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THE SALEMITE
Saturday, Dec. 1, 1 928.
The Salemite
Member Southern Inter-Collegiate
Press Association.
Published Weekly by the Student Body
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EDITORIAL STAFF
fiditor-iti-Chief Dorothy Ragan, "29
Managing Editor Rubie Scott, ’29
Associate Editor Laila Wright, ’30
Associate Editor Lucile Heissel, ’30
Music Editor Elizabeth Andrews, ”29
Literary Editor Lessie Phillips, ’30
Sport Editor _...Sara Efird, ’31
Local Editor .Edith Kirkland, ’31
Local Editor Kathleen Moore, ’31
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Mgr Isabelle Dunn
Asst. Bus. Mgr Eleanor Willingham
Adv. Manager Jessie Davis
Asst. Adv. Mgr Eva Hackney
Asst. Adv. Mgr Elva Lee Kenerly
Asst. Adv. Mgr Elizabeth Allen
Circulation Mgr. Carolyn Brinkley
Asst. Circ. Mgr _...Mary Norris
Asst. Circ. Mgr Elizabeth Ward
REPORTERS
Marjorie Siewers
Millicent Ward
Mary Myers Faulkner.
LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
“Let me live in a liouse by the
side of the road.
Where the races of men go
by—
The men who are good and the
men who are bad.
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorn-
Or hurl the cynic’s ban;—
I.et me live in a house by the
side of the road.
And be a friend to man.”
—Sam Walter Foss.
Thanksgiving
With childish glee we indulge in
inky ravings on the assigned sub
ject, which we must admit is a
happy one. It is indeed a shame
that by the time this article goes to
press the tumult and the shouting
will just about have died down.
But maybe upon perusing what we
are about to write you will be able
to recall how enthusiastic you were.
We hereby set down, inadequately,
our confused pre-Thanksgiving med
itations.
Visions of cranberries dance o’er
our head (The editorial “we” often
presents grammatical enigmas!)—
with sugar plums, the conventional
poetic Christmas fruit, lurking in
the background. We see in rapid
succession the high hatted gun-tot
ing Puritan fathers with their fami
lies churchward bound; a table
heavily laden with the traditional,
steaming, be-parsleyed, golden-
brown turkey, and accessories; a
stadium filled with coonskin coats,
bright colored hats, and eager faces;
an orchestra, a gayly festooned
ceiling, a polished floor and velvet
and tulle against tuxedos, dancing.
And lest you think us frivolous, we
vemembef how the altar looked last
Thanksgiving morning with lighted
tapers, and with corn-stalks, pump
kins, grapes, apples, potatoes and
canned fruits heaped around the foot
of it.
Our little hearts jump with joy
and gratitude for countless blessings,
but above all for the absence of our
beloved pedagogue. Dr. Anscombe,
who has seen fit to prolong his holi
day through Saturday, thereby en
dearing himself to virtually hordes
of Salem students. Also, we are
duly thankful that in two weeks, or
less, we will be leaving school for
the annual three weeks Christmas
intermission. Again, how much more
convenient to have played the final
basketballs last week than this week!
Who could have hoped for a more
appropriate holiday moon than that
which has obligingly been silvering
these nights ?
Dear reader, we are so busy pre
paring to celebrate Thanksgiving
joyfully that we find it impossible
to wax eloquent even in writing of
that which most concerns our
thoughts. You know how you felt
(We must remember that this paper
is published on Saturday, instead of
Tliursday) and perhaps you will un
derstand our turbulent state of mind;
or we had better say ecstatic .state
of mind.
We know you enjoyed the holi
day because you missed classes even
if you did nothing else—which is
liardly probable. If you stayed here
and studied of course you are thank
ful that you had an opportunity to
catcli up or to get ahead, wJiichever
you did. All in all, we are sure
that everybody is happy. We don’t
know yet just how successful our
holiday ventures were, but we will
let you hear from us in person. Ssh!
(that abominable ssh!)—here comes
Santa Claus.
The Small College
The advantages of the small col
lege are many although the modern
tendency seems to be toward large
universities. Educators are already
discovering, that the big colleges de
stroy individuality and personality
in the majority of their students—
they develop a few individuals who
are the ones that have been the
leaders in the school activities.
But what do we find going on in
the small college? Every one learns
almost every one else, and the bonds
of fellowship are thus strengthened.
All of the emphasis is placed upon
the training and development of the
individual; the instructors there are
not merely machine operators, for
they, as far as possible, treat each
student as an individual. The stan
dard of scholarship here is raised
to a higher level, quality alone
counts. There is an equal opportun
ity for leadership, because the stud
ents can more readily realize the
real capabilities of fellow students
than can they in the big college. Not
only this fact, but each one can
more fully appreciate his own pow
ers and capacities. The student of
the small college spends his four
years in preparation for service in
iife.
146 CO-EDS ENROLLED
FOR FALL QUARTER
AT N. C. UNIVERSITY
Women Are Registered in Practically
All of the Schools in University
The final cheeking of the registra
tion of co-eds in the University has
been completed for this fall. A to
tal of one hundred and forty-six
women have matriculated for the
fall quarter whiehl is the greatest
number ever to enter the University
at any one time. As the registration
in the fall quarter is always lighter
than in the other periods this sub
stantial increase is being pointed out
as a very healthy sign of further in
creases in the near future.
Mrs. Marvin Stacey, dean of
women, has announced that there are
fifty-eight women in the graduate
school and that the balance of the
registration is divided among the fol
lowing classes: twenty-six seniors,
forty-two juniors, five special stu
dents, five medical students, two
pharmacy students, two pre-medical
students, three freshmen and one
sophomore chemistry student, and
two law students.
Although the state law prohibits
women students with less than junior
rank from entering the university,
exception is made for women who
are specializing in medicine or chem
istry and who are unable to receive
proper instruction in any of the
women’s colleges in the state.
Angry Motorist: “Some of you
pedestrians walk along just as if you
owned the streets.”
Irate Pedestrian: “Yes, and some
of you motorists drive around just
as if you owned the car!”
Musical Clubs Are
To Present Concert
Musical Clubs of Duke to Return
For Concert at Alma Mater
The musical clubs of Duke uni
versity will return from their east
ern tour of the State in time to
give the students and faculty an op
portunity to see them present a
concert at the university auditorium
next Tuesday night. The same
program will be presented here that
is being given in the various towns
on the present tour of the musicians.
A telegram received by the Editor
of the Chronicle from Henry Bost,
manager of the Glee Club, immedi
ately following their first perform
ance at Roanoke Rapids, reads as
follows: “Duke musical clubs played
before largest crowd ever to gather
at Roanoke Rapids. Jazz Orchestra
took the audience by storm; Sym
phony Orchestra and Glee Club giv
en great ovations. ‘Jim’ Rowe gets
big hand with his specialty act.”
The above telegram indicates that
the musical clubs will have their
most successful tour this year. Their
program is undoubtedly the best that
has ever been oifered, as is evi
denced by the acclaim of audiences
in the various towns which they per-
A capacity house is expected to
welcome the return of the musicians
next Tuesday nigh when they pre
sent a concert at the auditorium. At
this concert the Glee Club, Symph
ony Orchestra, University Club, the
Quartet, and dancing “Jim” Rowe
will appear at their best.
DAVIDSON GLEE CLUB
GIVES FIRST CONCERT
AT QUEENS COLLEGE
Senior Class of Girls’ School of
Charlotte Sponsors Appearance
Tuesday night the Glee Club of
Davidson College gave its first con
cert of the year before a large audi
ence at Queens College, in Charlotte.
This performance was sponsored by
the Senior class of that college.
Accompanying the Glee Club on
this trip were the Concert and Jazz
Orchestras. The audience was very
enthusiastic over all of the numbers,
but the Jazz Orchestra came in for
a lion’s share of the applause. The
Concert Orcliestra showed improve
ment even over the talented music
ians of last year, while the vocal
el r 1 m 1 r e i e lially the light-
Immediately after the perform,-
ance, the Senior class of Queens was
host to the club at a delightful recep-
Miltoii's Great Work
“Cluttered t/p Shojj"
I.ittle Britain, near Smithfield,
I.ondon, owes its name to the fact
that the Duke of Bretagne, the prov
ince of France we now call Britta
ny, had there a magnificent palace.
In Stuart times it was famous for
its second-hand bookshops, and it
was while browsing amongst them
that the Earl of Dorset lighted upon
several copies of an unknown work
entitled “Paradise I.ost,” which the
bookseller implored him to help dis
pose of, “as there was no sale for
them, and they cluttered up his
The Earl bought a copy and was
so struck with some of the passages
that he sent it to Dryden, wlio re
turned it with the memorable opin
ion: “This man Milton cuts us all
out, and the ancients, too.”
How “30” Originated
Charles Payn^ Smith recently gave
the following information as to the
origin of “30,” as used by news
papermen and telegraphers, in the
Typographical Journal: The first
press association, organized in Civil
war times, was composed largely of
morning papers published near the
eastern seaboard. Each paper sent
into the central office items of local
interest, which were there edited and
telegraphed to all members. It
happened that the first message sent
to the association totaled .30 words,
and this figure, with the words
“good night” and the signature of
the sender, were placed at the bottom
of the sheet by the operator. At
that time piecework was the rule
on all papers. The daily grist was
usually set up, eorrtcted and in the
forms by 10 o’clock, but the com
positors were compelled to wait
around at their own expense until
the foreman announced “30” was in.
So “30” became a by-word among
printers, symbolizing the end.
llaxmiian Queen s Odd
Assertion, of Kinshi'p
One of the court officers said to me
during Queen Victoria’s jubilee:
“Royalties are here from every coun
try and among those who have come
over is Liliuokalani, queen of the
Hawaiian islands. She is as insist
ent of her royal rights as the emp
eror of Germany. We have consent
ed that she should be a guest at a
dinner of our queen and spend the
night at Windsor castle. We have
settled her place among the royal
ties in the procession through I.on-
don and offered her the hussars as
her guard of honor. She insists,
however, that she shall have the
same as the other kings, a company
of the Guards. Having recognized
her, we are obliged to yield.”
The same officer told me that at
the dinner the dusky queen said to
Qi een Victoria: “Your majesty, I
am a blood relative of yours.”
“How so?” was the queen’s aston
ished answer.
“Why,” said I.iliuokalani, “my
grandfather ate your Captain Cook.”
—From “My Memories of Eighty
Years,” by Chaunecy M. Depew.
IS AN EDUCATION
WORTH WHILE?
The question of whether or not
an education is worth while arises
in the minds of the greater part of
the population. Every boy or girl,
when he is in school, has this ques
tion to decide. He may consider
that a high school education is
worth while, but ponders long on
whether or not to continue his course
into college. Will his addded infor
mation justify the expenditure of liis
money?
A well known college professor
once said that after all a college
education was not worth while and
that the uneducated populace were
by far the happier people. Do we
agree with him, or do we really
think that he was in earnest about
his statement? We will grant that,
in many re.spects' the uneducated
and illiterate may be the happier,
but when we consider the difference
in the happiness, we question the
statement. By difference in hap
piness, I mean the different things
that go toward constituting their
pleasures. The Indian was happy
when he had killed a large bear,
but would he have been delighted
to have heard Marian Talley? Per
haps not, because he had not been
trained to appreciate that phase of
entertainment.
Statistics are shown to prove
that each day a boy or girl spends
in school is worth so much to him.
Then, will it take him long to pay
for his time, and begin to accumu
late? According to this education
seems to be an investment.
Who are the leaders of the world
today? the educated or the unedu
cated? Oh, yes, the day laborer
shoulders the burden of the indus
tries, but doubtless he would not
have any to shoulder were it not for
the thinking race. Our presidents,
college professors, teachers, preach
ers and lawyers are among those nec
essary for our democracy. It is true
that many of our past officers have
not been college trained men and
women, but is not experience consid
ered our best educator?
I ask you, is an education neces-
■—Exchange.
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