed, the sense of power, or simply the irresistable urge to show off—it costs lives daily. The pathetic part is that many of those killed are pedestr;ans, whose only crime IS being unable to run fast enough to keep out from under the wheels of a monster shriek ing around a blind corner of an intersection or through stop sirns and lights. If we treated the rights of oth ers as callously in our social eon- lacts as we do on the road (behind the protection of a couple of tons of mobilized metal) we would have *ur noses flattened several times a day. 'ies. It takes a real big deal be- ■nnd the wheel to make people 'catter like ^ that of a three-year-old scratch ing off cn his mama's broom. If the similarity of the rapt physi ognomies doe.sn't convince you. then listen carefully to the neigh jbors boy's vocal motor and tirt ^catter like chickens on a croL- ";li^' “‘her motorists out • Li " -Noiting ways to do this) and niake nght-of-way.s where none normaly exist. K » is easy to ttribute lethally inconsiderate '■r'Ving habits to ignorance or imp.e feeble-mindedness, but it a. already been noted that driv es are normally intefligent in n.ost other respects. Even those «o-wheel hot rod boys have lo l^now enough to read the E's X's ‘*nd Z s on license test eye-charts and write their names. It is this department's view that inconsider- c driving is born of infantilism pure and unadulterated. If this strikes you as being an over-simplification. compare the acial expre^ion of a driver t jet-propelled, tire-squalling take off at a crowded intersection with noises while he’s playing cops and robbers. Ring true? Yes, a great deal of this tire- squealing, motor-racing, inconsid erate driving is nothing more than ’a game played by big-limbec kids of assofted ages from IG up. Just how exciting these lovable child ren can make the game can be ascertained by totaUng up the score in dead and maimed in the newspaper—any issue. The game '■ played 24 hours a day, with '^cuble and triple headers on Sun days and holidays. What can be done about if’ Probably nothing. After all “kids '•.111 be Rids.’’-You remember that axiom and we live by axioms; ^aves the wear and fear of think ing. Education of drivers’ Hah' j Many learn nothing from' serious nnpury to themselves in accidents caused by their puerile acts. This I fatalism; ifs realism. But' cheer „p. There are some posi tive steps we can take to protec* ourselves. In the public interest we list them below: for pedestrians as’if^?'?" ^"‘°™°biles in sight I as If each were operated by a screaming idiot, in manv / jou’ll be right. ^ 2. Never be so naive as to pay attention to stop lights at inter sections. Few motorists do. ,nf' ^^‘‘'"ate the distance ^eed and flight pattern of auto- ^igns ^Ldtell-tale 'gns and signals such as tire r-e-rk)°"t'°“"""’^ ‘=°™«s (e-e-e- e k), tire noises cn take-off -a-a-a-ekk!), screams of pedS bumpers (vary! "‘th age, sex, etc.), and the var^ •ous types of muffler sounds (Hol-| l,ywood, gutted, straight, rusted- out. etc.) NOTE: By careful study of the Doppler effect, one can be come quite clever at estimating time-cf-arriva;, point:-of-contact, :ind much other useful stuff. 4. (A) In making your escape from an onrushing car,always re member to run at right angles to the path of vehicle. (The study of geometry will prove beneficial in this respect.) (B) While walking always have an escape route and sanctu ary in mind at all times. Rough, obstacle-filled terrain is best for escape from low-slung cars. Jeeps and T-Models offer special prob lems. Large buildings and con crete abutments make the best stopping places. Always keep them between you and the car. Watch for flying glass. Always carry complete iden- t.iication with you at all times— name, address, next of kin, and blood type. (Don’t forget the Rh factor.) NOTE: Most hospitals re quire verification of your hospital insurance before admission. Many i insurance policies of this type are net too bulky (being written most- Jy in small print) and can be ear ned easily on the person. • 6- The decoy method of escape li used by some pedestrians, al- though It IS admittedly not too ethical. Basically it consists of ob serving all the above rules and m addition, making sure you al- v.ays walk with' someone else This V'ay, when danger threatens, you «n always run away from yLr companion. Chances are, the car attracted to him instead you. (Odds increase with more companions. However, in large crowds stay outside of the group IiightT for motorists 1. There is no hope for motor- ists. 2. Good luck. jottings from here and there By JAMES WAGONER (EDITOR S NOTE: The writer, ,1,5 contributed this column to the Msroun and Gold this week, transferred to tior from Temple College of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was editor-in-chief of the “Temple Times", the college neirs. ' paper of that institution.) Amid so much that is uncertain, tliere is one thing sure; Elon College will gi,e in return what one offers to Elon. As I entered the gates into the campus of El-ju this thought came to me, and I realized then that one must have a goal in tlie ti«- ginning for continuing his education, aad surely the grave is not that goal. My first impression came from former president of the Elon student body-Roger Gibbs. His warm welcome made me feel at heme. He gave me information about the school, such as the accreditation, the well-trained faculty, thes pecialized train ing for work in various fields of life, tlie na tural beauty of the campus, the fu'Jy equiped buildings, and the extra-curricular activities. He then escorted me through the beau tiful colonnades of Elon to observe the campus, to the Mooney Building; the Science Building, the Carlton Library, ard the Whitley Auditorium, These, too, le3 their impressions. I learned that small clases made it posible to have closer contact with studenU and faculty. All of this information gane me a “shof- in-the-arm” of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a magic key, without which few people open doors to happiness and success, I needed to possess this inherent quality of en thusiasm, I am unable to imagine a Lou Gehrig without enthusiasm for a great game—or an Abraham Lincoln without en thusiasm for the highest of ideals. So, I considered its meaning in every area of college life, and quickly recognized its magic quality as a secret of' worthy ac complishment. 'With enthusiasm any tai could be done with less effort, Webster defines enthusiasm as “divine possession or inspiration.’ This plus quality can maie possible success and sati.sfaction in col lege. Strange as it may seem, as I thought on these things, I could not truthfully ^ay. have no opportunity to do something, get something, achieve something,” 1 discov ered then that I now have possibiiilies which are greater than I had contemplated. I saw that Elon can offer days filled witb opportunities and my task is to make tie most of each. I strived to get my thinking straiglit; to get an objective; to know where I ■wanted to go. I asked God to give me fai'Ji in myself, in my own abilities. The doer of opportunity is o.pened and it is up to me to attain the key of efficiency, wliicii will permit me entrance into n#aily every scholastic room of the Elon household. Yes, Elon College made its impression on me and now it’s up to me to make an impression on Elon College. This is my opportunity unlimiteii,' Tbis i.‘ the best hour of my life. Just tiiiiA there s always room at the top of the iiiSi" est mountain, and I have the same oppof' 1 unity to scale the mountain top. Success will not come t* me; I must labor to reacli it' It is up to me to attain it. This is clearly perceived by the great essayist Emerson when he penned, “He who tiiinls success, has turned his back on failure. Thus I concluded—J. W.—Look ahead' Gaze out into the future! Set your far afield! Never retreat! Attempt to niske each today exceed each yesterday. AWAKi! Be ambitious! You have not lost the battle. SUCCESS is yours. Take it.