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VOL. XVI.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936.
Number 18.
DR. RONDTHAIER PRE
SIDES AT BROTHER
HOOD ASSEMBLY
Promotion of Universal
Good Will Is Purpose
Of Meeting
The brotherhood assembly was
held on Sunday, February 23 at the
Carolina Theatre, with Dr. Eond-
thaler presiding.
The local committee of the Na
tional conference of Jews and Chris
tians whose purpose is to promote
universal good will, sponsored the
assembly.
Father Leo Frierson of the Catho
lic Church, spoke on “Our Objec
tives. ’ ’ Rabbi Morris Lieberman
of the Jewish faith spoke on ‘Build
ing of Good Will.” These speakers,
as well as the Protestant speaker,
were introduced by Dr. Bondthaler.
Dr. Eondthaler as the preaiding
officer is one of the throe co-chair-
mon of the brotherhood meeting. Ho
is serving with Moses Shapirio and
Paul McCarty. ,
The meeting was not for conform-
SUPERINTENDENTS
DmSION OF N.E.A.
MEETS IN ST. LOUIS
DEAN VARDELL SPEAKS ON “BEHIND
THE HYMNBOOr IN CHAPEL
Miss Marks Represents
Salem College
The sixty-sixth annual convention j
of the Department of Superintend- ■
ance of the National Education As- j
saciation was held in St.. iLouis,
Missouri, from February 22nd to the
27th. Miss Sallie B. Marks, Pro
fessor of Education and Psychology,
attended the convention as a mem
ber of the North Carolina delegation.
The theme of the conference was
“The Function of the Schools in
the Democracy. ’ ’ General sessions
were held at which issues such as
Federal Support of Public Education,
Liberalism in Education, and Cur
rent National Issues were of out
standing importance.
Directed group debates were given
covering different phases of the field
of Education, such as Administra
tion, Supervision, Finance, Organiza
tion, Buildings and Equipment, Meth
ods, Teaching Personnel, Curriculum,
and Lay Relations. The method of
COLLEGE SENIORS PLANT
TREE AND IVY
Salem Tradition Celebrated
On Washington’s
Birthday
ity in church life. The Catholics
will still be Catholics; the Jews will presentation of these subjects was
still be Jews; and the Protestants
will still be Protestants. The ob
ject of the meeting was to make us
bettor members of our own churches
and more tolerant towards the re
ligious convictions of others.
A retired Baptist minister stated
that mutual respect is what we need
—not artificial conformity.
SOPHS BEAT SENIORS
38-29 — FROSH TIE
JUNIORS 32-32
The basketball season opened last
Thursday night with a double-head
er; the Sophomores versus’the Sen
iors, and the Freshmen against the
Juniors. The scores were; Sopho
more-Senior game, 38-29; Freshmen-
.Junior game, 32-32.
FEESHMEN-JUNIOR
During the first part of the Fresh-
men-Junior game, the Juniors were
leading. However the freshmen
five held their ground, and during
the last half brought the score up
to the tie 32-32.
LINH-UP
.Juniors Freshmen
Pos.
Sherwood (8) (8) McNeeley
F.
Fraley (13) (8) Vines
F.
Meadows (11) (8) Hutchison
F.
Smith McCarty
G.
Wurreschke Grantham
G.
Cpuncil Spence
G.
Substitutions: Martin (8) for Mc
Neeley, McNeeley for Hutchison.
by means of a representation of both
the affirmative and negative aspects,
with an evaluation in conclusion.
La.st Saturday morning in the
chapel period, the Senior Class, as is
the tradition, planted a tree and a
clump of ivy on the college campus.
After assembly in Memorial Hall,
the student body was instructed to
follow the marshals and the senior
class to the spot, near Louisa Wilson
Bitting Building, where the tree was
X)lanted. It seemed fitting that on
the birthday of George Washington
a cherry tree should be planted, and
in her presentation of this “tree of
memory” the president of the sen
ior class. Miss Etta Burt Warren,
stated that as the tree grew and
flourished so would the love of the
class of 1936 for their Alma Mater
grow. .
Each senior hung on the tree some
souvenir of a pleasant day at Salem.
REMARKABLE HERITAGE
WE ENJOY IN HYMNS
EXPLAINED
Of distinctive honor to Salem Col-; Dr. Eondthaler, in a brief and ap-
lege was the fact that in one of the
group debates. Miss Marks represent
ed the negative side on the statement
“Supervision Should Be a Stabilizer
Eather Than a ‘Spearhead’ in Pro
gressive Education. ’ ’
Other directed group discussions
dealt with Elementary, Junior and
Senior High School Education, Adult
Education, Post-Graduate and Jun
ior College Education, Education of
Out-of-SchooI Youth, Teacher Train
ing, and Rural Education.
Among the most out.standing lead
ers of Education present at the Con
ference were .T. W. Studebaker, U. S.
Commissioner of Education at Wash
ington, D. C.; Thomas Briggs and
George Strayer, of the Teachers Col
lege at Columbia University; and
Glenn Frank, President of the Uni-
ver.sity of Wisconsin.
COUNT BYRON DE
PROROK LECTURES
IN GREENSBORO
Count Byron de Prorok gave a
most interesting talk on Ethiopia,
Wednesday evening at Woman’s Col
propriate manner, accepted the tree
in behalf of Salem College. The
ivy was planted near the entrance
of the campus living room of Alice
Clewell building. Each senior placed
a handful of dirt around the ivy
roots. The ceremony closed with the
singing o¥ the Salem Alma Mater.
DAVIDSON STUDENT
SPEAKS AT VESPERS
“The Place of Women
In Missions.”
.John McMullen, a senior at Dav
idson College, spoke in Vespers on
Sunday evening on “The Place of
Women in Missions. ’ ’
lie is the son of Pre.'^byterian Mis
sionaries to China, was born there
and has lived there most of his life.
There is a jiossibility, he said, of
our being missionaries to China.
When we first think of it, we say,
“What can a woman do as a mission
ary?” It is the biggest job in the
lege in Greensboro. Ilis subiect was i i, j -4. * i u-
s J “ I world and it takes big men and worn
SOPHOMORE-SENIOR
During the second game Thursday
night, the Sophomores trounced the
Seniors by a score of 38-29, in a very
hard fought game. The Seniors team
did especially good pass work, and
the score might have been closer if
it had not had so many personal
fouls. Three of the Senior players
were taken out for personal fouls.
The Sophomore team clicked, and
during the last half of the game
gained on the close score.
UNE-TJP
Sophomores Seniors
Pos.
Couch (16) (9) McNeely
P.
Frazier (16) (14) Best
P.
Knox (4) (6) Rights
F.
Sample ^ Marx
G.
‘ ‘ Ethiopia Today. ’ ’
Count de Prorok was an interesting
speaker for he has led such a fascin
ating life himself. During the last
fifteen years he has led a score of
expeditions into Northern Africa and
Central America. He was director
of the recent Franco-American Arch
aeological Expedition to Abyssinia.
In his lecture he described the
richness of Ethiopia and attributed
to it the cause of the present war.
In a very interesting manner he told
of the peculiar customs of the Ethi
opians, many of which are still bar
baric.
Adding much to the appeal of
his lecture wore films and slides
taken during the expeditions. An
cient tombs, just recently unearthed,
beautiful old temples, and a severe
sand-storm were shown through the
use of the films.
The lecture of Count de Prorok
was most entertaining and was popu
larly received by the large number
which attended.
I Schwalbe
G.
McLean Brown
G.
Substitutions:
Sophomore—King (2) for Knox.
Seniors — Watkins for MeNeely,
Hutchinson for Marx, Schegel
for Brown, Watkins for Rights.
en who are willing to undergo hard
ships. It also requires .physical
strength and endurance. Over here,
we think ,-of teaching as being the
one position open as a profession to
women. Even in teaching, there is
the opportunity for mission work;
for training young minds in the
Christian way of thinking.
There is a great need for medical
missionaries. Some of the best mis
sionaries have been nurses who as
they healed bodies, also healed
souls and spirits. Women can find
a great opportunity there.
There is a place for women, too, in
the field of evangelism. Women can
work better with women. One of
the most important places woman
has in mission work is in making a
normal homo for her family in a
foreign land. It is hard to do, but
under the strenuous circumstances
it is necessary that her husband
should have a place w'here he may
go and rest. The homes and fam
ilies of missionaries are constantly
watched in China. The missionaries
are called foreign devils, and are
continually watched and criticized.
The speaker told how, as a small boy,
he had been made to attend church
although he could not understand
the minister. Later his mother told
him that if the children of the mis
sionaries did not go to church, the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
Illustrated Lecture Given In
Expanded Chapel
To students of Salem College and
the Academy, Dean Vardell gave at
expanded chapel an interesting dis
cussion of the wonderful parorama of
interest and history lying behind the
words and the music of hymns.” In
the study of the subjects of hymns,”
he said, “there is much that is fas
cinating, curious, and even humor
ous. ’ ’
He gave a few glimpses of what
lies behind the writing of hymns.
We have a remarkable heritage in
hymns from the Jews. The Catholic
Church took the singing of hymns
from the people and gave it to the
priesthood and to the choir. Some
very beautiful hymns came from that
time, including “Art Thou Weary,
Are Thou Languid?”, the song used
for the processional on Wednesday
morning.
With the Oxford hymn in the nine
teenth century came the controver
sial question—shall we have ritual
in our hymns, or shall we make use
of the beauties of art in our worship?
The evangelical part of the church
favored simplicity in hymns. A Dr.
Noal went back to early hymns of
the Greek and Latin religion and
made many translations. He did
what he could to bring back elabor
ate rituals. Dying, he confessed
that he had w^ritten, not translated,
the hymn, “Art Thou Weary, Art
Tho Languid?”
St. FrancLs of Assisi has written a
number of hymns we use today.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
“IS UFE WORTH UVING”
PRESENTED BY THE
LITTLE THEATRE
Salem College Students Fig
ure In Production
BURNLEY WEAVER LEC
TURES AT ART CENTER
Biltmore Wood Carver
Demonstrates Block
Printing
The second speaker in the Winston-
Salem Art Center’s series of pro-
granifj was Burnley Weaver, a Bilt
more wood cutter. He kept a lar]^e
crowd of art lovers interested with
his demonstration of cutting blocks
for printing purposes. The artist
drew his picture on paper, and trans
ferred it with ink to a small ijlock of
rubber. After this outline had been
impressed on the block, Mr. Weaver
chi.sled around the picture until noth
ing remained except the etching,
which he then transferred to a finer
grade of paper.
In addition to his demonstration,
Mr. Weaver called the attention of
the audience to the various prints of
wood blocks on exhibition at the Art
Center. Some of the prints were in
water colors, which are the most
difficult and exacting of all wood
block prints.
Mr. Weaver is a native of Ashe
ville, N. C., and has achieved nation
wide distinction in the cutting of
these blocks. He maintains a studio
in Biltmore, where he operates a pri
vate printing press, and produces
limited editions of fine books illus
trated with his own block cuts.
Miss Lucile Banks, director of the
local Art Center, announced that
D. S. Deffenbacher, state director
of art projects, would speak next
Monday on “Art lApprec^tion.(”
The Art Center is located at 417
North Main Street. The public is
j invited to attend the lectures.
On Friday night, at the Reynolds
Auditorium, The Little Theatre pre
sented a' Irish Comedy, “Is Life
Worth Living,” by Lennox Robin
son. The play was directed by Miss
Dorothy Knox of Salem Academy
w'ho is one of tho most capable play
directors that hag ever been in Win-
ston-Salem. The object in the play
was to show the psychological effect
of “stage sophisticates” in a small
town. When Douglas Angel and Jane
Rondthaler, a Salem girl who was an
“elegant” sophisticate, came to the
town that included little more than
the Seaview Hotel where' nothing
ever happened, the outcome wa.s al
most tragic. This theatrical troujie
wero interpreting Russian art purely
for the sake of art (even though
Jane was simply thrilled at the pos
sibility of a financial gain with which
she planned in vain to “set up” her
family) but this particular type of
art was just too much. As a result,
a man dove off a pier end—the tide
was out; a butcher threw a meat
cutter ot his wife—his aim was bad;
the rejected son of the inn-keepcr
flung himself into the water—tho
water was cold and he was a good
swimmer.
Before such a long time, however,
the sensible inn-keeper’s wife was
able to convince her husband that
Seaview Hotel was no place for ac
tors with “pure art in their souls.”
Helen Bryant was the wife of the
inn-keeper played by Mangum Turn
er who .showed that when aroused
ho could create action.
One of the most convincing char
acters of the entire play was the inn
keeper’s disillusioned sister played
by Elizabeth Trotman, also a Salem
girl who possibly received her ex
perience from interviewing John
Boles in the Grand Hotel when she
was with Georgia Caravans.
Other parts were taken by Lillian
Cromer, Charles Stonestreet, David
Jarvis, John I>ies Blair, Lindsay
Crutchfielh, and T. A. Redman.
This was the first production of
the Little Theatre of which Mias
Dorothy Knox is dramatic director
and “Is Life Worth Living” gave
promise of many more very enter
taining evenings.
MARTHA SCHLEGEL
AND JANET STIMPSON
GIVE PAPERS AT
SCIENCE MEETING
The Science Society held its reg
ular bi-monthly meetijig, February
26th, at 7:00 p. m. in Park Hall.
-After a brief business session, an
interesting program was presented by
two members of the society.
Miss Martha Schlegel gave an in
structive pai>er on “Areterio aclero-
sis,” in which she quite thoroughly
discussed the cause.s, symptoms, and
prevention of this fatal disease.
“A Review of the Sciehtifie Ad
vance During the Year 1935” was
the subject of a paper given by Miss
Janet Stimpson. In this, she dis
cussed new discoveries of importance
in tho various fields of science.
Among recent discoveries mentioned
by Miss Stimpson were (1) radio
active atoms, (2) neutrons (a new
type of atom), (3) identification of
the influenza virus, and (4) the cure
for a certain t3T>e of high blood
pressure.
University of Michigan and Notre
Dame football relations, broken off
in 1910, may be renewed next year.