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Page Six. THE SALEMITE April 12, 1946. Compensation by Bernice Bunn Spring was in the air. Marj,orie felt it pulsing through her body as she sat at her desk and itared out the window. She felt it in the moonlight that touched the budding trees with silver flecks, in the de licious aroma of the season’s first jonquils and the new-mown grass, but most of all she felt it in the snatches of soft music that drifted into her bedroom from the dance across the street. A sudden rush of warmth raced through her veins, and for an in stant she was a part of the beauty that surrounded her. Her mind soar ed up, up beyond the platinum tree tops and the fluid blackness of the sky. The brilliant moonlight en folded her, and she streched forth a timid hand to touch a st^r. “Marjie! Oh, Mar-jie! Have you finished that term paper yet?” 'Marjorie sank down, down to reality again and answered her mother’s question with a sharp, “No!” ‘■‘Term papers, term papers! I’m beginning to eat them, drink them, and sleep them! I don’t even get a vacation during spring holidays. Everyone goes to the dance, but I stay here and write my term paper. No one else bothers with them. Why should I care whether or not mine’s d,one well? But I do, I really do; for every word I write is practice for my novel. Let them flirt and dance and whisper in their partners’ ears — Marie, Jeanie, all of them. Writing means more to me than dancing ever could. After all, I was there last Saturday with Jimmy, and I could have gond with him tonight. Of course he didn’t really ask me, just said, ‘Well, I’ll gee you at the danee next Saturday!’. But he would have, if I had hinted that I wanted to go with him. I know he would have. He comes home every week end. In fact he may be at the dance now—looking for me, of course. But I don’t care where he is.” With that thought Marjorie turn ed away from the window and look ed at the neat stacks of notecards on her desk. She picked up the pile labeled “Maugham: Of Human Bondage, Views on love and wo men,” skimmed over the cards, and began to write. Between moments of pencil nibbling and deep thought, she wrote two pages, but she could not go on. Slender threads of melody drifted through the open window. “You walk by, and every body starts to sigh . . . here comes heaven again.” “I write and think and write some more, and yet they keep on dancing. The whole world in a turmoil; there may be another war, yet they keep on dancing. Oh, I’m WELFARE’S DRUG STORE IS THE PLACE Where Everything Is Clean and Sweet A HAPPY EASTER Lto all Paschal Shoe Repair Co. We also Dye Shoes- Any Color “Best In Our Line” 219 W. 4th St. DIAL 4901 “The Original Oreaseless Doughnut” Diff erent—Tasty—Satisfjdng KRISPY KREME Doughnut Company Just Around the Comer glad I’m not there. I shall be the one who is successful, the only one. Long after they have danced and danced their lives away, I shall be remembered. My novels will live forever. Intelligent people will read them and .say, ‘Profound! She was a deep thinker, a woman of genius!’ But they won’t wait until I’m dead; they’ll recognize my genius when I publish my first book. Jimmy will read the reviews in the New York Times. He’ll be out of seh0|0l by that time, and he’ll come up to New York to congratulate me. He’ll walk into my private office and shake hands with me. Then he’ll look down deep in my eyes and smile and say, ‘Oh, Marjie ... !’” “Marjie! Oh, Marjie! Please, darling, hurry up and finish your paper. It’s getting late, and you must i?et soj. e ! home.” ‘^M,other again. Why does she al ways worry about my getting sleep? I^ven when I dated Jimmy last Saturday I had to be home by twelve. He understood though. That’s not why he hasn’t written. He’s been busy, probably taking six weeks’ tests. That’s the rea son ... I know he likes me. He said so; he said so twice! And Jimmy wouldn’t lie. He probably couldn’t come home this week-end, with tests and all. That explains it; that explains everything!” But once again snatches of music broke into her thoughts . . . “Every morning, every evening . . . ain’t we got fun?” “Loud, jazzy music,” thought Marjorie. “Just like the people there . . . Stupid and shallow, oblivious to everything worthwhile. Their cheap sophistication leaves no ro.om for appreciation of true genius. I’m glad I’m not there. Glad, glad, glad!” Marjorie looked down at her work and tried to write again, but she was- blinded by the burning saltiness of her tears. SALEMITES THE ANCHOR CO. UP TOWN MEETING PLACE “The Shopping Center” Helen Robbins Announces Plans For Spring Golf Tournament MISS SARAH BTJEEELL Miss Burrell Is Engaged Mr. and Mrs. James H. Burrell of Virginia Beach, Virginia, an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Kathleen, above, to Dr. Howard Sheldon Jordan. The marriage will take place this summer. VICTOR, COLUMBIA AND DECCA RECORDS BOCOCK - STROUD Company Comer 4th at Spruce KEEP IN STEP WITH Majon. Gold Manufactured by Buf: B04ff 9*tC, Winston-Salem, N. 0. The Salem College Juniors and Seniors are taking golf this Spring from Thurman Edwards. Mr. Ed wards teaches these girls from 3:30 to 4:30 every afternoon at Reynolds Park. Some of the girls have never touched a golf club before and at least five or six of the girls are expected to develop into good goff’ers, shooting between 80 and 85. There are about twenty girls in expected to develop into good golfers, wood and iron shots and then play the course. ■ Helen Robbins, golf manager plans to announce a tournament schedule for the Spring term. Girls fr.om the Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes will com- I>ete to determine the class cham pions, who will eventually meet to decide the school champion. The girls playing golf are Bettye Bell, Jean Gattis, Ruth Hayes, Mar tha Lou Heitman, Agnes Quinerly, Ann Barber, Sue Moore, Lucy Scott, HaJlie McLean, Martha Boatwright, Sally Boswell, Mary Hunter Hack ney, Cionnie Scoggin, Joanne Swas- sey, Lomie Lou Mills, Betsy John Forrest, Sara Coe Hunsucker, Helen Reynolds, Ticka Senter and Jean Sullivan. Edward Weeks (Continued from page one) work on the settlers of the Mid-west, by Conrad Richter, follows up The Trees. M’illiam Allen White’s autobio graphy Mr. Weeks considered an ‘ ‘enchanting and fresli” work in which Mr. White “writes himself the most admirable and openhearted of Americans.” Mr. Weeks discussed the Arch of Triumph by Remarque, a story about a “ghost doctor,” a French refugee, tortured and hiding in Paris, which e,ontains excellent touches of pre-war Paris. Mr. Weeks closed with Charles Olson’s poem “Pacific Lament.” VOGLER SERVICE Ambulance—Funeral Directors Dependable for More Than 85 Years DIAL 6101 RAY W. 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