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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, January Jg
1935
Maroon And Gold
Edited and printed by students of Elon
College Published bi-weekly during the
collpiie year under the auspices of the
Hoard of I’ubllcation.
EntM-ecl a- second clas^ matter at the
Host Office at Elon ColleKC, N C. under
the Act of March 8. 1879. Delivered by
mail, $1 50 the college year, 50c the
quarter
KDITOKIAI. BOARD
Jjmes Waggoner Editor-in-Chief
Ann Stoddard Assistant Editor
Charlie nates . Feature Editor
Judith Chadwick Music Editor
N.;il Johnson Art Editor
Keuben Askew Staff Photographer
I.uther N Byrd Faculty Advisor
BI SINESS BOARD
Jack Lmdley Business Manager
Bill Burke Circulation Manager
Carl E tJwen Printing Advisor
Worden l^pdyke Press Operator
SPORTS STAFF
Joel Bailey Sports Editor
REPORTERS
Lonnie Campbell William Frederick
Dons Chrismon Margaret Stafford
Anita Cleapor Gary Thompson
Sylvia Eaton Lewis Winston
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2G, 1955
STl'DENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Elon\ sixth annual High School Day"
is soon to be held upon the campus, and
one hundred students are needed to
volunteer as guides for the school groups
that will be our guests. Students will be
assigned to the various groups of seniors
from the visiting high schools, and they
will guide the tours of the Elon campus.
The student guides will begin their re
spective tours early in the aftei'noon, and
they will continue with their gui'sts groups
until the basketball game between Elon
and Lenoir Rhyne, the final game of the
Elon schedule.
Careful planning has been done to move
thf seniors in the fastest possible manner
over the campus, where they will witness
various displays and demonstrations that
will give the visitors a panaroniic view of
college life.
One of thf autstandinx events of the
cay's program will be the awarding of eight
scholarships, which total $0,000 in value.
They include awards for both boys and
girls, with top scholarships worth $1,200
and with lesser awards of $800, $600 and
$400 Top winners in the contests will reign
as ' Klni! " and "Queen" for the day, the
winners to be announced at half-time of
the basketball game that night.
With these faets in mind, we can readily
.see he need for complete I'ooperation on
the part of Eloti students in a display of
campus hospitality. Your help in volun-
teenni; to .ver\e as student guides will be
appreciated, not only by the more than
1,.500 guests, but by the college itself.
Those of us who cannot serve as guides
because of other duties can impress those
who are to visit the Elon campus by ex
tending a hearty welcome to each of the
high school students WAGGONEK
Mi:vil S SPEAKS IN CHAPEL
Horsi Mevius. who has an interesting
article in the feature section of this pai;r.
recenti.v spoke in one of the chapel pro
grams. Kiving us an interestang view of life
m .America, as contrasted to his native
i-ountry.
Many of his thoughts have bet n put in
print and our readers will surely get an
insight .is to the material given in that
j'articular service
We \Aould do well to do suiiiething about
the pha.ses of canvpus life in which Mevius
called a hit of surprise." Other than re
ferring to the trash on our campus and
the exlia-curricular ntv.st* m the dorms, he
related his approval of most of the other
phases of life on the Elon campus
Mevius did explain that he did not w.mt
to form or express any definite opinions
concerning .Xmenca until he had gotten
I'etter ,in,uainled with our ways and cus
toms I)ur actions w ill affe, 4 a irreat deal
m his final speculatloiis. so let\ give him
somethint; really uood to take back to
Germany, something so we can be proud to
.*>ay that we had some part in the forming
cjf .in opinion \VA(i(JONKK
jottings
UP]LA\EI) :\IO>IENT FOR ELON’S GERMAN STUDENT
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and there
By JAMES WAGGONER
SO YOi: WANT TO BE A TEACHER
I recently read an interesting article in-
titled. "Teachers Must Eat," concerning
one of America - biggest problems. With
legard to this articl^ let us consider in
our column today some significant facts
that might prove to be of interest to the
potential teacher.
First, let us visit a Texan who had gone
to the State of Washington during the
war. and had liked it so well that he de
cided to return there in order to. take up
hi= chosen field. His name is Tyman Steph
ens. and he teaches biology and physical
education at South Kitsan High School.
Stephens works from five to nine o'clock
in the evening as a cabinetmaker. He says,
"As long as we have three children, I won't
let my wife work. Her place is with them."
In other words, to make ends meet, cab-
inetmaking supplements his teaching sal
ary.
Next we venture up to New York City
and meet an Industrial Arts teacher named
Leslie Fernandez, who works week ends
in a grocery store, teaches jewelry and
leather working two nights weekly, at
tends college two other nights for his
master's degree (which will mean $200 a
year more pay). The reason given was that
his present pay as a school teacher would
never permit him to buy a surburban home
for his new baby to grow up in.
Our next trip takes us to Morrisville,
Pa , where we are introduced to Joseph
Matinas. Matinas has a rugged 91-hour-a-
wcek schedule, teaching science and social
studies at Morrisville High School, coach
ing football and baseball (without pay), and
v/orking until midnight at "Mike's Dog
House. " His reason lies in the fact that
banks refused him a mortgage on the
house he wants—his teacher's salary of
S.i.lOO is too low.
Leroy Houghton is another typical teach
er holding an after-school job. Houghton
teaches high-school math in 'Scarsdale,
N.Y., which has one of the best paying
school systems in the United States. He
spends 40 1-2 hours a week as a waiter.
His reason was that he had to replace his
1940 car. and he couldn't do that and
bring up four children even with his
lelatively high salary.
Michael Elia spends Saturdays as a gas
station attendant, while spending the
other days teaching the sixth grade and
:irt in Waldwick. N.J. Elia is also vice-
president of the PT.\. His reason was be-
cau.-e his working wife had to have an ex
pensive operation. With that almost paid
for. and a pay raise in sight. Elia hopes to
give up outside jobs " until the baby he
wants comes along. "
These might seem like exceptional cases,
I'ut they are not. Louis B. Schlivek, who
has recently spent three years looking into
this national situation, found that out of
a stuly made of 5.000 teachers, approxi
mately half hold after-school jobs, even
more working in summers.
These jobs ranged from grocery clerking
to selling encyclopedias from door-to-door,
the most common job in some parts of the
nation being janitoring at the school itself,
since it's simple for a woman to slip into a
housecoat, or for a man to climb into work
clothes and polish up their own classrooms.
These examples are gathered from other
parts of the nation, but a survey in this
section and state would reveal many sim-
! liar instances of teaching workint; at extra
jobs to piece out their incomes.
One has only to scout around in Burling
ton and neighboring cities to find teach
ers working in stores on weekends or
house-to-hou.se salesmen of encyclopedias
and similar items.
The North Carolina legislature is in
session now, and it is pretty definitely as
sured that no pay raise for teachers this
.session which regulates pay for the next
biennial.
However, this article is not intended
to present a poor picture of the teaching
profession, but to give the reader a panor
amic view of sfhool-teaching. especially
the side which most of us are not familiar
with.
With both sides of the story in mind,
one can be dead-sure about becoming a
teacher. One of the greatest satisfactions
in the teaching profs.sion is the fact that
Ihe teacher gives to his country a service
that will stand through thick or thin, in
season, out of season.
Pictured above in a relaxed moment at his desk in his Chib House room is Horst Mevius, a Ful-
bright Scholar from Luebeck. Germany, who has made many friends since coming to Elon College
this year. The (Jerman youth is attending Elon under the sponsorship of the Rotary Clubs, with
Ihe Burlington Rotary Club as his particular sponsor. In a feature story in this issue of the Maroon
and Gold. Mevius has written of the differences he finds in America and his native Germany.
Schools Anfl Life Are Different
Aiiierioa And Germany Are Gonipared
By HORST MEVIUS
I have been asked to write some
thing about my country foi this
paper. One way to do this is to
show evident differences between
my home country and yours. I
shall try to do it before I forget
what is distinct
One thing is the very fact that
I feel free to write for this paper.
We had a school paper at home
which was supposed to be run
by the st.idents themselves. But
how badl.v did it work! The ar-
t'cles had to be of such a high
standard that I and most of my
classmates never dared write any
contribution. The result was the
majority of the articles was writ
ten by teachers. This is quite un
usual at Elon. 1 got the impres
sion that one who feels that He
has something to say takes ad
vantage ot the chance offered by
he Maroon and (Jold
Another difference is the amount
of space your paper allows to
sports. In the Maroon and Gold at
least fifty per cent is devoted to
football, basketball and other
sports. In our school newspaper
only a short statement about
sports at our school appeared.
Emphasis On Sports
This may be another distinction
for sport is not as important in
German high scliools as it seem>
to be in Ihis country. This is due
partly to the lack ot gymnasiums
ind sportsfields, partly to a re
mainder of the old belief that
languages and sciences rank much
higher than physical training hi,
we do not have anything that
might be compared wfth your in
tercollegiate competition in foot
ball and other sports.
The only thing we had was a
track meet between the three high
schools of my home town each
year. Again, there was never much
interest in it on the side of the
students; not nearly as high a per
centage watched this annual event
as supports your basketball team
most audibly every night. An ex
planation for this may be that
not the high schools or the uni
versities Iwe do not have anything
like colleges) are the cell of Ger
man sport, but sport clubs in var
ious districts of a town. Sport fans
give much more attachment to
their sport clubs than to their
schools.
Studies Important
So life in our schools is much
more centered around good train
ing ill foreign languages, history
icience and music. We had an
orchestra and a choir of astonish
.ng perfection, as doubtful critics
.'reely admitted. Performances ot
dramas or tragedies and comedies
4ave a good reputation to my old
■school. There were discussion eve-
• ings about political or education
luestions. Other discussions were
■arried out in a foreign language
n this case German words were
itrictly forbidden
Another difference is the at
lachment that most students seem
:o have to PMon. They work in
-■ommittees; they wear sweaters
vith a large " E"' on them: they
■vant to see the Fighting Christ-
ans win. This was not so at home
I went to school from 8 to 1
clock, made my home works
out that was all I did for my
school. After that I did what I
Aanted to do. .Americans seem
.0 be so devoted to their school
hat. in sport events, their primarj
|{ACK(;i{()lM) ()1 THE WRITER
Horst Mevius. Eton's Kul-
liright student from Germany
this year, whi> writes in this is
sue his views of life in an .Amer
ican college and in his native
country, was born May 26, 1934
in Luebeck. (■erniany. where he
has spent most of his life.
His mother still lives in Lue
beck. where she operates a gro
cery shop, but his lather died in
a .Siberian prison camp as a vic
tim of the Russians, after being
captured while serving as a
German soldier. He is the eldest
of three children, having a 16-
year-old brother and a 10-year-
old sister at home.
Mevii*s attended primary
school for four years and then
attendi-d the fam>>us Kaiher-
ineum High .School, rated as oi.e
of the best schools in (jermany.
This s*hool is over six hundred
years old and operates toda-y in
the original building. He also
attended the I'niversity of Kiel,
a state institution, after his nine
years of high school.
Informed of the scholarships
offered by the Fulbright Com
mission, Mevius entered the
competition and won a scholar
ship which paid for his trans
portation to .America. His other
expenses are cared for by the
Rotary Clubs, which are sponsor
ing him. He sailed for .America
last .Aufust 24th and arrived
in New York September 1th,
where he was met by Rotary
representatives and guided on to
Elon.
He has a number of hobbies,
such as stamp collecting, mini
ature electric trains and out
door walking and running’. He
began running for an amateur
sports club in 1951 and has
participated in several German
championships. He won a first in
the 440-yard event in 1952 in a
group of boys up to 18 .years of
age and also took third as a
junior in the K80-yard race for
youths from 19 to 21 years of
age.
concern is to see their team win.
never heard them applaud to ex
cellent play on the side of their
opponents. Most Germans, how
ever, are primarily interested in
seeing beautiful play and try to
take an impartial Viewpoint.
Types Of Schools
Our school system is different.
At an early age of six years, every
child is required to go to a pri
mary school. There they are taught
how to read, to write and to
reckon. At an age of ten years, a
selection takes place. About fifty
per cent of the children continue
primary school to be given some
additional training in one foreign
language, history* geography, al
gebra and geometry. About forty
per cent enter a so-called middle
school. Two foreign languages and
a more intensive study of the
above-mentioned subjects are the
characteristics of these scshools.
Only the most capable children—
i'.bout ten per cent—are admitted
to a high school.
In the course ot nine high school
years three foreign languages, the
whole world history. German liter
ature. biology, chemistry, geogra
phy, mathematics up to differential
and integral calculus, physics,
music, art and. in the higher
classes, current events and phi
losophy are taught. Everybody
has to take all these subjects.
There is a firm schedule for each
grade. In the beginning, you may
have the choice of three langu
ages out of English, French, Latin,
Greek, Russian and Swedish, but
never between a variety of courses
as is taught in this country.
Vocational Training
Who cannot follow in class in
evitably drops out and continues
his studies in a middle school.
For this reason, or because many
want to enter an occupation at an
.‘arlier age, only about forty per
cent of the high school students
really graduate from their schools.
Law requires everybody to com
plete eight school years. After
'hat time primary schools send
heir children as apprentices to
Jiattsmen Middle schools include
SIX years after primary school,
.'imall business men and federal
olficers usually come from these
schools.
Only a certificate saying that
you have successsfully accomp
lished nine years of high school
entitles you to study at a German
university. Universities continue
high school and give final training
to physicans, teachers, mnisters
and lawyers. At a German univers
ity you have complete freedom of
choosing courses and cutting
classes. The only requirement is
that you know enough to pass
when you apply for final gradu
ation after at lea.t four years
ere are no tests every other
week. All types of German schools
'Continued on Page Four)
Curley's
campus
chatter
By CHARLIE OATES
Pearls to the cheerleaders for their out
standing hard work. They have done a lot
to cheer our team on to victory in the
basketball wars this winter. Each time
these girls go to an out-of-town game,
they lose one of their “off-campus" per
missions and pay for the gas. Why not
show your appreciation for their interest
and come on out and .ioin with them in the
cheers that mean so much . . . The Delta
U girls are ordering sorority pins, the pins
being similar to the original ones ordered
back in 1935 . . . Tuffy Bowman, a former
Elon student and member of the golf
squad, vsited the campus some days ago ...
Bob “Sheepie" Peters, now a member of
the U. S. Army and stationed at Fort Bragg,
was also back on the campus last week
end, accompanied by Nat Burwell, vv'ho is
teaching and coaching in Fayetteville . . .
Could it be that the Sigma Phi boys are
thinking of buying the Plantation Supper
Club for their fraternity house, since they
have been seen there so often lately . . .
Members of the Sdgma Phi party: Larry
Barnes, Bubba Barnes, Clyde Boswell. Jim
Reneau, Gary Thompson . . The girls'
WRA basketball tournament starts next
Thursday, and they begin practice this
Thursday.
^
Architects cover their mistakes with ivy,
doctors with sod, and brides with mayon*
naise ... it is easy to stop smoking, some
people quit dozens of times . . .a bustle is
like a historical romance: both are fic
titious tales based on stern reality. . . the
cost to run an automobile is about six
cents a mile, but past a red light the rate
is slightly higher . a General Motors
publicist explains that it takes a woman
longer to dress than a man because she
has to slow’ down for curves . . . the average
motorist, after seeing a serious wreck,
drives carefully for several blocks ... a
gossip talks to you about other people, a
bore talks to you about himself, and a bril
liant conversationalist talks to you about
yourself . . . women inspire us with all the
great things they prevent us from accomp
lishing . . . the only way to fight a women
is with your hat; grab it and runi
♦ * * * ♦
I know that everybody who reads this
column has had his full share of embar^
rassing moments, but I wonder if any of
you found yourselves in a spot to compare
to a friend of mine who met a lady at a
concert recently and, between numbers,
tapped her on the shoulder and murmured,
“Beg pardon, but your stocking appears to
be badly wrinkled.” The lady shot him a
look of unadulterated hatred and answered,
“I’m not wearing stocking this evening.”
★ ♦
Diary Of A Female
From the diary of a globe-trotting young
cinema queen . . .
Monday: The captain saw me on deck
and was kind enough to ask me to sit at
his table for the rest of the trip.
Tuesday: I spent the morning on the
bridge with the captain. Jle took my pic
ture leaning against the “Passengers not
allowed on this bridge” sign.
Wednesday: The captain made proposals
to me unbecoming an officer and a gentle
man.
Thursday: The captain threatened to sink
the ship unless I agreed to his proposals.
Friday; I save eight hundred lives today.
♦ * ♦ ♦
Not Thrifty, Stingy
Zeke Poppin ;jnd his wife were the sting
iest and orneriest couple in Ogunquit. Zeke
died at the age of eighty-edght and a few
years later it became apparent that his
w ife -was about to join him somewhere or
other in the beyond. Summoned her one
friend and said weakly, “Hetty, bury me
in my black taffeta dress, but afore you
do, might as well cut the back out and
make yourself a Sunday-go-to-meetin' gown
out of it. It's fine matertial.”
“Couldn't do that," demurred the friend.
When you and Zeke walk up them golden
stairs what would them angels say if your
dress ain't got no back in it?”
1 hey won’t be looking at me." said
Mrs. Poppin tartly. '‘I buried Zeke without
his pants.”
m * * * *
A Columnist's Mistake
A Hollywood columnist once circulated
an erroneous report of VV. C. Fields’ death
The bulbous-nosed comedian called up tht
editor in a rage. T hope you noticed/ ht
roared, “that your foul newspaper an
nounced my death this morning." ‘ That
I did. idmitted the editor coolly, "Ma> ^
ask where you're calling from?”