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MAROON AND GOLD
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1938
Maroon and Gold
Library News
As A Knave Sees It
Edited and printed at Elon College by students of Journalism. Pub
lished semi-nwnthly during the college year.
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1937
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Entered as second class matter November 10, 1936, at the post-
office at Elon College, N. C., under act of March 3, 1879.
Jack Basnight hias become a
drug-sitore cowbioy. So sorry that
the local taJent wasn’t gooid en
ough.
Thos© Machigan Little Sym
phony men have proved' to be as
good letter vsritere as tJiey were
musicians. For further reference
see some o^f the Eloin Choir girls.
For the moat loriginal class on
the cam'puis I wiould siuggest the
Labor Problems cLaiiS. One of
their many inventions was the
Changing oi the well-known “hot
foot” to the “hi t box”. Any of
the guys'from this clasB, especial
ly Jerry Hiaggiard, can give you
the m’urbi-d details i;f you’re in-
pnpq+ci ’
A question otf manners is the
reiaJ reasc'n that Isaiah Sears and
Lar.liiDn Walker ihave come to the
ria.rtlng i.if the wayis at the break
fast table.
Orchids to John Puglisi and Ar
tie “Bigaip'ple” Greenwiald for the
very interesting bull session they
conduct. The topic is always an
jntelleotu/aj one, and the usual
trite topics of religion and the
opposite 3ex are seldom if ever
d'iscustsed'. Pug and Artie ?|3 pro-
fourJi research work in such fields
a's natio'nalism, world peace, and
Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Drop up some time, you’ll benefdt
a greait deal.
Playing With Fire
In a short while, student elec
tions will be the main to-pic of
conversation. What will these
conver.sationis be like this time?
Will they be perfectly legitimate
t^nes during wh'. h the re:ative
merits of the nomineej or candi
date® for nomLnuiion will be dis-
cuissed and' looked upon with a
fine degree cf scrutiny, or will
they be in the le .3 des>ed f; rm
in which the canxiLdate’s merits
are not ditijuesed but his poiiti-
oal backing abeorbe all interests?
A certain amount of “politick
ing” is not cnly necesiury, but
very enjoyable as well, provided
i t is ktpt w.;.hin bcundj. There
never has been enough enthusiasm
c) nnec.;fe>d with elections here; in-
ateud there has seemed to be an
und'ir current of “Who is sure to
and who is sure not tc
be”. It ha's not mattered greatly
if the candidate'^’ campaign man
ager presented a fairly lugical ar-f
guement for hi.^ mt^n; u^Lally the!
elect.rs had their minds madie up!
as to whom they were fei > ng to I
vote for long bef:,re election time. |
Open Forum
What is the matter with the
politics of Elon College? It is
ajo rotten that it stinks. No per
son has an 1 pporiunity to have a
position save tho.se who are mem-
ber-s of friaternities and sorcri-
tieis; and that is unifair. The fra
ternity ai'Us his brother to get
elected even though he knows
that there might be a man out-
S'ide the fraternity which iwxuld
be iar more capable of holding the
/ifice. Even when one fraternity
ki. that his mian has not a
'.i; .nee to be elected, he turns and
helps another fraternity to elect
his mam. They support each
other even thomgh they know that
the man is (incapable.
Can’t iwe have a change this |
year? How about an election of!
inidv'iduals rather ■. .an cf party j
men? You will be the one to |
benefit tne m'„.'t. i. is important |
that student cffi'^ere are .u^uble;
person.'. For a full year they
have to guide us; they regulate
our social welfare while we are
here. Are we going to sajKfice!
anythin.^ mj potent in i-ur college'
life ji;-t because some friend of!
ours. tAho w.as just interested in '
a ititle and not the AorK which
Was tc go with it, has a highly
respected student office?
Student ele.t;ons _eserve as
much .'trious th ught as any other
part tf a college i^tui.eni'/ l:fe, so
1-et U'R not sl.'p up and treat Ihem
ligihtly.
Tihere ■may be a comparison
with politics here with piolitics in
state government. We don’t
Kn,. w w'ttat the state of North
_UiTolii.U .‘3 doLng ab.)ut cleaning
up poliii.ii, ibut we do know what
he s.ate of Virg.nia is dioing.
There is a cileanssng of the politics
...^le. u 13 causing a great deal
f controversy. Tne thing which
• i being djne in Virginia is the
i!-. Ltion of the power of the ma-
-'iine. For many years the ma-
cni.’e has dictated to the Gover-
or, suiyang wha.; he shall do and
what he .-'..all not do. Thia is be-
-ng .;.,>ne jiway with. |
The folities cf Elon are in that
..,nL'ition, th-ugh there ihas been
no person to fight, and cleanse
it. We flay thut the fraternity
power is to EloJi what ihe ma
rine poiwer ii3 to Virginia, and
•ve sincerely hope that aome p;r-
A„n will ,[(. me forw.ard in the near
• uture to- deliver Eiv^n from fra-
teinity power as Governor Price
j delivering the state of Virg-inia
.' .11 the power of the ma'.hine.
A few days age, there was a wit-
n€'f'3 of a very amateiir behavior
in the msvie which was presented
on' the campus. The students did
not behave ia« college students at
all. It remii|j&d, one of Lin 1 incur
rence tihst happened in a theiater
not far from here. At this parti
cular tune, however, the very cul
tured fitudens laughed and made
li^fht of so^rre of the serious parts
of the show, and this was n.t the
worst of it. Th'ere seemed to be
atme am>ateur chemists in the
audiienie. These ycmng people
evidently were making s'ome sort
cif experiment. The experiment
was quite siuccessful in its p^r-
l-^.e, lor th'u'se who worked it
surely did sio at the expense oif the
other audience. Here is a quejti'On
which ariseis'—If this amateur
a'jtion ccnt.nues, what will happen
I to the m'ovies of Elon ? Will those
jWho come for the real interest
.rcynt.nue g.ve thtLr su'pport
when they receive so little bene
fit from the progrum? The same
thing is tiue natuiiaJly wicn plays
tf.at are given. Unles;3 plays are
' '■•I, they do not seem to
be within the grasp of the intere-n
of the people here at Elon. The
lui-vj^a aiij uie stage aie extremely
cj iely related. It is natural, then,
that if the leverage student of Elon
ciannvjt appre;ia,.e sericus drama,
they certainly cannot be expected
t" apinec seiioud p-.iures.
Though they do n'ot appreciate
uiey oiioUiu liot 'dec -iS mere
intfaints, but 'Should act a.s o. liege
stuuen.s whjch they ure.
Opened By Mistake
The following letter was found
in the Maroon and Gold mailbox
the other tday, and we always
(nearly)) print what we find
there.
My dear Mister Shane:
It just i.'C'C'U'rred to me that
“Santa takes a Holiday” every
“Once in a While”. “Rosalie”
told me that the "Moonglow”
caused him to “Sing, Sing.
Sing ’ and “Chirp a Little Dit
ty” when it was “Twilight in
I Turkey”.
I “An Angel Told Me” also
ithat “Popeye tlhe Siailoir” would
! be at the “Dark Town Strutters
Ball” and f r yi.ij to bring
“Dinah”. “Alexander’s Rag
Time Band” will furnish the
music. “Sweet Sue” was com-
iiig too, ibut she saw the “Har
bor Lights” and decided to s'tay
at “Home, Sweet Home”.
“Gocii' Nigi'it My Love” and
“I’ll See Y;ou In My Dreiams”.
“Till We Meet Again” I’ll be in
I “Seventh Heiaven”, dreaming
of YOU.
“Q:|:d Night, Angel,”
Howard Brown
I have glued myself to this
ehiair in the staff room with strict
orders not to remove myself until
I have produced' s'omethinig en
lightening conc.erning thU'se celes
tial halls known as the li'brary.
First, I’m hungry ajild, my strain
af feeble thought wianders towards
the dirug. Seieond, at looks like
rain, and I have ju'st polished my
I'.vhite la'nd 'b!rown Bhoesi—whi'ch
always heckles my better natiure.
Third, I tflail to get any reaction
fri m m'y mental apparatus except
when I think of a T-bone ®teak.
0 delicacy of delioaicies! Savoring
nicety! .... Pardon, as I was
Flaying :
Looking over this month’s
Forum in hopes i3f 'stumbling over
something that will 'cauise a sud
den burst of inspiration, I find
little or nothinig. Here’s an ar
ticle titled “Problems in Living”.
People I know have enough prob
lems of thedr (own without delving
into tihose idisicovexed by some
would-be intellect. “Should Wo
men Teachers Marry?” — which
would be absurd to try to lure you
into readinig. I kni:w every girl
who pi'an's ito teach is just waiting
for half an opiportunity at matri
mony.
“Death Is Not b Necessity” —
Which would only tend to depress
most of us. WhiJ idio'esn’t loiok tfo.r-
ward to playing tag vdth the
devil s ? “Is the Investor Help
less,” but iwho lin our midsit will
ever have anything to invest?
Edith Wihiarton goes into “A Little
Girl’s New Yicrk” in March’s Har
pers, so iif you’re interested l:ok
it over. Elmer Davis says in the
same issue of Harpers that “We
Lose the Next War”, bat everyone
knows that’s bad psychology. “Do
You Know ‘Aaron Slick’?” If mat
read up on it in Harpers.
inefficiencies of the present set
up.
The new system advoieates the
representation 1 f each class on
Ihe editorial siSaff. In other words,
there will be class editors. These
editors will 'be elected by the class
they represent. The Freshman
class iwill have one editor, the
S:iphomore class two editors, and
the Juni.r clasia three editors. The
Editor-in-Chief will be elected
from the three Junior editors, who
will also hold the position of as-
scL’iiate editors.
At a meeting of class i;ifficers
last Monday, this proposal was
favorably acted upon, and will be
■incorpiorated in the voting proce
dures this Spring.
Sinclair Lewis thinks that Dr.
Robert Maynard HuitJchins, youth
ful president lof the University of
Chicago, isihtoulid be the next presi
dent orf the Uniiteid States. Mr.
Lewis say® he is “the kind of
man who could face Stalin, Mius-
solini, and Hitler, and make them
feel a little ashamed'”. After
residing the headlines for the last
couple lof days, I, for one, am (wil-
linig toi send Dr. Hutchins lover in
thbse troubled parts, but even my
loverly-vivid imagination flails to
visualize Hitler bowing his head
,in shame.
“Public ischools aire lumdoubtedly
; marvelously fine and worthy
thing's, ibut, somehiow, after gra-
I duating from those mills of
I stanidardjized Dulture, one feels as
I tho)igh he had been labeled,
I ‘Made in U. S. A.’ ” I Icudly cheer
I the statement; I relally agree. Most
1 of ui3 ic'ame out otf a public school
|id|jing only one thing differently
and that is sipelling. I have foumdi
'Sicme real originality anidi indivi
duality along that line. May it
■continue!
An “Institute for Initemational
Ill-Will” has been founded by two
Emory undergriaduiates with a zest
for bloody burlesque. Its pur-
ji-se lis to help burlesque modern
W'ar and intematio-naj diiplomacy.
In a cable to Hitler recently, they
I said, “Quit stalling anid fight
i Auistria”. The cable was refused
I by two Iwdre companiies. Another
message was drafted, laind was ac
cepted by One of the icompanies.
It realdi: “W'e are all beihind you
and the eight ball. W’e recom
mend Au'stria for your growing
pajns.”
Left-overs: We are glad to
have Coach Horse’s prim figure
hiL’Jc on campus. Since when has
it become im'posisible to re'ceive a.
telephone call at eleven o’clock
in West Dormitory? Who has the
right to judge the im'portance of
a call even “so' late as eleven”?
Will someone sit me outside the
door?
Dr. Eddy Lectures
On Russian Conditions
On Monday evening, M:r.h 7, |
Dr. D. Brewer Ed..y, of the Ameri-1
can Bv.rd ,.f Commissioners f^rj
Forii; 1 M; on^, p.et;enic_ an il-I
lustrated lecture on Russia, in the
Whitley M;mo-rial Auditorium.
Dr. Eddy was introduced by Dr.
Smith, and .‘rpoke in br*ef explana-
tio.n of .he p cturt -, before he
launched inio a n: ■ t in;eresting
di8cu^-it.^ of his subject, a.i..m-|
panled by motion piictuies He
expltaintd that a good many c f the
pactures, wuich had been taken
abcut -WO years 'at;-o, w aid not
have lefii [■ b> at the ^resen:
time, due to the i.'.leased .-verity
of the government.
The three reels of film included
picture:: of street scenes in Mos
cow, the great housing prvjjects,
aome factories, “collective farm”
projects, nur.sery schools, and a re
markable ufmona.rat.jin 01 youth-
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' There have been many com
ments upon ho-th the cleverness and
^ ',1 uiiar.ie Ai.Caxthy.
F'cr some weeks n^s piacid wide-
eyed countenance has been viewed
o'n tne Elon silver tijreen every
F’riday ai.a Sati-riiay nights. If
we liked the good McCarthy be
fore, we aiij ubttdly a;e tired cf
h;.Ti by n(i^. Cjuldn’t we nave a
different lihort feuLure ‘occai;ional-
ly.' vve rticaii .usc y^ai- the
travel pictures that were shown,
sometime j in color, and we would
be ple.-'ied to see them br. ught
heie once mjre. We would ■wel
come am “Our bang” too.
Ihe Elon movies have been ex
cellent. iL.ey have been diver-
sitieQ enou'fc'n as to pi&a&e every-
and they have been aelinitely
of the be,i:er type of m.aon pic
ture. But ji..r goodnt'j:." ^ake—ao
abolish Mo^Lrthj—at Itasi for a
time!
THAT'S RIGHT, JUDGE
AMD I GOT PRIMCE
Albert; too. 1 heard
you SAv rr WAS so
mild AMO
WELL^OU WONY '
BE DISAPPOIMTEa
JUST read the
Baoc of that ,
TIN
Phipsicli Staff
bysiem Revised
Up through the pre .r.t Phipsi-
cli .:aii it has been cus'tomary for
the Senii r ci'.a',ls uj* eit^ r. . . -
oi-in-(.h,ef ar..^ p- mp.iy forget
him until they began 10 .a'Sk .11m
w-.en iney eculd expe.i ...e jni.L:.al
lx> appear, cp.n his .hc'jlders
iciteu tne fte.^ ity pjo-blim of or-
K_ajZ.ng a s.. to w„rk.
At a rt'.en: '.r,et....g ; f the
Pubi..aiioi/8 aiu a rev.i.on to
tnis ;ystem vas pro'?.^o-d, ‘and it
pi.m-.es a^' eliminate t,>vme of the
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