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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Saturday, February 18, 1933. The Salemite SESQUI-CENTENNIAL aVLIPItiA CIUI AILIPIHI q^^,11MTTEs ALCATRAZ Published Weekly by the Student Body of Salem College SUBSCRIPTION PKICE 62.00 a Year :: lOe a Copy EDITORIAL STAFF Edilor-iu-ChU'f Josepliine Courtney Dtliv Ilciden: .. EHnor Phillips iny Editor .. AssocUile Editor ... Amociate Editor ... Literary Editor Literary Editor .... Local Editor Music Editor Alumnae Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor Feature Editor Local Editor f iMcMulli Susan Calder . Courtland Presto iMartha Bindt . . Mary Absher Elizabetli Gray Margaret I.ong Sarah Lindsay ... Kathleen Adki .. Miriam Stevens REPORTEB Cora Emmaline Henderson I.ucy James Lois Torrence Celeste McClammy Gertrude Schwalbe Virginia Nall BUSINESS STAFF iness Manager Sarah Horton ,ertising Manager Mary Sample 't Adv. Manager Ruth McLeod 7 Adv. Manager .... Isabelle Pollock •t Adv. Manager Grace Pollock 't Adv Manager Claudia Foy •t Adv. Manager Annie Zue Mae 't Adv. Manager ... Margaret Ward julation Manager Jane Wil r Sarah Jetton • Mary Frances I. •t Cir. Managi 't Cir. Manage LITTLE THOUGHTS FOR TODAY Stained glass windows make the light IJke songs of beauty from the Life could shine through us like that You and me and everyone. —Bcheca McCann. Where are the parades, the flying colors, the celebrations, and menials in honor of Father George? A year ago the nation was with heart and soul honoring George Washing ton, founder of the nation and great est among Americans. The most fashionable colors were red, white, and blue, and every woman had a bunch of cherries dangling from the side of her spring bonnet. From the publishing houses books about Wash- >n poured in a steady stream to ; the demand of the patriotic public, and newspapers and maga- 5 filled every spare column with features on the great man who held the interest of the people. In his honor poets and musicians ascribed ■ compositions, while arehi and attics were ransacked for s rs which the hand of the great had touched. Everywhere he idealized and almost idolized, because a hundred and fifty years be fore he had united a group of strag gling states and formed them into le nation. The sesqui-centennial celebration IS one of the greatest blessings that has come to this nation, because it kept the thoughts of the people ^d on one subject, and that £ patriotic one. Wlien they saw thf lachinery of government out of or der, people who reflected on Georgf Washington believed that the govern ment which he and his contemporar ies founded was not fundamentally wrong. In a wonderful way helped their faith and pride and patriotism when they most needed it. Because celebrations move in se ries of fifties and hundreds, this year the twenty-second of February has less significance than it had last year. Although the American people still revere George Washing ton, their attention is directed united ly to the incoming president, for their hopes are centered in him. If he succeeds—and is allowed to suc ceed—in leading the nation from its present state of confusion, a hundred and fifty years from now American citizens may be wearing patriotic colors in his honor. PARAGRAPHICS The light on the porch at Dr. Rondthaler’s home burns all night long. Although it might be an in- strument for adding to the duties o£ the nightwatehman, knowing the Rondthalers, we hardly think so. Through the darkness it shines to tell • that at any time the president and his wife will welcome anyone who needs their help. It continued to burn just from habit when Dr. and I Mrs. Rondthaler were away. Some day will look back on the weeks and call them the ping-pong Era. Some ambitious person took a cen sus of the girls in Clewell “who were remembered by the god of love on Valentine’s Day by something more ,tangible and edible (or smellible) than lace paper and hearts. They total twenty-one; names on request. The seniors in Bitting, who are jeal ous of their reputation for popular ity, would like to be on record as 100 per cent in receiving valentines. When we use the Moravian litany at chapel service, somebody always blurts out at the wrong time during responsive readings. The college ought to provide trap doors for the poor embarrassed girls who make such blunders. It is worse than ba nana peeling slipping. RESTRICTIONS LIFTED The faculty committee on attend ance, of which Mis Evabelle Coving ton is the chairman, has recently made some surprising inovations in their rulings. Suddenly they lifted restrictions of long standing, proving that they have the interests of the students at heart. Probably this com mittee, which can only be approached by formal petition and whose word is law, has been the most feared and criticized of all the faculty groups. Not for a moment did any student accuse them of being unjust, because this committee has been notable for (fairness, but naturally they resented the forces which bound them to stay her on the campus when they wanted to be somewhere else. First there came the amazing nouncement before Christmas holi days that students would be allowed to take cuts before and after holi days. Nobody had even dared to ask for such a measure, and so committee must have sensed that they wanted it. Very seldom does a lib erty like that come to a student body without petitions, dissatisfaction, and some kind of discussion, but this time it simply fell to them like a present for being good. Then the day students presented a petition for optional chapel tendance, rather wondering if they would be noticed. With little hesi tation the committee granted the re quest. Probably one reason it so readily granted was the spirit of co-operation in which the petition was presented, for the day students did have a reason for asking for op tional chapel attendance. Moreover, they only requested a trial period until Easter to prove that they would not abuse the privilege. What could be more fair.^ Day students are always a problem on any campus, for they are r more a part of school activities than they make themselves. This year several efforts have been made 01 parts of th administration, the board- WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG Mother and Tom and I are alone at home because Tom has diphtheria. Mother is sitting near the kerosene lamp reading us The Shepherd of the Hills. I’m sitting right ( register in my little brown rocking chair that father re-varnished for Christmas. Mother says I’ll get too hot and that I had better move, but I don’t want to. Now they’re getting ready to hang young Matt. I grip the seat of my chair with fingei sticky from the varnish that’s melt ing with the heat. I move a little closer to mother. The noose might as well be around my own neck. “Mother, I’m thirsty.” “Margaret, you’d go downstairs for mother to get Tom a glass of fresh water, wouldn’t you? I won’t read any farther until you get back.” Mother lights a lamp for me to carry. In the dark stairway I can hear the frenzied voices yelling and snarling for young Matt. I hesitate. My hands are trembling so much that the chimney is getting all smoky, and mother just washed it today. Each step seems to separate miles from mother, and place nearer the lynching mob of Ozark mountaineers. Finally I open the downstairs door of the staircase. There on the side wall is a flickering shadow outlining a man’s face, frightful—his nose is sharp, a little hooked, and his chin is pointed. I stand still breathlessly. I can feel my heart beating up in my throat. After a minute that seemed an hour, cautiously, stealthily, furtively, I move toward the kitchen. The fea tures shift and become evi grotesque and cruel than before. Each movement changes it! '"1, it’s only the reflection of the father wears when he goes to the barn to feed the horses. We have to have two to drive the slfigh the winter. When father comes in he always puts his coat on that hook. My hook is the one right below and Tom’s is the one on the other side. Relieved, but still cautious I turn all around, expecting to see a vil lainous man ready to grab me. I almost run into the kitchen and be gin pumping. It’s been so cold that I have to prime the pump before it will work. I bet it will freeze up tonight. No, I don’t mind because I don’t have to go to school. We’re quarantined for three weeks. With the glass of water in one hand and the lamp in the other I go back up stairs. Coming down seemed miles, but going back is nothing though I can almost feel someone running up the steps behind me. Here I am in the bedroom, and nothing’s happened to me. Tom drinks his water and mother says she’s proud of her daughter. Now I move my rocking chair next to mother and I take hold of her hand. She’s reading that young Matt and the Shepherd are almost lost. “Don’t hold on so tight, Margaret. Everything will be all right.” Finally the Shepherd of the Plills is rescued. I move back over register at the foot of the bed. fold my sticky hands in my lap. Everything is all right. It was the gray dawn of a crisp December morning. Our ship vs rocking through the Golden Gate to San Francisco. Because of the heavy fog which lay between us and San Francisco, we could not yet see anything but Alcatraz—even the name of which seems to hold a cer tain remoteness. I think I have never beheld as desolate a scene as that. Alcatraz is a small island off the coast of California. In fact, it is barely large enough to accomo date an enormous military prise gray stone. It looked as if it might have been the deserted island and castle where Napoleon spent his ile. The prison seemed to be full of endless windows through which there was no sign of life—windows iTke eyes which looked but saw The mountainous waves which roared in and crashed over the jagged land emphasized its solitude and accessibility. PIERRETTE MEETING The Pierrette Players will have their monthly meeting next Thursday night. A short play will be presented by three members of the club, and the public is invited. The time and place of the meeting will be nounced later. ing students, and the day students themselves to bring the off-campus students closer to Salem. As a suit, there has been an increased amount of school spirit among them — how much it is difficult for the boarders to determine. Now the off- campus students have an opportunity to show their sincerity by attending chapel as much as possible and not abusing the privilege which has been granted them. ON GOLF TEES For about a year I was content to use a sensible black rubber golf t Since I honly had to lay it down the ground—this one squat little cup attached by a short narrow belt to a round and flat rubber weight- height was uniform. Although my golf game was poor, I felt sure that 'by using rubber tee my game would be more consistent than that of my 'fellow players. Thank fortune, however, one auspicious day I cracked the weight to that rubber golf tee half in two. Since that eventful day I have begun to expe rience the manifold joys which with the use of gayly-colored wood en golf tees. It is as if I had been wearing clumsy black rubbers and now wore trim, bright galoshes. Red golf tees in a glass jar the counter of the caddy house mind me of peppermints in a glass .T in a small grocery sto] candy store. 'T feel as if I must buy them. I would much rather buy them than golf tees in a leather :specially those spindly so phisticated celluloid tees with col- Tired heads. Wlien you drive a ball off of one of these latter tees, you are pretty sure to knock the head off the tee. Although red golf tees in candy jars are alluring, I have never bought any of them. I always gather tees on the golf course. Usually ■I start off playing golf with two tees, often a red one and a yellow I know that I’ll probably lose r both of them before I’m through playing, but I also know that there is no telling how many golf tees I may pick up here and there. Some day I’m going to have courage enough to take only one tee and to feel confident that I’ll always have a tee at the proper moment. When you stoop down and wind your tee in the ground, you c help feeling a challenging and couraging thrill. When you have your ball on the top of a jaunty red ,or yellow tee, you feel that every thing possible has been done to help you. All that remains is to give the ball a nice, easy, square hit, and you can do it! There is a vast amount of difference in thus approaching a ball and in stolidly walking up to ball which squats on a sensible black ''rubber tee. It is amazing how many tees can pick up on a golf course. Some people seem to be so absorbed their game that once having hit their ball they promptly forget all about Atheir tee. I am not thus absorbed my game, anu I find all sorts of tees—blunt red, yellow, or white ones, tapering red, yellow, or white ones ,little red paper circles, adver tisement tees—^like advertisement pencils, candy-jar tees, foppish cel luloid tees (usually only the heads of these)—every imaginable kind of tee. When the ground around the big driving tee is rough, walk into the roughest part and you’ll ■tees galore. What do you think about this ■eather? I liked it for the first three days, but I am just about to get enough of slow, heavy rain that always carries suffocation with it. Ping-Pong is a great game, espe cially for the Faculty. They seem to get from fifteen minutes’ playing as much exercise as most of us get in an hour’s basketball practice. If we may have as attractive a banquet as we had last night, I vote that we have a Horse Shoe Tournament. Girls, stop eating sweets, develop your wind and reduce your figures. The first thing you know Spring will be here, the swimming pool will be opened, the period of financial dif ficulty will still be with us, and you will have to wear your last year’s bathing suits. Here’s hoping you can get in them. Pollyanna says it’s grand to be unpopular. Then at Valentine you don’t have to worry about boxes of candy that come with no card. This ,is no slam on Cokie and Zina. We’ll help them worry if they’ll pass around the boxes. Mid-semester tests have already bought their plane tickets for Salem College. On the night of their ar rival, there will be a formal recep tion in Main Hall. You are all cordially attended to invite.* *Vardell, C. G., Expanded Chapel _ Announcements, Winston-Salem, N. C., February 8, 1933. ItHE FASHION plate! Snaippy Suits for Spring Dame Fashion, like Lady Luck, is very changeable. P'ads and novelties come and leave again, but as spring rolls around, suits re appear. This year mannish suits with broad shoulder lines and slender list lines are fashionable. Contrasts are seen everywhere in spring clothes, but especially in the suits, where skirts and jackets are made of different colors and designs but with the same weave in the fab ric. Single and double breasted jac kets as well as three-quarter length ensembles are smart. Sleeves are not so exagerated as before, but still form a square shoulder line. A trim, neat suit can be changed often by wearing different hats, gloves, and blouses. Shirtwaists are made either tailored or feminine—to suit the person. They may be of hand-drawn linen, of taffeta-checked or plaid, or of a thin material, rolled, tucked and be-ruffled. Dark shirts Even evening dresses are mannish. Straight, simple evening gowns are worn under tailored mess-jackets, which have a belt and buckle across the black, and large full sleeves. Most tees are solid red, yellow, or white, and I prefer the red or yel- or yellow to the white. Celluloid tees often have purple, blue, or green heads, but I disdain these tes. I should like solid purple and green wooden ones, though I suppose the green ones would be hard to find in the grass. Green and red striped tees would be practical as well as delightful. A dapper little golf tee is indis pensable to a good, happy-go-lucky game of golf.
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