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THE SALEMITE
Friday, December 6, 1935.
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WELCOME
HOBIE
At last Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler have returned home
and to Salem. (Salem and home to them are one.) We who
have awaited and anticipated this event find it difficult to
express ourselves when w.e try to tell them how glad we are
to see them again. We mumble words and smile when we
meet them, but it is difficult for us to say what we really
feci.
No college president and no college president’s wife
could be more loved and respected by the college students
and the college faculty than are Df. and Mrs. Rondthaler.
When news of Dr. Rondthaler’s accident in London became
known in this country, Salem students were distressed and
anxious about his apparently minor but actually very serious
injury. Since the beginning of school students have often
inquired about him and about Mrs. Rondthaler, and any news
concerning them has been published in .“The Salemite” in
order that every one might know what they were doing and
when they were going to return to Winston-Salem and Salem
College.
And now they’re here! What can we say? We can
Kay very little about what we feel. We, like they, know only
that Salem is a happier and gladder place because they are
back again.
AEE WE STILL
CHILDREN?
No longer is it smart for girls to smoke. No longer is
it considered an accomplishment. Now it is merely accepted.
Girls who smoked because it gave them a feeling of sophistica
tion have given it up since it has became commonplace. The
thrill is gone. Those girls who are eternally longing to be
spectacular must try something else with which to astound
their friends.
Smoking in the Green Room at Salem is taken as a
matter of course, but smoking in the dormitory can be very
spectacular. The chance of being caught lends an atmosphere
of suspense. Excited friends watch the girls who smoke with
admiring — yet, not envious — eyes. Every foot-step in the
ball must be investigated — is it the proctor? If the girl
“gets by” with it, she is congratulated.
How chilclish! When we were younger we kept our lights
burning uiitil the' early hours of morning, when we knew we
should be sleeping soundly. We took food to bed with us and
bad exciting midnight feasts — trembling with suspense when
our mother paused before our door to see if all were well. We
agree we wouldn’t change the thrills of those few moments of
mischief for a hundred forgotten hours of perfect obedience.
But that thrill of disobeying rules belongs to the days of our
childhood'as definitely as our dolls do. Shall we risk oiir rep
utation to get a childish thrill out of disobeying a rale?
WELCOME HOME TO
DR. RONDTHALER
The following editorial appeared in the Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel for Sunday, December 1. It expresses in
part our gladness on having Dr. Rondthaler again with us, and
t represents the deep esteem which the city of Winston-Salem
holds for our president. For this reason we are reprinting it;
HoAvever much a prophet is honored in his own country,
he is never appreciated in the fullest sense until he departs
for a time from among us or something happens to cause us
to think we may lose him.
Both these incidents recently occurred in the ease of
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler, president of Salem College. He
left us for a while, and in London he suffered serious injuries
in a motor accident, a circumstance which left Winston-Salem
in keen anxiety. But the hardihood, faith and courage which
characterize the man -combined with the knowledge and skill
of medical science to restore Dr. Rondthaler to physical sound
ness, and the community is heartened to know that he is at
last at home again.
Dr. Rondthaler occupies a place of unique distinction
in the city and state, as well as in the collegiate cii’cles of the
country, and in the shaping of lives by the breathing idea his
influence hei-e and abroad is outside the reckoning. As the
administrative head of the fine old college of Salem for the
state and nation.
P'ortunate. in having such a man in our community,
grieved to learn of his untimely injury, the community is truly
glad to welcome Dr. Rondthaler back to AVinston-Salem and
the college for which he has labored so long and so faithfully,
p^st quarter of a century he has exerted a powerful influence
upon the lives of young folk. And as a public speaker and
Bible teacher he has made many vital contacts with older folk
and done much to advance the ideals and the culture of city,
MORE
YARN
With the revival of the homely art of knitting, rises
again the spirit of controversy too long dormant at the college
for women. Professors in their charity choose to be silent,
the few remembering that the meek shall one day inherit the
earth. Until that Millennium, however, it behooves 'us to
adopt some stand. Using the editorial prerogative, we choose
to disagree with those who carry the implements of (their
craft into academic halls of learning. Like card playing,
ping-pong, and wood carving — all admirable avocations in
their place, we believe such amusements should be put aside
witii the ringing of the bell heralding the approaching class.
Our objections, like the proverbial mystic riddles, are seven
fold. We shall elaborate the few. “Knit two, and ptirl one
and then change to larger needles” may be an intellectual
problem of its ommi. But when it comes in conflict with the
chronogical development of the evolution of man, one or the
other must go down in confusion. Again it must be somewhat
disconcei'ting to a lecturer who finds duality of purpose divid
ing his class into two camps. We come to college because it
gives us an unique experience which cannot be gained else
where. In the classroom, we come into contact with author
ities who know whereof they speak. And yet “we are too
busy about many things” with the consequent result that
the years find us abruptly stumbling against om-selves in mo
ments of heightened awareness, only to discover that we can
mouth but the trivial — that our culture at best is but super
ficial, a veneer barely covering the roughened surface beneath.
—The Tower Times.
DEAN
VARDELL
Dean Charles G. Vardell, who served as Acting President
of Salem College during the absencc of Dr. Rondthaler, should
be commended on the smooth and efficient manner in which
he performed the numerous and difficult tasks- w^hich come
with the honorable duty of acting as President of Salem
College.
We formerly knew Dean Vardell as an able musician
and one of America’s most distinguished young composers.
We now recognize him as an able executive as well. With
the co-operation of the faculty. Dean Vardell conducted the
many duties^ which befall an executive, and still managed to
teach and direct the school of music. {
SHOP EARLY AND
MAIL EARLY
As a child I began my preparations for Christmas about
six weeks before the day arrived How well do I remember
buying my dad a five cent cake of shaving soap some four or
five weeks before Christmas and taking the present home and
immediately showing it to my father. If we were able to wait
so long we would leave getting the tree until three weeks
before Christmas. If I could echo the feeling of post office
officials and store employees I should probably sigh and say
“would that all were children at Christmas time.”
You have doubtless heard “shop early” and “mail
early” for Christmas until to hear it again will have little
effect on you. Nevertheless we add our pleas that you do
so to those of the post office officials and store employees.
It is to your advantage to make the preparations neces
sary for Christmas early in the season. In shopping you have
a greater assortment of gifts from which to choose and you
r(‘ceive more attention and help from the saleswomen. You are
spared the strain of shopping in crowded stores.
If you mail early you are sure that your caVds and
gifts will arrive at their destination before Christmas and not
after. You save the persons working in the post office from
having to work overtime.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Was yonr great-grandmother one
of the pupils of Salem Female Acad
emy who waa reprimanded for dig
ging holes in Iier pewter plate f Did
your grandmother star in the colis
thenic drill of an Academy com
mencement? Did your mother hold
forbidden midnight feasts in the
iimous “alcoves” of Salem CollegeT
Tn other words, are you a daughter,
granddaughter, or even a great-great-
great-granddaughter of a former
Salem pupil ? If so, the librarian
wants to see you — not to make you
pay for ancestral sins, but to beg
you to help them obtain pictures for
display on Founders’ Day.
Their idea, which ought to be of
interest to everybody at Salem, is to
have a “Salem Family Album”
which will contain pictures of stu
dents now attending Salem College
whose ancestors also attended Salem.
They want to borrow pictures only,
and they promise to cherish and
guard with the utmost care any
family heirloom lent them. Pictures
of former students taken when they
were students are especially wanted,
but when no student pictures are
available, others will do.
Please, call at the library, intro
duce yourself as a fourth generation
of Salem pupils, and then help the
librarians search family albums for
your ancestors!
PARK HALL
I understand that there are cer
tain students at Salem who take
music who have never been in the
Science Lab and have no idea what
it is like except from vague stories
of the odor of formaldehyde and
such, and much work which seems to
surround the building like a heavy
fog. Seriously, as Mr. Higgins tells
the freshmen, laboratory is spelt
1-a-b-o-r but it isn’t all dry grinding.
I wonder if you have ever poured
two colorless liquids into a test tube
and watch them turn green. I have
and it is interesting. Do you say
“I like strong coffee.” Well if you
do, you’re all wrong, it isn’t strong
j’ou mean, but concentrated. Do you
say that water is a clear liquid, you
probably mean colorless. And a
white liquid is never called milky —
it has a white percipitate. Do they
they sound all mixed up to you?
They are right. And if you take
chemistry j'ou just have to learn
them. And if you take geography
you find that it isn’t love that makes
the world go round at all. And in bi-
o'ogy you find hundreds of little
plants and animals that you never
thought existed. And there is phy
sics too. Mr. Campbell, Mr. and
Mrs. Higgins, and Miss Petree are
over there to help us out. And some
times Jane Higgins is there saying
“Da-da” and “book.” (I bet she’ll
soon be saying “test tube.” don’t
you?) Anyway the lab is a nice
place, come on over and see it.
SENIORS WIN AGAIN
Brown Scores Point
In the hard fought battle between
the seniors and the juniors the sen
iors came out on top with one point
to the good.
Line-up:
Seniors Juniors
Pos.
Best Crist
Rt. Wing
Watkins Fetter
Inside Rt.
McNew Baynes
Center For’d
®*'Own (1) E. Sterling
Inside Left
Hendrix Bitter
Left Wing
M Hutchison Hart
Rt. Half
Torrence Smith
Center Half [
Shore gigoli
Left Half
— Norman
Rt. Back
Schlegel Wurreschke
Lt. Back
Schwalbe Fraley
Goalkeeper
Substitutes:
Lowery and Blain.