The Elon College Weekly
VOL. 1. New Series
BURLINGTON, N. C.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1910.
And Elon College, N. C.
NO. 20
No Surprise at all.
Just a litttle over a week ago, some
one suggested that Elon ought to have a
good gymnasium. Two or three days
later the Y. M. C. A. held a call meet-
mg, at which they appointed a committee
to solicit funds, with*which to build >nd
equip a building. Now they have $255
of the money on their subscription lists.
Some who have not yet imbibed the
Elon spirit, have expressed surprise that
such a liberal contribution shouid be rais
ed in so short a time. But to those who
know us it will be no surprise.
We expsct t build a hand ome wood
en structure which will be, not less than
one hundred feet Ion? and fifty feet wide.
We want the material, workmanship
and equipment to be of such a quality,
that every one who contributes to this
fund will be proud of the fact, and every
f)erson who does not contribute to it will
wish that he had given something. It is
the purpose of the management to put
in such apparatus as will permit the stu
dent in the winter season, to get some
healthful exercise, and in no way imperil
his health.
The building will have a splendid
shower bath room, without which any
institution is handicapped, that is if they
expect to compete with other institutions
in their ainif tic sports.
A gymnasium will help Elon in the years
to come. Ambitious boys add girls want
to attend school which encourages physi
cal training, and you may count on it, they
will attend such an institution. Then if
you want to help the students that are
here now, and if you would encourage
others to come, let us have a liberal sub
scription from you, whether we call
you personally or not, just write
President • f the Y. M. C. A. and
that you'll send him, $1.00, $5.00
what ever the amount you wi-h to
by the fi st of November.
The buildmg will cost only about $ I
000, becau e the boys are going lo do a
great deal of the work themselve.'. Won’t
you help us now?
We give below a list of those who
have subscribed and the amounts they
have pledged.
on
the
say
or
give
A list of those
already:
Dr. E. L. .VIoffitt
Prof. W. C. Wicker
Prof. W. P. Lawrence
Prof. W. A. Uarprr
Prof. N. F. Brannock
Prof. T. C. Amick
Dr. J. U. Newman
Mr. A. L. Lincoln
Mr. J. C. McAdams
Miss Florence Wilson
Miss Mary Lou Pitt
Miss Ethel Clements
Mr. Russel A. Campbell
Mr. Joe P. Farmer
Mr. Ross L. Walker,
Mr. H. Philip Cline,
Mr. D. W. Brown,
Mr. J. Lee Johnson,
vho have subscribed
$10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
2.50
Miss Sadie Fonville, 2.50
Miss Bessie McPherson, 2.50
Mr. J. J. Ingle, 2.50
Mr. J. s. Fleming, 2.50
Mr. W. H. Fleming, 2.50
Mr. J. S. Lincoln, 2.50
Mr. J. A. Dickey, 2.50
Mr. Arnold Hall, 2.50
W. L. Anderson, 2.50
C. T. Rand, 2.50
R. T Brett, 2.50
Mr. A. H. Simpson, 2.50
Mr. M. W. McPherson, 2.50
Mr. E T. Hines, 2.50
Mr. F. ,S. Drake, 2.50
Mr. R. E. Lincoln. 2.50
Mr. I. F. Somers, 2.50
Mr. b. C. Holt, 2.50
Mr. A. B. Balance, 2.50
Mr. S. s. Myrick, 2.50
Mr. G. G. Holland. 2.50
Mr. A. T. Banks, 2.50
Mr. W. B. Fuller, 2.00
Mr. W. V. Brown, ’ 2.00
Mr. J. C. Watkins, 2.00
Mr. H. B. Lawrence, 2.00
C. E. Hornaday, 2.00
■■ J. S. Elder, 2.00
F. S. Malone, 2.00
“ B. E. Wilkins, 2.00
L. M. Huffman, 2.00
E. R. Warren. 2.00
C. L. Malone, 2.00
TM. Cable, 2.00
J. A. Baynes, 2.00
“ W. D. Loy, 2.00
J. C. Rowland, 2.00
J. C. Stuart, 2.00
“ C. V. McClure, 2.00
" V. R. Holt, 2.00
'■ F. F. Myrick, 2.00
Miss Cornelia Bryan, 1.50
Miss Pattie Preston. 1.00
Macie Farmer. ^ _ 1.00
Frankie McNeill, 1.00
Maie Howard, 1.00
Edith Walker, 1.00
Lucile Hamilton, 1.00
Grace Rollings, 1.00
Vera Gay, 1.00
Jennie Beale, 1.00
Pearle Fogleman. 1.00
M’igg e Isley, 1.00
.Affie Grirfiii, 1.00
Pearl I uck, 1.00
Virgie Beilf, 1.00
Lucy Gregory, 1.00
Helen Machen, 1.00
Nina Pinnix, 1.00
Annie Bagwell. 1.00
Mrs. R. J. Machen, 1.00
Mr. W. S. Bagwell, 1.00
•' O. W. Hines, 1.00
R. H. McCauley, 1.00
C. J. Felton, 1.00
“ W. p. Strader, 1.00
“ C.C. Purcell, 1.00
Remeo Holt, 1.00
Mr. O. K. Roberson, 1.00
Miss Sallie McCauley, .50
“ Sudie McCauley. .50
Louise Hambrignt, .50
E. T. Hines,
Chm’n. Committee.
Prodigality in the Use of Time.
If a lavish and extravagent expenditure
of money is prodigality, a similar use of
time is even greater prodigality. Many
ingenious devices have been wrought out
for the systematizing of time from the
simple hour glass and sun dial to the
most delicate and ingenious watches and
clocks. Safes, vaults and cash registers
have been devised for the safe keeping
and correct accounting of cash, but per
haps more thought has been expended
on devices intended to economize time.
So valuable an asset is time in busi
ness life, that practically all business con
cerns use the most highly approved de
vices for keeping a record of this intan
gible, unseen, and imperceptible current
of nothing, called " time." A few years
ago the editor of the National Magazine
in Boston, Mass., published this account
of the Simplex Time Record, which the
magazine had just installed :
In many respects this is an age of
" push the button." in the gathering
together of the equipment necessary for
the printing, binding and general build
ing up of the National Magazine, from
the white paper to the finished product,
I have often been interested in observing
what an important part is played by the
Simplex Time f^ecorder clock It of
course keeps accurate time, but in addi
tion to this very neccessary function, it
has a row of buttons which indicate ex
actly the hour of arrival and departure of
every member of the staff employed on
the National, from the publisher to the
office boy. When I first acquired this
clock, I regarded it somewhat in the
light of an ornament, but a very short
acquaintance proved that it is a neces
sity. Not only is it a useful part of the
working plant, but it has come to be
regarded as a kind of board of arbitra
tion ; it is never mistaken, and is, in
short, infallible. Perhapi this partly ac
counts for the harmony that prevails
among our workers and for the keen in
terest and enthusiasm they feel in every
thing connected with the National.
The genius of the time runs in the
direction of economizing time and energy
—the greatest production for the least
possible effort with the Simplex Time
Recorder any firm is sure of systematic
and indisputable management in regard
to time, and every time I press No. 29
on the clock in the National office, I
look upon its face with a smile of grate
ful appreciation. During the rapid
growth of our printing and bindery plant,
necessary for the production of the
National, this contrivance on the wall
has done much to systematize the whole
e; . ' shment. Everyone, on entering in
the morning, presses the button, which
indicates precisely the moment of his or
her arrival, and the same ceremony is
observed on departure: thus a correct
record is kept. I hear that the same
company has recently placed upon the
market another equally ingenious' con
trivance, the Simplex Watchman’s Clock,
which is bound to have a large sale
among manufacturing concerns.
The Watchman’s Clock is officially
approved and secures, in addition to an
accurate record of the movenents of the
watchman, the benefit of a reduced rate
of insurance.
So it is that every time 1 push the
button I have to think of the genial rep
resentative of the Time Recorder Co. at
Gardner, Mass., and bless the day when
he called at my office and explained, so
lucidly and pleasantly, how necessary
this one thing was for the successful
carrying on of business. Everything now
goes on time.
A Modest Suffrageeste.
" No amount of argument will make
me beleive that women will ever become
successful politicians," remarked the batch-
elor boarder.
" What makes you think so ?" spoke
one of the young women present.
" Because so many of your sex don’t
care for public sentiment," retorted the
bachelor.
" That is quite natural," replied the
young woman. " But that gentleman
would make love to a woman in public,
can you tell me ?" Silence followed.—
Lippincotts.
He Wouldn’t Touch Him
A Someretshire laborer going to work
in the morning, called for his mate and
found him hanging to abeam in his barn.
He went on to his work, an on arrival
said to the other men;
" What do 'ee think I’ve a-zeed ? Bill
Smith strung up in the barn. Anged
usself!
" Anged usself, ave ee ?" they said.
"And what’s do? Cut 'tn down?"
" Cut en down ?" he replied. " No;
’un warn't dead yet !" -Harper’s.
The Real Reason for Show, jj
" The Millyards keep house on $ 1 0
a week," said the wife who wanted to
economize.
"That’s very diffieient," replied the
vain husband. The Millyards can afford
to be beggarly. They’ve got money to
bu; n. W e are poor, and if we try to
live on less than $30 a week, we shall
certainly be ruined.
Mr. Rockefeller is interested in the
movement to reform Kentucky feudists.
Mr.Rockefeller thinks it is dreadful to
shoot a man from behind a wayside
fence—a great deal worse than killing a
competitor in the oil business with a
rebate gun. Commercial feuds are all
right, no matter how many men are done
to death. But mountain feuds I—ugh !
Coarse work.—Old Newspaper.
Of course the Tariff protects the far
mer—the New England farmer at all
events. If the wicked Democrats were
tb destroy the holy Tariff, there would
be ho more summer boarders, and the
farmer would be driven into farming.
—New York Humorist.