SALEM COLUEGE LIBRARY
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938.
Number 10.
BOOK WEEK CELEBRATED
AT SALEH
Chapel Programs and Radio
Prograiin Sponsored By
Students
This past week has been observed
in schools and colleges all over the
United States as “National Book
Week.” Its purpose has been to
inspire the reading of new books, to
familiarize the students and the pub-
lio with the newest and best litera
ture, and to show ways in which
roadinjr is made enjoyable. The stu
dents at Halem have ,co-operated en
thusiastically during the entire week
and have done interesting, enter
taining, and highly commendable
work.
CHAPEL PROaRAMS
This week’s chapel programs have
been centered around Book Week
themes.
Tuesday morning tlie class in Chil
dren’s Ijiterature of the Education
Department presented a mock school
scene. Mary Turner Willis, who
played the role of teacher, gave a
brief history of Book W^eek and its
purposes and pointed out in the pro
gram a number of intere-sting facts
about children’s books. Peggy Bowen,
alias Percival, played the part of the
conventional “sissy,” and Mary
Venable Rogers retold Ellis Oredles’
story “Down, Down the Mountain.”
Another interesting feature of this
program was Prance.s Watlington’s
presentation of the song “Ferdi
nand,” an adaptation of Munroe
l^eaf’s story of the bull who could
tango but not light.
Mary Turner Willis was again the
speaker in cliapel during the past
w'eek, when she talked on Padraic
('olum in conectioii with rdum’s
Iccture Thursday I'vcniiig.
RADIO PROGRAMS
In addition to the on-campus ac
tivities the Children’s Literature
class has also presented several ra
dio programs over station W’SJS.
W'ednesday evening at 0:15 the class
gave an original radio skit entitled
“Snow White’s Party” The play
was written by Mary Lee Salley and
Mary Venable Rogers, and the parts
were taken by members of the chil
dren’s literature class.
Thursday evening Mary Turner
Willis gave a radio reading of chil
dren’s stories chosen from modern
story books. The final broad ca^^t is
scheduled for Friday night, at which
time Frances Angelo will speak con
cerning the selection of children’s
lK)0k8.
BOOK WEEK PROGRAM
The Children's Literature class presented a mock school scene in chapel last Tuesday morning. Those in
th(! program and jnctured above are: front row loft to right, Prances Huggins, Louisa Sloan, Mary Lee
Snile.v, Mary Vennhle Rogers; second row, Angela St.ver.s, Kathryn Troxler, Mary Turner Willis, Peggy
Kowcn, Frances Kluttz, Mary’,Io Pearson; third row, Frances -Vngelo, Helen Lineback, Elizabeth Carter;
fourth row, Tootie Powell, Frances Turnage, and Katherine Kellaniy.— Photo Courtesy of .Journal-Sentinel.
NEW BOOKS FOR COL
LEGE GIRLS DISCUSSED
Miss Annie Lee Singletary
Speaks At Expanded
Chapel
TRUSTEES OF SALEM
COLLEGE AND ACAD
EMY ELECTED
Election Held at the Closing
Session of the Triennial
' Synod of the Moravian
Church
Trustees of Salem College and
Academy were elected Wednesday at
the closing session of the Triennial
Synod of the Moravian Church in
America.
New members of the board of trus
tees elected were Mrs, Richard P.
Willingham, Ralph B. Ogburn,
Charles N. Siewers, Ralph E. Spaugh
and \Villia,m J. Shaffner.
Those elected to a second term
were C. S. Starbuck, Archibald Dav
is, the Rev. Douglas L. Rights, the
Rev. Walser H. Allen and Emil N.
Shaffner.
Re-elected to a third and final term
were Dr. Fred Leinbach, T. Holt
HaywJ'd, Mrs. C. T. Leinbach, Mrs.
Jame.s }. Oray, and .lunius B. Goslen.
In con.junction with the National
Book Week program, Miss Annie
Lee Singletary, English instructor at
•John W. Hanes High School, spoke
on “New Books for College Girls,”
in expanded chapel, Wednesday, No
vember 16.
Miss Singletary explained that she
did not set herself up as a critic but
was merely giving her personal opin
ion of modern fiction. ‘ ‘ 1 am not
taking as modern just those books
published within the last week or last
month, but those which I think will
outlast their contemporaries.”
Reading at the present day she
compared to an automobile journey,
“There are three major classifica
tions for literature: Stop, caution,
and go,” -she said.
“In the ‘stop’ classification I
should place those books which are
shallow and sophisticated. These
contain untrue, shallow, or no ideas
at all and no self-respecting college
woman should read them,” said the
speaker. In this category she placed
such writers as Faith Baldwin and
Ur.sula Parrott -whose works apj>eal
only to those who are in a hurry.
In the ‘caution’ group she listed
those which should be read but care
fully considered afterward. This
type of book is controversial. Miss
Singletary expressed the belief that
a great majority of books out of
Europe today are definitely propa
ganda. Several of these ‘caution’
books which she cited as examples
are Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Hap
pen Here,” “The Citadel,” by A.
J. Cronin, and Walt Duranty’s “I
Write As I Please.” “The fadists
come under this heading also. These
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EARLY RESETS OF
LIBRARY QUESTION
NAIRE ANNOUNCED
Fiction and Magazines Are
Most Popular Among
Salem Students
In advancing the theme of Book
Week, “New Books — New Worlds,”
several attractive displays have been
arranged in the Salem College Li
brary. On the first floor is an ex
hibit entitled “Books That Have
Shaped the World Since 1885.” A
group of twenty-five most influential
books published since 1885 chosen by
John Dewey, teacher and educator,
is arranged around a lighted globe
of the world. On the second floor of
the library is a display of entertain
ing and attractive children’s books.
The Salem College Library possess
es approximately 17,000 books, and
»f these fully one thousand have been
added since the new library was
opened the first of last February.
Many of them are the gifts of alum
nae, college organizations, college
friends, and even passing visitors.
However, Miss Siewer.s, head librar
ian, says that she is more interested
in the quality of the books added to
the library, than in the actual quant
ity. The selection of books is far
more important in tfie development
of a library than the number of
books.
The approximate average of li
brary attendance is one hundred and
tw’enty persons per day. Among
these people are circulated daily an
average ofi orty-three books, not in
cluding reserve books.
In connection with Book Week the
library is distributing questionnaires
among the students and facultj'. The
results of the poll up-to-date show
that as popular reading material fic-
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DR. WEST READS “ON
BORROWED TIME”
Director of Duke Players
Visits Salem
In connection with the celebration
of Book Week Dr. A. T. West, di
rector of Duke Players of Duke Uni
versity, gave a sjiecial reading of the
recent Broadway success “On Bor
rowed Time,” by Lawrence Edward
Watkins in the reading room of the
college library.
In his introduction to the play.
Dr. West said that death had always
been a most jwpniar subject for the
theater, and mentioned “Death
Takes a Holiday” and Eugene
O’Neill’s “Lazarus Laughs” as ex
amples of plays on this subject. “On
Borrowed Time,” a fantasy in two
acts, presents death humorously and
attractively.
The play depicts the love and fel
lowship between the old grandfather,
Gramps Northrup, a kindly, earthy
man, and his young orphaned grand
son, Pud. The two are kindred souls.
When death api>ears as Mr. Brink,
Gramps .succeeds in outwitting him
for a time by keeping him up an
apple tree in the yard. As long as
Mr. Brink is in the tree no one can
die, and Gramps intends to keep Mr.
Brink in his spell until Pud becomes
of age, so that the boy will not be
brought up by his prudish and grasp
ing Aunt Demetria. Only after a
painful and crippling accident to
Pud, does Gramps permit Mr. Brink
to come out of the tree and take
them both.
Dr. West read the play so delight
fully that the fascinated audience,
which filled the reading room of the
library to capacity, was moved many
times from laughter to tears, an evi
dence of his wonderful ability.
NOTED IRISH POET
VISITS SALEM
Padraic Colum Gives Sec
ond CoUege Lecture
Contemporary j>oetry was the' sub
ject of Padraic Colum, famous Irish
l>oet, dramatist, novelist, and essay
ist, who spoke at Salem 'I'hursda.y
evening as the second lecturer in
the College Lecture Series.
Preceding his lecture Mr. Colum
■spent the day at Salem. He was en
tertained at lunch hy the Children’s
Literature Class of the Education
Department, was taken for a drive
over tlie city and shown points of
interest, and upon his return to the
college was shown the historic c:un-
pus and the restored buildings of
Salem. Dr. and Mrs. Ilondthaler
along with a group of faculty mem
bers were hosts to Mr. Colum at din
ner preceding the poet’s lecture.
In his lecture Mr. Colum empha
sized the unending labor of the artist
and poet, who must keep an exti'a
ordinary freshness of mind and heart
in order to present the commonplace
as if it were being discovereil for
the first time.
“The poet,” said Mr. Colum, “is
a man w'ho thinks in rhythm. ’ ’ The
])ast penetrates deep into the layers
if our consciousness, past the mere-
y intellectual.
In speaking of contemporary poet,
ry, Mr. Colum bemoaned the fact
that, in a literal sense of the word,
there is no real contemporary jwetry
today — no j>oetry contemporar.y
with our thoughts. This, gjiid Mr.
Colum, is a great loss to us.
There are a number of individual,
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SENIOR CLASS TO SPON
SOR COLORED HELP
SHOW
Features of the Program
Kept a Secret
It’s here again! Yes, indeed, it’s
really here again! Several years have
passed since the last one, .but once
more Salem is to have that treat of
treats — the Colored Help Show.
The upper classmen know what en
tertainment is in store for them next
Tuesday night, November 22, in the
Old Chapel, but the l*>eshmen have
a plea.sant surpri.se awaiting them.
Sj)onsored by the Senior Class, the
colored help on Salem’s campus have
planned a varied entertainment pro
gram for the students. The Sen-
ors, who remember a similar program
presented a few years ago, are anx
ious for the underclassmen to enjoy
the entertainment Tuesday night
and to sec the talent which Salem
colored help have. The numerous
features of the program have not
been announced, because what is to
happen is to be. a secret until the
last moment.
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SPRUILL THORNTON
SPEAKS TO HISTORY
CLUB ON TUESDAY
Spruill Thornton, recently clected
representative from Forsyth County
to the house of representatives,
talked to the History Club Tuesday
evening on “The Ins and Outs of
I>egi.slative Procedure in North Caro
lina.” After tracing the proceeding
in the passage of a legislative hill
and mentioning possible bills that
would come up in the next legisla
ture, Mr. Thornton talked on the in
teresting personalities of the 1938
ses.sion. Preceding the meeting, Mr.
Thornton, Mr. Holder and Mr. Mc-
Ewen had dinner in the dining room
with members of the History Club.