October 17, 1923
MAROON AND GOLD
Page Three
ELON
Dr.
OF POWERFUL VOLUME
Harper Reviews Work of W. F.
Jordan—Book Deals Witli
Indian Life.
(By 'VV. A. HARPER)
Rev. W. F. Jordan lias just issued
another gripping volume on Missions,
to which he has given the very signifi
cant title of “Glimpses of Indian Amer
ica.” The book is far more than the
author modestly claims for it. The 12
chapters, filling as they do in excess of
200 pages, are far more tlian a glimpse:
they are a sympathetic interpretation
of a people too long neglected and de
serving every consideration at the
hands of Christian America.
In his opening chapter the^ author
defines what he means by his title. “By
‘Indian America/ he says, “I mean
particularly that section of the New
World inhabited by the descendants of
those races whose forefathers had es
tablished civilizations that were old be
fore the landing of Columbus. These
people are to be found in great num
bers today in Mexico and Guatemala
of the Xortliern Hemisphere, and in
Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, of the
Southern. In all of these countries
there are large racial groups that re
tain their ancient customs, costumes
and languages in spite of 400 years of
contact with European civilization. In
all of them the Indian blood predomi
nates among the governed; while the
ruling class and the clergy are largely
white.”
It is a severe indictment that in the
pages which follow this faithful min
ister of our church and world mission-
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ably write more
personal letters
than any other
class of people.
They are away from home
—away from old acquaint
ances — and must write
constantly to keep the ties
of friendship intact.
Printed stationery is be
ing used more and more.
It is the proper stationery
for students. Bearing the
name of their society or
fraternity, it lends pres
tige to their standing in
college.
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ary traveler brings against the white
rulers and priests for their inhuman,
un-Christian treatment of the original
Americans. Your blood boils as you
read the evidences of oppression, insult
and wantom calumny wliich these silent,
suffering brothers of ours must endure.
Their overlords who “conquered and
reduced (them) to submission by treach
ery and superior weapons and arma
ment” have “kept (them) in subjec
tion and ignorance through the cen
turies.” In the estimation of the rul
ing class “the Indian is classed as a
domestic animal and valuable beast of
burden.”
The cataloguing of “the sights of hu
man degradation witnessed” sickens
the lieart and prods the will to under
take something to relieve so desperate
a situation. The Belgian Congo got
relief when the conscience of mankind
became outraged by the iniquities per
petrated on the helpless negroes of that
benighted land. Mr. Jordan's book
should bring a speedy relief in the land
to the- South of us and for which we
are especially responsible under the
terms of our Monroe Doctrine as well
as under the obligations of our Chris
tian Brotherhood.
In his concluding chapter the author
rises to flights of real eloquence as he
depicts the forlorn plight of these
brothers of ours as the Macedoniatt
cry to us to come over and help. Ho
makes it plain that jails will await
many of those who respond, even a?5
jail awaited another faithful servant
of Jesus in the first Christian century
when he answered the first Macedonian
cry. He shows a picture of Mr. Pow-
lison of the Bolivian Indian Mission
behind prison bars in 1922 for the Gos
pel’s sake. This Christian man Mr.
Jordan located in the Indian village of
Torocari by asking “for the man who
.treated the poor when they were sick.”
The wretched Indians knew him, but
not his name. This saintly servant of
Jesus was imprisoned on the false
charge of having murdered an Indian
boy wliom he had befriended. With us
a man is innocent till he is i)roven
guilty. In Indian America you are
guilty till you prove yourself innocent,
provided one of the ruling class accuses
you. “The government is under no
obligation to prove guilt. Mr. Powliso.T
was given to understand that if he
would promise to leave the country all
would be well and he would be released.
This, however, he refused to do, and his
wife and little children awaited his re
turn many months alone in the mud-
walled hut of the Indian village,”
where they made their home as the ser
vant of the poor and of Jesus.
Mr. Jordan is a brave man to go
back to this country after the publica
tion of this book, which he attended to
during his recent furlough to America.
But the undauntable spirit of the cru
sader is in him and he is back again
among the people whom he delights to
serve as the ambassador of Jesus Christ.
His book may cost him imprisonment,
but he is not the man to flinch at any
personal sacrifice to secure relief physi
cal, intellectual and spiritual for thes«a
suffering, down-trodden peoples.
The American government should
take note of his disclosures and brin^
freedom to these people as it did to
Cuba when the cry of suffering there
reached the sympathetic ears of our
citizens. The government is uuder ob
ligation at least to investigate the con
ditions Mr. Jordan describes and either
to remedy them in the interest of hu
manity if he is truthful or to expos-:^
him if he is an alarmist.
This book, published by the Fleming
H. Revell Company, New York City,
$1.75 net, as a companion volume to
Mr. Jordan's former book, “Crusading
in the West Indies,” should prove to
be a best seller. It is more satisfying
than fiction. It is depressively inspira
tional. It challenges the heart and con
victs the will. It should prove to be
Indian America’s Magna Carta.
I am proud that a missionary of the
Christian Church and alumnus of Elon
has been able to bring such a message
as this to the Christian world.
iiUNGElNTS MADE
BY ATHLETIC COUNCIL
Many Changes Are Made in Ticket:
Regulations For Admitting All
Students to Contests.
NEW
STYLES
READY
PRICES
TPIAT
PLEASE
Important changes have been made
this yenr in the matter of admissions to
athlel'ic contests held here. No per
son is to be admitted to any athletic con
test without a ticket. This applies alike
to regular students, special students,
members of tlie faculty and administrative
olficers and their families, and all other
persons who may attend the games.
Season tickets will be issued as ex
plained below. These tickets T\-ill be
numbered along the bottom edge from
one to twenty. The number of, each
athletic contest AA-ill be posted in ad-
\-ance, for instance, the game Saturday
^^•ith Ilami)den-.Sidney will be contest
No. 1. and the proper number punched
on the ticket when it is presented at
the gate. In case a ticket is not used
for any piirticular contest it is made
void for that game and cannot be used
for a later one in place of the unpunched
number. For iustance, a person holdin;
a season ticket and not attending the
first game would not be permitted to
ha^•e Nos. 1 and 2 punched to admit
himself and friend to the second game.
The friend \\ould be required to pay the
regular admission. Season tickets are
not transferable—they will admit the per
son to whom issued ONLY.
In making provision for tickets the
Athletic Council has ruled that no per
son. no matter who he may be, shall
be admitted witliout a ticket, and this
rule will be strictly enforced.
Regular Students
Ail regular matriculated students will
be issued a season ticket for all athletic
contests held at Elon during the year.
All regular students have paid the ath
letic fee, which is included in the mati’ic-
ulation fee. Hence there will be no
extra chnrge for tlie season tickets for
regular students. These tickets may bo
secured by calling at the business of
fice.
Special Students
Special students may purchase season
tickets for the year for the sum of $5.00.
Tf they jirefer they may purchase instead
season tickets for each sport, as Foot
ball (season ticket $2.25), Basketball,
etc., or they may pay regular admission
at the gate. The season ticket for all
contests for the year, however, at $5.00
will he much cheaper than any other
way of buying tickets for the games.
Faculty Mem'bers and Families
Those faculty members and adminis
trative officers of the College who are
receiving a regular monthly salary for
their services may purchase a season
ticket for the year for the sum of $2.50.
This fee of $2.50 will entitle the faculty
member or officer together with his wife,
if he be married, to a season ticket for
the year. Season tickets for minor chil
dren over twelve years of age may be
purchased for an additional •‘fl.OO for
each child.
Additional Provisions
Citizens of the town, visitors to the
College, and all other persons not in
cluded in the above classifications may
purchnsc a season ticket for the year
for $7.50. they may purchase season
tickets for the various sports (season
ticket for Footbnll. $2.25), or they may
purchnse single admission tickets at the
gate.
Children under twelve years of age
accompanied by parents will be a^mitt'^d
free. Children over twelve and under
fifteen years of age. and also children
under twelve when not accompanied by
parents will pay one-half the regular
fare. Season tickets for children will
be sold at one-half the regular rare.
Tickets on Sale
Tickets are now on sale by variouy
members of the student body, by the
City ]‘>rug Co., Burlington, N. C., by
the College Store, Elon College, N. C-.
and will also be on sale at the gate
during the game Saturday.
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We Carry the Goods You Want at Prices Consistent With
the High Character of the Qualities
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AND STUDENTS
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books. Outlines. Short cuts. Mental
stimnlants. All listed in the free Handy
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unions and Anniversaries, After-Dinner
Talks, Noon-Day Lunch Talks, Debates
for all occasions. Average cost 5 to 15c
each in group lots. All speeches written
by college or university graduates. Write
for list.
“Public Speakers’ Magazine contains
10 speeches every month. 25c per copy.
College Representative wanted.”
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EVENT OF WEEK HEBE
(Continued from Page One)
DR. L. M. FOUSHEE
Dentist
Office Near Freeman Drug Co.
Phone 856
BUELINGTON, N. C.
Complete Line of
SPORTING GOODS
COLLEGE SWEATERS
ODELL’S, Inc.
Greensboro, N. C.
The
\^ogue
Shop for Men
Guilford Hotel Corner
GEEENSBORO, N. C.
Most convenient of all—Pal and
Superite Pencils. Get them at the
College Store.
Pride discounts
tues.—Selected.
multitude of vir-
amazing rapidity and a huge pot of cof
fee shared the same fate. Mrs. Kirk
land presided over a pot of delicious mix
ture which had an impossible name and
an irresistible flavor. Bread-slicers plied
their knives swiftly and steadily until it
was necessary to send for more bread,
and pickles of various kinds were down
ed with a reckless indifference as to the
consequences.
As the food disappeared and spirits
again grew light, the fires were piled
high with brush which blazed up and
sent a shower of sparks skyward, ef
fectively silhouetting girls against the
darkening wood. 'J’he strumming of
ukuleles eventually drew the girls closer
together and, after many songs, yells
were given for all who wei'e directly re
sponsible for the outing. An especially
liearty one was given for President
“Mickey,” who was so busy serving and
cooking that she did not take time to
eat. After a mad romp around the fire—
a circle of girls within a larger circle
and moving in opposite directions—the
girls scampered across the field in the
direction of the campus. Dr. Ilelfen-
stein distinguished herself by her bril
liant execution of K. P. Duties while
the “old guard'’ extinguished the fires.
SMART STYLES FOR
YOUNG WOMEN
You will find here a complete line
of Newest Styles in Fall Footwear.
Come in and inspect the new models.
fOSKR SHOE COMPANY
305 Main Street Biarlington, N. C.
DR. J. H. BROOKS
Surgeon Dentist
Foster Building
Burlington, Nortli Carolina
None better—few as good. Bon-
nie-B Hair Nets. Get them at the
College Store.
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