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THE SALEM ITE
Friday, May 20, 1938.
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APPRECIATION
The May Day Committee would like to thank the stUr
dents, the faculty, and the employees of Salem College for all
they did toward our celebration last Saturday. The committee's
choicest phrases are so feeble that we hardly know how to ex
press our appreciation. We can only say that without your co
operation we would hav^ Ijeen monstrously inadequate. Will
you accept our sincere thanks?
—Margaret Briggs,
Chairman, May Day ’38.
FAREWELL
Another year ended. It has meant different things to
each of ns — some o^ them good, some of them bad. But we
won’t be shedding crocodile tears because they are over.
Instead, to the underclassmen^ we say goodluck on ex
ams, have fun this summer, and we’ll see you again next fall.
To the , seniors. '— and we could get sentimental here —
we say goodby, goodluck, and it was nice knowing you.
We’re saving our tears until commencement.
—H. McA.
ery.stal becomes cloudy and finally I can see only a yellow glow
— with a white S in the foreground.
—Cramer Percival.
Class of ’38.
ON LOOKING
BACKWARD
Yes I’m looking backwa,rd because the future is rather
^oggy at the moment. On looking backward I see through a
ipistj not clearly, for I’m looking at a basket ball game in the
old hut; the r^iir^ifalls, inside as well as out. And in this mist
there loom several small lumps — these were buckets to catch
the rain coming through the biggest leak in the roof. Through
the mist a,.bright^igM,pierces and in the crystal I see a build
ing growing slpwly apd at last a gymnasium without leaks and
with a great deal more,.
Then of a, sudden the crystal changes. I look and to my
ears comes a, .squeak, squeak, like old boards in an old library.
And at the.sam,e, time,il. hear the rough scraping of chairs and
slamming of doors. But suddenly upon my ear there falls a
mejlow stillness — a quiet disturbed only by an intellectual
aound —,th^,spft fluttering of pages turned by ambitious
hands. ‘i‘B«t soft,” ,r*-.the tread of feet upon thick carpeted
floors tells me of, another dream, come true — the library.
^Stjll locking back f-. therp. comes into the crystal such
ficea ^.atr. Morley,,J«r. Mr. Kittridge, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Unterm eyer. Then, wpce .clearly than the rest, the crystal shows
a„groiip of' girls, awkward, in jc^ps find gowns and stumbling
di^wn.tbe chapel .aisle to first phapel in, full regalia.”,And
Iwt,thew^ gfti|i#,.,giyj^, swAg*ei:iji« a little with “week-eftds at
their own discretion” and various other privileges. Now the
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO THE
GRADUATION CALENDAR
When hopeful young reporters come bouncing into your
room with “what are you planning to do next year?”, and
when signs appear on the bulletin board requesting you to
‘ ‘ state what you intend to do in the fall; ’ ’ when all prospective
teachers are urged to “see Miss Blair before Friday”; when
teachers’ application blanks are handed out; when underclass
men approach you with shy and wholesome candor and say,
“We surely are going to miss you next year. It won’t be the
same place without you”; when an avalanche of advice comes
in Dad’s letter telling you how to approach a would-be-em-
ployer — then, we of the class of 1938, may know we are out
on the front porch of Salem and are about to go down the steps
for thje last time as seniors.
And since we are absurdly sentimental about doing
somthing for the last time, we have a funny little attack of nos
talgia — nothing chronic, you understand, no operation is nec
essary; just a simple treatment. May we offer our personal
and very special prescription?
Cure for that Blue-Monday feeling;
Take ten of this year’s seniors
(Any ten)
And ten large ice cream sodas
(Chocolate)
Mix in one unsifted bull session under the willow ,
Add one and one-half teaspoons of vacation wardrobe talk,
One teaspoon of summer plans,
A dash of what he said last, night;
Stir in one full cup of sleep
Set a side to cool; and serve in large numerous quantities.
This recipe has not yet been approved by Good House
keeping, but has been tested and found very effective.
Most of all, we seniors feel a little lurching excitement'
about setting out to mould ourselves into career women, and
about facing that old monster, The Business W^'orld, armed only
with our pink young hopes. To say that we are hopeful is to
be guilty of grave understatement. We are happily confident
of our talents, our versatility, our energy, and our efficiency.
But under our calm and slightly flippant exterior there
are some of the sterner virtues. We feel a loyalty to, and sin
cere pride in, our college. We shall remember that indefinable
spirit of friendliness, the gay comaraderie that pervades Salem
Campus, long after we have forgotten the sources of “Hamlet”
or “The Tempest.” We shall remember the uncheckered good
times and the indescribably farcial ones we had in the class
room. We shall pigeon-hole the not-so-pleasant moments when
we forgot to study our lessons, or when Tuesday’s quiz papers
were returned.
In the far distant future, when we are re-uning in Fort
Pierce and the Time Machine has been perfected, we’ll ask the
elements in charge to whisk us back to Salem 1934-’38, when
we lived our salad days with a kind of sublime gaity, in the
suburbs of Plato’s Ideal State.
—Margaret Briggs.
Class of ’38.
AMONG THE QUBS
PSYOHOLOGY CLUB ELECTS
OFFICEBS
On Monday, May 16, the Psy
chology Club met and elected offi
cers for 1938-39. The results of this
election were: Frances Tumage,
president; Frances Watlington, vice-
president, and Elizabeth Norfleet,
secretary and treasurer.
PIEItIlETTES( ELECT OFFICEItS
The Pierrettes Players met Wed
nesday and elected officers for next
year. Those elected were' Elizabeth
Trotman, president; Elizabeth Tu-
ten, secretary-treasurer. The vice-
president will be elected next year.
GERMAN CLtm ENTERTAINS
PEOSPECTIVE MEMBERS AND
ELECTS GFTICEES AT
BANQUET
Monday evening in the recreation
room of Lomsa Wilson Bitting
Building, the German Club enter
tained its prospective new members
at a delightful banquet, afteir
which the new officers; were elected.
Laura Emily Pitts, president of the
club, acted as '.’'toastmistresg atid
presided over the short business
Y.W.C.A.
Notes
Higgins-Spedal Ice
Cream Made In
Laboratory
Oleomargarine Substituted
For Butter To Make
Ice Cream
At the Vesper service Sunday eve
ning we will have the privilege of
hearing the Reverend Douglas L,
Eights, who is pastor of the Trinity
Moravian Church in Winston-Salem.
Mr. Rights is well-known in the city
and will, we are certain, bring us an
interesting and worthwhile message.
The music for the service will be
furnished by the trio, Ann Nisbit,
Margaret Welfare, and Kathryn
Swain.
• If the weather i>€rmits, Vespers
will be held out-of-doors, on' the
lawn in front of the Practice House.
Everyone is very cordially invited
to come.
meeting that followed. ^ ■
An interesting program was giv
en. The old members greeted their
guests by singing “Welcome to
You” in German; and several Ger
man songs Vvere sung throughout the
dinner; More entertainment was
furnished by eight members in col-
orful German peasant costumes who
performed three folk dances.
• The old members remained after
wards to elect officers for the com
ing year. The new officers are:
Emma Brown Grantham, president;
and , Helen Savage, secretary and
treasurer. ,
Just like the real thing! And
from what Mr. Higgins says, it
sounds as though he has something
that will be everybody’s “ice
cream” of the future.
Professor Charles H. Higgins, head
of Salem’s Science Department, has
been conducting experiments in the
substitution of oleomargarine fat for
butter in the making of ice cream.
At his invitation some of the “Sal-
emites’ ’ went over to the labora
tory Wednesday afternoon to see
how this kind of iee cream is made
— and incidentally to sample it.
And was it good! We make a mo
tion that Mr. Higging start serving
it to his classes during this hot
weather!
In the production of the substi
tute cream the olemargarine is first
melted with water to remove the
salt, by allowing the fat to settle at
the bottom. Then the fat is mixed
thoroughly with warm skimmed
milk in a homogenizer. A homoge-
nizer, by the way, i^ a little “alum
inum pump” that can be bought for
four ninety-five. The homogenizer
emulsifies the fat particles in the
warm milk, and a substance resem
bling a good grade of cream is pro*
duced. We tasted this and decided
that it tastes very much like real
cream, too, in flavor and consisten
cy. This “cream’' is then chilled,
and the other ingredients for the ice
cream are added, and the the whole
mixture is frozen. Result: ice cream
which is really not ice cream but
looks and tastes like it. It is just
as smooth and rich in appearance
and in taste as the highest grade of
ice cream on the market, in spite
of the fact that it is frozen in a
refrigerator tray. And when you
make ice cream from oleomargarine
you are putting in vitamins too.
Mr. Higgins is continuing his ex
periments using beef fat and dried
milk. We are looking forward to
the results of this work, if they are
half as delicious and practical as
the results of his work with oleo
margarine. Oleomargarine, correct
ly speaking is an animal fat, but
that which is usually obtained on
the market is vegetable oleo made
from vegetable oils. Thus f&r Mr.
Higgins has only worked with the
vegetable type.
Professor Higgins’ interest in
dairy products is not new. He has
been working with them for years,
having been connected with H. P.
Hood and Co,, and having done re
search work for the United States
Department of Agriculture.
SOPHOMORE-SENIOR
PICNIC RAINED IN
Buffet Supper Served In
Recreation Room of
Louisa Bitting
Building
The picnic which the sophomores
gave the seniors last Saturday, May
14, was rained in. The classes had
planned to go to Camp Betty Has
tings for supper, but because of the
weather decided to have it buffet
style in the Recreation Room of
Louisa Bitting Building.
The meal was acompanied by
music — phonograph records' which,
by popular demand, included pelec-
tions from “Snow White and Ahfl
Seven Dwarfs.” The guests,gath
ered around a large open jfire to eat
their dessert and to roast , marsh
mallows. After supper Helen Sav
age played the piano and every-one
joined in singing. ,-r ,
Aside from the seniors,^AhJe honor
guests were Mr. and Mrs., John
Downs,, little John, Miss Lawrence
and Miss Turlington.