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Published By and For Elon Students
VOLITIME 12
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
Friday, March 19, 1948
NUMBER 9
Ministerial As/n Pow&rhjuse Chimney CompletedjClaude Shafts
Organizes Teams
The Ministerial Association has ,
formulated a new idea in its program |
of preparing the prospective minister i
and Christian worker for his respec- |
tive job. Dr. Ferris Reynolds of the ;
Religion Department, who is sponsor !
of the Ministerial Association, pre- j
Fer*:«d the idea which will operate as ■■
folowa: the teams will go out into !
nearby churches and present worship :
services with devotions and hymns
and al'O assist in the conduction of ,
any religious class. Quartets and
other special music groups will ac
company the teams. Although these
tf'sms are designed primarily for the
Miniisterial Association, in that they
f"'"' o^'tain experience in church work
and speaking, the members invite and
V plcome the participation of any
rlhp” '■tiiient who wishes to obtain
speaking experience.
Members of the association are
looking forward not Only to the ex
perience and oportunity afforded by
t'ii'=' venture but they also know that
the in^iration and joy of doing God’s
v'ill register as a lasting and
indelible experience in their lives.
Art Students
Meet at WCUNC
The art depai'tment was represent
ed in the N. C. State Arts Forum at
the Woman’s College in Greensboro
last w'eek. Two original oil paintings
by Raymond Poteat were featured:
■'The Mighty 154” was of a P.T. Boat
in a South Pacific setting, and “The
Concert”, which was an abstract
painting of music. These two paint
ings \vill be exhibited again in the
(Continued on page four)
I The above view of the new power
towering above the brick structure,
chimney last week and work is nearing
of the building.
house shows the completed chiminey
Finishing touches were put on the
completion on the other equipment
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CdfafarJor Ris3» RapidJy
R.A. Cook Talks
On Employment
“The U. S. Employment Service
doesn’t promise to solve your prob-
m iL Ucei promise to do everything
it can to help.” Thus concluded R.A.
Jook, assistant director of the U.S
Employment Service office at Bur-
Ington, in his chapel speech, Wed
nesday, March 10.
Mv. Cook reviewed the various
types of occupations for which there
is the greatest demand. He empha
sized the fact that there is not a
le^c demand at ipresent for unskilled
labor and that there are sufficient
itilled workers, such as pointers and
■irpenters to take care of needs in
!ie immediate future. There Is a
ciidii'; shortage of farm labor, cler-
c;il workers, and domestic help.
" "’he!e is a severe shortage of
teachers, and it is likely to becomb
iiiure acute ii,i the future,” continued
Mr. Cook. "We feel sure that salaries
in this profession will be increased at
an early date.”
The speaker said that there are
only .')4 registered nurses in Alamance
County, and of the.-^e, 10 have indicat
ed their wish to retire. Social
\ orkei's, both men and women, are
also needed today.
Mr. Cook urged all students to con
tact the IJ. S. Employment Service
\. henever they face the problem of
' finding suitable wory. He pointed out
that this service is the only organ
ization which has true and accurate
market infonmation on available jobs
ovp^ the entire country.
Mr. Shotts plans to return to
, , v-,,rone early this sumer and resume
Work on the new cafeteria is progressing rapidly, and plans are aiding in the rebuild-
teing made for an early opening. The new structure will provide ample jj.g to the campus was
facilities for serving students andfaculty, and will enable the college sponsored by the International
to use the first floor of the Mooney Building for other activities. Relations Club.
Speaks to I RC
M)r. Claude C. Shotts, Secretai.
General to the Young Men’s Christian
Association of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, addressed the
meeting of th International Relations
Club on Monday, March 15. His topic
was “Postwar Germany”. Mr. Shotts
said, “The students of Gernvany are
not politically minded. Since the dow“
fall of the Nazi Party they have been
disillusiond and want no part in the
politics of postwar Germany.”
Shotts, who was chief administrator
for the American Friends Servica
Committee in Germany for more than
a year, spoke before the regular week'
ly meeting of the International Re
lations Club at Elon College. “The
students are busy in the reconstruc
tion of their schools and universities,’
he continued. “They must agree to
work for a number of weeks on the
rebuilding before they can begin their
studies. By this means, they plan to
have the majority of their schools
completely reconstructed in the next
four or five years.”
Mr. Shotts, who was located in the
Berlin area, said there was no dif
ference in the freedom allowed in the
Rusian zone from that permitted in
the American or British zones, so far
as he could see.
“People of this country cannot rea
lize just how badly the German cities
have been destroyed.Most of them ha®
over eighty percent of their buildings
demolished. Only the walls were left
standing. The great pity is that the
war has been over almost three years
and very little progress has been
made in reconstruction, except in
areas where the work camps of the
American Friends Service Committee
have been established and w^here
work was accomplished. Materials are
scarce and hard to get. But some
people manage to salvage and scrape
the materials together and then build
a home, which they must share with
other families,” Mr. Shotts continued.
“The majority of this activity was
centered in the southern sector of the
American zone, in the province of
Swabia. This was due more to the in
centive and industrious.ness of these
people than to any other cause.”
One of the chief reasons for the
economic chaos in loresent day Ger
many is the displacement of the skill
ed labor, Mr. Shotts gave an example
of this in the glass-blowing industry
n Austria where a number of these
specialists were idle. This group
found an abandoned mill and after
implementing the machinery with the
necessary equipment, they soon had a
good business and ars now economi
cally independent. Another major
factor of the economic inertia is the
shortage of machinery, replacem?nts,
and tools to work with.
Following the address by Mr.
Shotts, the group viewed some of the
slides and film that he had taken of
the destruction prevalent and the
progress in reconstruction that was
being made throughout Germany.