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THE SALEMITE
The Salemite ^^ara^phics
1932.
Member Southern Inter-CoUegiate
Association
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P O E 1 R Y
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EDITORIAL STAFF
r-in-Chief Sarah Graves
ging hditor .. Mary Louise Mickey
iute Editor Margaret Johnson
. Dorothy Heidenreich
Beatrice Hyde
Susan Calder
Marion Caldwell
Martha H. Dav
tr Isabella Hansc
Mary Ahshf
.... Jo.scphine Courtney
ary Olli
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REPORTERS
Phyllis Noe
Elizabeth Gray
Martha Binder
Margaret Long
Mary Miller
Zina Vologodsky
Elinor Phillips
Girls! It’s Leap Year—just the
time for bringing your secret heart
troubles out into the open. Accord
ing to the Encyclopedia Britannica
it’s an old Scottish custom.
After all, exams are just another
angle of the student depression prob
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LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
Dost thou love life? Then
waste not time, for time is the
stuff that life is made of.
—B. Franklin.
Out of the moment now
Rises the god To-Be
The light upon his brow
Is from eternity.
—Wheelock.
OUR NEW YEAR’S
RESOLUTION
We wonder if everything has been
said pro and con New Year’s Resolu
tions. Who knows? Anyway Yi
Editor intends to get her say-s(
whether everything has been said o
not. Please overlook all repetition.
The Right Honorable President of
the United States has been quoted, if
not on the new j^ear and its resolu
tions, at least on the Depression. Even
Amos ’n’ Andy have contributed
the opinion of the general public their
deas of new resolves. And it seems
:o us that these two comedians have
;ome as near approaching the truth
IS anyone, with their sardonic “I Dis
solve—I Dis-solve That—” ’s. For
ns to us that no sooner are resolu-
is made than they are dissolved,
as the apt quotation of the black
comedians implies.
But, even though we are eternally
breaking our good resolutions almost
immediately, don’t you agree with u;
that even the thought or intention of
“doing better” has been worthwhile?
And, even if we don’t keep it, let us
resolve on something right now at the
very beginning of the baby year 1932.
What is that Something? The DE
PRESSION, of course!
The Depression is here; it has been
here for a long time; and (in spite of
all the optimistic predictions of the
Editor of Ballyhoo, the preside
the American-Blah-Blah Steel MilL,
and the Head Man of the “Dokies”)
'ill probably be here for some time
ome. Don’t get the idea that the
policy of this paper is to be pessimistic
it to be different. All we
is to instill in ourselves, as well aj
others, a brand new resolve (since
the depression is here), to bear it
a Wide Grin! And that’s our
Year’s Resolution. Will you
help us keep it, at least until the
printer’s ink dries on this issue?
Thanks ! ! ! ! In return, may we
a very Merry-Christmas-
that-has-been and a very Happy-New-
Year-to-come!
THE NEW LEAF
He came to my desk with quivering
lip.
The lesson was done.
“Have you a new leaf for me, dear
Teacher?
I have spoiled this one!”
I took his leaf, all soiled and blotted
And gave him a new one, all
Then into his tired heart I smiled
“Do better now, my child!”
I went to the throne, with trembling
heart.
The \’ear was done.
“Have you a New Year for me, dear
Master ?
I have spoiled this one!”
He took my year, all soiled and
blotted
And gave me a new one, all un-
Then, into my tired heart he smiled:
“Do better now, my child!”
—Author Unknoicn.
END AND BEGINNING
One New Year’s Eve, as they we:
getting tea,
“7'he End is God,” I heard rr
grandma say.
“And God is the beginning,” look
ing at me,
My mother added in her quiet
And then they spoke of New Year
and of Old,
Of sunny morning following starry
night.
The room, their voices were dusk-
soft ; pale-gold
Their simple words as mirrored ca
die light.
“ ‘I am the Beginning and the
End—’ ” Ah, yes ;
He said it long ago, but now
hear I—•
“Who said it, grandma?”—“God!’
—Strange loveliness.
Flooding that room, blazed dowi
that ending j'ear!
And always, on a
as then,
I listen for those
New Year’s Eve,
MUSICAL BURGLARY
The turn was over, and the orches-
a was silent for a while.
“I say,” said the conductor, lean
ing down to speak to his first violin,
"whatever key were you playing in?”
“Skeleton Key,” returned the
violinist readily enough.
'Skeleton key,” echoed the con
ductor, “whatever do you mean?”
‘Fits anything,” was the reply.
—Wentworth Blade.
DEPRESSION QUES
TIONNAIRE
The following questionnaire is
made out for the benefit of those who
wish to determine their knowledge
of events in the past and present. Read
the questions over once and if there
is any uncertainty as to the correct
answers it is permissible to spend any
length of time in reading current
magazines and newspapers. Any
economic authority may be consulted
and any church service may be at
tended. All notes must be laid aside
when the final test is taken. Time
ot exceed two hours and
answers may be checked by the list
the end of the test.
1. What famous phrase has been
the tongues of men, women and
babes in 1931?
What will be the outstanding
phrase of 1932?, 1933?, 1940?
What caused Stephen Leacock
to say, “What we need now is con-
mption, extravagance, music, cigars,
chewing gum'—in short, a iHappv
Year.”?
On account of what did a
British authority say that our civiliza
tion is coming to a crash around the
8th of February?
5. What makes winter, spring,
summer and fall vacations popular
with the banks?
6. Why don’t we have more op
timistic people like Stephen Leacock?
7. Why didn’t the kid brother get
a baby blimp for Christmas?
8. Why didn’t your husband give
you that Hispanio Suiza for Christ-
9. If you haven’t a husband why
didn’t your—whatever you call him—
give you that rose quartz cigarette
case with tourmaline clasp from B.
Altmann?
10. What made a western uni
versity student admit he wears card
board in his shoes?
11. What, according to ministers,
has been a godsend to remind the peo
ple of their frivolity and wickedness?
12. What, according to educators,
can be avoided in the future if every
one receives a course in economics'?
1—The depression. 2—The depres
sion, the depression, the depression—
maybe. 3—The depression. A—The
depression. 5—The depression. 6—
Because of the depression. 7—The de
pression. 8—The depression. 9—The
depression. 10—The depression. 11—
The depression. 12—The depressions.
Prehistoric Grime
Visitor (looking over fraternity
house) : “Don’t you know roller tow
els are against the law?”
Brother: “Oh, yes, but that one
was put up before the law was
passed.”