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THE SALEMITE
Friday, April i6. 1937.
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“AW, GO TAKE
A WALK”
Yeaht Well, that’s just what we’re growling about; we
can’t. We’re not allowed to!
That is the fate — and a needless one — of Salem girls
on Sunday afternoons. We really aren’t allowed to walk —
not even on our own front campus! Why not? If we could
think of a plausible reason, we might be willing to comply with
this regulation; but we can find arguments only against this
prohibition of a harmless recreation.
Sunday afternoons are filled with long unoccupied hours.
The studying that we should do demands periods of relaxation,
and a nap is enervating rather than stimulating. But when we
want to walk for a change in thoughts and surroundings, we
must turn to our back campus that we now know backward and
forward and upside down. And there our desire for diversion
must be gratified or destroyed.
Every evening after supper there is this same situation.
With lovely spring twilights, why can’t we walk until 7 o’clock
off campus before we begin to study? No one likes to leave a
meal and go immediately to work, but what is there to do
when walking is prohibited? Are we prisoners? then what
is our crime?
Salem girls are expected to know how to conduct them
selves in public; wouldn’t this be a good test Let’s try it to
see how it works. What are the objections or complaints?
Instead of going out to re-walk Back Campus, we stay
in our rooms reading trashy magazines to break the study
monotony. Is that beneficial? No, it certainly is far less so
than a walk outside. Fresh and different surroundings pro
duce fresh and different thoughts. Wholesome exiertion of
energy leads us to a willingness for later concentration on
studies.
But Salem “toddlers” are not allowed to cross a street
on Sunday afternoons or in the evenings!
Anyway you look at it, a blind
date is in the same category as drill
ing for oil or digging for gold. There
is always the possibility that you
might meet the man you thought
could not possibly exist. On the
other hand your date may turn out
to be an awful washout. However,
if you are out to widen your social
horizon, by all means take a chance.
When the zero hour comes and you
come boiling down the stairs, hoping
for the best but not really expecting
it, is might be well to remember that
your blind date is in all probability
just as skeptical about you as you
are about him. So just in case he
turns out to be somebody quite su
perlative, you had better be look
ing your best and wearing your most
enchanting smile.
As for the evening’s program, un
less it has been decided upon in ad
vance try to stall for time until you
have had an poportunitv to size him
up. If your intuition tells you ri^ht
off he is going to be an awful bore,
suggest the movies. At least you
may be able to enjoy the show.
But if the miracle happens and you
like him on sight, then of course you
will want him to like you. In that
case a setting where your acquain
tance can proceed apace will have its
advantages. Unless he gives you a
lead don’t sucsrest the most expen
sive place in town. If it so happens
that he steers vou into a sandwich
bar for a hamburger, then be en
thusiastic about hamburgers. And
don’t make the mistake of giving
him details about the perfectiv mar
velous chicken a-la-king you had
when you were out with Mr. soand-
90 a few niirhts before.
If ia is a double date vou’re on,
don’t srtend your time talking to
your ffirl friend and her date. De
vote your attention to yours — en-
coiirae'e him to tell you about his
wf'f'knPRS for horse racing, Marlene
DietHch and chow mein.
And if vou TPalV want, to make
an iTnnrfiosion. don’t indulffe in any
of those thnnwhtlpss I'ttle habits that
defent a rrirl’s charm the first time,
such as: the strangle hold while
dancinff. It not onlv ruins your ap
pearance, but if she drapes a heavy
left arm over his rierht shoulder, it
certainly wrecks the illusion. Don’t
make a wise-cracking reply to some-
thin» he has said in all seriousness,
and don’t start humming a popular
son? when there is a break in the
conversation. He mipht suspect
you’re thinking about someone else.
If your blind date turns out to be
very attractive, then of course you
will want to see him again. You can
sav quite franklv and unaffectedly
that you enjoyed the evening, in
fact, that is only courteous. But if a
couple of weeks go by and you hear
nothing from him, don’t leap to the
telephone to call him up. Better
let the whole thing drop. Ton
gambled on a blind date and lost—
let it go at that.
CO-OP TRAINING
COURSES ARE
ANNOUNCED
Summer courses for training in the
management of co-operatives were
announced this week by the Co-op
erative League of the United States.
Six out of the ten men who took the
courses last year are now employed
as managers of co-operative units in
retail or wholesale business through
out the country. Included on the
faculty this year are Anthony Leh-
ner, of the Indaina Farm Bureau,
Horace Kalian, Professor of Philoso
phy at the New School for Social Re
search, and Jay B. Nash, Chairman
of the Department of Physical Edu
cation at New York University. The
cost of the courses, which last from
July 3rd to August 29th, is only
$120. This includes room and board,
as well as tuition. For further in
formation write to the NSFA Office,
8 West 40th Street, New York, N. Y.
AY ICAND0M
APRIL THE SHULAMITE
Intense and timid, April stammers her story
Again, as last year; she, the Shulamite,
Stuttering of turtles and the brutal glory
Of lust and the brilliant idom of light;
Blurting out breathless news of flood and flowers,
Shambles of pain and starry incidents
Under a stone still steaming with sweet showers,
And doves that gurgle golden indolence.
She is the same as when that beautiful Jew,
Whose Song shook like a god in mortal fever.
Of David’s vineyard where the blue grapes shiver;
She is the same as when that Song was new;
That Song will be the same forever and ever.
—Joseph Auslander.
# * « •
SPRING HAS COLD HANDS
Always the restless young whose eyes are hot
Pluck at the heels of Winter and plague his ears
With questions about Spring, as like as not,
And then when April wistfully appears
From nowhere, out of breath, a hunted thing,
Still wet with snow, and quite the worse for mud.
The young cry out, “Can we believe this Spring
Whose cold hands break our hearts and freeze our
blood?”
Only the old who dream the Song of Songs
By a slow blaze at night, and all alone;
Only the old whom every weather wrongs.
Who soon will sleep, and softly, under stone:
These only with old eyes can see, can feel
The faint wing fumbling at the muddy heel.
—Joseph Auslander.
COME ON, GLANCE UP
ful after all while away you flew to May Frolic,
then that this old world is really big and beauti-
gay new bonnet with daisies on it. You decided
your hair, don your prettiest smile and your
just as a life saver to make you flufiF up
tion for a glorious week-end that came
for spite. Then you found an invita-
thought you’d go raving mad just
same old faces staring until you
feeling, nowhere to go and the
tests, and a stifled let-down
piles of notes and pesky
and loads of work,
with spring fever
and out of heart
in the dumps
felt all down
you ever
Have
CATHOLIC STUDENT
PEACE CONCLAVE
HAILS DEMOCRACY
It is all right to fly high b#t re
member some day you must come
down to earth.
New Haven, Ninety delegates
from twenty colleges, universities,
academies, councils of Catholic wom
en and other organizations were rep
resented at the first regional confer
ence of the New England Student
Federation of the Catholic Associa
tion for International Peace. Strong
controverted issue was the danger
dictatorship brings to world security.
After argument, the following resolu
tion was passed:
“Resolved, That this conference
agrees t osupport democracy in the
United States and to do all in its
power to offset opposing trends in
the United States.”
Significant keynote was sounded
by Professor Charles G. Fenwick,
president of the Catholic Association
for International Peace and a dele
gate to the recent Pan-AJtnerican
Conference jit Buenos Aires: “We
have reached the point in world his
tory when we cannot reach a truce
with war. We are faced with some
thing that will wreck the world if
culminated. I can see no neutrality.
The job of the Catholic Peace Fed
eration is to make our good will ef
fective. ”