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NUMBER 4
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., JULY i6, 1923
VOLUME V.
J. F. MORGAN WILL LEAD
SONG SERVICE ANDTEACH
Miss Lawrence to Accompany on Plano;
Eev. Mr. Morgan to Lead Clrrls-
tian Endeavor Study.
Tke evening vesper hour of song and
good fellowship will be in charge of
Kev. J. r. Morgan, of Winchester, Va.
This has been called the “Chautauqua
Happy Hour” and will be enjoyed on
the campus each evening from 7 to 8.
A special song sheet is being pre
pared for this hour containing many
of the old favorites, as well as some
of the newer hymns. Miss Mary Gra
ham Lawrence, of Elon College, will be
the pianist who will assist Eev. Mr.
Morgan in these evening hours. As
“Day is Dying in the West” these
times will doubtless be among the best
of the whole day, and will precede the
evening lecture and musical programs.
Eev. J. F. Morgan will also lead the
Christian Endeavorers in their class,
seeking better methods in Christian En
deavor -work as its principles are more
carefully studied. Christian Endeavor
has played such a great part in train
ing our leaders in all phases of church
work that no program could be com
plete without this class, which under
Mr Morgan will be one of the best
of the whole week.
Mr. Morgan is an Elon alumnus, hav
ing been graduated with the class of
1914. He has served very acceptably
for several years as a pastor, and is
very popular with his people.
THREE GREAT COURSES
TO RE AT
Dr. W. W. Staley, Dr. W. A. Harper,
and E«v. J. H. Llglitboume to
Teach Courses.
RROWN WILL HEAD ELON
PNI IN COMING SEASON
Stax Player to Head Quint In Next
Basketball Season—Choice In
spires Confidence.
BASEBALL TEAM
EXPRESSION TEACHER
OISCUSSES HER SUBJECT
Reasons for Voice Culture Are Inter
estingly Given—Stresses Ite
Importance.
ROY C. HELFENSTEIN TO
LECTURE AT CHAUTAUIjUA
Thomas E. Beaman and Dr. J. O. Atkin
son to Speak In Series—Evan
gelism is Subject.
OR. RAPPER POINTS OUT
TWO LIVING MISTAKES
Elon has always been strong in bas
ketball, and a particularly fine showing |
is expected for the coming year. Eob-
ert Brown, who has been for two years
a star on the Elon quint, will lead the
team as its captain. Captain Brown
knows the game, and is competent of
fine leadership.
The prospects look bright for the
team in spite of the fact that several
of the players finished with the 1923
class. There was considerable new ma
terial last year which looked good in
action, and the coming season promises
to be a success.
In Captain Brown Elon’s quint has a
leader and a player who is well able
to make the season, with the right sort
of backing, a great success. The quint
is fortunate in the captain for the next
season.
Eobekt Brown
Captain Basketball Team
‘ Come in. Be seated. What can I
do for you?”
“Do you teach people how to talk?”
“Yes, that is part of my work here.
Are you interested in that line of
w'ork?”
“I don’t know whether I am or not.
My father wants me to learn how to
speak and my mother wants me to learn
to write what I thihk. Which do you
think I ought to dot”
“Both are splendid accomplishments.
Why not choose both?”
I don’t think there will be enough
time for both, because I want to take
domestic science, music and painting.
Down where I live we don't have any
one that speaks and we have lots of
people who cannot read. Now my fath
er says that if I learn how to speak I
can help those ignorant people by tell
ing them about certain things.”
“I’d advise you to take vocal ex
pression, then.”
“My father went to school here one
year and he said he wanted me to take
elocution. Is that the same?”
“Yes, expression is a later term and
covers a greater and larger field.”
“Which do you think is the better
wav to get ideas—from reading them
or from hearing them?”
“How have you been getting your
information the more readilyl”
“Why, when I am listening to a
speaker I believe everything he says
if he is a good speaker.”
“Eemember this,—that the spoken
word is as much more vital and valu
able than the -written word as a tele
phone communication is more satisfac
tory than a telegram.”
“My mother never went to college
and she says that she doesn’t like to
see women get up and talk and change
their voice and make gestures. Now
if I take expression I shall have to give
her some pretty good reasons for doing
it.”
‘ ‘ If you never make a public speaker
or if your mother opposes it to such
an extent that you prefer not to follow
that line of work you will not have
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Discusses Edison and Ford—Declares
Education is Soul Enlargement
and a Priceless Possession.
Three courses, under three expert
teachers, are on the Chautauqua pro
gram for the second hour in the morn
ing each day.
Eev. W. W. Staley, D. D., of Suffolk,
Va., for over forty years pastor of the
Suffolk church, and for many years
president of the Southern Christiau
Convention, will teach the class of pas
tors. This class was so very interest
ing and helpful last year that the pas
tors themselves requested that it should
be carried on this year, completing the
course begun. No pastor can afford to
miss these hours of rich inspiration,
coming from this leader of rich experi
ence.
Dr. W. A. Harper, President of Elon
College, is the instructor of a class ia
social service, using the suggestive lit
tle book, “Graded Social Service in the
Sunday School, ’ ’ by Hutchins, as a text
book. Dr. Harper is the teacher of
the courses in religious education in the
college, and well versed in all phases
of the subject. He is Chairman of the
Board of Christian Education of the
Christian Church which is just inaugu
rating a great forward movement in
this great work.
Eev. Jas. H. Lightbourne, pastor of
the church at Holland, Va., will teach
a class for young people and those in-
Eev. Eoy C. Helfenstein, D. D., pas
tor of the People’s Church of Dover,
Delaware, Secretary for the Depart
ment of Evangelism and Life-Work Ee-
cruits, will give three lectures on Evan
gelism on July 31, August 1 and August
2 at the morning lecture hour. His
themes will be “Pastoral Evangelism,”
“Lay Evangelism,” and “Education
al Evangelism.”
Dr. Helfenstein has visited a number
of our large cities with the Evangelism
Team of the Federal Council of Church
es, and has spoken in large Christian
Church gatherings. Everywhere he is
welcomed because he has made a thor-
It takes a great man to make a great
mistake. History is replete with shin
ing instances of this unhappy misfor
tune. And I say misfortune advisedly,
because the great mass of people have
the unfortunate faculty of accepting
the views of men whom they esteem to
be great in one field without question
in all other fields.
terested in a practical, interesting
course in Bible Study, using Ozara Da
vis’s book, “Meeting the Master,” as
the background of his course. Eev. Mr.
Lightbourne is a successful pastor who
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J. R. RARKER TO LEAD
NEH RASERALL TEAM
Dr. R. C. Helfenstein
ough study of his subject, believes in it
with his whole lieart, and gives a mes
sage that lives in the heart and gives a
program for the life.
On the nioniing of August 3, Rev.
Thomas E. Beaman, of Goldsboro, N. C.
State Secretary of the Sunday Scliool j
Board of the Free Will Baptist Church,
will deliver a leeture. Rev. Mr. Bea
man represented the Free Will Baptist
Church at the Southern Christian Con
vention at Henderson, and is very much
Interested in linking closely together
the work of his church and that of the
Christian Church.
The final lecture on Saturday morn-
irg will be given by Dr. J. O. Atkinson
on the subject, “Paul’s Venture,a
great conclusion to a fine series of lec
ture.^.
We have two unfortunate situations
of this character in our country today—
Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford
Unquestionably these are great and sue
cessful men. As an inventor, as a man
capable of harnessing up the forces of
the material world in the service of
man and of his life, Edison has no equal
in all history nor has a man yet ap
peared who can properly be said to be
second to him. But Edison is a materi
alist only. He has no home life. He
has no social life. Spiritually he is a
dwarf. Ideals and the broad sympathy
of culture are stranger to his life con*
cern. He moves in a narrow groove.
But he is authority in his realm.
Now this man has in the last few
months been questionnairing college stu
dents and pronounces (follege graduates
inefficient. A few years ago he pro
pounded a foolish theory about a fun
damental economic question. A college
professor, fully possessed of the facts,
ridiculed him. Edison tried to have
the college professor dismissed. He is
not only ignorant out of his own de
partment, but intolerant and arrogant.
Edison knows about as much about the
college curriculum as a June bug does
about the climate of the North Polar
regions. As an electrician he is a wiz
ard. As a guide in matters of educa
tion he is a bungling novice.
And Henry Ford is not any safer as
an educational guide. Ford is a genius
at organization, A man who can plan
to keep 75,000 men at work and pro
duce 3,600 cars in eight hours is no
simpleton. His peer in business abil
ity has not yet appeared on the planet.
But Ford is ridiculous in other direc-
I tions. We shall never forget that ill-
conceived Peace Ship which in 1915 be
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Many Old Men Planning to Return;
Mucli New Material Expected;
Prospects Bright.
J. R. Barker will lead the Elon base
ball team for 1924. Captain Barker ia
well fitted for this work. His person
ality makes him very popular with the
team, and with the student body. He
has played college baseball for three
years, and is widely known as a pitcher
of marked ability.
The team is fortunate in its choice
of captain, and about Captain Barker
there is no doubt that the team will
rally to a most successful season.
At the present time prospects are
bright for next year’s team. The new
men who were trained last season are
planning to return, which will give a
fine line-up. Besides these, many new
men are expected who will be valuable
contributions to the team. ^
Jess Barker
Captain Baseball Team