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Saturdjay, April 13, 1929, THE SALEMITE PAGE THREE HOLIDAY And the end of it’s sittin’ and tliinkin’ And dreamin’ hell-fires to see, To be warned by my lot (as I know yon will not!) And learn about holidays from mo. (We wish to express our appreci ation to Mr. Kiplina: for his kind interest and unfailing' inspiration.) We emerge from the Easter holi day in a merciful sort of daze, with confused impressions stamped light ly upon our soft brain. If we were sure that Dr. P. V. W. would over look this article we would indulge in an attempt to register those discon nected modernistic impressions of ours. However, we feel a slight hesitancy in giving in to this im pulse, realizing her antipathy for verblcss sentences. Ncvertlieless, braving her disapproving eye (both of them )we recall: A sunny day . . much slow riding on busses crowded with collegiate youth (what a dash ing, doggy term!) . . . pie a la mode with Lib and Gus (Liz and W. D. or anybody )in the Durham bus station. How dimly we now remember the lilies in church, and the Easter anthems; and the gala composite fashion review and flor ists’ display which colored Easter day. “Thanks for the buggy ride” ceased to be an obsolete expression in our vocabulary, when once again we were returned to God’s country where cars are automobiles, instead of ye Waughtown trolleys. And, ah, tender memory! the chicken a la king really had chicken in it. Then if we were hell-bent, and filled with evil intent anyway, after our repast there were cigarettes—exposed and unblushing—^with nonej to rumble, , Was there not a pale-faced moon? Oh, yes, the Easter Monday dance too we haven’t forgotten . . the glad reunion of the. Christmas Crowd ... the Tan Tan Tan figure right before intermission, the girls with orchids, the men with purple and white ribbons ... Joe Nes bitt’s Pennsylvanians, DO-DO-DEO DO (or mayble it was Jack Craw ford.^—Jan Garber?) . . . colored darts of light on a polished floor break, break, break. There came an afternoon when awoke in good spirits, lunched, upon our downy couch, then arose and went to ride—and to sing, with kin dred carefree souls. Suddenly we bethought (we’re glad you like it. We think it’s a lovely word.) our selves of our return to school. Alas, it had to be the four o’clock bus! We embarked with many tears, two hat boxes and a box of Whitman’s. The swift busses sped us back to our Alma Mater as fast as a ru a new stocking. Crestfallen, w( in one of the two back-breaking chairs that grace our humble r and stulfed motley sheets into pink laundry bag, while from the shadowy corners leering cohorts of Unwritten Termpapers and Unpi pared Notebooks shook their bony fists at us. “And the end of it’s sittin’ and thinkin’ And dreamin’ hell-fires to see—etc. Scotch Lament! A close-fisted man bought two tickets at a raffle and won a $1,500 car. A friend rushed up to his home to congratulate him, and found him looking as miserable as could be. “Why, man, what’s the matter with you?” he asked. “It’s that second ticket. Why I ever bought it I can’t imagine.” —Kahlegram The PICTURE TELLS the STORY." PIEDMONT ENGRAVING CO. Printin(5 Plates from Pictures Floating University Visit Royal Palace When the Floating University 'isited Bangkok recently the stud ents lived in Phya Thai Palace as guests of Kln|»' Ram,a VII of Siam, according to d cable just received at the home office of the Floating Uni- •ersity, 11 Broadway, New York City. The Floating University students left New York City on November 8, aboard the S. S, President Wilson and since sailing they have visited 29 ports and have made trips to many inland cities with historical and educational interest. Upon their arrival in Bangkok the Floating University students were received by King Rama in the Throne Room. After the reception, the King and his student guests at tended a performance at the Royal Siamese Theatre. Later during their stay, the students returned the King’s courtesy by presenting their musical comedy “Floating Around” for his pleasure. The music and lyrics of this show are entirely the work of the men and women stud ents. The King, who speaks Eng lish, seemed much pleased. The students were allowed com plete freedom during their stay and visited all points of interest in Bang kok and the surrounding area, parts of Bangkok canals serve streets and the students made a ( plete tour of these. The Royal Palace is situated : the Temple grounds wherein the fa mous Emerald Buddha stands. It is guarded by the sacred gates of Wat Phra Keo, which are almost never thrown open to foreigners. A feature of the students’ visit at the Palace was the fact that the mid-year examinations were held there. The grandeur and strange ness of the surroundings did not distract the students in their efforts to make good grades, according to Dr. Edward A. Ross, Director of Education. At the conclusion of their days visit. King Rama again ad dressed the students in the Throne Room. He complimented them on their industry and studious behavior and called' them splendid ambassa dors in the cause of international Good Will. Race Prejudice The first fifty blanks filled out ii a questionnaire issued by the Cos mopolitan Club of the University of Denver showed that eighty-six per cent of the women and eighty-eight per cent of the men who answered held race prejudices. “Many of the students,” accord ing to the Clarion, “would bar Latin Americans, Orientals, Russians, Germans, Turks, Jews, Slavs, Ne groes, and Italians alike even from honorary and professional fraterni ties, which we have always been asked to consider a just award for scholastic proficiency. “Many more would insist that cer tain students must not hold Univers ity offices because they hail from the Orient, because of their color or be cause of their race. The inconsist ency of their stand is revealed in the fact that all but one who desire dis crimination in the ward of student office answered ‘yes’ to the statement that ‘character and ability should be the criteria of judgment when elect ing student government officers.’ “But what if this same ‘character and ability’ is displayed in a student with skin of darker hue or a religion somewhat different from our c Then the answer is no!” Similar questionnaires were leased simultaneously at the Univer sity of Colorado, Colorado Agricul tural College, Colorado State Teach ers Colli ge and the Colorado School of Mines. Results of all will be compiled ai.d discussed before the World Fellov. ship Retreat to be sponsored by t le University of Den ver late in Mai"h. That some stuients do not harbor race prejudice, ani are not afraid to proclaim the fact, is proclaimed by eleven Garrett E iblical Seminary students who recen 'y quit their jobs as waiters in an Evanston hospital which discharged two other waiters because of their colcr. Intellectual Overproduction Unemployment of ijatellectu.als is problem tliAt has not worri,ed tlj.e United States .very much up to a year' or sa ago. But since the total yearly output of our colleges has reached the staggering sum of “ ,000 there has been some talk about limiting enrollments. The fragmentary report of a yet incom plete study made by Dr. Harold F. Clark of Teachers College, Colum bia University promises to throw considerable light on the subject. About 800,000 students are study- g in our colleges. Dr. Clark says, and a large proportion of these plan to enter the professions. The total iployed in these professions is only ice that number. “What will hap pen to the professional salaries?” he asks, “wlien the number of col lege educated increases to 1,500,000, surely will.” “You cannot 100,000 people for 90,000 jobs without creating pressure to decrease the remuneration of the 90,000. Ed ucation is just as much a commodity wheat and must be governed by the law of economics. ...” Tha newspapers carried a frag mentary report of Dr. Clark’s study, and it is too soon to comment on it. But, statistics or no statistics, the complaint that the colleges are g many recruits for the white collar class is now taking on the pro portions of a counter-revolution against what the authors of Middle- call the “dominant belief ii magic of formal schooling.” Hitherto the assumption has been unchallenged that if every boy did not have a good chance of becoming president of the United States he had a perfect one of obtaining college education, and everyone ought to do his best to speed him on the way. This sentiment is from unanimous these days. Every now and then a psychologist emerges from his laboratory with the nouneement that only a few capable of being educated beyond the rudiments of elementary learn ing. Members of various profes sions seeing their provinces invaded by the hordes fresh from universi ties are taking up the cry against mass education. Now it is the fash ion to advocate an intellectual aris tocracy ; but somehow this aristoc racy often gets confused with other sort of aristocracy, based rath er on monetary than intellectual power. The Pennsylvania Gazette, a pub- cation of the University of Penn sylvania, voices the typical argument in a February issue. A leading editorial starts out with an argu ment against the Jeffersonian doc trine that “all men are born equal.” Tha argument is bolstered by a quo tation from an article by a Univers ity psychologist who maintains the University is trying to educate many who are inherently incapable learning. He writes : “It is no) average boy’s fault that nature has given him but little intellect, tellect is the last step, till nov evolution. It is less widespread than we hope it will be milleniums hence, and it is unstable. We trying to hurry nature. We have learned that a quart pot will not hold a gallon, when dealing with material things; we have not learned that it is just as true of the mental.” Immediately following this quota tion the Gazette asks: “Is it heresy to suggest that many of our citizens should be taught to read and w By doing more don’t we rob selves of the laborers and also make those who fill those jobs unhappy by lending them a professor’s imag ination with a moron’s possibility of fulfillment and achievement?” The reader will have detected the shift from a purely “scientific” dis cussion to a typical argument of the haves for protection from the have- nots. There follows an illuminating contribution to economic theory ir the attribution of Great Britain’s industrial depression to mass edu cation. There were plenty of commenta tors on Dr. Clark’s study who ready to agree that education ought not be regarded as a commodity like wheat or corn, but no one seemed be willing to admit that in the pres ent social order such was the Under present conditions it is prac tically impossible to enjoy the rich and humane life that an education postulates without taking advantage of the cash value of a degree. The two are inseparable. It is well enough to be virtuous aijd to say that a college education ought to ’iB an end in itself, that we ought lilt pursue it for the instrumental ’alue of a college degree in winning the daily bread; but how many who protest so stoutly forget their col lege degree when on a job-hunting Co-ed: Jaqk, are you sure that ii e you love and not my clothes? Jack: Test me, darling. There was a woman in the hos pital last week who was cross-eyed. When she cried the tears ran down her back, and so the M. D. treated her for bacteria. “Has she got a big mouth?” “Has she? She yawned in front of a trolley car, and the conductor yelled, ‘All out, carbarn.’ ” Gay Young Thing (in 10c store): “Have you any ‘Kleenex’?” Clerk (eager to please) : “No, but we have Carbona.” S’pose you’ve heard about the Scotchman named Vincent who call ed himself Vin, and saved the cent. Atthttanum THEATRE PRESENTS The SHELTON-AMOS PLAYERS IN ‘‘COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN’^ —ENTIRE WEEK APRIL 15TH- Nights at 8:30 Matinees 3:00—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday BOOKS FOUNTAIN PENS DIARIES KODAKS, VICTROLAS & RECORDS LEATHER GOODS WATKINS’ BOOK STORE FULL LINE Kathleen Mary Quinlan’s Toilet Preparations WIN-SAL DRUG CO. Phones: - 228 - 229 Cor. 4th & Cherry Sts. A. & P. Store ALWAYS READY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF Salem College Girls Just around Corner CALL FOR IT BY NAME Blue Ribbon Ice Cream IT IS DELICIOUS Made from Sweet Cream, and Fresh Milk A Product of THE PEERLESS ICE CREAM CO., Winston-Salem GOOCH’S For Curb Service Main and Corner of Academy Street Blue Ribbon Ice Cream ;********** BEN V. MATTHEWS Photographs of Quality 31 7 W. Fourth St. Opposite New Nissen I
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