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THE SALEMITE
Saturday, March 31, 1928.
The Salemite
Published Weekly by the Student
Body of Salem College.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Margaret Schwarze, ’28..Editor-in Chief
Leonora Taylor, ’28....Managing Editor
Margaret Vaughan, ’29 Asso. Editor
Dorothy Hagan, ’29 Asso. Editor
Doris Walston, ’28....Announcement Ed
Margaret Parker, ’28 Current Editor
Elizabeth Andrews, ’29 Music Editor
Ruby Scott, ’29....Campus News Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
I Dowling, ’2
Mgi
Jessie Davis, ’29 Adv. Mgr.
Isabel Dunn, ’29 Adv. Mgi
Eva Hackney, ’31 Asst. Adv. Mgt
Adelaide McAnally, ’30, Asst. Adv. Mgt
Mary Miller Faulkner, ’29 Circ.
Carolyn Brinkley, ’30....Asst. Circ. Mgi
Eleanor Willingham, ’30, Asst- Circ. Mgr.
REPORTERS
Laila Wright, ’30.
Athena Campourakis, ’30.
Catherine Miller, ’30.
Lucille Hassel, ’30.
Something to Think
About
If all the world wer
And all the sea
And all the trees -
and cheese.
What would we
—An,
apple-pie
PARAGRAPHICS
Happy April Fool,—and -v
Since the juniors have made thou
sands, selling movie tickets and
sandwiches, the seniors can expect
nothing less than a dinner-dance with
a four-day trip to Washington
thrown in.
need no such rules. We need rather
influence which may remove
this death-like stillness, this heart
breaking, dog-like silence which
everybody at the slightest
word from teacher or student.
We cannot help protesting against
this deplorable state of aifairs. Some
thing must be done. Salem girls
St learn to make some noise and
deserve a call-down, now and
then. The call-down system is posi
tively rusting from disuse.
We suggest that specially organ
ized pep-meetings be_ held in every
hall during study hour, that loud
talking be made compulsory in the
dining room so that the faculty will
die of ennui, and that regular
troops of girls be appointed to
•h their friends as they come out
of chapel, and make them shriek.
Let us all get behind this thing
ind make it go through. A special
prize should be offered to the girl
who can make the most nois
week. I.et our slogan be: “Why be
quietLet’s make some noise!’
STOP STUDYING!
In the role of general critic,
monisher, or conscientious promoter
of all activities on the campus,
have taken it upon ourselves tf
sue a word of warning conceruing
a certain dangerous tendency which
we have been viewing with alarm,
that is—too much studying. There
is nothing more dangerous to happy
college life than to follow the line
of least resistance and become
firmed hook-worm. The faculty does
not demand it, common sense should
point out the unwisdom of becom-.
ing too conscientiously and pro
foundly interested in mere lessons.
There have been unmistakable and
regrettable signs of too intensive ap
plication to books recently exhibited
on the campus. Fits of strange ab-
sent-mindedness, jaded and weary
appearances, the dwindling number
of those who indulge in .shopping and
going, and the ridiculously
high grades which have gone out at
mid-semester all point to the sad
fact that the proper balance between
work and play has been lost. Do
not become one-sided in your college
career. Heed the admonitions of
solicitous faculty and give less
to work and more to recreation.
If these admonitions are unheeded
it seems to us that serious steps
should be taken by the administra
tion, with the welfare of the students
, to discourage alarming
signs of assiduity, and to oifei^^rg-
opportunities for attracti\^leis-
I employments.
Uncertain Treasure—Bill Mac
Donald.
The War on Modern Science—Bi
ology 1—2.
If I Were Dean—Helen Hall.
AT LEISURE
They told me Welfare’s had gone
And gilded youths had ceased
That Call-downs had gone out
style
And chapel was a total wreck.
I learned that hard-biled Mac had
ceased
Her bans on talk and chewing
And now that life was like a feast
Of wit and song and fife and drum
1 learsed that Cousin Pearl no r
Did freeze the blood of jaunty
But split infinitives instead
With Colgate smile and grin, for-
I heard that derbies were passe
That prexie sported a discreet
And presidential high silk hat
But wore sombreros on the street.
I learned that Mrs. Best had turned
A Lorelei and urged in trade
With blandishments and neve:
spurned
An open door or lemonade.
All this I learned and more as I
Betook my way about the school.
But as I shrieked in elfin glee
Some rude voice yodeled “April
Fool!”
It’s a good thing that Commence-
The News of the Day informs us
that some anarchist is planning to
burn down the Statue of Liberty
and blow up the Washington Monu-
After reading the ready-filled-
application blank in this issue
understand why so many seniors ob
tain teaching positions. We recom
mend said application blank to the
new Teacher’s Agency Bureau, since
it might be framed and hung up and
used as a model for the convenience
of other seniors.
Do
WHY BE QUIET?
With ^
saddened mind and aching
heart we have come to the conclus
ion that Salem girls are not as they
should be. Fine as this student body
undoubtedly is it has one glaring ab
normality; it is too quiet. Never
have girls of college age been di
ered who are as subdued and de
corous as Salem girls,
tively painful to walk through the
silent halls in the evening during
study hour, to enter a class-room
where the teacher’s voice is abso
lutely the only sound,
quiet, almost funereal line marching
out of Chapel without uttering ~
word.
Why should ■
manding quiet at
We Recommend
For Your Spring Reading
The Perrenial Bachelor—Roy J,
Campbell.
Wild Animals I Have Known—
Peggy Parker.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast
able—Miss Stipe.
The Hard Boiled Virgin—Mi
Atkinson.
This Freedom—Cason and Barber.
These Twain — Harrison
Richardson.
Heart of Darkness — Freshman
The Professor’s House— Dean
Shirley.
Mv Wife, Poor Wretch—R. W.
.McDonald.
Grammar for Grown-ups—Dr.
Floyd.
How to Command Your Faculties
—E. Kirkland.
Rebellion—C. Miller.
Men Without Women—Higgins
and Campbell.
Reminiscences of a I-ong Life—
—Willis.
The Virginian—P. V. Willoughby
Cook’s Tour—E. Osborne.
What Price Glory?—C. Sells.
A President Is Born—T. Rond-
Face Value—Ray Anderson.
Of Human Bondage—Adelaide
Winston.
The Outline of History—Kather
ine Taylor.
House of Mirth—Society Hall.
Fate Knocks at the Door—K. J,
Riggan.
The Legion of the Condemned—
Infirmary Inmates.
Best Short Stories of 1928—Eng
lish B.
Calamity Jane and Her Lady
Wildcats—Jane Harris.
What Everybody
Is Reading
GEORGEOUS EASTER APPAREL
In a Myriad of Lovely New
Styles, Colors and Fabrics.
COATS DRESSES SUITS HATS
And Smart Accessories
—P A Y U S A VISIT —
THE IDEAL
TRADE AND WEST FOURTH
im to a Euclidean. A changing
■alue of pi on the other hand is not
inconceivable. The radical hypothe-
in the other hand is psychologi
cally useful since it leads inevitably
the conclusion that the limited
'olutionary hypotheses are also
metaphysical if held as final and as
excluding the radical hypothesis.
Such an idea has been advanced by
Heralitus. But when a scientific hy
pothesis is elevated to a complete
philosophical theory such claims
cannot be safely ignored.
This is a humorous little friendly
argument and we anticipate many a
heated campus discussion, tho with
al good-liumored.
“Denver Duke, the Ma
Sand; or Centipede Sam’s
Hand,” by Bill Jones.
This is a red-blooded
novel of the great open spaces
where men are men. It is redolent
of the fresh air of the plains and the
swift moving action of the round-up.
And girls, whisper, there is a sweet
clean little love plot, too. The lucky
girl’s name is Daisy, and she cer
tainly is one. Three rousing cheers
for Denver Duke and little Daisy
and how the cross-eyed man—but
you must read tliat for yourselves.
“Sweet Sybil of the Sweatshop;
or the Millionaire’s Mate,” by Lau
ra Jean Libby.
Outstanding among recent fiction
is this gripping drama of young
love. The story at first glance is
light and simple but the thinking
reader will view it as a step upward
in intellectual development. As a
study in ethics it is unsurpassed. The
author has a sure command of the
niyative style unsurpassed in tender-
and vividness. Passages like
the following are unforgettable—
“Suddenly she rose to full queenly
height and her features began to
W>rk convulsively. Uttering a ter
rible hoarse cry, her face slowly
whitened to a death-like livid hue
and her eyes dilated luridly like
glowing coals of fire.”
“Proudhon’s Solution of the Social
Problem.”—Henry Cohen, Ed.
Here is a charmingly amusing lit
tle volume written from the cosmic
point of view. It argues in a chat
ty manner that space may have
changed from a hyperbolic continu-
Among the new fictio
the following:
“Was She Sweetheart o
Laura Jean Libbey.
“Joe, the Bootblack”—Horatio
Daughter”—
JOHNSON AND DUNN EN
TER BEAUTY CONTEST
ialem Girl May Carri/ Off Interna
tional Honors
The student body of Salem Col
lege will be surprised to learn that
Mary Johnson and Isabel Dunn
have entered their names in the In
ternational Beauty Contest for
The time and place for this contes
has not yet been set, but it will prob
ably be held either in Zanzibar
in the Aleutian Islands. There are
a large number of entrants besides
the Salem beauties, but competent
judges are agreed that insofar as
an advance statement can be made,
the final decision will liave to be
made between Mary and Isabel. A
hotly contested battle between the
winner and K, J .Riggan will proba
bly be necessary to decide which
shall hold the coveted title of Miss
Salem.
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