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»*age two MArooiv and gold Friday, April 23, Maroon and Gold Edited and printed by students of Elon College. Entered as second class matter a1 the Post Offire at Elon College N. C.. under the act of March 8 1879. De livered by mail. $1.50 the college year, 50 cents the quarter. EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor .... Hal McDiarmid Sports Editor Rocco Sileo Ass’t Sports Editor .... George Stanley Fraternities Lewis Lawrence Society Editor Allene Stallings Day Student Editor Max Storey BUSINESS BOARD Business Manager Evelyn Moore Circulation Manager . .MarthaVeazey R. L. Dunlap Photographer Ed Moss Printer Jennings Berry Pressman worth Womble COLUMNISTS Ted Parker Jackie Gaskins REPORTKRS Ed Nash, Phil Gearing, Meir Gabbay John Gilliam. Evelyn McNeil The Election Is Only The Beginning This article is being written two days before the election of student officers and representatives for the coming year. By the time you read It the student body will have regis tered its choices and will have done Its duty. Our interest here lies not in the results of the election but in the attitude of the student body after the election. All too often there is a tendency for many voters to regard their duty as done when they have cast their ballots. The important thing is ths election. Once their man is in office. Uiey feel no furthr responsibility or interest in the affair. The whole business is regarded as a sort of contest to see which side can pile up the most votes. Now this is all very good in a baseball game, where every thing ends with the final score, but it is a poor way to look at an election. The successful candidate's work be gins with the election, and he needs the support of the student body after the ballotting as well as before it. After all. we choose officers and representatives to administer matters affecting all of us for a (period of one .var. If we fail to show any interest in what they do after they have en tered upon the duties of office, we can hardly expect them to give their best efforts. The test of any officer’s ability is what he does in office, not ho"' popular he is in the ballotting. Unfortunately, the election of peo ple to governmental positions does not offer us an Inspiring example. It is true that many voters are guided by one of the following motives in marking their ballots: (l)They are personal friends of the particular candidate (usually true in local elec tions); (2) they always vote for a cer tain party, regardless of the merits of that party’s candidate (true in national elections): (3) they have a personal interest in the outcome, per haps the hope of a political jub or legislation which will be favorable to their welfare. The first reason is the only one which could apply to student elect ions, and it is true that in many cases the student’s vote is cast be cause of /personal frienship for one of the candidates, without due con sideration of that candidate's quali fications for the job. Winning an election then becomes largely a mat ter of accumulating friends, although there will probably be enough dis- ■"terested students who will swing the election to the better candidate, pro vided they are not so disinterested that they forget to v»te or that they refuse to consider the qualifications of the candidates. However, as we said at first, this is water over the dam. Since we don't know who will be elected, we will assume that the voters have chosen wisely and that the new officers are capable of performing their duties enereetically and courageously. You should not let them down now. They will need your support and assistance throughout the coming year. By let ting them know from time to time that you are interested in their work you will encourage them to give their best to the job. We sometimes 9-Ccuse Dublic officials of laziness and lack of interest, but the fault is not always theirs. It is difficult for any official to apply himself wholeheart edly when he knows that his effort; are greeted with apathy by his con stituents. If the public doesn't care why should he? These new officers whom we have chosen will be judged by their work in office, rather than their popularity at the poles. Their positions are not .lust honorary. What they do has its effects on you as a member of the '■tudent body. If you wish to be well represented, you must give youi support to them. Vet News By Paul C. Plybon The year-long blockade in the H of Representatives against all but jcolated items of veterans' legislation 's being moved piece by piece, as election year strategy. The latest i^reak came suddenly this week under compromise arrangement with House leadership, when the long pending bill to provide government financial assistance to paraplegics was passed unanimously. Behind the sudden agreement of the House leadership in matters of Vpterans affairs, there loomed pre- ■^i'ted election-year decision to per mit more or less expensive but vote- “'“ttir? Vet legislation to flow through the fingers of economy - minded “watchdogs” of the House of Rerir“- entatives. Representative, Edith Nourse Roeers (R., Mass.) the long time friend of the disabled, made passage of this bill possible. Senate iftion is still needed bfore the para plegic bill can become law but the compromise version, H.R. 6115, rul ing out heart and tuberculosis pa tients, wil be accepted by the Senate. The next important Vet bill due for probable action by the House i^ a liberalized version of “cars-for- amputees” law, H. R. 4007 and S- 1391 in the Senate, passed by the Senate last July, but blocked in the House Rules Comittee. On Tuesday of last week, the House also passed H. R. 5805, a bill which extended until February 3, 1950 as the dead line for making application for mus tering- out payments for Veterans discharged from the service prior to the enactment of the mustering-out pay law. Meanwhile, with the blockade a- gainst Vet legislation, ipreviousl.v re ported favorable by the House Com mittee on Veterans Affairs beginning to break, the Committee met threo days last week in executive sessior and reported out three more Ve' •neasures. The major bill reporter" •^^o the House was H. R. 5588 which *s a compromise bill on providing ad ditional compensation to service dis abled Veterans with dependents. Eli gibility under H. R. 5588 is limited tr minimum 60 ner cent disability ratinp with additional dependency com pensation scaled up prooortionatelv to top rate by the totally disabled The maximum additional allowance for dependents of totally disabled will be $30 per month for a wife and no child. $50 a month for a wife and one child, plus $15 for each additional child, to a maximum of $80; $20 for o;ie child, but no wife, plus $15 for ?ach additional child up to a maxi- n«um of $50; $25 each to daoendent mothers and fathers, over and above any amount paid for wife and child- t*en. These amounts are scaled dowr oroportionately to veterans with less than 100 per cent disability so that dependents of those with minimum ">ermisable rating of 60 percent would get 60 percent of top amounts listed ibove. Favorable action of both Hous and Senate on this bill is ex tremely doubtful for this session. The Senate virtually eliminated all Dossibility of Congressional charters for specialized Veteran’s organizat ions for this session, at least, and for future sessions, probably, by de cisive vote this week. They re-com mitted to the Committee on Judiciary, the charter request of Catholic War Veterans, Jewish War Veterans and '^ranco-American War Veterans. The recommittal in effect kills the charter requests for the balance of the ses- VET NEWS sion of the 80th Congress. Regarding UMT and the Draft, top ’eaders in Congress now have come '’orth with plans to expand our Air i^orce. This will give them an “out" for refusal to pass Universal Military Training Legislation. It seems now that UMT has only a remote chance for passage and then only if a war 'Care becomes more real than now. Congress is moving slowly and warily on legislation to impose temporary draft and will not accept plans of the Armed Services; howevr, they will pass some form of draft legislation, unless shadows of war disappear completely. Under the present set up. veterans with one year’s service will he exempt from the draft but 'A'ill be required to register. Those with up to 18 months’ service wiU have to enlist in Reserve components or stand the possibility of being called. Those veterans with two years’ service would be exempt. Meanwhile with the impending draft acting as a spur to voluntary enlistments, the Armed Services ex pects to draft onlv 220.000 men to increase its strength to the requested 349.500; however. Congress will not accept this plan as is, but wants to build up the Air Force in order to escape pressure from the UMT, and the Houes Armed Services has al ready voted unanimously for a 70 group Air Force. T^ainf Necessarily So By Jackie Gaskins Finally when a few quiet mome'it ; have stolen their way into t'le of Ladies’ Hall, 1 think it wise that I attempt to scrape up a H.t.e bit ol news for the few curious folk o i ;i,inpus. Since a tew quiet niomei t have arrived at this beautiful u\. i i for us lucky women who live in it I think it only fair that I tfll y-'U ” ' it is quiet. Everyone has gone to the annual Freshman-Sophomore d.uicj except a few very quiet and s r'a • ladies. Yes, the gals went nut t ■- night looking very “snazzy” in their hoops, and of course, their dresses. Oh yes. what am I doing up tonight? Well, I've decided to dedi'ate my life to the seclusion of -trd i”g. 1 sure am in a joking mood tonight. “Hark thy noise, Melvina! 1 have just returned fioni tl;? lai:'. And here’s a bit of news 1 picked up while t le.e. " i Once upon a (time, wlien we were all little people, except soma peoi Is v ho never were I'ttle, our parents used to honor our birthdays by giviiig up ■' little birthday party. To tliis occasion we could always invite a 1 the hr t ot the neighborhoo'l. Ha' ing dec'd"d that we weren't fully grown up as yet. we plotted a surprise party for the one notorious Caro yii i in.^ni s i ■ .‘\'l the popular helle'; of s"cortl fl nr. Ladies’ Hall attended this occis'o lie form of dress was oj'tional. and most people came optionrl too! 'I'!"’ treat of the evening was 'i hfri w w"’"' erved with delicious melted ice cream and stale cocoanut cake. That’s enough or the entertainment on campus (li>r- ing the past two weeks. It ought to be! It looks as if the physiology rl.iss is bringing out the love of na ure in several boys, efpeciaily Max Necc'. 1 have been told that Jtav '■ - t ■t'lting bullfrogs so's he could get the heartbeat of one. Here's i.oi-, tiU goi a tiog tliat hadn't been ou '» night before, so his heart wou'd 'le heating regularly. The old motto about having to [ a ' the penalty for disobedience was resill lemonstrated here on campus a t .eek. 1 he gals in West ha' c h 1 to >ay the penalty of losing f;f ('"ii )recious minutes of their dating 'im'' lecause someone didn’t t' ink f t Dean Hardy meant what she s;d 1. •lon't think I'm gloating o^-er it, gaF.. cause the same thing will iirobil'U- appen to us before this paper is Printed. Wliile I'm still in a 'ow I't-rary nood, I m^ght as well tell you a cut'* - i- * • lation at “Melvina’s fair”. One of the best was told by the regis^iai' c. i ■U'k lorn Insti.utc’ about one of 'heir incoming freshni"n. On t''s reg' = »rat'on card fn’i-'' this: "Name of parents: Mama and ,^apa.” There was also one told by a flighty young miss who was talking to her girl friend. She must have been re lating the events of the prev ous i ig' t. for the convprsation vpt-t like h's: He: May I kiss you? She: (Silence) He: Mav 1 please t-iss you? She: (More silence) He: Say, are you deaf? She: No, are you paralyzed? At this point Inc.ki*' h"'^l ’ the fair ‘cause ‘^twas drawing clos2 to the curfew hour of all dormi.oiv t dents of Elon College. Sorrv tha* I - didn’t pick up any more inform.''tio'i at the fair than I did, but mnyh'' ’ can find some more for the next column. 1. Quoted from one famous J''m"s Hallett Parker, Jr. of Elon College. Look for Congress to approve the i Forrestal program for Navy arid Mar ine Corps, the Forrestal program for (Continued on page four) Astronomer*: f'rst found tbe di f' ancc to the moon by guessii’g or C' fourth 4 f the t -.stance and mul iply- lin by f ur.
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