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SALEMITE
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Miriam Brietz, ’26 Editor-in-'
Dorothy Siewers, ’27 Man’g. Editor
Ruth Efird, ’26 Reporter
Minnie Price, ’27 Reporter
Frances Jarratt, ’27 Music Editor
Lucile Hart, ’27 Reporter
Margaret Schwartze, ’28 Reporter
Leonora Taylor, ’28 Reporter
BUSINESS STAFF
May Hairston, ’26, Business Manager
Elizabeth Hastings, ’27,Asst. Bus. Mgr.
Isabel Miller, ’28, Circulation Manager'
'Xhis is the iirsi issue oi,
Salemite tor 1926 and we v
to wish everyboay a nappy
prosperous JNew xeai-. Aitei
absence ot several weeks,
greet you, and welcome you
back to Salem lor tne secona
term. We hope that it will
success! ul and pleasant and that
iiJiit) will be the best possible
year for everybody at baiem.
Perhaps the Christmas spirit
lingers on after Christmas
over; perhaps some other reason
may account for the fact that
an unusual amount of dis
turbance is evident in the dor
mitories at hours when quiet
supposed to prevail. At any
rate, the fact exists, and exists
without excuse. Every student
member of the Student Self-
Government Association and
her honor to uphold the
standards and keep the rules of
this organization. Concentra
tion is impossible when noise
and confusion are going on just
outside one’s door, and
the time when almost every
body wants to concentrate.
Those who do not should re
member that others do, and
show proper consideration for
Long has been planned; Mrs.
Long has been associated with
the Y work in Poland, and is
well able to give some very
interesting information concern
ing the work there before and
after the war. Another pro
gram on “Citizenship” and one
one “From College to Home”
have been planned. Definite ar-
•angements have not been made
for further programs, however,
and the committee will be glad
for any new ideas.
The Y. W. C. A. wishes to | rocky, and the soil uncertain, or
While we are discussing this
subject, the topic of JNew
resolutions thrusts itself upon
us. It may be a belated discus
sion, but this is our first edi
torial appearance since 1925 and
we feel forced to make a
remarks about resolutions,
the first place, they ai-e better
never made at all than made and
not kept. In the second place,
there is no reason why the first
day of January should be
better day to make good resolu
tions than the sixteenth; so
you have not made any yet, look
over these and if you find any
useful ones, adopt them. Budget
your time. Do not waste
minutes when minutes make
hours and examinations
near. Be systematic. Take
exercise. Do not let a httle
snow keep you huddled
radiator all day. Don’t be afraid
of cold weather. Don’t knock
your school. It’s a good school,
and anyway, boosting is better
than knocking. Work hard but
don’t cram.
With these last suggestive
words looms up the subject of
examinations, which should not
be, but often is, a deradful
■ nightmare. The reason for its
dreadfulness in the first place,
is that one has not worked dur
ing the term; if this is true,
is the time to begin. Don’t wait
till the night before to study.
The second reason is that
one ^oes try to study, the habit
has been lost and the habit of
dawdling, of wasting time, of
procrastination has been formed.
Drop this habit. Plunge into
study without unnecessary pre
liminaries and examinations
will lose much of their terror.
Always at this time of year
the unpleasant subject of cheat
ing is brought up and we wish
to give a warning against any
possibility of cheating
peai-ance of cheating. Cai-eless-
ness is as much a cause of this
error as anything else. If every
one will keep her papers covered
or face dovi^n, and everyone will
consider the littleness and mean
ness of cheating, there will be
none and the almost certain un
happy results will be avoided.
Open Forum
Simultaneously with the
thought of examinations comes
the thought of honor. To the
majority of students, there
question whatsoever as to which
course they will take in the ex
amination room. To a few
students, in whom there is an
inclination toward dishonor, ex
amination week will prove a
strenouous one for their honor,
their character and their reputa
tion.
There is absolutely nothing
more detrimental to the charac
ter or conscience of an individual
than the act of cheating. It has
occurred at every college; some
times the act has been discover
ed by those in authority, some
times it has been unnoticed save
by a few. There was no profit
the act, nothing gained. The
student was branded as a cheat
secretly by those who witnessed
it.
A student’s honor is trusted;
given a fair and just
thank every girl for what she
contributed to the toys that were
sent to the Children’s Home at
Christmas time. One of the
large barrels in the dining r
was full, and the second one
almost so. Through these gifts
Santa Claus certainly visited
those children and the
predates the co-operation of
every girl who helped.
will it be fiiTti, successful, and
help rather than a hindrance
to all whom it may concern ?
Let the “Y” be a help, and
help the “Y” by coming to the
meetings and offering sugges
tions.
At the first meeting of the
new year Dr. Rondthaler gave
some ideas inducive to serious
thinking. He spoke of the privi
lege at the end of the year of
being able to stop, turn around,
“and to see the magniflcant
view.” But this is not the only
privilege which a new yeai- of-
for there is the opportunity
to look around in the present a
little; and then, above all, to
look into the road that lies ahead
and to see its possibihties. After
this challenge for the
The “Y” wishes to state that
if Rachel Davis is not able to
return and must resign her
position, another president will
have to be elected. This election
is in charge of the Cabinet, and
will, of course, necessitate the
appointment of a new member
to the Cabinet. Nothing will be
done concerning this matter
however, until Miss Davis has
definitely resigned her position.
The “Y” hopes that no changes
will be necessary, and that the
president will soon be back
her place.
As to the next few programs:.
During examination week the
social department of the Y. W.
serves tea every afternoon. This
helpful mentally, physically,
year and socially. For February 5th,
will the road of ’26 be left rough, a program led by Mrs. Harry
ANNOUNCEMENT
All students please notice the
following excerpt from the
catalogue; “Absences incurred
at the last meeting of a course
preceding or first meeting fol
lowing a holiday or recess shall
be counted double.”
Two Girls Do Not
Return to Salem
Penelope Cannon and Sylvia
Lawrence did not return to
Salem after Christmas holidays.
The former is at Holton Arms,
Washington, and Miss Laurence
piano accompanist to her
sister in New York.
“I feel myself sKding,”
the trombone.
said
chance, until she betrays the
trust, and nothing—no regret,
dismissal can erase the
memory of it. The cheat is fair
neither to herself nor to others. 1
She literally steals. She shows:
•espect for the work of her;
classmates. She is unfair, un-’
just, unkind. She is to be avoid-:
ed, to be shunned. She cannot'
be ti-usted in any matter of im-!
portance; she is not worthy of
holding a class or collegiate
position; she is not capable of
being trusted with funds; she is
thief—and is named thus by
her classmates. j
To take an examination, and
by cheating to pass it, by no
means erases the deed. The ex-!
amination may be conquered, it'
true, but the dishonest act
will haunt the guilty one,' will |
gnaw at her conscience, will ruin
her reputation. j
Cheating may be a means ofi
.ssing an examination, but the
mark received is not worth the
ink with which it was written.
If there w’as no knowledge of the.
subject to be written down, the^
course was failed before the ex-'
amination, and the mark!
amounts to nothing. I
The situation rests with each!
individual. A student who
far from being dishonest a:
north is from the south may
unknowingly encourage
stimulate another student to
cheat and thereby stimulate
another to do the same.
Among the contributions of
Salem’s many students, there
has been nothing more outstand
ing than honor. Honor has per
vaded the campus and the class-
1 since the college was
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Work without Toil
twelve hours a day toils the coolie. If he
moves one ton one mile
For that he receives twenty cents
Cheap labor! Yet compared with our American
worker, receiving at least twenty-five times as much
eight-hour day, the coolie is expensive labor
In America we move one ton one mile for less than
one cent. The coolie, working by hand, accomplishes
little; while the American, with electricity
accomplishes much
Plenty of electncity and cheap electricity —these
are two great advantages which America enjoys
over the rest of the world. While our present g
ating capacity is 20,600,000 kilowatts, new develop
ments call for 3,000,000 kilowatts more per year.
To college men and women—potential leaders—will
fall the duty of finding more and still more work
for electricity, with less and still less toil for ou
workers. For the task is but begun