The Salemite
Z 541
VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, FRIDAY. MARCH 17. 1939.
Number 20.
Dean House
Speaks at Salem
Abandon Boredom, Fear,
and Ejnbarassment To
Have a Good Time
Eobert B. House, dean of adminis
tration of the University of North
Carolina, spoke to the student bodies
of Salem College and Academy
Wednesday morninjg, March 15, in
Memorial Hall at expanded chapel.
His topic was “How To Have a
Good Time.”
To begin his talk, the speaker said
he would play a little music to be
followed by a few notes. On an
harmonica he played “Oh, Susan
na,” “Golden Slippers,” and “Jack
son’s Retreat.”
“Now,” asked Mr. House, “who
enjoyed that music most? I did be
cause I was doing it!” He be
moaned the fact that Americans can
enjoy themselves only by being en
tertained. The major difference be
tween being entertained and enjoy
ing one’s self is that the first is pas
sive; the other, active,” he said.
“Nine-tenths of the folks who get
into trouble today get there by
wanting a good time and not know
ing where to find it,” he declared.
Mr. House explained that different
amusements appeal to difterent per
sonalities. “Playing the mouth
harp,” he said, “was the hobby that
I found. But there are millions of
others equally delightful.”
As another hobby besides music he
suggested reading for fun. He ad
ded that at the University he read
some each day refusing to sit
beside a river of knowledge dying
of thirst.
‘ ‘ Flower gardens can afford some
people a good time, he went on.
“Some hobby, however, is an abso
lute requisite; for a bored mind can’t
learn anything and a bored mind
can’t teach anything,” he declared,
“and boredom is a fear of having a
good time. ’ ’
Mr. House said that the trouble
with Americans is that they don’t
know what to do with their leisure
time, for which they work like mad.
“Trouble comes in every generation
and this is our trouble. Abandon
fear, embarassment, and boredom
and you’ll have a good time.”
Latin Club Has
Annual Dinner
Ten Students Initiated Into
Alpha Iota Pi
At a formal dinner Friday eve
ning, the Alpha Iota Pi (for non-
Latin students, the Latin Club), ini
tiated ten new members into its se
cret order. At this solemn occasion,
Virginia Bratton, presiding officer
of the order, acted as toastmistress.
Thirty-two members of the club were
present at eight tables, decorated
with St. Patrick’s Day as a theme.
(Incidentaly St. Patrick was quite a
Latin scholar). All the program was
in keeping with the seriousness of
the occasion as one may easily see
by a copy of it:
Welcome Virginia Bratton
Contest ....... Presented by Dr. Smith
‘ ‘ Moliem Opus ’ ’
Poem recited by initiatees
“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
(In Latin) Three Initiatees
“The Roman of Old”
New Members (to be)
“A Tisket a Tasket”
(Meherele, Mehercle!”)
Song by Gerry Baynes
“Puer ex Jersey”
(“A Boy from Jersey”)
Recitation by Lena Morris
The most important part of the
meeting folowed the dinner when
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Rubenstein To
Present Final Civic
Music Concert
COURTESY JOURNAL*8ENTINEL
SARA HARRISON
Sara Harrison
Elected Editor
Of Salemite
Will Begin Editorship
May First
Sara Harrison of Charlotte was
elected editor-in-chief of the Sale
mite in the third of the series of
spring elections for the eight major
campus officers.
Sara, who is a junior, is working
toward the degree of bachelor of arts
with majors in English and Spanish.
During her three years at Salem
she has been active in campus af
fairs.
In her freshman and sophomore
years she was on the Salemite staff
and this year was junior editor. Sh”
was a member of the freshman dra
matic group and later was initiated
into the Pierrette group. She has
played hockey and basketball on her
class teams, and has also been an
active member of the Mathematics,
German, and Psycliology clubs all
three years.
Sara will take over the editorship
of the paper in May, succeeding
Helen McArthur.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Each week a Junior member of
the Staff will edit the Salemite.
This week’s editor is Sarah Bur
rell.
Noted Pianist Will Play
Next Monday
Artur Rubinstein, eminent Polish
pianist, will appear at Reynolds’
Auditorium, Monday evening, March
20, in the final Civio Music Concert
this season.
A native of Lodz, Poland, Rubin
stein made his first appearance there
at the age of four. At eleven he
made his Berlin debut followd by a
tour of Russia with Serge Kousse-
vitsky. lie made his first American
appearance with the Philadelphia Or
chestra at the age of sixteen. He
lias toured all the major cities of
Europe, Asia, Australia, North and
South America, Central America, and
Africa, thus earning a permanent po-
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COURTESY JOURNAL-SENTINEL
IDA LAMBETH JENNINGS
COURTESY JOURNAU'SENTINEL
MISS TURLINGTON
Miss Turlington
Will Speak In Raleigh
Miss Sara Turlington, dean of non
resident students and assistant dean
of resident students at Salem, will
speak to the dean’s division of the
North Carolina Education Associa
tion m Raleigh this week. She will
appear on the Friday morning pro
gram. The subject of her talk is
“How Can We Make Day Students
Feel They Are An Integral Part of
the College?”
Salem will have two other dele-
Editor of Sights
and Insights Elected
Ida Lambeth Jennings Wins
Over Eve Tomlinson
As a result of the recent campus
election Ida Lambeth Jennings will
succeed Ann Whaling as editor-in-
chief of the college annual “Sights
and Insights ’ ’ during the year 1939-
40. She will select her staff for next
year at a later date.
Coming to Salem her sophomore
year as a transfer from St. Mary’s,
Ida Lambeth quickly entered into
campus activities. She has been an
honor student every semester since
she entered Salem.
This year Ida Lambet], was asso
ciate editor of the annual, and also
has been a member of the Mathe
matics and History Clubs.
She was elected by the incoming
senior class, and won the vote over
Eve Tomlinson.
Davidson Boys
Present Plays
Invited To Salem By
French' Club
gates in attendance upon the educa
tion convention, Mr. Noble McEwen,
and Mr. Henry Grady Owens, both
members of the education depart
ment.
Miss Turlington is a graduate of
Salem College, received her M. A.
at the University of North Carolina,
and did professional studies at Co
lumbia University.
Dr. Willoughby Writes For The Salemite
On The Slopes Of Parnassus
Upon the invitation of Dr. Wen
hold, the Davidson College French.
Club presented three one-act plays
Tuesday night in the Old Chapel.
The Davidson club, Le Cercle Fran-
cais, was sponsored by the Salem Le
Cercle Francais and the Freshman
French Club.
The boys, arrived on the campus
about 5:30 Tuesday afternoon, and
were invited into the dining rooms
for dinner, with Senior French ma
jors as hostesses at tables.
The Davidson group consisted of
twenty actors and a crew of five
make-up and property men. Mem
bers of the Salem club also assisted
back stage during the presentations.
The program presented that night
onsisted of “Une Partie de Bridge,”
by Tristan Rernard; “Une Terrible
Affaire,’^ by Louis Artus; and
‘ ‘ L ’Anglais tel gen ’ on le parle, ’ ’ by
Tristan Bernard. After the perform
ance the guests were entertained in
the living room of Louisa Bitting
Building.
Le Cercle Francais is an active
student organization made up of
French majors and minors, and
sophomore French students averag
ing a B last semester. Tlie club has
been dormant for two years, but was
revived this year, with Martha Mc
Nair, president; Mary Davenport,
vice-president; Jane Davis, Secre
tary; and Alice Horsefield, treasurer.
The line was formed for return to
the school-room after recess, but was
held for the stroke of the bell before
advancing decorously into the build
ing. Wriggling about, as is charac
teristic of the rather unstable age of
eleven, I trod upon a little boy’s toe,
quite unaware that that toe was
upon the slopes of Parnassus.
“Oh! Excuse me, Jimmy. Did I
hurt you much?” ,
“Not at all,” lied the urbane
Jimmy, like the young scholar and
gentleman that he was.
Now, not only did I not know that
Jimmy was a poet, I did not even
know that I was a professor of Eng
lish, and Jimmy had absolutely no
lure for me at all. Mac Stringer,
who could make the most amusing
faces, and Gus Kennedy who had
an unlimited supply of exciting fic
tion which could be devoured be
hind a geography seemed much more
glamorous males than the staid
Jimmy, always solemly polite and
doing exactly as he should.
Alas I What a lost opportunity!
Only when I saw the name of James
Oppenheim appearing in anthologies
of American poetry designed for col
lege courses did I realize what a
scoop I missed!
But that isn’t the worst.
The next time I unwittingly bor
dered Parnassus was when I was a
sophomore in college — a shv nad
awkward sophomore, not at all like
the woman-of-the-world type which
one encounters now. It was at a
party at the home of Dr. Melville
Anderson at Stanford. His very
charming nephew was present, and
for a few moments young Mr. An
derson tried to draw me into conver
sation. He spoke of the candlelight
with which Mrs. Anderson had il-
luminated the house. He said it was
poetic and that women seemed more
beautiful in its glow. I hoped he
was right, but I didn’t know the
answer to remarks of that sort, so
the conversation didn’t progress very
well. Somebody must have rescued
me soon, for I remember no more
about it.
If I had known on that night that
he would write “Winterset” and
“High Tor,” and that year after
year I should follow his career and
make comments about him to gener
ations of college students, he would
not have escaped so easily. I should
have found out what books he read
and what he liked for breakfast, and
his pet hates, and what his ambitions
were, and practically every thing
else about him.
But — did he know himself that
he was about to scale Parnassus?
At the same time I knew several
boys and girls who thought they
were poets who have since proved to
be competent or incompetent in oth
er fields, but who no longer have
even a yearning to write. And I
know one who anticipated going
into the hardware business who now
writes short-stories. Therefore it
is quite possible that Mr. Anderson
no more knew that he would write
plays than I knew that I should
lecture upon them.
It is not alone the inscrutable fu
ture which tricks us, but the inscru
table present as well I
We may be lightly treading the
slopes of Parnassus — or we may be
strolling down Main Street. Who
can say? —Pearl V. Willoughby.
Practice Teachers
Entertain
Supervisors
Dinner Held In Old CKapel
Wednesday Evening
Salem College students who are
doing directed teaching in the city
schools entertained their supervisor
teachers and administrators at a
dinner, Wednesday evening at six
o’clock in the Old Chapel.
The theme of March was used in
the decorations, and bright spring
flowers and yellow candles were on
the individual tables with covers
laid for six. Miniature lambs and
lions to herald March in and out
were placed an the tables and the
place cards represented gusts of
March wind. Gay kites were hung
on the walls, and on the stage were
two mannequin children flying a
kite.
Mary Turner Willis was toastmis
tress, After welcoming the guests-
she introduced Frances Watlington
who sang two original compositions
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Rev. William Elliot
to be on Campus
Next Week
The Reverend William Elliot, D.D.,
pastor of Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church of Atlanta, Georgia, will be
on Salem Campus next week, and will
speak in chapel each morning from.
March 20i to 24.
Rev. Elliot, son of a minister, is
from Colorado, Texas. He gradu
ated from Park College, in Missouri,
from Louisville Presbyterian Sem-
inary, and did graduate work in Ed
inburgh, Scotland. He was pastor of
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church in Knoxville before going to
Atlanta.