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F'age Two MAROOX A.\'[) GOLD November 20 liflarniin auii (SiUii PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF ELON COLLEGE Entered at the Post-Office at Elon College, N. 0., as Second-Class Matter. ADVERTISING RATES UPON REQUEST TWO DOLLARS PER COLLEGE YEAR All articles for publication must be in the bands of the Managing Editor by 12:00 M. Monday. Articles received from an un> nown source will not be published. ' lioiiey and pro\’idiiij; tlie bird with its j ilesircil grubs. I A similar purposiveness is shown by a fern which is grown in a box having two compartments. It wil send its roots over n partition into' tlie other oi-pliimages, religious perioaicnls au'l I to reach fertilizer pl.ired fised authority over others were ealled lienefat-tors. We are not entirely un- aequninted with this sort of iinlividiinl ourselves. The American people be lieve that some men of. wealtli liave been known to be liberal to churches, STAFF Claude W. Kipka Ediior D. Palmer Barrett, Jr Business Manager Editorial Staff Clyde Foushee Managing Editor Ray N. Moses Associate Editor Sports Editor Social Editor _... Assistant Social Editor Excliauge Editor Joke Editor Alumni Editor L. C. Williauis Jewell Truitt Alma Kimball Daniel B(tone Levi P. Wilkins George D. Colclough .. Business Staff Tazewell D. Eure Advertising Manager William H. Ellis Delos Elder Assistant Advertising ilanagers Eobert Boyd Assistant Business Manager Tom Lowery Circulation Manager Cecil Watts Assistant Circulation Manager Lester Kepister Assistant Circulation Manager Elizabeth Carper Assistant Circulation ^Manager Velma O’Connell Assistant Circulation Manager J. W. Barney : Faculty Advisor K. B. HOOK, Head lieportcr K. G. Davis A'irginia Lijieburgcr T. E. Benton Estcl’e Williams -Marjorie ]\tooTe Rebeoca Taylor E\’a Sytes Albert Eodequez ■•Hambone” Shepherd Ilowaril Smith HURR.AH FOR THE PILGRIMS! HURRAH FOR THANKSGIVING! OLD GRADS WE ARE THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE HERE! AND THANKS FOR OLD ELON! THANKS! MANY! THANKS! Since the celebration of the very first 'Fhanksg'ivinp;, the day has come to mean a time for getting together. Poems have been writ ten about Grandma’s .gr Mother’s cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie, but their real spirit has merely paid tribute to the preparation that is made for the home-coming. .^o Elon prepares for the coming back of her loyal sons and daughters. Look over the program, complete, as far as possible in every detail, and the ]ireparation that has been made will be obvious. From the mass meeting in the morning until the evening entertain ment, the day will be full. Gloriously F'ull. There is, of course, the football game affording a chance for Alumni to lay aside their dignity and forget themselves in an en thusiasm for victory. Following that is the turkey dinner with its pleasure of social intercourse and a joy in congenial companion- shi|) that the day has furnished since the beginning. Then the Philologian entertainment comes as a fitting climax for a Thanks- g'iving Day to further serve to emphasize the warmth of the wel come that awaits the Alumni at their Alma Mater. And many of them will be here. There is an indefinable some thing that draws one back, and everything possible has been done to make this home-coming event a happy one. Then being here will express not only faith in the Thanksgiving season, but faith in the beauty of friendships renewed and in the institution that graduated them. The Alumni are always welcome. TIME IS FLEETING NEVER TO BE REGAINED When diplomas are handed out next spring, the graduates will blink their eyes and wonder what it was all about. They will be heard to remark, ‘'Gee ! these four years have flown.” Old Grads have been heard to remark, “Gee! I wish that I could start all over again, how differently my time would be utilized.” It is certain that they would want an hour for chapel. WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR? There are many things for which I can truthfully say that I am thankful. Yet, there are a few that stand out most vividly in my life: I am thankful that God has given me life and good health to enjoy it. I am thankful for the freedom and prosperity that God' has given us, by the hands of our fore fathers. I am thankful for this great institution, Elon. Above all, I am thankful for my dear parents, who are sacrificing many ple'asures of life, that I may have access to the great teaching of this institution. They are the ones who have inspired my ambitions with tender words of love. They are the ones who never forget to ask God to bridge the dark gulfs of my life, and to guide my wandering feet. Just stop for a moment and ask yourself how much you are thankful for, on this great Thanksgiving day. Do you give thanks to whom they belong? Do you really appreciate the ones who are n'aking great sacrifices for you? We should think of Thanksgiving as something more than a good Turkey Dinner. —Anon. ?ven colleges in order to exercise author !ty over them. They are benefactor;^ in oi’der to exercise authority, which is a slightly different situation from that descriljed by Jesus, though ajiproaching it quite decidedly. Jesu.s recognized the obligation of I'lan to serve. He was under authority to do all possible as a fellow' citizen in t).e Kingdom of Ged for the advance nient of the interests of that Kingdom and for its imlividual members. With reference to government. Jesu.s ’■ecognizel its necessity for the orderly conduct of our human life. He en joined His questioners on a certain oc casion to render unto Caesar the thing.? that are Caesar’s and unto Go'd the things that are God's. He w^as no anarchist, but Aalucd government j^rop- eily. But at the same time he felt and taught that the ultimate authority for the individual is the authority of ser vice, the obligation to live in a spiritual brotherhood as a spiritual being in such a way as to contribute most to the spiritual values of life. Character, it is plainly taught in tlie Scripture, arises out of the experiences in\olving self decision. The individual must decide from within, and not be cause of authority that comes from without, that he will do certain things or follow a certain line of conduct. This results in Christian character, if the decision is consciously arrived a* ill terms of the principles and ideals ot the teachings of Jesus. Tn no other w’ay can Christian character arise. It is the by-product of Christian living. With reference to the laws, customs, f’onventions. and professional and other standards of our life, this sanie prin ciple holds. A man who obeys the law because he must, is a slave. A man who' obeys the law because he fears the consequences, is a coward. Bur the man w’ho obeys the law because he reco^iiii'^es that it is right for him to have respect to the public opinion of a community that has thus expressed itself, is a free man. His decision to conform is not a limitation of his free dom, but really qualifies him to render a larger service because of the law, and at the same time it equips him with the power to seek for modification of the law as experience shows that it in any way circumscribes or impedes him in the rightful exercise of his liberty. What we have said with referenee to law, conve]itions. customs, ethical, professional or other standards applies also with reference to the laws of God. The man who obeys these laws will find that he has added to 1 is freedom and increased his opportunity for service to his fel'cAvs. which, after all. as \vq , have said, is the ultimate authority for the indiviflua! who aspires to live as a spiritual being for the promotion of the interests of a spiritual brotherhood iji the earth. tl:ere. Is this intelligent action! Well, tlie Pean recalled a time w^hen as a boy he had climbed over a fence to “hook" a neighbor’s fruit, and his ac tion was considered intelligent and re sponsible enough to bring results which the Dean hasn’t forgo'tten. Tn lifeless things, how loes an atom of oxygen know" to unite w’ith just two grains of hydrogen to form w^ater? And if the hydrogen becomes scarce, how does it know to become monogamous and unite with only one atom of hydro gen. How were such things as these arranged? Did all the atoms in the uni- \erse get together at some time and agree on the way they w'ould act for all time in the future? Was it at such a conference that they decided that cer tain atoms should build themselves to gether into complex molecules and ar range these molecules in a series of forms till at the end of a hundred years the flower of a century plant w^ould be produced? Which is more reasonable to believe: that the atoms and electrons decided such things for themselves, or that they are decided for them by an infinite In telligence? ‘‘I believe in mo'dern science,” said the Dean; ‘‘I believe in evolution as a description of the means by which God made living forms. And yet, if we are going to be skeptics, why not be skeptics of science?” All that we ^^know” about science is based upon our senses. In the case of an apple, the hypothetical ether brings to the eye a series of vibrations. These are bent from their course aiid focused upon the retina. At the retina, an excitation of the optic nerve is begun. This excitation passes to a region in the back part of the brain, w^here it is made conscious and interpreted in the light of other con-1 scious experiences. All that science can ; give us'comes over this circuitous and sometimes unreliable sort of nervous connection. If we eat the apple, all w^e really get is a certain kind of satis faction. By praying, the Christian gains a certain type of satisfaction. Now if we accept the apple as real, wily should we question the existence of God? The scientist is rendering a w'onder- ful service, but he should not be con sidered as an authority on questions outside his field. It is a mistake to look to Fosdick as an authority on electri city or to Edison as an authority on the immortality of the so'ul. Scientists are beginning to realize that their test- tube methods are not finding the ulti mate truths of the universe. “Some have said that science is becoming re ligious. This is not true. But I do know some scientists who are becoming more willing to take off their hats when we say, ‘In the beginning, God.’ ” mmm ^ Fellow students, here is a fumed;« suggestion that might help yon I warm at nights. ' ‘ Subscribe to Maroon and Gold and keep your i red hot.” Tlie Gilt s mart osiery AUTHORITY The word authority occurs thirty-four times in the Scriptures and is used in three separate senses. Sometimes it means power, rule or dignity, as, for example, when in Luke 19:17 we find the expression ‘‘Have thou authority over ten cities.” A second meaning is used to signify a convincing efficacy and pow'er, as in Matthew 7:29, where Jesus is said to have taught people as one having authority. The third meaning is n warrant, order or authentic permission, as in Esther 9:29, where it is said that Esther an^ Mordecai wrote with authority. One of the vexing questions of our present life is the place of authority in the affairs of men and of institu tions. We are prone to resent authority and to desire complete absence of com pulsion in arriving at our decisions and in their execution. Jesus was acquainted with a Tvell- know’n type of man in authority, but he did not approve his method or his reasons for its exercise. Among the Gentiles he said that tho-se who exer- OUTSTANDING ADDKESS I BY DE AN EUSSELIi | (Continued from Pnge 1 ■) i ligion, let us not then say that because material things are the basis of all there ! can be no true religion. If we give materials a definition which makes them i possible of creating intelligence and other iihenomena of life, let us not think of our conclusions in terms of materials which have no such powers. j “Here is our dilemma,” said Dean Russell: “Intelligence is here. Either it is inherent in matter, or it came from an Intelligence outside the material ’iniverse. ” j “If we see in others a type of con duct which w’e W'ould consider intelli gent in o-urselves, we must consider it intelligent in them.” On this basis, he argued that there is intelligence in the behavior of animals, plants, and even in inanimate objects. To illustrate ani mal intelligence, he told of the pilot bird in Africa. This bird is fond of young bees, but is unable to scratch iDto the ant-hills in which the bees frequently build their homes. There- j fore when one of these birds finds a bees’ nest, it fiies aw^ay and finds a> badger. It flies around the badger till | the badger begins to follo'w it. The! JTVko/yo O I ^ bird guides the badger to the ant-hill, C^O« which the strong-claw^ed badger quickly opens, securing for himself a feast of The boys of tlie eanrpus are not t* ed college boya or college sheiks, bit are ei'rand boys for the Coeds ‘‘fc E. E.” ' ^ Our power house superintendeiit i, .some what of an engineer. He lea,, blue prints on their necks. We wish that ' ‘ Pap ’ ’ Eure wouldbriug thitt little Cow infant back to sckool with him after the holidays foi ai- other mascot besides himself, fot basketball and baseball. Dr. Braunoek, our cdiemistry prof, wears a high collar so that he can duck in case of an explosion. * * * * Before teaching your wife to drive a car. “Insure it.” * * « * Two swallows inight not make a sum mer, but they go a long way toward making a night. * * * * “He is going to the dogs,” said tW man w’ho saw his friend going toward the kennels. « * » * Nipp yilise: { like that course in drama, it brings things home to you that you never saw before. Sims; I have a laundry man who does that for me. * « * « Cameron Weightnian went home last week, making a special trip to con gratulate his mother and father upon his birth. Just before leaving for home, he hurriedly made a trip to see Miss Craig, saying,, “Miss Craig, I want to know if the dining hall can run with out me; for I am going home to con gratulate Ma and Pa.” * * * * Miss Benn says that any one that can sing and won’t sing, ought to be sent to Sing Sing and made sing. Co beautiful - so practi cal — and so very much appreciated! You couldn't Choose more wisely than this - Onyx Pointex Silk stockings with that very smart and very becoming Pointex heel. We have them nere in all the colors most important in the mode. Onyx ^Pointac SUkStockings Burlington, N. C. Burlington, N. C. Thursday—Friday Thanksgiving Special WILLIAM HAINES —IN— EXCESS BAGGAGE Monday—Tuesday CORINE GRIFFITH -IN— THE OUTCAST Last Thursday night the whistle on the 1:20 train blew without ceasing. Bob Ruston, aroused from his slum bers, alarmed the campus by yelling, ‘^The British are coming!” I see that Doctor Talley is a full time waiter now'. Where? ‘'At the West Gate,” Tlianks, foT your OOLLAR BILL the Alumni Voice. We are expecting your DOLLAR. Have you paid your ONE DOLLAR for the Alumni Voice?
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