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MAROON AND GOLD
November lOi 1922
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lege, N. C., as second-class matter.
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Lloyd J. Bray Editor
Sion M. Lynam Managing Editor
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Preda Dimmick Ass’t Circulation Mgr.
J. D. Barber Advertising Manager
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Herbert Scholz Editor for Alumni
M. Z. Rhodes Publicity Editor
Advertising Rates Upon Request
THIS WEEK’S POEM
By Sion M. Lynam
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TO MY MUSE
My Laclr, smile again, and let
Me write your smile into a song.
The dimples in your cheeks are dead,
Your lips are cold, and you too long
Have frowned. My Lady, smile again.
Yonr smiles are poems that words re
fuse
To frame, but poets know how fair
Tliey arc, out-shining rainbow hues.
I can but plead with you to smile.
I know how poor my pen can write.
But, Sweet, My Muse, I love your
smiles.
And in them there is life and light.
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!My Lady, frown no more, but send
The fresh, warm blood to melt your
lips
Into a wealth of smiles as rich
In light as when the great sun dips
In splendor towarci his western bed.
Euterpe, silent is my pen
But smile, and I will writ^^.-li(i^^oj
I see upon your lip^4|ft,
f5N?
arper by
5istian Con .'en-
its new work in
¥an Education reflects high
?nor on the man and the college
which he represents. Dr. Harper
has meant much to the college,
and to lose hitn now would be
nothing less than a tragedy. He
has just come to the place where
he can be of greatest service to
the college and to the work of
the church in the South. We are
also aware of the fact that Dr.
Harper is one of the most prom
ising figures in the field of Re
ligious Education. His extensive
study of the subject has made
him an authority, and the need
fpr such a man to head the work
which the Christian Church has
just undertaken is great, but shall
Dr. Harper resign his work here
to take up this new field?
The board of trustees are enter
ing their protests, and the stu
dents feel that his loss would be
a calamity. From the North and
West appeals for his acceptance
are pouring in, but these people
do not recognize the need in the
South, and they are unacquainted
with the particular needs of Elon,
In the report which names Dr.
Harper for this important work
there is a clause which may eas
ily be interpreted to mean that he
could do both. We realize that
the work of a college president is
a full job. We know, too, that
the putting of this new work
through will require the strongest
of our leaders. Dr. Harper is ful
ly competent to do either, but
could he do both? It has occur
red to us that it might be possi
ble, since the two fields are so
closely allied, that he might be
relieved of some of his duties as
a college president, delegating
them to other authorities, and
that trained departmental special
ists be put in the field to do the
work for the new department,
while Dr. Harper shaped the poli
cies and did the planning for
both. , At best he could not in
person reach the whole of the
work. This the specialists could
do.
We are under the impression
that the work might be divided
into the elementary, young peo
ple’s, and the adult and schools
and colleges departments with a
trained specialist to develop each.
Such a scheme would keep Dr.
Harper in the president’s chair at
Elon, and give him at the same
time to the work of the new board.
Such a plan would involve sac
rifice to both the college and the
board, but in the ultimate it
would be a saving to them both.
Will Dr. Harper resign? We
hope not, and we believe that it
is unnecessary if the church has
the vision and faith to do well the
task to which it has so nobly set
its hand.
Managing Editor.
THE DEVEREUX PLAYERS
Good wholesome entertainment
such as was furnished by the
Devereux Players in their recent
engagement here is to be appre
ciated. Their repertoire was well
chosen. In Romeo and Juliet we
had the pleasure of witnessing
the work of the master of all dra
mas ; and in Arms and the Man
we had the opportunity to see one
of the most popular modern dra
mas being played. The two make
a delightful combination.
To the lover of the drama such
a program aflords an opportunity
to see the best of each—the com
edy and the tragedy.
The Devereux Players are tal
ented and well trained in their
work. We anticv=^te the pleas
ure of having them with us for
SIMMON SEEDS
ng
another eng'^'-ment next year.
jOLLF-tJE CHURCH LETS
PARSONAGE CONTRACT
(Continued from page one)
The Ladies’ Aid of the church has
agreed to put $1,000 into the building,
and a number of families have agreed
to put one dollar a month into it until
it is paid for, with the understanding
that the minister is to pay $25 a month
rent on the house until it is paid for.
The parsonage "will be constructed
on the vacant lot beside West End.
The location is a most desirable one,
and will be next to the church which
is soon to be built. Work on the build
ing is to begin at an early date.
SONGS OF FAMOUS SCHOOLS
Study Song of Hydrogen High
There a fly on the ceiling,
A crack in the floor.
Where did Professor say?
0 yes, page fifty-four;
And it’s verbs, verbs, verbs.
Knuckle jointed, runty verbs,
Tongue twisting, grunty verbs,
Time worn, musty verbs,
Old irregular, rusty verbs;
And it’s verbs, verbs, verbs.
Only halfway down the page.
And we can’t see no more.
We dream of going on the stage,
And grammar hits the floor,
And it’s snore, snore, snore,
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Poor dressmakers, going at length to
please the girls.
SI g| gl
A Play in One Act
(Carries its own scenery)
Enter mouse, forty screams, one ta
lkie with nine occupants. Enter proc
tor, police and two fire companies. Exit
mouse, running. Curt
Willie—speH pre
vari
PEP
Vigor, virility, vim and punch—that’s
pep;
The course to act on a sudden hunch—
that’s pep;
The nerve to tackle the hardest thing
With feet that climb and hands that
cling.
And a head that never forgets to sing
That’s pep.
Sand and grit in a concrete base—
that’s pep;
A friendly smile on an honest face—
that’s pep;
The spirit that helps when another is
down,
Knows how to scatter the blackest
frown,
That loves its neighbor and boosts for
its town—
That’s pep.
To say “I will,” for you know you can
—that’s pep;
To look for the best in every man-
that’s pep;
To meet each thundering knockout
blow,
To come back with a laugh because
you know
That you’ll get the best of the wide
world’s show—
That’s pep. —Selected.
Why worry with the old style
pencil when you can buy a “Pal’
at the College Store for 50 cents?
You will find a complete line of
social stationery—including that
with college and society seals—at
the College Store.
y:,i,
Listen Billy
f’X:*
eei leader has as much
troilW^^etting students noisy as a
prof. does in keeping them quiet,
m gj IS
Cheer up, girls. Both almanacs in
Simmon Seeds library predict moon
light nights next summer.
SI S! §!
A NUUSEEY TALE
Once there was a big boogy called
“I Don’t Know.” He was always ca
pering around the classrooms and every
time a student called his name, the
teacher put down a neat little 0 in the
grade book. The ones that called on
this boogy most got a grad« that look
ed like the reduction price on a 50c.
article. Thus the butterflies that stuck
out their snoots at the proctor during
the hours of lights on were made to
stick their snoots in an extra subject
and burn the midnight oil.
DUS
SIMMON SEEDS BOOK EEVIEW
The Book of the Week
“Breaking Into Affluencc,” by Hen
rik Hudson, outshines other volumes of
the week. It is a novel of the first
rank—that is, very rank. The style is
late Bowery Elizabethan with the con
sonant C sounded soft in the first four
chapters. The plot starts on page 117,
where Henrietta, the heroine, doesn’t
get home until 7:50 post meridian,
which is long past gossip time in the
little fishing ’village of Herring Row.
The climax is in the hold of the coast
wise schooner Olympus Apollodonius,
when the hero, Archibald Skate
stricken w'ith toothache 146 miles off
the Grand Banks, and out of the East
Indian steamer lanes. Blinded with
fog and grog, he drives the Olympus
Apollodonius one third block up the
streets of Herring Row and rushes into
the arms of Henrietta.
Breaking Into Affluence” is excel
lent reading for busy men like Robin
son Crusoe.
190 pages vellum bound in moroccan
veal skin, $1.75. Peanuckle and Pen
nington, publishers.
BILLY BREAKS HIS SILENCE
Dear Dumbell:
Mighty freshman, I come into your
wigwam in wrath.
There has slipped into the human
race an individual that has framed me
for more trouble than Solomon’s fam
ily ever had with the neighbors.
If it’s you at the bottom of it I’m
going to run an encursion of one down
to the junction when you come home
and knock you for a cross continent
row of Polarine signs.
In the event that its not you here’s
explanation. Some guy has taken my
name, added my address, bought every
magazine that floats advertisemenf^V
and has unkindly sent me on 5
trial ‘‘Send No Money” m^
than I can put down h^
skull an impression
I’ve
Thackera^^ ^ corre-
on ^^‘ri^ing epitaphs,
of Simon Pure lard,
furnace, nine sets
of ^B^^^eare, six memory courses,
atch like a freight conduc
tor carries on the R. F. & P., two bush
els of hyacinth bulbs, a kiddie car, a
set of mule harness, an incubator
(fowl), a pamphlet on how to study
French in your own kitchen, plus etc.
I laughs at the jokes but the next
time I wanders near the post-office
there is a set of O’Henry with Rider
Haggard free, a can of varnish, a buck
et of salt herring, a stethascope, a brass
watch chain, four safety razors, a vol
ume on dressmaking made easy, a flute,
a cast iron fat reducer, two bales of
asbestos shingles, 49 books on how to
get rich through boxing, cico analysis,
or latent power improvement. An en
velope of violin strings, a set of sus
penders, a contraption to keep me from
snoring, and more etc.
Now I like fun better than no man
but the express co. left on our front
porch this morning a little assortment
of 1 bag horsefeed, 1 cider mill, 1 box
rasins, 5 lbs. buckshot, 6 wickerwork
infant vehicles, 1 keg of sour krout,
4 Carnegie libraries, 2 bags of oyster
shells, 1 tractor, 40 plugs of tobacco,
1 saxaphone and 1 collapsed motor boat.
Dad is wild, the post-office is a mass
of congested spleen, the express co’s
gone into the hither part of D. T.s. I
look like John Wanamaker’s shipping
clerk three days before Xmas.
Pal 0’ mine, if you sent this stuff
on five days trial then I am going to
send you to a good hospital on the same
terms and I’ll bet the two bedroom
suites they are unloading in the front
yard now that some M. D. won’t be
able to find out whats wrong with you
in five days. Yours in wrath,
BILLY.
DR. J. H. BROOKS
Surgeon Dentist
Foster Building
Burlington, North Carolina
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JAKE BLAKE
SAYS:
“Fifty-fifty am a poor
bet on grades. W’en de
p’ofessor takes off his
50 whar is yuh at?”
Girls! Have you seen the “full
fashion” silk hose at the College
Store?
337 s. Elm St.
SHOES AND HOSIERY
For the Well-Dressed Student
Mebane Shoe Company
Burlington, N. C.
DR. L. M. FOUSHEE
DENTIST
Office Near Freeman Drug Co.
Phone 85&
BURLINGTON, N. C.
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Freshmen, now is the time to
start keeping a memory book.
Get one of those beautiful ones
at the College Store.
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Greensboro, N. C.
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