VOL. XVII.
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY 15. 1937.
Number 14.
MR. HOLDER SPEAKS
IN CHAPEL
Discusses Marriage Customs
of Old Salem
DEAN VARDELL’S COM
POSITION GIVEN IN
PROGRAM
Played By Philharmonic
OnJiestra
Mr. Edward Holder of the History
Department, spoke in chapel on
Thursday morning. He diseusscd the
marriage customs of old Salem. To
explain them interestingly and graph
ically he introduced two imaginary
eighteenth century characters, Lud
wig and Gertrude and told the follow
ing story:
‘ ‘ Now it so happens that Ludwig, as
he came out the right aisle of the
church at the daily morning and eve
ning services and all six of the Sun
day services has many times seen
Gertrude coming down the left aisle,
wearing her little white linen cap
with the pink ribbon that was pre
scribed for the single sisters’ choir.
And perhaps on first Sunday after-
moons when the young men walked
out the north road and the young
women walked out the south road, or
on second Sunday afternoons when
the young men walked out the south
road and young women walked out
the north road, Ludwig passed near
Gertrude on the square, starting or
returning. Or perhaps Ludwig de
livered a new baking-dish, or a pickle
jar, to the single sisters’ choir house,
or . . . but why should I try to ex-
)ilain when everyone knows how these
things happen? Ludwig has a bright
future in his pottery shop, and there
can be no objection on that score to
his proposal of marriage.
‘ ‘ Accordingly, Ludwig sends a re
quest to the Aeltesten Conferenz, the
Board of Elders, that they consider a
proposal of marriage to Sister Ger
trude. The Board of Elders disn-usses
the proposal, and finding no objection
to either person concerned, presents
the matter in que.stion to the Lord
in prayer and by the lot. (Here, just
a word in explanation of a practice
which is easily misunderstood: Tlie
lot was used only by the official
board for matters of irajwrtance. The
board worked as near a decision as
possible, and then, in all faith and
trust, submitted a specific question
to the lot. Three slips of paper were
prepared. An affirmative, on nega
tive, and one blank. The drawing of
a blank was followed by further con
sideration or by a reframing of the
question.) In this case the question
is stated; Shall Brother Ludwig’s
proposal be presented to Sister Ger
trude? For the sake of a story we’ll
assume the an.swer is affirmative;
whereupon .some designated member
of the board presents the matter to
Sister Gertrude, giving her as much
time as she wishes to consider. If
she refuses, the board informs Broth,
er Ludwig, and by way of consolation
suggest the name of some other el
igible young woman. But we will as
sume that Gertrude has not been en
tirely unconscious of the existence
of Ludwig up to this moment and
that she accepts the proposal. The
betrothal is announced in the con
gregation at a Sunday service and
the approaching marriage recom
mended to the prayers of the con
gregation. A week after the first an.
nouneement, a second is made and a
blessing invoked on the marriage.
Two days later, in a gathering of
the married members of the congre
gation only, the vows are read.
‘ ‘ This story has a trite, but nonethe
less a satisfying ending: They lived
happily ever afterward. That, from
all records, seems to be the literal
truth. There is no record of divorce
in the congregation; and the diaries,
which are full of human failings as
well as accomplishments, record very
few instances of domestic intran
quility. The lack of social contact
before marriage was perhaps counter
balanced by the excellent training in
forbearance, kindness, consideration,
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American Music was played by the
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
under the direction of Dr. Howard
Hanson from WJZ on Thursday, Jan
uary 14, 3:15 to 4:00 P. M. The pro
gram included:
Joe Clark Steps Out (American
Folk Dance) Vardell
Sinfonsietta McKay
Kaintuck Still
Selections from McGuffey’s Readers:
The One Hoss Shay; John Alden
and Priscilla; Midnight Ride of Paul
Revere—Phillips.
SCIENCE NEWS
The Physics class of the Atkins
High School visited the Weather
Station at the Science Department of
Salem College on Wednesday. This
class is making a tour of the out
standing industries of Winston-
Salem. The instructor in Physics,
Mr. Newell, accompanied the group.
Research Fellowship Offered
The J. T. Baker Chemical Company
realizes the fundamental and inestim.
able importance of analytical Chem
istry. The need for ‘ ‘ pure research ’ ’
in this field becomes more and more
evident in the ever-progressing field
of chemistry as a whole. The Baker
Company, in order to promote further
and more detailed study in this
branch of work, has established two
fellow-ships for one thousand dollars
each. The persons who use these fel
lowship must do the research in a
si>ecified territory. Another such fel
lowship has been originated in the
Mid-West and others are contem
plated.
Elxcerpts From “What the
Colleges Are Doing.”
Last Saturday the XTniversity of
Heidelberg began the celebration of
its five hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary. Dr. Bernhard Rust, Minister of
Science spoke to the University and
its visitors.
‘ ‘ The true freedom of t.cience is to
bo an organ of a nation’s living
strength and of its historic fate and
to present this in obedience to the
law of truth ...”
—(The Baltimore Sun).
THE JUNje FROLIC
Just in case you didn’t know, the
Junior Class is frolicking Saturday
night, and inviting the rest of the
school to attend. The place is the
recreatiijn room of Alice Clewell
Building, the time is from 8:30 to
11:30.
The officers of the Junior class,
with Miss Riggan, will receive in the
living room. They are !Margaret
Briggs, president, Mary Louise Mc-
Clung, vice-president; Dot Hutaff,
secretary, and Lelia Williams, treas
urer. Frances Alexander and Blev
ins Vogler will be at the door to
show the guests downstairs, where
Miss Grace Lawrence will be receiv
ing.
Punch will be served in the room
adjoining the recreation room, and
there will be a short intermission.
The committee on decoration: Vir
ginia Lee, Virginia Carter. Commit
tee on Invitations: Frances Apple,
Idaliza Dunn. Music: Jane Boren.
Refreshments: Martha O’Keefe. Pub
licity: Eloise Sample.
A FRENCH STUDENT
LOOKS AT AMERICA
Wc are told by Arthur E. Morgan
that Social progress comes by admit,
ting an objective, giving criticism,
and “craving for the truth and ex
cellence.” By these means astrology
has become astronomy, blood-letting
surgery and alchemy chemistry. He
says that if we apply it to other
fields we may change politics into
statesmanship, morality into ethics
and blind custom to purposeful con
duct.
—(Antioch Notes).
Since it is the privilege of young
people to deal with serious matters
frivolou.sly we find a group of stu
dents using this privilege. Satire is
a great part of literature and liter
ature is studied in colleges. The Vet
erans of Future Wars” have profit
ed by their sardonic literature and
decided to have a little clean fun
with current politics.
—Howard Alumni Bulletin).
New York, N. Y.—(ACP)—Jean
Pierre Le Mec, the 19- year-old
French student sent to the United
States by his government to make a
survey of social life in American
colleges, is convinced that college
life here would be ‘ ‘ too lovely for
French students.”
Le Mee expressed iiina/.ement that
American students have such a good
time. If the college life in the
United States were suddenly trans
planted to my country, he said, the
students there “wouldn’t tliink of
working.” As it is at present, life
for them is all “work, work, work.”
Lee Mee’s inspection tour began on
Sejitember 21. He first visited five
colleges on the West coast. En route
t() the East, he flrop]>ed in at the
University of Chicago. In the Bast he
visited Columbia University, New
York University, Temple University,
the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn
Mawr, Princeton, and Harvard.
In reference to the five football
games ho saw, Le Mee said: “At first
I thought they were all crazy play
ing such a game. All those boys ready
to kill each other and the man whist
ling all the time. The shouting and
the singing were the only things I
liked. But by the fifth time I began
to see how marvelous the game was
mathematically.”
He cited the differences he observ
ed in the universities of the West
and East coasts. “The students don’t
work very hard in the West. All they
could talk about was politics and
sports. Everything was parties —
singing parties, bridge parties, danc
ing parties, radio parties, and week
end parties. The University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles is very near
Hollywood, and all the girls there
seemed to think of going into the
movies instead of working.”
Lee Mec declared that the East was
different. He said that the girls at
Bryn Mawr didn’t ‘ ‘ shout ’ ’ and stu.
dents really worked. Columbia and
New York Universities held little in
terest for him because they were too
much like “What we have in Paris.”
They did not have the campus life
that seemed to be almost everywhere
else, he said.
Ho stated that students at French
universitieg live alone and seldom get
to know one another. In the United
States students even get to know
some of their professors, he remark
ed, something that is im])ossible in
France without the proper introduc
tion.
Le Mee, in his report to the French
ministry of education, is going to
recommend six American features for
adoption in French universities: play
ing fields, fraternities and clubs,
large dining rooms, good reproduc
tions of great works of art in col
lege buildings, and university thea
tres, magazines, and newspai>ers.
PSYCHOLOGY
CLUB MEETS
Interesting Films Shown
The Psychology Club held its
monthly meeting on Thursday eve
ning, January 7, in the Recreation
Room of Louisa Bitting Building.
Through the kindness of South High,
the Club was fortunate in securing
films for the showing of a five reel
production on “Overcoming Limita
tions to Learning.” The pictures
proved quite educational and helpful
in the line of teaching of sciences,
particularly the nccessitj’ of chem
istry in the making of modern ]>rod-
ucts and also botanical studies.
Committees were appointed for the
remainder of the school year.
The time and place for the next
meeting will be designated later.
MR. SNAVELY
RECEIVES LETTER
FROM MR. MORLEY
Mr. Snavely has received a letter
from Christopher Morlcy. The book
store sent ]\fr. Morley the photo
graphs taken while he was here,
autogra]>hed on the back by each girl
who bought a photograph.
The letter reads in part;
‘ ‘ Dear Mr. Snavely,
1 don’t know how to thank you and
your delicious clients for that charm
ing sur])rise. I am only sorry that
the photograjihs were not of the girls
themselves instead of the touring
Chimpanzee. At any rate, 1 am
grateful that the budget included so
agreeable a glimpse of Aliss Preston
and also of President Rondthaler
glimmering in the doorway.
I wish I knew .someway to convey
to you all how happy a memory 1
have of that too brief visit to Salem.
Please give them all my affectionate
greetings.
And my special homage to dear old
Mrs. Stevenson.
Cordially yours,
Christopher Morley.
MISS HERMANCE
SPEAKS AT Y.P.M.
Discusses Changes in Social
Work During Last
Five Years
AROUND WASHINGTON
By .Marvin Cox
(Associated Collegiate Press
Correspondent)
Washington, D. C. — When the
bugles blow and the bands strike tip
their marching songs at the beginning
of the Inaugural Parade, January 20,
the college youth of the land will be
represented in all of the ]>omp and
])Bgeantry of the occasioji. Uncle
Sam’s own colleges, the Military
Academy at West Point and the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, will
have brightly uniformed yoimg men
in the procession.
In other years, bearded veterans of
long ]>ast wars shared the parade
honors with gay young cadets from
many corps, but this year with the
Inauguration taking place on Jan
uary 20 instead of March 4, the old
order has changed in many -ways.
From the time George Washington
took the oath as Chief Executive of
the infant United States of America
up to this year, March 4 has been
thedate when the President was
sworn in, but the 21st Amendent has
changed the date of the President’s
term of office and the mid-winter
weather is changing the traditional
Parade.
Instead of the long parade *f other
years which took hours to pass by the
Capitol, this year there -will be a com
paratively short procession with sol.
diers and sailors from nearby army
posts and naval stations making up
the bulk of the marchers. The
theory is that January weather will
not permit marchers to brave the
elements as thy did when the cere
monies were held on March 4. But
the cadets from West Point and the
midshipmen from Annapolis will
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Miss Helena Hernmnce, director
of the Winston-Salem Associated
Charities, spoke on Wednesday morn
ing, January 13, 1937, at Y. P. M.
Miss Hermance stated that conditions
in Winston-Salem were representa
tive of conditions throughout the
United States, and to understand
these conditions, it is necessary to
know of the changes which have re
cently taken place.
In 1932, Miss Hermance stated, the
County Welfare Department and the
.\ssociated Charities were support
ed by public funds. Later, in that
year, a change was made, the first of
many which were to take place in the
ensuing years, and these two organi
zations were supported by the gov
ernment.
In 1933, (he Associated Charities
became the City Relief Commission,
and the fir.st Work Relief Program
in Winston-Salem was started. This
embodied a plan by which men who
wanted and needed work could work
for one dollar per da\’. Tn Novem
ber, 1933, the Citv Uelief Commission
bocnme the Civil Works .Vdniinistr.T-
tioM, and the employees tx'came em
ployees of the I’nited States Govern,
ment. Under the ('. \V. A., projects
wero st.nrted, but the dlsolving of the
C. W. A. forced mai\y people out of
work “However,” Miss Hermance
said, “people who worked under the
(’. W. A. felt that they had had a
real job. ’ ’
The E. R. A. Emergency Uelief .\d-
ministration took the place of the
W. A. The E. R, gave relief
under-two divisions: direct relief and
work relief.
Tn 1935 the Works Progress Admin
istration was organized, and in that
same year, the Associateil Charities
wero re-organized to caro for local
l>eo])le who were not able to work.
Under this plan, relief work in Win
ston-Salem is continuing.
There are at present, Miss Herm
ance said, eight organizations in Win
ston-Salem whicli are connected with
relief work: The Associated Chair-
ties. The County Welfare Depart
ment, The City Welfare Department,
The Good Will Industries, The Trav
eler’s Aid, The Red Cross, The Sal
vation Army, and the Social Service
Exchange.
Miss Hermanco brought out the
point Social Service Work carries
with it much responsibility. The
worker must answer every request
aiul must try to solve unhappy situa
tions. The average amount given by
the relief organizations per family
per nioTith is |1>.00 or $4.61, per per
son which is supposed to cover all
ex])enditures. The goal of a social
worker is to help the persons who
come for help as they have failed to
become self maintaining persons in
their communities. It is necessary to
find the cause of the social break
down to eliminate this cause, and to
help each individual family readjust
itself to its new circumstances, “This
work, ’ ’ said Miss Hermanco, ‘ ‘ is the
most lasting work a social worker
can do for society.”
HISTORY CLUB MEETS
Miss Gladys Moore of Reynolds
High School History Department
spoke to the History Club Thursday
afternoon on the Monroe Doctrine.
She made a very interesting and in
structive talk, which was greatly en
joyed by all the members.
After a short business session re
freshments of tea, sandwiches and
cakes were serred.
The meeting was held at 5 o’clock
in the Recreation Room of Louisa
Bitting Building.