MAROON AND GOLD
Thuiuday, April 19
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By LARRY BARNES
mOM SUCH A POND THE TUNMa.nTES GOT WATER
Sylvia Grady
George Hall
THURSDAY, APRIL. 1858
VOTE IN THE FINALS
It U Spring. And Spring at Elon brings
clecOon day. Next Tuesday the finals in
the elections will be held. On that day
the students who are going to fill the
student government and other officcs next
year will bo choson, presumably by you,
the students. It is important to your wel
fare and success as a student body that
the persons with ability, leadership, and
dependabilly be elected to those positions.
You howl about wanting a good student
government. You don’t want too much ad
ministrative Interference. You want to run
the social life on campus, you want an
Honor Council that will be for the stU'
dent. And yet you don't go to the polls
and clect the persons you feel are best
suited to lead those organizaeions—you
just sit back and grip about the way those
elected carry on fheir duties.
Each time there has been an election
this year, only a small per cent of the
studenu voted, making the winners lead
ers of the minority. Apparently, the pro
verbial Elon voting spirit is dying. But
you have one more opportunity this year
to cast aside your indifference and help
bring some of that old spirit into elec
tions again. Take politics out of their
crepe, dust them off. and use them. And
don’t forget to vote Tuesday. —GBT.
REQUIEM
A flar?—a flame—and it wa:i gone! Only
two short weeks &go South Dorm of “dsar
Ole Elon" yielded to the licking tongue
of the fire demon and sang its sw«n
song amid flaming colors.
It is only fitting that we should men
tion this Incident in the Maroon and Gold
bccause South Dorm had been the object
of much discussing for several years. To
sonic it wjis an eye-sore; to some a men
ace; and to others, a rebc of by-gone days.
It had served its purpose! It had stood
there for years and years; it had been a
home for thousands of men who had come
from far and near to make Elon their
college; it.iad withstood the ravages of
the element amazingly!
But its days of service were over. It
had begun to weaken and decay, and it
had become not only an unsightly object
tut also a dangerous one. It stood there
only as a structure, very antiquated, very
unattractive, and very perilous.
So South stands no longer. Yet in its
passing, there is no grief nr remorse, but
only a memory of what used to be.—GBT
WHAT GOOD WILL ONE VOTE DO?
Well, One vote has had a lot to do with
& lot of things in this country.
Thomas Jefferson was elected piesident
by one vote. So was John Quincy Adams.
Kutherford B. Hayes was elected presi
dent by one vote. The first two were
named in elections that went to tlie House
of Kepresenlatives, and the Hayes elec
tion wa.s a contested one that was re
ferred to an electoral commission. It was
there that he won by ■ gingle Tote.
The man wlio case the deciding vote
for President Hayes was a congressman
from Indiana, a lawyer who wa.s himself
elected to Congress by a margin of one
TOle. And that one vote for him was cast
by a client of his who, although desper-
ate>> ill, insiited on being Uken to the
polls to vote.
Just one vpte gave statehood to Cali
fornia, Idaho. Oregon, Texas and Wash-
Ington, and today all the millions living
In thOM- five sUtes are Americans by just
cne vote.
Now you may «ay that one »ote situa
tion applies only to the past. Well, don’t
forgef yiat the Draft Act oif -l^orld War
II passrt the House by Just one vote . , .
and ,yf)u can carry the "One Voe” hls-
eopr op.
There is no power like the power of th«
ballot —FROM OUTLOOK MAGAZINE.
South Dorm now stands like an ominous
charred skull, staring disdainfully at pass-
ers-by. No more will its ancient halls ring
wkh the laughter of Elon students.
The Elon student body returned from
the Easter holiday to find the South Dor
mitory gutted as r lesult of an early morn
ing fire. By an act of God, only two stu-
denti—Sam Brady and Chang Gill Kim
—were in the building at the time the
blaze broke out. As you welHtncw, the
remainder of the occupants of the build-
ing were away from the campus on spring
vacation.
All of the twenty-four rooms In the
familiar structure were damaged by fire,
water or smoke, and since the return of
the students frcm holidays last week the
forty-seven men students who once lived
in South have moved into different dorms
They have been interspersed in North,
Cai^on House ind the third floor of the
Christian Education Building. All of them
suffered losses in the blaze, and I quizzed
a couple of them as to what the fire did I
to them personally. Buck Flemming says— |
"I lost all my good clothes, two summer
suits, and about ten summer pants, and
all my good white shirts, sport shirts,
sweaters, one sport coat, two pairs of new
shoes, and all of my bed covering. The
only summer clothes that I have to my
name are two pairs of Bermuda shorts.
All my school books were lost. The only
book I could find was the Holy Bible.
These things are just a few that I have
lost. I did not have any insurance on any
of my things. So if the college does not
pay anything I will lose just about every
thing I own.
"1 have just bought all my summer
clothes down here, and Easter I was go
ing to carry all my winter clothes home.
But now I have to wear my winter pants
when it gets hot.
"Right now I own a total of eight pairs
of pants. Three of these are wool pants,
three khaki, and. of course, my Bermudas.”
Ashbum Kirby has this to relate about
the fire — “The fire was a bad thing and
some of us lost almost everything we had.
We are all thankful to the good Lord that
we were not in the building asleep be
cause some of us would have been killed
or possibly ruined for bfe. 1 saved my
most treasured possession, tho’. It’s my
girl’s picture. 1 was really sweating that
thing out! I am now living in the "Greater
Carlton House". I have a pretty nice room
over there, but nothing here, almost not
even West Dorm, could take the place of
ole South.”
I ran across a downcast Jim Calhoun in
the Student Union. He took me out to
the front of Mooney and showed me the
scorched remains of his belongings. Spread
on the grass lay 23 sports shirts, 3 or 4
.'.uits, innumerable pairs of pants, some
burned encyclopedias and other objects.
Jim was really concerned over his ency
clopedias. He had a complete set and not
cne was worthy of use. They were valued
over $100.00. What really worried him
the most was the fact that they were not
covered with insurance and he has not
finished paying for them yet. I asked him
what he figured he lost all toll. He re
plied with the eye-opening total of $500 00.
An ironic twist of fate was played on
Ray Whitley and Hugh Citty. Just the
week before they had moved from another
dormitory to South. Like so many others,
they lost almost all they owned.
South was constructed around 1920 and
was formerly used as a publishing house
by the Southern Convention of Congrega
tional Christian Churches before being
converted to a dorm some 18 years ago.
Mu^h of the w«lei used by residents of the back country of India comes from just such ponds or
",rn“ s’- as pictured abrve It wa. from thir earthen "tank” that Mrs, Tunn.cUffe obtamed wa er
foT all evcept d-ink;ng The drinking water was hauled from a pure source many miles
away from the Tunnicliffe hom. during all the period that they ^ived on
compound Such ponds also served as good hunting grounds for water Birds, as described
companylng story,
In Which It Is Shown That
Life Is Sometimes Rugged In India
By
The Brighter Side
The Student Christian Association, along
with the Ministerial Association, have
come up with an original and commend
able idea. They held a meeting recently
to try and see if they could alleviate the
present condition of the students of South
Dormitory. These organizations plan to fos
ter a fund raising campaign. They will
a'.k the other students to pledge what they
can in the form of monetary, donations. It
is up to us as fellow sudents and fellow
Christians to give all the aid that is pos
sible. We can dig down deep or we can be
indifferent to the whole situation but—
who knows? It could happen to your dor
mitory. That is a thought worth consider--
• ing.
After I married I left Lady Doak
College to move into a tobacco
area some 250 miles north of Ma
dras in the out-district of the Tel-
egu country, now known as the
Andhra District. The Depot, of
which my husband was Branch
Manager, was 26 miles from the
railroad and was situated in a
small man-made oasis in the mid
dle of fields of tobacco, red pep
per, and cholam. This last is a
grain resembling wheat, but has
a head three times the size and
glows even taller than corn.
The depot was in the heart of
n black cotton soil district; there
were no roads leading to it. A
dirt "trunk" road (a main thor
oughfare) ran somewhere near it.
and from this road*we had to
drive down cart tracks and over
waUi-filled fields to reach our bun
galow.
During the rains the roil of the
area made any sort of locomotion
almost impossible; we could not
even walk outside our gravel-fill
ed compound without sinking knee
deep in mud. The trunk road it
self. or that part of it in our
area, partook of this muddiness, as
well as being well broken up by
wadis, which became sw:—'len tor
rents during a rain. (A wadi is
a rocky or sandy watercourse, dry
except in the rainy season.) Vehi
cular traffic, even to the bullocK
cart, was at such times at at a
tandstill.
A Rugged Trip
A baby. cyclone hit the area
the day on which we were due to
leave Madras for our new home.
The tracks jusi below the town of
Chirala, the main re-drying and
packing center for the Indian Leaf
Tobacco Development Company,
w'eic washed away. We were
forced to remain in Madras for
i week, a state of affairs which
we did not mind. When we fin
ally managed to reach Chirala it
was another eight days before any
roads were dry enough, any wa
dis low enough, to permit a car
lo get through.
Our depot, near the village of
Kommur. was 26 miles from Chi
rala. a short journey which we
took many times during dry wea
ther. This time, however, we were
obliged to travel a circuitous route
We circled the perimeter of the
Kommur area for 80 miles, and
ipent five days on the road. .That
we eventually reached Kommur
within five days is a tribute to
my husband’s driving ability. We
were in trouble only twice, both
.imes on the last lap of the jour
ney when the mud had become
so deep and slippery that there
'■eemed to be no solid earth any
where.
The first halt came in the .Tud-
dle of what was once the main
street of a small village. From that
dilemma we were rescued by the
help of friendly villagers under
the supervision of the Brahmin
priest, who even helped in the
pushing. The second halt, nearly
CHAPTER TWO
MRS. DARTH FA TUNNICLIFFE
- present), and three sheep. The
sheep were a necessity. We were
I never certain that we would be
I able to get meat when we wanted
'it; and, as it was impossible to
buy even mutton near us^we de
This is a continuaf>»n of the
narration of the experiences of
one of Elen’s faculty members
in faraway India. In the past
issue of the Maroon and Gold
Mrs. Tunnicliffe recounted her
experiences as a teacher in a
girls' college in India. In this
issoe he describes the life which
she and her husband lived in
the Indian back-country, where
he was employed with a large
tobacco company. There were
hardships, of course, but there
were also things of almost in
describable beauty to be seen.
disastrous, was in sight of the de
pot. Mud, water, rolling stones
and un.seen holes seemed to be
the finish of our journey. We
were considering the advisability
of wading when shouts stopped
us. From the depot men came
running with three large palmyra
mats which they placed in front
of the car. As we rolled over each
mat it was removed and placed
it the front of the foremost mat,
thus enabling us to reach firm
:round. And so we reached oui
compound and the shelter of the
bungalow,
Home Is Described
The compound was about 4 acres
of circular land. In the center was
the one story T-shaped bungalow,
a wide covered veranda running
down the front. From the middle
of the veranda jutted a large cov
ered secUon which we used as
an outside sitting-room. This sec
tion was partially enclosed by
masses of bougainvillaea, climb
ing up onto the roof and spread
ing out along the sides on a wire
trellis. Great splashes of purple,
red, pink, and salmon pink were
brilliant against the white walls.
Beyond the front driveway was a
I garden made up entirely of tro-
cided to keep our own. The diffi
culty came when we wanted to
butcher the sheep. Everyone had
made such pets of them that 1
invariably received requests to let
the sheep live a little longer. For
other meat, supposedly beef but
more probably water buffalo, we
had a standing order f?c‘m Ma
dras.
Our beef and butter used to
come to us fortnightly from a dis
tance of 250 miles. Occasionally
the meat reached us in a decom
posed state. There were no refri
gerator cars on the trains; the
meat and butter was packed in
? box with sawdust and ice, the
whole sewed up in gunny sacking.
Should the train be late, or the
parcel put off at the wrong sta
tion, mest and butter were ined-i
ible when they reached Kommur.
These parcels of food and any
mail that we received had to be
brought to us by runner from Chi
rala. Kommur had no post offict
and no telephones. For any emer
gency we still had to rely on a
'unner, or make the journey our-
elves by car.
Eggs Were Scarce
Our chickens were not much ol
a sucess as egg producers. Indiar
chickens have not been trained
to lay more than one egg every
other day; furthermore, they sel
dom lay at the same time. The re
sult was that we rarely got more
than one egg a day. Instead we
had to send to all surrounding
villages within a radius of twelve
miles for two dozen eggs. How
ever, we did raise fowl to help
our larder.
Variation in our diet was help
ed tremendously by the proximity
of teal in the district. India is
pical flowering trees, beyond these full of "tanks” (bodies of water
a tennis court at the edge of the:about the size of our pond, natural
compound and abutting a field of {or man-made to retain as much
tobacco. 1— =
The back premises of our com
pound at Kommur consisted of
kitchens, godowns (storerooms),
and servants quarters; a large hen
house, the garage, and our own
private electric plant. We had the
only electricity in our area, even
the offices of the depot just across
th cart track road were lighted by
lar.terns and oil lamps. All the
smal villages around us and all
over the district, were lit by sim,
-lar means. It was always some
thing of a thrill to see our bright
ly lit house from a distance at
night; it looked like a vast ocean
liner on a gala night riding at an
chor in the darkness.
We soon made good use of our
back premises. Ere long, in addi
tion to the deer we had brought
with us, we collected twenty hens
and a rooster, ducks, six turkeys,
two geese and a gander, five gui
nea fowl, a dachshund puppy
(which came to us as a Christmas
the
quidnunc
By GARY THOMPSON
Army Is Hunting For Theology Students
The army is hunting for theology stu
dents who can qualify tor second lieu
tenant commissions and assignir.enii a,
chaplains to home-town Reserve and Nat-
ional Guard uniU. (
The program is primarily for iren jn
their first and second year at theologicti
»eminaries, since senior students may ap-
ply directly for first lieuienant commis
sions shortly before they're ordained.
As the Army sees it, the initial advaa-
lages to getting into the program are a
chance to attend summer training and
De paid for tension courses through the
Chaplain School. An eventual advantage
is a chance to supplement regular civilijn
income by taking part in Reserve affairs
after being ordained and assigned to a
ciiurch.
If you’re a theology student, your fi«t
qualification for the program is that you
be a full-time student at a recognized sem
inary, or be a senior at a recognized col
lege dr university planning lo enter a sem
inary come fall, '
■you may also—
Have completed 130 undergraduate se
mester hours at a recognized college or
university.
Have the approval of your church d^
nomination for the study of theology.
Be over 18, but not have reached your
30th birthday prior to your appointment
Sign an agreement ^hat you'll accept
a commission as first lieutenant if you're
offered one after you re ordained.
Agree to serve a minimum of two full ]
years of active duty after you re appoint
ed as a iirst lieutenant if the Army re
quires your services on active duty, (The I
Army says it now isn't in need of chap
lains on active duty and chances are won't
involuntarily call a Reserve unit chap- I
lain unless a lull or partil mobilization |
occurred.)
Meet the general requirements for ap- I
pointment as a commissioned officer in |
the Army Reserve,
All young men who sign up in the pro-1
gram will be eligibel to take the eight-
week Summer course at the Chaplain
School, eihter between your terms at the |
seminary or after graduation.
During your course at the school you j
will be paid $677 if you have no depen- j
dents or $711 if you have dependents.
You’ll reecive a uniform allowance of S20U I
after you have completed 14 days of the |
course and your travel expenses will be ]
covered by the Army.
After your graduation from the semi
nary and you're assigned to a Reserve]
unit, you’ll have the opportunity to earn
from $500 to $1,000 a year as an active]
Reservist, Your assignment, incidentally,
will be at or near your local parish.
If you’re interested in the program and I
feel you're qualified, you should write to I
the office of the Chief of Chaplains, De-j
partment of the Army, the Pentagon, 1
Washington 25, D. C., for application j
blanks and instructions.
ram water as the lie of the land
will permit—in effect, small re
servoirs), at least one near every
village, and many in the middle
of fields for irrigation purposes.
Teal, pin tail, spoebill, and shovel
lers, as well as non-edible water
birds, inhabited these tanks un
til they began to dry up.
One of our favorite recreations
«as to go out to the tanks in the
early morning or late afternoon
to shoot teal. O^ten, on getting
word by runner of a sudden de
luge of directors touring the dis
trict and planning to stay for a
meal or for the night, we have
snatched up our guns and gone
out searching for teal. Luckily,
they were almost always plenti
ful. My task was to steal upon
them and fire into their midst
a used an air rifle) to raise them.
At the other end of the tank were
the rest of the huhters who sliot
as the birds circled over them.
(Continued on Piigs l^ur)
Bull Sefisions
College customs and traditions change
with the times, but the old-fashioned buU
sessions survive them all. Any attempt
to abolish them would be futile, but they
could stand improvement. Perhaps a cam
paign for a higher type of bull session
with a slogan to "Sling Constructive Bull
w ould be advisable.
The familiar bull session of today is
anything but inspiring. A group of stu
dents assemble in a smoke-filled room
and frequently discu.ss anything from 'he
price of eggs lo the 'best methods of bluff
ing the faculty, with ample time for con
sideration of other topics of conversation
in between.
Nigthly meetings at which gossip, slan
der, "griping,” and indecent jokes con
stitute the program are injurious not only
to the participants, but also the persons
being discussed. A person’s reputation is
not what he is but what other people think
he is. Much unhappine,se can be causeii
by unjust criticism and false accusation,
and all too often it starts as a jest at >
bull session. "If you cn’t say somethin*
nice about a person, say nothing at all.
Bull sessions could and should be scenes
of worthwhile discussion. A person
train his mind in the right channels, of
he may develop it in the worng way. D®
bull sessions, in the popular interpretation
of the term,. improve the mind ot bene.it
anyone? If so. they, are,to be tolerated in
moderation. If .ijot, they are to be to^'
denined.