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VOL. XXI.
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1940.
Number 4.
POLITICS REARS HEAD
On Wednesday morning at ex
panded chapel the class of Ameri
can Government gave a debate;
Roosevelt versus Willkie. Virginia
McNeny, Dorothy Mullen, Euth
Thomas Tvere for the re-election of
President Roosevelt; Sallie Emer
son, Frankie Tyson, byell Glenn,
were for Willkie.
Virginia McNeny, the first speak
er for Roosevelt, outlined the de
bate: First, a review of what
Roosevelt has done in past seven
years and proof that the NcrW Deal
is best; second, purpose of foreign
policy; third, proof that Roosevelt
should run third term. The program
of the nation) according to the
New Deal for past seven years has
been: (1) Farm preservation (2)
Repaired loss of national resources
(3) Labor (4) Business reconstruc
tion (5) Bank (6) Trade (7) In
come increased (8) Unemployment
reduced (9) Security (10) Housing.
Mistakes have been made to bo
sure, but they were made in the
procedure not in the purpose. The
New Deal is not facism because it
sprang from masses of people and
it is not communinism because it
is not a collective organization.
The government has been restored
to the people and democracy and
peace have been preserved in
America.
Dorothy Mullen gave the purpose
of foreign policy. For no reason
will America take any part in war
unless America is attacked. Mr.
Roosevelt has built national de
fense: (1) Internal moral (2) Di
plomatic front (3) Defense in air
(4) Defense in land (5) Defense
on sea (fi) New naval bases (7)
Industrial defense.
The first speaker for Mr. Will-
ki« was iSallie Emerson, who gave
a short sketch of Willkie the man.
Born in Elwood, Indiana, Mr. Will
kie is a self-made man. He has
been steelworker, farmer, ranch-
hand, teacher, salesman, lawyer,
and corporation secretary. He is a
typical westerner, an overgrown,
excited boy, always sure to act like
himself. A shrewd debater and
quick-thinker, he is a new man in
history because he has never be
fore held public office. He admits
he wants the job and he wants to
do something about the situation
in America.
The sccond speaker for Mr. Will
kie was Frankie Tyson, who pre-
.sented Mr. Willkie’s platform. The
first point was that if Roosevelt is
elected the third time, the next
step is dictatorship. The second
board of the platform is economic
policy. Willkie will keep govern
ment relief by expansion of private
industries. He says that profiteer
ing is no disgrace.
The last speaker for Mr. Roose
velt was Ruth Thomas. She com
pared the experience and ability of
both candidates. America needed a
foresigh'ted statesman because it
would take too long to train a man
for the position. Mr. Roosevelt has
the best education for the office:
he has served a term as state sen
ator, a term as assistant secretary
of navy, two terms as governor of
state. His career has prepared him
well for thei office. Mr. Willkie has
side-stepped many vital issues; he
had to retract several statements
which he made on his western tour.
Mr. Willkie said that his western
trip was a trial and error trip, but
said Miss Thomas, America has no
time for a trial and error govern
ment. Up to this time Mr. Willkie
has held no public office. If we are
to judge his ability we must look
at his administration of Common
wealth and Southern Corporation
which was a gross-mismanaged fi
nancial effort. If Mr. Willkie wins,
the concentration of power will bo
in the hands of a few. “Let us let
Mr. Roosevelt’s thirty years’ abili
ty lead us through this crisis.”
Lyell Glenn, the last speaker for
Mr. Willkie, presented a th(^rough
chastisement of Mr. Roosevelt’s
New Deal. Supposing Mr. Roosevelt
is re-elected: (1) Candidates may
run as many times as they like
(2) Federal deficit will increase
(3) Spirit and letter of Constitu
tion be ignored (4) President may
appoint five new Justices and the
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
(5) People will continue to be un
employed. With the re-election of
Mr. Roosevelt the budget will be
come hopeless, the government will
become more in debt. Mr. Willkie
must be elected to save big busi
ness, industry and the unemploy
ment situations.
Time was called before time for
the rebuttal by each team. A cam
pus ballot, however, will be held
soon in the future to determine the
opinion held by the majority of
Salem girls. Plans for this ballot
will be announced at a later date.
The debate was repeated today
at noon to the local Civitan Club.
SOUTH HALL
IS SCENE OF
FRIDAY’S TEA
On Friday afternoon from 4 ’til
4:30 the parents of the freshmen
day students were guests at a tea
held in South Hall. To acquaint
the parents with the freshmen
teachers was the main purpose of
the occasion.
Guests were greeted in South
Hall by the receiving line which
was composed of the following:
Miss Sarah Turlington, dean of off
campus students; Dr. Minnie Smith,
freshman advisor; Miss Annette
McNeely, assistant registrar; Miss
Patty McNeely, vice-president of
the student body; Sue Forrest, off-
campus vice-president; and Mrs.
Brandt Snavely.
Refreshments were served in the
social room. Those who helped with
serving were Madeleine Hayes,
Phyllis Gosselin, Eleanor Glenn,
Mary Lou Brown, Ruth O’Neal,
Betty Sprunt, Martha Stonestreet
Martha Louise Merritt, E 1 o i s e
Rhoades, and Rosa Leo Kirby.
Members of the Day Student House
Committee also helped with ar
rangements, and issued the invita
tions. Mrs. Howard Rondthaler was
present to assist with the affair.
Music was furnished by Becky
Nifong and Peggy Eaton, vocalists.
Lib Johnston accompanied them at
the piano. Responsible for decora
tions were Nancy McClung, E. Sue
Cox, and Inez Parrish.
UNDSET TO SPEAK
MME. SIOBID TODSET
ALUMNA GIVES TABLE
TO LIBRARY
In front of the main desk in the
library stands a new consultation
table, long needed to facilitate the
use of the catalog. Miss Penelope
Griffis, the donor, has given it in
memory c?f her father, John Carrol
Griffis (1844-1924).
It was Mr. Griffis who, when his
daughter was a rising senior at Sal
em Female Academy, established the
“Griffis Library Fund” — the first
contribution of its kind at Salem
for a libzrary.
In 1940 Nellie Griffis returned to
Salem for the first time since her
graduation fifty years ago. Upon
seeing the new library building and
the improvements that had been
made, she left a check for $100 for
new equijMnent, in order to keep
up the precedent established by her
father 40 years ago.
With the additic*! of a new con
sultation table, the library has ad
vanced one more step, and Miss
Griffis has kept up the tradition of
the “Griffis Library I’und.” '
CRAVEN’S TO GIVE
PRIZE FOR ADS.
Craven’s Store, feeling a need
for new blood in its advertising
circle, is sponsoring an ad-writing
contest for all girls on tho Salem
ite staff—business or editorial. The
ad must concern merchandise from
Craven’s and must bq 18 column
inches or larger in size. Space and
place is to be specified and ail ads
are the property of Craven’s after
they are turned in.
All entries must be in by Wed
nesday, October 16, and the win
ning ad will appear in the October
18 edition of the Salcmite.
First prize will be $.'5.00 in cash;
second prize will bt $3.00 in mer
chandise.
HOME CHURCH
ENTERTAINS
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the
Home Moravian Church honored
the students of Salem College and
of Salem Academy who are asso
ciate members of the church with
a banquet Thursday, October 10.
The'' dinner was served at 6:30 in
the Rondthaler Memorial Hall.
The Young People’s Department
acted as a host to the students and
assisted in arranging the program
and decorations. The speaker of the
program was A. K. Davis, who
gave a short welcoming talk. Mar
tha H i n e presented a monologue,
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jensen
entertained the group with songs.
Reverend Gorden Spaugh closed the
program with the benediction.
Miss Ca»rl6 Donnell, a junior at
Salem, presided over the meeting
as president of the Young People’s
Department.
PROGRAM NOTES
BY A
CHAPEL 6UEST
The Dramatis Personae of the
Salem Troupe of Trained Debaters
is as follows:
VIRGINIA McNINY, the Plan
tation Lady incarnate, in her per
formance establishes the fact that
there is a definite place for the
Southern graces other than fanning
a magnolia branch. All that gentle
ness can be converted to a plat
form manner well suited for con
vincing audiences that “the Roose
velt Administration is one of the
best things that ever happened to
America. ’ ’ Keeping in character,
she goes in heavily for agricultural
reform, glosses over business, con-
sistantly the landed lady.
Her parting shot “Roosevelt has
made mistakes in procedure but
not in purpose” bears the hall
mark of her trainer.
DOROTHY MULLAN, very arch
in a “kiss the boys good-bye”
manner, lets you know that neither
Willkie nor the Constitution can
send one boy into war without the
word of Congress.
SALLY EMERSON, breezy and
bouncy and in good time-style, in
troduces her Republican candidate
—a big, shaggy loosely built man
who by his sheer ability, spunk and
bootstraps has made of himself a
Business Man. This bit you can be
sure represents independent re
search, absolutely without benefit
of pedalogical aid.
She points with pride that Will
kie's power rates were the lowest
in the land. At this point, tho au
dience is warned to look out for a
voice murmuring, ‘ ‘ Ought a be
what with T. V. A. competition.”
It will be the voice of the trainer.
FRANKIE TYSON, The Dixie
Willkie rebel from Georgetown, S.
C., with a lot of dash and a big
voice, is the true daughter of Cal
houn. She adroitly manipulates his
rallyng-cry for Southern seccession.
“We must preserve our way of
life ” by substituting agrarian cul
ture for the cult (ure) of Wall St.
RUTH THOMAS, by her perform
ance in the debate has definitely
established her career as the only
possible Farley Successor. Her ar
guments on why we need a third
term would shame a Rascob.
■ She works on the theory that the
.speaker who gets the laughs gets
the votes. “We have no time to
tutor a President — and Roosevelt
has had 8,339 days in public serv
ice,” she cracks; and again, “On
ly a few men could do Roosevelt’s
job—and they are dead.”
LYELL GLENN, d«tached and
calm, leads off with a “Brutus was
an honorable man” attitude to
ward Thoma.s’ “clever and elegant
entertainment.” But she too comes
across with a good political punch.-
“It’s true there’s no talk of bal
ancing the budget. There’s no need.
It’s hopeless.”
MADELEINE HAYES, the ob
jective, the .scientific-approach gal,
is master of ceremonies. Acting as
an intellectual lackey, she aided
both teams in their preparations.'
LECTURE TUESDAY
First on the Salem College Lec
ture Series calendar is the third
woman to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature, Sigrid Undset, who is
to speak Tuesday night, October
15 in Memorial Hall at 8:30. This.
Norwegian novelist’s fame is se
cure not only as a great writer buti
as a patriot and human being.
Froken Undset was born in Kal-
lundborg, Denmark, May 20, 1882.
Her father was Ingvold Undset a;
prominent Norwegian archalogist
and author. When Froken Undset
was still a child she was taken ta
Oslo, her father taught iji the Uni
versity and she went to private
school. Her summer holidays were
spent in tho country or with her
mother’s family at Kallundborg. It
was from pouring over old booka
of history, archaeology, and religion
that she developed her profound
taste and knowledge for sagaa and
the ancient traditions of her Vik
ing ancestors. Her father’s death
when she was eleven did not pre
vent her from attending Christiana
Commercial College from which she
was graduated at the age of sLx-
teen. Without private resources she
was forced to take a position in
the office of a lawyer who had
been a friend of her father. For
ten years she supported herself do
ing secretarial work although she
dreamed of a literary career.
The first novel, Fni Marta OuUe,
was written entirely in secret. Thi.s
story of an unhappy marriage met
with mild approval. She made sev
eral other attempts— Den Lykkel-
ige Adder, Viger Ljot, Vigades, and
a collection of short stories, but
she definitely “arrived” with the
publication of Jionny in 1911. Short
ly afterwards Sigrid Undset mar
ried the well known Norwegian
painter, Anders Avarstad. In the
spring of 1914 after ten years of
realistic writing she translated
Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. She was
the first to apply the technique of
modern psychological and realistic
novel to a vanished epoch. Her
medieval trilogy, Kristen Lavran-
datter, perhaps brings the greatest
right to fame. It is the story of
Kristen from birth until death—a
glorification of the Catholic Church
of medieval times.
After the amicable annulment of
her marriage in 1925, and until
1940 with tho invasion of the Nazis,
Froken Undset live,d with her four'
children at Lillehammer, an artis
tic resort on the shores of a lake
near the Hammer Cathedral which
she helped to restore.
Her eldest son was killed defend
ing his country again.st tho Nazisi
who ruined Lillehammer. In spite
of Mme. Undset’s belief that a wo
man’s plac,e is in tho home she dar
ed to raise her voice in protest
against the Nazis, to exhort her
countrymen to fight for their liber
ties. She served in censorship and
organization for the government.
Although her country was defeat
ed neither her fame nor her cour
age has been destroyed.
Liko Chaucer she receals in her
writing the fundamental universal
humanity of her men and women,
no matter in what atmo.sphere thtyy
are found.
MISS READ RECEIVES
VALUABLE LIBRARY
Mi.ss Hazel Horton Read recent
ly received a valuable library of
orchestral and chamber music left
to her by the late Miss Lillian
Shattuck, celebrated violin teacher
of Boston. Sho died in June at tho
age of 83. A pupil of Miss Shat
tuck’s for seven years. Miss Bead
is one of several persons whoso
work .“fhe chose to recognize in tho
division of her library. Miss Read’s
gift Is valued at several thousand
dollars and includes works that
range from the early classics to
more modern compositions.