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MABOON AND GOLB
Thursday. March 12.
19S9
Maroon And Gold
Entered »s second cl«s« matter a* the
"PcMst Office at F.lon CoHeRe, N. C., under
the Act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by
mall, J! 50 tte college year, 30c the
quarter.
Edited and printed by sUidcnts of Elon
College. Published bi-weekly during the
college year under the auspircE of the
Board of Publication.
KDITORIAL BOAR»
Waller Edmonds E^tor-in-Chief
Diclc Lashley Assistant Editor
Ann Joyce AsBistant Editor
H. Reid - Alumni Editor
Pete Curtis Staff Photographer
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
BUSINESS BOARD
Phillip Sexton Printing Advisor
David Horn Press Operator
REPORTERS
Robert Bennett .... - WiUinm Mullins
Tony Carc^terra William Reece
James Fogleman Gene Rhodes
John Frost Ronald Scott
Carl Fuller - Darrell Shue
Virgil Howell Elisabeth Updyke
Edward Hughes - Earl Vickers
Fred Lloyd Ted Webster
Robert Lowe Fxlward Wilkes |
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SQUARE EDMONDS
' Relating To Church History
Historical Collection Is Interesting
One of the most interesUng; Among the general meet-
oo,r,. «rp the writings Of JameB; Christian
Wade Montgomery
Lafayette Wilkins
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1959
EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
The National Education Association is
sued some eye-opening figures aimed at
one of America’s national blind spots—
paying for good schools.
It's a matter of values, rather than
wealth, says the NEA. We have the money
•to pay for education, but we have to de
cide whether it’s worth as much as new
cars or late-model hi-fi's.
We put more of our tax money into
education 25 and 50 years ago than we do
today, according to the report. In 1902,
education's share of all taxes was about
17 percent, and in 1932 it was 25 percent.
Yet today, with tbe cost of education ex
pected to double in the next 10 years, only
12 percent of our taxes go for tbe schools.
Right now, the federal government wtth
its efficient, streamlined collection system
brings in almost three out of every four
tax dollars. Y’et, despite the national im
plications of our brainpower race with
other nations, it pays only four percent of
tbe cost of public schools. Local and state
governments pay 9C percent.
Looking over local and state tax struc
tures, the NEA doubts their ability to
handle the 10 percent increase in the cost
of education over the next decade. Local
and state debt hfrs risen 182 percent since
1948. In addition, states are hamper^i by
competitive tax exemptions and other de
vices used to attract industry.
Unless the federal government assumss
a reasonable share of school costs, here’s
what the report says taxpayers have to
look forward to:
A 5J to 90 percent increase in real
estate in thousands of communities.
A two to four percent increase in sales
taxes in some states.
An increase of 4 to 8 cents in cigarette
taxes in several states.
An income tax jump of 2 to 5 perceot
in fome states.
In terms of wealth, the leaflet asserts,
America can afford belter schools. It points
•to these statistics:
The value of all goods and services pro
duced by the nation in one year is now
$440 billion. That's 70 percent over what
it was in 1948.
Our national income is up 63 percent
since 1948 and our personal incomes after
taxes and our personal saving have in
creased drasticaUy. Since 1948, according
to the leaflet, we were aWe to afford
$110 billion for new and used cars, $181
billion for alcoholic bevera^s. tobacco
and cosmetics, and $127 billion for recrea
tion.
In the same period, we gpeol only $78
billion for public elementary and secon
dary schools.—SELECTED.
POINTED PHRASf^
A conference is the confusion of one man
multiplied by the number present,
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An installment plan is a system by means
of which you can doll up on a dollar down.
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A wife doesn't mind her husband’s claim
that he can read women likt a t>ook. so
long as he does his reading at home.
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The poltical pot is the place where old
applesauce is warmed over.
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The girl who would make a fine catch
has to wait for some man to make a pitch.
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It takes a raft of money to keep a faio-
ily afloat nowMla>a.
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Old politician* oerer die — they Ju«t
fun (met too often
places on the Elon College cam- College are the writings , ““■“.'ince 1800 are in the room
pus is tbe Church History Room o’Kelly, who in ITffi . complete collection of min-
from the Methodist Church and and " Convention
became a leader in the formaUon! utes of the houiaera ^
Nothing ventured, nothing gained is a
proverbial expression which prevailed
around this custom-saturated campus two
weeks a«o as tlie winter quarter climaxed.
The much controversial, misunderKtood
academic ruling certainly took its toll. At
this time I do not know whether I should
txprehS an' eulogy or jump into tbe old,
hollow ■circle and bellow "I tojd you so
I really shouldn't even mention it' for the
ones the ruling applies to are all gone: so
I'll let the above just serve as a reminder
ilo those still here.
CHANGE; Truttees recently approved
of the new semester proposal. The semes
ter system begins in the fall of this year,
and it will put a real damper on those
“week-ead warriors”. You know tbe ones
whohave a touch of ‘'suitcaseitis”. The real
question in mind is this. Will they still
serve ■‘those” bag lunches at the Sunday
noon meal?
MAY DAY: With the coming of grass,
we around Elon ready ourselves tor such
activities as afternoon baseball games, sun
Ians acquired on the intramural field,
chit-chatting on the dorm steps, and of
course the spring dances. Bergman and
Company have acquired the renowed band
of "Pec V/ee” Hunt for the annual May
Day dance. CWTio in heavens’ name is be).
There wall be plenty of gripes when I sug
gest the wearing apparel should be strictly
formal. One formal dance a year is not
asking too much of the students.
MORE SUGGESTIONS: How about a
new projector for the weekly movies in
Whitley Chapel. The sound is sometliing
like that in the hey-day of Tom Mison.
This is one of the two mediums we stu
dents around Elon enjoy, tbe other is, coa-
versin^g with the coeds around West Dorm.
It would be drastic if we lost either of
them . . .
COME DANCE WITH ME: Would be nice
to have the Champions back for another
session here at Elon. Just a good way to
■break the monotonous trend, and have an
«?vening of '‘Terpsichore ’ . . .
NAMES: It’s that time once again. The
lime to expose the “bafoons”, who have
entrenched themselves in the middle of
the road screaming ‘‘Take me to your
reader." This type of readership is a real
pain in the neck, but it is so popular with
the students I must keep them happy, I
could pick one of the trio I’ve selected
this issue at random, but to be only fair
let's keep it alphabetical.
JOE E, LEWIS; This ^uy is strictly ob
jective to humanity. You know the type,
a "Can you top this” kind. No matter
where you've been or what you’ve done,
he’s the guy who discovered the place and
laid the foundation. The Maroon and Gold
has joined the benevolent society and has
tried to use the college publication as a
means to make him popular
DA. MANGRUM: This is the fellow,
•who tried to drop kick East Dorm out into
Highway 100 last year. A real attention-
seeker, who is currently out for baseball.
The only known pitcher in organized base
ball, who throws ground balls from the
mound . , .
IX)N Si^YDLIK: Last but far from being
least this specimen is one of much general
controvery, Tbe questionable issue is, "Is
he lazy or just plain Ured?” It i* a known
fact, that he is the only living person, who
can stumble over a pattern In a rug. He
is always the life of any party, along with
Dale BarnweU of course, Ed's Note: If you
kDow what 1 mean . . .
CROWDED: Since this is a newspaper of
togetherness. I think it fitting ana only
proper to mention that togetherness can
set out of hand, especially in the sUirways
of Alamance BuUding. I understand that
this the place where particular people con-
pregate and ‘throw the bull”, but conges
tion is sometimes overbearing. Why couldn’t
one of the many committ«?es around thi.'i
ptace ins^all a ONE WAY system for the
overcrowded stairways, Ifg very simple
plan. Have arrows pointing UP one flight
of stairs and DOWN the other. Nu£f Said'
PARTING SHOT: It is time for me to
climb back to my perch in my little white,
ivory tower and say good riddance to some
more bad rubbish
on the second floor of the coUegc
library, in which are stored many
important historical writings and
relics of the SouUiem Convention
of 'Congrotational Christian
Churches. An interesting feature
on the room was - ritten recently
by Glenn Keever, Burlington news
paper writer, and much of that
article is presented here.
A major project of the Histori
cal Society of the Southern Con
vention of Congrc^^atioial Chris
tian Churches, the room already
contains niany priceless items of
Christian Church history.
The Historica Society was or
ganized in 1956 in a meeting at
Union Ridge Congregational Chris
tian Church while the Southern
Convention was' celebrating its
100th anniversary.
Elon College offered the use of
.a room in the college library to
be set aside as a Church His
tory Room, The process of col
lecting and bringing together his
torical items about the church be
gan i^Timeuiately.
Many items already were on
hand at the college in various
rooms, but they had never been
brought together. Other items
were in the hands of individual
churches and members.
Mrs. W. W. Sellers of Burlington
was named the first president of
the IDstorical Society, and Mrs.
Oma U. Johnson, librarian at Elon
College since 1928, was appointed
curator of the Church History
Room
Since the room was established
hundreds of historical items and
relics have been d»posited there
The room is fast becoming a ma
jor center of Christian Church
History.
_ k I nf the Congregational Christian
“o';: STS”;;..«.
i E." Ch'rW o. u..d
an Alamance County resident who
in his'travels as a circuit nums-
was known as the "White Pil
grim” because he always wore
garments of pure white while ily readible
ter as well as his personal jour
nal, yellow with age but still eas-
RANDOM THOl’GHTS
A show-off is always niown-up in a show
down.
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EvolDtien
First he was a tad-ipole.
Beginning to begin.
Then be was a frog.
With tds tail tucked la.
Next be was a monkey
Id a bamboo tr*e.
Now h«'c • ftwdeat,
S««kias a tesr«e.
slates.
In the room is an origin.il copy
of the "Herald of Gospel Liberty,”
founded in Portsmouth, N. H. in
1808, tbe “first religious journal
printed in America.”
Also there is the first issue of
the "Christian Sun,” the religious
weekly of the Southern Conven
tion of the church
Tne room contains a photograph
of Antioch College, founded ' in
1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, by
Horace Mann. This was one of
the first colleges in America to
admit women and men on equal
iooling for degrees.
The early records of Old
Providence Church, from which
Elon College' traces its history.
back as the early 1800’s and
many records of the church dur
ing the Civil War are available.
In short, the small room at
Elon College is fast becoming a
center of Congregational Chris
tian Church history, one of which
all members of the church can
be proud.
The reason 'or the history room
was summc-d up by Major W. E.
MacClenny of Suffolk, Va., his
torian of the Southern Conven
tion from 1922 to 1946, .vhen be
said:
"No people, church nor nation
lias ever grown great until it had
a history familiar to its people
to which the rising generations
could be pointed for in^iration.
are included in the collection in . v. i, voi-v
the Church History Room. The  We, as a church, have ve^
bell that was in the old Graham slow to recognize this truth and
Institute, which began in 1852, is
included in the collection.
Also on hand is the bell that
was salvaged when Elon College
burned in 1923, Handwritten jour
nals by Rev. Christy Sine and
other pioneer ministers of the
church are included in the col
lection.
Many of the personal posses
sions of Rev, J. W. (Uncle) Wel-
lons are on display in the room.
Rev. Wellons lived to be 101 years
old and made his home in an Elon
College dorm. He preached a ser
mon on his lOOlh birthday.
for this reason we have greatly
neglected our church history . . .”
As documents pile up and his
torical items are brought into the
Church History Room here, it will
be more and more evident that
the Congregational Christian
Church is no lon'ger ignoring its
history.
Perhaps someday the "broad
minded man of the church” whom
MacClenny envisoned writing the
history of his church, will draw
upon materials in the Church
Room here for most of his facts.
Seen From The
West Watchtower
It’s mighty hard for a country
gal to get broke in to these here
new-fangled city ways. When 1
left my home on the farm my
pa warned me that things would
be different down yonder in the
City of Elon College. He said
he'd heard tell of a lot of strange
things down in the cily.
He said he’d seen pictures in
a mail order house "wishbook”
of cookstoves which were run
by electricity. Said they claimed
that you didn’t even have to split
kindling or saw logs to fire them.
According to my pa I would see
women in this new country who
ran around in cars with cigar
ettes hanging from their mouths
and that some of the words
leaving their mouths would
•shock any lady. Pa explained to
me that in case I was looking
for the powder room, it would
l>e on the interior of city build
ings. Gosh!!
These things and more he told
n« which he had gathered from
a conversation with our neigh
bor, Atr, Livenext, It seems that
Brother Livenext gained his
amazing knowledge of all the
modem conveniences when he
visited his daughter, Sarah, who
w-as married up and living in
Richmond.
Neighbor Livenext even brag
ged about the fact that there
Were little do-dads in Sarah’s
house which made the room get
as light as day when they were
flipped, even if it was midnight.
Course I felt at that time that
Brother Livenext probably got
so excited about these automo
biles scooting around that big
tcrwD that he, well . . . er . . .
well, imagined all these things.
Why, he used to primp up in
clean overalls every Saturday
and (trut to the general store,
no's be could ten folk about
how Sarah’s busbaad was mak
ing $1.09 in one of those town
industries. Even if his daughter
was living in such luxury, he
really shouldn’t ought to have
did so much boasting. Well, back
to my story.
When my pa was preparing
me for this city life, one thing
which he told me stood out in
my mind like a Black Angus
heifer in a cotton patch. It was
that I would find hollow metal
poles running into folkes houses
with water in thp middle. Fresh
water, too. Why they said all
you had to do to get water was
to turn little tricks over a wash
bowl which was hung to the wall
and had a hole in the bottom.
Imagine!!! I reckon H was
mighty close to being the hard
est thing for me to picture that
I'd ever beared tell of, I guess
that was just natural, consider
ing as how I’d got my raising
in the country.
All the things pa had warned
me about shore were true and
mort. When I got to college and
started putting up in the dor
mitory vrilh girls from all over
the country, I realized right
away that here was a whole
herd of experienced society
dames, I couldn’t let them know
how dumb I was. I was too
proud for that. So I knew I'd
have to learn by watching,
1 waited around until 1 saw
one of tbe girls who looked like
she might be headed for the
powder room, I tagged along be
side her pretending to be so in
terested in our conversation that
1 couldn’t put up with Miis in
terruption. 1 eyeballed all these
new facilities with aw«. I knew
that when .cupper time came I
would plead not hungry and stay
in the dorm so's 1 could try out
all of them cute little do-jig-
gers.
Wen, far's I know, my foUow-
lhe-le»der plan worked out tol
erably w*U, 'Whj before this
writing, 1 doa’t think of tb«
girls in the d«raa have realized
By ANN JOYCE
how really green I was when I
first came to this here institu
tion.
I know I'm still not too much
educated, but there is one or
two of these new ways that I
just can’t seem to understand.
I'm sure there must be some
logical explanation if I could
just bring myself to asking some
one about them. It is that 1 have
never understood these pumps
in everybody's powder room.
Somelime you can turn them
shiny litUe handles and water
will run into the deep trough
(especially for washing) just as
pretty as you please. Other min
utes it spits and sputters like
a spreading adder. I shore don't
understand it. Now when I was
real young, we toted our water
from the spring down the hill
from our bouse. For our Satiu'-
day bath and for dishes we heat
ed it in a big pot on the Home
Comfort Range. Course things
went modem before I growed
up and come off to college. Then
we had a real honest to good
ness water weU in the backyard
with a wooden box and a wind
lass which was used to wind
water from the deep weU in a
tin bucket tied to a rope. 'You
had to be careful not to turn the
handle of the windlass loose or
you’d get your noggin cracked.
Otherwise it wasn't too bad. At
least you always knew that you
could get water if you had
enough spunk about you to get
out there and wind it and build
a fire and heat it. Just before I
come to college -wt ere» got a
woodstove which had a water
tank on one end. As long as the
tank was filled and the fire was
going you had hot water. Right
fancy, huh?
But, you just can’t tell about
this cantankerous water system
at this college. For instance. I
shall recall a little iBcidenee
whicfr occurred yesterday. I was
in the bath trough washing my
here
and
there
DICK LASOLEY
EXAMS ARE OVER! Once again we stu
dents can settle down to our favorite pis-
times of reading comic books, going to the
movies, sleeping, and finding excuses not
to study for three whole montlis! At the
end of that time we can once again try
to cram a whole quartar's work and sup
posed learning into the space of the six
or seven daj^s before exams begin, (Jett
kinda monotonous, doesn’t it?
Speaking of exams, it’s nice to see th»t
so many of us survived them. From the
looks of the list that was posted in the
dean’s office, some of our number weren't
quite as lucky as those of us who remain
to pursue our “intellectual goals.”
Founders’ Day
Well, Oaks (that’s English for Eloa) ij
now 70 years olds. As usual, its birthday
was celebrated with our annual Founders’
Day ceremonies in Alumni Memorial Gj^m-
nasium. The feature of the morning wjj
an address by Dr. Walter J. Peterson, deui
of the Graduate School of North Carolina
State College.
There was a pretty good student body
representation at the ceremonies, biU not
nearly what it should have been. It wouldn’t
hurt any of us to be more active and in
terested in tbe extra curricular actiritiej
of OUT school.
Wha’ Hoppened To The Lights?
Here 'n There was very pleased awhile
back to see the electricians installing new
flourescent lighting in the class roans.
They worked very industriously putting
them up in the administrative offices aid
a few of the classrooms on the second
floor of Alamance and in the Library. But,
all of a sudden they ain't here no more.
Wonder where they is? Oh well, break
out the spectacles again stoodents, the
"dim out” is still in effect in some quarten.
More Gripes
Wouldn’t it be nice if we students really
knew just what subjects were going to be
taught and when they were going to be
taught? Wouldn't it be nice if the seniors
were notified during the sutniuer preced
ing their senior year as to just what sub
jects and hours they would need to grad
uate with the rest of their class in the
spring? IT SURE WOULD, BROTHER, IT
SURE WOULD!
Here ’n There wishes it could offer some
suggestions, but that is a job for someone
else, and yours truly just hopes that all
us seniors can step up and get those di
plomas ou June 1st.
0 New Union Soda Fonntain
Here 'n There is still in the dark as to
when installation is going to begin on the
new soda fountain for the Student Union.
However, from the amount of equipment
stored in the Union, it looks as if old Les
lie is going to really have himself a “cor
ner drugstore." All kidding aside, the
prospective plans for our Student Union
reaUy sound swell. The students in the
years to come will really have a Union
they can be proud of and also a nice plat®
to take their guests. Here ’n There lips
its hat to those responsible for a proposed
better facilities over on the ground floor
of Mooney.
Elon Community Church
The newest addition to our college com
munity is well underway and nearing co®"
pletion. The steeple framework for fte
Elon College Community Church has been
fixed in place (as all you well know), and
tlie masons are already at work placiaj
the brick facing around it. It looks now
as if it will be ready for student worship
for the 1959-60 school year.
Phi Psi OH
The Phi Psa CU is nearing completiot
and the annual this year should be one
the best ever. The co-editors. Linda Sifflp"
son and •Martha Langley, have really be«
doing some hard work, trying to design a»
annual that will be really swell.
If everything goes according to schcdufc
we can look for it .to be distributed aroum
the last week in this quarter.
ConstitDUoD Bevislon
Our Student Body Constitution is
revised! The revision is under tbe d»rectiM
of Linwood Hurd. According to aB
^he Constitution needs revision badly,
it is hoped that the new one wlU ^
more benefit to all concerned, namely
students. ^
(If anyone has any suggestions
changes or revisions, talk to Linwood. ■
knows, he may even listen and use J
suggestions.) No offense Linwood, ^
(Coatinued Ob Page Feiir)
ding.
itodW*
All of us should be proud of our s ^
government. The students who work
are really sincere In tbcir jobs aJid
always to do what is best for all of
can repay them for their efforts by P'
them more coopersfloa.