SENIOR
DINNER
RECITAL
MONDAY
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931.
Number 20.
Noted Speaker Heard
At Expanded Chapel
Dr. Gordon Speaks to Large
Audience on Topic of
Universal Interest
On Wednesday morning, February
25, Dr. S. D. Gordon gave an
lighteriing address to the student
body of Salem College and Academy
and visitors on the subject of “The
Power of Woman.”
As an introduction to his address.
Dr. Gordon gave an interesting in
terpretation of the real meaning of
power and' an equally interesting
comparison of the power of man and
woman.
One of the questions which has
been debated universally for cen
turies is the question of which has
the greater power, man or woman.
Power is often confused with author
ity, however, there is a sharp line of
distinction between the two. Power
copies out of personality and is end
less. Authority is outward in nature
and may break off or end easily
A man may be a son, brother, lover,
husband, father and friend. On the
other hand a woman may be a daugh
ter, sister, sweetheart, wife, mother
and friend. The question as to
which has the greater power, man
or woman, i.s answered by the latter
—woman.
In proving the accuracy of this
conclusion, three important judg
ments or decisions may be taken into
consideration. First, there is the
judgment of the person who was
first caJled the “Son of Light” and
later called the “Son of Night,”
namely, Satan, the Slanderer of the
Human Race. It was he who knew
the answer to the question in the be
ginning of the race when there were
•but two people. He did the least
to get the most; therefore in tempt
ing the man and woman, he came to
this, conclusion, “If I can get her,
I shall get him.” Satan knows wom
an, fears her and hates her; and,
wherever Satan’s power is most.
Woman’s power is lowest.
The second judgment is the judg
ment of History. Man has made
the laws, founded the nations, writ
ten the literature, and fought the
battles; but always without any ex
ception, there has been woman by
his side, who was inspiring, sympa
thetic and most instrumental in the
shaping of his actions and destiny.
The third judgment proves to be
the greatest of the three, that is the
judgment of God. He chose woman
for the most potential, the most deli
cate, the most understanding task of
all; namely, the shaping of the race
in its most plastic years. What the
race is today is due to Womanhood.
God qualified her for this task by
her physical make-up. Man is built
for strength; Woman is more deli
cate. Her brain is finer, and in the
last generations wlhen the mental
faculties of woman were engaged
side by side with the mental facul
ties of man, woman has carried off
her share, or even more than her
share, of the prizes.
There is no doubt that woman has
the greater power and that she was
made with this intention. The next
important question is “Is she Con
scious of Her Power?” This con
sciousness may be measured in three
ways; first, by her true relationship
with man. Whenever there are two
in action, the man is the leader, but
the woman is always there, with sym
pathy, encouragement and inspira
tion. It takes a greater strength
and a stronger character to shape
things from the secondary place.
The second measurement is the
unthinking use of her power which
has so often been the cause of her
being termed “The Weaker Vessel.’
This cannot be true, for the ages
have proven her power to love, live,
sacrifice, drive through her objec
tives, and her ability to suffer and
sacrifice without complaint.
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Miss Grace Lawrence
New Dean of Women
Formerly Held Similar Posi
tions at Colleges in State
It was with great interest that the
Students of Salem awaited the ar
rival of Miss Grace Lawrence, who
assumed this week the post of Dean
of Residence. She succeeds Miss
Lula Stipe, who has been ill since
last fall.
This position has been temporarily
filled by Miss Evabelle Covington,
head of the Department of Soci
ology and Economics, and Miss
Katherine Riggan, assistant to the
Miss I^awrence received her
academic education at North Caro
lina College for Women, the Uni
versity of Nortli Carolina, and Co
lumbia University, New York. At
the latter institution her special field
of work was in training for the po
sition of Dean of Women in a series
of courses offered at Columbia on
this subject. She brings thirteen
years of actual experience in the
office of dean and her work is wide
ly known in this capacity through
out the state, as she has served in
this position both at North Caro
lina College for Women and at Mere
dith College.'
As part of their welcome the
Salem Students held an informal re
ception in the Recreation Room of
the Louisa Bitting Building, at
which time Miss Lawrence was in
troduced to each member of the stu-
dend-body on the campus. Refresh
ments were served by representatives
of the underclassmen, and musical
selections were given by members of
the School of Music.
Salem School of Music
To Give Recital
Advanced Students Will Give
Program Next Monday
Night
Advanced students of the School
of Music at Salem College will give
a concert Monday evening, March 2,
at 8:15 o’clock, in Memorial Hall,
Dean C. G. Vardell announced
Wednesday.
The program will consist of num
bers from classic, romantic and
modern composers and the public
is cordially invited to attend. The
numbers will start at 8 o’clock sharp
and the entire program is expected
to last only about an hour.
The opening group will be sung by
the Salem College Glee Club, an or
ganization of 60-odd voices under the
direction of Ernest L. Schofield,
head of the voice department. This
group will consist of three sacred
numbers by J. S. Bach, Max Reger
and Gabriel Faure.
Other numbers from the voice de
partment will be two groups of solos
by Misses Millicent Ward and Mary
B. Williams, and the coloratura
aria, “Una Voce Poco Fa,” from
Rossini’s famous opera, “The Bar
ber of Seville,” which will be sung
by Miss Doris Kimel.
A number of students from the
piano department will be heard. Miss
Helen Fowler will play Chopin’s
“Berceuse.” Another composition by
the great Polish composer will be the
heroic “Polonaise” in A flat, played
by Miss Elizabeth Willis.. Percy
Grainger’s piquant “Clog Dance,”
which bears the whimsical title,
“Handel in the Strand,” will be
played by Miss Margaret Siewers.
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Y. Association Holds
Industrial Meeting
Interesting Speakers are Heard
At Joint Meeting With
Winston Department
On Wednesday evening in the rec-,
reation room of the Louisa Bitting
Building, the February Y. W. C. A.
Association meeting was held. Miss
Elizabeth Marx presided at the meet
ing and introduced Miss Grace Law
rence as the new member of the “Y”
Advisory Board. There were several
town guests at the meeting, one of
whom was Mrs.' F. F. Bajmsoin,
president of the Winston-Salem
Y. W. C. A. She has recently re
turned from the Regional Y. W.
Conference at Charleston and spoke
highly of Mrs. Robert Speer, the
president of the National Board.
Mrs. Bahnson told of the charming
time that she had, with the exception
of one thing; there was no student
Association at the meeting due to the
time of the year in which it took
place. While at the conference Mrs.
Bahnson made the acquaintance of
Miss Evelyn Moore, who had found
ed an association there.
The next feature of the program
was a short talk by Miss Gillette,
from the Winston-Salem “Y,” in
which she told the purpose of the
industrial commission which she
stated to be the “process of sharing
problems and pleasures of the in
dustrial girl.” The industrial part
of the “Y” is formed just as the Col
lege “Y” with a president and a
Cabinet, which has a special place
at the National Conference where
the two parts are brought together.
She then introduced the entire In
dustrial Commission and their speak
er Miss Ruth Shakleford of Hanes
Hosiery Mill.
Miss Shakleford began by saying
that there were seventeen processes
in the making of a stocking and
practically all of these processes re
quire girls to stand on their feet for
hours at the time. She showed ex
amples of the stockings made of raw
silk, then one of silk that has been
dipped, and one of silk as we buy
them. She told of the tediousness of
looping the hose and the putting in
of the feet and seam; she explained
that this was her job. The stockings
are then examined by an inspector,
taken to the stock room where they
are weighed for the dye house, then
they are bleached and dyed. The
stockings are sorted out as to sizes,
boxed and shipped to the customers.
Zinaida Vologodsky gave a short
talk on Russian customs and Rus
sian folklore in which she told of
a celebration called “Butter Day”
which was to occur last Wednesday
in Russia. This custom, she explain
ed, goes back to the time when the
Russian people were not Christians
and when they worshiped the forces
of nature, the wind, the sun and the
“grandfather water.” The sun for
these people was a supreme power
and a good spirit which could break
the ice and give life to the crops
and plants. When the day became
longer, the people celebrated this
time with games, festivals and songs.
Sometimes in their plays they had
actors which represented the severe
white winter, the ugly, angry snow
storm and these were driven away by
spring, the beautiful daughter of the
all powerful sun.
At this time little cakes were made
to represent the sun; these were
round and yellow because of the
great amount of "butter which was
in them and greatly resembled the
sun. All of the housewives made
large amounts of these cakes and
served them to all of their guests.
While the years passed by no one
thought of worshiping the sun, be
cause Russia became Christian, but
since Russia is a great farming land
for millions of people and they are
dependent upon the sun, the custom
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Kappas and Thetas
Fight for Championship
Sorority Games Brought to a
Thrilling End With a Hard-
Fought Kappa Victory
The Kappas are the “big girls” on
the campus now and the Thetas are
runners-up for honors according to
the finail score of the championship
game played in “the Hut,” Friday
evening, February 20. Miss “At”
announced that the winners of the
game would be “the big girls” of the
campus; which title the Kappas
finally won after a hard-fought
contest. Many excited spectators
were on hand at 7 o’clock, and the
game was a fast one from start to
finish. The first toss-up was madly
scrambled for, finally went to the
Thetas, and the game began with a
bang. Tlie teams seemed evenly
matched. Running neck and neck,
at first the Thetas forged a bit ahead
after the first quarter. At the half,
the Kappas had pulled up an even
score, and after that, the score be
gan gradually to mount for the
Kappas. The game ended with the
Thetas — 21.
Kappas — 30.
Thompson and Holderness rang
most of the free-shot goals' for their
sororites; M. Ward and Harris star
red as forwards. As for guards, Kirk
land and Hackney could not be
The line-up was as follows:
Kappa Theta
Hickerson Clarke
R. F.
M. Ward Harris
L. F.
Thompson Holderness
C. F.
McAnally Hackney
R. G.
Currie Smith
L. G.
Kirkland Allen
C. G.
Making Ideals Livable
Topic For Vespers
Violin Quartet Adds Much to
Sunday Evening Hour
Of Worship
Special music made the Vesper
Service, Sunday evening, unusually
attractive. The “Nocturne” by
Schytte played by Miss Kathleen
rison as a Prelude and the violin
quartet composed of Misses Read,
Bbwan, MeClaugherty and Mr.
Dickieson contributed definitely to
the reverent spirit of the worship,
and the selection of hymns was ex
tremely fitting.
The chief feature of the program
is a talk by the Rev. Mr. Gordon
Spaugh which continued in a com
mendable way, the series of thought
ful comments which have been the
contribution of our vespers this year
practical college life. After his
introduction by Miss Frances Cald
well, Mr. Spaugh spoke briefly and
informally on “Making Our Ideals
Livable.” He complimented the
Salem Y. W. C. A. on the way in
which it has made our ideal of
worship a part of our daily lives,
and recalled to pur minds the ideals
ervice, womanhood and friend
ship which have been brought to us
in earlier services by this organiza
tion. Each person, as Mr. Spaugh
pointed out to us, has her own ideals
personally and as a part of the
group or groups with which she is
innected, but all those ideals are
)t livable. Most of us are not
bad but careless. We are putting
too many irrelevant things into our
Take, for example, reading,
are choking our lives with items
and fragments of books that have no
bearing on our ideal of living or our
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Pierrette Players
Present Successful Play
Mediaeval Comedy is Received
By Large Audience With
Sincere Enthusiasm
Memorial Hall was the scene of
I unusually delightful play on last
Saturday night. The Pierrette Play-
presented “The Man. Who Mar
ried a Dumb Wife,” by Anatole
France, one of the greatest of all
French dramatists.
The scene was laid in a mediaeval
setting at the home of a prominent
judge of the time. He seems to have
everything that heart can desire but
with it all, he has a secret sorrow.
His wife, though very beautiful and
accomplished, is entirely dumb. An
old schoolmate of M. Leonard Botel,
the judge, comes to see him on a
latter concerning his ward. Mile, de
la Garandierf. This schoolmate is
M. Adam Fumee and to him, M. Bo-
tal confides his sorrow. The former
immediately suggests that M. B'otal
ask the services of a famous doctor
who is able to make the dumb speak.
soon as M. Fumee leaves the
judge calls his secretary and sends
him to Dr. Simon Collins, begging
the doctor to come to his house im
mediately. The doctor comes at
tended by various subordinates. The
operation is performed upon the
lady and she speaks. But oh! how
she speaks! Poor M. Botal is nearly
driven distracted. He declares to
his friends that his wife never stop
ped chattering from the time she
(poke her first word. All the serv-
ints, too, are frantic and cannot bear
to be near the woman. On the verge
of insanity, M. Botal sends for the
great surgeon to return and undo
his drastic work. This, the doctor
, is impossible. Mme. Botal
cliatters without a jaause, and every
body is in a furor. Finally, the doc
tor tells M. Botal that the very cure
deafness for himself. The judge
positively refuses to be made deaf;
at last, after an especially
lengthy tirade from his wife, he
welcomes any relief. By a slight
operation, he is made stone-deaf, and
with a ‘joyous smile upon his face,
sinks back in his armchair in bliss-
unconseiousness, as far as his
garrulous magpie of a wife is con
cerned, Mme. Botal still talks.
Everybody is edging away from her,
and stopping their ears with their
fingers when suddenly, Mme. Botal
goes entirely insane, and leaping at
her husband, bites him on the neck.
He, too, with incoherent gibberish,
ind many gesticulations becomes
crazy, and everybody else is sud
denly afflicted. 'The play ends w'ith
a hilarious, and noisy dancing and
jumping about of tiie entire cast.
The performance of Mary Louise
Mickey in the role of M. Botal was
highly commendable, and showed
able training as well as an unusual
amount of ability. Mary Elizabeth
Holcomb as Mme. Botal, both in the
‘dumb” scenes and in the “not-so-
dumb” scenes, was immensely en
tertaining. Agnes Pollock as the
blind man, Louise Stevenson as the
doctor, and Mary Katherine Thorpe,
as Master Adam Fumee deserve men
tion for their excellent characteriza
tions. The entire cast seemed to be
unusually capable and the play is
considered a great success.
The cast is as follows:
Master Leonard Botal
Mary Louise Mickey
Master Adam Fumee, Lawyer ....
Mary Katherine Thorpe
Master Simon Colline
Louise Stevenson
Master Jean Maugier, Surgeon
and Barber
Anne Finley
Master Serafin Dulaurier,
Apothecary Betty Stough
Giles Boiscourtier, Botal’s Secretary
Edith Kirkland
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