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Page Two MAROON AND GOLD April 20, 1923 fl^aroon anU Member of the North 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. Lynam 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 G. L. Williams ... Ass’t Cir. Manager Kate Strader .... Ass^t Cir. Manager R. D. Clements Publicity Editor C. W. Hook .... Editor for the Alumni Advertising Hates Upon Bequest THIS WEEK'S POEM By Sion M. Lynam TOUCH We stood togetlier there where thunders broke, And darkness hovered tangible; the flood Poured down in torrents on our lieads; we spoke Not, only touched our hands, but un derstood. We stood where God put His best art ist stroke To show Plis love in Nature’s face. ’Twas good. The mountains tow’red majestically. We spoke Not. only touched our hands, but un derstood. We stood in silence there, when Death’s foul stroke Had claimed the one most dear, and knew the rood. So great was pain no tears would come. We spoke Not, only touched our hands, but un derstood. We found our words such useless things and crude: With touch, the human touch, we un derstood. READUSTING VALUES Athletics today seem to have a preponderating influence in the collegiate world. It is an influ ence which all but excludes inter est in other things. There is too great an emphasis on the physi cal prowess of college men, and too little attention is paid to men tal feats. The time was when the reverse was true, and such a condition would be as lamentable as the one which exists today. There should be a readjustment of values, and in the readjustment those men who are active in other fields of college activities would be recog nized as well as the athlete. The fault is not to be found among the present students nor with the fac ulties of the various colleges and universities, though these do aid in the common tendency of the times. The roots of the difficulty lie far deeper. They go down through the whole strata of soci ety, and are indicative that our civilization is not so far removed from primitive barbarism as we sometimes imagine. There was a time not so long ago, measured in historical fig ures, when the fight was to the strong, and personal strength meant the gratification of every desire in every phase of life. The world has, we sometimes proudly boast, come a long way from that point. We hope that we are right, but if the present prevalent ten dencies in collegiate life mean anvthing, they mean that the pro gress from that period of physi cal master^' has not been so rapid as we could wish it, and that the race has not come so far. When a college professor after years of training and a large ex penditure of time and money re ceives from two to three thous and dollars for a year of teaching, while at the same time a baseball player can demand twenty - five thousand dollrs for one season of play, there is something wrong with our civilization, and there is a need for a readjustment of val ues. This readjustment must be gin with college men. They have led the race what little way it has come from barbarism to civiliza tion, and they must continue to lead. Everyone has heard of Center j College and her wonderful foot ball team that held Harvard to a stand on Harvard’s own gridiron, but who has heard that Bates Col lege, with only a few hundred stu dents, has defeated Harvard, Yale and Princeton in recent debating contests? This has happened, but those debaters from Bates College have not received anything like the amont of publicity which Cen ter College has received. There is a deeper meaning to this than at first appears. There is a cause for such a state of affairs. The press lias not gjven the Bates stu dents the publicity, because the public has not demanded it; but the fact that the public has not demanded it is a thing about which w'e need to concern our selves. Values should be so readjusted that whether a man debates or plays football he will receive the honor which is due him. It should be possible for the student in Mis sissippi University who won the prize for the best essay on citizen ship written in the world this year to receive equal recognition with the star baseball player of the sea son. Until values have been so readjusted as to make this possi ble, there will be something dan gerously wrong with our civili zation. There will be several men who will select an all-state team this spring, but who will take the trouble to see who are the state’s best debaters? These men will be little known beyond their own campuses, and not so very well known there, and yet it will be these men upon whom the college will depend in future for her sup port rather than upon her ath letes ; and it will be these men upon whom the entire nation and the world will depend for their progress. As college students we must set ourselves to adjust val ues and to create a proportionate amount of honor for thinker and athlete. Miss Bailey Leads Y. W. C. A. Meeting Speaks on Kindness, Obedience, and Sympathy—Impressive Service— Many Participate. Y'. M. C. A. lield its regular weekly meeting last JiiuKluy evening, April 15, with Miss Xonnie I*ailey as leader. Tho meeting was opened with the song, “Onward Christian Soldiers,” fol lowed by prayer l)y Miss Mary Swanson. After the reading of the Scripture -les son by Miss Bailey the meeting was turned over for a prayer service. Tliis was a beautiful and impressive little service in wliich many of the girls pres ent took part. The loug chain of sent- (Mice pra.veis was opened by Miss Effie |->owden and closed by Miss Bailey. After the prayer service Jtiss Bailey, in that pleasing ma)iner jxH-iiliar to her. made a most interesting little talk taking for her main subject, “Kindness, Obedience, Synii)athy." '1 he luet'ting was closed with prayer bv Miss Margaret Moring. ^tiss Ismay Karnes spent the week end vviUi lu-r pnnHits in Raleigh, N. C. Mr. (J. I), ('olclougb spent the week end at liis liome in I>\irhani, N. C. l>r. ('. H. Howland. 1900. of Frank lin. Va.. was a visitor here Saturday. STAY PUT Success brings a cheer from the crowd; They always howl in happy glee When through each scrape you come shipshape, But this doesn’t appeal to me. For all of life Is not winning, Nor does it last a season through. When others scoff, you are bettor off. The time when it’s up to you. When nothing is coming your way. When you lose and keep losing at that, When you face the scowls and hear the howls And miss the once friendly pat. When things break wrong and keep breaking. And the Hoodoo calls you his own, When your very best is as poor as the rest, When your name to the dogs has been thrown, Play on and be calm in the playing; Stick in; stay stuck; take the blame, Eyes front, chin up. The dregs of the cup Are sweet if you’re playing the game. K.A.D.A. ADVERTISEMENT To ye Elon men and women likewise— Know you from this that there liv- eth at ye Power House which is situ ate on north side campus at ye central point, Two Authors who can write at will in both prose and rhyming verse. On any subject at short notice. Do extra well and specialize in debaits, theeses, oreations, and ye week day papers for engliah One. The authors are gents and write with freedom in the manner of Lord Ches terfield of England. The writing of their muse are extra ordinaire high. The price most low. Stricked confidence 011 all matters. These authors deelight in writing what soever you cant write at 40 cents each page. See us and avoid ye 70c. EEMEMBER—at the brick house with ye black smokestack where they boil the hot water. No Trust. W’’e live by cash alone. TUG and WUG. JAKE BLAKE SAYS: A mule can reach you quicker by goin’ back wards. SAWDUST SCENERY Dear Bill: Spring is here for ernest and I feel like going out the doors and never com-: ing in no more. With spring old scenes comes back the things I wants best to do is not be a seenyur or win a two lbs. meddle for speaking the loudest but I wants to go to an old time circus. You know the old days before I had come to man’s estate the biggest time excepting of course xams was circus day. But now with girls hanging on one arm aud the fear of flunking on the other I longs more than is common for one of my dignity for a big circus day. If a circus did come this way there would be no holding of me. They could put me on the tank and take all the props away and I wouldst come down. 'I'hey could lock me in the glass case with the biological skelliton aud when the baud started playing me and that old I'attler would go together. After you ha^ e once tasted pink lemon ade you dont like no other flavor Billy. Then to tliink of the little girls riding on horse backs and looking sweet like it was feckulty reception or something. r>ont that make you long for the big tent and a bag of goobers. It sure doest Billy. 'Phen to see all the elephants and acro bats that must have graduated from the ante breakfest jim class. They are the stuff. They aint nothing else except. If you runs across a good circus send it towards Ellen. \Vell to quit I’avening over something I cant help I’m in a ])retty mess here. I’m taken an elective course and now the facknlty has desired not to elect me but let me work for it. So I’m working my way through college. Im taking a whole lot of things that wouldst not be any more good to me than hemstitching would be to a Ginuy Pig. However Pm in to stay until the gates is opened and the goats and lams is mixed up. I wish they would give di plomas to freshmnns but there is lots of things we cant have. ■\Vas you joking about coming here next year? I hope you does for it would be a sinch with me here to tell you what to do. You put chewing gums in my hair at the S. S. picknic and if you will come here and let me be your initiator I will forgive you and we will be square. How about it? It wouldst make a man of you. With kinder regards than herebefore, DUMBELL. LIVE LIKE A BOSE The year is coming to a close; The days are falling one by one Like petals of a dying rose, A bloom that still in beauty goes Wlien all her garden days are done. And what is life? It is a year. However many years it span— In childhood’s springtime to appear, To live the summer of a man. And then to feel the autumn here. And what is death? The final day Of life’s short year, a day like these When summer puts her garb away And winter winds begin to play Their wild, tempestuous harmonies. Live like a rose: The roses bloom Not for .themselves but for the earth. Pink lamps that garden walls illumine— A decoration for our mirth, A. holy solace for the tomb. Die like a rose: Its petals fall, But it is sweetness to the end— Oh, it is something, after all, To be a rose beside the wall. Besides the way to be a friend. —Selected. Bamboo cjuail from the northern prov inces of China are being distributed in the State of Washington this spring. The bamboo quail is said to be a bird of a size between native quail and Hun garian pheasants. These birds come from a cold section of China, where the winters are more severe than in Wash ington. YOUR CAST OFF CLOTHES WILL SAVE HUMAN LIVES Pneumonia and Acute Bhetimatlsm In Armenia Can be Stamped Out Next Winter by Discarded Garments. An appeal to all Tarheels to con- triibute articles of clothing which they have cast off for the winter to the sav ing of human lives in the Bible lands, is going out this week fi-om headquarters of the Near East Relief in Haleigh. Josephus Daniels, honorary State chairman; Col. George II. Bellamy, State chairman : Governor Morrison and 25 other members of the State Executive Committee of this great humanitarian organization, are asking North Carolina to make a special effort between now and May 1st to contribute at least one complete set of warm clothing each. Dr. E. C. Brooks, State Superintend ent of Public Instruction, is State cloth ing chairman this year, in active charge of the work. Dr. Brooks has set the State's goal as the saving of 30,000 lives, which means that this many complete suits of warm clothing, in which there is still some wear, must be contributed. May 1st has been designated as “'Bundle T'>ny” by Dr. Brooks, and so declared in a pro(;lamation to the peo ple of the State by Governor Morrison. Schools, churches, women’s organizations, and clubs of all kinds are a.sked to take or send as much clothing as possible to the local Near East Relief chairman, or to ship it by parcel post or freight to the Near East Relief Clothing Ware house in Raleigh. In spite of the generosity of Ameri cans, many women and children were found last winter who had dragged them selves for miles, suffering from acute rheumatism * or pneumonia, simply for lack of clothing. Others just simply froze to death. Dr. Brooks and the State committee are especially desirous of receiving as • many as they can obtain of coats, trousers, dresses, sweaters, wool gloves, mittens, boots and shoes, shopw'orn gar ments, blankets, sheets (for bandages), new cloth or garments, and any heavy warm clothing in which there is still some wear. The Near East Relief cannot use laces, silks, veils, chiffons, evening clothes, satin slii)pers, muslin underwear, high- heeled shoes, straw or frame hats, or silk stockings. If any considerable quan tity of these articles are available, it is suggested that a community sale or auction be held and the proceeds turned over to the Near East Relief county chairman or sent to Robert A. Brown. State treasurer, 001 Citizens Bank Build ing, Raleigh, N. C. Scott Will Speak At State Peace Contest Preliminaries Held Here Wednesday— Three Men Out for Eepre- sentative’s Place. The preliminary of the State peace contest was held here Wednesday fol lowing luncheon. W. T. Scott won in the preliminary, and will represent Elon at the State Peace contest to be held in Burlington, April 27th. Mr. vScott spoke on the “Parting Ways,” and his appeal for peace is well worded and well delivered. The sec ond choice of the judges was W. B. Terrell who spoke on the subject “War Must Cease.” There were three men out for the contest. W. '1\ Scott, \V. 1**. Terrell, and George D. Colclough. The i)eac»‘ contest is nn annual event under the supervision of I*rof. F. Blair of Guilford College. Rev. R- O. Smith represented Elon in the contest lasr year, and won second pi’ize for the b(‘st oration on peace, l^lon has been r(-gulai-ly represented at this contest, and has won first prize. Miss ^fargarpt ^Sforiug and Margaret Rowland silent the week eud in Durbau> with friends.
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