Book Week
Armistice Day
VOL. XIV.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1933.
Number 9.
National Book Week
Is November 13-18
“Growing Up With Books”
Is Theme
National Book Week grew out of
a Boy’s Book Week Movement start-;
pd many, many years ago by the
'Chief librarian of the Boy Scouts, of
America. He interested other librar
ians and, with cooperation, succeeded
in setting off a week bf each year
between summer and the Christmas
holidays for special gmpfiaais on boys’
books. '
This group of en^usiastic librar
ians planned to show the young peo
ple of America, chiefly the boys, the
pleasures and advantages of reading,
and to cultivate in them a discrimina
ting taste for good literature. This
movement met with such approval and
eager cooperation that it soon became
Children’s Book Week, there being
no particular reason for the exclusion
of girls. As Leigh Hunt says, “It
is books that refine our pleasures
when young and which, having so
taught us, enables us to recall them
with satisfaction to the end.”
Before long, grown people began
to welcome the movement with such
interest that jts original youthful sig
nificance was absorbed in a general
observance by both young and old.
National Book Week has a different
subject each year. This year the sub
ject is “Growing Up WiUi Books”.
This movement has been beautifully
endorsed by many outstanding liter
ary figures • of today, including Wil
liam Rose Benet, William Frederick
Bigelow, Henry Seidel Canby, John
Farror, Frederic Melcher, Anne Car
roll Moore and Louis Untermeyer.
Book Week has shown thousands of
people the way to mental and intel-
lectuar enjoyment and a never-failing
source of entertainment. Also books
need not be expensive. At a second
hand book store old copies of valuable
books may be hotfght for,a few cents
which ,will furnish many hours of di
version to poor, harrassed, and wor
ried people. A healthy interest in
books can make one fotget financial
worries and troubles and fill him with
3 deep sense of contentment such.as
is seldom found by any other means.
As Aungerville aptly puts it, “Books
are delightful when prosperity happi
ly smiles; when adversity threatens,
they are inseparable comforters. They
give strength to human compacts, nor
are grave opinions brought forward
without books. Arts and sciences, the
benefits of which no mirid can calcu
late, depend on books.”
Book Week is to start people on
, the way to happiness through books.
Once started the pursuit will become a
delightful pastime. A timely thought
is found in Wilbur Dick Nesbit’
poem “Who Hath A Book”.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUr)
Practice House Is
Home For Home
Economics Seniors
Girls Entertain Guests
Frequently ■
The Practice House is beautiful.
The hostesses are superb. The rooms
are Immaculate. It is certainly an
honor to be invited to be a guest here.
There/have been,guests of distinc
tion at the- Practice House. Friday
night, November 3, Mary Catherine
Siewers had dinner here and Saturday
night, Mary Catherine Thorpe had the
• banquet made in her h6nor.
Sunday night dinner was a
occasion in spite of the tremendous
disappointment over Miss Catherine
Hanes’ inability to attend. Miss
Covington bore the honors alone
handsome and delicious buffet supper.
During the middle of the week Ruth
McLeod .‘■erved as hostess, Mary
Sample as chief cook, Betty fitough
as assistant cook and Sara Horton
and Francis Hill as maids. These
girls served at these duties for four
days. A hostess is permitted two
dinner guests during her reign
Especially impressing- is the love
ly old-English pattern china. It is.
superb. Then, too, the desirable qual
ities of an electric dishwasher, a fold
ing attic stairway, a handy cook
book and especially a convenient tel-,
ephone (4867) cannot be over looked.
Salem Conducts Vesper
Service at N. C. C. W.
Girls of Two Colleges Now
Better Acquainted
On Sunday night representatives of
the Salem “Y” Cabinet went to Greens-
ro, at the invitation of the Y. W.
N. C. C. W., to conduct a worship
•vice.. Libby Jerome’s father took
the girls over in his car. Miss Lucy
Crisp, religious director at N. t. C.
W., served a buffet supper before
vespers to members of the two cab
inets in her attractive apartment.
The service opened with a Chopin
prelude played by Mary Absher, fol-.
lowed by the hymn “Softly Now the
Light of Day.”, Mary Absher read the
Scripture lesson from the thirteenth
chapter of First Corinthians. Rebec
ca Hines, accompanied by Nancy Mc-
Neely, sang! ■■ Zina spoke on the place
of friendship in college life and its
true meaning. She used a passage
from The 'Prophet to illustrate her
talk. The service closed with the sing
ing of “Day is Dying in the West”.
After Vespers the girls all went
1 the “Y” Hut, where they sang and
:e apples around a large fire. Coffee
as served at Miss Crisp’s before the
trip back.
The Salem girls who went feel much
better acquainte'd with -N. C. girls
and hope that a new tradition
has been started ■— that of exchanging
Vesper services with other colleges.
Dean Vardell Discusses
Opera, Siegfried
Continued Series in Music
Hour Proves Popular
The hero of the opera, Siegfried,
;hose mother had died at his birth,
•as rescued by a wretched, little
dwarf^ who reared Siegfried carefully
in order to prepare him to slay the
dragon who guarded the precious ring
of the Nibelungen. The crafty dwarf
wanted the ring for himself, and spent
a great deal of time forging swords
which Siegfried invariably broke in a
single blow. Siegfried, after forcing
the story of his parents from the
dwarf, ordered a sword to be forged
from that of his father. Later, Wo-
tan came to the dwarf’s cave’ to see
how things were coming along. The
dwarf, alarmed and agitated by the
presence of the stranger, asked three
questions which he bought would be
extremely difficult to answer. Wotan
easily answered them all, then asked
the dwarf three in return, the last of
which was, “Who shall forge the sword
which shall kill the dragon?” Here
the dwarf lost control and Wotan ans
wered his own question by saying that
the one who forged the sword would
be someone who had never known fear.
The dwarf, finding that Siegfried had
never known fear, advised him to for
get his own sword.- The dwarf then
planned for Siegfried to get the ring,
then to meet iis death and lose the
treasure.
Siegfried went to the cave of the
dragon, and was met by a bird which
he tried and failed to imitate. He
then brought forth his silver horn, thg.
playing of which aroused the dragon.
Siegfried killed the dragon and was
told by the bird how to get the ring.
The dwarf and Alberiek appeared
and fought for possession of the ring.
The dwarf was killed, and Siegfried
was ordered by the bird ,to rescure
the maiden surrounded by fire. The
bird guided Siegfried, who, against
the orders of Wotan, continued on his
way to the woman. At the sight of
the woman, the hero, who had never
before known fear, was immediately
overcome with fright. Brunhilde, who
on .hailing her return to life, realized
that her godhood had been taken a-
way, found happiness in her love for
Siegfried.
“Y” ASSOCIATION
MEETS
Wednesday night the Recreation
Room of Bitting was the scene of a
jolly get-together Y Association Meet
ing. The Academy dramatic club
presented Oretna Oreene with Kath
leen Madden, Ann Perkins and Helen
I.itz. After refreshments were served
there was a song contest on round
singing. Miss Riggan and Mis.s' Left-
wich acted as informal judges. Dr.
Randthaler chimed in with bass, but
somehow his side never won.
Mr. Andrews Speaks
on Use of Leisure Time
“Vzu-iety is the Spice of
Life” the Theme
Wednesday morning in expanded
chapel T. Wingate Andrews, superin
tendent of the High Point schools,
«poke' on the use of leisure time.
In the past the problem has been
that of -physical existence, but that
has been solved now. The present
problem concerns ' spiritual existence
To escape boredom and to use leisure
properly one must develop a variety
of wholesome interests. Lord Byron
said society is composed of two classes,
■;he bores and the beared. Boredom
s a sign of stupidity, either in the
ipcaker or in the audience.
Right now the big question is pro
hibition and many ask why liquor is'
harmful. The brain of a man and the
in of a pig are alike, except- that
1 has a thin covering of gray mat-
This matter is almost entirely
er and alcohol has a strong afinity
water. - So a man who drinks loses
his gray matter and his superior sta
tus. It takes an intelligent person to
be amused without artificial stimu
lant. Stimulated pleasure leaves a
dissatisfied taste. ,
There are three levels of interest
which can be probed in leisure time.
The physical side includes exercise,
such as tennis and football. "
should play the game and not be n
ly a spectator.
The field of learning offers great
opportunities. The spirit of learning
that makes man strive to widen the
boundaries of knowledge prevents
humdrum, boring work. For example,
men who explore unknown lands and
unknown fields of science have inter
esting and useful lives.
Then there is the power to see and
recognize the beautiful, good and true
in nature. There are the eternal
things, such as seas, mountains and the
heavens, which make modern man con
temporary with man of all times. One
can find great pleasure in these primal
natural objects if he considers them in
more than a purely physical way.
Misses Read and Siewers
To Present Joint Recital
Program to Consist of
Violin and Piano
Numbers
Monday evening, November 13^ at
8:15, at Memorial Hall, Misses Marg
aret Siewers and Hazel Horton Read
will present a joint recital in piano
''and violin. Miss Siewers was a -pupil
lean Charles G. Vardell, Jr., and
graduated in music in 1932, having re
ceived her A. B. degree in 1931. Dur
ing the past year, she studied at the
Ujniversity of Michigan. Miss Read
was a pupil of Lillian Shattock of
Boston, Kathleen Parlow, of Europe,
and Eddy Brown of'New York. The
program will be composed of the fol-
iowing numbers...
Three Intermezzi Brahms
E Major
C Major
A Major
Rhapsody in B Minor Brahms
Miss Siewers
Guitarre x. Moskowski-Sarasate
Narcisse Szymanowski
Love Song Joseph Duk
Caprice XXII Paganini-Brown
Miss Read
Suite pour le piano Debussy
Prelude
Sarabande
Toccato
Miss Siewers
Concerto in D Minor .... Wieniawskl
Allegro Moderato
Miss Read
ALPHA CHI ALPHA
PLEDGES NEW
MEMBERS
On Friday liight Lambda chap
ter of Alpha Chi Alpha, National
hono'rary journalistic sorority,
pledged the following new' mem
bers : Elizabeth Leake, Sarah I.ind-
say, Elizabeth Gray, Martha Bind
er,- and Elizabeth Jerome. The
..girls will be initiated in about two
weeks after which the chapter
hopes to begin active work.
AMERICAN EDUCATION
WEEK OBSERVED
Salem is observing the 13th annual
American Education Week, which
started November 6, arid will close or
the 12th. It is based on the mainten
ance of free and universal education
as an American ideal.
The theme for the 1933 program is
Meeting the Emergency in Education.
The three sponsors o^ American Edu
cation Week are: the American Leg
ion ,the United States Office of Edu
cation, and the National Education
Association. '
Those schools which have not al
ready closed their doors in many i
have the “sad plight” staring them in
the face; therefore, teachers and citi^
zens are at work to protect the schools.
If their work is a success, and we feel
sure it will be, then the neglected, un
educated boys and girls of the nation
will not be left in the cold to endure
the hardships' that might follow thgm
through life if they don’t have ai
ucation.
ANNIVERSARY TEA
AT SALEM HOME
Yesterday from 2:30 until 5:30
a silver tea was held at the Salem
Home. Proceeds will be used for
current expenses at the home.
Rebecca Hines, I^ucy James,
Margaret Schwarze, Margaret
Johnson, Mary Absher, Sunny
Kirby, Wilda May Yingling, Jean
Robinson and Nancy McNeely, dll
Salem girls, gave a musicale pro
gram at the tea.
Quaint Old Books |
On Library Shelves
Volumes Displayed During
Book Week
In the college library are several
lelves filled with the most quaintly
iteresting books imaginable. Per
haps your very own great grandmoth
er spent delightful hours, when she')
sliouid have been studying, eagerly
absorbed in some of these same unique
little volumes. All of them, on tlie
inner flap, bear in faded lettering—
“Salem Female Academy”. On the
fly leaf, a few even have the original
owner’s name in'the quaint and deli
cate handwriting 6f a century of more
ago.
Some of these antique literary treas
ures; which will be on display in the
library for'your pleasure and enjoy
ment through Book Week, were edited
as far back as 1780.- Among the vol
umes are The Child’s Botany, edited
in 1835, The American Forest, 1834,
containing “tlncle Philip’s” conversa
tions with children about'the trefes of
America, Natural History for Infant
Schools, 1833, a questionnaire for the
school'masters of long ago, Robii
Crusoe, 1789, a German version, 1
ural History of Quadrupeds, 1828, by
Henry Althans, filled with stories
about all species of animals, uiay-be
. . graadpa^jpa of -your pet d6g, 'Blll'.
Other delightful books are The Little
Pi!gram, 1859, a monthly journal for
boys and girls by Grace Greenwood,
StoriHs for Children, 1824, intended to'
entertain wee, wee tots of bygone days
instead of radio bed-time stories.
Lives of Distinguished Females, 1833,
by “An American Lady”,T/ie Tales of
Peter Parley, 1835, about various and
sundry parts of the known world.
Tales of Grandfather, 1831, Girl’s Own
Book, 1837, by Mrs. Childs which con
tains, funong other things, directions
for st-peBWHis-^) calisthenics •iat^
griuidmaninoa the greats such as swing-
ipg one arm at a time gently in a
circle, or bending slightly forward
(as.:.Xai—as—-tight ■ laced up-ness-
would al'lffw) and pointing towards
the floo», and, also, Cui^sities for
the Ingenious, 1825, containing intri
cate puzzles arid riddles fo»—yoiw
-grandma’s '■hnstt’afld, ,‘who,
duubt, wa.s very ingenious.
DR. RONDTHALER
SPEAKS AT ASHE
VILLE ON SUNDAY
On Saturday, November 4,
Rondthaler left' for Asheville,
preached Sunday morning at the Ash-
ville School of Boys wherp he stayed
till Sunday afternoon. He returned
Sunday night to Salem.
Dr. Francis Anscombe
Talks at Vespers
**The Bible As An Inspira
tion of Service” is
Discussed
Dr. Anscombe made lan interesting
talk at Vespers, Sunday night. Jean
Patterson was in charge, and the
meeting was opened by a prelude Tjy
Margaret Johnson.
The subject waa "The Bible As
An Inspiration of Service.” The
ideal of the Quakers is that one
should render service by being dili
gent in business, and, after retiring,
should give one ’3 life to social serv
ice. Everything with which -we
come in contact in daily life is a
part of the work of Ood. Men do not
produce things by themselves, but
only put to work power which God
has made. A power plant does not
produce electricity. It merely gath
ers electricity -which nature pro--
duces. In knowing this we should
have a feeling of humbleness and ob
ligation toward God and the con
cept of life, and should carry on the
work that we have inherited from
the past. During the vast changes
that are taking place and that axe
coming in the future, there is a
great call for service on the part
of this younger generation in order
that the changes might be for ,the
best rather than for the worst. The
question is asked, “When and How -
Shall we Know That We Are Call
ed?” The recognition of the need
and ,the ability and willingness to
respond to the need of service is
the call. In service is found the
chief opportunity to show one’s love
for God, and to find satisfaction is
found in working and praying. Serv
ice is he .only way 0 repay God for
wha he hs done for us. In serving
God we laso serve ohers. We find
in the Bible reference of what men
and women In the past have done to
serve, God. Other than Jesus are
two ' outstanding followers of God:
Moses and Paul. These two have
set up before mankind a record of
glorious achievem.ent. Moses gave
up his home, and all he had, and
would have been willing to give his
nationality and life for the enslaved
people. A person may not become
a great., leader by chance but by
We, of the present generation,
have the challenge of the ages; to
serve in deciding in what direction
the corning revaluation shall change;
for good or bad. We ^ould ob
serve political, econoipic, and re
ligious conditions of the present anjl
seek to understand the needs of the
people today and in the future.
Academy Entertains
On Last Friday
Dinner Honors Day
Students arid
Parents
The Salem Academy Faculty and
students entertained the parents of the
day students Friday'evening, Novem
ber 3, 1933 with the first of the dinner
series. The occasion took place in
the Academy dining room which was
appropriately decorated for the oc
casion. After the formal dinner the
guests assembled in the social room
for a short play presented by the stu-
GueSts were Mrs. W. P. Bell, and
daughter, Betty Lou; Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Bennett and daughter, Louise;
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Coan and
daughter, Mary Spots wood; Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Kox and daughter Eleanor
Sue; Mrs. G. M. Flores, and daughter,
Ann; Mrs. Joseph Glenn and daugh
ter, Martha Ann; Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Glenn and daughter, Sara Lysell; Dr.
and Mrs. E. P. Gray and daughter,
Cardine; Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Hill and
'daughter, Betsy; Mrs. Mary C. Hill
and daughter. Fane; Rev. and Mrs.
H. E. Johnson and daughter, Marion;
Mr. and Mr.^. R. E. Lassiter and
daughter. Bob Ed; Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Montague and daughter, Nita; Mr.
and Mrs. h. A. O’brien and daughter,
Betsy.; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Peterson
and Daughter, Marjorie; Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Pritchett and daughter, Ann;
Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Templeman and
daughter Ruth; Dr. and Mrs. A. T.
Valk and daughter, Hariett; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles G. Vardell and daughter,
Margaret.