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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Saturday, May 27, 1933. The Salemite Mrmher Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association l'iil)li.slic,d Wfckly by the Student Body of Salem College SUliSCRIl’TION PRICE a Year :: lOe a Copy F.DITOIUAI, STAFF ■Kditi)r4n-Chii f Susan Caldor Editor Sarali Lindsay Jushlnvt liditor Miriam Stevenson Mary Abslier KlizMlietli Jerome Kathleen Adkins Virinia Nall Mary Ollie Biles Mary Penn Martha Binder Cortland Preston Eizabeth Gray Gertrude Schwalbe Special Re-porters— Virginia (Jarner I.ucy Gulick Hofrers Cora Emmaline Henderson Sunshine Kirby Celeste MeClammy •lane Itondthaler Eup-nia MeNew BUSINESS STAFF Business Manai/er Isabel Pollock Adverlisiny Manaer Claudia Foy Assistant AdveHlsln;, Managers— Mary Frances Linney Annie /iie May Susan Hawlinfrs Margaret Ward Mary Adams Ward Jane Williams Circulation Manager Martha Sehlegel Asst. dr. Myr. Fk.rence Ledbetter NEWS IN BRIEF Mr. Higgins lias received a letter from the United States National .Museum in Washington, I). C. stat ing that approxim.'itely liO unmount ed study specimens are being sent for the newly-oi-ganized Salem Museum. Mr. Ral|)h McDonald, head of the b'ducation Department has been se ll cted to S])cak at the annual alumni dinner of the Ka]ipa Delta I’i l'’ra- tcrnity at Duke on .June 5. This is quite an honor as tlie organization ainuially chooses for its speaker one who has done outstanding work in the field of education. On last evening at (i o’clock the Academy entertained at a delight ful dinner those college girls who have acted as chaperons to the Acad emy girls during this past year. Tlie dinner was greatly enjoyed and ap preciated by the the guests. On last Tuesday afternoon Miss Virginia Wilson, head of the home economies department, Miss Hazel Wheeler, head of the art department, and Miss Margaret Murray, head of the science department, directed an exhibit and a tea at the Academy. The science laboratory where the tea was held was effectively deco rated in red and yellow. Tea, tarts, and sandwiches were served the guests. The exhibit included work of these three departmer/s during the year. Dr. Robert Kelley, formerly presi dent and now secretary of the Ameri can Association of Colleges, spoke Thursday morning in chapel. This first visit of Dr. Kelley to Salem was delightful to the students and the faculty. The thought which he left witli us was do not overestimate intellectually. Develop along other lines. At a business meeting preceding the Young Democratic dinner on Thursday night. Miss Isabel Pollock was elected Presid nt for next year and Miss Mary Penn, vice-president. Other officers will be elected in the fall. New College Magazine Published By “Life” Quarterly Journal Is Edited by And For College People A new quarterly publication in tlie college field, to be called UXI- VKRSITY and sponsored by I.ife .Magazine, Inc., W'ill be released ,/une 1, according to information re- .■eived here today. Besides a imique photographic section, the first i.ssue of UNIVER- Sri'Y will contain a variety of fea tures including a complete short novel by Mildred Cram, an under graduate' golf article by Grantland Rice, humor from various colleges and numerous departments. UNI- VKRSri'Y is being printed by Conde Nast Press and is edited by CJeorge Eggleston,, Editor of LIFE, California ’28; Gurney Willi.ams, Associate Editor of I.IFE, Michigan ’;il ; and Joseph A. Thompson, Stan ford Other features in UNIVERSITY are a collection of favorite Beneh- ley stories, a short story by James Aswell, and humor by Sam flellman, Montague Glass, Peri*y Crosby, Dr. Seuss, Jeff Machamcr and many others. 'I'liis magazine will be sold for 25c. It has been announced in “Vanity Fair” and should be of in terest to Salem students. EDITORIALS The Salem sorority girls are to be ])att(d on the back more than once. Do you realize what a constructive step the\' have taken by abolishing sororities? This w'as certainly not an easy step for them to take. So rorities have meant much to them, in a social w’ay, but, in spite of this fact, they realized that Salem would be much better off without the small unnecessary but noticeable differ ences caused by such organizations. It is true that the sororities here have not deserved all of the dis credit they have received. On the other hand, they have not deserved all of the credit they have received. This is the last issue of the year. It is a great relief to most of us to st(!p working for a while although we have enjoyed working together botli in classes and in extra-curri- cular activities. It really will be only a very short time until we are hack again wondering who’s been where and who’s going to write up what for those first long-thought -over fall issues of our paper. W( have had some good newspaper work this year. Both the old and the new staffs deserve congratulations. Until you are one of us, you cannot really kppreeiate the finished paper which is brought to yen Saturday. I’m not joking when I say that it’s a rather hard job to get write-ups and to organize material just as we think it .should be. However, we are not complaining. We enjoy our wXrk that’s why we are doing it. We promise you news and more news this fall. Don’t forget to catch up on your ■sleep this summer. The “Salemite” could not be pub lished without the co-operation of our advertisers. They have really been unusually good to us this year —a year during which we all real ize that advertising has of necessity slum])ed. Of course, we have had issues which have had entirely too few advertisements, and we have had one or tw'o issues which have really had too many advertisements for the relative amount of news ma terial. Nevertheless, the fact re mains that advertising goes side by side with news. Do you read the ad vertisements ? Do you patronize the st'^res w’hich are advertised? If you haven’t been doing these two things, make up your mind to start doing them this 'fall. After all, the stores aren’t anymore under obligation to us than we are to them, and they probably get slightly tired seeing even our.most attractive advertising managers every week. W^e are all for our advertisers and they are all for us—What say we have a party? SENIORS PLAY HIDE AND SEEK The Seniors are, about to turn their backs with dignity on what is now their Alma Mater. And their Alma Mater, suddenly confrcVn^ed with so many dignified senior backs at one time is doing its best to give to each one its own encouraging pat, before pushing it into the final graduation procession. Have you ever played the game of making a little round circle and signing it with a D-O-T ? Do you remember how after each signing of the dot, every one would shout, “This little finger did it all, etc., and then the one who was being IT would go roaming off alone—search ing—all over the big front yard. While the res't of the players hid themselves behind sheltering trees and walls? Pardon the allegorical reference, but for the past year the senior class has been I'l', in so far as the fresh men, sophomores, juniors, faculty, and young men about tow'n were con cerned. And now more than ever, at their graduation time they are IT. . IT spelled with big, envious I’s by the underclassmen, with diplomas by the faculty, and with bouquets of daisies and roses by the young men. If these immortal IT’s of 1933 will please turn their immortal backs to their Alma Mater, calmly, quietly, one at a time, your school mates will try to make little round circles on each one and sign them with loving P A T S instead of D O T S, then next year while w'c are still hiding ourselves behind these strong walls and trees, and you are poking around in the grand world looking for new things and finding them, Salem can raise her hand and sing out proudly, “This little finger dit it; this little finger, etc!” And you can all feel free to come back and touch home base here anytime you want to, even after you have become alumnae and somebody else is being IT. STUDENT OPINION ON CURRENT TOPIC 'I'he lowering of the state educa tion appropriation is indeed a de plorable issue on one side, but on the other, it will probably prove beneficial. As I. understand it, the State appropriation for schools has been cut from $18,000,000 for six months’s school to $16,000,000 for eight months’ school. This means that teachcrs who were formerly re ceiving from $75 to $150 per month now get anywhere from about $45 to $G7 per month. This condition is heartbreaking, particularly since money is scarce and affairs through out the entire country arc in a tur moil. Teachers have to live and the necessities cost them as much as they do other people. Their training and college work were expensive, too, and in some cases money has been borrow'ed which must be paid back after the teacher begins work ing. Yet on the other hand, this step wil probably' aid education in North Carolina. It means that the state is taking over the responsibility of the schools and supporting them. It also means that a condition which must be faced eventually is being met in the fall now'. It shows that the North Carolina people are ac cepting reality and .showing wisdom and courage. I know, too, that the above state ments do not tell the under paid teacher how to stretch their pennies or where to find their daily bread. But, if the state has no money, it can spend none. The counties can, if they are able, help out towards paying the teachers more. But few counties are able to do so. Perhaps some other measure could have been taken—some other ap propriation cut instead of the edu cation fund. Most people say, “If I were the governor I’d do this, or that.” But, would you? If you were another jjerson or in another’s shoes you would see things different ly and think differently. So, how do you know what you would do ? THREE CLOTHING CLASSES PRESENT EXHIBITION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) style as the previous ones. Evelyn Joyce wore a red ^and blue figured cotton dress with low sun-back ef fect. This dress was designed especially for playing tennis. Run ning a close race for accurateness and attractiveness was a green, pique, sun-back dress worn by Sue Rawlings. Kay MeColl wore a blue pique dress with a pinch top. Helen Draper modeled next a lavender cot ton dress with white buttons follow ing the hip-line. This was a sun- back dress also. Mary Nelson An derson entered again in a red cotton dress appropriate for school wear. Next came Martha Schlegel in a woven cheeked gingham dress with organdy puff sleeves. Sara Plorton exhibited her talent in the form of an adorable white dress with huge ruffled sleeves and a red and white 'i’he third group was headed by Elizabeth Correll who wore a black and orange plaid organdy, with a black belt. Mary Sample w'as next on the review, looking quite the so phisticated young lady in a black sun-back organdy with double layer of black and white organdy cape sleeves. Ruth McLeod wore a red plaid organdy with solid red puff sleeves. Gladys Fineannon wore a beautiful red dotted organdy dress with red velvet sash and cape sleeves. The conclusion of the or gandy dresses came with Sue Raw lings modeling and orchid one with a blue velvet sash. 'I'he next group of dresses were heavier than the preceding ones. Josephine Reece modeled the first one in this group—it being a blue woolen dress with a decidedly wilit aristic cape. Sara Horton appeared again in a wine colored sport dress with a white collar. The Price twins entered together in identical light blue ensemble. The coats were lined with lighter blue flat crepe matching the blouses of the suits. Frances Mendenhall modeled a riavy tlue coat suit with a white blouse. Eliza beth Correll wore a blue suit be tween the color of the Price’s and Miss Mendenhall’s, with this she wore a plaid scarf. Gladys F'incan- non wore a navy blue coat suit with a white blouse trimmed in nainsook and pique. Josephine Reece modeled a similar blue coat suit and white blouse. 'I'he fifth group modeled was of silk dresses. 'I'his was started by Willie Brewer Myers who wore a red silk dress touched up by a white organdy bow. Erika Marx next came in a navy blue silk jumper with a white blouse. Kay McColl wore a light blue silk dress with a square sailor collar trimmed in navy hlue. Ruth McLeod modeled a gray dress with a white organdy top and gray eape. Again Willie Brewer Myers entered wearing a navy blue ensemble with a figured blouse. Sara Horton wore a blue silk print trim med in organdy and Sue Rawlings a very original plaid dress of blue silk , and trimmed with organdy. Again the Price twins entered in identical yellow and brown silk prints with brown organdy ruff col lars. Frances Mendenhall wore a red, green and yellow figured silk dress with very pretty lines. Rachel Edgerton wore a nice tailored navy blue polka dot silk dress trimmed in organdy. 'I'he sixth group, that of evening dresses was begun by Willie Brewer Myers. Her dress was a yellow silk crepe with a dainty white organdy jacket. Sara Horton ended the re view in a lovely peach colored satin- back crepe dress fitting nicely. The eape was of the same color as the dress, but made of tiers of organdy. 'I'he fashion show was begun by Misses Sara Shore and Marian Markland who modeled smaller chil dren’s dresses made respectively by Sara Horton and Willie Brewer Myers. The announcing was done by Vir ginia Xall, and Annie Zue Maye furnished music throughout the show. The modeling proved blue to be the most popular and satisfactory color of the season! MYSTERIOUS VISITORS (With Sincere Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe) Open your ears and hearken to my great tale I Can you not see that I am bursting with news? I he night hawks have rivals' Strange—I’ll admit; totally unex pected and almost unbelievable, but the fact remains. One night "as I sat at the library desk, weary from hunting periodicals for the freshmen and from sh-ing the juniors—could It have been only last week? Yes, that was the date—and then. As upon that week night dreary while I studied sad and weary. Over all the many lessons given in '^Vhile 1 nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came, a flapping As of some one gently slapping, slapping at the window pane. “ ’'I'is some firefly,” I muttered, “slapping at the window pane Only that and that in vain.” But, soon, into the room flapped and fluttered not one but tw'o Black Bats ! Shades of Hallowe’en ! 'Phe night hawks, cuckoos, book worms, and what-have-you, studying in the library, had no chance at all. The bats considered the time, the place, and the hour theirs, and for at least fifteen minutes, they sailed around and around the big room. Not a W'ord nor a single cry did they utter. Intent upon their business, they flew hither and yon, paying no at tention to anyone or anything. Fi nally they must have realized their mistake; after all, flying around the library wasn’t mueh fun and the laughing, shrieking girls were ab solutely silly. Besides, they were learning nothing; so the mysterious, dark visitors dashed out of the win dow into the cool night air, presum ably seeking other and more inter esting pleasure grounds. “Y” NEWS On Friday afternoon of the past week the Social Service Committee with several members of the cabinet went to the Salem Home to visit the old ladies W'ho live there. F'ive of them went to ride with the girls while the rest gathered in the sun parlor where a musical program was arranged for their entertainment. Every one seemed to have enjoyed tlie afternoon and an invitation was extended to the girls to come back and visit the home again. We hope that every one has en joyed the little change the Y. W. C. A. has arranged in the chapel morning programs. Different com mittees of the Y have invited several friends of the college to speak brief ly to the student body. The themes and the speakers were selected who would represent the different inter ests of the student body. On 'I'uesday the Y. W. presented Rev. Gribbon, the pastor of the Epis copal Church. Mr. Gribbon spoke of the importance of the further de velopment of international relations and of the spirit of understanding between nations emphasized by the church, the Red Cross, the Rotary Clubs and scouting. Christ is rep resented by different peoples as a child of their own race. To Him there are no boundaries and one who misunderstands that, misses mueh of the spirit of the Christia nChurch. 'Phe next speaker was Mr. R. A. Spaugh, who as usual took the audi ence by storm. All the fan mail may be sent through the “Y” and will be delivered as soon as possible). The devotional service before the beginning of exams was led by Dr. Foster, a well known and beloved pastor of this city. Miss Lilly, our own faculty mem ber will appear on program next 'Puesday thus closing the series of talks sponsored this year. How about the circus? Wasn’t the baby protege cute? And Sue Andrews should really be a profes sional, but here’s hoping she’ll come back next year instead.