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TWO 'Jddroon And Gold Entered M second cl«»* matter at the Post Office at Blon College, N. C. under the Ad of March 8, 1879. Deliverad by mall. $1.50 the college year, 50t Uic quarter. EDITORIAL BOARD Gary Thompson Lditor-in-Chiet Ann Stoddard Asaisunt Editor Gary Thompson . Feature Editor Neil Johason Art Editor Reuben Askew .. Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor BUSIVESS BOARD Jack Lindley Business Manager Ann Stoddard - • Circulation Manager Carl E, Owen Printing Advisor Robert Somers Press Operatoi SPORTS STAFF Ulll Walker Sports Editor REPORTERS Judith Clark John McGowan Walter Edmonds Hot Perkins Glenn Garretl Girleta Vestal Sylvia Grady Louis W'ilkins George Hall Yvop-w WinKtc-ad WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 195b WE NEED YOUR AID To those of you who condescend to read so lowly an article af^ an editorial, let me urge you to lake the few words writ- Ipn here in all seriousness. It has been said that the young American generation J:- irresponsible and carefree. But lately we liave begun to realize that there ait things to be done by us—big things, im portant things which will aid cIvlLization in Its advance to higher levels. Here at Elon we have a lovely campus, a cooperative administration, and a demo cratic faculty—all to make our life on this campus a happy one. We have various col lege activities which are sponsored for our benefit. Their success depends on us. Our social events are enjoyable only if the members of the student body cooper ate. These are all things done for us, to help us in every way possible; but there is the adage. 'You can’t receive without giving something in return.” One organization on the campus which offers an excellent opportunity to every one to do hif part is the STUDENT CHRIS TIAN ASSOCIATION. The most important task of this group at present is the rais ing of $2000 for our BURNED-OUT BRO THERS OF SOUTH. The fact that you have to pay your fraternity dues or that you are in need of a hair cut seems small Jn comparison with the tremendous amount of work to be done by the SCA. Your help is needed. It is such a small thing to you and requires so little effort—yet this money means a great deal to the BURNED-OUT BROTHERS OF SOUIH. GBT MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, May 2, is HOLD THAT TRASH This Is a reminder about the appear ance of our campus. It concerns the thoughtlessness of students who throw all kuids of trash upon the ground instead of In the cans where they belong. Apparently there is no pride in the upkeep of our campus It seems to us as though a sense of cleanliness should prevail in every per son; but unfortunately, this is not the case. Either folks are too careless, too Uzy, or both, to hold onto thei^ trash for those few extra steps from the place where they usually toss it aside to the nearest trash receptacle. Perhaps we need even more receptacles and signs along the walks. Wouldn't it be better to clutter up our campus with re ceptacles than with scraps of paper? Or ■would it? Why cant we just rememln-r that our beautiful campus would look bet ter without too many of either the recep tacles or the trash? We do have a beautiful campus when it's kept clean. Why not help Nature in its work and refrain from marring her beauty. It doesn't require much effort on our part^just a little thoughtfulness. It would also help out if each of us did his own part in picking up trash left about by more thoughtless persons. The bit of additional exercise would probably do U!> a lot of good. GBT. Sounding Off By LARRY BARNES THIS WAS HOME FOR TUNNICLIFFES IN ITVDIA MAY DAY COMETH May Day, with all its pageantry. Is rap idly arriving on the scene. Ovei In Mem orial Gymnasium. Mrs. Griffin is busy in preparation of the event. The gill parti cipants are going to Burlington having their evening dresses filed. The boys are looking around for dinner jackets. These people are spending many hours to make this Moy Day a success. Plans are com plete for a talent show on Friday night preceding the May Day festivities that are set for Saturday. The theme of the program will revit-w many popular dances of the 20th century. On Saturday night a dance will be held as the climax oi the May week-end. Let's everyone attend to see the fruits of all these labors.—LEB. Every t:me that 1 thumb through filcJ of old MAROON and GOLD copies, I can't help but feel a sense of wonderment and awe at those students who once trod the portals of Elon. I would like to extract from these papers of yesteryear a few lines or so and pass them on to you. This exerpt was taken out of the March 14, 1936 issue. The title of the arUcle read • Movement Is Started To Educate Negroes Iii Night School Here”. It reads this way ■■In a little Baptist church situated off the railroad track-not far from the Elon Campus has s-tarted a movement to educate the Negroes of our community. With mild inUrest sitmulated more out of sheer curiosity and mild amusement, it is being viewed upon and discussed among our circles.” '■There is some doubt if the though^ has occurred that in this movement might lie the embryo for a definite social adjust ment. Perhaps some view it as being radi cal, but with a little thought it must be recognized as being sound and sane. There are certain laws of social existence that must be aided for the betterment of all and the community in which we live, and it is with this view in mind that such a movement has been started ...” "The ages of pupils range greatly, but their enthusiasm and eagerness to learn is on a level. Some of the pupils have never been to school in their life. Some of them have gone for one or two years.” Some twenty years later, this very arti cle printed in the halcyon year df ’36 is coming true for the Negroid race. In the very same issue, a schedule of the fall football team was announced. It I'ealtes, "Opening the year against N. C. State College’s Wolfpack at Raleigh Satur day afternoon, September 19, Elon’s Fight ing Christians football club will face one of the toughest assignments ever scheduled here when the gridiron campaign gets underway next fall. The complete schedule for that year fol lows— Sept. 19—N. C. State at Raleigh Sept. 26 — Washington and l,ee Univer sity at Lexington, Va. Oct. 2 — George Washington Univer- .sity at Washington, D.C. (night) Oct. 10 — West Chester State Teachers College at West Chester, Pa. Oct. 17 — LaSalle College at Philadel phia, Pa. Oct. 24 — Duke University "B” team at Elon Oct. 30 — Naval Apprentice at New port News, Ya. (night) Nov. 7 — Lenoir-llhyne CoUege at Elon (homecoming- Nov. 14 — Emory and Henry at Emory, Va. Nov. 26 — Guilford College at Greens boro Dec. 5 — Catawba College at Salisbury Elon had a very good club that year, winning 6 while losing 5 games against a really rugged schedule. Harking back to the annum of 1928, I note that a Loving njp was awarded to social fraternities. It reads like this — "The Sigma Phi Beta Social Club has been awarded the scholarship Loving Cup for the spring semester of 1928.” "The winning of this cup by one of the social clubs means that social club has made the highest scholastic average dur ing the last semester . . . The Alpha Pi Delta Social Club heltl the Loving Cup last semester and stood in second place for this semester.” Jumping forward to the year 1942, on Saturday, October 3, I find that war cloi»ds loomed black and heavy over the campus. This item was taken from "Rambling” by Charlie Mann — "This year we return knowing that we shall have no football (*am to cheer on to victory. We shall miss the pep meeiings, the send-offs, and most of all, the games. No new thrills will we experience this year, but we shall hold dear those of the past. The thrills of the Catawba game we shall long remember. The running of Jack Boone, whom we find hard to describe in elaborate terms; l;ut in a simple and full way, he was a great guy. The kick block by Curry Bryan will go down in Elon history as a moment that will not be soon forgoten. It was a great team that day, which though faced with defeat, fought on and when things looked darkest snatched victory for their cwn That fighting team shall never be roigott'en'. the quidnunc By GARY THOMPSON The home in which the Tunnicliffe^ lived while at the tobacco compound in India along with a group of Indian laborers in native dress and the carts and usual means of trnn.sporting the tobacco and other products from place to place. U is mteresUng to note the profusion of flowers that adorn the Tunnicliffe home. In Which One Learns That... Indian Tobacconist Lives Varied Life The working day started early in Kommur. Six o’clock was the hour for rising: by six-thirty the By MRS. DAKTH^'A TUNNICLIFFE I demanded their pay, and went CHAPTER THREE i: their 'way. Probably the thing that did keep depot was open and the tobacco If Mrs 1““^ T Jng bought Meanwhile I picked "’’T m “T flowL, started the housework, or »;uUrand ^f f" Z had a look at the vegetable gar- “ 1’ rPlon veranda. They den. We had tried to grow several vegetables with varying success. The radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, nd peas did well, but the car rots never grew beyond an inch 111 length, the beets were the size of marbles, and the corn pioduced unly 'eaves. The soil, even with additives was not conducive to the growth of many types of Western crops. Consequently, we had to order vegetables from Ocvtacomund, the bis hill statiOD in the Nilgiri range liuu miles from us. Vegetables came to us from Ooty every other week. Our drinking water also came from & distance. It arrived in two big drums carried by buUock-cart fiom Chirala, 26 miles distant. During the bad rains, when the carts could not reach us, the drums were slung on poles shoul dered by two men. Transportation of drinkiTig water was obligatory in our area, for the well water was brackish and salty and unfit for any use. Our bath water came from the rain filled tanks. When these be came dry we reecived an aug mented supply of water from Chir ala. Our drinking water we al- way.k; boiled, and. incidentally, our milk also. Otir bath water was heated over an outdoor fire, the water being poured into a large drum set above the fire. From this it was run, by means of a spigot, into buckets which were airit'd ir;to the house and emp tied into the tubs. Most bunga lows in India have as many baths as there are bedrooms. There were three at the Kommur bungalow. Breakfast Moveable Breakfast was a moveable af- faii_during the buying season. The sale of tobacco came to a short stop between nine and ten o’clock our breakfast was eaten sometime during that period. During the cool er season (55 degrees at night) ♦ve ate breakfast in the veranda sitting-room. The reit of the meals were served in the dining room With the advent of the hot sea son, the house was completely closed by 9:00 each morning, with all the electric fans on full to keep the air reasonably cool and Circulating. One year for a whole week we had to serve dinner in the sitUng-ioom in the dark. The in- ■sects were so bad that the soup was a mars of floating creatures which also got in one’s eyes, hair, and ears when the light was left on. The dining room had to be abandoned, for, even with no lights the room was too close to the back veranda, which had to he kept lit. We also had to keep the far front veranda light in or der to attract the insects from the darkened sitting room. And speaking of insects, we had- always to be careful of scorpions her husband who is now an Elon student. She tells moi^ interest ing facts about tbeii life on an English tobacc* c«mpound in India, describing how vegetables and drinking water often had to be transported from many mile^ away. She alsc tells of the difficulties they encountered with insects and snakes, which infested the region about their home. dnd snakes. Little gray scorpions used to scurry over the walls and rcross the floor during certain seasons of the year. Outside in holes lived great black monsters, t'ome of them five to six inches long. No matter where one walked in the compound one always vEtched the ground for scorpit?^ and for snakes. One forenoon, while sitting on the veranda, we saw a huge snake gliding down the path towards the tennis court. A shout brought everyone with sticks, tennis rackets, and stones. Though we raced down the path hoping to find and kill ij, the snake had disappeared. We beat the grass in the area in which it had last been seen, but could not find it. Accordingly we sent off ,0 a village for two professional •;nake hunters, who arrived the next morning. Indian Snake Hunters In India there are two types of ‘nake hunters that I have met. There may be many othei kinds, for India’s customs are as varied as her peoples. The two types that I know are the professional char mers and those who hunt snakes would not let us make pets of them, but, as they climbed the bougainvillea vines to get to their entrance hole, they would pause tc peer at us and'to watch us with interest. They did not seem to be afraid; they just were not the soc iable type of mongooses. We did not molest them, nor they us. We were aware of them only al times when they seemed to be playing at bowls or skittles above us. Some evenings there would be a rush ing and thumping of feet over head, accompanied by numerous inexfilicable bangs as though a heavy wooden ball had fallen with in the false roofing. Moonlit Nights Lovely Nights in Kommur were always lovely, but full moon nights were the most enchanting of all. The moon was so bright that we were tempted once to try a game of teu- nis. It was not too succcssful an attempt; shots became wild or were missed entirely. Consequent ly, we ended the evening by sitting on the court with the soores of two Gilbert and Sullivan oper ettas, following them, as we sang, with the aid of only the moon light. The full moon in India gen erally gives enough light by which one may read without any other aid. The night-watchmen (called Chaukidars), who made the rounds of the depot and the compound from six in the evening until dawn, stolidly plodded past us studiously paying no attention The night-watchman was a fea ture of every depot. He went by the front of our house every twen ty minutes, and if wakeful, we would hear him regularly, sandals lo sell or to kill. The cbarmer makes used of his reed pipe toi°°^ clicking on the gravel Jisturb the snake; wh-on he finds handle of .the lantern he car- it he puts it in hi'; basket. The' squeaking as it swung by his two men who came to find our 'nake were hunters: with rattles and sticks they covered the area ve indicated. All that they managed to dis turb there were a couple of six inch black scorpions which emer ged angrily from their holes. These were seized behind the poi •on sack on the tail, around which the hunters tied a piece of string, and were then proudly led lo us, Ihe men knowing full well that they would be told to remove 'heir captive at once. With a grin the hunters re lumed to their bu.siness, tiptoeing •ibcut the grass, sniffing as they went. In a short while they ran their quarry to earth in a pile of rocks behind the garage, captured it, and presented it for our in spection. holding it below the head, coiled up like a rope. It was a -ilvei-y five foot cobra, lighter ir, coTor than any I had yet seen, the common cobra being brown or black. When the men had killed and skinned the deadly creature, they presented the skis to us’ ^ide. He punched sundry time Clocks on his rounds, turning the tape into the depot office each morning Another night sound to which one became accustomed was more musical than the shuffle of the night-watchman's feet. During the selling season the farmers brought their tobacco to the depot in carts 3ome arrived at dusk to stay for the night so as to be first on the buying court. Others would arrive at dawn, so that all through the night one would hear the bells of the bullocks, tinkling along the =art tracks or over the stubbly fields as the carts coverged on “P twinkling lanterns swinging un derneath the rear of each cart was rewarding. Types Of Tobacco arious indigenous types of to bacco have been cultivated in In- Ja for a very long time, but it in comparatively recent years thae the Virginian [ype (Continued on Page Four) Staffs may come and staffs may go But mine is a permaiient job, you laow When all the editors have pased on I’ll stiU be spreading gossip abcu; Elon, Who am I? You should know, None other than the i And here I go! ' Not Scandal Just Plain Facts ' I have been kicking in the gutter of of despair during the past three weeli;. in this Christian institution. The ONLY KIN- DRED SPIRIT I could find proved to be la huge COCK ROACH which lived ic the dusty, west corner of my room. He usually sat and stared gloomily out at me from under the floor board. Night ifter night we exchanged glance for glance and 'in- ally came to the conclusion inaudidible that all is futile. I christened him H2.Tj.et because of his outlook of complete hope- lessness. In spite of feeding him from the college dining hall, he has improved.'Now both writer and Hamlet are doing much better, thank you. » ♦ * ♦ ♦ CONGRATULATIONS , ... to Larry Barnes and the new jtu- dent body officers ... to Miss Jean Cannady, who was second runner-up in the annual "llisj Burlington” contest recently. Jean came to Elon from W. C. U. N. C. this year. ... to Nick Thompson and Gilbert Watts of the Elon haseballers. They both have been the main stays for the Chris tians thus far this season. * « • » * A sudden, unexpected touch of spriag like the one experienced this past week makes you feel as if you will never be the same. You feel all cdzy and warm iinsid,|;, and even Dr. Brown s German class seems to be shorter. The rich warm *odor of the earth makes you want lo do things only squirrels were prepared by nature to do—such as climb trees and sit on a limb and stare wild-eyed at God's ; world. Oh! it's good to be alive even with an unhappy outlook on life like mine. » » » « Coming soon to a Burlington Show House is the tinema PICNIC. It's W’illiam Inge's play about a husky athlete (William Hol den) who bounces around a small town like a loose ball, while the ladies 'Rosalind Rusell, Kim Novak) fumble excitedly for possession. A must for the movie lover. * * * * * John N. Frederiok, (he’s 'V'ogi's uncle', of Charlotte, N. C. is a candidate for State Insurance d^mmissioner. Know he would appreciate your vote. * » * * On Traffic Safety In 1955, more than fifteen thousand in dividuals didn’t return home after the pleasures of the weekend. According to figures recently published by the Safety Service of the Travelers Insurance Com panies of HarVford, (Connecticut, lo.'^SO Americans were killed in weekend traffic accidents. Of last year’s traffic fatalities, more than 'one-fifth occurred on Satmday. The reasons for this record number weekend highway fatalities lie in the mo toring habits of the American pubLc. Every highway in the nation has its Sat urday share of that portion of America bound and determined to arrive at its weekend destination in time for dinner, even if the trip's last sixty miles must be covered in an hour flat. Too frequent ly, the strain and fatigue of distant driv ing are ignored in anticipation of ample relaxation at the journey's end. Then, too, our highways continue 10 b* filled with those drivers who idea of re laxation is an extra drink os two for the road”. Millions of dollars have been spent by Federal, state and municipal authorities in an effort to provide better and safer l oads. Additional millions are spent by in surance companies and other private or ganizations for programs of safety educa tion. Nevertheless, the weekends of 1955 sa* more persons killed and injured on our highwa.vs than ever before. It wasn’t the fault of the road systems: it wasn’t tb® fault of safety education campaigns. I* was the fault of pleasurebent individuals striving to go too far, too fast, for a week end’s enjoyment. . How to reduce this record total killed and injured? What is desperately required is the immediate, unceasing co operation of every American in possession of a driver's permit. An aroused awarene.ss of the weekend highway peril, plus continued reaiiza'-ioB of this danger is the only way to reduc* the weeTiend fatality figures f«r 195®-
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