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The Belles of Saint Mary’s been some trifling opposition to cen sus taking ever since. The first census of the United States was made in 1790. Six hun dred and fifty enumerators asked six simple questions prepared by Thomas Jefferson. Some supersti tious people declined to answer the questions, while others thought that the whole scheme was probably a Federal plot to raise taxes. Today the Census Bureau of the United States is the largest statisti cal body in the world. The director, William L. Austin, has in his depart ment and in the field 135,000 people. These workers are now engaged in gathering statistics on population, business, manufacturing, mines, quarries, agriculture, crime, religion, death, income, social security and housing. For the 1940 census there are 120,- 000 enumerators. An individual may be asked to answer about fifty ques tions, and he may be fined $100 and get sixty days in jail for refusing to answer, or he may be fined $500 and get a year in jail for answering falsely. An enumerator gets four cents for each name listed in his book, and he may be fined $1,000 and given two years in prison for divulging information. The opposition voiced by Senator Tobey and others to the queries of the 1940 census is mostly political, frivolous and unworthy. This cen sus should provide a vast store of important facts that can be utilized by Government ofiicials, statisticians, economists, sociologists and all oth ers who strive to share in the solu tion of the grave problems of our time. Technological progress is destined to greatly change the American newspaper in the next ten years. The radio printer, through an at tachment to your radio, can print the news in your home while you sleep. The self-justifying type writer writes lines all the same length. The teletypesetter enables one person at a keyboard in JSTew York to set type simultaneously in a thousand newspaper offices through out the country. The transmission of photographs by wire is now high ly perfected, and a photograph of a page of type can be made as easily as a picture of a European states man or a Saint Mary’s May Queen. ITewspaper copy thus prepared can be photographed and a plate can be made from the photograph, eliminat ing entirely the setting of type. The conclusion is inescapable that the above devices mean a revolution in the newspaper publishing business. In a few years your favorite news paper in the old home town, large or small, will consist only of local news, “national and international news will be assembled in New York each day, written, set in type or type writ ten, the pages photographed and the photographs distributed by telegraph or radio to the papers all over the country to be printed as supplements to the local sections.”—(Bliven, New Republic.) Engineers who know best foresee sweeping changes in radio within the next few years, perhaps changes more revolutionary than the intro duction of sound to movies. The outstanding American radio inventor is Major Edwin H. Arm strong. He has in his time twice revolutionized radio. In 1933 he patented a new system of static broadcasting called FM (frequency modulation). This system has now attained such perfection that owners of FM radio sets around Hew York, Boston, Washington and elsewhere, have radio programs that are static- free, interference-free, and do not fade. Listeners say “that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing.” {Time, April 1.) The FM System is revolutionary, requiring special receiving and trans mitting sets, and marks with obso lescence most of the transmitting and receiving apparatus now in use. The change to FM would, therefore, mean the loss of large invested capi tal. Further, FM employs the same frequency band as television, but television could use a higher fre quency. The difficulties in so vast a change are great, but they will be gradually surmounted. . W. C. Guess. Everyone came back with new views on life in general after Spring Vacation. It seems that we all need ed some sort of a change, even the faculty! Let’s hope that this will carry us over until the summer! . . . Very few of us attended the Pika Ball due to the date. The lucky ones who did go were Edla Walker, Virginia Kaulbach, Annette Spruill, and Gene Davis. Marie Watters got to go to the Sunday night banquet. . . . Sybil Lytle and Betty Young blood appear to have a permanent booth down at the Little Store. They visit it every day and slowly sip their cokes! . . . Seen on the roof last Friday were Mary Frances Wil son, Isabel Montgomery, Harriet Carter, Marilyn Heaves, Millie Stewart, and Carol Heed. Jane Hurt is trying to increase that wonderful tan she acquired in Miami. Speak ing of tans, Becky Lockwood and Bev Thomas seem to be doing all right! . . . Tackling the tennis game were Foo Withers, Mildred Cleve land, Polly Lindsay, and Mary Tay lor. Maybe they have aspirations of entering the tennis tournament! . . . Fannie Cooper had the distinction of receiving the first flowers for Eas ter on Saturday, a beautiful orchid. Margaret Little Blount, Lucretia Hill, and Mary Daniels also had them the same day. . . . Elizabeth Wilson is really flaunting those chev rons around. In case you haven’t heard, they’re from A. M. A. . . . Toddy and Ken made up over the holidays; Sara Hair and Jimmie called it a day! Things are happen ing fast and furious! . . . Drinking dopes the other day were Julia Bridger and Haney O’Herron. Just taking a few minutes relaxation ? . . . . . . Ilak Kendrick is continually “on the go.” There’s not a thing she doesn’t participate in. More power to you, Hak! ... It was fun having the town boys home from Carolina, Davidson, and Mars Hill. . . . Vir ginia Lee got to see Bobby, Betty Ellington, Everette, Frances, Horth, and heaps of others. . . . Ask Lauris- ton is she didn’t have fun Easter with Johnny here. . . . Margaret Cutliff really has been dating that Frank from State. . . . SAINT MARY’S LAUNCHES DRIVE TO AID HOMELESS CHILDREN OP EUROPEANS (Continued from page 1) to make small contributions to help those children who are less fortunate than themselves. The Children’s Crusade for Chil dren has the two-fold purpose of aiding the homeless child-victims of persecution and also of educating American children to appreciate and to value their heritage of liberty and to impress upon them the fact that they are the beneficiaries of this un acknowledged blessing. When the plans for forming the Children’s Crusade for Children were in the making, various promi nent citizens were approached con cerning it. The Crusade met at once the willing co-operation of William Allen White, Dorothy Thompson, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Doro thy Canfield Fisher, Lin Yutang, Pearl Buck, and Helen Hayes. Many broadcasting networks, maga zines, newspapers and motion pic ture corporations have offered their facilities to, spread the message of the Children’s Crusade for Children and are offering every means in their control to make the campaign a com plete success. Raymond Gram Swing, the well known news commentator, said in regard to the Crusade: “For many school children, the benefits of lib erty are empty words, because they are unable to understand privation they have not experienced. But they can experience it vicariously, through the act of helping those who are deprived of it. And it is an act of fundamental Americanism to do so.” At Saint Mary’s, as in other schools throughout the United States, the climax of this nation-wide pro gram will be the collection of pen nies to aid the war-stricken children of other lands. The whole of the collection will be used for the relief of child refugees, because all of the expenses incurred in carrying out this elaborate program have been privately underwritten by relief or ganizations. At various vantage points through out Saint Mary’s, Crusade collection cans will be placed and it is urged that each member of the student body contribute as generously as her means permit. It has been suggested that each contributor donate as many pennies as she is years old and more if she feels that she can. The Belles, which is sponsoring the Childrei Crusade for Children here at scho is anxious to have every member I the student body contribute to tl cause. SOMEDAY Someday I’m going to sit outsi in the warm spring sun for hotf and hours, just sit, while the st shines down on my winter-tired bo^ . . . Someday I’ll lie under the t» pine tree by the library and cltf my eyes and hear it talk to the win* Then I’ll open them to look up in' the deep blue April-washed sky watch fat clouds lazily pass. . ■ Someday I’m going to take a M leisurely walk and pick all the rfJ violets my hands can hold. I mig^ even take a branch of my neighbor cherry blossoms while she’s awa! . . . Someday I’ll watch an art s*” dent industriously painting purp^ pansies. She’ll work, but I won’’ I’ll just sit. . . . Someday ... AT THE THEATERS AJIBASSADOR April 12-13: “I Take This Woman.” April 14-16: “Blue Bird.” April 17-20: “Rebecca.” April 21-23: “Primrose Path.” April 24-27; “It’s a Date.” WAKE April 12 ; “Love Affair.” April 14-16: “Destry Rides Again.” April 17: “The Women.” April 18: “Each Dawn I Die.” April 19: “U-Boat 29.” April 21-23 : “Swanee River.” April 25: “Beware of Spooks.” April 26: “Reno.” April 27: “Oh, Johnny, Oh.” STATE April 10-13: “Man From Dakota.” April 14-15: “Ma, He’s Making Eyes At Me.” April 16: “Five Little Peppers Home.” April 17-18: “Little Accident.” April 19-20 : “Return of Doctor X.” April 21-23 : “Congo Maisie.” April 24-27: “Invisible Stripes.’ CAPITOL April 12-13 : “Straight Shooters-’ April 14: “Silver on the Sage.” April 15-16: “Four Wives.” „ April 17-18: “Convicted Women- April 19-20: “Western Jamboree.” April 21-23: “Fighting 69.” April 24: “The Great Victor Herbert.” April 25: “East Side Kids.”,, April 26-27: “Law of Pampas- PALACE April 12-13: “Isle of Destiny-’^ April 14-16: “I Take This Woman.” April 17-18: “Blue Bird.” April 19-20: “Bullet Code.” April 21-23: “Rebecca.”
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