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MAROON AND GOLD
November 4, 1^.1
fl^aroon and dBolD
Published Weekly by the Students of
Elon College
Members of the North Carolina Colle
giate Press Association
Entered at the Post-Olfice at Elon Col
lege, N. C., as second-class matter.
Two Dollars Per College Year
H. Eichardson Editor
Henry Peel Managing Editor
B. L. Green Business Manager
J. A. Walker ....Ass’t. Bus. Manager
A. B. Fogleinan Adv. Manager
D. W. Jones Ass’t Adv. Manager
E. W. Auman .... Circulation Manager
Paul Braxton Ass’t. Cir. Manager
Wiley Stout Ass’t Cir. Manager
S. D. Woody Ass’t Cir. Manager
Sallie K. Ingram.. .Ass’t Cir. Manager
W. J. Gotten Faculty Advisor
Advertising Bates Upon Bequest
Thirty-one seems to be a popu
lar score this season.
The trouble with most Fresh
men is that they insist on doing
as upper-classmen do, and not as
they advise.
Mosquitoes never get slapped
on the back until they go to work.
Football teams never get slapped
on the back until they win some
games, and who doesn’t like to
be slapped on the back?
Every year there is a group of
schools who ends the season in
the ‘‘Also ran” class. This is the
class to which we belonged last
year. This is the class to which
we have belonged so far this sea
son. It is the class to which we
will belong, unless * * ♦
FRESHMEN
This issue is dedicated to the
Freshman class. This week you
begin your work as Freshmen,
and yet at the same time you set
for yourselves a goal. You call
yourselves the class of 1929, be
cause you hope to graduate four
years hence. The eyes of the
world are upon you, and this
week’s issue of Maroon and Gold
is dedicated to the ideal which
you have set for yourselves. May
few of you falter on the short
route that leads to graduation.
SWAPPING OLD TROUBLES
FOR NEW
There are various degrees of
success and there are various
definitions for success. But how
ever success may be defined there
is one sure pre-requisite to sue
cess and that is progress. I'hen
it behooves us to find a definition
for progress. Since progress car
ries with it the idea of moving
from one field to another, and al
ways on an upward incline, can’t
we say that progress is swapping
old troubles for new'? When man
first learned that he could trans
mit thought by waving flags in
the air or by making several
smoke columns, he was faced with
the difficulty of working out a
code. Here he had progressed
and he had new difficulties to take
the place of his old troubles.
Later he learned that he could
transmit thought over a wire, by
means of electricity. Again he
had swapped his old troubles for
new troubles, but he had progres
sed. W e might take several other
instances to prove the same thing,
this should be sufficient to war
rant our accepting the general
conclusion.
Now to bring the matter home,
every person who' entered Elon
this fall came with the idea in
mind of improving or of progress
ing. Every freshman here should
have that one thing firmly fixed
in mind. The world is progressing
all about you and it is only na
tural that you should want to
progress along with it.
Now, how are we to know
whether or not we are progressing
in our work here at school? In
order to know whether or not we
are making any progress we must
have something to gauge our
selves with. This is provided in
the simple statement that we are
making progress when we are
swapping old troubles for new.
Do you face new difficulties every
day? Does every day seem hard
er than the day before did? If it
does then you are making pro
gress. Yet, on the other hand, if
one day is no harder, presents no
new difficulties, over the day be
fore we are not making progress.
Don't be a plodder. Make each
day harder than the day before.
Green Onions
p. SOM STU I
V BY
I SOM STUDE i
—S—
Another time we have the reverse
onil of a thirty-one to nothing score.
Now, there is nothing w'rong with a
score of that nature, but we are sug
gesting that all students who are keep
ing memory books, provide themselves
with some red ink, because that score
really belongs to the red side of the
ledger.
_0—
“To run and lose is bettor than not
to have run at all.’’ If we give honor
to wliora honor is due we will certainly
have to give it to our team. They are
ruiiniug and losing. But before we
ccnsure or praise, let us remind our
selves of the fact that we have three
more chanccs to run and to win. Our
team has something to come back to, in
tlie way of playing football. If they
come back to it we will w'in some
games, if they don’t then w’e had hoped
that they would.
—M—
All reports lead us to believe that
Coach is doing his part toward our
team’s making that comeback, too.
Ask some of the victims.
—S—
Isn’t it marveloxis the way kind na
ture provides us with everything that
we need and provides it the year
through? ]n nature’s scheme there is
always something to take the place of
anything that chances to die. Con
spquently we find that every fall na
ture has provided us w’ith a new' class
to take the place of the green leaves
of the trees.
_T—
We understand* that the Freshmen
have organized, but what w’e w'onder
is why they did it. As a class and as
individuals, they are still just as green
as they were when they first arrived.
-_U—
Shakespeare never repeats, but his
tory does. When the immortal Shake
pcare said, “Yon Cassius, with a lean
nnd hungry look.” he never expected
to repent it, but he did expect the liis-
tory connected with the occasion to be
repeated. So by a logical process of
reasoning we deduct that Cassius was
a student in some college and that he
forgot to' have his meal ticket ex
changed.
—D—
If you have a brother playing foot
ball, be sure to tag him, because he
is apt to get hit by somebody who is
totally ignorant of the fact that he is
your brother.
—E—
Can we bent Lyncliburg? If not,
wdiy not?
Howdy Folks! (also Freshmen).
Something new is being added to the
Maroon and Gold. How do you like
to chase your optics over this week’s
bunch
This is put in to pass on to you some
bits of poetry and humor, whicli the
best of men recognize as essential to
a successful life. If you like the de*
partment, it will be continued. As this
is Freshman issue, I have tried to be
in style by telling about various Fresh
men.
—Pussyfoot, Jr., Collector.
* * *
A Freshman once to Hades w’ent
To see w’hat he could learn;
They sent him back to earth again
He was too green to burn.
Miss Morrow: (In domestic science
room), “What is cold boiled ham?”
A Freshman: “Oh, just ham boiled
in cold water.”
' * « *
Dutchman: “In Holland we have
windmills.’^
American: “In America we have
Freshmen.”
* * *
A Freshman’s Logic
We go to college to improve our
faculties. Our instructors are our
faculties. Therefore, we go to college
to improve our instructors.
* * *
A Freshman Co-ed’s First Trip Abroad
Monday—Everybody came down to
see me off. Everything is lovely.
Tuesday—Am having a fine time.
Met the captain of the ship.
Wednesday—Captain tried to kiss
me. I indignantly refused.
Thursday—Captain is wild with
anger. He says unless I consent, he
w’ill blow up the ship.
Friday I saved the life of 500 pas
sengers.
* * *
End of first outburst.
FOOTBALL DOPE
There is no royal road to football.
# * -*
In the lexicon of football there is no
such word as fail.
* * «
The battle of football is not always
to the strong, nor is a race for the goal
always for the swift.
« « *
The first duty of a football player
is to obey orders.
• « tt
The value of the game lies not in the
victory, but in the thrill of honorably
contending for it.
' ■» * *
He who fi.ghts and runs away hail
better keep on going.
FRIENDSHIP IS SUBJECT
OF Y. W. C. A. Discrassioi
(Continued from Page 1)
a Friend to Man.'’ Miss Mary
read a beautiful poem on “How Yom
People Can Make the World
Friendly.” Miss Lucy McCargo
on the “Importance of Choosing tfc,
right Kind of Friends.” Miss Nam
Sue Dunn spoke on the “Ideal Friend'!
w^ho is Christ.
The meeting was dismissed by
Stearns. I
REV. A. T. BANKS KILLED
BY DISCHARaE OF
(Continued from Page 1)
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ?
C. Michael, at Kernersville. K,
Banks was a native of Johnson cou^
ty and w'as about 43 years old. Kt
funeral arrangements have been mai
pending the arrival of the widow. Jjj
Banks was formerly pastor of Christijj
churches at Bamseur and Hendersoi
He was a graduate of Elon College.
Simple Division
Husband (going through housekeep
ling accounts)—“But what is the earti-
ly use of running accounts with fom
grocers?”
Wife—“Well, you see, dear, it maka
the bills so much smaller.”—The Pi>
gressive Grocer.
In an isolated region, almost inaccessible
in winter, this 6500 h.p. hydro-electric
plant located on the Deerfield River in New
England, starts, protects, and stops itself:
A Self-Starting Power Plant
T'p ill Watorto'wn- the other day one
of the “test” questions in a class at
school was “What is Marsf” One of
the answers was, “Mars is the
scratches you get on the parlor furni
ture.”—New York Sun.
The General Electric Company
has developed generating and
transmitting equipment step
by step with the demsnd for
electric power. Already electric
ity at 220,000 volts is trans
mitted over a distance of 270
miles. And G-E engineers, ever
looking forward, are now
experimenting with voltages
exceeding a million.
A new series of G-E advertise
ments showing what electricity
is doing in many fields will be
sent on request. Ask for
booklet GEK-1.
Dawn—the slumbering city awakens and calls for
electric current. Many miles away the call is
answered. A penstock opens automatically, releas
ing impounded waters; a water turbine goes to
work, driving a generator; and electric current is
soon flowing through wires over the many miles to
the city. This plant starts and runs itself.
Power plants with automatic control are now-
installed on isolated mountain streams. Starting
and stopping, generating to a set capacity, shut-
tmg down for hot bearings and windings, gauging
available water supply, they run themselves with
uncanny precision.
i.hus another milestone has been reached in the
pneration of electric power. And with present-day
Jichievements in power transmission, electricity
generated anjrwhere may be applied everywhere.
The non-technical graduate need not know where
electricity comes from—nor even how it works.
ut he should know what electricity can do for
him no matter what vocation he selects.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
generax. electric