October 17, 1947.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
Secrets And Systems
Stack Salem Library
It all started when cigarettes went
up to nineteen cents a pack—I found
myself working in the library. Let
me hasten to explain that working
in the library does not consist of
sitting behind the desk and reading
popular fiction.
Those signs, ‘ ‘ Please do not shelve
books,” do not apply to me. It’s
all squat, all stoop, all squint while
I put the books in their proper
places. There are also numerous sys
tems to master and many records
to keep, the workings of which, I
feel are my duty to pass on to the
unsuspecting public. For instance,
those colored clips on each card
Mean Something: the color is a
quick indicator to tell what day a
particular book is due. In my es
timation, the color for each day has
a significance. What could be more
appropriate than blue for Monday?
Toward the end of the week
“things” are looking rosy; Friday’s
color is pink. The librarians must
want to keep tabs on the envious,
unhappy people who spend week
ends on campus; Saturday’s color is
green. Those somber black signals,
for such are those little colored tags
called, show that the faculty have
overdue books!
Taking Stock
Have you ever been peacefully
studying in the library and noticed
a librarian “casing the joint”—
eyeing every member in the room?
This process, “taking the count”
occurs every hour on the falf hour.
In this way, the number of people
that use the library is recorded.
This number, eager beavers, is far
too low. If you want the faculty
to think you are applying yourselves
this year, get out of the smoke
houses and write your letters in the
library. If you want to be sure not
to miss your friends come to the
library during the “peak” hours:
eleven-fifteen, three, and eight.
Reader’s Choice
The circulation of books is another
record, accurately, meticulously kept.
The librarians know exactly how
many books on Fine Arts, the Soc
ial Sciences, Biography, and the
classifications of the Dewey Deci
mal system are taken out of the
library in a day. Without the power
of a prophet, I can tell that parallel
for philosophy has been assigned; a
total of twenty-nine philosophy books
Went out in two days last week.
Last Tuesday, there was one Salem-
ite interested in Useful Art; one
such book went into circulation.
Freshmen book reports must be
nearly due; twelve fiction books
Went out earlier this week.
The library has a card for every
student on which is recorded the
title of every book she takes out.
You can tell a man by the company
he keeps. You can tell a Salemite
by her card the library keeps.
Upstairs, Downstairs
In addition to supplying the
smokehouses with cigarettes, (I hav
en’t time to smoke the cigarettes
tayself!) I have lost several pounds
running from floor one to floor four
finding uncounted people, and dis
placed books, and, contrary to all
previous experiences, have been the
fly in the ointment of these smooth-
running systems.
Porcar Bitten
Barber Photo Supply
Company
Kodak Headquarters
106 W. 5th St.—Opposite Post Office
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.
Taylor Floats
In Salty Lake
by Carols^ Taylor
If the reader will think back two
issues of the Salemite, she will re
member that I was last seen lost
in the Bocky Mountains, somewhere
near Colorado Springs.
From Colorado Springs, we travel
ed through the Eoyal Gorge, on our
way to Salt Lake City, Utah. I
can’t say I saw much of the Royal
Gorge as it was misting rain and
all I could see from the train win
dow were bare rock walls and a
muddy stream which my friends
tried to convince me was the Colo
rado River. After passing through
the Gorge, we traveled through a
valley bounded on either side by
mountains. Janie and I liought a
book with pictures of these moun
tains in it, and spent the afternoon
rushing from one side of the train
to the other, arguing in loud voices
as to which mountains were which.
This smooth riding was all too
short, and by dinner we were again
shifting up and down hills. (I shall
always remember trying to eat chick
en fricasse while looking out the
diner window at a sheer drop of
400 feet.)
Mormon Mecca
To my great surprise, we arrived
in Salt Lake City, with no pullman
cars lost. We were immediately
greeted by a towering seven-foot
giant who called himself “Shorty”,
and who also said he was our guide.
We climbed into buses and chugged
off to see the Mormon Mecca. We
visited Utah’s Capitol building,
which is by far more beautiful than
any I have ever seen—it is finished
Boney Foresees
New Creations
For Weehend
Powers Agree
(Cont. from page one)
tine frontiers.
UN On The Spot
This action calls for a very im
portant decision in the UN as to
what sort of a police force to have
in Palestine when plans for the
partition are completed, and during
the interim period. Somebody is
going to be unhappy and start toss
ing bombs around or killing people
with machine guns, instead of going
out to the Dead Sea to drown his
sorrows; so the need for a police
force will be imperative.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that
the Two Powers will be able to
settle this problem down to its fine
points, without too njueh friction,
too much bloodshed, or too much
power polities. If this is accomp
lished the hope of the people of
the world that the United Nations
can do what it purposed: keep the
peace, will be considerably streng
thened.
If the editor lets this go by, I
would like to take another column
inch to say that some headline
writers are illiterate and that, if
anybody bothered to read my article
of last week, I wished to leave the
impression that U. S. taxes were not
supporting communism, but rather,
attempting to counteract the spread
of communism.
(Ed. note: We hope that Janie
left the impression in spite of our
illiteracy.)
Salem has been the scene of much
activity this week, with everyone
dashing around trying on evening
dresses, buying those new cocktail
dresses for the tea dance Saturday
afternoon.
Of course, your old fashion editor
would like to go snooping this week,
but that seems to be a little unfair.
I guess I’ll just have to wait with
the rest ’till Saturday for the fall
showing.
I did however find out that Claire
Phelps has a smooth new copper
satin for Saturday’s dance.
Joy Martin has a very striking
new wool. The top is chartreuse
with high neck and cap sleeves, but
the skirt is simply yards of electric
blue. Sounds very good looking.
Mary Louise White has the best
looking new fall outfit. A smart
forest green wool suit, buttoned on
the side with matching green hat.
Definitel}' the newest thing in suits.
Bitsy Green has a new palomina
satin for the tea dance. Gracefully
draped neckline and harem skirt.
Tiens, guess I’d better dash, see
you next week, after I see all the
chic fashions of this weekend. Come
on and cooperate; drag out your
unique-est ensembles so 1 ’11 have
lots to write about next week.
So long—
Boney
Pinky Covers Campus;
Collects News and Gossip
inside with marble dug from the
Utah hills. In fact, everything that
went into the building was home
grown. (Readers will remember
that this was the site of the gover
nors’ conference last summer.) At
noon we attended an organ recital
in the Mormon Tabernacle, which is
near the Mormon Temple. No-one
is allowed within twenty feet of the
Temple unless he is a Mormon “in
good standing”. It is a beautiful
structure, very much like Duke Uni
versity Chapel, but larger.
On To Salt Lake
In the afternoon, we rode to Salt
Lake City. The lake is located about
ten miles from Salt Lake City, in
the middle of a large, barren, salt
flat. We hurried right in the lake.
Everyone has heard of the strange
buoyancy of Salt Lake. We had
been told, also, that the water was
like molasses, and impossible for
swimming. The buoyancy is certain
ly strange, indeed—it’s an odd feel
ing to sit down in water and stay
on top. As far as being impossible
for swimming, we found it the same
as any lake, only your feet stay
out of the water and you can’t
kick. The water is too salty foi^
pleasure, and we soon left.
We had dinner that evening at
the Roof Garden of the Hotel Utah,
in Salt Lake City. All I remember
about the meal is unpleasantness,
as I hadn’t had time to bathe after
my swim and was still encased in
a layer of crystalized salt. Squirm-
ming and scratching, I consumed a
four course meal and left for the
train station and Yellowstone Park
Park.
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Enlargements
Cameras
Kodak Albums
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“What Stuff”
by Nancy Carlton
G: Pinky, what in the world is
all this stuff on my bed?
P:What stuff, Genny?
G:A11 these little pieces of paper.
What does ‘ ‘ M. D. fls. ’ ’ and McCall
cl. woman” mean? I’m going to
dump it in the wastebasket.
P:WaitI -Don’t! Don’t you darel
Here. Give ’em to me. That’s my
very life blood—the stuff for my
Salemite article! Jo Patterson spent
hours telling it all to me. And you
want to throw it away!
what does this “M. D. fls.” mean?
G:^\ell, all right, all right. But
P:Stupid! Mary Davis got four
orchids in seven days and a dozen
roses the eighth day. And the next
means that Margaret McCall got
some gorgeous roses from the clean
ing woman.
G: Why?
P: Ask her. Its real complicated.
Po you want to hear the rest?
G: Yes. I want to see you trans
late M. B. fall—Elaine Peg.”
P: Miriam Bailey and Elaine Mc-
Neely wore the same color coats
and kerchiefs to the Duke-Carolina
game. When the cheerleader fell
on Miriam and Mariam was carried
out. Peg Gray was moaning, “poor
Elaine”, and picturing an invalid
roommate. Miram’s broken ankle
is mending in Salem infirmary and
she will be hobbling back soon.
“P. and F. pin” means of course
Page Daniels being pinned to Fred
last week-end. /'Long c.—Deena”
is just a little note about Deena
and Johnny’s telephone conversa
tion. Sorta long.. Do you wanta
hear more?
G: Sure. But hurry. It’s almost
time for supper.
P: Well, Louise Hecht had a blind
date week-end before last and went
to Chapel Hill with him last week
end. Nice, huh? Mary Jane Trager
and Molly Darr have been bit bad
by the chain letter bug.
G: _What is “kn. arg. m. ”
P: Will you quit reading over my
shoulder? It simply means that
everyone is knitting and that Mary
Wells Bunting, Elaine Singer, Dot
Massey, and Janie Morris are knitt
ing argyles. ’Cept maybe I won’t
put that in. How in the world
would you spell argyles?
G: Good question. Who’s knit
ting swe.aters? That’s easv to spell.
SWEATERS.
P: Connie Neamond has started
the front of the white sweater. She
had d, little trouble with the 168
stitches she put in the back last
year. Anna McLaughlin is knitting
a white one too, and Candy Untiedt
is making a yellow angora one.
Let’s see. The back of this match
has the dance stuff. Be sure
Leach Speaks
To Faculty
The Faculty Group for Research
and Creative Work will have its
first public meeting in Louisa Wilson
Bitting living room on Monday night
at 7:30. Mr. Robert Leach will
read a paper on “Colonial Nan
tucket.”
Mr. Leach’s paper, “Colonial
Nantucket ”, is a study in com
munity, with emphasis upon pro
prietary land, and consequent social
conflict. It is one phase of the
book that he is working on at the
present. Mr. Leach spent the sum
mer at Nantucket conducting his
research.
Miss Jess Byrd is the chairman
of the faculty research committee.
The purpose of the organization is
to promote research among the fac
ulty. Other committee members are:
Miss Baynes, Dr. Wenhold, Miss
Shamburger, Mr. Leach, Dr. Barn
well, and Mr. Bromberg.
Mowery
(Continued from page one)
good at the Highland fling and the
French minuet!
Understandably, she’s well versed
in current political and social deve
lopments in China and smiles ex
pectantly when you speak of her
going back.
In the meantime she’ll teach plant
biology, physical geography, and a
chemistry lab. On Saturdays, when,
you may be griped to know, she has
no classes, she may write to her
two daughters or crochet. Oh, she’s
an unusual woman—have you real
ized it yet?
have your picture taken with your
date at the dance. Some of the
dance dates will be—oh, it isn’t
quite time for supper. The clock
must be fast. Jo Patterson and
Sunny will be there, Martha Scott
and Bob (her mother forgot to send
the hoop for her evening dress),
Sally Hamilton and Lewis, Mary
Louise White and George, Oenny
Beaver and Tom (see! You’re in
there, too.) and Virginia Coburn
and Raymond. Lila Pretwell, Jan
Ballentlne, and Clinky CUnkscales
will all be dating Anderson, S. C.
boys.
Well, that’s it. Let’s go eat.
G: There’s just one thing I want
to ask you. What is Gf. H. one Li.?
P: I really don’t remember.
And that is probably the most im-
toportant. Well, you figure it out.
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