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THE SKIRL
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954
THE SKIRL
“THE SKIRL” and the “PINE and THISTLE” are published
semi-monthly by the Student Body of Flora Macdonald College,
Red Springs, North Carolina.
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EDITOR Kittye Oliver
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Rosa Moore
BUSINESS MANAGER Evelyn Taylor
ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER June Jarrett
PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Shirley Davis
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Eva Gray Davis, Martha Ann Morrison Williford
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FACULTY ADVISEIR Mr. Thomas Wright
EDITING COMMITTEE .. Mr. David Tatem, Miss Harriet Morrison
THE PINE AND THISTLE
EDITOR Shirley Thornton
ASST. EDITOR Emojeane Womeldorf
BUSINESS MANAGER jean Morris
ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER Pat Ritter
FACULTY ADVISER Dr. Eleanor B. Scott
Santa (laus
Coming To Halls
Deck the hall with boughs of
holly” — This will soon be the
cry heard throughout the hall
of old Flossie Mac. As Santa
Claus comes near, all the halls
begin to burst with the holiday
colors. Christmas trees, Santa
Clauses, over-size stockings, ca
rols, and good eats will be com
mon everywhere. The girls will
be asked to decorate the doors
of their rooms with the sky as
the limit for their ingenious
ideas. The walls and ceilings
will hold their share of the de
corations, too.
Letters will be written home
asking for special food for hall
parties. On a night, chosen by
the hall, there will be a big
party with singing, playing, and
eating. Several halls will draw
names to exchange small gifts
around the Christmas trees in
a family spirit.
So put on your thinking caps
and plan an extra special de
coration for your door and hall.
Each will try to make its hall
the prettiest in the buildings.
For your hall parties, look
around you, for there are sever
al teachers living here in the
building who would love to
share with you in the holiday
activities.
May you have the MerTiest
of Christmases, but don’t eat
loo many goodies at the com
ing parties.
Traditions . . .
Christmas A Time Of Many Traditions
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christmas . . . Merry Christmas! Happy wishes of “Merry Christ
mas” fall thickly on all sides as the holiday approaches—everyone
is desirous that his friends and relatives have, above all, a Merry
Christmas. But what does one imply when he wishes someone
this special merriness? Forbid that we let so happy a greeting
fall prey to misinterpretation or the grasp of a cliche!
Tragically, it has been found by some to mean to have a “gay
time a time that all responsibility can be forgotten and one
can do anything he or she pleases. But truly this is not the mean
ing of this word, “merry”. Webster states its meaning as: pleas
ant, delightful, and joyous.
A pleasant Christmas, I believe, would be one in which you
will enjoy doing things for others — for those whom you love,
and for those you may never know. The old adage that happiness
comes from trying to make others happy is very true.
A delightful Christmas! — what a wonderful expression —
used to mean the kind of Christmas that one may find in his or
her home. Long-loved traditions which are repeated year after
year bring back memories of other Christmases. The bedecked
Tree, a warm fire, Christmas carols and stories, the family to
gether again, Santa for the little ones and many other important
things all go to make Christmas delightful.
A joyous Christmas is a merry Christmas — a happy Christmas
By BETSY FLESHMAN -
There are many Christmas
,1'aditions here at Flora Mac
donald; the White Gift Service,
the Dome Service, the banquet,
going Christmas caroling, filling
stockings for children througti
the Prayer Bands.
Toy Workshop
The Toy Workshop might he
■ailed a tradition, but it is not
held every year. The girls re-
jair old broken toys that they
lave brought from home. After
■hese toys are painted or mend-
yd or fixed to look as nearly as
possible like new, they are
wrapped and given to the child-
en of poor Negro families here
day afternoon just before Christ
mas, and anyone who wants to,
and has time, helps.
Christmas Tree
Another tradition is the Sen
ior Christmas tree. Each year
about a week before Christmas,
usually in time for the Christ
mas dance, the Seniors get a
huge tree for the Rotunda. They
decorate it at night, after the
31:00 bell. No one is atlowed
to help except Seniors. There
is singing while the tree is be
ing decorated. After this is
finished, hot chocolate or some
other refreshment is servea and
the whole class joins in singing
Christmas carols. This tradition
in Red Springs, children who ' is not very old, probably started
would otherwise have no Christ
rnas. The Toy Workshop is usu
ally held in Watkins on a Satur
about ten years ago.
The Christmas banquet is one
of the older traditions. The
banquet is usually the Wednes
day or Thursday night before
we go home for the holidays.
It is a formal dinner. We have
an “extra-special’' meal that
night, with fancy trimmings, and
we eat by candlelight. We sing
carols during the banquet, first
in English, then in three dif
ferent foreign languages. The
Spanish Club sings carols in
Spanish, and the French and
Latin Clubs sing.
Mr. Sinclair usually plays
“White Christmas” for us at
the banquet. It is a gay and
happy occasion. Mrs. Perry says
that she remembers the Christ
mas banquet as a “beautiful
time with soft lights, music, and
a festive air.” She said that
when she was a student here
they did not have the Dome
Service and many of our Christ
mas activities and that the ban
quet was the big thing to which
they all looked forward
Heard Around The Comer
By “PEEPS'
Hello,
Here we are, back again! Not
so very much worst after our
iiolidays! Just think, only two
and a half more weeks and
v/e’ll be home again for Christ
mas holidays with its many
parties, the Dixie Classics, Santa
T. , ,. , . , - - Claus, and most important, the
in r f Christmas; for many years ago' celebration of Christ’s birth on
in the little town of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ, our Saviour was | earth
born! It is His Birthday we are celebrating and it is only as we
come to know and love Him that we can experience a Joyous
Christmas — a MERRY Christmas.
Around The World And Back
By FAYE JENKINS
After weeks, or should I say
months, of deliberation, the Sen
ate finally censured Senator Joe
McCarthy on three counts.
The action on the first accu
sation amounted to a 67-20 vote
of guilty on the charge McCar
thy obstructed the Senate and
acted contrary to its traditions
in failing to help a subcommit
tee which investigated him in
1951 and 1952, and is “abusing”
the group’s members.
The Wisconsin Senator also
got a wholly new investigation
started by his charging that
forgery and suppression of evi
dence had been used against
him. As a result of this charge,
Sen. Knowland of California
named a special committee to
look into the alleged checking
of the senators’ incoming mail
by unauthorized persons.
All the Democrats present
fnd twenty-three Republicans
voted to condemn McCarthy’s
behavior toward the Hennings-
Hayden-Hendrickson subcommit
tee which investigated his finan
cial and other affairs in 1951-52.
Knowland and^ nineteen other
Republicans, backed McCarthy,
but, t^r efforts^ were defeated
by. ,a; vote 20.,v The vote
qap^, aft^r ^^er ies.. flf ■ attempts
to spare.th^-?Wisconsin senator
from censure.
The Senate refused to cen
sure McCarthy for his “denunci
ation” of Brig, Gen. Ralph W,
Zwicker which was the second
charge against him.
The second count, abuse of
Brig. Gen. Zwicker, never came
to a vote. The Senate refused
to rebuke McCarthy for his ac
tion when the general appeared
before McCarthy’s subcommittee
last February.
The third and final charge was
voted 64-23 for censure. On this
count McCarthy was censured
for abusing the Watkins com
mittee which recommended he
be censured on the other two
counts. McCarthy called the com
mittee a “Communist handmaid
en” and made other attacks ^n
the committee.
Finally, after rebuking one of
its own members for the fourth
time in American history, the
Senate adjourned “sine die” at
7:15 p, m. EST, That means, in
this case, until January 5.
How did McCarthy react to
his censure? Apparently he was
not too surprised, and he, with
his injured arm in a sling, came
into the chamber when the final
vote was in progress. Among
his remarks concerning the cen
sure issue are:
“I don’t think the American
oeople are at all fooled. They
know I have been censured be
cause I dared to do the dishon
ourable thing of exposing com
munists in government,”
McCarthy also said- that he
Eva Grey Davis is going to
the Citadel for the Christmas
hop. What a lovely way to start
the holidays!
I feel sure that all of us wlii
want a new dress for the part
ies and dances, and 1 rece;vea
a fashion clue from one w:io
was “greatly relieved” that the
censure issue was finally being
dissolved and that he hoped to
have a chance to get back to
work soon. McCarthy said that
his being censured “will make
the investigation of Communists
in Government much more dif
ficult.” But he added, “It won’t
stop us. Indeed, I intend to
continue this fight to expose a
communists roughly in the same
way,”
All of the Carolina Senators
voted censure on the first and
last counts. Senator Sam Ervin,
N, C, Democrat from Morganton
slated “The senators who know
Senator McCarthy best, and
what he is doing to this country
have voted three to one that
they condemn his conduct as un
becoming to a senator of the
United States,”
In giving the reason for fail
ure to condemn McCarthy on the
second count Ervin said that
some felt censure might imply
the limitaton of power of cross-
examination by a congressional
committee,
Dirksen, the Illinois Senator
and anti-censure leader, said
that he didn’t want to white-1
wash McCarthy, but that we all
had to admit he was a determ
ined foe of Communism, first i
and last, - . .. j
What do you think?
knows, “If it’s white, it’s right.” |
That being the case we’ll nave
a white Christmas in more ways
than one.
Girls, look, your feet are
glittering. Some of the hose de
signed for evening wear have
shining gilt designs on them.
Did anyone notice the plaid,
corduroy toreador pants worn
by a visitor here last week?
Cute, don’t you think?
Here's some advice to those
giving Christmas gifts from O.
Henry’s book, The Gift of the
Magi, In this story Mrs, James
Dillingham Young, finding her
self with only a dollar and
eighty-seven cents at Christmas,
sold her beautiful long hair to
buy a watch chain for her hus
band. In the meantime he had
sold his gold watch to buy her
a splendid pair of combs. Moral
—“Of all who live and receive!
gifts, such as they are wisest.”
For the friend that had
everything, give the latest in
hand bag news — a folded
envelope of doeskin, in a deep,
vivid, blueprint blue. It can be
used for daytime or evenint;
wear,
Teresa Brewer has come out
with a hit tune titled “Let Me
Go, Lover.” Heard it?
Did you know that people
used to believe that blondes
were dynamic, aggressive,
quick, alert, daring, changeable
and lovers of vanity; that
brunettes were just the oppos
ite? No wonder they say that
gentlemen prefer blondes, but
that they marry brunettes— in
teresting theory, anyway,
P, S, Merry Christmas! I al
most forgot that this was the
last issue until the New Year,
Campus Clubs and Capers
Fleishman’s
“For Feminine Fashions”
Elm St. Lumberton, N. C.
By PAT CLARK
Though Christmas is still a
few weeks away, several clubs
have already had their Christ
mas parties. The Spanish Club
met on December 2 at 6:40 in
Zetesian Hall. Everyone brought
a ten cent gift and put it in a
grabbag. Then everyone drew
out a gift, Jean Blalock was in
charge of the refreshments. Af
terwards the club enjoyed sing
ing Christmas carols.
The Writers Club is consider
ing three Christmas plays writ
ten by the members. If possible
the one which they consider the
best will be presented by High
land players.
The Classical Club met Decem
ber 1 in the front parlor for
their Christmas party. After tak
ing care of the business part of
the meeting, Christmas carols
were sung.
The French Club met on No
vember 29, Mr. Regan told the
story of the opera “Carmen”. Af
terwards he played the records
of it.
The Virginia Club has been
selling hot dogs not to enrich
their treasury but to raise money
for the Prayer Chapel, On De
cember 9 they are planning to
have their Christmas party at
the home of their sponsor, Mrs.
McPhaul. Virginia members of
the faculty have been invited.
The Highland Players are
hoping to present a short one-
act play to the student body just
before the Christmas holidays.
It is “A Room for the Prince”
I by Rilla Carlisle, Work on cast-
j ing it will begin as soon as the
playbooks arrive. The serious
note to the play will awake a
new and deeper meaning to
Christmas.
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Red Springs, N. C.