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HAPPY VALENTINE
VOL. XXV.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday February 9, 1945.
Number 14.
^alcmite Sponsors Contest
Something new has been added . . . this time it’s a Sweet
heart Contest to be sponsored by the SALBMITE February 26
and 27. On these two days the Club Dining Room, or more
appropriately, the “Sweetheart Gallery”, will be full of pictures
of the sweethearts of Salem girls and each girl may vote as
many times as she wishes for “Salem’s Pin-Up Boy,” the “Best-
looking,” the “Cutest,” and the “Man I’d Like to Marry.”
Those pictures receiving the most votes will ])e published in
the Salemite and a copy of the paper will be sent to each of
the lucky winners.
Each Salem student is eligible to enter as many pictures as
she wishes with no entry fee attached. Snapshots will not
be accepted, however and girls are requested to remove, all
pictures from their frames. To ent«r a picture, write your name
and the boy’s name on the back of the picture and turn it in to
Jane Mulhollem, Coit Redfearn, or Martha Boatwright before
ten-thirty P. M. February 25.
Admission to the “Sweetheart Gallery” will be one dime
and each vote costs only a penny. Proceeds of this contest will
go into a war bond later to be converted into the indoor
swimming pool fund. Don’t wait . . . enter your Sweetheart’s
picture now. Who knows . . . you too may have a Van Johnson!
Alaska Is A
Big Subject
“My subject is Alaska, and it is
a big subject.” Mrs. Fred Schwalbe,
Moravian missionary, acquainted her
audience with many aspects of the
broad subject of Alaska during the
assembly hour Thursday.
Mrs. Schwalbe, who has been here
on *a brief furlough, will soon re
turn to Alaska where she has made
her home for the past 35 years. She
first went to Southwestern Alaska
to teach. There she met her hus
band and her daughters were born.
Gertrude and Catherine are both
alumnae of Salem academy and col
lege.
To point out the “bigness” of
her subject, Mrs. Schwalbe told of
the vastness of Alaska and of the
varied climate and industries. The
north is given over to snow and
ice, but southeastern Alaska, where
the tourists visit, is a scene of nat
ural grandeur.
Transportation has been a handi
cap to Alaska. Aviation has, how
ever brought the world to its doors.
Mrs. Schwalbe remembers the excite
ment of seeing the first plane. Now
she lives near two air bases.
The speaker told something of the
life of the Eskimo. To earn their
living, those on the east coast hunt
seals. Others are occupied by trap
ping in the winter, and catching
and drying salmon in the summer.
Homes of the up-river people are
Wooden, but those who live down
river make their huts of mud. Mrs.
Schwalbe gave the recipe for Eskimo
“ice-cream” ... a mixture of seal-
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Red Cross
Has New Job
Reconditioning of Holland cloth
is the new project of the Red Cross
Koom. After the cloth is recondi
tioned, it may be made into special
bed pads and fracture frame pillows,
which are needed now in the Base
hospitals.
Holland cloth is the cotton lining
of old tires cemented inside the
tubes. The tire companies are now
doing salvage work in ripping the
Holland cloth out of tire tubes. The
Red Cross has the cement laundered
out. It is returned from the laundries
to the Red Cross Room in a great
tangled mass of cotton strips. This
must be conditioned by untangling,
smoothing, and rolling the strips so
they may be sent to ironers. The
cloth is then used to make important
supplies for hospitals.
The Red Cross Boom which is lo
cated on the lower floor of Alice
Clewell Dormitory will be opened on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
and Thursdays from 2 ■ to 6 P. M.
and 7 to 9 P. M. The new work
will begin on Monday, February 11,
at 2 o’clock. No special dress is re
quired for the work. Every bit of
work counts because casualties are
mounting and more supplies are
needed.
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OF THE PEINCn VLS _i the operette, “The Gypsy Baron,
Johann Strauss), to be presented here on February 14, by the New
York Opera Company, are those shown above. At the left is Brenda Lewis
Ran Josephs Predicts
An Argentmiam Mimicli
The aggressive fascisini whichijf
threatens to put us into another
war must end now; yet the United
States is helping the military govern
ment of Argentina to become strong
er. This was the startling conclus
ion of the lecture last night of Ray
Josephs, who struck a hard blow to
one’s complacency concerning South
America.
Forcefully Mr. Josephs described
how the prosperity of Argentina has
enabled her drugstores to become
;headquarters for Nazi spys, and her
factories to become lookouts for
Berlin’s agents. He gave examples
of bicycle factories making tanks,
toothpaste factories making ammuni
tion, and the BayA aspirin factory
(run directly from Berlin) “mak
ing headaches” for the future. The
United States can take away Argen
tina’s economic support and put
an end to this, Mr. Josephs declared,
^e Argentine underground is urg
ing the United States to take
action; they realize that another
“Munich is shapening up” and that
it must be stopped now. However, in
1944 Mr. Josephs 'disclosed, the
United States bought four times the
supply of 1943.
The military government, estab
lished by the revolution of June 4,
1943, is run by officers, many of
whom were given free training in
Germany. Legislatures have been dis-
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American Movies
Influence Argentina
“American movies have a great
influence on the styles, sports, and
morals of the South American
people’,’ remarked Ray Josephs at
an informal tea given by the In
ternational Relations Club Thursday
afternoon in the basement of Bit
ting. Mr. Josephs also said that
Sinatra, Betty Davis, and Clark
Gable were idols of the Latins, but
Andy Hardy was the most popular
star among the college boys and
girls.
Mr. Josephs was very interested
in the War activities of Salem. He
was delighted to discover that we
have a Red Cross room and a weekly
sale of War stamps. As a whole, he
does not think the American public
is sufficiently war conscious. Mr.
Josephs also stated that the people
of the U. S. are not as familar with
the happenings of other countries as
are the people of South America. He
told us that the children learned
English before they even went to
kindergarten.
During the informal discussion
Russian tea was served and when
one of the girls asked Mr. Josephs
to have another cup he remarked,
“I surely will, but is that what it
ist In Argentina tea is not this
goodI”
Gypsy Baron,
Operetta,
Comes Here
Under the sponsorship of the Civie
Music Association, the New York
City Opera Company will present an
operetta, “The Gypsy Baron,” at
Reynolds Auditorium on Wednesday
evening, February 14.
George Meade has prejmred a
new version of the Strauss operetta
consisting of a prologue and three
acts. The performance here will
feature lavish costumes and sets
and a company of 70 with the prin
cipals, Brenda Lewis in the soprano
role of Saffi, and Richard Tyrol,
tenor, who sings Barinkay. The oper
etta will be sung in English and
is supported by a chorus and a
corps de ballet.
“The Gypsy Baron” is the fourth
event in the association series for
the season. The next concert will
present Joseph Szigeti, violinist, on
March 9.
Duke Glee Club
Gives Concert
The Duke University Men’s Glee
Club, under the direction of Dr. J.
Foster Barnes, will be featured in
concert, assisted by the Salem Col
lege Choral Ensemble, at eight
o’clock Saturday night, February 10,
in Memorial Hall.
The program as a whole offers a
wide variety of selections, appeal-
ing to varied tastes. The first group,
which is made up of sacred numbers
entirely, includes a Dutch folk choral '
and two selections from the classic
school of sacred literature.
In the second group, the two clubs
will unite in one number with Dr.
Charles G. Vardell at the organ. This
group also contains two unaccom
panied selections by the Salem
Choral Ensemble.
'fhe third and fourth groups con
tain semi-classical and popular num
bers from varied sources. Of especial
mention are “Johnny the One”, by
the modern American composer,
John Sacco, and “Italian Street
Song”, by Victor Herbert, which
will feature Myrtle Preyer Barnes as
guest soloist.
All proceeds from the concert will
go to the Red Cross. Tickets are
fifty cents and may be oblTained from
a member of the Choral Ensemble.
Salemites are urged to attend the
concert, not only because of the ex
cellent program, but to aid the work
of the Red Cross.
Noted War Correspondent Tells ‘‘Tlie Qospd According To St Jolrn”
by Hazel Watts crophone, he apologized for his in- cratic nrrr^v +i,o x ®
by Hazel Watts
The lights of Reynolds’ Auditor
ium dimmed, a silent, expectant hush
fell over the audience. It was Febru
ary 2. Mr. Sanford Martin, editor-in
■chief of the Winston-Salem Journal
and Sentinel introduced Robert St.
John, the eminent NBC correspon
dent. St. John is a man noted for
“humanizing” the war, and for
telling the story of the “little
people” affected by the war. The
“little people” are those who per
form or say heroic things and re
ceive no credit. They have stood
Up under the gruelling awfulness
of war-—the bombing, the strafing,
the hard hand of the conqueror.
They have stood the test with blood,
sweat, and tears.
When St. John reached the mi
crophone, he apologized for his in
formality. His voice was warm and
vibrant as he assured his hearers
that he could amuse them if he
chose to do so. He then hastened on
to say that he was going to talk on
the “World at War,” and that was
not humorous.
Leaning against the stand, St.
John began taking his audience with
him by giving snapshots of the war
gleaned from his four years over
seas during this war. Rrst was Bel
grade—the Nazi invasion, one in
every fifteen killed of the popula
tion—the desertion of King Peter
with all the gold and the crown
jewels. St. John could not refrain
from sarcasm and bitterness as he
told of the Yugoslavs’ condition.
From Yugoslavia and Tito’s demo
cratic army, the audience was trans
ported to Canterbury, England.
When Canterbury was bombed, the
whole town was dev'astated. St.
John emphatically pointed out that
while air forces attempted to bomb
military targets, only poor people
lived around oil refineries, ammuni
tion dumps, and war factories. Those
poor people are the ones who are
killed.
To the English, war means more
than just bombing. It means five
long years of blackout, shortages,
and death ever at the door. The
American people have no concep
tion of war. The British government,
even tells its subjects how many in
ches of water one may have in
one’s tub for a bath. The “doodle
bugs” fall, and the accounts bore
the American reader. The “doodle
bug” likewise bores Britain, but
no one complains. Everyone works
twelve hours a day. And at night
the “doodle bugs” come. St. John
told those pertinent facts dramati
cally.
The next snapshot was a litter
plane carrying twenty wounded pri
vates back to the United States.
After talking with one hopelessly
wounded boy, St. John came to the
conclusion that if all civilians were
required to look at a disabled
veteran once monthly for the next
fifteen years that there would never
be another war.
Winston Churchill’s handling of
the Greek Civil War was the cause
of St. John’s bitter attack. Ho felt
strongly that the Greek people were
entitled to an election if they wanted
one. The American people are too
gullible, and the national memory
is only twenty-four hours long.
Churchhill, who a few months before
hailed the Greeks as heroes, sudden
ly called them “ruffians, hoodlums,
and Trotskites”. Here the corres
pondent paused and said, “And this
is the gospel according to St. John.”
Assuring the audience that he
was not pessimistic about the war,
St. John closed with a poem about
faith in man’s progress. A long ques
tion and answer period followed in
which St. John touched on all the
major countries and the major pro
blems of the world today.