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THE SALEMITE
Saturday, May 1 3, 1 933.
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EDITORIALS
Youth is not unappreoiative of
recofriiition paid by authority,
bf-half of Salem and The North
Carolina Intercollegiate Press
soeiation, 'J'hr Salemite thanks
•Santford Martin for the following
editorial which ajipeared in “The
Journal and .Sentinil” on last Sun
“A Cross Section of N. ('. Students’
“Young people of today are be
ing roundly criticized and much
fault is being found with college
students esjiecially. This criticism
is very largely unfounded. Frida
and Saturday of last week Salei
College was hostes.s to nearly
luindred students representing moi
of the colleges and universities i
tlie State. Tliey were delegates 1
the Nortli Carolina Collegiate Pre.‘
“No lint
roup of young
: of the world’s history.
:ie from every section ol
BU.SINESS STAFF
LITTLE THOUGHTS
FOR TODAY
tached t
does nol
bargai
Magnanimity
t is true that of all forms
enius, goodness has the
est awkward stage.”
From “The IVoman of An
dros,” by Thornton Jf ild-
PARAGRAPHICS
On Wednesday Mrs. Vardell
tertained her book elub in the living
room of Louisa Bitting Building.
After a short meeting she st
delicious refreshments in the re
tion room.
This Monday night at 8:15 in >
niorial Hall Miss Nancy Ann liar
pianist, will give her gradual’
cital. She will be
Frank Cranford. barit(
be accompanied by
Thomp.‘
Mis
hav
day night.
isually outstanding. If
sed the first one
) get in one this Mon-
letters t'
reputatic
Kind Sir,
ancestors wei
is a little model for night
) gentlemen known only b
All I
-ery institutio
the State. S(
Otlu'i
from othei
from nearly
higher learning
•olleges
.olleg,^s
MOTHERS DAY
Mother’s day reminds every girl
of a dear, thoughtful someone toiling
home for her. 'I’oo, ever'
cherishes letters from that someone
and really enjoys having a person
willing and eager to hear foolish
tie troubles or earnest acclamations
of love. How appropriate then to
read a few letters to somebody’;
mothers, tributes to our greatest
treasures.
Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby
Executive Mansion, Washington
November 21, 18Gi
Mrs, Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts,
Dear Madam,—
I have been shown in the files of
the War Department a statement of
the Ad,jutant-General of Ma
chusetts that you arc the mothe
five sons who have died gloriously
on the field of battle. I feel hoi
weak and fruitless must be an
words of mine wliieh should attempt
to beguile you from the grief of a
loss so overwhelming, but I cannot
refrain from tendering to you the
consolation that may be found in
the tlianks of the Republic they died
to save. I pray that the Heavenly
Father may assuage the anguish of
your bereavement, and leave you on
ly the cherished memory of the loved
and lost, and the solemn pride that
must be yours to have laid so costly
a sacrifice u)ion the altar of freedom.
Yours very sincerely and respect-
Still others came from
)nal schools. It was i
'uliarly interesting cross-section of
'sorth Carolina’s college students.
No liard-lioiled critic of college
students could mingle with such a
or a few hours an dnot lose
iorious dis])osilion. The fine
qualities of these students would
Don’t tell me that you 1
reached the stage where j’ou do
enjoy a real magician’s show,
you do break forth with such a state
ment, I shall know that you are no
telling the truth, Thursday nigh
we are to liave the privilege of see
ing Dr. Ral))h Flowers, Dr, Flow
ers is President of The North Ca
liiui Association of Magicians ant
hound to be a good performer, II
about coming down to the hut at
seven o’clock and trying to detec
Irieks? Al])lia Chi Alpha pres
Dr, Flowers for only lOe a persi
,\sk Dr. Rondthaler and Dean
dell what kind of tricks our g
will do—I’ll guarantee tliat the
above two will be there on the front
row. Let’s all back them up.
fully.
Mothe
r’s Day
■ is not silly and
over-sent
imintal
as a few’ of ns
seem to
think il
; is. Really now.
don’t yo,
1 think 1
more of your Mother
than you
1 do of
anybody else in the
world?
If you
don’t, you ought to
be ashan
led of
yourself. It takes
Abraham Lincoln,
Mozart to his mother—postscript to
father’s letter—
ly felicitations to mama on her
le-day. I hope she may live many
hundred years yet and ever in good
health, a thing I ask God continual-
and pray for it daily and shall
pray daily i'or you both. It is im
possible for me to make any present,
exeej)t a few Loretto bells and can
dles and caps and veils when I come
back. Meantime I kiss mama’s hand
1000 times and am till death her
faithful son.
Richard Wagner to his mother.
Meud'an, 12th Sept., 184.1
My best little mother:
It is my turn at length to be able
to offer you equally joyful and
hearty congratulations on your birlh-
day! Please do not tliink I have
(ver forgotten you, even when I was
silent and let notliing be heard of
me. Ah, I believe I’ve told you once
before, there have been times wlum
I really avoided arousing your inter
est anew in my fortunes. Then 1
])rayed God in silence to preserve
your life and health, since I hoped
in time to reap a reward from
my (ndeavor that should make it
more gratifying to me to shew you
BOOK REVIEW
“FLYING FISH”
(By Grace Hazard Conkling)
“Flying Fish,” a book of songs
and sonnets, is a marked improve
ment over “Afternoons of April,”
Mrs. Conkling’s first volume, pub
lished in 1915. Between these twc
volumes she has had published
“Wilderness Songs,” and “Ship’s
I-og. Literary growth is shown in
both of these books.
Mrs. Conkling is a poetess of
bubbles, rainbows, fountains, shells,
spices, parrots, orchids, and lemon
trees—all splashed with crystal,
corn-flower blue, coral, gray-green,
topaz and gold. In “Flying Fish”
she adds a slight touch of thought
and a slight depth of feeling to her
beautiful pictures and her dazzling
colors. “Sonnets For a Dark
I.over,” and “The Room,” contain
a warmth of feeling which is laek-
■r in “The Ship,” and “The Lag-
n at-Night.”
Mrs. Conkling, in this volume,
M offers a series of delightful
poems for children under the head
ings, “Talking To Hilda,” and “The
Child in the Mexican Garden.”
(One of these, “Freckles,” was pub
lished in last week’s Salemite.)
Irs. Conkling makes fascinating
of the iambic tetrameter couplet.
Qu(.ting from The Bookman, “She is
r( ed for delightful interpretations
of (arth’s beauty to sound through.’'
JOHN MIT.I.INGTON SYNGE
It seems that some of us forget,
r have never realized, that there
rama other places than on the stage,
n our own library are many delight
ful plays.
Today you should meet John Mill-
gton Synge, an Irish dramatist.
His ])lavs will surely entertain vou.
b'irst'see him in Riders to the Sea,
play of only one short act. See the
)ld mother, Maurya, in her struggli
tlie sea. She is robbed of
and and all of her so
eei)t one before the play opens.
There is a feeling
that something is going . to .happen.
a power that is stronger
She i.s overshadowed. The
poetic and powerful. The
a])pealing.
turn to a tiny play of his.
In the Shadow of the Glen. Tucked
n a foggy glen, Nora Burke
vith her old, grumbling bus-
hand. 'I'o see whether or not hi‘
ife is faithful, tlu- old man pre-
nds that he is dead. He lies under
white sheet in the little room. The
cold. A tramp
OPEN FORUM
Don’t think this column is too
radical. It isn’t. Every school needs
a means by which student opinions
may be expressed. This is your
means—use it. Let the other stu
dents know what you like and what
you don’t like. Read this column
each week and then write answers
[pressed opinions. Don’t wait
until you are asked! You may have
i star for each article.
In my last letter I made y(
acquainted with the pc
! all
Salvation Arm;
s, fat, and am ath-
;r and dip snuff. Yoi
will know me by the poreedain jacket
on my right tooth. Salem looking
forward to reunion at Davidson—me
Attractive Mi.ss.
That’s a fancy acceptance, isn’t it?
Have you be. n down to see the
science museum? If you haven t.
go look it over. Mr. Higgins has
made quite a good start. There are
particularly outstanding collections
of shells, wood, snakes and birds.
something like going off to school
to make us realize that a mother is
not a guard. You know as well as
anything that she is as interested
in eaeli broken fingernail, each term
paper, each thought, eacli movie, and
each friend you make as if she were
right here witli you.
How about let’s all of us writing a
dairy of this ]>ast week and sending it
home. I'll bet you a nickel that it
will he a])])reeiatcd. I.et’s write
just as we write to friends. Don’t
be afraid to tell her what you think
about religion and polities. To tell
the, truth, our parents might be glad
to know that we have a thought once
in a while.
Have you registered?
loon is your last chance.
; off any longer.
Dresden affairs,
forming you of the
the s
e tin
ips I had taken
djear niotilier,
to be able to ti
you,--liaye completely succeeded. As
early as the beginning of Juh.
eeived I.uttiehan’s letter, announcing^
to me in the most flattering terms
that, after mature examination of il
text and score, my opera “Rienzi
had been accepted for representatic
in Dresden, and would be jiroduced
the beginning of
r at latest.
I have made up my mind to
r Dresden about a fortnight before
e performance; so I shall .see yo
rain, my good motherkin, at last-
last!—you may imagine the d(
i-ht this thought, this certainly af-
■rds me!—Heaven will grant
ud you quite safe and sound; and
a downright fine success is
rved for me at Dresden in addil
-I fancy such wishes may form
st congratulations to y
I waited, fought and struggled, to
be able to rejoice you with a piece
of news like this. It gives me a posi
tive .shudder, to think that, at
next glimpse of you, almost
years will have flown since I p£
from you last; great God, who would |
How many girls at Salem use lip
stick? How many day students at
Salem use lipstick? The answer to
both these questions is at least three-
fourths, but we are interested main-
the day student lipstick users.
Lipstick adds beauty to the students
hut does it add beauty to the walls?
T.ipstick was made for lips, not
walls. Why not keep it where it
belongs ? Smear it on your lips but
do not smear it on the walls.
Handkerchiefs are good erasers
of lipstick from your fingers. Hand
kerchiefs can be laundered but walls
much simpler and
cheaper to wash handkerchiefs than
for paint and a painter
to paint oyer the lipstick on the
•all.
Does your mother allow you when
on are at home to use the walls
aroimd the mirror
stick stains from 3
slmuld wipe yc
walls at home I an
n ; later the w
Tlie dead i
s love
lover is cowardly. What
• Nora to do? Her hus-
that she must leav(
e tramp describes beau
tifully the life of w’andering that he
and offers to share it
Th(i
1 the n
ery of the night. The husband and
he lover drink together.
Afler reading these plays
an’t help reading the others. T
Playboy Of the Western World
The Tinker’s IVedding
The IVell of the Saints
Deidre of the Sorrou's
The Seniors have received in
Nations in the shape of diplomas,
follows:
“This is to certify that Miss S(
or is invited to tea at the Country
!'lub on Monday, May 15, from
'0 (i;;!0. Signed, Georgia Hunting-
on, President; Miriam Stevenson.
;ver have thought it! I shall find y
ill again—except dear Rosalie!!
^>od, God but keep my darling motli-
n- in good health, and grant her still
he strengtli to revel in her children^
prospering!
Best love to each and all! We soo
shall meet again, and let things
around us figure as they
hearts will have remained the old
ones, and—everything’s bound to
enme ri.ght! Preserve thee, dear
did when a
remove lip-
r fingers? If
fingers on the
ure she would
^■e excepted, as she
t're small and deeo-
vith pencil or c ray-
I parted motherkin, for thy faithful
’ ’ ' Richard.
rated the walls
If lipstick sticks to your fingers
md the rough walls removes it from
,’our fingers better than handker
chiefs, why not carry a small piece
of sand-paper around with you? I
it would clean your fingers
1. I admit it seems ridicu
lous to think of carrying sand-paper
round with you and having all the
kin rubbed off your fingers as well
s the lipstick but it is not half as
idieulous as wiping the lipstick on
the wall.
; ever occurred to you that
endangering your health
when you wipe your fingers on the
t is time you were thinking
Every time you wipe your
n the wall you touch a spot
:>meone else has used to
wipe her fingers. The wall is eov-
th germs from the fingers of
y girls. You forget about
Ton soon pick up a pencil or
pen and finger it. Soon it will be in
mouth covered with the germs
from your fingers. Is it not time
to think about this?
Suppose your living room at home
had lipstick smeared all over the
walls and you had a guest. Do you
think that he or she would come
gain ? Tile “get-together” room in
South Hall has many visitors who
come to look over the college and
then are gone. These visitors do not
know you but judge you from the
appearance of your room. Lipstick
smeared on the walls will not give
a very favorable impression of you.
Ye users of the lipstick take heed.
—A Day Student.
Term papers. Bah! the mere
thought of them makes me tear my
hair and dash madly from one place
to the next, worrying about the
things. Even a stolen afternoon at
the picture show does not make me
forget the term papers. The night
before they are due I grasp my pen
firmly in my fist and attack the
material. Outlines come first (but
are usually made last) with A’s and
B’s, I’s and II’s, but never A’s
alone. One thing must be said in
favor of the papers; some of the sub
jects are really fun to write about
after you once hop into them. Now
term papers are “the rage,” because
they are due this week, but they are
also making the students and teach
ers rage. Everyone would be hap
pier if term papers were things of
the past. Let’s do away with them!