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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1966
PUl’PETS OF CLIMATE
ways been the subject of discussion and
interest, and one of the nationally out
standing columnists recently did an inter-
eiting and very readable article on the
question which asked, “Are we puppets
of climate?" His discussion follows;
One important field of research that is
still comparatively neglected by the med
ical and scientific disciples is the effect
of weather upon human behavior. I have
believed — and written — for a long time
that its influence is far greater than we
imagine.
One hopeful sign of the rising interest
in this fascinating subject was given at
Geneva, Switzerland, early last summer,
when 18 experts from 10 nations submitted
a report to the conference of the World
Meteorological Organization.
The report said, among other things,
that figures based on one million individual
statistics showed significant changes in
human conduct and health during periods
of atmospheric change. During thunder
storms, for example, traffic accidents rise
by 70 per cent, births rise by 11 per cent,
deaths by 20 per cent, work accidents by
20 per cent, and pains in chronic patients
by a full 100 per cent.
In the section on the effects of weather
on illness, the report showed that many
diseases and symptoms are aggravated by
sudden weather changes. Increases in tu
berculosis were not^ in clinics “after
oppressive warm weather before thunder
storms, during humid, cold foggy weather,
or sudden heat waves.”
Other diseases notably aggravated by
sudden weather changes are heart ailments,
asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, skin cancer,
influenza, infantile paralysis, ulcers, and
the common cold.
What the meteorologists call “biologic
ally unfavorable weather’’ has long been
known to social researchers, althougl they
have no name for it. City police d.jpart-
ments are aware that hot and humid nights
with much static electricity in the air,
will heavily increase “family trouble’’ calls,
as well as crime and violence generally.
In Nigeria, the hot and humid period
before the rains is called “the murder
time,’’ when the homicide rate doubles. The
natives, who are closer to the phenomena
of nature than we, may have a sharper
smell tlian the scientists for the atmos
pheric changes that propel our minds,
bodies and feelings into perilous states.
ONLY TIIE SMALl-
It’s the little things that count. A simple
plug drops out, and huge multi-million
dollar rocket refuses to ignite. A further
check shows that had the rocket been
launched a two-cent plastic cover might
have doomed it to destruction.
“Little things.” It’s been true all through
history. Napoleon lost the battle of Water
loo. some contend, because he was in
torture from a chronic ailment that would
be cured in 10 days by modem medicine.
Other battles have been lost because a
supply clerk’s error sent summer uniforms
to winter troops.
George Washington — the story goes —
would never have won his battle with
the Hessians if the German mercenaries
bad all been teetotalers.
But you (Wn't have to seek out wars
^nd battle Jp that the little things |
glorious
feast
Cy
RICHARD i;
THE NECESSITY OF BLINDNESS
Not long ago, the editor had the genuine
privilege to see the movie, “A Patch of
Blue.” Though it had a minimal number
of artistic flav, i, the production was on;-
of the most poignant and moving storir-;
ever brought to the screen, in this column’s
opinion. Let it suffice to say that it is a
“must” movie for all who enjoy a brief
interlude amid.st all the “spectaculars” or
the “Bonds".
The movie is about a blind girl who is
utterly trapped by her environment and is
seemingly doomed to a life of i.iinorance
of all the experiences she could have re
gardless of her condition. She is saved,
however, by a young man, a Negro. See
ing her in the park one day he stopped
to help her remove a caterpillar from her
collar and was overwhelmed with pity for
her. He wasn’t sorry for her blindness but
rather for her total lack of understanding
of the ways and means that she could en
ter society and live a full and meaningful
life.
Interestingly enough, the girl doesn’t
know that he is a Negro and eventually
falls in love with him. This fact is con
trary to her home environment, as it is
extremely biased against the race as a
whole. The girl finds out that her first
love is a Negro but it doesn’t make any
difi'erence. Without telling the reader the
endin’ this is the basic plot of the movie.
It is necessary to state that the ending
is negative, however, in order to establish
the premise of this editorial.
The question is — must one be blind
to be rid of his prejudice, Perhaps we
should all have our eyes put out in order
to o’.orcome this sickness that has been
a cau'e of re.^re.ssion throughout history.
ut w'iit. before you steal your girl friend’s
broach, let us examine the problem a bit
further (for even your editor will admit
that this is a bit unrealistic as a panacea).
You will note above that the ending of
the movie was negative. This is tragic
in that even though the girl's blindness
protected her from herself, it could not
and did not protect her from the circum
stances surrounding her and her loved one.
In short, harsh reality separated the two.
Now we are confronted with a more
philosophical question: Must the reality of
today be the reality of tomorrow? And
another such question: Was the reality of
(o'lay :ecii in ye i"s past? To simplify, is
the problem of racial prejudice an insolv-
able one and destined to confound the en
lightened efforts of this and future gener
ations? No! It is not! Achievements have
been made in the past, and they have
been continued to the present in ever in
creasing numbers.
Jesus made significant strides in this
direction with his dealings with the Samari
tans, a despised “race” of people to say
the least. Even though there is still a
vestige of religious prejudice among the
Catholics and the Protestants of the world,
they at least allow each other to vote
and have even fought side by side in a
common effort as has been seen in the last
two world wars. Catholics no longer blame
the Jewish people living today for the
crucifixion of Christ, and the government
of the United States revoked the Alien
and Sedition Laws a long time ago.
With such eventually unbiased society
in which a person is only classified as to
sex and that for the sake of convenience.
To accomplish this end, we must still have
the courageous leadership that has been
so effective in the past, and those of us
who aren’t such leaders can at least be
intelligent and conscientious followers.
In closing, the reader will notice that
mention of “enlightened” efforts was made
above. Such efforts are being made by
enlightened men in progressive commun
ities today. It is a fact that these efforts
need supplementing and active support. Is
Elon College doing its part?
count. It’s true in personal relations.
A businessman doesn’t answer your
letter, and you stop shopping at his store.
The gas station attendant doesn’t clean
the windshield so you take your business
elsewhere.
It's true in sports. Championship foot
ball games are won by the margin of an
extra point. Foul shots decide basketball
games; a bunt is often the big blow in a
baseball contest.
So the moral is to take care of the little
things, and in most cases the big things
will take care of themselves.
ES FAIR
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0. : L :j .uo Lj c^.o.iAiuaini Me’.riOiic’l G
he collC; e ;U,jeal.s worked as iielners in i-eUiii; u
but the two pictures above and below show at lea
in the annual showing of antiques. One of them w
in the picture with Mrs. A. D. Tate, also of Graham,
Herbert is attending Elon this year as a junior p/c-
given by the Alamance-Caswell Medical Auxiliary, t
from the event lo finance the scholarship to Elon a
other institutioas. Mrs. Tate, shown left above, is p
Smith, of Burlington, second from left in the pictu
or the historic display of antique articles from the J >hn Allen House in southern Alamance County which
IS soon to be moved from the site where it has sto od for two centuries and to be rebuilt on the’famed
Alamance Battleground. Wayne Smith is the director of the Alamance Battleground Historic Site, which
IS operated by the state^ Elon while still carrying out his duties there. Shown with Smith
in 1 ^ below IS Mrs. Walker Blair, one of th ? Medical Auxiliary members, at the left and Frank
Walsh, of Raleigh, who is an exhibit designer for the various North Carolina historical sites.
j.' jij. : which at-
wc'jk, -or many of
nt iiucre;;iiij exhibits,
li L.'- . :o interest
• ■i iiara lio.bert, of r, iiam, shov.ii center above
.a Dr. J. E. Danieley. i'lesident of Elon College.
:d ;ludcnt and as the iiolder of a scholarship
roup which stages the fair and uses the proceeds
1 'vilh others in the field of health education at
i.ic it of the Medical Auxiliary group. Wayne
below, also an Elon College student, was in charge
ALLEN HOUSE
A Sleevek‘ss
Errand
By VVILLIAIVI RRADIIAM
pod solid craft, they have little i-Qte enough to be on the strirkpn
to worry about. However, if they've' --‘f stricken
. Theresa point that has always whkh'^ tLrT“ail Sai°n I"ectsj -^dy
interested me. That is why do rats 9^ structure, these little critters J ole too ?rp
desert a sinking ship. People say in their scurrying about, are cpr-lfhe slafp non r
thM rats know when a ship of the tain to see the situation. However I the slml themse ves in
wooden variety is about to go if the problems are not advanced I m r.
down. They say, “Watch the rats, they h.nng around and hope the -nit inH v ®
they know.” I’ve done a httle ?ituatioii will be cured n,it if it weaknesses within the
thinking about this point, and I isn't, then they .■;oon head for new lanlo eventual col-
have decided that these little fur- and '^reener pasture^ V ♦u
ry cheese-eaters are pretty smart These tiny creatures would have npnnir Mr
cntters. As “Tecex-as” would say, little to worry about if the shin’s P them
“They got the goods.” captain took «ains tn “intellectuals” within the
Friday, March ^
a few
blasts
and bravos
By
MIKE WYNGAUDEN
REACTION AND RATIONALISM
Reaction - it is in fact a eood J
tion of a bruised soul. It is akiwv. *
of life. Through out a i^ok S ^
it fhrmirrh .. ^ V. .a
Pointed Phra««s
Rock and Roll Music: Earilation.
Middle age is when a man must keep as fit
as a fiddle, or look like a bass viol.
Worry is the interest paid on trouble long
before the principal becomes due.
captain took pains to check the'^*'^ 'nieiieciuais' within
I wonder if rats actually used little weaknesses in his craft or'^”^’ "'™, the “goods.”
to desert the ship, for they can't at least de’eoate powers to those! defects. However,
do it much today. There’s too under him in order to keen thei^^ . V
many steel ships. Who knows, ship safe. Usually, this is the case -
maybe they got the goods on steel but, in some instances the catv' Yet on the
ships, too. However, let’s just say tain fails to see his responsibilitvlPi: i, respect
rats do desert siting ships. What and thus will lose his ship. ' ' ^ speak out to
I want to know is ‘Tiow come?” R’s a pity the tiny occupants who j heads of state
Where do they get the answers, know the problem cannot talk 'o ^ u State,
and why doesn’t everyone else on they could go up to the wise old'.i, ^'’^y go unheard
the ship know too? captain and say, “Listen cap’n ' • ^ order to sur
Maybe these little rodents rely you got yourself a problem in rotting ship on
on their animal Instinct. I’ve structure of your craft. Better Rx J^ • . ® society may
heard they are famous for that, lit, or you are gonna lose it.” , saved if organized actions take
Yet, maybe they’ve found out' Even if tWs were the case i ‘^®f®cts must be pointed
something about the ship that the if the captain would pay captains of state as to
captain and the sailors don’t both-l"’“‘^^ attention. After all, he’s the ® °y’®rs of the ships. Maybe the
» Wiu.. Th. .0 be p™,- "S*"
ty nosey creatures, so it seems eventually sink into the “deep , ^“wever, I’ve rambled enough
logical for them to go scurrying blue.” The captain and his crew'^ '"ats and sinking
around the ship’s superstructure,^’''be saved, but they will be the' ‘P®’ should, though be-
and in a sense “checking every-stock of the shinninolT,f,!i'f!L . I*’®. S'^s.
Other captains^S^y^SS^^ ^ S''
They want to "^ake sure they he ru*,^;e?Mfali^^^ nS?’wS
have a safe place to live. In a for the faultless sailora ..nfnT time
'•niiwrs uniortu-;valuable!
what it answers. Throw out a • '
ceived Ideas and perhaps these ide^",,
be proven ill-conceived, if the reaci^n J
dicates that you have so -Jww hT
nail on the head. But there ic ^
trouble with reaction. Many times
action comes back in the form of
hand rationalism. “".ona
In the last issue there appeared a r»l
action to my column in the preceding il
sue entitled “On Athletics.” The reL’t.lj
was half-way decent, but the only q„,. 3
was that it did not answer th ■ quesiinn
raised. Therefore, I will question a
statements in the “reactionary coiumn'
The author of this column states ihal
“if we had 40 football scholarships |3
basketball scholarships and 15 scholarshiDj
for spring sports, then we would oui
Elon program improve immensely, jji
true, sports fans. And, if everyone had ^
million dollars, they could all buy a Cad-I
iliac. But Elon does not ha^'e a millionl
dollars to hand out in scholarships: it does!
not even have enough to pay our faculty!
what it should be getting, although 1 as-I
sume that some of the money now being!
raised will go into raising faculty salaries I
It does not take a Phi Beta Kappa, even!
a six-year Elonite, to see that the Science I
Building needs forty new rooms much!
worse than the football team needs forty!
scholarships. Besides that, since I have been I
at Elon, the footballers have compounded!
a record of 23-16-1, with one Conference
Championship and a co-championship to its
credit. I do not think that it had forty
scholarships.
Next, there was the statements that
many athletes have won academic honors
at Elon. That is great. And you can search I
my columns in vain to find any time when j
I called an athlete stupid, incompetent or !
not deserving of being at Elon for his aca
demics. And the funniest thing that right
next to this “reactionary column” was a
small entry entitled “Athletes Make Honor
Averages,” in which it was stated that
five winners of the block “E” were on the
Dean’s List. Those five are to be congratu
lated for the honor they obtained, as it is
no easy one to obtain, and I know person
ally many other athletes who could with
ease make that list.
Next comes an obvious pun at me, but
this is fine. The “reactionary column”
stated, in talking about coach control and
professors handing out grades to athletes,
that “I have seen students follow certain
professors around and imitating their nc-
tions trying to give a pseudo-sophistocite
appearance to their fellow students, . . .
but of course such control by professors
is not frowned upon, because it is intellec
tual control.” I say to this merely, "Would
you rather be a Socrates for a second or an
amoeba for an hour?”
Next in this “reactionary column” came
rationalistic comments about Whizzer White
and the ex-Elon stars who have attained
now ever higher positions. This is tru^
indeed, but what has this to do with
athletic situations mentioned in my column.
What does this have to do with coach
control? What does this have to do with
an athlete coming to a school with the
promise of his coach that he will be given
a scholarship, but he never actually signs
one. But what about the very thesis of
this column? A professionalization of col
legiate athletics. .
But then there was the real gem, quo^
“Many people fail to realize that
athlete usually makes a good man. dB-
"ause of hunger pangs I will not commen
on that. . J
Nevertheless, we will give our trie
■'the reactionary,” something else to cn
on. What about the policy which states w
the recruiting coach has supreme .
over the athlete he has recruited, ts
professionalizing athletics? If not, why >
if so, why so? Do you recommend that d
coach at any school say “all ^ I
players to do is to make D’s, and tne
01 (he tiine is mine? Is this acadenu
fi'eetlom? , ,
What about people who place wuu^
games above winning grades? I
cerely that you rationalize away
questions. And just for kicks, Bill Bradley
went to Princeton on an academic schoto-
ship, left on a bigger one and never did
have an athletic scholarship. Did spo^
make the man, or did the man make the
sports? Obviously Bradley made both.
Taxpayer: A person who doesn’t have to
pass a merit exam to work for the gov
ernment.
SUMMER: The time of year when th®
is toot highway authorities close the regular road*
and open up the detours.