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PAGE TWO Maroon and Gold NOVEMBER 2, 1940 Maroon and Gold Fdited and Printed at Elon College by students Published bi-weekly during the college year. DON BORK of Journalisn EDITO’ MAHJOnx HUNTER CO-EDITO: Sporis Ediic Vock Malloy J-eym«ur Ooldblum ' Assislar Hoses erulcMield Assislar Joe Blanks Boyd Clapp B.il Claytor ilary Ciaytoi Morris Colliei IvTary Lee DameroD Kent Dennan Dtdie Dixon Lstelle Freeland Harvey Huffstttler Lib Armiield Garland Causey — NEWS EDITORS — Roger Inmo: Roberta Marti; Albert McDuff Bill O’Connc Douglas Pamphlii Charlie Parke Margaret Penningto Joy Quackenbus Bob Selle; Mary Frances Stame Hub Law Bev Rogei Bill-Hilliard Evelyn Holires _ — BUSINESS STAFF — Business Manage Exchangs and Ciiculalion Manage — PRODUCTION STAFF — Roy Mansfield Manage A. D. Ccbb — Assislar- iiaiold Winters Assislan Joha Pollard Staff Pholographf Faculty Advise Dr. Fletcber Collins _ Entered as second class matter November 10, 1936 at the pos office at Elon College, N. C„ under the act of Congress March 3, 187S MI»«KMIITSO ro« MJlTtOMAL. AOWItTtMM Wff National Advertising Service, Inc. rwtffo Pwklitktrs Rjepr*9tmUiivt AZO Maomom Av«. New Yonk. N. Y. EDUCATION IN NORTH CAROLINA Nationally, education is iio longer considered a major exigency But education in North Carolina presents some interesting and knotty problems. A report, Paths to Maturity, by Sociologist Gordon W. Lovejoy tif the University of North Carolina, Ivas recently published, and it provided food for much thought. The tacts in the report were gathered through the combined ef forts of the Rockefeller-cndowed General Education Board, the University, WPA, and NYA. Nearly the entire youthful population of the eight representative city and county districts was examined. This covcred the Tarheel Youth from the ages of 6 to 25, black and white, rich and poor. In all, about 44,963 persons were listed. According to the condensations by Time Magazine, nearly one- half of tlie high school boys and girls—^white and black—plan to 1-D.ier a profession. But only one white in 35 actually realizes this ambition. Another astonishing statement is that only one while per- icn in 22 graduates from college. Practically all the boys want to get some white-collar job, and very few contemplate taking a job as manual laborers. However, Lovejoy’s findings show that 18 times as many youths who don’t plan to take such jobs actually end up in such occupations. Probably the most incredible of all the statements is that Negro children surpass the whites in propensity for scientific books, poetry, FewspapCTs. The average Negro child in North Carolina does not have accc!Si to those things that would create a desire for science and | poetry, as does the average white child. And the general atmosphere ''SU\p-aJ''y^00pt . What was Dot Edwards has lost a LINK from her chain he motive behind John Westmoreland's getting glasses? Could it be is eyes, or keeping up with the Joneses? . . . Wonder why Sarah •hillips goes home every week-end? Could there be a boy-friend ack home? . . . Have you heard—Bob Cox requested the last number Telen Jepson sang! . . . Margie Copeland's jokes are pood and loud ather just loud . . . The answer to a maiden’s store: Preston Towns n a bathing suit . . . Carolyn McClenny is not a gardener, however, ■>he can really handle a TOOLE . , , Hint to Joel Scott: Curl your hair :11 over. It looks much better that way . . . Competition for a Parrot’s convention: Dick Cubell talking to any Yankee girl . . . Odd sight n our campus: June Murphy walking alone to class . . . Margie Cope- and is a pretty girl. She let us in on the secret herself . . . Ask ’.eorge Mena how he likes working in Burlington on the week-end, f you would like to spend a few quiet days in the hospital . . . Dean j^essick asked why we don’t have a Willkie Club on the campus. “Jreat idea. THEY could hold their meetings in the phone booth in •Jorth Dormitory and bring all their friends . . . More people than ighters are concerned with the BELL Eh, MARGARET . . . None of he girls from the cottage have thought of resorting to an air rifle to •bolish that blinding light or don’t .they have the courage? Bill eems to be loyal to the lass back home this season, where he is more ommonly known by the double nick name of Bill Nat... A fine speci- nan for a Psychologist to study would be a student printer . . . By he way, Basnight, who is on the receiving end of the passionate love 'ffair by mail? O. K. boys we have heard enough about the sorority girls meet- r>p you at the train in Miami, and showing you the highlights of their air city . . . now shut up. Fox, you shouldn’t be so rough on little Pee Wee. After all, inping people off automobiles is rather dangerous. "Lucky Teeter" nman, he is being called lately. He practices ever Sat. night. Henry ' PTJTTTGl? io you remember the old saying "Henry B. Wise"? Maybe you had , ^ ^ ietter change it to "Henry B. Careful". Jack Foushee recently stated at a Senior Class meeting that he l usted no one, especially when money was involved. Just what is he oing working in the Bookstore. NELL, do not worry, Sadie Haw- ins Day is here and your coach quotes “Nell is in perfect running condition.^’ Come Claytor, let everyone in on how the boy plays the received the following, violin. Now Betty, you should also tell us about the lesson you from him. Despit® its date learned in the darkroom. John Westmoreland goes to Hook quite a bit and it’s not to see the good professor either . . . Who is the handsome man Alice Man- 3um is sporting around the cS'mpus?- ... If she,would let him out of her sight, we would find out . . . And so Helen really prefers home 'own boys! ... It seems that the cheese man (Kraft) can’t make up his mind between a blonde and brunette . . . Gnats to the day stu- cients who think their auto horns are things to wake up the Dorm. studer^^s with . . . Julia Holt would like to meet that boy to whom uuuiveu « •she had to write an initiation love letter. He can really write love Norfolk today after a little jaun ■ctters — Boy oh Boy! ,, Several of the day students have been wondering how Miss Simpson -las managed to keep warm these cold morn’nrs without a^ coat or sweater. Observation would show that she lets her lov ' n- warm. My advice is for her to dig out that old bear skin because Charlie Coble is leaving us after this week . . . John Walker wants LIBRARY NEWS If you were asked the duty of a librarian you would probably .say, “Well, she finds books, checks out books, and stamps them.” This is the average layman’s impression of what constitutes'a librarian's work. You really would be surprised what amusing things take place back of the desk. Here is a little satire that could take place in any library and usually does. Just when everything seems quiet and settled you spy a fellow utting away on today’s paper. “Don’t you know you are not allowed c cut articles out of the papers,” she informs him. “But I want the folks back home to see the write-up about me on the sport page,” he pouts. Next appears the shy, freckle-faced Freshman who wants a book. The librarian ask just what type of book. “A book on frogs,” he whispers. Here is where you have to take the boy by the hand and show him just how to go about looking up a book on frogs. He iooks at you with open mouth and wonders how you know so much. Two students come up and want an article from some magazine on hay fever. You then direct them to the Readers’ Guide. “What in the world is that?” they yell. Again you trot around the desk and show them how to look up articles from the Readers’ Guide. Someone in the back complains to you because his neighbor is snoring too loud and how do you expect him to study? The sleeping; beauty lets out a war whoop that echoes all over the building as you disturb his slumber. From time to time you have to stick out your jaws like an in come tax collector and collect some long overdue fines. Just as the day is closing, here comes “smarty pants” all aglow wanting to talk for just a few minutes. “Do you know why George Washington couldn’t have been a librarian?” he asks. “Why?” “I cause he couldn’t lie very much.” Now that is the last straw! “Be- LIFE ON A NAVAL Sid Krukin beat his own lettei back to the campus. Last Satur day, the same day that Sid re turned to the campus, Dou; we are runnmg it at this time as it is a very interesting account ol life on board ship during a Nava Reserve Cruise. Norfolk, Va. October 20, 194^ Dear Gang, I just received your letter today Oct. 20. You see we docked if, last weekend, Oct. 10 and 11 mean 12 and 13. I was in thi Canal Zone. The 12th I spent ii Colon, and the 13th in Panamf. City. Incidently I touched tht i.;narue uobie is leaving us atter this week . . . John Walker wants Pacific Ocean and disappointed to know if Helen Keller has her eyes closed when she touches a piece was as wet as the Atlantic of cloth and tells what color it is . . . And Harold Goslen says that week before that, the 5th when he grows up he will be a goose (he’s about eighteen now). and 6th we were in Guantanamc We find that Dot Fowler. Jean Evans, Rebecca DeLoach, and Bay> Cuba which is nothing but £ Frances Rooney have learned their way around the campus. Eh boys ^ . . . What do you think girls? Say Rooney, we’ll see what we can do to put a stop to the boys chasing you, if you really want them to stop, wc aie in iNorioiK now, V.'hat do you say? Hum . . . Wonder who told Kathryn May's “Prince but leave today for the open sea. Charming" how to get to her house at nine o’clock at night? Be >t„„. \r—i. ..... brave, Kathyrn, and meet him at the door; he won’t bite. Marine Base. However, there is beautiful harbor there. As I said before we are in Norfolk now Open Forum TELEPHONE BOOTH pociry, as aocs me average white child. And the general atmosphero I rurrounding the Negro, daily cbnservation, social intercourse, and WHY THE ROUND-ABOUT WAY entertainments, as the theatre, is not as conducive to an elevation of ! ••. i desire as is the general atmosphere surrounding the white child. Dear Editor, Dear Editor: 1£ these findings be true, and if they should show little variation \ There is a question that has | In the last issue of the Maroon in a more extensive examination of the Southern Youth, then we been causing me to lose a lot of and Gold some of the girls wrote must do some serious thinking about our schools.—Old Gold and sleep lately, and no doubt I will about the need of a telephone I every man from the CantaT ^ ,, I will about the need of a leit continue to lose it, or give up and; booth in West Dormitory. We will dock in New York this weekend which will end the cruise, but believe you me a cruise never to be forgotten. We will have covered over 4000 miles which “ain’t hay”. But what will stick with me most is that the Navy is a re markable organization — jokes aside. Each ship is like a huge city with movies, stores, soda fountain, etc. But unlike a city DONT FORGET THE FLOWER FUND This i down has a job, no matter how sl^p it off Before I came to need is important, but there is a i small, which must be done and college I had no idea things were ; peater need for a telephone booth gang, they do it. We the a great idea. No doubt it will work much better ttan the old way of getting the money.” These were typical express-1 ^ ions of opinion around the campus as to the feasibility of the new ' f , lystem of providing money to pay for flowers due to the illiness of a student or death of a student’s near relative. We heartily agree with the student in their praise of this new system. We think this new method of providing a Flower Fund definitely superior in every way to the former haphazard arrangement. But why, we would like to know, have the students been so slow in contributing their part to this responsibility? At this writing only nineteen dollars has been contributed. Some peopel said that having received that much money the system was proving very successful. At first thought it would seem so, but when you stop to consider how much we should have if every student paid the fee, the present sum would indicate anything but success. With approximately six hundred students in school and each one contributing a quarter we would have one hundred and fifty dollars in the fund. And by all rights this is what we should have or a great deal closer to it than the present amount cl nineteen dollars. This means that five hundred students have contributed nothing. As has been the case in the past, a minority about eighty in this case, is again accepts its responsibility and the remainder of the students go on their way not thinking that it is as much their obligation as any other students. The outstanding point of the whole plan is that the fee is so small that probably no student would be hard pressed to pay it yet it will assume so much if everyone accepts it as a rightful expenditure We do not believe that any student objects to the Fund but assume more that it has just been through negligence and forgetfulness that more students have not contributed their quarter to one of the student officers. administered in such an imprac tical way. -Why do we have to try to talk ... go in such a round-about way to someone else is usually trying do the very thing we are here tear the building down Why can’t we stick closely XT T-, •.'uuLiii &““6, iiicjr uo 11. we, me Re- as Appren North Dormitory to tice Seamen, the lowest form of naval life, and if anybody, from deck hand on up says do some thing we do it. We are worked pretty hard and hardly have any time to ourself. came here to learn. The thing I am driving at is: Why do students in a particular field have to take courses that . , Many of the boys get long dis- to whatever we are doing, and do | tance calls, but have great diffi it completely and thoroughly in- culty in getting the message! naraiy nave any time to ourself stead of domg many things that Smce there is a need of a booth; but we really learn something-fe take up a lot of time we/should, n both dormitories why doesn’t! - those who want to Le^res spend learning the things that we the school compromise? They are given to us every dav pnH the cruise we have a outside of Dr. Smith’s comparatively good idea of gun- there'Vh inchers, 12 inchers, pis- mere. The students could go tols, automatics anti-aircraft anri are either in a field far distant ^ere to call or talk to anyone rifles); navigation (stadimeter from their major, or are in a without everyone listening to' sextant, etc.): signalling “class” all by themsel^ves? I what they were talking alout. I lights, flags,\Twirefes?Tlt These subjects are difficult and The phones could remain in the graph); engineering (what m^es require a lot of time that should two dormitories to receive calls, a ship go); drilling (manual so on a major. Still w. but Ih, »,„de„.s could go to the arm/.„| marclj. a“ “ ite° have to deprive our major of booth to talk. ; few other thinf ' this time so that we can take I I think that something should forgettable trip these extras that are undoubtedly be done about the phone situa-l Listen, gang if vou want , thrown in as fillers in order to tion. The administration has had Print anything .’rewrite this eni^til- 8*'aduate. several suggestions, so it looks I’m so sleepy that I don’t I may be a bit radical in saying like they might try to better this know what I’ve written f these things, but this is just the matter. moct Q-m t n. it s al- way I feel about it. I would like I Editor’s note: The telephone 5:30. Give my rSds^to “an very much to hear the opinions was removed from the booth out- especially Pearl GonH ~ of the students and faculty mem- side Dr. Smith’s office because c m o-j bers on this subject. anma ,ro.o.o -— oauor bid Campus Odds and Ends The Current Issue Pol] con ducted last week by the Maroon and Gold stimulated about the average amount of interest ex pected from students. Most took It seriously, but a few took it all too lightly. However it was sur prising to find some who did not even know which sex they were- at least they didn't mark either the male or female column The send off for Miami the team received was quite roman, tic. The pep in the student body seems to be coming into its own once more. Nice Idea . . . nice place for it • • . nice water fountain. Who would ever have thought of if But someone did . . . and it s really a natural place for it, just where the old well once was None other than our Dr. Smith i ""S'" Helen Jepson proved well worth listening to on Friday last. Thn avonte of the audience seemed “Th TT "“™ber by Gounod, The King of Thule” and th4 Jewel Song, from “Faust” isnTE^ V ~ holding his classes out of Pratt ■ • • P^fessot sXinl low-down ^mging around in his depart- ^gain; this ' me she js organizing a group to sing French songs. Such sing ing groups have made big hits on many campuses. Apprentice school as taken from our midst, Dewitt HeTr’/'"® students. He left for Norfolk on Tuesday efore last to continue his higher education there. Sorry to see hi^ • Wisdom of the Week: “I never Knew a student in my life who was trot^bled with the blues w.Eo did it studying to do and reeling ALONG ' 9 ending November I and 3 the Elon movie theater 'carries “All This and Heaven too” staring one of Hollywood’s great- est lovers; Charles Boyer, and ette Davis whom most of us remember for her history making performances in “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex”. ine attraction for November 8 and 9 stars none other than that handsome, reckless, ladies man— Clark Gable in “Strange Cargo”. , aying opposite Mr. Gable is lovely Joan Crawford. An inter esting fact about this picture is that it ran into serious censorship trouble following its to some years ago there were fre- (P S Tell Mr-Prvtto,., ^™UDte following its production A Student quent riflings of the coin box. room! S. K) ° sweep the for awhile was not permitted to be shown in several states.
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