WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER I 7. 1931.
Glorified Housekeeping
Is Popular Job for Girls
DR. WOODHOUSE TALKS
AT CHAPEL HOUR
Gives Optimistic Outlook For
Future Vocations
What women can do and are do
ing in the world today was dis
cussed at Y. P. M. on Wednesday
by Dr. Chase Going Woodhouse. She
gave Salem girls a very optimistic
outlook by proving tliat women
do anything they want to if they
are willing to struggle hard enough
Dr. Woodhouse took lier example of
vocation in which women were now
engaged from observation of tjie
daily papers: It seems that “glori
fied housekeeping” is tlie job essen
tial to the welfare of the country.
Today, the number of Iiousekeepers
is very large, but the number of
household duties is smaller and
easier than ever before because of
modern aids. Therefore, in spare
time women housekeepers are doing
social service work for their town
and state. Legislative and club
work, done quite well by women,
takes up the spare time of the house
wife. Some women work for pay,
but the majority are willing to work,
not for pay, but for the welfare of
others.
As yet there is no outstanding
American woman architect, but there
are good openings for women ii
csted in this line of work.
According to Dr. Woodhouse,
government service is advisable for
young college graduates. There
now 89,000 women employed by the
federal government in scientific,
egricultural, economic and statistical
work. These positions are usually
found in Washington, which, in ad
dition to a paying job, offers gradu
ate students two universities and
good work hours which do not c
flict with university hours.
Many college graduates are
educaitonal because of the travel
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STUDENT BODY CHOOSES
REPRESENTATIVES
B. Hyde and Hutcherson to
Head L R. S. Organization
Saturday, October the tenth, elec-
ions for I. R. S. and Student Coun-
il vacancies were held.
Officers elected for tlie council
I'ere as follows: First Vice-Presi
dent, Maria Bowen; Senior Repre
sentatives, Corinne Jones and Edith
Leake; Secretary, Louise Brinkley;
Freshmen Representatives elected
were Sarah Jetton, Mary Penn and
Margaret Long.
In the I. R. S. elections held Sat
urday, Bebe Hyde was elected P:
dent and Maude Hutcherson Vice-
President.
From the class elections Phyllis
Noe, Elizabeth Grey, and Rebecea
Kine were elected as Freshmen Rep
resentatives. Zina Vologodsky, Geor
gia Huntington and Edwina Snyder
were chosen representatives of the
Sopliomore Class. Junior elections
have not been held. Senior Repre
sentatives elected were, “Pat” Hold-
erness, Martha Davis and Virginia
Langley.
Miss Kimel to Sing
In State Contest
Salem Student Will Sing Over
W. P. T. F. at Raleigh on
Monday, October 19
Miss Doris Kimel, Salem College
senior, will represent Winston-Salem
at the state audition of the Atwater
Kent radio contest at Raleigh on
Monday, October 19, 1931. The con
test will take place at station W. P.
T. F., Raleigh, from three to five
Monday afternoon.
Miss Kimel is a pupil of Ernest
Leslie Schofield, head of the Salem
College voice department. She re
cently won first place with Louis
Bianco, Italian tenor of Mount Airy,
in auditions held under the auspices
of the Thursday Morning Music
Club at Memorial Hall, Salem Col
lege, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Of her singing the Winston-Salem
Journal said the following: “Miss
Kimel showed the result of thorough
training which, added to a fine vo:
produced a splendid impression
those who heard her. Her mastery
of technique was best demonstrated
in Rossini’s “Una Voca Poea Fa.
Her second selection also revealed
deep emotional quality in her beau
tiful lyric voice.”
Girls from Greensboro College for
Women and from Catawba College,
will also sing at the state audi
Salem is proud to be represented and
should support Miss Kimel in every
way possible.
Membership Campaign
Is Brought to Close
Impressive Candlelight Cfere-
mony for Installation
The installation of new members
of the Salem College Y. W. C. A.
took place at the Vesper service in
the college library on Sunday night,
October 11, 1931.
A prelude, “Song,” by MacDowell,
which was played by Miss Wanna
Mary Huggins, opened the service.
Following this the Y. W. C. A. cab
inet members sang the first stanza
of the processional hymn, “Father
of Lights,” outside of the library.
All those attending Vespers joined in
singing the remaining stanzas of the
hymn, as the cabinet members, m
ing white and carrying lighted
dies, proceeded to the further end
of the library and there formed a
semicircle facing the audience.
The library, lit only by candles,
was a fitting place for the ceremony,
and the fact that all girls wore white
contributed to the atmosphere of the
After the processional. Miss
Eleanor Idol, President of the Salem
College Y. W. C. A., led the as
sembly in a responsive prayer of
A violin solo, the melodious
vement of the “Sonata in F”
by Handel, was artistically played
by Elizabeth McLaugherty. After
Martha Davis, Vice-President of the
Y. W. C. A. read the appropriate
ipture passage, which was taken
from the seventeenth chapter of
John, tlie congregation joined in
singing “Follow the Gleam.”
In a few words Miss Idol inter
preted the purpose of the Y. W. C.
A. The Y. W. C. A. triangle stands
for body, mind, and spirit. Mem
ber of the Y. W. C. A. seek to
more fully through a growing
derstanding of God. “As new and old
‘Y’ girls light their candles, they
should try to consecrate their lives
to God and to live better for Him.”
V/hile music was softly played and
appropriate scripture passages were
read. Miss Idol and Miss Davis
lighted candles for the entire assem
bly. The recessional hymn, “Lead
on O King Eternal” concluded the
impressive installation ceremony.
Mr. H. E. Fries Talks
of Conference Results
Gives Inspiring Account of
Salem’s Historical
Conference
An interesting and inspiring ac
count of the Fourth Conference for
Education in the South held just
thirty years ago was given on Fri
day, October 9, 1931, by one ol the
most prominent delegates, Mr. H. E.
Fries, to members of Education
classes and friends. His talk was
delivered in the Salem College Li
brary, in which same room this fam
ous conference itself was opened on
April 18, 1901.
Mr. Fries first described the great
need for education which arose in
the South just after the Civil War in
the difficult days of reconstruction.
Until this time education had not
received the attention which it de
served and there were hard prob
lems to face in the work among white
children, negroes, and Indians,
the early nineties. Southern leaders
were laboring earnestly in separate
states to bring light to all people,
but not until the spring of 1898 was
there an alliance of these rebuilders
of the old commonwealth. In this
year and through 1900, conferences
held at Capon Springs, West
Virginia.
At Salem in 1901, at the invitation
of Winston-Salem and Dr. and Mrs.
Clewell of the college, assembled the
most notable body of educators e
before gathered in North Caroli
They came in trainloads from the
North and South, all seeking to work
together under the leadership of the
splendid president, Robert Curtiis
Ogden of New York, whose long
labors in this office and as President
of the Southern Education Board
won him the love and gratitude of
all Southerners.
The battle cry of the conference
became “a common school education
for the children of all people,” and
the meetings were given to practical
planning for the accomplishment of
the colossal task. Some of the de
finite goals set were: (1) Increased
revenue for educational purposes
(2) More competent superintend
ents; (3) Better salaries; (4) Better
teaching methods; (5) Reorganized
school districts; (6) Establishment
of high schools.
When the men and women from
the North and South met through
those days in the “Twi
to learn to know each other and to
discuss problems from their different
points of view, the hour of oppor
tunity had struck. From that hour
the movement has continued
with increasing momentum and
ling definiteness of purpose,
■lasting and ever-widening will
Folk Music in Art Music
Is Composer’s Subject
Registrar’s Office
Announces Statistics
Seventeel States and One
Foreign Country
Represented
Interesting statistics concerning
the enrollment for 1931-1932 have
just been announced from the Regis-
Office. The Student Body is
composed of girls from seventeen
states and from one foreign country,
China, those states represented be
ing north Carolina, Virginia, Ten-
;e. South Carolina, Maryland,
Pennslyvania, Florida, Kentucky,
Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota,
New York, West Virginia,New Jer
sey, and Rhode Island. With the
ptioin of North Caroli
largest delegation comes from West
Virginia.
A tabulation of course enrollments
i as follows:
A. B. 65%.
B. S. 11%.
B. M. 17%.
Business 5%.
Special 2%.
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TAKERS OF PASSES
As this is' the Down-Fall
Issue (included iti the Fall
Issue), of The Salemite, we
make the following statement:
The management of The
Carolina Theatre announces
with regret the takers of this
week’s complimentary passes:
Miss Sarah Graves of the
Editorial Staff of The Sale
mite, and Miss Mary Alice
Beaman, of the Business Staff
of The Salemite. The winners
of these passes are chosen
weekly according to their abil
ity and work on The Salemite,
but the afore mentioned girls
received these passes because
of their pitful state of “dead-
brokeness.”
Library Receives
Many New Books
Misses Fries, Vest, and Chil
dren of Confederacy
Are Donors
Nearly two hundred books have
recently been added to the Library
collection through gifts made by
faculty, students, alumnae and in
terested friends. The following are
the most important additions:
From Miss Adelaide Fries a num
ber of volumes in the fields of his
tory, travel and fiction. Two sets
of these reference books will be of
particular interest to students of
history. “The Great ' Events By
Famous Historians” gives
prehensive and readable account of
the world’s history from 5867 B. C.
to 1914 A. D., emphasizing the more
important events. The whole is ar
ranged chronologically with indices,
bibliographies, chronologies a
courses of reading on seperate
tions, personages and sociological
movements. “Great Events of the
Great War” continues this work be
ing a readable source of record of
the world’s great war. It contains
well chosen group of interesting
and authoritative excerpts, which
arranged chronologically from the
causes of the war to the treaty and
reconstruction. Especially interest-
the military reports, from
generals in command, on each bat
tle and campaign.
The music collection has been in
creased through the gift of o num
ber of books from Miss S. Vest. This
group includes works on the study
and teaching of music, musical
forms, and biographies of musicians.
Miss Vest has also presented the
Library with a number of periodi
cals which will be of value in the
reference collection.
The T. J. Brown Chapter Co. B.
Children of the Confederacy con
tributed a copy of Eckenrode’s “Jef
ferson Davis.” Salem College ap
preciates this and otlier volumes
which the Children of the Confeder
acy liave added to the collection on
the South and North Carolinas.
MR. LAMAR STRINGFIELD
TALKS AT MUSIC HOUR
Folk Music is Basis of All
Art Music, He Says
At the first Music Hour of the
year, on Thursday, October 15, Mr.
Lamar Strinffield began a series of
three talks on Folk Music. Mr. Var-
dell introduced Mr. Stringfield as
one who has won national recogni
tion both as a player on as a com
poser, having been awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in composition in
1928 which was a national and
signal honor. Mr. Stringfield is now
the new head of the Institute of Folk
Music which was recently established
at the University of North Caro
lina. A representative audience of
students, faculty and interested
towns-people attended.
Mr. Stringfield stated that he did
not want to present something dry
and formal, for, to be analogous to
music, his talk must be interesting.
Mr. Vardell took the first step in
trying to make the hour less interest
ing by neglecting to mention the fact
that Mr. Stringfield would play
some of Mr. Vardell’s own compo
sitions, which are as interesting as,
and comparable to, any composition
n any form of literature. Mr. String
field said that he was especially hap-
r to be born in North Carolina and
Mr. Vardell’s native state.
The subject of Mr. Stringfield’s
Ik was “Folk Music in Art Music.”
An important point about Folk Music
that it covers a wide field, and few
people realize its meaning. It in
cludes everything in the art form in
playing and composition. The work
which the Institute is undertaking is
distinctly a very important pioneer
work. He stressed an interest in
folk lore and in what it can mean.
The President of the National Fed
eration is working in collaboration
with the Chairman of American
Music.
The Institute has as its purposes
three major ideas: 1. The selection
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Evening Watch Services
Prove Very Successful
Miss Lilly Brings First
Message
The Evening Watch Services for
this fall were started Thursday
night, October first, by a very suc
cessful meeting. The thirty-nine
who were present were rewarded by
a beautiful heart-to-heart talk with
Miss Lilly on “The Value of Self.”
It helped each student to realize that
she is really worth much more than
she thought. Eleanor Idol, President
of the Y. W. C. A. led in prayer,
and the pianist was Rachel Bray.
On Wednesday night, October
fourteenth. Miss Idol led the service.
There was a large attendance both
at this one and at the one on Friday
night which was led by Miss Mar
garet Johnson.
Evening Watch, which is a vital
phase of the “Y” work, will be held
hereafter every Wednesday and
Friday night at 10:15 P. M. in the
campus living room. Everyone in
the college is invited and urged to
attend. There will be counsel and
inspiration awaiting.
The services for next week will
be as follows:
Wednesday — Song Service.
Friday — Miss Sarah Horton,
leader.