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VOLUME IV.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C, OCTOBER 13, 1922
NUMBER 6
MEETING OF QUADRENNIAL
SESSION AMERICAN CHRISTIAN
CONVENTION OCTOBER 17-25
Burlington to Be Host to Dele-
g;ates From All Parts of
ihe United States.
ELON TO HAVE A MEETING
Many Notable Speakers to Be
Present at Convention—
Good Program.
The American Christian Convention
meets in quadrennial session in Bur
lington^ October 17 to 25. This is the
second time the Conventioii has ever
•met in the South, the first time being
20 years ago in Norfolk, Va. Rev. G.
O. Lankford, pastor of the Burlington
Christian church, and his congregation
are making preparations to welcome
and entertp,in the many delegates who
will come from all parts of the United
States.
.Kev. F. 6. Coffin, X>. B., of Albany,
Mo., president of the Convention, will
deliver the president’s address Wed
nesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Bev. J. F, Burnett, D. D., Dayton,
Ohio, is secretary of the Convention.
Eev. J. F. Morgan, of Winchester,
Va., will de director of the Conven
tion music.
Among the prominent men who will
cfeliver addresses at the Convention are
as follows:
Eev. Roy C. Helfenstein, D. D., of
Dover, Del., who will preach the Con
vention sermon Tuesday evening at 8
o’clock; Rev. D. B. Atkinson, D. D.,
dean of Falmer College, Albany, Mo.,
who will conduct morning meditations
each morning of the Convention; Henry
F- CJope, A. M., D. D., Chicago, who
will deliver an address on ^‘The Pres
ent-Day Tasks of the Sunday School,’’
Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock; Rev.
!]^raiik H. Peters, D. D., pastor of Defi
ance College church, who will preach
at the regular Sunday morning church
•service; Rev. John R. "Voris, New York
Oity, Traveler, Writer, Lecturer, who
-will deliver a missionary address Sun
day evening at 8:30 o’clock; Rev. Sam
uel McCrea Cavert, D. D., of New York,
■who will speak o^ Christian co-operat-
ive movements, Monday evening at
7:30 o’clock.
There will be present a number of
representatives of the Christian publi
cations and Christian publishing asso
ciations. Among them will be Rev.
Alva M. Kerr^ D. D., Dayton, Ohio, edi
tor of the Herald of Gospel Liberty;
Rev. S. Q. Helfenstein, D. D., Dayton,
«ditor of Sunday school literature; Her-
mon Eldredge, Erie, Pa., editor of Of
ficers’ and Teachers’ Journal; Hon. 0.
W. Whitelock, Huntington, Ind., presi
dent of Christian Publishing Associa
tion; Mr. John H. Stuart, manager of
the Christian Publishing Association,
Dayton, Ohio.
Some of the most prominent wome::
of the Christian denomination will be
present, including Mrs. Athella M. How-
sare, Dayton, Ohio, president Woman
Board for Home Missions; Mrs. Alice
V. Morrill, Defiance, Ohio, president
Woman’s Board for Foreign Missions;
Miss Olive G. Williams, returned mis
sionary from Porto Rico; Miss Frieda
Kirkendall, Haverhill, Mass; Mrs. F. E.
Bullock, Dayton, Ohio, field secretary
Department of Sunday School and edi
tor of children’s literature; Mrs. J.
Russell Meredith, teacher in Mountain
Mission School, Fancy Gap, Va.
Elon will be well represented there
by faculty and alumni. Dr. Harper will
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COLLEGE EXHIBIT FOR
COMING CONVENTION
The College will have an exhibit
at the Southern Christian Conven
tion which opens in the First Chris
tian church at Burlington, on Octo
ber 17.
The exhibit will be of a general
nature, built around the work of the
Commercial, Art, Domestic Art and
Mechanical Drawing departments.
Space will also be given to the Col
lege publications.
The special departments of the
College will be featured, but those
attending the Convention will re
ceive also a general impression of
the College and its work by their
visits to the Hill and by the appear
ance on the program of the Conven
tion of members of the faculty and
student body.
E FOREST DEFEJTS
ELON or SMALL SCORE
Christians Lose to Baptists ’7-0
Game Hard Fought and
Interesting.
ELON TEl WILL PLSV
LENOIR COLLEGE lOOliy
Famous “Bear Cat” Squad Will
Get on Trail of Sanford
High Grid Machine.
FORiy-TWO GIIILS MADE
MEMBERH'SI SOCIEiy
Last Meeting Before the Division
Given to the Reception
Of New Members.
The regular literary program of the
Psiphelian society was left off Monday
night for a very much merrier occasion.
Forty-two new girls went through the
trying ordeal of the solemn and impres-
sive rites of initiation and became true-
blue Psiphelians.
The bringing in of the time-honored
Psiphelian goat was a special feature
of the evening’s program. This favor
ite goat is a contradiction in itself, as
it may, at one and the same time, oe
able to produce terrifying chills of
horror and paroxysms of laughter. Of
course it’s all in the state of mind.
This was the last meeting of the
Psiphelian society as a whole before it
begins to function as Psiphelian Liter
ary Society, Divisions One and Two. So
after a display of much solemnity and
much more fun, the new girls were as
signed to their respective divisions.
The outlook is good for a new year
of splendid work by the new members,
who are: Foye Louise Young, Irene
Hill, Josephine Alford, Ruth Hill, Lou
ise Caston, Hilda Burgess, Alma Smith,
Mae Scarboro, Macey Siler, Bertha lu-
gle, Bessie Martin, Irene Ellington,
Ruth Klapp, Margaret Joe Balentine,
Alma Cates, Dorothy Lowe, Margaret
Harden, Eunice Morrow, Adelia Jones,
Lena Jackson, Annie Mae Charnock,
Louise Harrell, Clara Tuck, Bessie Mc
Collum, Mary Elsie Price, Thelma Par-
vin, Annie Paschnll, Mabel Wright.
Florence Moseley, Violet McCollum,
Hatsu Ohara, Eli^iabeth McCollum, An
nie Neville, Fannie Glen Elder, Rosa
Fulghum, Rent Smithwick, Annie Mao
Lackey, Zena Gibson, Kitsie McLanib,
Rita Rothgeb, Ruth Crawford, Annie
Simpson.
Miss Madge Moffitt went home for
the week-end.
Miss Louise Homeward spent thi
week-end at Graham.
Misses Mabel Wright and Shellie
Mills spent the week-end in Greensboro.
The game between Wake Forest and
Elon last Saturday was full of thrills
aud proved to be a game of the old
line plunging type until the last quar
ter when both teams opened up their
forward passes and end runs.
Wake Forest carried the ball over
for one touchdown in the first quarter
three minutes before the whistle blew
for the end of the quarter. Although
they carried the ball near their goal
line twice during the remainder of the
game they were not able to get it across
on account of penalties and lack of
drive.
Wake Forest received the ball in the
first quarter and carried it over for
their touchdown on short end runs and
line plunges. After this Elon’s line
stiffened and held the Baptists score
less.
In the last half Elon secured the ball
and marched down the field for 50
yards in four downs on line plunges
and beautifully executed forward pass
es to within eight yards of their goal
line. But Elon fumbled, lost the ball
and their best chance to tie the score.
Lowery and Bill Johnson were the
outstanding features for Wake Forest,
while tlie forward passing of Perry
and spectacular catches by Clark al
most wrecked Wake Forest’s victory.
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Lenoir College is the next team on
the Elon schedule of gridiron battles.
This game will be played Saturday at
Hickory. Lenoir is, in all probability,
the lightest team Elon will meet dur
ing the whole season, and after being
thrown against Davidson and Wake
Forest they look for a lighter contest.
However, the young team of Lenoir
has always proved itself to be a plucky
bunch, and is always known to fight to
the last ditch, and even though in the
last game Elon did succeed in holding
the strong Wake Forest team to one
lone touchdown, and an Elon victory is
expected at Lenoir, by no means in
sures an easy victory^ and Elon’s play
ers expect to have to work if they
bring home the bacon.
None of the Christians are on the
injured list, and to the last man are
eager for Saturday’s game.
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CLIO MEN LAUNCH STAR
ORCHESTRA MADE FIRST
TRIP DF VEAR SATURDAY
Elon Orchestra Visits Shallow
Ford—Dr. Harper Speaks on
Sunday School Work.
Last Saturday the college orchestra
made its initial trip away from the Hill
this year. The occasion was that of a
Sunday school rally at Shallow Ford.
The orchestra assisted with the musical
program.
The speaker for the morning session
failed to arrive and ii\ his absence the
orchestra delightfully entertained the
large audience with a concert. The
numbers being varied and suitable for
tlie occasion.
At the afternoon session Dr. W. A.
Harper delivered an address, treating
the different phases of Sunday school
work. Special musical numbers were
also rendered at this session. They
consisted of a violin duet by Miss Julia
Braxton and P. P. Hatley, also a cornet
and trombone duet by B. W. Everetto
and M. Z. Rhodes. Miss Mildred Kirk
land accompanied each number on the
organ.
The members of the orchestra are
Misses Mildred Kirkland and Julia
Braxton, Messrs. P. P. Hatley, J. M.
Farmer, M. J. W. White, Jr., G. L. Hol
land, B. W. Everette and M. Z. Rhodes.
PHI’S ENDEAVOR TO END
ALL WAR JBT TRDODLE
Members of Society Try to Settle
Question That Has Baffled
Statesmen.
The following were home for the
week-end: Miss Margaret Harden Doris
McLean, Bertha Iseley, Lou Heritage,
Lillie Pace, Isabella Dixon, Irene Ell
ington and Annie Neville.
Mrs. R. C. Underwood is here on a
visit to her sou, G. D. Underwood, who
was hurt in an automobile accident.
‘‘This is a problem that has found
no satisfactory solution in the great
est minds in America, but we must de
cide upon a solution for all time in
this hall tonight,” declared Lloyd J.
Bray as he led off the affirmative argu
ment favoring the cancellation of war
debts. It appeared from the discus
sion, however, that the men in the Phi-
lologian society were further from a
satisfactory solution than have been
the “other great minds” of America.
Dan Wicker was the second speaker
for the affirmative team and made a
strong con^^ntion that it was our moral
duty and a financial gain for us to can
cel the debts of the European nations
to us.
W. B. Terrell made a strong plea for
the cause, stating that it was our coun
try’s duty to open up the European
countries by relieving them of the fin
ancial burden under which they are
laboring.
P. D. Rudd opened the argument for
the negative by declaring that the
American people did not want the war
debts cancelled. He contended that
the people of the United States needed
the money.
Curtis Price followed Mr. Rudd for
the negative. It was Mr. Price’s be
lief that to cancel the debts at this
time would greatly jeopardize the fin
ancial standing of the United States.
William Tate Scott, with his elab
orate flow of oratory, decalred that the
debts were just debts and that no hon
orable country would want them can
celled.
The decision committee seemed more
susceptible to the onslaught of the
negative team and gave them a decis
ion unanimously.
The preliminary part of the eve
ning’s program was very brief but of
a good order. William Garland Stoner
gave an interesting survey of the wel
fare work that the college students
are doing in the village.
“Jim” Snotherly talked interesting
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Debate Government Question—
Scott and White Mentioned
For Debating Honors.
One of the most interesting programs
ever given in the Clio hall was heard
there last Monday evening.
A “snappy” and educative program
was started by J. B. Gay, with a short
story selected from O. Henry. The in
terest of the story and Mr. Gay’s pleas
ant manner of reading held the atten
tion of the audience.
D. L. Beaugher continued the pro
gram, speaking on the prospects of
lengthened life, and showing that by
clean and efficient living the length
of man’s life can be prolonged to more
than the three score and seven years.
In keeping with the name of the so
ciety, which originated in Greek myth-
^logy, Roy Helms delved into the ro
mantic life and told a story of beauty
and pathos. He told of the visit of
Orpheus to the Stygian relms, aud how
he played upon his lyre in such soft
and tender strains that the very ghosts
shed tears; Tantalus, despite his thirst,
stoped for a moment his efforts for
water; Ixion’s wheel stood still, and
the vulture ceased to tear the giant's
liver. Mr. Helms was given the ora
torical honors of the evening,
W. L. Haslett brought to the soci
ety news of the happenings around the
globe. His items were concise and to
the point.
Lance Jennings was the humorist of
the evening. He believes that a little ,
humor is the spice of life, and he fla
vored the meeting with the best of
humor.
To those who are not closely associ
ated with missionary work, G. D. Col-
clough brought some startling news.
Mr. Colclough told how the heathen in
different parts of the world torture
their bodies in the effort to appease
their gods. He emphasized the great
work to be done in this line.
Leonard Lynch made an interesting
speech on the crime wave. He review
ed the history of crime and its punish
ment. Despite the pessniistic views of
some, Mr. Lynch believes that the
world is growing better, and will con
tinue to do so by means of proper edu
cation.
The query for the evening was, “Re
solved—That the British form of gov
ernment is more democratic than the
American form of government.”
Paul Holt, speaking for the affirma
tive, based his argument on the fact
that there is only one house, in the na
tional assembly, for a legislative bill
to pass.
Chapman White, first for the nega
tive, pitted his argument on the fact
that America was founded by a peo
ple seeking freedom in a different form
of government from that which existed
in England, and that the spirit of
America is essentially different from
that of our fatherland, and will not
support a government that is other
than a government of, by and for the
people.
H. Lee Scott, in masterful Style, re
proached the American people for think
ing their government superior to all
others. He then launched an attack
upon our government and showed that
it is not, in reality, a democracy.
W. B. Wicker claimed a representa
tive form of government superior to a
cabinet form of government, and prov
ed that a government of checks and
balances is idealy fitted to the Amer-
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CIRCULATION 2,400 THIS WEEK