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Page Two MAROON AND GOLD April 6, 1923 flParoon anij (^olD Member of the Nortb Carolina Colle giate Press Association Published Weekly by the Students of ELON COLLEGE Entered at the Post-Office at Elon Col lege, N. C., as second-class matter. Two Dollars Per College Year Sion M, Lyuam Editor W. B. Terrell Managing Editor W. C. Elder Business Manager R. W. Utley AssH Business Mgr. Curtis Price .... Advertising Manager J. O. Atkinson^ Jr. . . Ass^t Adv. Mgr. W. J. Hooks Circulation Manager 6. L. Williams ... Ass't Cir. Manager Kate Strader .... Ass H Cir. Manager E. D. Clements Publicity Editor C. W. Hook .... Editor for the Alumni Advertising Bates Upon Kequest THIS WEEK’S POEM By Sion M. Lynam K* *.* • * MY VIOLETS Aly violets three, you came to me With faint perfume and rare; I wonder why you’re like the sky So blue and clean and fair. My violets blue, I’m proud of you, And all the things you mean; Your precious breath will haste to death, Yet all the while serene. They lifted you^ my violets blue, From out a tiny plot Where things were green and all was clean, And old dead things were not. You soon will die and I will sigh For you, my violets blue. And I will miss your scented kiss, For I’m in love with you. If the' senior table continues, the rest of us will need a quiet rest and a nerve specialist during the sumtiier. April is the lady month. She uses rouge on her sunsets and paints her dawns. She dresses in bright colors, and smiles and .weeps indiscriminately. Ah old proverb says, “A bad beginning makes a good ending.” We are hoping that our baseball season will prove it true. In the April Bookman Elmer Murphy talks about the decline of oratory. The writer ought to visit Elon at an early date. THINKING TOGETHER As we take up our work as edi tor of this little paper which, in the years we have been closely associated with it, has come to mean so much to us, we realize the responsibility resting upon us. We know how fruitless it would be to attempt to make it a suc cess without the co-operation of all who are interested in making it and Elon which it represents measure up to the high standards others have set for us. It is not our paper which we are editing. It is yours. It belongs to every student, e\ery alumnus and former student, and to every friend and reader of its columns. We are trying to serve you, and to bring to you each week the sort of things which will help and interest you. To do this we must know what will help and inter est you. We must think togeth er. and thinking together we can make Maroon and Gold one of the leaders in collegiate thought and influence. We come to our new work with an open mind, and we will appre ciate suggestions from those who have them to make. There are some ten thousand readers of our little paper, and each one of those ten thousand people has a taste all his own. It is difficult to know just what each one will like, but we shall attempt to carry in the columns something for every reader. We can do this in some measure at least, if all of us will think together, and contribute the results of our thinking toward a better Maroon and Gold and a better Alma Mater. THE PSIPHELIAN PLAY Miss Edge was right when, in her introduction, she said that the play which' the Psiphelians were presenting was not of a high liter ary character. It was, however, rich in humor. The Psiphelians chose well, and their play was presented in a way that does credit to the society. The characters were well sel - ected, and played their parts well. Miss Barrett, playing a male role, took off the part to perfection. It was difficult. She was on the stage almost every minute after her entrance, but it was all well done. The Psiphelian play was a fit ting close to their long succession of entertainments as the one so ciety representing the women stu dents of the college. It set a high standard in wholesome fun as well as in excellent execution, and furnished a delightful evening for those fortunate enough to be present. OUR NEW FEATURE With this issue we are begin ning a new feature. We believe that our readers will be interested to learn more of North Carolina writers and their works, and we are to undertake to acquaint thetn through brief reviews with the lit erary work of the state. It will mean much work for the reviewers, and we trust that it will open the field of North Caro lina books to our readers. SIMMON SEEDS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Dear Readers: Today I take over the editorship of Simmon Seeds. We hope and trust that we can carry on the clean-cut policy outlined and followed by the retired editor. Under my predecessor Simmon Seeds has grown like the green pear tree. Circulation has kept pace with our rival, Maroon and Gold. One thing has been neglected. Many requests have come in asking who the contributors are. We have turned over the Friday edition for the purpose of acquainting you with them. Short bio graphies, together with faithful like nesses of these literary luminaries are herewith presented. Hopefully yours, JOHN SMEAR, Editor-Elect. ANTONIO TREEPO—Born 1904 just off Riverside Drive. He comes of a ;long line of ancestors, dating back— way back. His parents follow the soft fruit busi ness. Antonio — known to his read ers as “Tony^’— first showed signs of intelligence a few years ago, while on the staff of the N. Y. N. Y. Herald. As a news boy he became famous for short changing. Tony entered Yale dur ing the clothing shortage of 1919. Due to the rigor of the climate he was forced to shiver south where he finally joined the throng beseiging the gates of Elon College, and after forcing his way in was elected a member of the TONY TRBEPO While at Yale K.A.D.A. At .Gym freshman class. Since then he has made a splendid record in college ac tivities. As we go to press Tony is recuperating from the Elon-Guilford game. K. A. D. A.—Born 1906 just beyond the Golden Gate on the Pacific mail steamer ^‘Janitoress II.” Mr. KADA is an American citizen al- « though he did not set foot on American soil until he was three days old. He had an ad- venturous childhood and after a severe case of measles he re lapsed and broke out with rhyme. Since then he has been calculated among the lesser poets of the western hemisphere. Mr. KADA served six months on the staff of Thom as Katt Publications, Incorporated. He spends his spare time asking rides to Burlingtoil. He has recently purchased a new safety razor. Mr. KADA is un married as we go to press. JACOB BLAKE—Born 1908 at Cab- inville, Ga. His ancestors came over on the Mayflower (the second trip). Mr. Blake spent his ear liest years as a pickaninny scam pering through the peach orchards of Georgia. He is now a great huntsman and traveler. He has the distinction of having visited all the prominent chicken roosts of the east. Mr. Blake is very fond of good clothes and is a splendid singer, having written a turkey trot in Asia Minor, He was the first subscriber to Simmon Seeds and hence is now several months in arrears. Unmarried. TUG AND WUG— Non-resident corres pondents. Details of their lives are un known since the dis astrous fire which destroyed the files containing their ped igrees and other facts concerning them. It is thought that pos sibly they are relat ed to the Prince of Whales, although this cannot at present be established with any degree of certitude. Any facts concerning them will be appreci ated by the chief of police. TUG and WUG In Playful Mood JACOB BLAKE At 3 O’clock In the Morning JAKE BLAKE SAYS: Sometimes a hair net ketches a big fish—by de coat-sleeve. DR. E. C. BROOKS TO HEAD CLOTHING drive'IN STATE (Continued from Page One) Near East Relief county chairman, or send it by parcel post or freight to the Near East Relief Clothing Warehouse, Raleigh, N. C. Dr. Brooks believes that everyone should have at least one complete suit of clothing which they are about to cast off for the winter, and points out that if sent to the Near East Relief this suit will save a human life in the battle be tween Christianity and Mohammedan ism. The goal is set as 30,000 lives. .J, Come to ATLANTA WEINIE STAND For Quick Lunch i SCHIFFMAN JEWELKY oofl !♦! Leading Jewelers H COLLEGE JEWELRY | Iji Greensboro, N. C. S J. K. OZMENT Fancy Groceries, Fine Candies and Smokes “The Gomer Store” BOSTON TAILORING CO. Cleaning and Pressing All Kinds of Alterations WORK GUARANTEED Davis Street Bnrllngton, N. 0. DR. L. M. FOUSHEE DENTIST Office Near Freeman Drug Co. Phone 856 BURLINGTON, N. C. STUDENTS FOR TRAVELING OE LOCAL POSITIONS I Qualify, now, during your spare time, \ for a Traveling or Local Position start- ing in June, developing the plan of re ligious education in the home. Oppor tunity to make $60.00 or more per week. Write for full particulars at onee. UNIVERSAL BIBLE HOUSE College Dept., 1010 Arch St., FhUadelphU v- VOLTA EXPIAINING HIS BATTER.Y TO JfAPOLEOJf '^ow Electrical Engineering began t T IS not enough to ex periment and to observe in scientific research. There must also be in terpretation. Take the cases of Galvani and Volta. One day in 1786 Galvani touched with his metal instruments the nerves of a frog’s amputated hind legs. The legs twitched in a very life-like way. Even when the frog’s legs were hung from an iron railing by copper hooks, the phe nomenon persisted. Galvani knew that he was dealing with electricity but concluded that the frog’s legs had in some way gen erated the current. Then came Volta, a contempo rary, who said in effect: “Your in terpretation is wrong. Two differ ent metals in contact with a moist nerve set up currents of electricity. I will prove it without the aid of frog’s legs.” Volta piled disks of different metals one on top of another and separated the disks with moist pieces of cloth. Thus he gene^ rated a steady current. This was the " Voltaic pile”—the first bat tery, the first generator of electricity. Both Galvani and Volta were careful experimenters, but Volta’s correct interpretation of effects gave us electrical engineering. Napoleon was the outstanding figure in the days of Galvani and Volta. He too possessed an active interest in science but only as an aid to Napoleon.He little imagined on examiningVoIta’s crude battery that its effect on later civilization would be fully as profound as that of his own dynamic personality. The effects of the work of Gal vani and Volta may be traced through a hundred years of elec trical development even to the latest discoveries maae in the Re search Laboratories of the Gen eral Electric Company. Gener al^ElecTfcric gcner,,l Office C01Hpa.ny Schcnectady,N.Y. 9S-*3S I> 4-
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