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Page Two. '^i>t ^alemite Wednesday, February 27. 1935 WASHINGTON BRICKS TAKE ON NEW LIFE Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association Published Weekly by the Student Body of Salem College SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 a Year :: 10c a Copy EDITORIAL STAFF Editor- In-Chief Cortlandt Pre»to Associate Editors:— Elizabeth Gray Virginia Garner Erika Marx The historical bricks around Salem have all the hoofmarks of many gen erations. To-day they are rising in rebellion against the high-heeled young ladies who weave, reel, and stumble over their weathered sur face. During the winter, the bricks have suffered another grind of Brit ish, bold, tweedy, and wooly crea tures stalking over them to class, and now white linen, cotton prints, and light suits are starting to renew the old brick’s life. ’Tis Spring and the old uneven surface of the walks around Salem will not be noticed. Faithful things, these bricks. They seem to have a tireless existence. Feature Editors:— Carolyn Diehl Jo Whitehead Senior Feature Editors:— Mary Penn Libby Jerome Martha Binder Margaret McLean Coiumnists:— Mary Elizabeth Reeves (Exchange) Emma Wargo (Chapel) Poetry Editor:— Margaret Wall Think of all the “flats,” “gun boats,” “Spaldings,” (better known as oxfords) that have walked across them. Curiously enough, Salem girls have given George Washington the right to have a birthday without digging up aforementioned bricks, upon which the “cherrj^ tree slayer” walked, and presenting them to the President in Chapel as tangible evi dence that Washington passed this way. Famous Faces She Knows And Therefore She Should Be Known Reporters Louise Freeman Anna Ray Fogle Mary Louise Haywooc. Gertrude Schwalbe Martha Schlegel Ruth Kuykenda.i Sarah Ingram Libby Torrence 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 Siiii^lieity is the keynote of ef fectiveness. J^abor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to )>e glad.—Ibsen. To understand everything is to forgive everything.—Gautanui. Life 13 the gift of Nature: but beau tiful living is the gift of Wisdom. SALEM STARTS SPRING CORTLANDT PRESTON TALKS IN VESPERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) order to find the godlike qualities— to earnestly entreat these qualities day by day to grow into something very great and very beautiful, per haps this is a form of prayer” and in this way it is not impossible to “pray without ceasing,” she add ed. Tt is just now that we are beginning to grope after more truthful defi nitions of words which we have long used. Therefore it is necessary that we stop dead still with our thoughts from time to time, and like King T5adgar in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s l>oem “The King’s Henchmen,” we must go ahead softly and seek to get our bearings. For it is just now that our first heaven and earth are in the process of passing away. Miss Preston was the first student speaker to be heard this vear in Vespers. We hope the Y. W. 0. A. will not let her be the last one. Stu dents enjoy hearing others of their school mates talk “with” them rather than “to” them on subjects of common interest to everybody of college age. “She’s an expert dish washer and, what is more important, she actually likes to wash dishes too!” “ Yes, and she has a good recipe for ham salad and what delicious .sand wiches she makes! ” “ Did you see the beautiful flowers she sent to the infirmary just now — and she has some more ready for Vespers. ‘She certainly must have an enor mous correspondence for she is al ways writing letters.” “Did I tell you about the time she helped the poor little ‘Y’ Cabinet sell 3 B’a (Butter Boy Bars, for the benefit of non-Salemites), in the middle of the night?” “Yes, and that certainly was a delightful tea she gave to the poor homesick stay-overs last Easter vacation” The above isn’t, as you may have thought at first, a recommendation for a house keeper, interior decora tor or personal secretary. It is ■ather a snap shot, only a wee one at that, of Miss Riggan. One beautiful phase of our life here at Salem is the v^ery apparent interest and close personal relation between students and faculty. To know that the teachers and the deans consider each girl personally and as individuals means a great deal. Miss Riggan knows, will be willing to wager, far more about you than you ever guess, more, too, than you know about her. Turn about is fair play, isn’t it so let’s find out something about her. To begin with, do you know what the J in K. J. R. stands for? No, no, no, that’s enough guesses, not Jean or Jane or Jerry or Josephine. Her name is Katherine Jnnge Riggaii Beautiful, isn’t it, and individual Her home, as you all know, is Southern Pines, but as you know too, she belongs to Salem as well. In cidentally, while in school here she walked away with honors. A few of them include class honors for three years, membership in the order of tlie Scorpions, an officer in the McDowcll Club, the privilege of “ parley-vous-ing” in Le Cercle Francais, associate editorship of the Salemite, and the presidency of the Student Government Association (CONTINUED ON PACE FOUR) ^ S0CII IE ¥y OFF CAMPUS TATTLER The next time you hear a day- student complain about gaining too many curves in the wrong places, ask her how much time she spends at Summit Street Pharmacy on Sun day afternoon. It’s positively sur prising how many people can be seen there long about five, Sunday after noon. What is the attraction at Oak Ridge? Ask Cornelia Maslin. She visited Hilda Wall Penn, (a former Salem student), at Madison, and the tw^o went to a dance at O. B. I. on Saturday. Leakesville was honored by the visits of two Salem students—Kath erine Sisell and Rebecca Hines — on Friday. The lunchroom of the day-students reports excellent progress. Try some of their butter-boy-bars. Anna Leake Scott may have gone to Leakesville. She had an excellent time if she went. Ask her about it. SOPHOMORE AND JUNIOR ’ROUND ABOUTS Once again “home sweet home” was the theme song of the Juniors and the Sophomores. Marianna Bedding took Jo White head, Margaret Calder, and Ethel Highsmith home with her Saturday and it is heard that much fun was had in Ashboro by these four Sale- mites, while Lou Freeman had fun here playing Marianna’s radio! Sara K. Thompson, one of the many Virginians in our midst, went to Bluefield for, the week-end. Yes sir-e we all say that Jinny Gough’s “little” sister Eleanor is quite a bird, .she has even been called Putter Jr.”—her sister’s nick- a.me. We hope that Eleanor will be with us for next year. Jane Crow spent Saturday night in town with her mother. SENIORS* SOCIETY SECTION Helen Jones was home for Satur day and Sunday, she said the under taker’s had a dull week-end. Sj)riug comcs to Salem College early—earlier than ’most anywhere. Thero is so]iiething about even Feb ruary that has a suggestion of now green things budding and blooming Down in the valley squirrels are playing gaily, iiind birds are coming back again. We wonder why Salem is so blessed? Perhaps the answer is this; Dr. Jfondthaler! Wh>’ not? Doesn’t he ]iIow around in the snow and find violets, and doesn’t he find zinias hung with icicles? Of course he does! and no one else could ever do that except our own prexy. Spring couldn’t stay away from Salem very long when one is so optimistic about it as he—. Those carnations that he wore in his buttonhole during De cember and January showed us how much he wanted to see flowers grow ing again down on the cliff. And when the carnation suddenly, swift ly, one morning turns into a daisy, we know that things are happening and happening fast. From a psychological point of view, if one expects things to hap pen, they usually happen, and that must be true about Spring happen ing at Salem. Why, when we go out of chapel one morning all excited about flower-s, it usually isn’t very long before we find them, so there you are! The sum and substance of this whole spring-like idea is that we are the most fortunate human beings on earth to have a spring at this time of the year and to have a Dr. Rondthaler. IP € IE T K y “I’oetiy is tin* jxM'fect and eoiisuminatc' siirfaco and l)l()oiii of nil things; it is as the odor and the color of the rose to th(' texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendor of onfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption.” Shelley. PREPAREDNESS For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike When you are the anvil, bear— When you are the hammer, strike. —Edwin Markham. Let not young souls be smothered out before They do ijuaint deeds and fully flout their pride. It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull. Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly. Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap. Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve. Not that they die, but that they die like sheep. Vachel Lindsay. I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them. ' MONOTONE The monotone of the rain is beautiful, and the sudden rise and slow relapse of the long multi tudinous rain. The sun on the hills is beauti ful, or a captured sunset sea- flung. Bannered with fire and gold. A face I know is beautiful, with the fire and gold of sky'and sea, and the peace of long warm rain. —Carl Sandburg. Wind, wind — heather gipsy Whistling in my tree! All the heart of me is tipsy On the sound of thee. Sweet with scent of clover. Salt with breath of sea. Wind, wind — wayman lover. Whistling in my tree! —John Galsworthy. I too will something make And joy in the making Although tomorrow it seems Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking. Robert Bridges. Our own Cortlandt Preston surely goes for the opposite sex whose names begin with C. How about learning more about the alphabet Cokey.. Did you and precious Grace have fun in Charlotte Saturday? Even the town begins with C. Betty Tuttle disregarded the fact that the warblers of Duke ■were visiting at Salem and sallied forth to Green.sboro to N. C. C. W. But M. W'ard probably had a good time. Jo Klutz spent the week-end in Salisbury and Martha Nolen and Tick Fraley spent Sunday with her. Lib Rankin went pretty near to Davidson this week-end, meaning home, Mooresville. The little, but well known, town of Cooleemee had Nancy McNeely and Sue Rawlings in its worthy midst this week-end. May I ask, Jane, who was that Long chap to whom you went to talk at the concert. Why didn’t Ann go with you? I’m ashamed of you, Ann—giving up such a golden op portunity! Such a list of Juniors I have here, it would do better if I would list tliem—they all went home. Virginia Thompson, Kay McCall, Madeline Smith, Janet Stimpson, Wilda May Yingling, Delle Huggins, Garnell Rainey and I think they are the onlv ones! .Tosie is chacing about town ac cording to the latest reports, and her partner in pursuit is John Frieze. Gertrude Schwalbe spent Saturday and Sunday in Burlington with Cal- va Scharp. I’ray tell, why did Eloise Padrick decide not to go to the State mth Mrs. Wilson’s little boy—Tommy? Page Pat! Etta Bert’s family spent Sun day here with her. Why did Margaret Wall want to see the blood-curdling show “The Iiives of Bengal Lancers.” Anyway we are glad to know she went. Martha Neal visited her aunt Mrs. Scott, here in the city this week end and wo doubt if she “rested up” while there. The Glee Clul)’s echo is still with ns and there is no doubt whatso ever that all of the Duke boys were the “cutest ones!” Did Mary Penn hear the call of Shorty, that she homeward trends her weary way. Mary, Rachel, Louise Preas, M. Smith, and Helen Smith and all their baggage set out with Fannie Hill over the mountain toward Kings- point last Saturday. They got home safely, though much reduced from the squeezing—three in the rumble seat—you know. Don’t give Shorty all the credit. EXCHANGE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) A professor at Roanoke college claimed some of his pupils would soon be as famous as Napoleon at the rate they are going down in his tory. —The Blue Stocking. N.R.A. me down to sleep, Pray the Lord my code to keep;' If I should bust before I wake, A.F. of L. my plant will take— And this I ask for heaven’s sake Amen.” —H. L. S. ON CLASS WE HEAR: 1. ‘ ‘Philosophy is like a man search ing for a black cat in a dark gal lery, and the eat isn’t there.” 2. Which reminds me of — “All those not present hold up your hand )>lease, to save time calling the roll, please” — 0-Wah! And then there’s the one about the traveling salesman who—etc, etc 4. “You’re hot-house plants during the winter and after March we (teachers) don’t expect much work out of you. ’ ’ Ji. “Some people are better book keepers than mathematicians, don’t you know. ’ ’ fl. “Why did the fly flee? Because the spider spied her.” (Spider spider — or somethin’.) 7. A girl in history 9 was supposed to be telling about a state not se ceding, She said “—so she stays in.” Teacher: “What do you mean, ‘she stys in’ ”? 8. What we become depends 1st of all on what we come from. 0. “This is strictly confidential data I’m handing out. Don’t toll a soul.” Puppy love often leads to a dog’s life. Boy—So you’d like me to come around to dinner sometime after we’ve been hoi'seback ridingf Cordelia Lawry—Yes, it’s a stand ing invitation. Ethel Highsmith—So yon’r? late because you had your car over hauled? Date—Yes, by some smart speed cop.
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