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VOL. XVI.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1936.
Number 20.
JANE RONDTHALER BECOMES
MAY DAY CONMITTEE CHAIRMAN
SUCCESSOR TO REECE
FOR 1936-37 CHOSEN
New May Day Head Experi
enced in Dramatic Work
On Tuesday, March 10, the student
body of Salem College elected Jane
Rondthaler, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Howard E. Rondthaler, Salem Col
lege, as chairman of the May Day
Committee for 1936-37.
Jane was in New York last year,
and we know that she will fulfill the
responsibility of her office extremely
well because of her experience with
such work in New Vork last winter.
In her other years on the campus
.lane has held many offices, has been
on various committees, and was stung
by the Order of the Saorpions this
year. She will succeed Josephine
Reece.
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SALEMITE ENTERTAINS
AT DINNER
Saint Patrick’s Day Is
Theme of Occasion
Saint Patrick’s Day came to
Salem early this year when the
“Salemite” Staff entertained at a
dinner on Monday evening. The
little dining-room was decorated in
green, the proverbial St. Patrick’s
Day color. Beautifully printed place
cards indicated to the Colleens
their respective placcs. Between the
courses of the tasteful dinner Irish
jokes were told. Dr. Rondthaler’s
joke was one of the best:
“Pat: (who had come to meet
Mike, his friend who was returning
from’the Boer War): I’m glad to
eee you’re back from the front,
Mike*! ’ ’
Mike: “Well, I knew I was thin
but I didn’t know I was as thin as
that!”
Then each guest had to write a
Dirty Green Lie about his right hand
neighbor. These were read and
voted upon. Dr. Rondthaler’s hor
rid comments upon poor Julia Pres
ton won the prize — an enormous
lead pencil.
Mr. Cashion and Mr. Russ, print
ers of the Salemite; Dr. and Mrs.
Rondthaler; and Miss Knox and Miss
Lilly, advisors for the paper, were
guests at the dinner.
UBRARY RECEIVES
BOOKS FROM COSMOS
BOOK FOUNDATION
Other Recent Additions
Made
imss JANE KONDTHAIjEE
Miss Rondthaler has been elected
head of May Day for 1936-37.
BASKET BALL SEASON
ENDS WITH UNIQUE
GIPSY BANQUET
Sophomores Presented
Trophy Cup
On entering the dining room last
Friday night Salem students and
faculty suddenly found themselves
in a gipsy camp with a campfire,
palms of hands on the walls, and
flickering candles. The basketball
teams, in whose honor the banquet
w.is given, Iiad miniature decks of
cards with suitable names marking
their places Everyone donned the
bright colored three-cornered ker
chief at each place.
Virginia Fraley, gave a welcome in
verse form. A toast to the Sopho
mores was given by Evelyn McCarty,
to which Willena Couch responded.
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TRENDS IN HUMAN RELA^
TIONSDISCUSSEDBYDR.
CUNCHY IN Y. P. M.
Leader In National Move
ment of Jews and Chris
tians Is Speaker
Dr. Everett Clinchy of New Pork
was the speaker at Y. P. M. on
Wednesday morning. lie is the lead
er of the National Movement of Jews
and Christians and was brought to
Winston-Salem by the local Round
Table group. Dr. Clinchy spoke on
“What Are the Trends in Human
Relationsf ’ ’
There are several hopeful trends.
First, we are moving out of geo
graphical provincialisms. Radio and
modern transportation have brought
this about. Ideas as well as material
goods are carried to all people.
Next, we are getting away from
psychological narrowness. We study
the minds of people and come to bet
ter human understanding.
An equally important emancipa
tion is freedom from economic prov-
encialisms. The world is beginning
to think in terms of plenty for every
one. Wo are approaching a new day
in our economic life when castes will
be abolished. Most of our wars are
fought because of economic rivalry
between nations..
The world is being delivered from
political provincialisms. We are
looking forward to the international
federalization of the world. Army
and navy may be abolished for a
world police force. Intelligent peo
ple realize the importance of con
ference methods instead of war.
In spite of these hopeful trends,
there are world problems and prob
lems in our own country to be faced.
We should be realistic about these
problems. War threats loom in Eur
ope. In the United States our eco
nomic situation is desperate. Intel
ligence and religious impuLse are
needed to face these problems. Chris
tians and Jews must throw them
selves with zeal into the task and
bring about a religious renaissance.
Dr. Rondthaler announced that
Mr. Moses Shapiro has presented to
our library Dr. CHnchey’s book, “All
in the Name of God.”
CLASS PRESIDENTS FOR
1396-37 ARE ELECTED
MR. JOHNSON SPEAKS ON
MISREPRESENTED MAN
College Youth Challenged
To Face Race Problem
MRS. FRANCES GAITHER WEAVES
SALEM INTO WORK OF FICTION
The Cosmos Book Foundation has
recently donated a number of in
teresting and important books con
cerning eugenics to the Salem College
Library. They arc as follows:
“Man the Unknown” by Alexis
Carrell.
‘^Inbreeding and Outbreeding” by
E. M- East and D. F. Jone.s.
“Eugenie Predicament” by S. J.
Holmes. ,
‘ Heredity and the Ascent of Man ’ ’ |
by C. C. Hurst.
“Biological Basis of Human Na
ture” by H. S. Jennings.
“Physical Basis of Heredity” by
T. H. Morgan.
In addition to these books the
Cosmos Book Foundation also gave
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In her interest for Salem, Mrs.
Frances Gaither has been doing re
search work in the library and Salem
community, concerning Salem of the
1820’s. She has not only worked in
the files of The Academy and the
old text books that were in the early
boarding school library, but has in
terviewed many local j>eople who are
authorities on the history of Salem.
The book for which she is collect
ing material will be published by the
Macmillan Company in the near fu
ture. It will be a work of fiction;
one that will have historical accur
acy.
Mrs. Gaither spent ten days here.
She arrived on Tuesday February
25th and left for New York on the
afternoon of March 6th.
She was particularly intrigued
with the architecture of Salem and
marvelled at the general effect of
the “little old boarding school com
munity feeling” one still gets from
the surroundings here. “So many
schools have been overlaid with the
new until they have little of the
old left that is recognizable but
Salem has retained her quaint beau
ty,” she said. “Hospitality here,”
she said, “is wonderful. I have en-
i joyed the lovely and genuine hospi
tality shown me at Salem.”
Mrs. Gaither has a striking per
sonality. She is in “Who’s Who in
America,” a writer, born in Somer
ville, Tenn. She received her A.B.
degree from Mississippi State Col
lege for Women in 1909; and, since
1919, has contributed stories to
“McCalls,” “North American Re
view,” “Ainslee’s,” “Designer,”
“All Story,” “Holland’s,” etc.
She wrote ‘ ‘ The Pageant of Co
lumbus, ’ which was produced in
Columbus, Miss, in 1915. An after
war pageant, “Shores of Happi
ness,” was produced at the Univer
sity of Virginia in 1919; also a cen
tennial pageant, “The Shadow of
the Builder, was produced at the
same university in 1921, and last
year “The Clock and the Fountain,”
the semi-centennial masque for
M. S. C. for Women.
Besides being a writer of short
stories and pageants, she is the au
thor of; * * The Painted Arrow,’’
1931, “The Fatal River,” “Life
and Death of La Salle,” 1931, and
“The Scarlet Coat,” 1934. ’ Her
home is 460 W. 24th Street, New
York, N. Y.
Mary Hart has enjoyed publish
ing the Salemite for you this
week. Hope you like it.
Ml'. G. Lee Johnson, professor of
Psychology at the Winston-Salem
Teacher’s College, was the speaker
at the “Y” Vesper Service on Sun
day evening, March 8. Article.s and
books have been written on the
‘ ‘ 10th Man ’ ’ in America, but Mr.
Johnson chose as his subject “The
Misrepresented Man in America To
day.” Through the fine personal
friendship which existed between the
late Dr. Atkins, President of the
Winston-Salem Teachers College, and
Bishop Rondthaler; and which friend
ship now exists between the son of
Dr. Atkins, and Dr. Rondthaler, great
service has been rendered to the
Winston-Salem Teachers College.
This friendship was made possible
through the mutual respect of the
feelings anl rights of each, and
through the true valuation of a man,
not by the color of his skin, but by
liis character, and his noble and
high ideals.
If two individuals of different
races thus learn through contacts
that under the skin they are basic
ally the same, with like thoughts, as
pirations and ideals, why should not
large groups try to solve America’s
race question, particularly iu the
South, where the negro is not always
represented in his true light I
There are several different atti
tudes taken by groups toward the
negro in the South which are mis
representations of -what the negio
is really like. The first group is of
the opinion that all negroes are like
the anti-bellum slave, with the typ
ical dialect and facial characteristics.
This opinion developed from the rep
resentation of the negro as such in
radio skits, movies, cartoons, and in
dialectic books. The average negro
resents this, as it does not truly de
pict what American negroes are like.
The second group, which watches
the negro as he strives to gain his
legitimate rights in politics, regards
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SUSAN RAWLINGS AND
ELEANOR STAFFORD
SPEAK AT SCIENCE
CLUB MEETING
RECENT CLASS ELECTION
RESULTS ANNOUNCED
Whitehead, Briggs, Martin
To head Classes Next Year
The Science Society met March
11 in Park Hall. After a short
business meeting, Susan Rawlings
presented to the group some inter
esting information about vitamins.
She stated that today at least four
of the vitamins are available in crys
talline form and their chemical com
position is known. Recently crys
tals of a fifth were displayed. There
is a great tendency today to add vi
tamins to foods, and such additions
sometime make the food over into a
drug. The American Medical Asso
ciation recently denounced the crude
and unscientific character of vitamin
therapj'. Her final advice was “Try
to eat a varied and well-rounded
diet and expose yourself to sunshine
and forget your vitamin worries.
Eleanor Stafford in her paper en
titled “What’s Behind the Label,”
brought out startling facts about
our favorite tooth pastes, mouth
washes and cosmetics. Did you know
that three of the widely advertised
tooth pastes are harmful? Two-fifths
of each tube of one brand is potas
sium chlorate, another contains an
abrasive that damages tooth enamel;
and the third contains four times
the maximum permis.sable soap con
tent.
After a series of class meetings and
elections the results are as follows;
Josephine Whitehead has been chosen
president of the senior class of next
year, Margaret Briggs is to be presi
dent of the junior class, and Felicia
Martin will preside over the sopho
more class.
Josephine Whitehead is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Alto P. Whitehead
of Rocky Mount, N. C. In her fresh
man year, Josephine was a member
of Student Council, and she joined
the French Club, of which she is
still a member. For the second year
she was president of her class, mem
ber of I. B. 8. Council, member of
Salemite staff, and chairman of a
May Day Committee, This past year,
Josephine waa still head of a com
mittee for M.iy Day, secretary of
Student Council, assistant editor of
“Sights and Insights” and a mem
ber of I. R. S. Council.
Margaret Briggs, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Gurney Briggs of High
Point, N. C., has been quite active
since she came to Salem. Last year
she was a member of the “Y” Com
mission. She is chairman of the
Bulletin Board Committee for the
“ Y ” this year, in addition to being
hiking manager, member of the
I. B. S. Council, and a Scorpion. Mar
garet likes Lady Baltimore eakcs,
niusic, Buick.s, and “doing ban
quets.’' Her ambition is to be a suc-
cesisful commercial artist.
Felicia Martin is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Boy Martin of Mayo-
dan, N. C., and is a major in Home
Economics. During her last two
years of high school she was Tice-
pregident of her class, f^lieia has
hardly had time enough to acquire
any long series of attainments as the
other two girls have done, but judg
ing from the kind of student she has
been this year she should make a fine
class president.
EDUCATION DEPART
MENT ENTERTAINS AT
DINNER THURSDAY
Supervision Teachers of
City Schools Guests
Decorated in true Dutch style, the
recreational room of Louisa Wilson
Bitting Building was the seeene of
a delightful iwo^essive dinner last
night when the seniors entertained in
honor of their supervising teachers.
The guests were received in Main
Hall by. Miss Marks, Mr. MeBwen,
and the seniors, and were directed to
Louisa Wilson Bittng Building where
they were greeted by Miss Lawrence
and Miss Biggan.
Attractive Dutch place cards mark
ed the places of the guests; dinner
was served in four courses, Stephanie
Newman, toaatmistress welcomed the
teachers. Humerous biographies wore
read concerning the most famous
person at each table.
Dr. Bondthaler expressed his ap
preciation to the supervising teach
ers for the work they are doing with
the seniors, and advised the seniors
to imitate rather than try to change
the methods of teaching.
Harriet Taylor, accompanied by
Katherine Sissell, sang two numbers,
and did a delightful tap dance.