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VOL. XXII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942.
Number 1 7.
A DEHYDRATED
NEWSJVIEW
Kd. Note: — The Salemite does not
: propose to produce any William
Shirer’s, but we* here offer a very
simple and concise review of the
week’s events, which may serve
to give busy people up-to-the-min
ute news).
N. S. Navy Streamlined.
Admiral King was named chief of
naval operations in a drastic high
command shake-up. This new ap
pointment gives the air minded ad
miral the most powerful voice in
the navy. King succeeds Admiral
Htark who becomes Commander in
Chief of the U. S. Naval forces in
European waters.
Far East
Kangoon, capital of Burma and
port of entry for the Burma Boad
fell an, dthe Japs now march south
ward on toward the Bay of Bengal.
Atlantic Coast
The tanker Gulftrade was struck
by- a torpedo off Barnegat, New Jer
sey, i nthe closest attack made by
a raider thus far.
Australian Threat
The Japanese landed troops on
the island of New Guinea and are
massing large invasion forces for
a poHsilile-attack on Port Moresby.
Brazil
President Vargas passed a decree
which authorized confiscation of a
j>art of the property and funds of
axis citizens and firms in Brazil.
The decree stated “the property
and rights of German, Japanese, and
Italian persons or legal subjects
must answer for harm which result
ed or may result from acts of agres
sion by Germany, Japan and Italy.
India
The British Wjir Cabinet sent Sir
Stafford Cripps to India to discuss
problems in relation with a possible
dominion status for India.
NEW T’ PRESIDENT ELECTED
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Betty Vanderbilt, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Vanderbilt
of Garden City, New York, is the
president of the rising Senior class;
Lucy Farmer, niece of Mr. W. II.
McCall of Rockingham, N. C., is the
future president of next year’s
Junior Class; and Molly Bozeman,
the daughter of Mrs. W. D. Boze
man, of Hocky Mount, N. C., will
lead the Sophomores of next year.
DO YOU KNOW THEM?
Shortage
Latest reports indicate that
Americans will suffer in a shortage
of typewriters, telephones, radios,
phonographs, refrigerators, men’s
suits, chlorine and wool yarn, as
well as from the much discussed
rubber deficiency.
Miscellaneous
Harvard called off its annual
class day confetti battle between
the old grads’ to conserve paper.
And From The New Yorker
Despite the steady advance of the
Bed army, we keep hearing about
the Nazi spring offensive. Hitler
probably tells the home folks that
he is just going back to find a good
place to turn around.
SOCIOLOGY FILM SHOWN
Wednesday night, the County
Welfare Society presented for the
benefit of the Sociology and psy
chology students a program on Ju
venile Delinquency. A movie was
shown depicting the treatment of a
typical case. Various Welfare Work
ers then spoke on their work in this
county. It was pointed out that
Winston-Salem’s facilities for caring
for delinqents are very poor in
spite of the fact that this city has
a very high percentage of Juvenile
crimes. The idea behind the woik
of this society is not to punish the
young criminal by putting him in
jail, but to try to remove the cause
of his crime.
Betty is a compact brunette with
levol-eycd gaze that can be steely
on ocfiision. STie is quiet but force-
ul as your interviewer found out
— amir she can and does blush. She
is and English major this year, and
Itliough she is interested in art and
has a flair that way, she is con
sidering neither, field as a life-work.
She says she may study kindergar
ten teaching after she graduates un
less she decides to go to secretarial
school. ' Her opinions of the roles
played by the various classes in
campus spirit were pretty pertinent
— but she cried, “No fairl” at the
suggestion they be printed. All this
took place at dinner one evening —
ould be she wanted to concentrate
1 food, not on herself.
Lucy Farmer inhabits (with the
help of roommate Nanty Lee) the
mad house of Alice Clewell. While
Lucy purged her non-existent soul
to drag up such things as, earliest
memory: eating a caterpillar. “No,
I am not an idealist, I don’t have
hobbies or allergies, etc.” . . . Beece
was clacking a typewriter, some
body was enquiring about Physics,
Kddie wanted her clothes given to
the cleaners. Sara slung pop-corn in
from the door, and an alarm clock
went off periodically every five
minutes! Lucy is a dynamic char
acter who has a blunt way of speak
ing her mind — and making you
like it . As stated before, she has
no hobbies, though she still likes
horseback riding (Nancy Lee’ do
you insist she ain’t stubbornf). Her
ambition begins and ends with mar
riage and five children. “The man
of her dreams,” sang oi't Nancy
here, “is tall, lean, blond, has wist
ful eyes and a poetic dreaminess.”
“Oh no,” yelled Lucy over the
racket, “not a poet — I don’t want
to take care of any loaferl ... I
want a sort of Lil Abner with more
polish.”
Upstairs on peaceful third, your
interviewer tip-toed to quiz Molly
Bozeman. Molly had vanished but
Jane Strohm wanted an opportunity
to do some personality sketching.
“She’s petite and capable,” said
Jane, “and still little and cute.
Klie’s conscientious about her work
and is tactful in handling people —
versatile, in fact. I think she could
rise to most any occasion. She loves
to eat — incidently her mother
makes wonderful cocoanut pies —
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SECOND TWILIGHT
RECITAL GIVEN
The second in the series of “Twi
light Recitals” which was held Mon
day afternoon at five o’clock
brought two excellent musicians and
an appreciative audience to Memor
ial Hall.
The program offered numerous ex
amples of music from the Baroque
period with Mrs. Viola Tucker An
scombe playing English Restoration
piano compositions, and Miss Mary
Frances Cash playing po«t-Renaiss
anco music at tho organ.
One very interesting feature of
these informal faculty recitals is
the explanatory preface given by
Dr. Vardell. The Dean mentioned
the history of the period under con
sideration and cited parallel devel
opments in the other branches of the
arts. The primary characteristics
of the Baroque — whether in sculp
ture, painting, architecture, or mus
ic —' is magnificence and movement.
During the 17th century the
Counter - Reformation i n Europe
brought forth an increased magnifi
cence within the Catholic Church,
one phase of which was an increos-
ed use of the organ, and tho organ
music of the period begins to show
greater elaboration, with less de
pendence upon the rather severe
lines of vocal music.
In England, in the 17th century,
with the Restoration of the Stuarts
to the throne, music and laughter
returned. Charles II used music in
his magnificent coronation, and sup
pression under the Puritans came to
an end. To my way of thinking,
tho English music shows little of the
magnificence of the Baroque, but
the music is interesting as a tran
sitional type.
Both Mrs. Anscombe and Miss
Cash played unusually well. Mrs.
•Anscombe showed an excellent tech
nique and accuracy and gave to the
audience as much us was possible
from a rather uninspiring form of
music. Miss Cash played with fac
ility and revealed a fine musician
ship. She did not, however, em
phasize quite enough of characteris
tic Baroque vigor and movement.
WHAT IS YOUR VOTE?
The new constitution for The
Student Self-GoA'rnment Assoctii-
tion of Salem College was presented
this afternoon to the students for
discussion and approval. The new
constitution was drawn up by a stu
dent committee and advisary board
because the present constitution is
out-dateil and does not answer tho
needs of our government.
Many changes in organization
were made, but perhaps more di
rectly interesting to students is tho
change in wording. The purpose of
the organization, the duties of its
officers, the duties of its members
were stated for a less advanced stu
dent organization . . . the new Svord-
ing is in the idiom of today’s stu
dents and their government.
‘ ‘ The puri)ose. as stated under
the new constitution, has a higher
aim than did that under the old, and
a more mature view of what a stu
dent government should be,” . . .
to foster their individual and com
munity interests of Salem students
by maintaining a high standard of
conduct, by creating a spirit of un
ity, and by developing a sense of
individual responsibility.” The
whole stress of tho new constitution
is laid on the individual resjwnsi-
bility. The honor system, that we
have admired so long at Salem, is
clearly outlined to include all stu
dent activities: the whole govern
ment is made dependent on the hon
or of each member. Tho old barrier
of government versus students has
been broken down . . . government
is of, for and by each student.
The old arrangement of govern
ment that was found top-heavy and
inefficient has been revised some
what after tho manner of tho gov
ernment of our nation. The old
ouncil that met and acted us one
body has been sub-divided into three
committees . . . Legislative, Execu
tive, Judiciary. The duties of these
committees have been specialized
so that there is no overlapping, and
that the work may be accom
plished moro readily and more ef
ficiently. Representation has been
changed to fill the need* of these
three committees and to have stu
dents more directly connected with
actual government.
IS
NEXT YEAR’S
T LEADER
Barbara Hawkins, tho daughter
of Air. and Mrs. F. C. Hawkins of
Blackstone, V^a., is the newly elected
[(resident of th(> V. W. C. A. organi
zation on the campus. When in
terviewed, “Bobby” was lazily curl
ed u[) in bed. Digging deep into
her mind, she decided she likes
Sebelius, Brahms, Olenn Miller,
some unstH^llable body and knitting.
Knitting in psychology class, ospec-
ially. Though Barbara is is blond
and thinnish, she is not a “typical
southern belle” — in fact, sho in-
THE FRENCH CLUB
ENTERTAINED
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
BANQUET
Next Tuesday night the pactice
teachers, alias our own seniors, will
entertain their supervising teachers
at a banquet. The theme of the
affair will be St. Patrick’s Day —
Jane Frazier, accompanied by Lib
Johnston, will sing, “Kerry Dance”
and “Early One Morning;” Kacky
Traynhum will dance, “The Irish
Washerwoman;” and Edna Baughm
will do something Irish on the ac
cordion. Th^ program also includes
brain teasers and singing — both
dealing with the Irish.
The t'Vench Club was delightfully
entertained Monday night by Mrs.
Edwin P. Hayes. Tho plump little
lady in the cute black hat chatted
informally about her childhood in
France . . . about how sho came
from the sumo village that pro
duced Calvin Coolidge’s parents . .
about how she received her early
education in a convent . . . about
how chaperons used to accompany
all French girls where ever they
went and about how marriages were
arranged between fanulies and not
by the individuals themselves. Sho
then dwelled for some length on the
wars that Franco has emerged from;
and, after discussing the plight of
her family following the Franko-
1 russian War, she added confidently
that Franco will never die . . . that
the culture of her native land will
endure despite continuous bomb
ings and invasions. She has been
in America since the early part of
the century . . . has spent most of
the time in Maine and has learned
a little Latin, Spanish and Italian.
After refreshments were served,
the meeting adjourned.
This week’s, issue of the paper
was edited by Ceil Nuchols and
Mary Best.
sists there ain’t no such animal.
-\nd she wouldn’t carbon-paper her
hair for anybody! Gentlemen pre
fer blondes — sho sayis — I hope!
Lindy stokes stuck her head in tho
door to complain, “she’s gripy in
the morning and she’s all the time
playing jokes o npeople.” “I know,’’
sighed Miss Hawkins, “and alarm
clocks are my pet hate” — which
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BETTER CHAPEL
PROGRAMS ENROUTE
That lino of Tennyson’s, “Things
are not what they seem to bo,”
was illustrated in ChaiwI Tuesday
morning when Dr. Anscombe spoke
to us on tho nature of reality. With
much changing of spectacles and u
great deal of humor. Dr. Anscombe
began by saying, ‘ ‘ Primitive peo
ple supposed all appearances to bo
realities ”... and then ho wont on
to point out that we in our so-called
modern civilization also accept tho
apparent as tho real, despite the
fact that the great thinkers of j«Bt
and jyresent generations have tried
to discourage us.
Referring to various Einstein’s
theories and delving into numerous
jihilosophic ideas, Dr. Anscombe
proved to us that we aren’t really
“hero” .... that there is no sound,
no sight, no solidity in the universe
. . . that there are no really tangible
qualities. With keen sciontifie logic,
he tore down provalont concepts of
what is real; but, unfortunately, ho
hadn’t tho time to give us the
logic by which ho arrived at his
conclusion . . . that tho only reality
is a reality of spirit. Aside from
the philosophic significance of tho
talk, we enjoyed its flavor . . par
ticularly his plan to s]>end a part of
his summer on the Date Line and
thereby enjoy two Sundays, no
Mondays, two Tuesdays, no Wed
nesdays, two Thursdays, no Fridays,
and two Saturdays. We are looking
forward to that future date when
we will bo able to hear Dr. An
scombe complete his talk for us.