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THE SALEMITE
Friday, October 2, 1936.
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A TIP FEOM
THE FRESHMEN!
We call the girls who come to college for the first time
“Freshmen.” We speak of them as being “green” and “ig
norant” — and we sophomores, especially, are prone to say that
they are childish.
All of us realize, though, that this is merely a rather
crude way of making fun. A very short time ago we, too,
were new. We were uncertain, sometimes homesick, and often
ill at east.
However, did the freshman class of last year — and the
year before — and the year before that overcome their freshmen
difficulties as succssfully as the freshmen of 1936 are doing
The third floor of Alice Clewell, where most of the freshmen
who board, live, is unusually quiet after 10:30 at night. If you
walk along the hall you can hear the scraping of pencil on pa
per, and the swish of turning pages. Thei freshmen are study
ing ! Already they realize the importance of a good foundation
and a good beginning. They are using the library, and many
of them have discovered tliat it is not a dull, somber place in
which to slave away the most enjoyable part of the day, but a
fascinating recreation room, always offering something novel
and something to fit every mood.
Yet, they are neither a dry, nor tiresomely bookish lot. We
find them on the tennis court, in the swimming pool, interested
in the I. It. S., asking to take an active part in the “Y,” anxious
to help with “The Salemite,” “Sight and Insights,” co-opera-
ting with the Student Self Government Association.
The upper classmen cannot help becoming freshmen con
scious. The members of the Class of 1940 are already making
themselves known on the campus not with a lot of trite mean
ingless words, but by their actions. We would all do well to
take a tip from the freshmen!
SCHOOL HAS
FLIGHT CLASS
FOR STUDENTS
“At last American schools are
awakening to the passion of our
boys and girls to fly, ’ ’ quoting from
an article, ‘ ‘ All High School Chilian
Got Wings, ” in a current Liberty.
There is actually a high school in
the United States where students
are given flight instructions during a
regular two-year aviation course.
This school ijs located in Teaneck,
New Jersey, whore four or five years
ago a club for the study of aviation,
problems under the direction of Ma
jor Arthur G. Norwood. The boys
were so successful with flying pri
mary gliders that their mothers ask
ed for a ground school course to be
given in high school. The Board of
Education agreed for Major Nor
wood to outline a suitable course and
become a member of the faculty.
Of course, the students wanted a
plane next. Half the price of one
was raised by the parent teacher
association and the board gave the
rest toward the desired ship.
The cost is only $500 per year to
maintain the plane, plus the instruc
tor’s salary. Students pay for their
own gas and oil, which amounts to
about $3 a flying hour.
A letter from the Office of Edu
cation, U. S. Department of the In
terior, states that its mailing list cov
ers about 23,000 schools. There are
110 colleges which offer courses that
range from ordinary aviation ground
school to aviation law.
Professor: “Where is the capital
of the United States?”
Student: “In Europe.”
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NOTES
“Through A Glass Darkly” is
not, in this case, the name of an
essay or a book, but the name of a
service inaugurating a new series of
monthly Vesper meetings to be held
at the Home Moravian Church this
fall.
The title ‘ ‘ Through A Glass Dark
ly, ” needs an explanation, you are
probably thinking. Have you ever
noticed those ten beautiful stained
glass windows in the Moravian
Church t If you have not, go look
at them sometime before next Sun
day, for the service is to be a musi
cal and scriptural interpretation of
the life of Jesus as it is depicted by
those windows.
There will be no Vesper service
here at the college next Sunday night
for fear of keeping away some who
might otherwise plan to go to the
service at the church.
Remember that this first Vesper
meeting is to be held next Sunday at
5:00 p. m., in the Home Moravian
Church just up the block from Main
Ha.l.
ALL IN FUN
A college student is like a kero
sene lamp: he is not very bright,
smokes, usually turned down and oft
en goes out at night.
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He: “I shot it in India. It was
a case of the tiger or me.”
She: “Well, the tiger certainly
makes a better rug.”
‘ ‘ Is my face dirty or is it my
imagination?”
“Your face is clean; I can’t tell
about your imagination.”
WORKING FOR AND
WITH OTHERS
When a girl finds that she is not
the only pebble on the beach she be
comes a litlte bolder.
A very interesting and inspira
tional article was written recently
by Elgie 0. Purvis, Dean of Strayer
College, Washington, D. C. His sub
ject was “Working For and With
Others. ’ ’
He says that getting along with
others is one of the outstanding
marks of an educated person. The
following rules for getting along with
people were given;
“Watch carefully the actions and
attitudes of the other persons in re
sponse to what you say.
“Do not act as if you were im
portant or superior to other people.
“Study yourself. Compare your
self fairly and honestly with others.
“You will make more friends by
getting yourself genuinely interested
in other people than by deliberately
trying to impress and interest other
people in you.”
In concluding the article he gave
the following test. The answer to
each question is yes. Reflect care-
fclly and decide whether or not you
can truthfully an.swer “yes,” Here
is the Test:
1. Do you always greet other peo
ple cordially?
2. Are you usually cheerful?
3. Do you avoid making fun of
people to their faces or behind
their backs?
4. Do you overestimate rather than
discount the importance of oth
er persons’ viewpoint?
5. Do you keep your personal trou
bles to yourself?
6. Do you refrain from grumbling
about things that you cannot
change?
7. Do you go out of your way
cheerfully to help others?
8. Do you refrain from bossing
people not employed by you?
9. Are you careful not to exagger
ate?
10. Do you refrain from showing off
how much you know?
11. Do you keep out of arguments?
12. Do you refrain from talking al
most conitnuously?
13. Do you keep your clothes and
person neat, clean and tidy?
14. Do you generally keep control
of your temper?
15. Do you keep your nose entirely
out of other people’s business?
Bending above the spicy woods which blaze.
Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun
Immeasurably far; the waters ran
Too slow, so freighted are the river ways
With gold of elm and birches from the maze
Of forests.
—Helen Hunt: “October”
OLD MANUSCRIPT
The sky
Is that beautiful old parchment
In which the sun
And the moon
Keep their diary,
To read it all.
One must be a linguist
More learned than Father Wisdom;
And a visionary
More clairvoyant than Mother Dream.
But to feel it.
One must be an Apostle:
One who is more than intimate
In having been alway.
The only confidant —
Like the earth
Or the Sky.
—Alfred Kreymborg.
I WOOD SONG I
I I heard a wood thrush in the dusk |
I Twirl three notes and make a star: 1
I My heart that walked with bitterness |
a Came back from very far. 1
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I Three shining notes were all he had, |
I And yet they made a starry call: |
I I caught life back against my breast |
S And kissed it, scars and all. I
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I —Sara Teasdale. |
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SAFE DRIVING HOURS
Why Accidents Happen
The safest hour of the week to ride
is between 6 and 7 o’clock on Tues
day morning. The most dangerous
is between 5 and 6 on Sunday after
noon.
Contrary to popular belief, most
accidents happen in broad daylight,
in clear weather, on dry roads. If
by chance the driver is between 20
and 30 years old, there is an 81 per
cent greater chance of an accident
than if he is between 40 and 50.
Such surprising and practically un
known facts were recently unearthed
by insurance statisticians.
Actual mechanical failure of the
cars caused only 53,330 of the 1,281,
400 accident cases stuided. The list
of defects contributing to the ac
cident toll were: defective brakes,
lack of skid chains on slippery roads,
blowouts and punctures, one or both
headlights out, defective steering
gear, glaring headlights, no tail
lights.
A car pushed from a 10-story win
dow hits the ground with the same
force that’a car going 60 miles per
hour strikes an object. Incidentally,
researches have proven that travel
ing a mile a minute is three times
as expensive as motoring along at
the merrie clip of 45 miles per hour.
From Junior Collegian.
FIRST WEEK
MEMORIES
Messed up schedules, conflicts, re-
exams, bare rooms, wet paint, new
ness wearing off the radiators and
fre.shmen — thank Heaven the first
week of school is over! .
Can’t you still hear voices fairly
screaming at you: “Is Miss Marks
hard? Are Mrs. Higgins’ labs any
easier than Mr. Campbell’s? Will
Miss Lawrence let me have a date
tonight? Oh I just adore Dr. Rond-
thaler! or “Somebody gimmie a
tack,” etc. And can’t you still feel
the drum drumming of hammers (at
least that’s better’n knock, knock
ing); the banging of trunks, the
loud squeaks of old friends meeting;
and do you have nightmares about
electricians, plumbers and what not,
roaming around the dorm?
All such confujsion is over now but
it still lingers on in our minds but
are we really glad the first week is
over? Gosh no!
SOPHOMORE COURT
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manded — bow and repeat a jingle
everytime a sophomore appeared,
carry candy foj their superiors, and
dress autrociously in pinned-up
skirts, shirts, jewelry, stocking tops,
tennis shoes and stockings, and a
prison number around their necks.
A few heartless sophomores made
about twenty freshmen put out a fire
in a fire-place with water brought in
their mouths down two flights of
steps. At dinner, the freshmen ate
:i very meager meal with their
knives, even though we did have
green peas and fruit cup.
The Reign of Terror by the Sopho
more Court is now over. The fresh
men can begin thinking of new tor-
ture-methods for next year’s crop.
ANNABELLE’S
ANSWERS
By RAY THOMPSON
DEAR ANNABELLE: CAN YOU
TELL US WHY THE MODERN
WEDDING RING IS SO MUCH
THINNER THAN WAS OUR
GRANDMOTHERS? BEE.
Dear Bee: SURE! IN GRAND
MA’S DAY THEY WESE
MADE TO LAST A LIFE
TIME!
ANNABELLE.