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THE SALEMITE
Friday, March 19, 1937.
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CHALLENGE
those in authority to give serious thought to the question of
our smoking privileges. We fully realize what a forward step
was the movement several years ago to give Salem its Green
Room but now even more liberalism might be desirable.
Why is the Green Room open for such a short period
each day? Why can't it remain open from 7:30 each morning
until 10 at night as a place of relaxation? Salemites should,
by now, be able to budget their “play-time” and study hours
to balance correctly. College girls are old enough to realize
that too much time spent on one thing weakens something
else; and if they have not j;et made themselves recognize this
fact, restricted smoking hours will not prevent their w-aste of
time. The drug stores and bull sessions here at school and
numerous entertainments outside offer endless ways of wasting
time when smoking is not permissible.
Moreover, if girls are allowed to smoke at certain times
during the day, why shouldn't smoking be an all-day privilege?
[f the Green Room were open throughout the day, the unman
nerly rush to leave the table after meals would be eliminated.
If girls could smoke in their free time during any hour, they
would not be so anxious to make use of every second of the
now-allotted 30 minutes after each meal. Furthermore during
Green Room hours girls frequently smoke cigarette after ciga
rette to make up for the closed hours. Such excess is far more
harmful than moderate smoking at separate times. After each
smoking period the Green Room ash-trays are filled to overflow
ing, but it is probable that there would be very few more butts
after a whole day of “open-house” than after the 3 periods.
Of course at first a few girls would spend more time in the
Green Room than they do at present; but gradually their newly-
gained freedom would lose its fascination, and perhaps they
ivould spend even less than the one and one-half hours there
that they now spend, for human desire is to do what we are
forbid to do.
Can this suggestion be considered now? Or must this
progressive step come later? For come it must — and will —
eventually! Why not now?
THIS COLLEGIAE
WORLD
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
What University of Texas students
thought was going to be a “pipe”
examination turned out to be a vio
iously circling boomerang.
“Fellows,” announced the instruc
tor, “I’m just as tired of these darn
exams as you are so I’ve decided to
give you an easy one today, .fust
one question, in fact. ’ ’
Everybody in the class did a series
of simple mathematical calculations
and arrived at the sum of 100 for
the answer.
“Just a minute,” said the instruc
tor, ' ‘ I forgot something. Recall the
number of times you were absent
from this class, multiply that by two
and subtract it from the answer on
the problem.
The “A” grades that students
had visioned slid down the alpha
betical scale and even a few “F’s”
blemished the instructor’s record
book.
Men are more curious than women,
insist co-eds in the Zeta Tau Alpha
sorority of Northwestern University.
Here’s how they proved it:
They painted a barrel, labelled it
“DANGER,” and placed it on the
campus. For one hour hidden Zetas
kept tab, counting 106 men and 24
women who stepped off the sidewalk
to peer inside.
Which, protest the males, proves
nothing except that 106 men and
24 women passe dthe barrel during
the test-hour.
Even scholastically bum college
students make poor hoboes. This an
nouncement comes straight from the
Dean — the Dean of American Ho
boes, one Dan O’Brien.
“Fifty years of hoboing have con
vinced me that students from col
leges furnish poor material for ho
boes. Hoboes come from boys —
and hoboettes from girls, from a
status that does not allow or privil
ege them a college training — except
that of Hobo College,” writes
O ’Brien.
‘As Dean of the Hobo College of
America, I am aware that to become
and remain a hobo one has to have
these superior qualities: first, cour
age; second, a desire to travel, see
things and learn, and, last, a strong
constitution and tremendous power
of adjustment and adaptability as
well as a love for freedom and beau
ty,” adds Dr. O’Brien.
‘The official college trains stu
dents to fit themselves into a busi
ness world. Take them out of that
environment and you have perfect
fools, but the Hobo College teaches
its students the nobler art of hobo
ing — how to cope with life.
Dispairing even more of co-eds,
Dean O’Brien says “they are hope
less material. Now you take regular
hoboettes, they get more wisdom in
one year than they possibly could
have gotten from a college training
or being locked up in the Congres
sional library for four years.”
The University of Minnesota’s
“barefoot girl,” Ingrid Larson, had
to take off her shoes again. Having
to forgo a lifelong habit of “bare-
footing it,” acquired while living in
Hawaii, she wore shoes until recent
ly when an ulcer, caused by leather-
rubbing, developed on her foot.
If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,
You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain.
Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright
Ascends in smoke and fire by day and night
The hate you died to quench and could but fan
Sleep well and see no morning, son of man.
But if, the grave rent and the stone rolled by.
At the right hand'of Majesty on high
You sit and sitting so remember yet
Your tears, your agony and bloody sweat.
Your cross and passion and the life you gave.
Bow hither out of heaven and see and save.
A. E. Housman.
PRELUDE
(An Excerpt)
Jesus, upon a hill in Kent
(like to the one where You were crucified
when the sad earth heard the so lour lament)
there was a place all dyed
with dogrose white and pink,
as if your head had rested there in sleep,
and all that beauty marked the spot,
beauty so old and deep,
I love to think
(as Mary’s pillow’s scent of bergamot
w'ould have told where her babe and she had lain
years two-and-thirty left till You are slain)—
Jesus, I love to think
That dogrose white and pink
(years five-and-thirty carried in my brain)
do mark the spot for mouse
spider and snail with house
rabbit, and weasel, stoat,
hidden by barley, oat;
hare that has lightly stept
close where you lay and slept;—
do make the spot for frog,
sheep and the shepherd’s dog;
robin with whistle note,
and all the hedge — adept
sparrow, and finch, and thrush,
mid old-man’s-beard and slow;
they knowing the dog-rose bush
bloomed earlier than your woe;
and magpie, nightingale
“from high Cephissran vale;”—
I think it may be so
but for no man they mark,
Those lovely petals do
the love that from the dark
rose from the sleep of You.
—J. A. Chapman.
THE COLLEGIATE
REVIEW
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Any kind of lice one would shun
can be found in the “lousiest place
in the world^” the museum of nat
ural history at Stanford University,
which houses the 220 different species
in the collection of Gordon Ferris,
associate professor of biology.
Ezra Wilson, Greenfield, Ind., sil
versmith, is still operating an auto
mobile he built in 1910. Unmarried,
Wilson has never allowed a woman to
ride in it.
More than 200 foreign students
are enrolled at Harvard University
this year.
Inspired by P. G. Wodehouse, stu
dents at Nazareth College have or-
ganijied a Goon Club, which has
adopted this slogan: A pun a day
keeps your enemies away.”
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
speak at Northwestern State Teach
ers’ College, Alva, Oklahoma, on
March 12, the dedication day of
Dunn hall, a new campus building.
Believing that he still has some-
thing to learn about singing. Jack
Fulton, radio’s romantic tenor, has
enrolled for courses in De Paul Uni
versity ’s college of drama and music.
In working for his education,
Henry George Dihlmann, a Massa
chusetts State College student, has
been a bell- hop, a truck driver,
butcher, farmhand and postoffice
helper. Now he has been elected
selectman of Schutesbury and is con
tinuing his schooling.
Regents at the University of Oma
ha voted in favor of a new dormitory
which will cost $600,000.
A six-year old German police dog,
“Monty,” attends the hygiene class
es of his master. Dr. Frank Castle-
man of Ohio State University.
Campus politics at the University
of Illinois went “professional” re
cently when seniors used a voting
machine to count ballots in the elec
tion of class officers.
A course in amateur telescope-
making, the first of its kind in the
country, is being offered by the divi
sion of general education at Now
York University.
Because other people give her a
hand, Roslyn Alcalay, arts college
sophomore at the University of Min
nesota, has few financial difficulties.
She earns her living by reading
palms in one of the local hotels.