North Carolina Newspapers

1 Page Two. THE SALEMITE Friday, October 23, 1936. Published Weekly By The Student Body of Salem College Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : : $2.00 a Year : : 10c a Copy EDITOEIAL STAFF Editor-In-Chief Sara Ingram Associate Editors:— Mary Louise Haywood Katherine Sissell Music Editor Laura Bland Sports Editor Cramer Percival Feature Editor Julia Preston liOuise Freeman Josephine Klutz Mary Lee Salley Peggy Brawley Eloiso Sample Peggy Warren Mary Worthy Spense Anna Wray Fogle REPOETEES: Mary Turner Willis Alice Horslleld Florence Joyner Julia Preston Helen McArthur Helen Totten Maud Battle Mary Thomas BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Virginia Council Advertising Manager Edith McLean Exchange Manager - Pauline Daniel Assistant Exchange Manager — - Bill Fulton ADVEETISING STAFF Sara Pinkston Frances Klutz Frankie Meadows Virginia Taylor Sara Pinkston Peggy Bowea Frances Turnage Prather Sisk Virginia Bruce Davis Circulation Manager Helen Smith Assistant Circulation Manager - Fulton Assistant Circulation Manager Virginia Piper National Advertising Eepresentatives NATIONAli ADVEETISING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City 1Q36 Member 1937 Pbsocided Gollediote Press Distributors of College Di6esf flKPRKSENTEO FOR NATIONAL ADVCRTISINO BY National Advertising Service, Inc College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. New York. N.Y. Chicago > Boston - San Francisco Los ANOKLES • PORTLAND • SEATTLE STICK TO THEM We have all heard, time and time again, “Keep off the grass,” and “Walk only on the paths,” but few of us heed these remarks. Indeed, most of us keep right on taking short cuts to the Science Building, to the Practice House, etc. We have a sufficient number of Walks on the campus to make it unneces sary for us to get off of them. Of course, there are times when we might be late to lab, and just have to cut across the grass, or sometimes we might be late to meals, and are tempted to run up the bank, outside of Clewell, to get to the dining room sooner. But if everyone did that, how would it look? There would soon be a thousand little paths all over the campus, leading to no place in particular, and marring the beauty of it all. Let’s show enough respect for the beauty of the school to stick to the walks from now on. WANTED Freshmen and new girls, we’re still inviting you to try out for the editorial staf? of the iSalemite. Don’t think that you have to write a thesis or a masterpiece, but just let us read any little original composition that you may have on hand. When you are on the staff you can work in any field that you choose. Maybe you’re a champion hockey player; then help us get an accurate account of the games. Perhaps you like music; then you can report concerts. You may write poetry, collect gossip take chapel notes or submit a feature. We need various types of girls with wide interests to make our school paper versatile and well rounded. Here are a few secrets that will interest you. All staff members this year get lovely Salemite sta tionery free, and we can have a copy of the paper sent to a friend each week. Now there are whispers too, about a party or dinner later this year. If you are a winsome saleslady with an interest in the business side of the paper, your place is on the business staff. You don’t have to write a theme for this. All that you have to do is to tell us that you’re ready to collect ads, and we’ll put you to work. With an enthusiastic group of reporters and the many new ideas which she will obtain at the meeting of the North Carolina Collegiate Press Association this week, our editor will be able to make our fifty-nine year old Salemite instructive and interesting. A peanut stood on a railroad track His heart was all a flutter Th« 3:45 came rumbling by Toot! toot! Peanut butter. Prof: “What part of speech is woman t ’ ’ Smartie: “She’s not a part — she’s all of it.” Live within your means and be happy — if you have to borrow the money to do it on. UNDERGRADUATE FOURTH ESTATE TO MEET Allentown, Pa. (NSFA) — Two- hundred undergraduate delegates representing the thirty-five college papers in the Intercollegiate News paper Association will meet at Muh lenberg on November 13 and 14 at their annual conference. Entertain ment instead of the customary copy will be provided by the Lehigh foot ball game, speeches by nationally THE KAMPUS KAT Sarah Pinkston can't seem to get her Bo’s straight when Billy is around. From the looks of her bat tered face she must have had dif ficulty keeping them in line. Worthy Spence seems to be hav ing double trouble too these days. At least she gets letters post marked Wake Forest in two different hand writings — it looks suspicious. Helen McArthur waited so long on South Hall steps Saturday morn ing that I thought she was stood up but she fooled us. I wonder if Emma Brown haa any other cause for Thanksgiving in Alabama than brotherly love. Why did Mary Thomas leave the dinner table so hurriedly Saturday night? Could she have thought that Carolina Dick was telephoning? Have you gotta be a football hero to suit Lou Preas? I don’t know cause while one love fought on the gridiron at V. P. I. and another did his be.st for South Carolina, Lou trucked down to Duke. Bill is whatta gal. She even keeps her sister’s dates — six hours long er than expected. Of course, it may have been the Georgia Tech defeat that made Pink- ey Wyatt cry crocadile tears at the game last week-end, but the Kampus Kat heard that it was because no Caravan cuties showed up. Forest Mosly was all in a dither this week-end. Her home-town heart throb came — local boy makes good! Dot Burnette went home to tell her Ray-of-Hope that he was still champion. It must be a pretty cute lad who can get Key out of the shower to talk to him over the phone. WHY STUDENTS ATTEND COLLEGE Lincoln, Xeb. — (ACP) — Do you know the predominant reasons that students attend certain universities? Surveys on this subject are always interesting even though they may not always be scientifically accurate. Dr. S. M. Corey, professor of edu cational psychology and measure ments at the University of Nebraska, made an extensive study of this question in so far as his own insti tution wos concerned, and these were the answers, in the order listed: Recommendation of high school teachers and administrators. Proximity of the university to the student’s home. Family influence. Prestige of the institution. Economy. Availability of desire courses. Influence of friends. “Of the seven students who gvae ‘influence of athletics’ as their rea son,” says Dr. Coi;ey, “live rank in the lowest psychological test and none in the highest. ’ ’ ALL IN FUN Collegiate verse— My love have flew Him done me dirt I did not knew Him were a flirt To you unschooled Oh let me bid Do not be fooled As I was did He have came He have went. He have left I all alone. He never come to I I can never went to he It cannot was Now I lay me down to rest Before I take tomorrow’s test If I should die before I wake Thank gosh, 111 have no test to take. AT IPANID'OM XXVI. A secret told Ceases to be a secret then. A secret kept — That can appall but one. Better of it Continual be afraid Than it and whom You told it to, beside. —^Emily Dickinson. XXVII. I’m nobody! Who are you ? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! —Emily Dickinson. THE PHILOSOPHER And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that’s a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man on my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell, — And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well? —Edna St. Vincent Millay. famous pundits, banquets and dances. The conference will be held under the auspices of the Muhlenberg Weekly. ‘TVE GOT THE DULL SUNDAY BLUES” We all agree that Sunday after noons are the longest and emptiest at Salem — (we might even venture to insert the adjective “boring” if no teachers are in sight). Moreover, there are few of us who haven’t seen the signs advising ‘ ‘ Travel with Books ’ ’ and ‘ ‘ The Magic Carpet of Reading. ’ ’ I scoffed, too — as if we didn’t see enough of books six-sev- enths of every week! But recently my sceptical remarks about such advice have changed into stammering approval, stammering as one does when he finds suddenly, that he is in the wrong in regards to a subject about which he has argued dogmatically for months. If, of a Sunday, you wish yourself miles away from college in one aft ernoon you can spend “Six Years in the Malay Jungle” with Carveth Wells. Just try cutting your way clear across the native state of Pe- kang, or acros the Sudan Swamp, out of reach of railroads, roads and clod-storage food, and see if you re turn the same bored person. Or if, perhaps, you feel as dull and gray as the Sunday rain, crawl under a comfort and read the first page of Clarence Day’s “Life With Father,” and before you finish — for you cer tainly will be unable to miss a page —your laughs will have your covers, and you, on the floor. And Clarence Day wil have restored your sense of humor. This sounds like the proverbial Jni dian tonic that will cure everything from headaches to rheumatism; but I guarantee it is an infallible remedy for Sunday blues. AN INTERESTING HOBBY EVOLUTION: Freshman—“I don’t know.” Sophomore—“I’m not prepared” Junior—“I don’t remember” Senior—“I don’t believe I can add anything to what has been said.” An interesting hobby'is collecting book dedications. Glance through your books and see to whom they are dedicated and in what manner. Here are a few chosen at random: “The American Orator,” publish ed in 1811: “To the youth of Amer ica, with a view to their general ex cellence in knowledge, taste, and virture, the following compilation is respectfully inscribed.” “The Book of American Poetry,” edited by Edwin Markham: “Dedicated to the poets of all ages and of all lands. Who heard through the roar of mortal things. The Gods’ immortal whisperings— Saw the world-wonder rise and fall. And knew that Beauty made' it all.” “Letters of John Wesley” edited by George Eayrs: “To the dear and sacred memory of my mother, a mystic and a Meth odist who conquered like Wesley by prayer and holy song.” “Life of Eobert E. Lee,” by Hamilton: “To T. G. De E. H., Jr. and A. T. H., citizens thanks to Lee, Lin coln, and Grant of an undiTided country. ’ ’ “Ehymes,” by James Whitcomb Eiley: “With hale affection and abiding faith these rhymes and picture are inscribed to the children every where. ’i’ “The Weavers,” by Gilbert Park er: “Beautiful and Beloved, this to you. ’ ’ Laugh and the world laughs with you; Cry and you streak your rouge.