Frriday, February 13, 1942.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
OPEN FORUM
A WORD IN FAVOR
OF JR.-SR.
The United States government, in drawing up a list of
priorities, mentioned cosmetics. This item may seem insignifi
cant, perhaps trivial. But our government realizes that cos
metic^ play an important part in the morale of the people.
As everyone in every country needs everything possible
to maintain morale, so do Salem students. Many of the girls have
not left school since Christmas time, and many will not leave
between Easter and commencement. , These girls look forward
to activities other than studies to keep their spirits up (shall
we put it tritely?) It is not fair to them to call off a dance
which they have been anticipating as a relief from the mono
tony of books. . ,
Salem, we say proudly, is grounded in tradition. We nave
old bricks, old trees, old buildings, old furniture, old ideas
and we rejoice in them. Shall we not then rejoice more m a
tradition from which class upon class has found one of its
greatest pleasures? We do not ask for a return to former days,
but we do ask that this one joyous tradition be upheld.
This tradition has been told to class upon class as it en-
tered Salem so that from the opening of Freshman year the
girls have looked with longing eyes upon the> fortunate Juniors
and Seniors. And now, are we going to deprive this year s
crop of giving this occasion? Will they always be forced to
live J.-Sr. vicariously? Give them an opportunity to hold this
dance it is their privilege, as it was that of Salem generations
living during peace time.
Salem is sheltered from the war. Our existence here has
changed little since December 7 — except that ^ve get up in
the dark and eat dinner at noon. Why should we make a
decision as abrupt as calling off an annual dance? If we do
want to give money to some organization — if we want to
badly enough — we have dozens of ideas of self-deprivation
that will form an essential part of a school-wide drive. We
have raised money in the past — and we can again, with proper
co-operation, therefore, let us use this money for the purpose for
which it was originally collected. Here’s.to the Jr.-Sr. dance
of 194Z! „ ,
—Louise Bralower.
A WORD AGAINST JR. - SR.
Did you ever realize how much benefit is achieved by the
dollar you pay each year for Red Cross membership? Much
of the personnel work is volunteered and very little of the
money goes to the big, objectives. For as lon^ as we Salemites
can remember, these have never been of great interest to us
personally - caring for European soldiers or the yctims of a
Japanese earthquake. But now it’s us — our friends an
brothers and cousins and 0. A. O.’s! If you can still say, o
mine,” we are glad, but don’t you know that time is t e
only factor which is protecting you — and that changes very
rapidly?
rerhaps the realization that it can happen to you will
make this war seem real. We cannot go on as before for
the situation is not as it was. Our values must change, we
must accept a neWscale of relative importance! How can any
one of us honestly say that a few hours of dancing and fun
for less than a hundred of us is more important than the blessed
drugs and bandages, relief and life that can be bought for the
same price??
And don’t leave this job to “someone else !” The fallacy
of this was shown in the fall of France. This may sound overly
dramatic, but I believe that it requires extremes to knock us
out of our ivory towers. _-Lib Read.
Lc 12 1^-vrier ost inie dato qui rostc dans la inomoire de toi.a Ics
arafiricains—c’est I’annivorsaire de Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, le siezi me
mesident dPs Etats-tJnls s’est prouv6 un des i^lus eapables, des p us
droits et dos plus honorablcs iue les Etats-Unis ait jamais connu. Les
blancs’ (mfime la plupart des gens du sud) et les negres se renden
compto de grandes qualitfis que Lincoln a possedfees. Ci Lincoln vivait
auiourd’hui et s’il pourrait voir le voiarmc duo raonde et les methodes
imnitovables et ambiticuses de cet homme qui tient le pouvoir en AUc-
rtpmdW »«1. »o.» •omm„ .Hr. ,«e ite.l.am Lm.«l„ JMt L.b«t *
ou rion.” Rendons grace a Weu que Lincoln n’a pas v6cu pc^ur voir le
monde commo il est aujourd’hui et rendons grdce aussi quo nous a donnS
un am6rican tel que Abraham Lincoln qui pouvait donner h sa patne
de tels efforts jwur soUtenir l’id6al que nous dfifendons centre ceux qui
ferait des esclaves de tout le genre humain.
The Shelf Behind
With Valentine’s Day approaching
the shelf is getting cleaned up in
preparation for the new crop of
sighs and smiles that will come
pouring in. Though most of our
hearts stopped when wo read our
exam grades — they’ll start beating
again with a little encouragement
from the B. F.
2nd Floor Clewell has been in a
dither over Vida’s leaving, natural
ly. In those parties they slung for
her she got the most interesting
gifts ^ as Stone and Mary said
when they handed her the package,
“And it looks just like an evening
dress!” Vida and her far-away ex
pression have been spreading sun
shine all over the place — though
much to Dr. Down’s surprise her
French was prepared right up till
the final good-bye. What a gal!
Bye, honey, be happy!
Speaking of weddings, an ex-
Salemite, Kitty McKoy of Wilming
ton, married Lieut Harold Trask
last Saturday . . . wedding gown of
shaped neckline .•. . ” etc., etc.
We hear from certain undercover
foiirces that the only “news” story
to break on this campus since the
Little Ked Man was killed, was
shushed by the authorities — no
wonder the gossip column is the
high light of your Salemite! Ho-
hum, sometime we’ll report for Mr,
Scratch d^wn yonder way where
the lieadlines are tive miles high.
OF TIME AND THE DITHER
(With Apologies to T. Wolf)
Sunday afternoon, by an act of
God and Mr. Roosevelt, one whole
hour was declared null and void,
and clocks all over the nation were
turned back a unit. This is no
doubt a very fine thing for indus
triaHsm, capitalism, ..Americanism,
and what have you, but I am only a
sleepy Salem student who resents
having sixty minutes of her life
ruthlessly snatched away and who,
added to that, feels that the sacred
ties between clocks and sunrise and
sunset have been tampered with.
To begin with, it is more than a
little upsetting to arise with dawn’s
dim grey light, stagger sleepily to
the window to see the still present
moon with its corners turned up in a
nocking smile, and know for a posi
tive fact that while your clock says
quarter ’til eight, it’s not quarter
’til eight at all, but quarter ’til
seven. Everybody knows that it’s
a lit'. They say at breakfast as they
li'epily bump into tables and stum
ble over chairs, and they say it
again at nij^ht when the clocks say
six and it’s taeidly understood to
be five. 1 say that, as »o one can
reach up with a mighty paw and
order the sun around, that the more
changing of digits is imnmterial.
And it is only we who operate on a
schedule governed by the mighty
peal of bells and ticks of clocks who
suffer. Otliers sleep until “nine”
o’clock instead of “eight,” and go
to bed five or six hours after the sun
has set regardless of the infamous
lies clocks tell. Hut, they say, if
Hoosevelt wants to call it nine
o’clock when theji get up instead of
eight, all right. It isn’t all right,
because Roosevelt wants us to call
it eight o’clock when we get up, and
we actually got up at seven.
Psychologically, the effect of this
new order has been calamitous.
There is not one person, except
those fortunate enough to have a
sun-dial, who has not been profound
ly disturbed by the change. Sub
consciously, u'jicionsciously, and
pathoconsciously, it has wrought
havoc, and many warped and twist
ed personalities will doubtless re
sult. Those learned in studies of in
feriority complexes, allergies, and
inhibitions (unfortunate and all too
common ailmntes) tell us that when
a left-handed child is forced to
write with his right hand, it leaves
a sear upon his soul that may
change the whol course of his life.
And T say to you, if an instance like
Poei!i QompicuUtt
Moonlight is fine and stars is groat
If and when you have a date.
Hut when you gotto go by moon
light to got your grub
It kinda gives the wrong kind of
rub.
Just anybody oughta confess
This wartime time is really a mess
But when you gotta go by moon-
and sour
They’re gonna push it up another
hour.
We’ll go to bed with the chickens
and get up feeling fowl.
’Twon’t funny, McGee, so don’t you
howl.
that has such a tragic bearing on
sensitive natures, what will be the
effect of violating nature's great
law of timet
Studies have noticeably suffered
and students seem to find it doubly
lard to prepare assignments due to
loss of sleep, etc. It may be hoped
that certain crass remarks from
teachers in regard to this subject
will be revoked after having been
shown such deep insight into the
problem.
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