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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Saturday, January 21, 1933. The Salemite Mcmhe-,- ^louthern Inter-Collegiate Press Association Publislicd Weekly by tlie Student IJody of Salem College SUBSCllIPTIOX PRICE '^2.00 a Year :: 10c a Copy EDITO RIAL STAFF Kdilor-in-Chief Josepliine Courtney Managing Kdito, • Dorothy Ilcidenreich Associait IdiUt Elinor Phillips Asaociule I lit II _ Patsy McMullan Literary I hi j> Susan Calder Literary Editor Courtlaud Preston Local Editor . Martha Binder Muaic Editor Marv Absher Mu.-iic Editor RosiliL ‘iiiiith Alumnae Editor Elizabeth Gray Sports Editor Marfi;aret I.ong Feature 1 dilor Sarah I.indsay Feature 1 1,1 r Katlileen Atkins Local Editor . Meriam Stevenson BEPORTER Cora Einmaline Henderson I-ucy James Lois Torrence Celeste MeCIammy Gertrude Seliwalbe Virginia Nall BUSINESS STAFF Husineaa Manager Sarah Horton Advertisiii;/ Manager Mary Sample Aas't Adv. Manager Uuth Mel.eod A.is’l Adv. Manager .... Isabelle Polloek Ass’t Adv. Manager Grace Pollock //»«' Adv Manager Claudia Foy Ass’t Adv. Manager .... Mary Delia Irvin Ass’t Adv. Manager ... Margaret Ward Circulation Manager Jane Williams Aas't Cir. Manager Sarali Jetton Ass’t Cir. Manager Mary Frances I>inncy 1 LITTLE THOUGHTS FOR TODAY I “He whose aim is bis own liap- piness is bad; He wliose aim is the good opinion of others is weak; I He whose aim is the happi ness of others is virtuous; He whose aim is God is great.” • -Tolstoi). PARAGRAPHICS Who would ever have thought that Mr. Higgins could be so ineonspieious as he was in the “Murder on tlie Styx?” It is had not been for tlie program, no one woufd ever liave known he was anywliere around. What is this teelmoeraey? We tliouglit we had mastered Einstein’s theory, and we had learned how the cow jumped over the moon, but this -^tliis radical notion—is just now past our comprehension. Dr. Ans- eombe has explained it in part to some of his classes, leaving most of the student body in utter darkness. There is a general demand that Dr. Anscombe or Dr. Woodhouse speak in chapel on this subject. W^ill alphabet soup be served next week, as usual during exam time? Maybe it is brain food, but it looks so jumbled that it couldn’t do much Tliere will be no • Salemite next week on aecoimt of examinations. Tlie next issue will be the Founder’s Day number on Friday, February 3. “TRADITION MUST BE PRESERVED” A school who has a faculty mem ber capable of singing Debussy ar- 'tisticaliy lias a just reason to be proud, but a school w'ho has a facul ty member who can sing Debussy, clog dance, hypnotize, and nonchal antly announce, “Hey nonny nonny and a hot eha-cha-cha,” ought to tag him and lock him up for fear he should get away. Wlien a sober math professor can turn into a slinging, half-mad convict, he ought to be ad vertised to the world, for there is no otiier like him. In fact, any faculty who have as much fun in their make ups as the ease of “The Murder on the Styx” must be all riglit and, in the popular parlance of a year ago, they are “good eggs.” Just as Dr. Rondthaler said, to j)raise one of the actors is disas trously lacking in tact, when every one of them played his part superb ly. From the writing of the lines and the songs, the stage decoration and lighting, and the costumes to Henry VIII’s high jump and the grand finale the production was en. joyed. We, the students, would nev er know how to express our appre ciation to the faculty if we did not know that they enjoyed performing as much as we did watching. “Tradition Must Be Preserved,” they sang. Really? Let them re member that the faculty skit is now become such a tradition that not a single year can pass without one. They got themselves into it by being good, and now they cannot possibly get out. IN PRAISE OF THE BUSINESS STAFF “I want to commend So-and-so for his excellent work, done in a manner entirely self-effacing, yet worthy of every praise for what lie has done and the way in which he did it.” Does a sentence like that sound fa miliar? Of course it does, for it is Salem herself speaking through the lips of Dr. Rondthaler, so expert in interpreting the spirit of this old school that he seldom fails to speak for the institution. It is typical of Salem to appreciate merit and to give recognition where it is deserved. Seldom is anyone so modest with his or her good works that they are not publicly recognized and commended. The world is not like that, so peo- ])le say. What a wonderful thing it is that Salem consistently does this unusual thing! Yet recognition lias not been given to everyone who should have it. Week after week a group of girls, advertising solicitors for the Sale mite and Sights and Insights, call on ’business men, selling them adver tising space in these two publica tions. It is not easy to solicit ad vertising, to return again and again when the manager is not in, when the ad is not ready or when a eut has to l)e proeur(^d. One must be tactful, truthful, fair to every advertiser, and still convince him that his ad vertising is worth his mony. With out their loyal work there could be no campus j)ublieations. Yet never does one hear the compliment, “Tliose were good ads'you had this week; I never thought you could get so many.” Not only do they procure advertising, but they attend to circulation, delivering copies to every room and mailing them to a long list of subscribers and ex changes. Why should all the credit go to the editorial staff, when without the work of the business staff their work would be useless? Tliis number of the Salemite, with ias account of spring fashions, is published for the convenience of those who expect to recuperate this week-end at home. Take a Salemite home with you, show the home folks what clothes you simply must have in order to look properly collegiate, and then patronize our advertisers. Say, “I saw it in the Salemite.” Thank you. We get no commissions except the happy feeling of having you girls well dressed. o^sTERErrfy I •Tust think—half of this year is already gone! I suppose we shall all fully realize it when we start this exam business. What are we going to do about it? Personally, I think they should be abolished. All they do is scare us out of a half-year’s growth. This makes it so that we grow during only two years of our four years at college. That is real ly terrible! W'e are through grow ing for this year. Have you heard Mary B.’s rec ords ? I predict that someday she will be famous! Her voice records beautifully, and she always selects pieces well-suited for her voice. Sincc Thursday night I have been wondering if Mr. Pliggins can sing, but is keeping it from us? Mr. 'Richard Crooks talks exactly like him . It seems that there should be some resemblance in their singing voices, doesn’t it? The willow and the breath-of- spring are doomed for disappoint ment. They both are almost ready for Spring, which, I fear, is yet quite a piece down the street. The basketball series this year is going to be very exciting. Each class is excellent in its line-up. The final score will depend entirely upon the momentary alertness of the team, be cause they are very equally divided. AS TO WHO BELONGS UNDER THE PARLOR SOFA, OR AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF LOVE Out in a sunlit field two small boys of about the same intolerable age are disagreeing about something, something which seems to be of such vital and immediate importance that they have both abandoned whatever they were doing and now sit facing each other, one on a clean rock, the other in the grass. The boy on the rock is a rosy faced little fellow with two bright curls on top of his head and soft baby hands and chubby feet. He is clad a bit scantily considering the rather rippy early March weather, in fact he is not clad at all, that is to say in anything except a wide pink ribbon wrapped around his middle and tied in a careful bow on the back of his lap. Beside the rock are a miniature bow and set of gilded arrows with which he has been play ing. His sweetly lisping voice sounds shrill and almost comical as he struggles to argue his ]>oint: “I tell you. I’ve got to be the one under that thofa tonight. I’ve got to, thath all, beeauthe if I’m not, then everything will turn out wrong. Maybe if they hadn’t jutht had a quarrel, or if thith wathn’t the firtht day of thpring, and if you hadn’t dethided you wanted to play thome triekth tonight, then maybe I would n’t be tho thet on it. But don’t you thee how it ith? W'hen it ith abtho- lutely predicted that in the thrping a young man’th fanthy w'ill turn to love, and inthead it goeth flying off in another direction, why I get hlamed for it. And if I don’t watch out, that’th what will happen to night; they’ll quarrell again, if I’m not there to prevent it, and I’ll be fired. I’d thur hate to lothe my job right here at the motht profitable time of the whole year.” Two large tears ran down his face as his blue eyes looked plead ingly into the determined brown ones .across from him. (^Continued on Page Three) [ N. S. F. A. I For the enlightenment of those stu dents at Salem who want seriously and intelligently to consider the ques tion of the membership of this col lege in N. S. F. A., the following re view of the history, purpose, and achievements of the national organi zation are printed. It is no small and ordinary federation, but a large and far-reaching force. Purpose “We would achieve a spirit of co operation among the students of the United States to give consideration to questions affecting students’ in terests. “We would develop an intelligent student opinion on questions of na- ticmal and international importance. “We would foster understanding among the students of the world in the furtherance of an enduring peace. “In working toward these ends the Federation acts independent of any political party or religious creed.” History of the Organization Inter-collegiate groups among stu dents of European college have been in existence for several years, with such marked success that their func tions were observed in 1925 by sev eral Princeton students. With the idea of inter-collegiate co-operation among American colleges in mind, these students began the movement which resulted in a meeting of repre sentatives from a few prominent men’s colleges of the northeast. Their meeting was scarcely more than a discussion of student problems, but it did form a nucleus for further or ganization. With no staff and no officers — nothing more than the desire to bring eontaet between students of different colleges—similar meetings were held in 1927 and 1928. The 1930 con vention was held at Stanford, where Inany schools gathered to effect a more organized congress and to launch some really worth while projects. It was this convention that first sponsored student travel. A national board of advisers was select ed, and the endorsement of the As sociation of American Colleges was secured. The Seventh Annual Con gress, held at Toledo in 1931 (where Salem was represented by Anna Preston), permitted the Federation to bring into close contact over two hundred and fifty undergraduate student leaders, to mould a repre sentative student opinion on vital na- tidnal and international problems, to better the methods of student gov ernment, and to retard the feeling of provincialism which exists among the American students. Activities Of interest even to non-members is the ])rogram of weekly fifteen- minute broadcasts over the Columbia' network that has been scheduled by the N. S. F. A. Every Monday be tween two and two-fifteen E. S. T. men of prominence will speak partic ularly to the college students of the International debating is the one great feature that makes the organi zation world-wide. So successful was it last year that again a team of two American men will go to the British Isles in the spring of 1933, and two foreign teams will come to this country. Above all, eontaet between col leges broadening viewpoints, is the value of the Federation. Each week the editors of newspapers in member colleges receive a weekly news re lease, giving them a perspective of the happenings in other colleges, a student viewpoint on national and international affairs, and a report of student aetivity in other parts of the world. What can a college man or woman not do when he or she determines to accomplish something? Every doubt that there is anything an individual collegian cannot do fades when the question changes to, “Wliat can be accomplished by a strong group of thinking, determined group of rep resentative college students?” The obvious answer is the reason for the existence of N. S. F. A. Week-End Travels In The Realms of Gold “Much Have I Traveled in the Realms of Gold’’ Away! Away! from the reality of exams to the romance of bookland.' Mount above the limitations of the surroundings in which you find yourself. Find the land of dreams come true. I.ike a swan flv to the land of your yearning. On your flight I suggest that you stop on the shores of Norway. Feel the breeze run through your hair; let the salt spray brush against your cheek; see the fisherman start out on their long fishing excursions. Above all, see Peer Troen in his fight for the life that belonged to him. He won in spite of many hindrances, but finally he lost all of his money on one of his inventions. There were months of hardships, yet after all the young man found that money was not the only source of h,appiness. I.ive with him through his adventures in Johan Bojer’s The Great Hunger. Take wing again and fly to the far off France. There you will see dawns, sunsets, fair days, rainy days. People will be there— people that you will be glad to meet. You will see the young loves of a youth; you will see the same person struggling with himself for an answer to the question of what he is going to do with his life. Do not Ije alarmed when he becomes ill and has to go to Balbec. Just go along with him; there you will see other interest ing people. Tlu>re is always a fresh surprise to greet you in Marcel Proust’s. Within a Budding Grove. On again! This time don’t dare stop until you reach the shores of your own America. There is beauty around you every day if you would only take the time to look for it. If you do not know how to interpret it for yourself, let Conrad Aiken point the way in the book in which he has brought together poetry of American writers who have been working from 1671 to the present. You will find a poem for every mood. There are pictures of the ancient Indians, of summer days, of snowy landscapes, of joy in life and love. Through the pages of the little book you can find views of the country of yesteryear, of the land of today. Travel! Travel! See! Love ! I-ook through the eyes of others at their world. Come, let’s away. Bojer, Johan The Great Ilimger Proust, Marcel Within a Budding Grove- Aiken, Conrad American Poetry 1G71 - 1928
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