Wednesday. April 8, 1953
fAQE TWO
MAROON AND GOID
Maromi And Gold
Edited *nd printed by ituienti of Elon
Colleie. Published bl-wnkly during the
tollege year under Ihe tmplce* of the
Board of Publication.
Entered a* second class matter at the
Port Office at Elon College. N. C., under
the Act of March 8. 1879. D«li»ered by
mall. $1.50 the college year. 50c the
quarter. ^
KDITOKIAI. BOARD
Matt C'urrin Kdltoi-In-Chicf
Lynn Ca'thion Associate Kditor
James Khodes . Ai'istant Editor
I'atsy Melton Mu.sic Editor
Coopt*r Walker Ait Klilor
Reuben Askew . . Staff I'hotograplicr
Luthi-r N. Hyrd Facjlty Advibor
Ht'KINK.SS BOAItl)
Jamev Khodes Business Manager
Joe IJrankley Circulation .Manager
Carl K Owen Frinting Advisor
Lynn Cashlon Press Operator
.SPOUTS STAFF
Gary Sears Sports Editor
Mike Hau.sco A>.3t. Sports Editor
Don Merrimon Sport* Asfiistant
REPORTERS
Oarwin Bailey Ann Keains
Luther Barnes Alfred Male
Honnic Black Sammy Nelson
Doris Chrismon Caioll Keid
David Crowle llichaid Smith
Ann Harris Jesse Taylor
Ervin Durham Charlie Swicegood
Curtis Welborne
WKONKSDAV. APHIl. «. 1953
NOW IT IS UH TO US
The hour is near; the candidates have
been nominated. A primary and then the
fU'ctiuii, and when the ll.iinc, ol enthusi-
t(.m have died away new student govern
ment officers will be in the driver's scat.
It seems to me that running govern
ment Is much like driving an automobile.
The direction which It will take depends
In a large part upon the driver. Others
will duuhtlcss offer suggestions and crit
icism, but in the end the diiection de
pends upon the man in thf diiver's seat.
When one allows another to drive his
car, he grants the permission to an able,
dependable drivei . . . and in a like man
ner our Klon Student Government must be
the same if we are to reach our destina
tion.
Yes, once again cries of "Rah for
Student Government " are being shouted
across the campus, and Interest is mount
ing higher and higher every day as the
final election ne«r$. This is good end fine,
but the liagedy of it all Is that these
i-iics o; iupport Slid inlcrtst tin- down and
are finally lost In the rush of campus life
during the remainder of the cullege year.
At this particular time of the year we
a.sk ourselves just how »ally elfective
.student jjovcrnment is all. We s'lould
remember, nevertheless, that our govern
ment is the instiument through which we
arc lepresented and the instrument
through wh.ch we speak. If our leaders
are to represent us, they must have the
welfareand interest of the college and
her students at heart.
Our leaders must not compromise with
themselves nor with anyone else. They
must be men and women who will itand
up for what they believe to be right in
the face of the strcngu^t o;position.
Our leaiiers should be leaders academ
ically who have proved their superior
mental ability in the tl-~sroom and
who have displ\. t-d their inU‘:-:.st in stu
dent government. The> should, for the
higher offices, have had some degree of
practical experience in the field of govern
ment prior to the election. In this manner
their records can be examined and they
can bf studied.
Thi* position in student government
from the Honor Council to the e.xe-jutlve
offices are positions ol tru.it if well as-
honor Running student government is the
problem which must be tackled, and the
positions are far more than just honors
to be tacked onto one's name foi the
annual.
If our student government i.'? to be
successful, and successful it must be, then
our leaders must be real leaders and not
be led by other people or organizations
To be effective the leaders must be ef
fective To be -tronn. her le.idprs must
be strong. JJ niust lepveiVnt all the
studentTi It mu.st be a government ol which
Elon will be proud, not ashamed.
The future of Elon College. I think
depen.ls on her students. Her students
depend on her student government Her
student gnvemment depends upen its lead
ers. — Currin.
Smoking Is Survey Topic
In Suident Health Class
(EDITOR'S NOTE; The fol
lowing sraokin* survey for the
Elon student body, along with
a study of possible effects of
smokinK, war. compiled by mem
bers of the class in Health 42.
and the report was prepared for
publication by Jimmie Rhodes.)
In a recent survey made on the
Klon College campus, it was re
vealed that the Elon students
.vho smoke cigarettes smoke an
aveiage of sixteen cigarettes per
day.
There weie 375 of the Elon
student body who answered ques-
tionnaires, and 178 of that num
ber stated that they do not smoke
at all. Theie were 155 students
v^ho gave statistics on their smok
ing habits, and they smoke a total
of 2.379 cigarettes daily. Forty-
two cf the students gave such
meager information that it could
not be recoided.
The class in its study of the
cigarette habit discovered some
inteiesting facts, beginning with
the fact that tobaco is a narcotic
although its effect upon a per
son's nervous system is stimulat
ing. The leaf of the tobacco plant
is fermented, dried and prepaied
for smoking, and in its finished
state it is one of the most violent
poi.sons known — a volatile alka
loid, nicotine (a colorless, oily
compound). The nicotine content
of tobacco varies from about one
to eight per cent.
Different Tobaccos
Kentucky leaf tobacco, for in
stance, has a high nicotine con
tent of eight per cent, while lla
vana tobacco has as little as one
and t;vc-tenths per cent. The
amount of it present in tobacco
-ftioke also varies, not only witn
the kind of tobacco and its dry
ness, but also with the form in
which it Is burned. In small smok
ing areas like a cigarette, the nic
otine volatilizes less completely
than in larger areas like cigars,
and it IS known that about 14 to
.*^3 per cent of the nicotine appears
;p cigarette smoke. When one in
hales smoke, more nicotine le-
ma.'ns in the body than when
.1 is not inhaled.
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, in his
-Clumn in the Durham Morning
Herald, reported that recent ex
periments have proved that cig-
irette tars have produced cancer
There has been an alarming in-|velop a high degree of tolerance
crease in the incidence of bron-1 through use, while others do so in
chial cancer, and the lesions oc- part. In persons inclined to ei
nervous, the smoking habit often,
becomes so fixed that those ner-'
curred almost always in the cases
of heavy cigarettesmokers. Sta
tistics suggest that the inhaling
of cigarette smoke may be the
cau.se of such cancers.
Dr. l^artsA. Graham, Emcst
Wynder and Adele B. Broningei,
of St. Louis and New York, have
ihown that the tar in cigarette
smoke will produce cancer when
painted on the skin of mice for
about a year. Men have long
known that certain tars contain
cancer-producing chemicals, and
these have long since been ex
tracted in pure form. Now, it is
known for certain that cigarette
tarscan start cancer growing.
Effects Of Smoke
In other experiments in which
twenty-three mice were exposed
for one year to the smoke of
twelve cigarettes per day, twenty
vous smokers cannot work for two
hours or less without a cigarette.
For aome people, smoking seems
to calm the nerves and sooth the
spirit. For others it leads to head
ache and nervous irritability.
Growth in youth is definitely re
tarded under the influence of to
bacco, and it appears certain that
tobacco should not be used until
growth is completed..
Coaches Comments
Athletic coaches report that
muscular power is lowered and
fatigue begins more quickly in
smokers than in non-smokers. At
New York University the patients
who smoked during their treat
.ment for peptic ulcers had mote
relapses than did the non-smokers.
Cancer of the mouth, tongue and
one got cancer of the lung. The j lips is more ptevalent arrpng
fice belong to a strain in which
lung cancer i.s hereditary, and
nineteen of thirty-two “control ’
mice not exposed to smoke got
the cancers. The percentage dif
ference in twenty-one of twenty-
three and nineteen of thirty-two
is statistically significant. These
experiments were carried out by
Dr. J. M. Essenberg, of the Chi
cago Medical School.
Today's Health, a magazine pub
lished in the interest of health,
reported in 1948 that cancers of
the lung killed more than 16,000
men andwomen between the ages
of 40 and 70 years.
Nicotine Can Kill
One drop of pure nicotine
pla6ed on the back of a shaved
rabbit will produce death almost
instantly, but there is only a small
chance of the human body hav
ing enough nicotine to prove fatal.
The blood has to be about ten
per cent nicotine before it can
begin to do any harm as far as
killing a person is concerned. Even
a chain smoker docs net have
more than six or seven per cent
nicotine in his blood at any one
Lrme. Thus, it is virtually impos
sible for a person to die from an
over.-quantity of nicotine in the
blood stream.
There is a marked difference in
the ability of the human body to
' derate nicotine. Many people de
smokers than among non-smokers.
Many doctors recommend that
pregnant women not smoke, but
the habitual smokers often find
abstinence difficult. Some doctors,
on the other hand, say that in
all fafrness they cannot prove
that tobacco in moderation is in
jurious to babies, but they say
that moderation means not more
than one-half pack of cigarettes
in any one twenty-four hour pe
riod.
In the Greensboro Daily News,
a recent article that was prepared
by the Department of Agriculture
showed that the 1952 crop of
flue-cured tobacco totalled 1,358,-
000,000 pounds, the second largest
on record. The prices for that crop
averaged about 50.5 cents per
pound, and cigarette manufactur
ers predict a new record output of
their product this year, all of
which indicates that, regardless of
any danger involved, the use of
cigarettes will also set a new rec
ord.
ENGLES WITH KTHS
Ed Engles, former editor cf both
the Maroon and Gold and The
Colonnades, is now handling
sports broadcasts for KTHS, the
50,000-watt radio station at Little
Rock, Ark. He is also doing a 30-
minute kiddie show each evening
and is working with a two-man
record show each afternoon.
A Line 0’ Type Or Two
-By PATSY MELTON'
Isn't it amazing — the stray
bits of valuable information you
can pick up in Elon? In my two
years here I have jotted these
timely gems of wisdom down in
my notes:
King George I. of England,
could not speak one word of
English.
There are CS deaths a min
ute. 97,920 ilaily, and 35,740,800
annually.
There is no lead in a lead
pencil.
Dresden China does not come
from Dresden.
Panama hats are not made in
Panama.
Hudson Bay Is not a baj.
Hame.ses II. the famous Pha
raoh. Was the father of 162 chil
dren — 111 boys and 51 girls.
There arc 4000 ways of spell
ing the name William Shakes-
speare.
Porson, the Greek scholar,
could recite the complete works is not that that is; nor is that
of Milton — forward and back- that is, that that is not
over the lazy dog.
Pack my box with five
dozen liquor jugs.
That, that is, is; that, that is
not, is not; but that, that is not.
ward.
A pound of feathers weighs
mono than a pound of gold.
A gallon of vinegar weighs
more in winter than in summer.
The Empress Marie Louise
could fold her ears at will
and also turn them inside out.
BLCiS — 1635 (How did that
get in there?)
Benjamin Franklin invented
the hi'rmoniea. (Music lavers
take note.
Red, white and blue hailstones
fell in Russia, June 14, 1880.
Those two sentences
contain all the letters of
alphabet:
A quick brown fox jumps
each
the
A murder is committed at
midnight. If everyone who was
told about it told two other
people within twelve minutes,
everybody on earth would know
about it before morning.
Ed Ek, of Brockton, Mass.,
owns the shortest name in the
United States.
Chou Kung, who invented the
compass, had a ffwivel wrist on
which he could turn his hand
ecmpletely around.
There was never a famous
twin.
See what I mean? Just keep
the old cars open. There's no
telling what you might dis
cover!
the
I moving f inger
s
writes
By MATT CURRIN
the third DIMENSION,
OR PUT ON YOUR GLASSES
For weeks ahead the newspapers pro
claimed the coming of a "Revolutionary
new medium.•’ It was an invention which,
would change the whole industry, so they
said Why, this was the greatest addition
since the addition of sound to movies.
First there were silent movies, then sound,
and now after years of hushed preparation
the American people would be allowed
see the “Third
cash
(for advanced prices) to
Dimension."
So with this preparation, I hurried to
the theatre in Greensboro ready to see
the new ‘'Marvel” of the age. Funny, I
thought, there was no long line waiting for
admission like they had said in the ad
vertisements. But with a slight shrug, I
charged into the lobby with my 95 cent
ticket clutched firmly in my fist.
As one gentleman (the term is used
loosely) grabbed my ticket another shoved
a large bulky pasteboard pair of polaroid
glasses into my hand with the admonition,
“Don’t look at thescreen without these,
and don’t put your hands on them ’cause
it will ruin the lens.” What a foolish state
ment, I thought, it is impossible to put
the darn things on without putting your
hands on them.
And as I was standing near the door
thinking about these things some young
ster charged forward literally shouting,
"Put on your glasses, you will ruin your
eyes if you look at the screen without
them.” He didn’t look like an optometrist
to me, but he was larger than 1 so I ob
liged him and put on my glasses. He again
shouted, "Put on your Three-D glasses.”
The young man seemed to sense my
question so without a word he took my
Three-D glassses out of my hand and
shoved them onto my face. 1 say face, be
cause it was so dark that I wasn’t really
sure where he was putting the Three-D
jobs.
Then, quite pleased with the operation,
he turned me around and headed ine down
the long aisle in search of a seat. Now
with tw'o pairs of glasses on my lace I
couldn’t see one step in iront of the. other,
so I quickly took off the monsters and
began searching for a seat. Strange, I
thought, tliere was no large crowd like
the papers had said. Later, after the movie
I knew why.
For a few minutes I wasn’t sure where
I was. There were the people sitting with
large cardboard glasses pushed on their
faces at all kinds of angles looking like
people from Mars. After knocking several
people down and stepping on dozens of
feet, I managed to secure a seat.
Now, I thought, time for the Three-D
movie. Just about the time I again got
both pairs of glasses to stay on and got
the Three-D ones adjusted the film ended,
and the anonuncer said. “Remove your
glasses.” It was over.
Well it really wasn't hard to take the
monsters off because they were practically
impossible to keep on in the first place.
There was a third-rate comedy from the
Middle Ages, news which had been shown
on TV the week before, and advertise
ments for fairly sorry “hits” to come. And
then the curtains were drawn. Music dra
matically played. And the curtain flew
back with one mighty sweep, and across
the screen was the announcement that we
were all about to see the most wonderful
rnedium since the talkies. I remembered
that this was what they had said about
Manlyn Monroe, so I was a little skep
tical.
Lloyd Nolan came on the screen in
black and white film telling in first grade
technology about the “Natural Vision” he
drdn t call it Three-Dimension. Guess that
X^n Hollywood to ex-
Well, then he drastically .said, “Put
on your glasses,” I’m not quite sure why
because everybody had them on anywav’
and this was at lea.t the fifteenL tTnTe
ihffi^sVf ^
eems I bad a hard time getting thn?P
blamed paper things to stay on ovef 1
nd“ eltled'f' '
and settled down to watch the movie What
a mess ,t was. Everything seemed'to be
.^11(1 through the left eye
going away through the right eye.
Well, only a few scenes even louKed
l>alf way real. It must be my glasses, I
thought. I dropped them no less than f'ftv
‘mes. knocked them off four timL fnd
twice they just fell nn th - ’
I decided tn . accord.
toty Aftlr •" *=0
out Of 111 completely
‘'‘*1 Of the paper frames, I had to go
on the
/ spot
By LYNN CASIIION
Spring is here, which goes tj
remil:
cioM
us that there are many things to be
during the remainder of the quarter,
the weather doesn't make us all too
for anything but chow and sleeping
♦ + ♦ * *
The big sports for this quarter are golfi
tennis, and baseball. Jim Dalton has rea"''
opened the baseball season with a beau;-
ful homer. All three of these sports are
attractions which the fans can obsene
enjoy, and at no extra charge, attain
pretty good synthetic Miami tan. A wori
of warning to my thin haired friends. Wea
a hat . . . this sun is rough on the donu:
♦ ♦ * *
A coming attracting for the culture(
minded is the Elon Players’ next produc
tion, which will be a beily-buster of a
comedy, known as “The Hasty Heart"
Keep a watch for the date and don't mij^
(he play that has all the promises of being
!he comedy of the yaar.
* * * * *
Kappa Psi Nu is reportedly planning 1
donate lights to brighten up the dome of
Alamance Building at night. This will add
greatly to the beauty of our college. I.T.K,
is going to cleanse our campus walk
the scribbling left by Guilford College in
years past. These fraternities are con
tributing their efforts in the same spin*
that Sigma Phi donated the landmarker'
which still stands behind Ladies Hall, It
is good to see that the fraternities still
have a sense of pride in our college and
are leading the way toward the better
ment of the campus.
♦ * + * +
The Home Economics Department wiD
cooperate with the remodeling of the Stu
dent Union this week. Plans are at present
to paint, curtain, and add equipment that
will greatly improve the condition and
beauty of the Union. This is a tremen
dous project in itself, and any students
who have ideas or time to contribute arei
welcome to join in fixing up a real Student
Union.
* * t ♦ ♦
A couple of senior classes in the past
have left contributions for the pur;’!: '
of a glass case for our many trophies that
we have been awarded in years past for
achievements in various .iields. Their plaij;
are becoming a reality this quarter, for!
such a case is included in the pl.ms for
the remodeling of the Student Union. This
will not only add to the attractiveness of
the Student Union itself, but will also
be a sort of show-case in which we can
show to visitors what we have accomp
lished in the field of sports..
* * * * *
May Day is not far off. and we hear
through the grapevine that this year's fes
tivities will be unexcelled in costuming and
performance. The date for the big day
is May 4th. and will be somewlnat of 3
family reunion, for many of our Alumni
will return to the campus to join in wii
us in enjoying the colorful activities of
the day.
♦ + * * *
Everyone had a big time in chapel
Thursday morning when the student body
gave Judy Burns a surprise birthday part!'
Numerous pictures of students and campu.
scenes were autographed by all the stu
dents and presented to Judy as souvenirs
of her days at Elon. Judy and her hus
band plan to leave Elon this summer, and |
we .shall surely miss them very much.
back out front and procure another psir
Just as I got settled and tried to focus
my eyes to see what was going on the
whole darn thing went off. An announce
ment flashed across the screen to the elfert
that we were to take our glasses off I*"
caus Natural Vision was so UNNATURAL
that they must adjust their projectors
while we adjusted our eyes.
The rest of the mess was just as
When the movie ended the story hadnt
begun. In fact I don’t really believe
Hollywood even bothered to put a story
in the movie. It was just a series of
scenes mixed with lions, blood, and Africa
scenery, which looked so queer that .
leally not sure the place even exists.
guess I’ll have to ask Dr. Sloan about that
A I crawled out of the theater (had to
crawl because I was toog diz2y to risk wali'
ing) I was quite sure that TV must !>«
better. And other folks were talking al)OUi
the grand mess and how the flop
flopped. My main .worry was that I
sure I was ruined for life not only ®
eyes but my whole nervous system. . i
They call this new medium the Third
Dimension. Now I know why. First there
't'as sight. Then there was sound
there is rdor.
Now