PAGE TWO THE S A L E M I T E
Saturday, October 27, 1928-
The Salemite
Published Weekly by the Student Body
of Salem College.
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Managing Editor Ruble Scott, ’5
Associate Editor ....Laila Wright, ’£
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Literary Editor Lessie Phillips, ’30
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LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
"He serves
all who dares be
true."
—Emerson.
“Truth nev
er was indebted
to a lie.”
—Young.
“Truth 'js :
tc'iihin ourselves;
it takes no ri
se from outward
things.”
—Urowning.
Co-operation
Co-operation is a term we hear
used every day, yet how many of
understand the real significance of
this word or realize what i'
to co-operate. There are groups of
individuals on the campus from
time to time who are trying to put
over some plan or program. The
student body is always ready to criti
cize when any part of this proposed
plan goes wrong, but it is not always
ready to co-operate with those who
are working to make it a success.
Herein lies the real meaning of
co-operation.
It is very discouraging when a
plan that requires much time and
energy turns out to be a failure s'
ply because the people chosen
take part do not show enough
terest to make it a success. Those
girls who have the responsibility
feel that they have not done their
duty when in reality they are not
to blame. When a program is to be
given girls are chosen to take part
because the leaders think they are
capable and will co-operate.
After the first practice half of the
number either drops out or fails to
come, and the leader is left with
only a few to put over the program.
What is she to do? It is too late
to select others and besides the best
girls have already been chosen. Are
we going to let the whole thing fail
because we are not interested
enough to give a few minutes to it
The next week is an appropriate
time for the word co-operation to
be put into practice on our campus.
Hat Burning, the Junior-Freshman
Wedding and the Y. W. C. A. Mem
bership Drive cannot be put
successfully b ythe several girls
who are chosen to bear the responsi
bility. The co-operation of every
one concerned is of vital importance.
We do not want these things to “fall
through” because we fail to do
part. It is up to us to make them
a success. Will we co-operate i
Basketball
Basketball is one of Salem’s major
s))orts, and it has' been for years.
However there has been a noticeable
lack of interest among classes in the
sport. The Athletic Council seems
to be trying to get at the bottom of
the matter, and to overcome this
seeming indifference. When the
possibility of changing the day of
the final games was announced, the
student body unanimously voted to
change the games from Thanksgiv
ing Day to the preceding Saturday.
This should mean that every girl
'ill be present and give her team
her most loyal support at tliat time.
This vote broke another Salem cus
tom, but it is only one which has not
been firmly established. At least
half of the" students spend Thanks
giving elsewhere just because the
crowd is bigger and the excitement
is greater at some other places. This love,
year it may be that Salem
thankful that she is free from those
who liave complained in the past that
they were not lucky enough, as they
sav, to get away.
Anyway an added number
coming out to practice basketball
now that they can attend Salem’
games, and tlien a football game
Thanksgiving. The faithful few
who have been practicing these tliree
feeks show that they are material
for real teams. There are other
girls in the college who liave played
basketball, and perhaps starred,
while in high school; they are espe
cially asked to attend practices. It
earnestly hoped that every one
interested in the good name of her
class and her team will co-operate in
making the coming games a success
in every way possible.
Pierrette Players To
Sponsor Contest
Pierrette Players wish to an
nounce a Play-Writing Contest now
open to the entire student body. We
offer no reward other than the
gratifying pleasure of seeing one’s
play produced by the Pierrette Play-
public performance—prob
ably under the auspices of the Mae-
Dowell Club.
The rules of the contest are;
1. It shall be a one-act play
suitable for the interpretation
The subject is left entirely to the
contestant.
3. The contest ends on Decem
ber the sixth at six p. m.
4. Manuscripts shall be given to
Edith Kirkland or Marion Bloor.
Manscripts shall be type-writ-
flower with the fierce play of a deep
and tender and authentic Montpar-
nassian passion. For love, Jerome
lias decided, was a matter of geogra
phy, with an emotion to correspond
to each latitude; and the capacity
for love waned progressively toward
le North and toward the South,
:arting from a point, say, in the
icinity of Langeais. Jerome had
ved in Langeais.
So in all nobility Jerome very
arefully did flot take advantage
f any of the quaint openings which
Uni Hansen, in lier naive and inno
cent way, created. He stuck faith
fully by his theory, though, without
actually intending to deviate from his
geographical course, Jerome learned
many curious Norwegian customs
and ideas that would not properly
fall under the head of geography,
and which did not substantially sup
port his hypothesis on the latitude of
The publishers use much of a
yellow and lavender jacket to ex
plain that Monsieur Bedel won with
this book the Prix Goncourt, award
ed yearly for the most original book
by a young writer. This proves
that literary prize-giving is not ex
clusively an American institution,
proves- moreover, that the
judges for the Prix Goncourt were
gentlemen of discrimination. One
feels, in reading “Jerome,” a grow-
warm regard for the good taste
of these judges, a regard not in-
iriably to be extended to the sav-
its who award our own novel prizes.
The publishers inform us, moreover,
that Monsieur Bedel waited over
twenty years to write this first novel,
after deciding that writing would be
his career. We submit “Jerome”
exhibit A in the case for deferred
literary expression. It is written
with a clear, a harmonious, and a
penetrating irony. Few American
novels of the decade can claim to
pass its exquisite craftsmanship.
6. Manuscripts shall bear a nom
de plume; the real names of contest
ants shall be handed in in a sealed
Each contestant may submit
many manuscripts as she chooses.
BOOK REVIEW
AT LEISURE
THE LOVER OF DREAMS
he was only a dreamer, a lover
was a world of clouds
furled
c moonlight gleams
Y paths of mystic night
Send blinding visions of shimmer
ing light.
But the lover of dreams found life,
and knew
The meaning of pain, trust that wat
lost, friends untrue.
Her dreaming should die in hope
less despair.
And yet she finds her dreams are
still there.
“JEROME, OR THE LATITUDE
OF LOVE”
By Maurice Bedel
It could as well have been “Love
the Latitude of Jerome,” or as
well, “Longitude, or the Love of
Jerome.” When a book is of and
by a Frenchman you know what to
expect, and no amount of geographi
cal scrambling can deceive. You
know the central motif is love, struck
seductively at the start by muted
strings, and pursued with impetuous
orchestration until the ancient fugue
expires upon a soft and suggestive
moan from the oboe. This French
man guides his national theme along
the alien and sometimes treacherous
scales of geography, but even there
the sublime note holds true. Even
there love remains semper idem,
which is not the sort of discovery a
Frenchman should need a whole
book, and a trip to Norway, to com
plete.
rle met her on the boat, and so
Norway, when Jerome arrived, ap
peared only through a soft and ros
eate haze. “He had fallen in love
with Norway, as he had fallen
love with Uni Hansen, because of
an accumulation of preconceived
ideas; that is to say, fantastically.”
But love made Jerome cautious. He
must not blast this delicate Nordic
Passed Out of Life
to Keep Co7itent7ne7it
Charles Driscoll thinks he knows
•hat death will be like when it comes
3 him. As a boy he was once very
1. He felt life ebbing away, saw
members of the family standing
Then to the watchers
himself he seemed to pass out of
ways those glorious visions ahead!
spite of heart-ache, illusion gone
The past is dead.
The future is filled with life and
dreams.
Because of the Christ, her faith
still gleams.
life.
' he ;
that space was different,
and altogether limitless. I was im-
measureably interested and content-
Returning to consciousness wat
like being born again into a strange
world. Somebody was pouring
whisky down my throat. I opened
my eyes and a great sense of loss
and disappointment overwhelmed i
I sat there a long time trying
project myself, in memory, back
into that vast country in which I
seemingly had been existing for
countable ages. For in that country
a moment seemed eternity. That
experience remains a vivid and plf
ant memory to this day. When I
think of that eternity I sensed when
the earth-life seemed to cease to pull
me. And it seemed good, not evil.”
—Capper’s Weekly.
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