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LIB?^ARY
VX. XVII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937.
Number 28.
WORLD TRAVELER
PRESENTS LECTURE
Mr. Julien Bryan, unusual com
bination of traveler and photogra
pher, visited ]jSaIem.’s campnis on
Wednesday and Thursday of this
■week. In the first day of his visit
he played tennis, went to a tea at
the Academy, and visited the psy
chology class. All of us were not
invited to these affairs, but we could
meet him through his pictures and
his address in the evening.
Mr. Bryan showed us human Rus
sia in his group of pictures known as
“Russia Beborn.” He had snapped
the real everyday life of Russia in
an interesting and appealing manner.
With his personal accompanying com
ments he made us realize that Rus
sians are people with much the same
interests as ours. Their work and
play is very similar to ours; they
are not strange creatures who live
like machines until the starve. Be
cause of false publicity and anti
quated, prejudiced ideas we had a
warped impression of Russia and its
people; but Mr. Bryan led us to
question our old ideas and to begin
to discard them. We saw Russian
babies in a modern nursery, an ex
periment with children in their opera
tion of a railway line, a present-day
factory and grain field, a marionette
show and several folk dances, the
production of a Russian movie, a
crowd at the beach, and the castles
of the ancient nobility. According
to Mr. Bryan’s reports Russia re
sembles America far more than oth
ers of the well-known European
countries. Russia is really no more
communistic than we, except that
there is not the great class distinc
tion there that we have; there the
richest people are the intelligent
people who have their money and
prestige by actual work or ability.
The rare delight found in Mr.
Bryan’s informative presence here
with us has awakened in us a far
greater interest in Russia than we
have had before. By his natural
style he has created here a desire for
more knowledge about modern Rus
sia. He has skilfully given us the
things about that country that we
would really like to know — not
philosophic facts, but the human
details that appeal to our real in
terest. How soon can he come back!
A SALEMITE HAS TEA
WITH MR. JULIEN BRYAN
“Late to his own party! ” I mur
mured, exasperated, while waiting
for Julien Bryan to arrive at the
tea given at the Academy Tuesday
afternoon in his honor. We stood
about rather ill at ease, pawing the
ground first with one foot and then
with the other, until Dr. Anscombe
after the manner of a court page an
nounced “Put on your best blushes,
girls! He’s coming!”
He came—w^earing a brown check
ed suit and a red neck-tie, ducking
his head just a little when he walked.
I was glad he did not apologize for
being late — all of us knew he had
been playing tenuis. Suddenly he
looked at us as we stood in a circle
about him and grinned:
“If you weren’t so dressed up we
could sit down.”
“Oh, we’re not a bit dressed up,”
we said; and we sat down on the
ground, regardless of our best dress
es (we really were dressed up) and
white gloves. He talked about -war,
about Russia, about Hearst papers;
and he was so interested in these
things that all of us who were listen
ing could not help being interested
in them, too.
In a few minutes people were leav
ing. Fearing to miss a word, we
stumbled away backward, watching
him as long as we could.
College Calendar
May 16'ZZ
May 16—3:00
Wliit Sunday love feast, Home
Moravian Church.
May 18—4:00
A. A. U. W. entertaining Senior
class at tea.
8:00 P.M.
Civic Lecture Course, Greensboro,
Edward W. Weeks.
May 19—1:00 P. M.
All town Seniors for lunch in
College dininor room.
1:30 P. M.
Special Senior meeting in
Preident’s house.
May 21—5:00
All members of College Faculty in
vited to Arden Farni for supper.
May 32—3:00
Recital for Junior music pupils
Memorial Hall.
SPORT SLANTS
KATHERINE JANE HANES
CLUB HOLDS MEETING
WEDNESDAY
Wednesday night, May 5, the
Katherine Jane Hanes Club held a
meeting at seven in the Home man
agement House. There was a large
number present.
The President Layle Tucker, called
on the two delegates to report on the
State Home Economics convention
which they attended in Durham,
April 23 and 24th. Virginia Break-
ell told about the meetings on Fri
day, while Elizabeth Piper gave a
report of the Saturday meeting.
After the reports, election of of
ficers was held. The following were
elected: President, Charlotte King;
Vice-President, Pauline Daniels; Sec
retary, Mary Thomas.; Treasurer,
Virginia Breakell; Reporter, Eliza
beth Piper.
ANNA WITHERS GIVES
ORGAN RECITAL
Bryan Seen on Tennis
Courts
DR. P. A. YODER
SPEAKS TO SALEM
HYGIENE CLASS
Dr. P. A. Yoder, Superintendent of
the Forsyth Tuberculosis Hospital,
delivered two lectures this week to
the members of the Hygiene Class.
Dr. Yoder is an outstanding author
ity on tuberculosis and it is an un
usual opportunity that is given to
the students at Salem.
Dr. Yoder discussed the history,
causes, spread and treatment of the
disease. He illustrated his talks with
pictures and answered many ques
tions.
Mrs. Higgins, instructor in Hy
giene, states that in view of the
many eases of tuberculosis among
young people today that she be
lieves that a thorough discussion of
the subject is very important for
every college student.
The fifth and last graduating re
cital of the year was given May 10,
by Miss Anna Elizabeth Withers,
organist, in Memorial Halil A
large audience attended the recital.
Miss Withers, at present the or
ganist at Calvary Moravian Church,
hag attained merited recognition for
her outstanding musical ability. She
played her difficult program with
great ease, skill, and mastery.
Miss Withers was assisted by Miss
Ann Nisbet, harpist, who delighted
the audience with her pleasing, ar
tistic interpretation of her selections.
Ushers were Miss Sara Stevens of
Fayetteville; Miss Dorothy Blair of
Albemarle, Misses Georgia Goodson
and Betty Withers of Winston-Salem.
FASHION SHOW TO BE
SPONSORED
Thursday night, the 27th, at 8:30,
the Home Economics Club will spon
sor a Fashion show of clothing made
in the sewing department this year.
All types of wearing apparel such as
glamorous evening gowns, snappy"
sports and street frocks and swanky
coats, will be modeled by the Home
Economics students. The show is
Under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth
Meinung and Mrs. Mildred Ball.
LATIN CLUB PICNIC
RAINED IN
Friday afternoon. May fourteenth,
the Alpha Iota Phi had its annual
picnic at the beautiful home of
Laura Bland, recently elected presi
dent of the group. At three fifteen
twenty members of the club, dressed
for action, left school after each had
contributed her share to the lunch
baskets. The recreation room proved
to be the most popular spot and the
traditional pigs-in-blankets the most
delicious item on the menu (with
barbecue running a close second).
The Latin Club picnic has been an
annual event of the club since ten
years ago. This will close the ac
tivities of the club for this year.
PROF. ROY J. CAMPBELL
ATTENDS SCIENCE
MEETING
Professor Roy J. Campbell, Assist
ant Professor of Science, attended
the meeting of the North Carolina
Academy of Science at Catawba Col
lege on last Friday. He reports an
interesting and profitable meeting.
Professor Campbell has been ap
pointed to the Committee on Educa
tion of the Academy. This com
mittee deals with the teaching of
scientific subjects in preparatory
schools.
If any of you happened to be
down on the tennis courts Tuesday
afternoon, you saw, no doubt, that
Mr. Julien Bryan can play tennis
almost as well as he can take pic
tures. He with Meade Willis as part
ner, gave Mr. Downs and Mr. Holder
some stiff opposition. We had an
idea that said Mr. Downs and Mr.
Holder had something up their
sleeves since they have been prac
ticing their tennis most every af
ternoon.
Undoubtedly they were preparing
for Mr. Bryan.
The young lady tennis fans of
Salem also have been keeping the
courts busy — practicing their fore
arms, backhand and service strokes
as well as getting a delightful suntan
— or is it freckles?
The semi-finals of the tennis tour
nament will be played in the near
future. We could predict, perhaps,
the names of those who will reach
the finals, but maybe we will be
surprised.
News flash! The swimming pool
has been washed and scrubbed to a
shiny white and filled with wonder
ful freezing water. Now, if the sun
will shine bright to make the air
warmer to make the water warmer,
maybe we can go swimming.
A few young hopefuls have been
seen lugging their golf clubs down
on the hockey field and getting warm
ed up on their swings. Ask Tweak
Sample how many blisters she wore
on her hands in about ten minutes
time.
Golfing is fun when one doesn’t
have blisters and doesnt have to
caddy!
REMEMBER?
It is quite evident that in the
spring the fancies of third floor girls
turn to music. Since Easter the
floor has been a burst of music and
dancing. The music, it was soon dis
covered, originates from David
Laud’s victoria and Peggie Warren’s
records, two of a kind, so far, hit
No. 1 is definitely “Sugar Blues”
but “Gloomy Sunday” is not far
behind.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER
CONFERENCE
Last week-end Glen Grifin, Ethel
Highsmith, Tempe Green and Ada
Suggs Harvey went to Chapel Hill.
Mary Charlotte Nelme, Annette
Smith, Emily Richardson, Alice
Richie, Mary Thomas, Mary Turner
Willis, Julia, Preston, Edith McLean,
Emma Brown Grantham and John
Fulton went to Reidsville to spend
the day with Frances Watlington
last Sunday.
At the Spinsters’ Ball, Saturday
night, we little spinsters did some
stepping with local and non-local
young bachelors. Tall, short, per
oxide blond bachelors (another ir
resistible Trotman , Eh Mac?). Sonie
of us even requested “Lost” in
keeping with our mood, but soon we
“found” ourselves dancing with a
Siewers, a Woods (pie face), or a
Mott (lucky guys).
BOTANY CLASS VISITS
IRIS GARDENS
On Tuesday afternoon, the Botany
class under the direction of Mrs.
Charles H. Higgins visited the iris
gardens in the park in the Buena
Vista section. The plants are in
full bloom and many unusual varie
ties were noted. About seventy-five
varieties are in bloom.
This trip is the third of a series
taken by the Botany class this spring.
The first garden visited was that of
Dr. Carrick in High Point. Dr. Car-
rick is conducting work on the hy
bridization of daffodils. The stu
dents were able to get first hand
information on this interesting phase
of botany as well to observe Dr. Gar
rick ’s beautiful gardens with the 150
varieties of daffodils.
The second trip was made possible
by the local garden clubs who kindly
allowed the members of the class to
visit six of the outstanding local
gardens.
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CAEOLINA THEATRE
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday — ‘A Star is Born.”
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March in
an all-technicolor picture about
Hollywood. Highly recommended
by your Special Salemite reader of
Movie Magazines and “Life.”
Monday and Tuesday—“Quality
Street. ’ ’
Katherine Hepburn, Franchot Tone
From Sir James Barrie’s famous
play.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday—“Shall We Dance?”
Need we say with Ginger Rogers
and Fred Astaire? Certainly it is
unnecessary to say ‘ ‘ Shall we go ? ”
STATE THEATRE
Friday, and Saturday—
“The Great O’Malley”
Pat O’Brien and Sybil Jason.
Monday and Tuesday—
“Mummy’s Boy”
Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey.
Wednesday and Thursday—
“Thfte Men on a Horse”
Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell.
Friday and Saturday
“Charlie Chan at the Olympics”
Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille
The past w-eek-end from the .sev
enth to the ninth of May, the Student
Volunteers of North Carolina held a
conference at the First Presbyterian
Church in Winston-Salem.
Miss Anne Faw, the traveling sec
retary of the South Atlantic Region
of the Student Volunteer Movement
and a graduate of Grensboro College,
spoke to the student body in chapel
Thursday and Friday mornings at
which times she explained the pur
poses of the organization and also
explained that the movement of the
Student Volunteers is international,
interracial, interdenominational, and
missionary.
The conference began Friday
afternoon with the registration of
all the delegates. Following the
registration there were meetings of
council members and speakers, a
song service, and an opening wor
ship .service which lasted the re
mainder of the afternoon. Friday
night the Salem Volunteer group pre
sented the play “How the Light
Came” and three delegates — Mc-
Murray Richey, Rufus Morrow, and
Joe Belton — gave bold reviews at
the evening meeting.
Saturday morning Rev. Houston
Paterson, who is a missionary of the
Foreign Mission Board of the Soutli-
ern Presbyterian Church, gave an ad
dress; and the same morning worship
was held by Dr. John R. Cunning
ham, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Winston-Salem. After the
morning meeting, the delegates di
vided into Seminars and continued
the conference Saturday afternoon.
Saturday evening the delegates went
out to Sunny Acres near Winston-
Salem for a picnic and their evening
session. Here there was an address
by the main speaker. Rev. Houston
Paterson, and the installation of the
New Council.
Sunday morning following the
devotional service led by Frank
Brown of Davidson College, who is
the present president of the North
Carolina Student Volunteer Move
ment, Miss Marjorie Glenn, the new
president for the ensuing year, in
troduced the speaker of the morning
meeting —• Dr. Sherwood Eddy. Dr.
Eddy was at one time a student vol
unteer and he lias .served in India in
the foreign mission. He is also an
internationally famous author and
lecturer and an outstanding leader in
peace movements, botli national and
international. After Dr. Eddy’s ad
dress there was a closing consecra
tion service and a communion service
led by Rev. Peterson.
The students of Salem College who
attended the conference as delegates
were Helen Savage, Dorothy Thomp
son, Louise Jackson, Elizabeth Hen
drix, Emma Brown Grantham, Vir
ginia Me Ninny, and June Watson.
Mary Hart was in charge of the en
tire conference at which eight fore
ign cocntries and twelve colleges in
North Carolina were represented.
PROF. HIGGINS TO DE-
LIVER COMMENCE
MENT ADDRESS
Professor Charles II. Higgins,
Head of the Department of Science,
is to deliver the Commencement Ad
dress at Pinnacle High School on
Monday night, May the seventeenth.
His subject will be “Hunger and
Thirst. ’ ’
PRINTERS ENTERTAIN
SALEMITE STAFF
Printers have the bright idea that
reporters can’t live on ink, ads, and
paper alone but need food too. The
Sun Printing Company has asked all
the girls who have been members of
the Salemite business and editorial
staffs for two or more years to the
annual printers’ dinner at six-thirty,
Monday evening. May 17. This
special food edition will be issued at
the K. and W. Restaurant, so come
and let’s fill up something besides a
paper.