HAPPY
EASTER
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931,
Martha McKay Gives
Graduating Recital
First of a Series of Recitals
Wins Much Praiss For
Artists
Memorial Hall at Salem College
was the scene of the first of a se
ries of graduating recitals to be pre
sented by the school of music when
Miss ]\Iartha McKa_v, pianist, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McKay
Buie’s Creek, was heard in a delight
ful recital last night.
Miss McKay began her recital with
an air from Handel’s opera, “Susan
nah,” followed by the Gluck-Sy;
bati Melodic. In the Melodic she
displayed poetic insight with a
ful delineation and warmth of
contrasting vividly the brilliance and
power shown in the first number.
In the “Largo Appasionata MoV'
ment from the Beethoven Sonata,
Opus 2, Number 2,” she showed keen
appreciation of the orchestra idea.
The scherzo movement was !
with piquant daintiness and sparkle.
Throughout the two movements of
the Sonata there was a satisfying bal
ance of the intellectual and emotional
which is difficult to achieve.
The assisting artist was Miss Jessie
Lupo, contralto, of Winston-Salem,
She sang as her first number Verdi’s
aria, “O Don Fatale,” displaying a
mastery of the dramatic and teehni
cal demands of this air. Her second
vocal group consisted of three selec
tions by contemporary composers;
“Ah, Love But a Day,” by Mrs.
Beacli, “Motlier, Dearest,” Russian
folk song arranged by Schindler and
“The Wind Song,” by Rogers. Mrs.
T. Holt Haywood, as accompanist,
shared greatly in the success of the
program.
“Sunset,” by Frank Bridge, with
which Miss McKay opened the
ond part of her program, was beauti
fully played. In the Rachmaninoff
“Barcarolle,” w'ith its deept rich
tones and rhythmic accompaniment.
Miss McKay again gava evidence of
her genuine musicianship.
The climax of the program
“Allegro,” from the Concerto :
Minor by Mozart. Throughout the
animated performance of this bril
liant number the pianist proved tech
nical equipment and ability to secure
tlie elusive Mozartian atmosphere.
Dean Charles G. Vardell Jr. gave a
spirited and sympathetic perform
ance on the organ of the orchestral
accompaniment to thisi final number.
Ushers for the evening were Misses
Margaret Siewers, Elizabeth M:
Grace Martin, Katherine Schlegel,
Maria Bowen and Katherine Brown.
Rev. Ray Jordan
Interprets Personality
Well-Known Minister of High
Point Speaks at Y. W.
Vespers
The Vesper Service of the week
was held in the Alice Clewell cam
pus living room last Sunday evening
March 22.
Margaret Johnson opened the pro
gram with a piano solo, “Credle
Song” by Palmgren. After the usual
musical invocation, Frances Dough
read the Scripture lesson, I. John
4:12-21. “Russian Lullaby,” ai
spiring violin solo, was played by
Martha Mann, accompanied by
Rachel Bray at the piano.
Eleanor Idol, Chairman of the
Program Committee of the Y. W
C. A., ;ntroduc'.'d tlic speaker, tbs
Rev. Ray Jordan, Pastor of 'the
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
of High Point, as one of the foremost
ministers in the state.
Mr. Jordan very simply and con
cretely discussed his subject: “God’s
Afterglow in Personality.” In be
ginning, he assumed that the follow
ing three facts were already estab
lished in the minds of bis hearers:
(1) There is a Spiritual Being into
whose P'ellowship an individual may
go and whose comradeship he i
know; (2) This Spiritual Being
whisper into an individual’s heart
messages that may influence his life
(3) He is personal, but not a per-
Mr. Jordan advised his hearers
not to conceive of God as a person,
a King seated on a high throne, as
they did in cliildhood days, but to
conceive of Him as a “personal God”
who could affect them individually
“The kingdom of this world lies nol
far away, but very near. The road
lies through a garden, up Calvary
side, and leads out beyond skies
where the sunshine of God’s loi
breaks through the clouds of rain
According to Matthew Arnold, “An
other Power, not our own” is making
for character here and now.
Henry Drummond, in a recent
book, gave the following example of
the influence of “God’s Afterglow in
Personality,” which Mr. Jordan
quoted. A young girl visited the
room of her fiance, an Oxford st
dent who had lost his way religion
ly. She saw around the room ai
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Educational Meeting
Held at Salem
Meeting Held at Salem College
Emphasizes Dividends of
Education
Voicing the feeling that the recent
emphasis on the cost side of publi
education had tended' to prompt dis
proportionate thinking, and that the
contributions of scliools to com
munity and national life should be
given greater recognition, the de
partmental presidents of the north
western district of the North Caro
lina Educational Association in con
ference at Salem College Saturday
decided upon “Education’s Divi
dends” as the general theme for the
program of the district meeting
which will be held in Winston-Sa
lem, October 23.
It was the concensus of the lead
's of tlie association that a thor-
igh study of this topic will do
much to restore educational thinking
to the significant side of education,
namely, “What do and what should
the schools contribute to public wel
fare.^”
The meeting Saturday was called
by Professor R. W. McDonald, of
this city, president of the North
vestern District Association, for the
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Mrs. Lindsay Patterson
Heard at Meeting
Experiences In The Balkan
States and Visit to Queen
Marie Vividly Related
The March meeting of the “Y”
Association was held in the Recrea
tion room of Louisa Bitting Building
After the meeting was opened by
Miss Marx, President of the Y. W.
C. A., Miss Eleanor Shalfner play
ed two lovely harp solos, A Short
Prelude, by Grieg and a Transcrip
tion by Salzedo. The speaker for the
evening was Mrs Lindsay Patterson,
one of Salem’s friends, who is a
bol of a full and creative life. If the
“Y” is to learn to know life fully
from those who have lived it in the
acceptable way, it was certainly fit
ting to have such a person speak at
an Association Meeting.
Wlicn Mrs. Patterson began tn
speak she declared that she felt that
this talk was not the kind that
person should give at a “Y” meeting,
because she had done exactly the
way she had wanted to do on the
trip of which she was to speak,
against the will of everyone and as
a result, she had had the time of her
life. When Mrs. Patterson was get
ting ready to go to France to aid
Miss Ann Morgan, she stopped by
Washington and by chance was in
vited to dinner by Madame Gouitcb,
the wife of the Servian Minister. She
told Mrs. Patterson of the condi
tions in Servia and asked if she
would be interested in going to Ser
via for the purpose of making a re
port on the terrible conditions there.
Mrs Patterson immediately to go, al
though she knew that her family
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Impressive Tree and Ivy
Planting on Wednesday
Senior Class of 1931 Follows
Old Tradition Began Thirty-
Five Years Ago
Tree and ivy planting took place
at 11 o’clock on Wednesday morn
ing, March 2i. The student body
assembled in Memorial Hall as usual.
Dr. Rondthaler spoke of former tree
plantings at Salem College and he
stated that, as a class exercise,
planting began about thirty-five
years ago, though the custom w
cherished tradition for many years
before that. There arc sixty-six
rieties of trees on thb campus—a
markable number, considering tlie
area of the grounds. Following Dr.
Rondthaler’s remarks, Mrs. Audrey
Clorfe LeGrand sang “Trees,” the
words of which were written by
Joyce Kilmer.
The student body, led by Sarah
Graves, chief marshal, then proeeded
in the order of classes to tlie c
at the rear of the Louisa Bitting
Building where Frances Fletcher,
president of tlie Senior Class, pre
sented ivy to the school. The stu
dent body then sang “Fairest I,ord
In behalf of the Senior Class, E'
Hackney presented to the school a
tree which had been placed beside
tennis court. In accepting the
gift. Dr. Rondthaler said that the
tree is of the live oak species and
that it is the first time that this va
riety of tree had been selected by a
class. In every way it is well fitted
!ts location. Dr. Rondthaler also
said that to him the tree stood as
emblem and a propliecy of the
■it of the class in its loyalty to
the school and its love for the cam
pus. The Seniors walked by the tree
solemn procession and each one
put a penny at the root in order to
insure its steady and healthy growth.
The singing of tjie Alma Mater
brought the impressive service to a
Music Hour Presents
High School Students
Piano, Violin and Organ
Numbers Played by
School of Music
An interesting and attractive pro
gram was presented Thursday after
noon in Memorial Hall by the high
school and Academy' students of the
Salem College School of Music. The
departments of piano, violin, organ
were represented on the program.
The piano pupils were from the
classes of Misses Laurie Jones, Miss
Viola Tucker, Miss Marie Brietz,
Miss Harriet Neider and Mrs. A.
M. Boals. Viojin Students were
from Miss Hazel Horton Read’s
Class, while the organ students came
from Miss Mary V. Jones’ Class.
A large and appreciative audience
from the city argumented the number
of students and faculty who attended.
The program was as follows:
Curious Story Heller
Mary Louise Siewers
Air de Ballet John Thomp
Betsy Ross Neilson
The First Violet Behr
Louise Blum
Retrospect Tolhurst
Mary Nelson Anderson
Sonatina Op. 36, No. ■I (First
Movement dementi
Lillie Gillie
Feu Follet Rogers
Bessie Lou Bray
Chanson Frimi
Elizabeth Tuttle
Berceuse in A Dclbruck
Lucille Bennett
Solfeggietto l Bach
Mary Louise Shore
Minuet in D Me
Ann Belton
Oriental Fantasy Besthoff
Polly Jacobson
“Mammy” from Magnolia Suite Dett
Doris Foster
Rustly of Spring Sinding
Annie King Moorefield
Waltz in A Flat Brahms
Alma Reid
Exaudet’s Minuet Diller
Pas Burlesque Gurlitt
Hannah Teiehmann
Rondino Beethoven-Kreisler
Rebecca Baynes
Varitations in F Beethoven
Frieda Blumenthal
Elves Heller
Impish Frolics Lt
Laura Elizabetli Bland
Brilliant Concert
Given Monday Night
Program of Fine Effect Given
By Orchestra and Ensemble
Is Directed by Miss Read
Playing to a keenly appreciative
audience, members of the Salem Col
lege school of music Monday night
presented the annual orchestra and
ensemble concert in Memorial Hall.
This organization, under the direc
tion of Miss Hazel Horton Read, has
been steadily earning for itself a
distinguished place as a concert
group, due to the high standard of
the programs selected and to the
excellence in detail of their perform-
The opening numbers of this de
lightful program were two melodies
by Grieg, “Herzwunden,” and “Let-
zer Fruhling.” The first of these
lovely little pieces was played with
a splendid perception of the depth
of feeling and haunting pathos con
tained in the lines of the poem. In
the second number there was the lilt
of springtime and an ease and fluen
cy which were most captivating.
Careful attention to exactness of
phrasing and shading resulted in a
tone picture of unusual beauty and
finish.
The second group was uniquely in-
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Dr. Schallert Speaks
To Science Club
Considers an Interesting and
Greatly Discussed Topic
Of The Day
On Thursday evening, March 26,
Dr, Paul Schallert of Winston-Salem
talked to members of Jthe Science
Club on the subject of “Smoking.”
Dr. Schallert, one of the State’s lead
ing physicians, is also one of the
strongest leaders against tobacco in
any form or for any purpose. In
beginning. Dr. Schallert said that
facts are primarily wliat students
particularly, wish to learn on the
subject. Tobacco is becoming tre
mendously popular especially be
cause of the vast amount of propa
ganda which is being circulated by
means of advertisements. It is esti
mated 31/2 billion dollars are spent
every year on tobacco — twice as
much as all education throughout the
nation costs. It is the money behind
the enterprise that keeps it alive and
growing in spite of active opposition.
Dr. Schallert, in speaking of the
widely known Lucky Strike adver
tisements, told of the way by which
the “20,679 physicians” were “roped
One of the chief points in Dr.
Schallert’s talk was that no narcotic
fiend can be convinced tJiat the drug
is harmful. You can’t take the word
of the cigarette smoker that tobacco
is harmless. Just as in the case of
morjjhine, cocaine, or heroin-addicts,
so do nicotine-addiets become satu
rated with the drug, and thus their
five senses of differentiation and
judgment are irrevocably dulled. Any
thing that causes excessive craving
in the body is dangerous and in order
to drive home this ^oint, on,; may
say that all the nicotine in one ciga
rette, if injected into the body by a
hypodermic needle, will kill 25 peo
ple. The smoker only obtains about
1-100 of the nicotine, and yet the
poison is so deadly that even so
small an amount is drastic to the
body. Nicotine is the second most
deadly drug in existence—prussic
acid alone is more deadly.
Dr. Schallert cited examples of
the fatal effect of tobacco, and in one
example, he said that a cat covered
with lice was wrapped in tobacco
leaves and securely covered so that
all possibility of licking the leaves
eliminated and within twelve
hour.s, the cat was dead. In former
days, tobacco was very often used
a remedy, but now it has been
found that the dangers of its use
either externally or internally are so
t that such use has been super-
ceded by less violent drugs. The inva-
of advertisements and the strong
power over popular thought that
advertisements exercise, have been
influential that the bars have been
let down in the sale of tobacco.
Kansas and Nebraska are the only
States in which today it is illegal to
sell cigarettes to children. Many
serious and even fatal diseases may
be the outcome of steady use of to-
0. Among these diseases are:
Angina Pectoris, Vertigo, hardening
of the Arteries, convulsions, neural-
ia, prostration, and aenemia—their
number is legion.
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