October 15, 1943.
THE SALEMITE
FIFTH COLUMN
REPORTING:
Of course, no one could have
missed the freshman beauties
(though we’ll have to admit they
looked more like the beasts Thurs
day) ; now that all the gruesone
aspects of Sophomore Court are past
we hope that we’ll see and hear
more about the freshmen.
One freshman who can’t b0 left
out is BETTY DUNNING—for no
one could have missed LBS, the
movie director, nor Betty’s smile.
KITTY MILLER and MABTHA
WALTON are looking forward to
the Duke - Carolina game as well
as BET, GRETA, CASTEEN, LAU
REN, LOUISE TOTHEROW, KACK-
EY, MARY PAIGE, LOU STACK,
NELL D., MOLLY, JULIA, MAC,
RACHEL, MERRITT, MEREDITH
and MARGARET YOUNT.
Before we go any further we
will have to express tears and
sympathy for our Stee-Gee presi-
dc'nt, LUCY FARMER^ who will
spend the next 30 days finishing out
her sentence in the city jail.
And out standing event this past
week-end was SUE WILLIS, pre
sence on campus.
But really outstanding was SUTT.
The reception committee at the air
port was partical proof of that. And
if you were wondering about the
sparkle surrounding SUTT and NOK-
MIE, well, you konw how love is.
The only complaints we hear from
Seniors are the unequal distribution
of pliont? calls.
In fact, they aren’t even dis
tributed except between WIN
STEAD and ANNE NEAL. MAR-
CRAIG did manage a call from
KERR, however.
MAXWELL’S “J. B.” is Salem
bound another week-end—Not even
waiting for the dance on the 30th.
ANNE BARBER, BETTY HAR
JUS, and NANCY KENNY are also
representing Salem at the Carolina-
Duke game.
“TICKA” SENTER and LIB
^’OUNG were sporting mighty pot
ent dates with amore potent car.
Our real sleeping beauty is
Kathleen phillips and to
quote Miss Phillips, “My classes
seem to be fumes of blessed sleep.”
SULLIVAN is planning to meet
her old stone-buddy “BIERS” soon,
and it ought to be a grand ole
party.
And this reformation! MAC’S
quit smoking and all for LADD.
LIPINSKI’S conscience - stuck
because she broke up with “him’’
a week before he left for parts un
known.
BETTY MOORE hasn’t stopped
beamjng yet about her letters from
VPI. and we don’t blame her—have
you seen his pictures?
Speaking of pictures . . . the en
tire smoke house was floored by
a picture that VAWTER STEELE
received from her latest . . . white
scarf, helmet^ air corp., and all.
Also if you haven’t seen BUTCH’S
Jimmy, you’ve missed a lot.
Our candidate for the most ex
cited of the week are KACKY and
D. LITTLE. KxiCKY over last week
end and D. over the prospect of
ITOY’S coming next week. More
^)ower to them—we love to see the
young people happy.
MARGARET WINSTEAD and
BOB are one of the few of last
year’s couples who continue to
. grace the campus regularly.
And have you heard the story of
COOTIE (an alumna) who whips
three and four little "children every
day?? Ask ANN.
V. V. and DOT LEONARD can’t
get the heads out of the clouds
it’s to Athens to see the infamous
AVOODIE and BILL J . . .
Did you see the soft ball game
taking place in the middle of the
street Sunday afternoon PEG NIM-
MOCKS and the LIEUT, she was
sporting and BILL and MILDRED.
The Freshmen did have the men too.
I*id you see PATTY ZIMMER
MAN and HENRY B. and BETTY
H. and TOMMY YOE.
After FAIR MILLER’S disserta
tion on “My Men and Their Tech-
inques” in the smoke house, we
'vant to know PAT BEARD a little
better.
Speaking of t(?chinques, a cer
tain senior appreciates the new card-
writing one. There ain’t nothing
Page Three.
Jane Rondthaler Says U. S. O, Work
Interesting But Not Qlamorous
(By Mary Ellen Byrd)
“It’s not glamorous, but it’s in
teresting. And it’s a twenty-four
hour job. You never have time to
think about your troubles.”
So said Miss Jane Ifondthaler of
her job as assistant director of a
Norfolk U. S. O. cJub. Jane was
home on the campus for a few days’
visit this week.
When I called her Thursday aft
ernoon and asked her for an inter
view she said, “Why, I don’t know
what I could say that you’d want
to put in the paper.” She promised
to talk to me, however, and as it
turned out, she had plenty to say.
Jane met me at the door—she had
been out with “Mama” for the aft
ernoon. As we went into the living-
room, I noticed an unusual grace
fulness and con-fldence in her walk.
“Now, what would you like to
know?” she asked.
When I told her that I knew next
to nothing about the functions of
U. S. O., she was ready to explain
everything.
“You see, the U. S. 0. is made
up of six organizations—the Y. W.
C. A., the Y. M. C. A., the Salvation
Army, the Travelers’ Aid, and a
Jewish and a Catholic organization.
My U. S. O. club is affiliated with
the Y. W. C. A. We have a big co
lonial house and keep it open to the
boys during the week until eleven
at night.”
“What about your activities?” I
asked.
She explained that the lower floor
of the house is open to the boys to
use .as they will—even for cooking
in the kitchen.
“Most of the boys are in the
Navy,” she said, “and they come
all during the week. There are no
week-end rushes like those in other
places.”
The club has planned activities
for each night of the week, but boys
do not have to take part. Mondays
and Thursdays are dance nights, and
on other nights there are parties,
games or symphonic conecfrts.
“We do a little bit of every
thing,” Jane continued. “The up
per floor of the house is a girls’ dorm
itory which stays open all night. So
many girls land in Norfolk with no
place to go. A lot of girls come
to the house to do their laundrv,
too.’ ’
“I’ll bet you even take care of
babies,” I suggested.
‘■‘Well, yes, we do sometimes,
though we don’t run a regular day
nursery.”
I was interested to know wheth
er Jane wanted to do overseas work.
She said that she had decided to
stay in the United States and be
gan explaining to me the overseas
opportunities with the U. S. O. and
the Red Cross.
I confess that I was distracted
while she was talking trying to de
cide what makes her so strikingly
attractive. She has a well sculp
tured face, a good nose, deep set
blue eyes, and dark hair. She look
ed especially smart in her blue gab
ardine suit and yellow sweater.
My time was drawing short, so I
asked her what she had been doing
before she joined the U. S. O.
“Oh, you want my life history!”
she laughed.
She was being difficult now.
‘I'Well, weren’t you on the stage
ii while?” I queried. She told me
she had played in the “Lost Col
ony” at Manteo for Jthree years,
that she had sung quite a bit in
New York, and that before she start
ed her work in Norfolk she was
with the Carolina Playmakers Rep
ertoire Company.
“Why did you give up acting?”
I asked.
She answered that she had joined
more or less as a reaction to the
times. The company was breaking
up with the men going to the army,
and everybody was doing something
useful. Jane said that she likes her
U. S. 0. work because it is differ
ent and she enjoys meeting people.
Since I kne^v she was leaving for
Norfolk shortly, I said good-bye,
feeling that I had communicated
with a part of the world where
things were really going on.
Scenes From
The Smokehouse
Week’s News
(Continued From Page ’)
Russia the Red Army Shock Troops
have driven into the suburbs of
Gomel, one of the most important
bases of this region and villages
within 62 miles of the Latvian bord
er. 'The great battle for Kiev, im
portant key city of Ukraine in the
midst of the richest oil region, is
reported nearing its climax with
Germans beginning destruction pre
paratory to evacuation.
On the Pacific Front:
Chester Nimitz, Commander of
the pacific Fleet; Admiral Ernest
King, Commander-in-chief of the U.
S. fleet; and Admiral William Hal
sey, Allied Commander in the South
Pacific, conferred this week regard
ing the stepped-up program of con
quest in the Pacific. For almost two
months the Pacific Fleet has been
harassing the cluster of Jap-held
bases in the Marshall and Gilbert
Islands, thus leaving the Allies Mas
ters of the Central Solomons area.
Bombers have begun attack pn Ka-
■lili in the Northern Solomons. On
Thursday a major blow was dealt
the Japs when the biggest Allied air
force ever assembled in the south
west Pacific raided Rabaul in New
Guinea. 177 Jap aircraft were de
stroyed, 17,600 tons of shipping
sunk, including three big destroy
ers.
On the European Front:
The combined bomber forces of
the Eighth Air Force and the R. a.
F- have furthered their assignment
of destroying the factories, the
transports, and weapons of Germany
in preparation for invasion. Satur
day, October 12, Adolf Hitler made
a pep talk in effort to bolster the
morale of bomb-weary Germany.
Since that time, Bremen, Munser,
Hanover , the German Ruhr, air-
that equals a joint-mail system.
'And so we bid adieu to the happy
little island of Salem. As We leave
the sleepy willows swaying in the
breeze, we hear the natives chant
ing ga ilyj “Ela' allah phftt,
pfthed”—which when translated
miftns: if you want more dirt, dig
it.
fields in Athens, and Danzig have
been hard hit by Allied bombs.
Reported missing in action over
Munser: Lt. John G. Winant, Jr.,
son of the TI. S. Ambassador to Eng
land.
On the Home Front:
On Wednesday, October 13, the
Allies struck a major blow in U-boat
warfare with announcements that
I'ortugal has granted Great Britain
air and sea base privileges on the
vital Azores Islands straddling the
Atlantic shipping lanes. The bases
w’ill also be acceptable to American
ships. Observers do not expect Ger
many to declare jvar on Portugal.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull is
reported on his way by air to the
tripartite ministers’ conference in
Moscow with British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden and Soviet
Foreign Comissar Molotov. The con
ference is expected to be a fore
runner of a tripartite meeting among
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
An official statement from Anglo-
American sources stated this week
that Germany lost more U-boats
damaged and sunk in recent Atlantic
Convoy battles than Allies lost in
escort and merchant vessels.
The economic bureau states that
war production is nearing its peak
and the possibility of increased out
put of civilian goods is now being
explored. ,
Time: Around 8:00 A. M.
Place: Clewell Smokehouse
There they go straggling through
on to breakfast. Grace Lane is still
amused by a joke somebody told
her the night before.
Sarah Merritt is always happy—
she comes through w'ith such a bright
smile that it almost hurts.
Breakfast is over and the place
is so dense with smoke you aren’t
even able to read your morning mail
(if you have any)—
Speaking of mail—I’m sure you
heard about Roy coming home
All! Life can be beautiful—can’t it
D. Little ?
Well, the 8:30 bell has rung
there is a mad rush—somebody
swiped somebody’s book—and al
ways that faithful scream, Don’t
put that duck out. I’ve got to have
just one more drag.” i
Time: Afternoon
Place: Smokehouse
Those bridge fiends! Nancy Riden-
hour’s R. A. F. Wings! Big time!
Here comes Helen McMillan all
dolled up and leaving for West
Point at 2:00—Helen, what happen
ed to that cig you were inhaling?
FVances Sullivan, we can’t leave you
out. France learned a
Please ask her to do her “Seal
act”—very good with all the sound
effects.
Normie just stopped to tell us
about “Gugene” and how she’s
stopped smoking! .loke! Kaky ‘is
going to see “Sut”—Lucky girls
Well, afternoons are boring—I’ll ad
mit—
Time: P. M. after dinner
Place: Smokehouse
Scene:, Upper classmen in a hud
dle together—freshmen pouring in
and out with men—Ah! This young
er generation. Bet Hancock is flash
ing a pair of wings—Her new theme
song is ‘^Oh, Johnny! How You
Can Love”—Garrison and her prea
Cher were seen about—Garrison,
you’d better take voice, that choir
may be a big responsibility.
Jenny and Jimmy were stomped
on all night.
Don’t you love paratrooper’s
boots? Annabelle Allen, Coit ITed-
fern, and Ellen Braddock do too!
“Oh, for a man!”—-New battle cry
on Salem campus.
Freshmen, won’t it be nice to
be grown up—Carol Gregory was
last seen-shaking! Well, look who
her soph is—Senior Starbuck! Good
luck, Carol. Well, this weekend pro
mises, to be a big one—Duke-Caro-
lina football game—Well, diddies
from the smokehouse will maybe
let you know how the gal prospered
this coming weekend.
DON’T QUOTE ME, BUT—
Frankly have you ever seen a
more glorious fall? Please notice the
red, red ivy on the front of Home
^hurch. Speaking of Home Church
■—w'e finally got up the courage to
drag ourselves out ot bed at the
break of dawn and—by missing
breakfast—wo made it to the early
morning chapel. We have been do
ing it ever since!
Do you know we haven’t seen the
“little Reverend” yet. Some one
said, wo won’t vouch for it, but
some one did say that he has a mus
tache already! Like we said, it
may or moy not be true but it re
mains that we want to see him,
please.
■ We had peacefully lost all trace
of time until our duty bound peda
gogues felt the urge to slap tests in
our faces. Gruesome! Hence w0
must dig into the dark and dismal
foregone weeks and prepare fo^ the
worst. Of course, the dance that
the Stee Gee is flinging should coun
teract our woefulness.
Now, if we may, we will launch
into a grievance or two. Thomas
Wolfe wasn’t the only lost, wander
ing soul. Oh, no. That poor May
Day Committee! They migrate from
Clewell’s Bottom to Fifth Moor
Main. There they squatt until th3
property be claimed and then—with
new stunt— never a murmuring word—they set
■ out on a new pilgrimage, so help us
Zeus! At the present the Pierrettes
are harboring them under their
dramatic wing. May be in the not
too distant future they will come
by a permanent settlement — Who
knows?
To Miss Read —• congratulations
for at last coming out of tliat hor
rid east. Now get rid of the tape
and crutches and everything will be
fine!
We can’t pass up the opportunity
of praising last Thursday’s chapel
program, please, Dean Vardell, do
it again real soon!
Don’t forgot to get your Christ
mas packages for the boys overseas
in the mail before October li'j—that’s
the deadline.
Don’t you just love the ardor ef
*thi3 column? If we treat Shakes
peare like this tomorrow we prob
ably will be treating him thus the
next year too—Ilm-m-m-m! Good
night!
How Do You
Do It?
AIN’T IT SO?
“When a W’oman receiveth a
letter she readeth it many times
and tucketh it into her shirtwaist
by day and under her pillow by
night. When a man receiveth a
letter he readeth it with haste and
sticketh it into his pocket, and
when he sendeth his pants to the
cleaners, he placeth it in the back
of a drawer. Years later he findeth
it and readeth it. Then he sayeth
to himself, ‘ Who in the hell is
Mabel?’”
Did you ever watch people wliile
they study? (Maybe you ought to
be doing the same, but never mind
that). Most famous of the what-to-
3o’s with an extra hand is the gen
eral hair ruffing act.
Now take Tizzie over there at
the corner table. She picks out a
nice strong lock of about 10,000
hairs and starts twisting, pulling
ringing out and screwing around.
Whether the plot is exciting or not
is shown by her rate of speed in
winding. Some dainty misses just
pat instead of pull. Preference is
always to the doer.
Next is the Idle Pencil. Doodling
doesn’t rate very high, but chewing
does. A word of warning: don’t
chew too hard, you might become
“gat-toothed.”
■Attention: Chaucer. General
sprawling and stretching of limbs
rates in the top brackets—^whether
to get three-fourths of your torso on
the table or on the floor comes out
in favor of the table. Why? . . .
Simple reason—the table will bend
(sometimes) and the floor won’t (no
times). The Perfect Posture Misses
are few and far .between. To those
who are here are our bows off to
them.
AT THE THEATRES
‘Sorry, but we’re all booked up.”
Said by a librarian.
1
“I don’t know how to express
it.”
Try parcel post.
Carolina—Mon. and Toes.
“First Comes Courage”
Wed., Thurs., Fri., and Sat.
“Salute to the Marines”
State—Mon., Tues., and Wed.
“We’ve Never Been Licked”
Thursday—Stage Show
Fri. and Sat. •
“Dangerous Blonde”
Forsyth—Mon. and Tues.
“Coney Island”
Wednesday
“Reunion In France”
Thursday
“Cairo”
Fri. and Sat.
“Stranger in Town”
Colonial—Mon. and Tues.
‘‘Scarface”
Wednesday
“When Jonny Comes Marching
Home”
Thursday
“Rhythm of the Island”
Fri. and Sat.
“Red River Robinhood”
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