SeptembfT 20, 3929.
MAROON AND GOLD
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With Charlie Roberts
FIGHTIK’ CHRISTIANS LOOK GOOD
Three months of taking it easy does
not seem to have had a bad effect on
very many of Coach Walker’s men of
the eleated shoe, for they all seem to
be in exceptionally good condition for
this early in the season.
A great many of last year’s so-called
letter men are back in the camp of the
Elartites, and still a greater number of
newcomers can be seen out on Dr.
Harper’s newly-fenced athletic field
fighting for positions on the Maroon
and Gold eleven. Captain Roland Smith,
Zaeh Walker, Foster Hughes, Ural Wat
son “Country” Rollins and Pete Wil
liams make up the list of last year’s
first team footballers who are back to-
fight for Elon another year. George
Kelly and Paul Wagoner, are returning
for another try after being out of
school for a year.
The team that seenia likely to start
against Davidson in the first tilt of the
season is P. Wagoner and Rollins, ends;
Smith and Holmes, tackles; Watson and
Hughes, guards; Lankford, center;
Walker, Wagoner, Kelly, and Williams,
backs. Rollins and Wagoner are both
letter men and experienced fllankmen.
No one at Elon needs to be told that
Roland Smith is a mighy good tackier
and that he outpunted every oppo'sing
punter faced diiriiig last season. Holmes
is a newcomer from Dunn high school,
but seems to be the best of the Freshie
candidates. Watson and Hughes were
both regulars on last year’s eleven, and
both of them are hard working men
who will bear the brunt of the burden
in the line this year.
Mo’nk W'alker will be barking the
signals for his third straight year here,
and believe us he’s one more mean ball
toter and a sure tackier. George Kelly
at one-half is exceptionally fast and
should get away for some good gains
this year. Jabo Wagoner playing the
wing lialf is a good all-around man
with more than his share o'f pass, snag
ging ability. The red head will prob
ably give quite a few opposing backs
the well-known proverbial fits chasing
him down before the sunset takes place
on next Thanksgiving afternoon. Peter
Williams, the West Point Flash needs
no introduction. He is a line i)lunger
of no mean ability and is the hardest
tackier on the team. He’ll lo'om up
njighty big backing up that line, and
he will stop many a would-be long runs
this year as he did last. Lankford, who
will probably get the call over Shrimp
Morphis at the pivot position, has shown
a great deal of grit and the other essen
tials which make up a real football
player. He is an unknown quantity:
but we are expecting him to' be a tow’er
of strength against Davidson. He has
the size and strength. Now let’s see
you get in there, Big Boy.
There seems to be much more reserve
material this year than last, and the
team will not be at such a great loss
if one or two of the regulars are forced
out of the game. Morphis and Thomp
son are both good centers and could be
put in at that position without material
ly weakening the team. Womble and
Fogleman are practically as good at the
guard positions as the two regulars,,
and Gresham and Brown are also good
linesmen. Dick Caddell is an excellent
pass receiver and may make some end
or tackle do some tall steppin ’ for his
position before the season is over. Cap
Clark, a regular end last year, and Zeb
Harrington are ends, possessing great
capability, and both of them will see
service before the season is over. The
second team also boasts a stroiig back-
field, and its members will all no doubt
be seen in action before the season is I
over. Dofflemyer, the fullback, is an
exceptionally hard worker and played
in several games last year. Branner,
a husky half-back from Delaware, is
showing up well, as is Coggins, the
other half. Roberts, who was on the
squad last year, is calling signals on
the second eleven.
Each of the boys is working his
hardest in order to be in shape for the
Davidson tussle this Saturday. The
Wildcats will truly be tough nuts to
crack, but the bigger they are, the
harder they fall, so we are planning to
give the Davidsonians a real scrap for
their money.
After Davidson comes Catawba. Let’s
turn the table on the Indians this year.
Last year Elon journeyed to the Salis
burian’s camp to come out on the short
end of a 13-12 score after leading 12-0
at the half. Elon had the ball on
Catawba’s three yard line with four
downs to’ go when the referee’s wluetle
ended the heart-breaking encounter.
Sc let’s all plan to be on hand to see
Elon get its revenge. It is sure to be
that way this time. Every one of you
be at Comer Field on September 28th
with your best pair of lungs to help
win that old game.
WHY AN EDUCATION?
'‘Statistics show that a college edu
cation is worth se\'enty-two thousand
dollars,” accordng to Dean Savage, who
called attention to some phases of our
piesent-day civilization.
“We frequently hear the slogan,
“earn more and learn more,” continu
ed Dean Savage, “but in our struggle
for quantity and speed have we lost
siffht of the worth-while things o^
life?”
“Truly this is an ago of speed. It
took Magellan three years and twenty-
eight days to circle the globe, a dis
tance recently covered by the
Graf Zeppelin in twenty-one day3.
Surely the Literary Digest was not far
wrong when it said that the world was
moving too fast for us to take a census.
“Think, too, of our present-day
means of communication. The radio
flashes to millions the scientific facts
that it previously took hundreds of
years to spread among a much smaller
group.
“And, is bigness always greatness?
There are over three hundred men in
the United States, each of whom has
an income of over a million dollars a
year. There are also eleven men whose
combined annual income is over fifty-
five million dollars.”
In other words, Dean Savage has
touched on one of the mo'st vital prin
ciples of Christian and secular educa
tion; namely, that of building charac
ter to which greatness will taach itself.
Yes, it can be done, even in this so-
called “age of speed.”
RANDOM IDEAS
Love at first siglit; divorce at first
slight.
The dove brings peace and the stork
tax exemptions. Protect the birds.
Baking a smaller loaf enables the
baker to make a larger roll.
The home with the largest car parked
cut front may have the largest mort-
gage.
ExpeTience is a dear teacher. Others
are underpaid.
More boys would stay down on the
farm if prices wouldn’t.
' No coward is small enough to hide
behind a woman’s skirt these days.
If more mothers were strappers we’d
have fewer flappers.
One way to keep your friends is not
to give them away.
Divorce suits are always pressed with
the seamy side out.
The rising generation is all too fond
of sitting.
The only nation capable of licking
America is stagnation.
Say needle to a modern girl and she
thinks of a phonograpph.
Presents—not absence—make the
heart grow fonder.
HOW IT CAME TO
BE WRITTEN
There was a young fellow named
Twister,
Who called on his gal, and ho kissed her;
But he found to his fright
When he turned up the light
Thai it wasn’t his gal but her sister.
There was an old man with a beard
VvHio' said “It is just as I feared.”
Two owls and a wren,
Three bats and a hen,
Have all made their nests in my beard.”
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, eo what could they do?
“Let us flee,” said the fly
“Let us fly,” said the flea
So they- flew through a flaw in the flue.
Bold, erect, upright, perpendicular,
He sat in the taxi vehicular.
“Where to?” growled the chauf
feur.
Responded the loafer,
“Oh anywhere; I’m not particular.”
Whenever the song “Dixie” is play
ed or sung the performer is greeted
with cheers and applause. This famous
war song of the Confederacy is the
center of much romance. It was gen
erally believed that, a patriotic South
erner had composed the song, but this
is not so. The composer was Daniel
Decatur Emmett, a black-face comedian
who was a member of a famous mins
trel troupe which opened their season
of minstrelsy on September just before
the outbreak of the Civil War. The
show was a very good one as minstrel
shows go, but alas, and alack, the grand
finale which should have been the gem
of the performance, fell as flat as a
pancake. Now you know that the last
impression is usually the lasting one,
and to have an audience leave the
theatre remembering a flat finale would
never do. So the manager called upon
Mr. Emmett and instructed him to
write something that would serve as a
rousing ending, for the minstrel show
and “pep it up.” He was allowed one
day for the job. It was a sorry kind
of a day, too. The first chill winds of
autumn blew, the penetrating rain fell
upon the streets. No inspiration here
for a cheerful song. What was he to
think' of on a day like this? An old
negro was passing along the street be
low, singing as he shuffled along. The
inspiration came! Sunny skies and cot
ton bales and negroes singing on the
wharves of the Southern waterfronts.
Like a flash the words formed them
selves in his mind: “I wish I was in
Dixie!” By six o’clock the song was
finished. That night Emmett wrote the
music. The manager of the Minstrel
Show liked the song, and that the audi
ence did too. was evidenced by the
twenty curtain calls that greeted it on
the night of its first presentation.
Within a week every boy on the streets
and hundreds of men and women were
singing the catchy song. Its popularity
was immediately assured.
After it was published it spread like
wild fire over the country. It was sung
everywhere. When tlie Civil War broke
the South adopted it as its anthem and
the long gray lines marched to the
battlefields with Dixie on their lips and
th^ memories of it stirred up in their
hearts. As soon as that became known
the North cast it aside and it was many
years before it regained its popularity
in that section. Emmett, the composer,
enjoyed much fame and popularity
througii the success of his song. He
died in 1904 when he was nearly ninety
;years old.—Presbyterian Standard.
JUNIOR SUNDAY SCHOOL
CLASS ORGANIZES
m
“Sadie,” said her mother, “Why is
it that you and your little brother are
always quarreling?”
“I don’t know,” replied Sadie,”
“unless I take after you and he takes
after papa.”
J. Howard Smith was chosen as Presi
dent of the Junior Sunday School Class
for this scholastic year at their first
meeting Sunday morning.
The other officers are K. B. Hook,
vice-presiflent; Sam B. Wilson, secre
tary.
The class has decided to use the
Quarterly and also to use half of the
class period for discussion of practical
problems.
Professors VanCleave and O. W.
Johnson are the teachers of the class.
LIVING AND PRAYING
I knelt to pray when day was done,
And prayed, “0 Lord, bless every
one;
Lift from each saddened heart the pain,
And let the sick be well again.”
And then I awoke another day
And carelessly went on my way.
The whole day long I did not try
To- wipe a tear from any eye;
I did not try to share the load
Of any brother on my road;
I did not even go to see
The sick man just next door to me.
Yet once again when day was gone
I prayed, “O Lord, bless every one.”
But as I prayed, into my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear:
“Pause, hypo'crite, before you pray,
Whom have you tried to bless today?
God’s sweetest blessings always go
By hands that serve him here below.”
And then I hid my face, and cried,
“Forgive me, God, for I have lied;
I/et mo but see another day
And I will live the way I pray.”
Whitney Montgomery.
Mrs. Emily Gerrand of Chicago, was
granted a divorce after testifying that
for 20 years she had lived in daily
terror of her life.
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