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Page Two. THE SALE MITE Friday, October 9, 1936. Published Weekly By The Student Body of y., Salem College Member Southern Inter-CoUegiate Press Association SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : : $2.00 a Year : : 10c a Copy BDlTOlttAIi STAFF Editor-In-Chief Sara Ingram. Associate Editors:— Mary Louise Haywood Katherine Sissell Music Editor - Laura Bland Sports IBditOr Cramer Percival Feature Editor Julia Preston Louifle Freeman Josephine Klutz Mary Leo Salldy Peggy Brawley Eloise Sam^e Peggy Warren Mftry Worihy- Speiise Annil Wray Fogle REP0ETEE8: Virginia Foy Alice Horafleld Florence Joyner Julia Preston Helen McArthur Helen Totten Maud Battle Mary Thomas BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Virginia Council Advertising Manager Edith McLean Exchange Manager - Pauline Daniel Assistant Exchange Manager — Bill Fulton ADVERTISING STAFF Sara Sherwood Dorothy BftUghm Frankie Meadows David Land Peggy Bort-en Felivia Martin Virginia Bruce Davis Circulation Manager - Helen Smith Assistant Circulation itaiiager - John Fulton Assistant )it'6ttlation Manager - Virginia. Piper National Advertising Representatives NATIONAI. ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York Oity 1Q36 Member f^socided GoUediote Press Distributors of GoUegicite Di6e4 GRUMBUNG In the “Salemlte” fot October 2, 1936, was a list of ques tions with which One coUld test his ability to make friends. Question No. 6 was as follows: Do you refrain from grumbling about things that you cannot change? There is only one thing worse than grumbling, and that is the grumbler. No one wants to seek out a person who is con tinually finding fault with his teachers because an assignment is long, or a test hard, or Bome other such petty cause. Grumb ling and muttering: about it will only wear you out — and all the people who have to listen to it, as well. Grumbling, as Is gossiping and lying, is chiefly habit. It is not hard to form the habit of grumbling about every as signment — a habit that grows and grows, and becomes in creasingly difficult to break. This habit becomes a distinct part of your personality. You are not conscious of being un pleasant, or of saying unpleasant things. The best way to break such a habit is to build up an other habit to take its place!. When an assignment is hard and long, force yourself to become interested in it. Say nothing rather than something unpleasant, for you will find that there is ho place in this world for a grumbler. CHAPEL We all realize that we have an exceptionally attractive freshman class this year, but why do so many of you Sopho mores and juniors insist upon bringing up the rear of its line every morning in chapel, thus appearing as a “perpetual fresh man”? There has not been a mOrning this year that a fw dis tracted upper-classrtien have not dashed madly into the audi torium just in tihie to tag along after the last row of fresh men. What’S the matter, gilrs? Don’t you love your own class, or is it that yOU have never tried marching in with your respective class-mates^ It’s great sport, so why not try it to morrow morning. Instead of waiting until the last bell before you go to the P. 0. for your daily epistle, tear yourself away from the breakfast table or the Green Room a little earlier so that you may be on hand to line up for chapel. An orderly line will really be appreciated by both the speaker and the student body. CAMPUS CARAVAN Three Vassar students savj- the Spanish tinder box, burst into fliinie. Two escaped by piano to open pottd, describe the tragic drama iil by-lines recalling the at>ecta«ular t>lay, “Idiot’s belight-" At Harvard’s tercentenary a cen tury slipped by as the college flag, sealed at the close of the tvro hun dredth anniversary, was raised, broke out in the fresh 1936 breeze. Influenced by low co-St housing propaganda, dramatic presentation of the trailer boom in March of Time’s filmed release, students at the University of North Carilina and Missouri’s Northeast Teachers have built wheeled 16 by 8 dormitories, proudly Jjoittt to increased utility and privacy. Reports of NYA projects from Wa bash College feature the whitewash ing of the gym. The whitewashing is admittedly non-political. —N8PA. DO 1 REALLY LOOK LIKE THAT? Being photographed, like making a speech, is an ordeal that comes to everybody at some time during his life. It is something one must ac cept resignedly and try to take calm ly. The nicest thing about the whole business is that one can never tell exactly how bad the proofs will be, and it is barely possible that some one, somewhere, some day w-ill take a good, i. e. extremely flattering, picture of one. This hope buoys up many to go through a fifteen min utes that they will regret the rest of their lives. Oh, yes, someone in the family will be sure to say, "That’s a very sweet picture. Tell the man you’ll take six like this one,” indi cating the one with the seasick grin. That means that she will meet her self smirking around the homes of all her relatives from then on. Bad pictures never die. When you are about to be photo graphed, you are first taken aside and “draped.” No, that doesn’t mean that you are prepared for burial. You have a piece of velvet put around your shoulders in such a way that it feels as though it will come sliding ofE at any moment. That makes you feel quite at ease, of course. You are then taken, seated on a very straight and hard bench, told to sit up straight and to put your hands in your lap. If you spend much of your time sitting up very straight on a hard, backless piano stool with blinding lights close to your face, you probably feel very natural and not at all self-conscious; otherwise, — well look at your last proofs. Then a little man, who is either extremely talkative, with an endless supply of slightly shopworn jokes, or else very silent, comes up eyeing you critically, much as a hen examines a piece of corn. He ar ranges you as if he were laying out a corpse; when you are “fixed” to the last fingernail, he steps back and moves his lights around for an in terminable time. Then he puts his head under the black cloth and takes it out three or four times. When he is at last ready, you have been smil ing shamelessly at him for a least five minutes. The picture is taken and the performance is repeated num berless times until you have been photographed to his satisfaction. Finally you stumble out, a dazed and nerveless shadow of your former self. But the real shock comes a few weeks later. You are handed what are known as “proofs.” They are indeed that — proofs that your friends and your mirror are hopeless liars. For the next month or so you have a pronounced inferiority com plex and a disposition to look rather sceptical when given any sort of compliment. Time and hope heal many wounds, however, and there will be other pictures made. The ridiculous thing about it is, that you pay for it! CO-OPERATIVES INTEREST GROWS IN COIXEGES New Yory (NSFA)—The National Committee on Student Co-operatives, reports 159 college co-operatives with 40,000 students doing a business of between two and three million dol lars annually. Coperative living cen ters have been founded at the Uni versities of Oregon and Southern California. Thia growing interest on the campus parallels the examination of the co-operative movement which the Federal Government is making, which resulted in the sending of a commission to the Scandinavian countries for the study of the great movements in them. Individual in terest in co-operatives was rewarded at De Pauw University when Paul Turner received the Walker Cup, symbolic honor presented the year’s outstanding senior for the organiza tion of a medical co-operative in Economy, Indiana, Turner’s home town. Meanwhile, the I’enth Bien nial Congress of the Co-operative League will hold a special sessian oii college co-operatives under the lead ership of William Moore, Chairman of the National Committee on Stu dent Co-operatives. Many college co-operative leaders ate expected to attend. IPCIEiriCy C0KNIEC DREGS The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof, (This is the end of every song man sings!) The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain, Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain; And health and hope have gone the way of love Into the drear oblivion of lost things. Ghosts go along with us until the end; This was a mistress, this, perhaps a friend. With pale, indifferent eyes, we sit and wait For the dropt curtain and the closing gate; This is the end of all the songs man sings. —Ernest Dowson. # * # * AT DAWN She only knew the birth and death Of days when each that died Was still at morn a hope, at night A hope unsatisfied. The dark trees shivered to behold Another day begin; She, being hopeless, did not weep As the grey dawn came in. —Arthur Symons. # * * « NEW AND OLD For what is old you nothing care — “Antiques,” you say, but leave you cold; And yet the sun that gilds your hair Is more than many aeons old. The very song I hear you sing Is little but a variation Of some foregone primaeval thing — Some early mortal inspiration! Ah, never say you hate the old, It always hides the new within it; ’Twill last until the stars are cold, The other only stays a minute! —Henry Austin Dobson. * * * * I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell; And by and by my Soul returned to me. And answered “I myself am Heaven and Hell:” Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled desire, And Hell the shadow from a soul on fire'. Cast on the Darkness into which ourselves. So late emerged from, shall so soon expire. —Prom the Rubaiyat. NATIONAL STUDENT MIRROR FEATURES POLITICS New York, N. Y. (NSFA)—Fea turing interviews and statements from President Roosevelt and Gov ernor Landon, the October issue of the National Student Mirror is offer ed American undergraduates under the title ‘ ‘ A Primer for Democracy. ’ ’ In attempting to personify present political ideas, trends and organiza tions, the editors secured statements from the candidates for the presi dency on the place which they be lieve youth should take in modern political and economic society. In return, George Houston, Sec. Wallace, John L. Lewis, and fifteen other prominent men of many ideas, ideals and creeds have contributed succinct statements on the candidates themselves and the vital issues of the leection which they personify. Against these mani-colored view points are set the considered opin ions of leading political thinkers., Herbert Agar, A. A. Berle, Jr., and Charles W. Taussig, who examine the nature of the American experi ment and the place youth may hope to find within its framework. Again, Russell Hall, recent graduate, de scribes the growing and conflicting political attitudes and forms of po litical expression which are develop ing among college undergraduates themseU'es. Concrete analyses by trained rep- ortorial minds disclose certain speci fic phases of the government. Paul Yates examines the lobbies: Robert Horton the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection; Drew Pearson the effect of party contribu tions on government and its person nel; and Meigs Frost gives the back ground for the dtopping of the Louisiana tax investigations. Assist ant Secretary Sumner Welles ex plains the theory and actions of the State Department under the guid- THE WASTE-BASKET Two of the “three Musketeers” seem to be doing allright by that boast they made at the beginning of school, but what they want to for is more than we can see. Wliat was it that Meredith didn’t want Mouse to tell in the Green Room the other nite — any whyf Why does a certain Sophomore go off on a jaunt to Carolina every week end t Of course it is only a pro found interest in football. We wonder why a certain Junior doesn’t open a florist’s shop an sup ply all the men faculty with roses for their buttonholes. A number of our cute undergrad uates who are flashing sparkling rings, say they came to Salem to learn the facts of life before ventur ing upon the sea of matrimony. We all wonder why the telephone has been taken out of Lehman Hall. Why did a certain Freshman eut History Class the day after Sophe- more Court f Who wej-e the two cute Sophs, that got such lovely boquets of Zinas Sun day nite? They looked mighty much like home grown products. We wonder why the tub room is so popular after eleven-thirty this yeit. ance of, Mr. Hull and President Roosevelt. Believing that the material from these various sources carries its oWn message, the editors have offered a minimum of editorial comment. They believe the contents of the October “Mirror” will a valuable campaign document for American undeirgrad- uates throughout the country.
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