Page Four.
THE S A L E M I T E
Friday, October 30. 1942.
—SKARD—
(Continued IVom Page One)
agent there told him curtly that the
friends of Norway had come, that
the army of Norway had surren
dered, that none was resisting.
The Nazis, believing so wholeheart
edly that a peace-loving nation is
a weak nation, expected no mobili
zation or resistance on the part of
the Norwegians; so he quite easily
loaded the three year old twins and
himself on a south-bound train to
return to his old family farm. On
the same south-bound train, he re
marked with a twinkle, were any
number of uniformed officers, who
“put up a whale of a fight” in the
battles of the south sUortly after
the trip.
Mrs. Skard, who had shortly be
fore the invasion, gone to Sweden
to make lectures in the capacity of
a psychiatrist, had carried the four-
month old twins with her; so he felt
that he could leave the older girls
with his family and return in safe
ty to his home city. For several
w-eeks mobilization went on right
in the faces of the unsuspecting
Nazis; then battles broke out in the
Northern region, and Trondheim
was besieged for weeks. He had
not been mobilized, and could be
of little help to the army; so he
decided that he should best plan
his escape to Sweden to join his
wife and the younger children. The
trip to Sweden was quite unevent
ful, though he and his friends had
prepared elaborate lies to tell the
German authorities should they be
questioned. He seemed quite proud
of these lies, and quite disappointed
that there was no occasion to use
them. As he put it, “II; is strange
how one’s sense of honesty vanishes
wlien one has to deal with the
Germans.”
The efficiency of the German in
vasion, quite contrary to the re
ports of such commentators as Mr.
Leland Stowe, was affected not by
Norwegian traitors but by the long-
planned attack, thati had been work
ed out even to the slightest detail.
The “war children” that the Nor
wegians had taken and fed after
the first world war made up most
of the invading army. While ac
cepting the kindness of the Nor
wegians these boys were learning
the language, the land, the set up
of the government. Thus they were
able fo move into Norway quietly
and without a single hitch. When
the Nazis began drafting the adults
to help build fortifications,* Dr.
Skard and his wife decided to try
to come to the United States.
First the two older children must
be got from Norway by some means.
At the time there was quite a
“Marvelous” SVede who was ef
fecting the escapes of many chil
dren. “The fellow was marvelous
. . . although he had no twins ”
and managed to bring out the two
Skard children unharmed and well
equipped with perfectly beautiful
German passports.
The United States, he recalled
with a slight grimace, is one tough
place to get into. The great heaps
of papers that have to be signed
seem to be an accumulation of
laws since the time of Lincoln. The
process consisted in answering, or
rather swearing to “Are you an
idiott” “Are you an imbecile?”
Dr. Skard had to admit that he was
a bit doubtful about signing such
papers for the tiny babies . . .
their true abilities yet quite un
certain. He said that in Norway
people do very little swearing, but
that since he had been in the
United States, he has been swear
ing almost continuously to one
thing or another.
As Finland had got herself tan
gled up in the war, practically the
only avenue of escape was through
Russia. He and Mrs. Skard made
elaborate plans for such an exit
with no little misgivings about the
Russian sanitation and such a long
trip with the infants. They car
ried such American things along as
Klim, which could be made drink
able by water from the public taps
of the nation of Russian tea
drinkers, and great mountains of
disposable diapers, along with a
troublesome suitcase of toys and
children’s stories, xlside from the
contrast of filth with modern indus
trialism in Russia and the number
of bed-bugs. Dr. Skard seemed to be
most impressed with the ignora'nee
of the officials on the subject of
Mother Goose. A book of Mother
Goose tales that they had brought
along to ward off insanity, caused
so much suspicion that he had to
translate it for the authorities sev
eral times. Dr. Skard told us that
that trip educated him in the ways
of a father more than the whole
rest of his life put together. He
says, “I can do everything with a
baby, but the actual nursing.”
Dr. Skard ended his “chatter”
by telling us how impressed he was
with the Statue of Liberty in the
New York harbor. He told his lit
tle girls about the importance of
that symbol to all nations of the
world . . . and gave thanks that
they could be entering American
schools so that they might learn
something of the imp5rtance of that
for which the statue stands.
Dr. Skard, though he has an ac
cent, talks British fashion . . . with
British emphasis of his words. He
has very nice blue eyes, a beginning-
to-shine pate, and a perfectly mar
velous sense of humor. He some
how told us with his little recounts
of the diapers, the bed-bugs, and
the horrible trains just how wonder
ful is this thing that we are fight
ing for. We suggest that you hear
him tonight, and guarantee that you
will like him.
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said: “It is clear that women stud
ent's cannot expect to pursue college
as usual while their brothers and
male friends are rushed off. . . .
'Courses for women are going to be
shortened and they are going to
be directed toward preparation for
specific types of war service . . .
These war jobs are going to appear
to college women to be hard and
distasteful. Stronger words could
be used for what many of the men
are going through.”
Once the Salem hockey teams could
easily be compared to the wander
ing Jew; both were on their ways
to the grave. It’s a different story
now, however; and most of the
credit goes to the Freshmen. Polly
Starbuck plays a calm and collected,
but a hard-hitting game; Cameron
Donaldson, Martha Humbert, Lois
Wooten, and Charlotte Griffin have
proved themselves to be crack for
wards and a hard combination to
beat. Since the schedule has been
announced, the Sophomores have
been giving the Freshmen competi
tion! with Joy Flanagan’s very defi
nite defensive strength; and the
Juniors, although more or less dis
organized, have at least appeared
on the field to show that the spirit
is W'illing. A few Seniors took up
sticks last Wednesday to prove that
there is a little life left in them
yet . . . and that they’re not entire
ly dependent upon their lightning-
like wing, Sara Bowen.
The practices have been spirited,
to say the least; and sometimes the
plays have been good. For the most
part, however, they lack the co
ordination necessary to strong
teams: goals are continually being
made as though there were no goalie
or backs, players are very rarely
found in their positions, team work
is certainly not apparent. The girls
haven’t had enough practice to real
ize the value of dribbling or the
value of passing the ball out to the
wings; they haven’t confidence
enough in their teammates to stay
in position and be assured that the
territory is being covered by some
one else . . . but the material shown
is far above average and we may
expect an excellent team to de
velop.
The first game is on Tuesday and
it promises to be a fast and furious
affair. We predict a g^tme good
enough for reminiscence of former
days.
COOKIE—
(Continued Ftom Page One)
ents of the Academy and the four
classes of the college. Dr. Vardell
was really “perplexed at times.”
The Freshman class produced a
somewhat disjimtled melody which
he doctored into fairly good health.
The Sophomore’s contribution re
minded us of a surrealistic version
of Wagner; while the Juniors pic
tured their own, mental condition in
their melody, which gave the im
pression of running from here to
there but getting nowhere.
At this point, Dr. Vardell, in des
peration, retricted the Seniors to
one key, and uncovered a lovely
waltz melody which he dedicated to
M^rie Fitzgerald, our latest engaged
student.
The program w’as ended with Mr.
Vardell’s own composition, “The
Cookie Jar,” which he still has not
been able to get onto paper.
If this program was an example of
Dr. Vardell’s “impoverishing,” to
use his own name for it, we hope
he feels “poor” enough to do it
again soon.
THE.FIRST REAL LOVE STORV
front the man who knows
«'sm every light and lug
on “Loser's Lane”
MR. HOLDER
(Continued F^om Page One)
organizations throughout the conn
try and world for the study of
peace. He took the Commission to
Study the Organization of Peace
as an example and told the group
assembled about it. Tho purpose of
this organization is to consider the
post-war world. The Commission is
making a careful study of condi
tions, and “holds no blind faith in
the realization of our ideal for a
better society through the winning
of fhe war. Rather, it seems at
first glance to be drearily pessi
mistic about the post-war world.
But it is approaching the problem of
establishing peace on a practical
basis, and purposely avoiding the
holding out of any panacea that
might result in disillusion.”
They are taking the Four Free
doms of President Roosevelt and
Churchill in the Atlantic. Charter as
a basis for post-war proposals.
They suggest that the people take
false indoctrinations or propaganda
and weight them carefully. The
period following the war should be
called the Transitional Period, »nd
we should not jump from war to
peace without this interval. By
reading the table of contents from
the Commission’s pamphlet on post
war rehabilitation, Mr. Holder gave
an idea of what phases were stud
ied and discussed by the Commis
sion. Some of the subjects were
public health and nutrition, eco
nomics, colonial policies, social se
curity, education, intellectual coop
eration, and the United States in
the Transitional Period. The Com
mission believes in a provision for
regional police in the defeated coun
tries, and a World Federation. This
police force will be the only army
and will be for international order
and peace. To sum up the idea of
commissions. Air. Holder said, “The
object of these organizations is to
put flesh and blood in these ideals
—Namely, the Four Freedoms, etc.,
throughout the country. One way
of doing! this is through such organ
izations as the International Rela
tions Club here at Salem. Only by
getting a lof of people interested in
world affairs can these ideals be
spread.”
Mr. Holder’s talk was followed
by excellent discussions of the ques
tions raised by his theories—the
role of hate in the war, the inter
national police system, the value of
propaganda, and the quality of re
freshments served by the Club.
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The In-And-About’s Club held its
first regular meeting of the year
on Monday night. This club is
made up of music teachers from
Winston-Salem, High Point, and
Greensboro. Due to various patri
otic reasons, the joint meetings of
this club- have been limited to three
meetings a year—the first held in
Winson-Salem, the second held in
High Point, and the third held in
Greensboro. The meeting began at
6:30 o’clock with a delightful din
ner, which was served in the club
dining room. A brief discussion of
business took place after the din
ner, which was then followed by an
interesting music program held in
the old chapel: “Some Predecessors
of Franz Schubert (1797-1828).”
The program was presented by Mr.
Clifford Bair, head, of the voice de
partment of Salem College, in nar
rative form. Mr. Bair briefly named
a number of gifted song composers
who paved the way for Franz Schub
ert’s genius. This development from
the 15th century was illustrated in
form of songs of Annie Hyman
Bunn, Marion Gary, Jane Garrou,
Lillian Stokes, and Ella Lou Tay
lor. Laura Emily Pitts accompanied
the girls at the piano. About forty-
five people attended the meeting.
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