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THE SALEMITE
Wednesday, September 26, 1934.
Alembcr Southern Inter-Collegiate
Press Assoc'mtion
Published Weekly by the Student
Body of Salem College
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-In-Chief Cortlandt Preston
Associate Editors:—
Elizabeth Gray
Virginia Garner
Erika Marx
Feature Editors:—
Carolyn Diehl
• Jo Whitehead
Senior Feature Editors:—
Mary Penn
Libby Jerome
Martha Binder
Margaret McLean
Columnists:—
Mary Elizabeth Reeves (Exchange)
Emma Wargo (Chapel)
Poetry Editor:—
Margaret Wall
Reporters;—
Louise Freeman
Anna Ray Fogle
Mary Louise Haywood
Gertrude Schwalbe
Martha Schlegel
Ruth Kuykendall
Sarah Ingram
Libby Torrence
Babby Way
Mary Mathews
Nancy Schallert
Mary Lib Dobbins
Margaret Calder
Helen Smith
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Agnes Brown
Adv. Manager Susan Rawlings
Exchange Mgr Virginia Key Council
ADVERTISING STAFF
Martha Nolan
Virginia Fraley
Mary Daniel
Eloise Sample
Mary Coleman Henderson
Martha Coons
Eleanor Matheson
Louise Preas
Circulation Mgr Rachel Carroll
Ass’t Cir. Mgr Mary Ruth Elliot
WE RECOMMEND:
For some of your better moments
(when you have a great desire to bo-
come LITERARY so that you can
discuss Spinoza or II. G. Wells with
equal ease and facility), the follow
ing books which are to be found in
our library and which are bright
and shiny new:
Noel Coward’s book of plays, called
“Play Parade.’’
“Memoirs of a Midget” by Wal
ter DeLaMare.
If you like whimsical Kenneth
Grahame, “Wind in the Willows.”
(Illustrated by E. M. Shepherd who
also draws in A. A Milne’s books
you may remember).
Something more thrilling and ad
venturous—Poul de Kruif’s “Hun
ger Lighters. ’ ’ ■
And another scientific book, writ
ten for those of us who have trouble
distinguishing between atom^ and
animals, is a little volume by Lechet,
‘ ‘ Plying. ”
There are many others, of course
—among the more tempting being
“Rootbaga Stories” by Carl Sand
burg, “The Challenge of Russia”
by Sherwood Eddy, and “How to
See Modern Pictures” by Pearson.
In case you hav'e itme for just an
essay or bo read “Good-Bye, Mr.
Chips!” in bound volume Xo. 153
of the. “Atlantis Monthly” and
“Human Waste in Colleges” by
Tanis in the current issue of “Scrib
ner’s.” They’re good!
(And P. S. there are some issues of
“The New Yorker” in the Pedior-
ical Room—or haven’t you ever
heard of it?)
SENIOR GOSSIP
Davidson certainly had its share
(if power over our fair inniate.s this
week-end.’ The Senior Class was well
represented Cortlandt Preston, Sarah
Johnston, Betty Tuttle going to the
game. Martha Neal made it a
week-end.
Florence McCanless spent Satur
day and Sunday with her parents in
Soutli Boston, Va. Bo you suppose
she “fared” wellf
Just a few more days and it’s cer
tain we’ll have Love in Bloom among
the Seniors because it’s in the bud
now or do we niean in the bagT
Hope no one gets “Dunn” wrong.
JUNIORS AND
SOPHOMORES VIE
SOCIALLY
Lend an ear dear,
I’ayelteville isstill carrying on
liriively, with the heart attacks and
niu-x))eeted visitors from tlie front
Mercer Tillinghast and Grissom
Davis. Mavis’ can, which is now
known as llic! “D(!l)utante S])ecial,”
made an unsclieduled trip to Greens-
lioro Sunday with Nanny Miller,
Ethel Highsmith, and Jo Wliite-
head as passenegers, while Mariana
Redding took herself home for the
day, and Lou Freeman visited the
’ole home town lioys at Oak Ridge.
We were all glad to hear the fa
miliar voice of Lib Gant when she
arrii’ed to si>end the day with us and
were equally sad when the echo
died away. Frankie is back! She
says appendicitis is a most successful
reducer for ‘Colletch” girls, I know
(]nite a number of us fat ones ap-
))reciate this tip. Two new sopho
mores arrived last week, Virginal
Gough from Roanoke, Virginia and
Sara Katherine Thompson from Blue
Field, West Virginia. Jjast Friday
night we were all sitting in my
Toom 'fighting through the Caro
lina “ Yackety Yack,” when little
Jo pointed at one of her silent loves
and got her finger smashed as the
annual w'as slammed to—It’s the
woman who pays! We think there
is an artist in our midst by the
dreamy expression on Margaret
('aider’s face when she strolls around
by herself. The ])hone here in Clew-
eli has been ringing continuousl.y
as the result of such po])ular resi
dents as Etta Bert Warren, Mariana
Hooks, and Susan Rawlings. Why
today, I was sitting in the Dean’s
office when Etta Bert got a telephone
call from some poor boy whom she
told to call in a few weeks or wait
’till Thanksgiving ’cause her date
book was ’bout “full up”—what
a power house! W^e are all
trying to put the Bahnson puz/Je
together, is Freddy going to be a
frequent visitor on our campus
again? Wilda Mac gets calls from
the co-ed, Frank Camp
bell and Garnelle goes out riding
with her ole’ stand by! I hear that
Virginia Thompson holds interest
in the Oak Ridge stock this season.
All of us were ever so glad to see
Gertrude Schwalbe out walking on
Saturday and were happy to know
that she is going to attend classes
soon.
I ’spect your ears are ’bout full
and I’ve gi^en you all the knowns
and part of the unknowns of us
Sophomores and Juniors—so I’ll to
bed.
RUMOR THREATENING
DESTRUCTION OF
HATS BRANDED
FALSE
All Freshmen may dig up their
keys, unlock their closet doors and
take their new winter bonnets for
an airing.
The other afternoon at 3 o ’clock,
Helen Diehl confessed between sobs
that she and the members of her
class had deliberately spread the
dark and threatening rumor about
the hat burning which took place at
8 o’clock.
In her signed confession Miss
Diehl stated that last year the
Freshmen were told by the Sopho
mores that at a secret meeting of
the Seniors all hats which could be
stolen from the rooms of Freshmen
would be burned in a huge bon-fire.
This story was so effective in throw
ing the Frosh into a panic that the
present Sophomores decided to use it
on the present Freshmen.
Those carrying out this nefarious
jilot added local color by using the
names of |veo])le actually in college
;is victims of (his fictitious racket.
Sojihomores described eloquently the
pathetic , emotions of Lucy James,
two years ago, when she found her
new bine felt had been consigned to
the flames. The plan had worked
beautifully up until noon Wednesday,
when Margaret Brigg, a suspicious
Fr!shman, began to cross-examine
Sophomores. After three hours of
questioning, Helen Diehl broke under
the strain. She became hysterical
(from laughter) and gasped out the
story. She was being held W'hen the
paper went to ]>ress, but it is uncer
tain what action, if any, was taken
against her.
—Anna Ray Fogle.
NEWS FROM FIELD
AND STREAM
Do you want to iiiiow the truth
about the racket, and wluit got the
liall rolling; it goes back to some-
tliing someone said about dinialiiig
ten doll.'u'S to the fir.st cou]ile or
cou]iles seen on tlie S;ilem t(^nnis
courts. It’s rumored that Miss
“At” had a conference witli a
Field Sparrow but that has nothing
to do with the ten dollars. The fact
that is certain is that fifty-six girls
h.'ive been swinging a tennis racket.
It’s for you to sjiecnlate on the lists
that follow or place yonr stakes on
the prospective winner;
FEESIIMEN SINGLES
Louise Frazier — Bye
Nancy Schallert vs. Lib Moore
Coco Henderson vs. Dorothy Burnette
Harriet Taylor — Bye
.losephine Gibson vs. Martha Coous
Grace Parker vs. Margaret Briggs
Cornelia Walfe — Bye
Frances Cole vs. Louise I’reas
Flora Lee vs. Mary Margaret John
son
Lela Williams vs. Eleanor Matherson
Dorothy Hutall — Bye
(framer Percival vs. Lillian Smith
Jean Knox — Bye
Willema Couch vs Ginger Piper
Charlotte King — Bye
Helen Carrow' — Bye
UPPEE CLASSMEN
SINGLES
Susan Rawlings vs. Agnes Brown
Florida Graves vs. Libby rrToence
Martha Schlegel vs. Virginia Fraley
Cortlandt Preston vs. Rachel Carroll
Miivis Bullock vs. Josephine Klutz
Mary Ruth Elliott vs. Betty Tuttle
Mary E. Reveea vs. Martha Neal
Margaret Sears vs. Margaret Ward
Nancy McNeely vs. Jane Williams
Erika Marx vs. Beverly Little
Rebecca Brame vs. Mary Louise
Shore
Josephine Reece vs. Margaret Wall
Madeline Smith vs. Mary Hart
JTarianua Hooks vs. Kea Council
McArn Best vs. Frances II. Norris
Cornelia Maskin ■— Bye
UPPER CLASSMEN
DOUBLES
Best and Graves vs.
Sears and Fraley
jMeXeely and Brown vs.
Klutz and Council
Tuttle and Ward vs.
Williams and Neal
Shore and Reece vs.
Bullock and Carroll
FRESHMEN DOUBLES
Hutaff and Percival vs.
Carrow and Matheson
Cole and Busic vs.
Henderson and Preas
Knox and Piixir vs.
Moore and Lee
Johnson and Frazier — Bye
MISS ANNA BUTNER
“TALKS”
Miss Anna Butner, who is now
honorary housekeeper can still look
at a girl and smile after having
been exposed to their follies and
vanities for almost half a century.
W'hat a great amount of patience and
understanding she has, to have tol
erated the “foolish young things”
for these 48 years and to then be
gracious to an inquisitive little re
porter who goes seeking her out from
her peaceful quarters and tries to
“make her talk.”
And Miss Anna talks of Salem
when it -was still in its infancj', com
posed of only four buildings and .a
few students; talks of the Sister’s
House and its history; talks of the
present faculty and its additions;
but of Miss .\nna Butner she will
not talk.
Perhaps she is right. For after all,
who could find words to express the
work, sympathy, and devotion which
have gone into the long years of serv
ice to Salem. She says that she feels
that Salem is her home and that she
is qnite contented here. What higher
tribute could be paid to a school?
Miss Ann.'i, our hats are off to you in
gratitude and we wish you many
more happy years as Salem’s Hon-
orarj' Housekeeper.
DR. MIMMS SPEAKS
AT EXPANDED
CHAPEL
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
aiujs of education are and what re
sults should come from an education
nhether it is gained in college or out
side the class room. Education
should bring about a certain amount
of invigorating discipline in the
mind. It should develop a good mind,
well trained to be dejiended on to do
certain things—to put a thing over.
College is a sort of mental gym
nasium.
An education should bring about a
cai>acity for hard work, for intensitj^
of concentration, for accuracy of
mind. The i>ower tomemorize must
be developed through memorizing.
We forget easily lectures we hear,
books we read, experiences we have,
and it is only through training our
memory that we are able to retain
those things we wish t-o retain. By
memorizing great passages of poetry
and prose we not only train our mem-
iry but we store our minds w'ith bet
ter passages than we could ever ex
press. Lincoln tried to restate what
he heard in his own words, and in
doing so he held the secret of his
direct simplicity and sincerity.
Education should develop the
power to think straight with due
emjihasis on all elements of the mat
ter in consideration. “As a man
thinketh in his heart, sa is he.”
Loose thinking is as fatal as loose
living. It is a moral and spiritual
res])onsibility to be wise and intell
igent Too many of us draw con
clusions so hastily that false concep
tions often develop; the last thing
one should do is to generalize. There
is a golden means between the tw'o
extremes in every case and the great
question of today rests on how f;ir
people are going to swing in their
reactions against democracy.
True education leads to the devel
opment of imagination—the pow'er
to realize and visualize what you are
studying. To conceive imagination
as merely fancy is false because
iinoginatiou, fully developed, helps to
penetrate to the heart of things.
Associativf; imagination helps one
to compare one thing with another;
contemplative imagination is a great
aid to science since many important
discoveries and inventions are made
in the, mind before any work is done
in the laboratories; constructive
imagination is the power which leads
to some of the finest results in the
world.
A deep sense of beauty should be
a result of education, and any sub
ject, rightly taught, has the capacity
to develop appreciation of beauty.
Every normal person cares more for
beauty than anything else: beautiful
buildings, lovely pictures, well devel
oped voices, poems—all are expres
sions of the love of beauty.
Whatever else education produces
it should develop mystery and won
der of the life w'hich is ours. Life
cannot be reduced to a formula or
creed. “God moves in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform.” In
stitutions of learning should be
places where we become aware of I
the infinite love, wisdom, power,
eternal wonder of God.
FRESHMEN ARE
ENTERTAINED AT
CABARET SUPPER
(CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE)
The almost-verticle bill of the cap
made a dark background for his
sneering, mustached profile. He
slunk over to a girl embellished in
a gawdy costume. Her black hair
formed a wide frame around her
solemn, painted face. The sweatered
man wanted to dance the Jidagio with
(ho senorita. Bat the vivacious one
did not succumb to the alluring
rhythm and synco]>ation of “Shang-
hi Lil” as rendered by Jean Robin
son. She slapiKMl the sneering one,
whom we discovered to be Virginia
Thompson. And he, bacoming very
angry, grnfTly shoved her to the
floor and slunk away. But ah! the
girl, Margaret Sears, slowly rose
from the floorand, withaglittering
dagger in her clutched hand, crept
toward the slumped figure of the
man and stabbed him. The audience
was breathless and trror stricken on
seeing V. T. murdered in cold blood
while dancing.
Terpsichone would have looked
with admiration on this street scene,
and Franchot Tone and Lupe Velez
BEGGED, BORROWED,
AND STOLEN
“Please ma’am. Dr. Willoughby,
I don’t mean to be inquisitive, but
do you have a pair of baby shoes
you could spare? I need a purple
ribbon, too. Do you ’spose Mr. Cur-
lee or Mr. McEweii w'ould have a
derby hat? Oh, well. Thank you
Just the same. Good bye.”
“Could you lend me a red glove,
Miss Lawrence —^ or a telegram
without “dear,” “darling” or
‘ ‘ love ” in it? ”
“Miss Riggan, do you an ancestor
with side burns — or a red fether
with a blue ribbon tied to it—? Oh
me, oh niy — what shall I do?”
‘ ‘ Dean Vardell — ’Scuse me, but
can you squeal like a pig or do you
have an extra.tad pole or a red glove
— or a purple ribbon—I’m sunk—
then — oh well—”
The poor Freshmen were at a loss
They scoured the campus Saturday
night at the “Y” entertainment,
only to find out that it wasn’t tad
])ole season, the ])oor squirmy wiggles
had Iteen transformed into frogs;
that the men at Salem don’t wear
derbies a great deal; that everyone
adds love as the last note In a tele
gram; that a pig’s squeal cannot be
found on a girl’s college campus;
and that all ancestors do not have
side burns!
At any rate, Elouise Sample found
the greatest number of articles and
was aclainied victor—or victoress,
as the case is. After the hunt, Con
rad and Robert, from the dining
room, entertained with a song and
dance number. Butter boy bars were
served at the conclusion of the en
tertainment.
Open Forum
Dear Editor;
Since the beginning of the year.
I’ve discovered one or two amazing
things I had never noticed before.
One important item has to do with
viewpoint. W’hen I was an under
classmen seated at chapel among
several hundred other classmates, I
felt most surrounded, protected, and
quite inconspicious to say the least.
To my immature mind, whatever 1
would choose to do during the
chapel service, I thought would pass
unnoticed by the speakei* or visitors
on the stage, just so I didn’t make
any peculiar noises or perform too
radical movements. A simple game
of tit-tat-to with my next door
neighbor, or a half an hour’s reading
on my mext history lesson, if I
chose to be so discourteous would
probably never be noticed.
Imagine my surprise upon becom
ing a senior and being transferred
to the platform, to find that every
little move anyone makes can bo
detected immediately from the stage.
Even a yawn is rather obvious. Well,
you can feature a speaker or visi
tor’s disconcertment at beholding
here and there in the audience a sug
gestion that his speech isn’t going
over so big with several people. Of
course no one means to convey that
idea, so let’s be careful to leave
other activities out side of chapel
and concentrate on what’s being
said inside. Now that doesn’t mean
be a wooden Indian or a smiling
dummy—just show that you are in
terested and courteous (if you aren’t
—yon should be), by paying atten
tion to the speaker.
A Senior.
could not hope to dance more grace
fully.
Then all was quiet and vague, then
there was a glimmer, a flare, then
another glimmer as we stumbled on
“Tw'o Cigarettes in the Dark” (and
the toastmaster added “Camels”).
There were tw'o black silhouettes
on a white bench. A handsome man
sang the love song to a lovely lady.
The rich voice, fervent and moving
was the famous contralto singer,
Mary Mills; the profile, clear and
exquisite belonged to Phyllis Clapp.
This captivating spell was broken
by the toastmaster’s friendly voice.
“This program has come to you as
ii courtesy of the Junior Class of
Salem College. This is station J. C.
S. C. of the Irrational Broadcasting
Co. Your announcer, Fred Benny
saying, ‘Good night all’.”