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MAROON AND GOLD
May 4, 1923
£0ardon anU d5old
Member of the North Carolina OoUe-
giate Press Association
Published Weekly by the Students of
ELON COLLEaE
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 Ass^t 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 Bates Upon Request
THIS WEEK’S POEM
By Sion M. Lynam
SUNSHINE
Sunsliinp’s not all outside the hous(\
I know a imtient face
Where smiles play hifle and seek about
The ]ii>s. and li.dit the place.
I know a phic^ whoro children are.
A simple home, but true.
The days brinsf each enough for tears.
But still the siiii shines through.
I po to see a little boy
Who never saw the light.
But well I knoow the suu shines there.
Because his face is bright.
Sunshine's not all outside the house.
1 find it (‘veryM’here,
And warmest too, in )»laces. when
So little brings it there.
THE BIBLE AND THE
STATE UNIVERSITY
Some time ago a meeting of the
leading churchmen representing
the various denominations of the
state met at Chapel Hill to dis
cuss the advisability of giving
credit for Bible study in the State
Universitjr. The matter will go
before the board of trustees at
their coming meeting, and the
probability is that credit will be
granted for Bible study done un
der the auspices of the various
churches of the town.
We believe that Church and
State should remain forever sep
arate, as institutions, but w’e be
lieve, too, that the step now be
ing contemplated is a w'ise one.
The University could allow credit
for Bible study without in the
least compromising the relation
ship of Church and State. There
is admittedly a lack of Biblical
knowledge among college stu
dents, and this move w'ould in
some sort aid to eliminate this
lack of knowledge. It would give
an incentive to students to spend
some time on the work, and would
give them the time to spend on it.
This W'ould not be the teaching
of the Bible in the State Univer
sity, but only the giving of credit
for W'ork done under the auspices
of the churches. We are of the
opinion that more and more peo
ple are desiring to know the Bi
ble, and that any man who under
takes any business of life without
some knowledge of it is serious
ly handicapped. The Bible needs
a sympathetic interpreter, and
ev'ery University student w’ould
be privileged to select his or her
interpreter.
Should credit be granted it
would place the churches of Chap
el Hill on their mettle. It would
make it necessary for them to be
come efficient teachers of religion.
Teachers and students would to
gether face the great problems
now at issue in our civilization,
and face them with the knowledge
of the Bible to draw upon. We
believe that the Bible is sufficient
ly strong to endure the test, and
there is no doubt but that it would
be the most gruelling test applied
to it in many years. Taught sym
pathetically, with credit granted,
w'e believe that it w'ould add to
the efficiency and advantages of
our State University. It would
aid the University in producing
men well rounded, and stronger
for the tests of life.
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WHAT IS THE RELATION OF OUR
GLEE CLUB TO THE HIGH SCHOOL?
First, all up-to-date liigli schools have
a glee club. It we want to be up-to-
date our high school must have one too.
Our .glee club helps us to get an edu
cation as much it' not more than our
books. For what is more refining than
music and the love of the art that
makes music?
Second, a glee club teaches us the
best music and if every one wants to
leain how to sing or wishes to know
how to appreciate good music, there is
no better phice for them to learn these
thing.s than a glee club. Our glee club
song book isn't raggy, it’s far from
being so. It has been standardized by
Mr. Brow^n of Greensboro. He is teach
er of music in the N. C. C. W. It is
said to be the very best of song books
for glee clubs, and all glee clubs every
where are using it. All standard high
schools use this book at least once
during their four years in high school.
Third, a glee club helps the teachers,
including the pi'incipal of the school.
Because if the principal should w-ant
one teacher to entertain in chapel some
morning and her students were not pre
pared, they could call on the glee club
for help and the glee club could do it;
because it always has something ready
for any time, any place, anywhere.
A good glee club in a high school is
a part of the school as much as math,
Latin or English. It gives a refining
influence to the entire school that per
haps one course could not do. Of course
we want the best music to teach us
the appreciating of the culture in mu
sic.
It is not only a gre.at good to the
school, but a drawing together of the
school and the community. Dr. Wicker
in his educational work here in the col
lege teaches that the school should be
the social center of the community, and
the glee club can play a large part in
doing this.
We arc proud of our Junior Music
Club, but we can be still more proud by
getting the best music, by striving to
do our part as boys and girls, sticking
together as a whole, and assuredly we
can make our club such an asset to the
school that it can’t be a real school
without the Junior Music Lovers’ Club.
MARY ELIZABETH THOMPSON.
iListen Billy
V ^ T T
JIuinan t‘\*nts don’t always have a
C'0urs(> wliich runs parallel to the usual.
For instants this week I met a wonder
ful woman who told fortunes for only
.“iOc and now 1 knows whats going to
hai)pt*n without having to work for it
or get all messed up in Stewdent politics.
Not to b(*gin in the middle it started
like this me and .Mugsy Scroggins was
coming out of the postoffice together as
wt^ is both friends and freshmans.
Mugs>- said like it was a wonderful
idea for us to go down to the Gipsy
Cami). which is parked along the cement
road and have our fortinies told.
I said. ’“WhatMl it cost"? lie says,
”Mebl)e 2 bits or ."»«) c*’ and as luck would
!iave it we both has that nuich in the
coin of the realm and wp Saunters down
to tlie canvas tops where Madame Zeno
■[jredicts gr«*at things for e\'*^ryone except
liersolf and her lazy old husband.
AFu.gsy says, “ril go first and if its
a fakn you can gi\'e me half of your
.*inc and not have vour fortune told and
save a piai’ter.”
Tt may have been contrary to financial
precepts, but I says, “Nothing doing
Mugsy you would tell the Mrs. Madame
a whole lot of junk about me and she
woulds't not have to have nothing but
a .aood memory to make a fool out of
me.”
.So with our policy settled we comes
to the tent where there is some poodles,
kids and a motor truck. I goes in the
tent wliere it is darker than 11:01 P. ISI.
in the dorinitories and tlie Madame has
had garlic for suppej’ and she looks at
my hand and 1 tells her I'm from the
(’ollege and she asks if I know about
subconscious minds and cristal gazin.
I tells her no I haven't seen everything
since I will not be a Softmore until next
term come Sept.
She says "You have got a girl"’ and 1
says, “There you goes mixing me up with
At. J, W. White again.
She says “I^y your hand I see that
you like ice cream and dont like onions.*’
I says “Righto** but 1 guess she could
tell by my nose which was turned up
that I didn’t like no onions or Garlic.
Hut what Ini askin Billy was how did
she know about the ice cream?
She says “Your eyes have always been
blue*' and come to think of it 1 giiess
they have. She said I was a freshman
and went to Elon College, that I had a
Sunday Suit and didn’t drive no Pack
ard car. That I wasn't the best stu
dent in my class and that 1 was pidgeon
toed. She said that I knew a good movie
when I saw it and that Mugsy Scroggins
was a good pal but for me not to lend
him too much money as Mugsy didn’t like
to pay debts. Now thats Mugsy all over
the campus.
She says is tliere any '(a you would
like to ask. I replied, “Have I got a
friend named Billy?’’ She says sure
and I liked you and that your real name
was Willyum. Is that right Billy?
She wants 50c more to predict whether
1 would be a lawyer or a doctor but I
says, “No for if Ive got to be either
it dont make no difference as they is
both poor jobs. The lawyer has to sit
before a judge with his jaw full of ter-
backer and the Dr. has to look at tonsils
and Adding Oids.
Wei! to close if you ever has your
fortune told ask the lady if you have
got a friend and mebbe you can get an
other name for me.
Yours till June first,
DUMBELL.
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CROWDING IN
Who shall we take along?
Is a sure precourse of woe.
\^’hy must twD drag a third?
No matter where they go.
I've gone to the soda shop,
I’ve gone to the movie hall,
With a third to tag along
And fill my heart with gall.
To make things alw'^ays proper,
I’ve sure turned loose the dough,
Always as half as much again,
And then they call me slow.
l*ve caiTied aunts and sisters,
And her friends that I detest,
Fi-om the scowls that I have given,
They should have judged the rest.
I don't court everybody,
I can’t tote the family tree,
I wish third party trotters
Would please let up on me.
K. A. D. A.
They still call them bonnets but the
price isn’t still the same.
M m m
We notice an article. “The autobi
ography of a Ford.” Can a Ford have
a n AUTObiography ?
H ig| 1!
The chickens ready to scatter your
garden also resent a late spring,
m M M
Etiquette—Wiien a girl invites you
for a ride it is proper to refuse if the
gas guage registers less than half full.
M m m
John Barleycorn was on war’s casual
ty list, but his successors cannot be said
to be missing in action.
m M ^
Whether or not a woman's tongue is a
concealed weapon has been referred to
the sui)reme court. .
m m ^
We suggest a bachelor's magazine. It
would have a great following among the
ladies.
g] la a
The road to failure is too often a one
way street.
S Ig U
JAKE BLAKE
SAYS:
A snappy wife she’ am
a mos’ wonderful mem
ory aid.
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The First Electrochemist
^ITROUS oxide, accord
ing to the science of a
century ago, was "the
[ rinciple of contagion when re
spired by animals in the minutest
cuantities." Mere say-so.
Imaginative yet skeptical Hum
phrey Davy, who believed in ex
periment rather than in opinion,
“respired” it and lived.
It was this restless desire to test
beliefs that made him one of the
founders of modern science. Elec
tricity was a new force a century
ago. Davy used it to decompose
potash, soda, and lime into potas
sium, sodium, and calcium, thus
laying the foundations of electro
chemistry. With a battery of two
thousand plates he produced the
ftrst electric arc—harbinger of
modern electric illumination and
of the electric furnace.
Czar Alexander I and Napoleon
met on a raft to sign the Treaty of
Tilsit while Davy was revealing
the effects of electricity on matter.
“What is Europe.?” said Alexan
der. “ We are Europe.”
The treaty was at that time an
important political event, framed
by two selfish monarchs for the sole
purpose of furthering their per
sonal interests. Contrast with it
the unselfish efforts of Sir Hum
phrey Davy. His brilliant work
has resulted in scores of practical
applications of electrolysis in in
dustry and a wealth of chemical
knowledge that benefit not hinv-
self but the entire world.
In the Research Laboratories of
the General Electric Company, for
instance, much has been done to
improve the electric furnace (a de
velopment of Davy’s arc) and new
compounds have been electro*
chemically produced, which make
it easier to cast high-conductivity
copper, to manufacture special
tool steelsi:and to produce carbides
for better arc lamps.
Genet al^Elecftric
general Office C0111p2.Iiy SchtnectUy,N.Y,