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THE SALEMITE
Friday, January 16, 1942.
Published Weekly By
The Student Body of
Salem College
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor-In-Chief Carrie Donnell
/Associate Editor Barbara Whittier
EDITORIAL STAFF
Ne^s Editor Doris Shore
Sports Editor Louise Bralower
Music Editor Alice Purcell
Faculty Adviser Miss Jess Byrd
Sara Henry, Leila Johnston, Julia Smith, Frances Neal.
Daphne Reich. Katie Wolff. Mary L. Glidewell, Elizabeth
lohnston, Barbara Lasley, Margaret Moran, Marie Van Hoy,
Helen Fokaury, Margaret Leinbach, Mary Lou Moore, Betty
Vanderbilt, Marv Worth Walker, Elizabeth Weldon, Mary
Louise Rhodes, Lucie Hodges, Frances Yelverton.
FEATURE STAFF
Feature Editor -V--- Eugenia Baynes
Mildred Avera, Dorothy Dixon, Anita Kenyon, Nancy
Rogers. Nona Lee Cole, Elsie Newman, Ceil Nuchols, Mar
paret Rav. Dorothy Stadler, Elizabeth GrlfTin, Betsy Spach,
Kathryn Traynham, Reece Thomas, Marion Goldberg, Mary
Best.
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT,
Business Manager Nancy Chesson
Assistant Business Manager Dorothy Sisk
Advertising Manager Mary Margaret Struven
Exchange and Circulation Manager Dot McLean
ADVERTISING STAFF
Flora Avera, Becky Candler, Doris Nebel, Betty Moore,
Adele Chase, Mary E. Bray, Nancy McClung, Serah Llndley,
Allene Seville, Elizabeth. Griffin, Margaret Kempton. Sara
Barnum, Jennie Dye Bunch, Lib Read, Harriet Suttcm, Ruth
O’Neal, Yvonne Phelps, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Edith Shapiro.
GET PLENTY
OF SLEEP . .
One of the best guarantees for a passing
grade, resulting from a clear head is sleep —
plenty of sleep before an exam. After experience
with several sets of exams, it is quite possible
to budget time in order that “the night before”
not be entirely devoted to last minute “cram
ming.”
Lack of sleep causes a variety of ailments,
namely: shattered nerves, bad dispositions, and
a definite inability to do justice to your thinking
in those blue books.
The value of rest may not be over-estimated
at any time and especially now should it receive
proper emphasis. Why not take advantage of
reading day by ■catching up on your sleep?
—C. D.
REJUVENATE BY
RECREATION
During exams tlie gym will be open from
32:00 — 1:00 in the morning and 5:00 — 6:00
ill the afternoon for l)adminton, basketball, and
folk-dancing, liecreation is as important during
exams as getting plenty of rest. So — let’s go
({own to Ihe gym and rejuvenate our minds
til rolls’ll recreation.
—0. D.
EDUCATION
No doubt you have all personally consid
ered, no doubt you have all personally experi
enced,' that of all the blessings which it has
pleased Providence to allow us to cultivate,
there is not one which breathes a purer frag
rance Of bears a heavenliei' aspect than educa
tion. It is a companion which no misfortunes
can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alien
ate, no despotism enslave: At home a friend,
abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in
society an ornament: it chastens vice, it guides
virtue, it gives at once a grace and government
to genius. Without it, what is man? A splen
did slave! a reasoning savage, vacillating be
tween the dignity of an intelligence derived
from God and the degradation of passions par
ticipated with brutes; and in the accident of
their alternate ascendency shuddering at the
hoi rors of an hereafter, or embracing the hor
rid hope of annihilation.
—Charles Phillips, (1787-1859).
, Je pense que personne n’etait content de retourner S. Salem. II
e.st toujours difficile de retourner aprSa las vacances. Personne ne veut
Studier ses le^ones, et les examens ne sont jamais agreables. Je voudrais
qu ’il sait possible d’en dispenser.
Pendant les examens, quand on va ^ la bibliothdque, on voit des
jeunes fille qui font saillir leurs livres, et elles ne reinvent pas la tete
quand on passe. Tout lo monde a peur d’^choner .ses examens, et S, la
fin du semestre, elles tachent d’etudier assez pour passer leurs cours.
C’est toujours la memo chose. Elles n’etudient pas avant qu’il ne soit
absolument necessaire.
Pourquoi est-ce que cela est toujours vrai? Pourquoi est-ce que
les demoiselles n’etudient pas? Je ne sais pas exactement la rgponse
a cette qustion, mais je pense que c’est parce que toutes les demoiselles
sont trea paresaeuses.
•—Loyd Glidewell.
VICTORY BOOK CAMPAIGN
Sponsored by
American Library Association — American Red Cross
United Service Organizations for National Defense, Inc.
Guy B. Lyle, State Director
Marjorie Beal, Co-Director
Students’ Building
Woman’s College
Greensboro, N. C.
Telephone: 3-1827
A nationwide drive for the purpose of collecting ten mil
lion books for soldiers, sailors and marines, sponsored by the
American Library Association, the American Red Cross and
the United Service Organizations will open in every state in
the union January 12.
Nearly all types of books are wanted :
Business and Salesmanship
Photography
Cartoons
Novel and play writing
Sports
Poetry and individual plays
Geography
Travel (of the last ten years)
Biography
Modern History
Books about music
Good modern novels
Applied psychology
Current affairs
English grammars
Arithmetic
Algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry
Calculus and tables of
logarithms
Up-to-date technical books
(1935 or later)
Accounting
Shorthand
Textbooks in present use in law and medical schools are
wanted by men who left professional courses for military duty.
Unbound issues of magazines are not wanted.
State headquarters of the Victory Book Campaign are
at Woman’s College, Greensboro, N. C. Local headquarters are
in nearly every county in the state and in several additional
larger cities.
Contributions by faculty and students of a college or uni
versity should be sent to the Victory Book Campaign head
quarters nearest you, where they will be duly credited and sent
to collection centers for later distribution. If information is
desired as to location of local headquarters, drop a card or tele
phone the state office which will reply promptly.
Should a donor prefer to give cash, the state director is pre
pared to receive donations in money which will be used to pur
chase new ))ooks obtainable by the Washington Morale office
at a discount of from 50 to 60%.
Your gift will be sent to all camps and ships; to U. S. 0.
centers; to small groups of men on special detail away from
regular camps; to merchant marines, coastguards, lighthouses
and lightships.
A receptacle will be placed in the Salem College
Library for any books that you wish to give.
WILL WE RALLY ROUND?
So the price of paper has gone up and the
projected literary magazine is in serious danger
. . . its up to us, students of Salem, to rally
round. We have confidence that the magazine
crew will do everything possible to raise th'e
money but if their efforts fail we can at least
offer to contribute more than we have already
pledged toward the price of publication. And
why shouldn’t we? Everything of the material
order is sky-rocketing in this day of strife.
There are shortages, defense priorities, that are
forcing everything up fi'om the silk stockings
on our legs to the eggs on the breakfast table—■
and Ave pay the price without murmuring like
good patriotic Americans. Material things have
become more valuable as quantity decreases and
we all recognize it and accept it. But we must
recognize that thought, sa'jie, rational, adult
thought has become more valuable too —
through the very tendency it has to disappear
with these war-time conditions. We are col
lege students, at our best we are guardians of
rational thinking, we are the ones intrusted
with the duty of keeping our heritage of beauty
alive until a country now occupied with neces
sary destruction can turn again to its culture
and find it flourishing as before. More than
that, there may be on this campus people among
us who can contribute more to the spirit of
America, to preserving its ideals in the concrete
form of literature ... a service as vital as even
the preservation of American ideals by might
of arms.
And in the fact that we as a united body
recognize the need of thought there is present
the very thing that will keep thought alive. We
expect no Milton, no Emerson, to attempt a first
flight in our literary magazine — but we as a
whole, demonstrating our ability to keep our
sense of values, will be a contributing force to
the future peace we must enjoy someday.
—M. G.
C’EST LA GUERRE
I
Little Red fllan
l|o\y
TlllR IS A DAWDLER
THIS IS THE .RED ilAN
WATCHING A DAWDLER
This miserable creature is a Dawdler. It piddles away all
its time in tlio smoke house playing bridge or downtown seeing
movies, or in its room writing letters. It worries its poor head
oft about exams but can never find time to study. The Dawdler’s
theme song is “Anything to Keep from working!” Have you
been a Dawdler this week?
YES?
NO?
How does our entrance into the war.affect
the work of the AV. S. S. F. ? The full answer
to this question is not yet in, but part of it is
immediately clear.
1. Cliina. The occupation of Shanghai,
the second largest center, will mean another
large student center, will mean another large
student migration to Free China. The item for
travel aid in the budget of the National Stu-
deiit Relief (’ommittee in China was small last
year; it must now be increased with our help-
Jloney and messages can still be transmitted
to China by radio.
2. Europe. Our European Student Relief
Fund staff is made up of both Americans and
neutrals, so they are able to continue their
visitation of prison-camps, refugee and intern
ment camps in all countries. Books for the
camps are continuing to be shipped from this
country; money is transmitted as usual by
cable.
3. AVhere Next? The extension of the war
into the Pacific area will mean an expansion
of our work. We are on the alert; our pro
gram will be adapted to new needs as they arise
— possibly for relief to Filipino students, among
American prisoners-of-war, to Japanese in'
ternees. The General Committee of W. S. S. F.
met on December 9, and Tinanimously re-affirm
ed our principles of relief administered on an
international, non-sectarian, non-political basis-
Only such non-partisan relief can lay the basis
for the reconstruction that must follow the war-
ITeli> us to make it possible!
Here at Salem we received .$194.70 during
our campaign for the W. S. S. F. and Red Cross
last December. $97.85 of this amount was sent
to W. S. S. F. and $96,85 to the Red Cross.
There are about twenty i^ledges to be paid-
Have you paid your pledge?