Volume XI.
Winston-Salem, N. C., Saturday, January 10, 1931.
Number 14.
Varied Y. P. M. Hour
Begins The New Year
Quartet of Pennsylvania Rail
road Entertains Student
Body With Program
The first Y. P. M. of the New
Year was especially delightful and
appropriate since it appealed to the
sense of musical appreciation and
our sense of duty.
A delightful program of popular
and attractive songs was rendered by
a quartet of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company. They had been
guests in the city and remained to
entertain Salem College^ and they
found an appreciative audience.
Their program consisted of
“Song of the Jolly Rover,” “Sweet
heart of My Student Days,” “An
chors Away,” and “Road to Man
dalay.” An amusing and appealing
little skit had been arranged by them
and as a reward for the continuous
applause they sang as an encore
“Wedding Bells.” Dr. Rondthaler
in his thanks to them expressed a
truth in his words “You can tell yo'ir
company you made a ‘hit’ at Salem.’
After this program Mrs. Fred
Bahnson spoke on a very interesting
and vital question of this time of
economic strain. Her subject was
“Relief for the Unemployed,” in
which field she has done much in
dividual work, being head of Y. W.
C. A. relief work in Winston-Salem.
The plan for aiding unemploy
ment is called “Rag Carpet Weav
ing Plan.” The speaker called at
tention to the direct challenges in
tliis work, and the self-denial for
others in Peter’s experience and de
nial. We are often content in our
comfort while others suffer for bare
necessities of life. Again in the Bi
ble we have, “Bear ye one another’s
burdens.” This unemployment sit
uation is definitely a disease of the
machine age and its system. Because
it took men of brain to form these
problems, it requires men of brains
to solve them.
The “Rag Carpet Weaving Plan”
was suggested by a woman of Tren
ton wlio had found it quite worth
while in trouble of the same type
some year or two ago. It was ac
cepted here in twenty-four hours.
Workers may come in anytime for
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Interesting European
Tour To Be Made
Group Will Give Special No
tice to Theaters of For
eign Lands
Walter Prichard Eaton and Shel
don Cheney, leading experts in
stagecraft, are to conduct drama
tours to Europe in the late spring
and summer, according to an an
nouncement made by the Drama
League of America.
Mr. Eaton, author of “The Amer
ican Stage of today,” “The Actor’s
Heritage,” and a recent history of
the Theatre Guild, will lead the
fourth annual Summer Theatre Tour,
which is scheduled to sail from New
York on July 4th. The party will
be in England for the Shakespeare
Festival, in Orange for the yearly
festival in the Theatre Antique, in
Salzburg for the Reinhardt Festival
and in Heidelberg, Munich, and
Bayreuth for their festival seasons.
Interviews are being arranged with
Sir Barry Jackson, Sir Archibald
Flower, Max Reinhardt, Gordon
Craig, the Capeks, and others. Spe
cial features will include visits back
stage to investigate theatrical equip
ment and machinery, and the party
will enjoy plays from both sides of
the footlights.
Sheldon Cheney, outstanding ex
ponent of theatre arts and author of
“The Theatre—1000 Years of Stage
Decoration” and the recently pub
lished “New World Architecture,”
will lead the Russian Theatre Tour.
This novel trip sails from New York
on May 9th in order to reach the
Soviet Republic while the theatres
are still open. It is designed to
give students a fascinating opportun
ity to view Russia as well as to
study outstanding examples of the
new drama. The director will give
lectures on the experimental and
workers’ theatres and there will be
frequent comparisons with the Con
tinental methods and with the Rus
sian school preceding and following
the work of Stanislavsky. Rehears
als will be attended and conferences
will be held with leading producers.
Theatres to be visited include the
Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow Art
Theatres, Kamerny Theatre, Blue
Blouse Troupes, Theatre of Social
Satire in Moscow, and Ukranian Na
tional Theatre.
Einstein’s Theory Of
Relativity Discussed
Many Startling Facts Revealed
By Mr. Curlee at Math
Club Meeting
The Mathematics Club held its
regular meeting Wednesday at 7
o’clock. Zina Vologodsky was elect
ed Secretary in place of Margaret
Maxwell who will not return next
semester. After the business was
dispensed with, Mr. Curlee gave an
interesting talk on Einstein’s theory
of relativity. He began by explain-
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SALEM WINS
DISTINCT HONOR
According to recent investi
gation and report concerning
the condition of the Senior Col
leges and Universities of North
Carolina, Salem held the dis
tinguished position of being the
only one of the nineteen insti
tutions named, which meets
clearly all the standards of the
N. C. College Conference.
This report concerning the
quality and rating of the col
leges and universities of North
Carolina is compiled annually
and issued through the state
department of education as the
authorized investigator of the
North Carolina College Con
ference.
The principles considered,
which represent the standards
of the Conference, have to do
with eight factors: (1) Re
quirements for admission; (2)
Requirements for graduation;
(3) Enrollment; (4) Financial
condition; (5) Library; (6)
Training of faculty; (7) Plant
and equipment, including sci
ence facilities; (8) Class size
and training schedule.
Notable improvement over
previous years is reported for
the colleges of the state gener
ally, and Sa)em’s clean record
brings deserved credit to the
administration of this institu-
Rules For Basket Ball—
Tournaments Announced
Grades Will Not Be Qualifica
tion for Sorority and Intra
mural Teams
Announcements have been made of
the Sorority and Intramural tourna
ments which are scheduled to begin
withir/the next few weeks^ but the
regulatrons governing botlf' sets of
games have not up until this time
appeared in print.
1. A girl is eligible to play in
either tournament enly^ter she has
attended fiv'e^racti^s.
2. A sorority girl who expects to
play on her own team may not af-
filate with an intramural team, ie.,
a girl may not play on any two
teams.
3. Varsity material (girls who
have ever made varsity at Salem) is
limited to three members for each
intramural team.
4. Eligibility does not depend on
grades.
Members of any class may join
their classmates in forming a team
if they so desire, but the Athletic
Council recommends the mixing up
of classes as far as the intramural
tournament is concerned, since this
very mixing-up will give the contest
a different character from the inter
class tournament which follows
shortly after examinations and will
improve the spirit of sportsmanship
and comradeship which already ex
ists between the classes. Begin now,
if you have not already done so, to
gather and group yourselves and to
try to improve on the unique inven
tions which last year’s teams created
and used as names.
Journalism Disscussed
As A Vocation
Article in Southern College
Paper Gives Interesting
Information on Subject
There is undoubtedly no more
interesting field of work afforded
women than that of Journalism. The
fact that more and more women are
becoming members of the great
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