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Page Two. THE SALEMITE April 27. 1945. In Answer For The Juniors 1 write this article hoping that it will answer for you all questions which you may have concei’ning tlie Junior-Senior Dance. Any disagreement oi* misunderstanding which arose that night can be traced back to neglect on the part of the Junior Class and myself. There ai-e certain rules of Salem which I neglected to tell the boys in tJie orchestra, and therefore tliey had no idea they were do ing wrong. Since this was our first orchestra at Salem College, we couldn’t be expected to know all things which should have been done, but we did know enough to treat them as equals and as guests of the College. Many things were said to the members of the orcliestia that night which they did not understand, but they were from out of town and couldn’t be expected to know just who was there and just how important they were in the life of Salem College. Not knowing our College they didn’t know that these things were all said by persons who were upset by their actions and who spoke to them with authority. We of the Junior Class feel that we owe the orchestra an apology, because for the first time we were ashamed of our College. We only hope to clear Salem’s name for those boys who 1 ’ve had in a long time!” The big slices of ham, night. 1 hope too that you can all see that the l)lame is on no one person. It was unfortunate that it had to happen but we did learn a lot, and we will use this knowledge in the future; Doris Little The I. R. S. Triumphs Again Tlie quiet during assemtdy programs this week was something mystical and gratifying —mystical ))ecause it seemed unusual and un believable, and gratifying because it enabled us to hear and enjoy Dean Vardell’s prelude. The conduct of the audience for a change was in keeping with the dignity of classic Memor ial Hall and the informative programs which are presented there. Three cheers for Lou Stack who made the charming plea in assemblj' last week and thanks to the girls, who made the neat poster reminders. Published Weekly By The Student Body Of Salem College Member Southern Inter-CoHegiatcr Press Association tjUBSCEIPTION PRICE - $S. A YEAR - 10c A COPY EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor-in-Chief Mary Ellen Byrd Assistant Editor Effie Euth MaxweU Associate Editor ...I Hazel Watts Sports Editor - Mary Lucy Baynes Music Editor Peggy Davis Copy Editor ; Helen McMillan Mike-up-EditQr Virtie Stroup Feature Editor Marguerite Mullin Faculty Advisor Miss Ji“3s Byrd Senora Lindsey, Frances Law, Martha Boatwright, Helen Thomas, Bernice Bunn, Catherine Bunn, Jane Mulhellem, Coit Redfearn, Adele Chase, Janet John ston, Kosalind Clark, Genevieve Frasier, Margaret Styres, Lynn Williard, Lueile Newman, Rosamond Put- zel, Peggy Taylor, Margaret Fisher, Constance Scog gins, Maria Hicks, Rebecca Clapp, Jane Calkins, Jane Bell, Peggy Davis, Sheffield Liles, Lois Wooti?n, Mar garet Willi9,ms, Sarah Hege, Nell Jane Griffin, Jane Lovelace, and Martha Lou Heitman. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Emily Harris Business Manager Elizabeth Beckwith Ass’t. Business Manage^: Mildred Garrison Circulation Manager Betsy Thomas Advertising Manager Betsy Long, Doris Little, Marianne Everett, Kathleen Phillijw, Martha Walton, Sheffield Liles, Lomie Lou Mills, Margaret Brown, Martha Ilarriaon, Winifred W'all. Mary Farmer Brantley, Nancy Hills iJavis, Margaret Nichols, Mary Frances McNeely, Margaret Carter, Betty Hennessee, Mollie Cameron, Norma Rhoades, Mary Stevens, Marion Waters, Sally BosewelU Carol Beckwith, Edith Longest, Elli^ Rodd, Ann Hairston, Mary Elizabeth Reimera, Barbara Watkins, Margaret West, Dodie Bayley, Agnes Bowers, Greta Garth, Catherine Bunn, Leslie Bullard, Emma Mitchell, and Henrietta Walton. Personal Bat Not Private by Mary Ellen Byrd Well, here I am in this column again, partly l>eeause I have some things to say but mostly because I forgot to assign this place to anybody el>e. That’s what happens when you consider your self about rid of a job—you start getting careless. We may not be quite rid of ours, however, for our new editor wrifes that recu)>eration is' slow and that she’ll be lucky if she darkens the doors of the Hun Printing Company again this year. W'e’re hop ing that whether she gets to the Sun or not she’ll at least get back to Salem before Commencement. All of you “extra-currii'uiar” majors surely could have piled up the hours this week if you’d taken time out for all our campus visitors. The variety was interesting—Hindus, Peace Planners, Patients, and poets all in succession!—The problem of India loomed large Monday night, especially if you ate dinner with it. In fact, if you wondered how Mr. Goslial got so wound up for his lecture it was be cause we gave him a good start in the dining room. Dr. Pfaff’s poem, as well as Dr. Pfaff, .seems to have made quite a hit on campus. Wonder if anyone ever wrote “God, I’m thankful I’m a Salemite”—but no, that sounds like an idea for some other schools we know! The liveliest ‘ ‘ patients’’ I’ve ever seen were the rehabilitation patients from Fort Bragg, ft was strangely nice having them to color up campus for a while. .Among others. Dr. RoniJthaler, seemed to enjoy their visit immensely. I wonder if he wa^ also once a general ?” If you have an inkling of poetry in your soul, it must have been stirred up by Mr. Coffin’s talk Tuesday night. He not only read poetry that “came straight home”; ho gave his whole talk in poetry! It was honestly hard to tell when his comments end ed and his poems began. If any of you amateurs wrote any verses that night, please turn ’em in to the you-know-what! Ves, it’s nice to have visitors! And speaking of visitors we’re to have quite a great number exactly one week from this Saturday. That means that it’s time to start prining for that traditional sunny May Day. And let’s have the sun earlier this .year than last year! Of course it was very dramatic for the sun to come out just as Lee Sullivan came down the hill, but it might be more dramatic to get to sit on dry fand this time! What would Salem do without the juniors? They don’t stop with giving the seniors the most sf>ectacular dance in years—now they’re going to entertain the .-itudent body and faculty at a picnic. Chance thought: Having once been a junior myself, I wonder if the two events are connected in any way! Nevertheless, we think the i>icnic’s a great idea and we’ll see 'you on the road to Washington Park. P. S. Does Salem automatically expel a girl if she can’t read or write? I just lost my glasses and my fountain [>en. Compliments For Salem You may allow your heals to swell just for a minute as you read some “good words for Salem” which I heard this week: ;\Ir. Goshal, at dinner in the dining-room Monday night, said, ‘■‘Before I go any further (talking about India’s industrialization), I just want to tell you that this is the best food I’ve had in a long time!’’ The big sices of ham: he said, could not be found in New York, and iti neither High Point, Greensboro, nor Colum bia. S. C. had he found such a good meal. One of the veterans from Fort Bragg visit ing on campus Tuesday looked about him in wonder and said, “Why I never saw such a reception! It’s better than the one we got at (ireensboro.” Well, our food and our hospitality have been praised, so that proves that Salem is living uj) to her Southei'n reputation. But then we knew that all the time, didn’t we? M. E. B. AT THE THEATERS CAROLINA Saturday—April 28 “Objective Burma!” Monday - Wednesday—April 30 May 2) “Tonight and Everynight” Thursday - Saturday—May '3 - 5 “Princess and the Pirates” FORSYTH Saturday—'April 28 “She’s a Sweetheart” Monday - Tuesday—April 30, May t “Rainbow Island” Wednesday - Thursday—May 2, 3 “T.aura” Friday - Saturday—May +, 5 “What a Blonde” STATE Friday - Saturday—April 37, 28 “Enter Arsene Lupin” Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday— April 30 - May 2 “Guest in the House” Thur.sday - Saturiay—May 3 - 5 “Utah” Letters from the Service This letter is from a wounded soldier in England. England April 12, 1945. Dear Mary, This morning I was told some very tragic news. I had just finished breakfast and was playing ping pong with Lt. Ledford, when one of the patients came in and told us that President Roosevelt had just died. My immediate reaction was to search my brain for some reason for this fellow ]>atient to be joking with me. There was no reason, and he said that he was i»ot joking. I was shocked and stupified. We left the recreation room and walked slowly—not as though we had just risen on a beautiful morning, but as though we had been marching all night in an unceasing cold, driving rain with heavy weights on our backs. To say that this is a world tragedy is a gross understatement. I realize well enough that many many people had 'differences of opinion with Mr. Roosevelt. I, too, differed on many of his home policies. However, since I have come overseas, I have come to understand —as I believe he understood—the issue. Much more, yes, very much more is at stake than the United States or the inconveniences and taxes placed on the people of the U. S. .Inst as your forefathers and mine changed their sense of duty from their individual states. New York and North Carolina, to the United States, we must change our sense of duty from the United States as an individual nation to the w'orld as United Nations, and united they MT^ST be. I know that. For an ex ample, the taxes have been extreme ly high and hard to meet, but they are indeed a small price to pay for the protection and safety thev have afforded the people and the country. Millions were not so for tunate. Pictures, newsreels, and words can never show to the people of the U. S. the damage and pain caused by the failure of the world to unite after the last war. We are the leaders and we must not fail. There must be justice for all and treatment must be impartial. I can visualize a glorious world second only to Heaven, and I pray that my vision will be realized. Someone has said and many have repeated that there will always be war. We can never ]>rove this to be a lie if America is selfish and too small to rise and meet the situation. Mr. Truman is now our President, and he needs our unfailing support. He has pledged himself to carry on as he believes IToosevelt would hav'e done. Instead of our doubts and questions, he needs our sup port, and we must speak up and let him know that we are behind him. He is our President, and he will be for the next three and a half years. We must give him every ad vantage that we can, not as victori ous and selfish Democrats, or de feated and revengeful Republicans, but as loyal Americans all, as future members of a united world, and as human beings striving to liberate forever the human race. May it be God’s wish that these words and wishes of mine become actual faets in the near future. Love, Burt P. S. These were my thoughts as I rested on top of _^a small grass- covered hill, shaded by old oak trees thru which a cool breeze was blowing from a cloudless blue sky. The news of a great man’s death was still on my heart—as it is now —and the memory of destruction, suffering, and death was still as it always shall be—in my mind. If you feel this way let it be known to the world. Burt On a tin; les passages qui suivent ■I’une lettre reque par M. .Tordan. La dame qui ocrit demeure a Paris oii elle tient une (K'tite pension. Veuve depuis la Premiere Grande Guerre, elle n’a qu'un fils, Xino, dont elle parle. La lettre fut ecrit le 8 avril 1945. “. . . C’est seulement hier que j’ai reQu votre lettre du 25 fevrier et vous ne saurez jamais a quel t>oint elle m’a fait plaisir. J’attends Nino (]ui est prisonnier en .Allemagne depuis 4 ans 1/2. .le ne I’ni pas vu depuis Janvier 40 mais j’esp^re le revoir bientot, car il se trouvait au nord de Stuttgart et j’apprends aujourd’liui que notre armee fonce par la. Pouvezvous imaginer mon emotion a la pensee que je vais revoir mon enfant parti depuis 6 ans 1/2 ? Je vons -dirai un jour, car je pense bien que vous reviendrez un jour nous revoir, tout ce que nous avons souffert pendant l’occu|>ation. Cela d^passe ce que votre imagina tion peut concevoir; essayons de I’oublier, maintenant qu’on peut parler haut, ouvrir ses fenetres, ecrire ce qu’on veut/sans crainte de voir surgir la gestapo! Nous sommes pauvres, on mange rarement i sa faim et nous avons oubH6 le gout du tM, du chocolat, des doucenrs de notre bonne cuisine, r.e beurre vaut entre 800 F et lOOOF le kilo, mais tout cela n’est rien et ce qui nous rend vraiment mal- heureux au dela de tout, c’est le manque de .savon. On en touche chaque mois de quoi se laver deux jours. Aussi, puis(]ue vous etes si bon de vouloir m’addresser quelque chose, alors du savon et, s’il reste un peu de place, du the. Mais surtout, que cela ne vous gene en rien; jo meprise tellement les fran^ais qui se sont jetes sur vos compatriotes conune des mendiants. Faut-il que ce peuple fran^ais si fier autrefois ait souffert pour perdre a ce point sa dignity—-mais ils ont eu faim et froid ... II ne faut pas nous juger sur notre attitude presente mais il faut com- prendre. Les bodies nous ont brime tout pris ne nous lai«sant que de quoi vivre 2 jours par semaine, les allies nous ont bombardfis, notre pays est demoli, des femmes, des enfants, des vieillards ont et6 tues dans leur maisou. Les boches ont fusille d’une facon continue (70,000) entoures de ruines et d’horreur; c’est de quoi ebranler les nerfs les plus solides. Pourtant, quelle joie A 6te la liberation, quelle ferveur de recon naissance en reconnaissant vos chers Tommies et notre grand de Gaule avec sa petite armee!! Eufin, nous oublierons tout cela, nous referons une Prance solide. Dans ma famille, nous avons eu le maleur d’enterrer tons nos vieux. Mes vieux oncles bretons n’ont pu tenir devant I’occupation; ils sont morts! .Te suis navree de vous ^crire aussi tristement. Je voudrais vous dire des choses meilleures, vous dire que nous uinions bien les americans, que nous les admirons, que nous admirons leur magnifique materiel. Ma soeur qui habite Le Mans et qui a 6te delivree avant nous par les Amfiri- cains, m’ecrivait “depuis (> jours le inateriel amSricaiu passe sous nos fenetres et depuis 6 jours notre en- thousiasme ne s’est pas ralenti; c’est merveilleux ...” F. D. R. GIVEN 33 LINES IN BRITISH WHO’S WHO This article was taken from the Winston-Salem Joumal-Sentinel. Lotulon (AP).—The British Who’s Who for 194.5, just off the [M-ess, devoted 31 lines to a biography of Adolf Hitler and even listed the Fuehrer’s telephone iiuinber in Berlin— 11-6191. The late President Roosevelt’s biography took up ‘53 lines; Prime Minister Churchill’s 68 and Marshal Stalin’s 4.5. /
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