November 12, 1924
MAROON AND GOLD
Page Three
Washington Cafe
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Money?
We have a plan whereby collegc
men can realize an incoine wllile
goii)" to school and at tlie same
time secure prot'essionnl training
which may ’jo used later in estab-
lishiiifr a personally-owned and
profitalUe business.
A Univovsity of Xortli Carolina
mjui qualified for our $100,000
club last yc-ar. You, too, can
make money as our representa
tive while in collcge.
PILOT
Life Insurance Company
H. B. Gunter, Vice-Pres.
and Agency Manager.
OUR FALL AND WINTER
WOOLENS
ARE BEAUTIFUL
$25 to $60
r. N, BOONE
The Tailor
Burlington, N. C.
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Shipments Made to all Schools
and Colleges
SUTTONS, INC.
Jefferson BuUdug
REENSBOBO, N. C.
Sowing of a 276-acrc field to grain ny
el^ airplane was aeeoniplislied in a few
In? days recently near Tracy, Calif.
The new Government in Ireland is
considering measures to revive the fish-
i^being industry off the Irish coasts, which
ijl^has been gradually declining for some
years past.
“THE SCRAP PILE”
One evening last summer as I sat 011
the grassy banks of the Hudson gazing
at the dazzle of the moonlight on tlie
water, my thoughts turned back to
‘‘Old Eion,” or as w’e would say now,
now Klon, and one thing in particular,
1 thouglit of Maroon and Gold, our ow^n
collego paper. I was missing the w’^eek-
ly news it brought during the college
year.
J remember well that the Maroon and
Gold was first published during my
senior year in college, then I thought of
bow little I did to help niake the- paper
a success by w’riting an occasional ar
ticle for it. I remember having writ
ten only one article for it,
I am w’riting this article w’ith the
hope that you students w’ho are here
now’- will not pass out of college with
out putting some of your thoughts into
print through the columns of your
paper. Maroon and Gold needs the
support of every student, and the
chances are that someone wall enjoy
reading what you write. I remember
how’ w’cll T uschI to enjoy the Fresh
man’s letter to his ma. T take this as
one example because it w’as original
and true to life. 1 believe every stu
dent liked to read it. Someone may en
joy rending your article in the same
way.
It is quite an accomplishment to be
able to express one’s self either in pub
lic speech or in writing. Thc^ only w’ay
to cultivate yourself in the art of w'rit-
ing is to practice it. Write articles for
your college paper or some newspaper
or magazine. Think up something new
and original, w’lite it in simple, plain,
everyday English, and someone is sure
to find enjoyment in reading it.
AN OLD STUDENT.
DON’T STOP MY PAPER
Don’t stop my paper, printer,
Don’t strike my name off yet;
You know’ the times are stringent,
And dollars hard to get;
But I’ll w’ork a little harder
That’s what I mean to do
And get the dimes together.
And send them off to you.
I can’t afford to drop it,
I find it would not pay
To do without my paper,
How'ever others may;
r w'ould not ask my nc-ighbors
To give me theirs on loan;
They don’t just say, but mean -it,
Why don’t you have your own?
You can't tell how* I miss it,
If it, by any fate.
Should happen not to reach us,
Or come a little late,
Then all is in a hubbub,
And all things go aw-ry,
We cannot do w’ithout it;
You know’ the reason why.
Miss Margaret wants the stories,
And T am anxious too
At first to glance it over,
And then read it through,
I cannot do w’ithout it,
It is no use to try,
For other people take it,
And. printer, so must I.
—Blue and Gray.
A NEW PROFESSION
By John J. Tigert
REFORMING HUMORISTS.
The copyrigliting of each member-
magazine w’ith subsequent permission
to reprint given only to reecognized
magazines was favored in a resolution
passed at the recent convention of the
Mid-West College Comics held at the
Sheridan Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Til.
‘•Tiiis action would ])revent the sa
lacious typo of magazine from using
material from college comics,” says an
account of the convention p;ablished in
the Daily Noithw’estern. “In this w’ay,
the college eeditors hope to discourage
and if possible eliminate the publica
tion of indecent and improper maga
zines.’’—Now Student.
Patriotic workers of Venice, Italy,
have informed the government that
they will work an extra hour daily and
donate the money thus earned toward
the relief of the nation’s finances.
United States Com. of Education
AftoK- college, what business or pro
fession V In these days of specializa
tion, the college man or woman vrho has
not yet decided upon a career may
choose from vocations more varied than
ever before. Fresh channels of w'ork
are constantly ojiening because of our
rapid social and industrial Transforma
tion. One of the newest and m.ost ap
pealing of them has been brdught about
by a« combination of fundamental
changes in the character of Americaii
life. It is the profession of organizing
the leisure time of towns and cities.
Today approximately one tliird of life
is leisure. Through time and energy-
saving devices, through the Uvision of
labor and through legislation the eight
hour day in industiA'^ is very generally
an accomplished fact. Add eight hours
for sleep to the Avork hours and there
remain eight hours for recreation and
diversion each day. The use to which
this spare time is put has a tremendous
influence on the character of our civili
zation.
Leisure is a powerful force, which
may work either for growth or for de
terioration. Community Service, a post
war movement, exists to make spare
time constructive and rich. It provides
loadersliip and combines the resources
of community agencies in w’ork for
vigorous citizenship and healthful re
creation. It helps communities and in
dividuals to express through play
grounds, athletics, dramatics, music and
the various forms of art latent talents
wdiich cannot find an outlet through
their daily work.
Community Service as a vacation of
fers a broad field to the-socially minded
man or woman of intelligence. With the
grow^th of the movement, the demand
for directors of community leisure time
life increases. Providing proper re
creation is today considered as much a
civic responsibility as providing sanita
tion and education. Communities are
analyzing the word “recreation” back
to its essential meaning—‘‘re-crea
tion.” They are realizing how much
of the soundness of community life de
pends upon the cultivation of the mar
gin of time outside work and rest.
Although commercial amusements—
theatres, baseball, amusement parks,
and many other such things extort a
large profit, they are often good enough
in their way. The chief danger is in
letting them provide exclusively for the
nation’s leisure time. For commercial
recreation concerns itself merely with
supplying entertaining ways to occupy
time. It does not give much encour
agement to spontaneity and self-expres’
sion in recreation.
There is truth in the warning that we
are in danger of becoming a nation of
“bleacherites. ” Eighteen men play on
a, diamond while thousands sit and
w’atch them, gainiiig their only exercise
by occasional arm-waving. We have too
many ‘ ‘ s]>0rtsmen ” who confine their
athletic proclivities to watching others
perform aiid reading the sports pages
of the newspapers.
To be an interested spectator is com
mendable, but true recreation means
.participation. People, nnd cominunities
as well, grow only by doing. They are
glad to exchange looking on for doing
if they have a chance. But they do
not as a rule know how to proceed on
their own iiiitiative. Facilities are
lacking and organized leadership is
lackng.
The task of Community Service is to
give leadership to the community’s ef
forts in supplying these recreation
needs. Local leaders of athletics, dra
matics and music are trained. Unused
vacant lots are cleared for playgrounds,
neighborhood associations are formed,
programs of year-round activities, both
outdoor and indoor, are initiated. But
Community Service is not superimposed
upoji a community. Tt is a structure
built within and by the community it
self.
The man or woman who follows the
profession of Community Service acts
in the capacity of consultant or advisor
to a. town or city which wishes to use
its leisure time to the best advantage.
He (or she) correlates the efforts of
various groups and individuals, elimin
ating wasteful moves and furnishing
direction. What a city manager is to
the civic life of a community and a
school superintendent is to its educa
tional life, the Community Service di
rector is to its leisure time. His work
ing days are busily diverse. One day
he may be helping to organize an atli-
letic league or a community forum, the
next arranging publicity for a Music
Week or a pageant, and the next draw-
ing up plans for financing summer play
grounds. Always he finds in his pro
fession sco^^e for every ^talent and
capability he may possess.
Young men and women wdio are in
terested in entering this new field can
receive information and advice from
Community Service, 315 Fourth Avenue,
New' York City.
STUDENTS VERSUS TRUSTEES
A mass meeting, at which the excite
ment became so great that a student
strike almost resulted, was held October
11, when the undergraduates of Mercer
University (Macon, Georgia) discovered
that the professor of biology of that
institution, Dr. Fox, w'ho in his class
rooms had explained the theories of
evolution, had been asked to resign.
Resolutions w’ere immediately passed
by the student body expressing their
appreciation of Dr. Fox and asking the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees to reconsider their action.
The action of the trustees, who are
elected by the Georgia Baptist Con
vention, was based on the grounds that
"in a written expression of his views
as to Christianity, he (Dr. Fox) show's
that he is out of harmony w’ith the
principle on W’hich the Christian church
to be founded. ‘‘We grant to Dr.
Fox, the resolution of the Board con
tinues, “a perfect right to liberty of
opinion in the matter of his religious
beliefs, but we do not think he has
either the legal or the moral right to
hold the beliefs he claims and at the
same time to teach in Mercer Univer
sity. ’ ’—New Student.
UNDERGRADUATE JOURNALISM
IN ENGLAND
The Varsity (University of Toronto)
asked Gerald Sparrow, one of the mem
bers of the visiting Cambridge debating
team, for an article dealing with stu
dent journalism in Oxford and Cam
bridge.
Wrote Mr. Sparrow: “You ask me,
sir, for my impressions of University
journalism in England. I pause to in
vent those impressions
“Now’^ undergraduates in England
are divisable into four divisions:
1. Hearty men who row and excel in
tliletics.
2. Lugubrious men w'ho are learned
and excel in exams.
3. Ordinary men.
4. And journalists.
“Now the undergraduates who run
the w'eekly papers—there are no dail
ies—are, again, either (a) Aesthetes,
W’ho write the review’s and editorials,
and (b) Funny Jilen, who fill the in
tervening spaces.
“The papers at Oxford and Cam
bridge—for there are many and all
are in private hands—have nothing to
do with the authorities, but are private
enterprises. At each University there
are stable journals—one representing
University thought and another Varsity
thoughtfulness.
‘At Cambridge, The Review is the
organ of Orthodoxy and The Granta the
home of heresy.
‘The Oxford and Cambridge press
is a sensitive machine of public opinion
and affords pleasure to those who w’rite,
and even to those who read.”
Campus
Custom
Clothes
A finer finish to the
tailoring adds longer life
to the style, and the wear.
Here, in the new Van-
story store, are styles in
models and patterning of
fabrics that have an ap
peal to the discriminating,
and yet, so economical, it
is poor judgment not to
look over our new models
first.
See C. C. GORDON
VA IS ST O RY
Clothing Company
Collegiate Corner
Jefferson Standard Bldg.
With a proiluction of 235,400,000
pounds of American cheese in 1922, val
ued at revailing retail prices at $105,-
000,000, Wisconsin maintains its su
premacy in the dairy industry.
The San Francisco Industrial Associa
tion reports that apprentice plasterers
taught in the vocational school oper
ated by the association are in steady
demand at from $4.50 to $8 a day.
I We are showing several
'i new patterns in Gore and
S'
I Strap Pumps in Black Suede,
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Black Satin, Patent Leather
0 and Light Tan Calfskin with
p Hosiery to match.
1 Foster Shoe Company
Shoes—Hosiery—Shoe Repairing
BURLINGTON, N. C.
After counting all the hairs on the
heads of the women students, tw’o pro
fessors of the university of Munich
found the average to be from sixty to
seventy thousand hairs per head.
Three societies for the liberation of
women have been founded in Egypt,