SALEM COLLEGE UIBi=?ARY
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VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1938.
Number 8.
DR. FRANK GRAHAM
TO SPEAK HERE
SUNDAY
U. N. C. President Will Be
At Carolina Theatre
Dr. Frank Graliarii will speak at
u music program fostered by the
Mozart Ifusie Club at tlu> ('arolina
Theatre, Sunday at o:()0.
A chorus (5f three hundred negroes
will sing spirituals. These singers
are taken from the members of the
City’s Better iromes and Garden
Clubs and the Smith Choral Club di
rected by 11. A. Cromwell.
Dr. Graham will be introduced by
Dr. Howard Rondthaler and will
speak on “The Negro’s Achieve
ment in North Carolina During Re
cent Years and his Outlook for the
future. ”
Mr. George W. Coan, State \V. P.
.'\. Administrator, will also speak
briefly.
FRESHMEN PIERREHES
GIVE HRST PLAY
OF THE YEAR
TALK OF GARDENING
FEATURES YPM
“Chatter” Is Successful First
Performance of
Freshmen
Look to youi- laurels, Pierrettes!
The freshmen have begun to take
th'.s business of play jiioduction ()uite
serionslv. On Thursday night, .\o-
\ ('I ib:'i- (lie stage of the old chapel
\'-as tli(> setting of an amusing com
edy, “Chath'r. ” The performance,
which was Ihe first freshman play
of the season, held promise of an
outstanding year in freshman dra
matics.
The entire cast and technical staff
of the jday was made u[> of mem
bers of the Clajs of ’42. Elejyior
Retcher portrayed Gloria, a sophisti
cated young thing who turned out to
be a pretty good sport after all. The
character of Miss Melrose, better
known as Nellie, a sweet, sinijde
school teacher with hidden charms,
was enacted by Lucille Paton. Fran
ces Walker was Eve, a naive dam
sel always willing to see the best iu
everyone and to help those around
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NATIONAL EDUCATION
WEEK TO BE OBSERVED
AT SALEM
Education Clciss Has Charge
of Program for Week
National Kducation Week luis been
founded for seventeen 'years in
America—since 1921; and next week
Salem will have its annual observ
ance of this school celebration. The
purpose of this week is to hel)) im
prove the schools and increase pub
lic understanding of them and theiv
objectives.
The week begins on Sunday, No
vember 0; and Mrs. Gordon Siiaugh
will initiate it with a vesper talk
on the “Golden Kule. ” The topics
for the other five days are: Monday
‘‘ Developing Strong Bodies and Able
Minds,” Tuesday, “Mastering Skills
and Know’ledge,” Wednesday, “At
taining V^ahies and Standards,”
Thursday, “Accepting New Civic
Itesponsibilities,” Friday, “Holding
Fast to Our Ideals of Freedom.”
The Introductory Education Class
lias charge of the observance of Na
tional Education Week at Salem, and
Sara Harrison is the general chair-
' man of this work.
Mrs. Dorothy Johnson Tells
Of Importance Of
Imagination
The speaker at the Wednesday
Chapel was Mrs. Dorothy Biddle
Johnson, the editor of the Garden
Digest.
Miss Johnson began her short in
teresting talk by saying that garden
ing belongs to everybody. Men and
women, boys and girls, old and young,
rich and poor all can have the joy
that comes from cultivating flowers.
“The youngest gardner [ know is a
boy four years old, ’ ’ she stated. His
first garden was a pansy bed jdanted
in the outline of his name which he
had drawn on the ground with, a
stick.
The people in this section love
flow'er.s, according to Miss .Johnson
observation. Once, while she was
traveling from Laurens, S. C. to
Winston-S(lem she noticed that all
but seven of the homes she passed
had a garden of'some sort. These
gardens ranged from large land
scaped estates to small plants grow
ing in tin cans.
Miss .Tohnson told how Sir Win
fred Grenfell found the Eskimos of
Labrador suffering from diet-defiei-
ency diseases. Through his efforts to
secure green vegetables he discover
ed that the beauty-starved natives
longed for the flowers pictured ini
the seed catalogues as much as they
needed the health-giving vegetables.
The thing that is common to all
garden lovers is imagination, such
to enable them to .see flowers and
trees flourishing on a rough stonj'
piece of ground. Another character
istic of flower-lovers is their pa
tience,. One who plants orchid seeds
must wait seven years before he can
see the beautiful; blossoms. At least
twenty-five years is rei[uired fov an
oak sa])ling to grow into a tree.
The esst^ntial element that a gard
ener must have is imagination, which
Miss Johnson said could well be the
title of the poem witli which she
ended her talk:
“ ITere siife and still in their brown
husks of death.
Sealed in a shell, a million roses
leap;
Ifere I can blow a gnrd'/n witii my
breath
And in my hand a forest lies
asleep. ’ ’
STAFF PHOTO THROUGH COURTESY OF JOURNAL AND SENTINEL
BILL FULTON CHOSEN
MAY QUEEN 1938-39
Mary Thomas of Knoxville
To Be Maid of Honor
In an election held Thursday morn
ing, Bill Fulton of Gate City, \'a.,
was elected 1939 May Queen for
Salem C!ollege by iwpular vote of the
Student Body. Anl Mary Thomas,
of Knoxvill>, Tenn. is to be Maid of
Honor.
These girls were selected fr(uii a
group of nine nominees, who were
])resented to the student body in
('ha]iel on Thursday. The other
nominees were; ,lane Davis, Monroe,
K. C.; Felicia Martin, Moyodan,
N. C.; Tootie I’ou-ell, Edenton, N. ('.;
Mary Worthy Spence, Carthage,
X. (1.; .Van Totten, Atlanta, Ga.;
Ann Whaling, VVinston-Saleni, N. C.;
Dorothy Wyatt,_Winston-Saleni, N. C.
Hill I'Ailton a Home Economics
nuijor, is Presideut of the Katherine
,r. Hanes Home Economics Club, has
been in the May Court for three
v'ears, and has been a member of the
business staff of the Salemite for
f'our years. She is a brunette with
a graceful walk, sparkling eyes, and
looks lovely in white.
Mary Thomas is also a Home
Economics major. She is Vice-
President of Ihe Y. \V. (’. A., .Xews
Kditor of the Salemite, Student Gov
ernment Re|>resentative, a Scorpion,
and is listed in this year's edition
of “Who Who’s. Mary is a lovely
blond, with a l>eautiful complexion,
and is bubbling over with personal
ity.
The following girls were elected
as ('ourt attendants on Friday morn
ing: Marjorie Powell, Edenton; Ann
Whaling, Dorothy Wyatt, Martha
Rawliiigs, Mary Ann Paschal, Lillie
Sutton Ferrell, and Ann Pepper, Win-
sto^i^Salem; Louisa Sloan, Wades-
boro; Peggy .lones, (’harlotte; Mil
dred Kelly and Dorothy Dixon, Fay-
tteville; nnd Katherine King, Le;iks-
ville.
)FF10EI{« OF N. C. COLLEGIATK ASSOCIATION
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R.UTLEDGE MILLER i^^-viCEPRES,
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JAMES
DAVIDSON, HERE
WE COME!!
Salem Girls Invited to At
tend Davidson Football
Game, Nov. 5.
Three cheers, fifteen rahs, and all
the rest for Davidson. Right at
[(resent we think that there is no
school better, and it will certainly
get all (mr yells Saturday afternoon
on ye ole’ football field! I don't
see how there could he anyone on or
off Salem Campus who hasn’t heard
the news about the occasion to
which we’ve been invited, and
about who “rojuests the pleasure of
our presence.” But just in case
there are some who haven’t recover
ed fully enough from the trials,
thrills and tribulations of last week
end to care what’s happening this
week, this is the general idea. The
presid>nt of the student body at
Davidson and all “the boys” have
invited all of Salem’s football fans
(and we can’t think of any this
wouldn’t take in), to come to David
son, Saturday, November .'5, for the
game w'ith Wofford College (maybe
some of you have interest in that
team, foo!).
Buses are being chartered for the
day to take us to and bring us from,
and there will be enough of these
“Salem Specials” for all who want
to go. The buses will leave as soon
after 12:00, after classes, as possible.
The cost of transportation will be
the only thing we’ll have to ]>ay, be
cause Davidson will see to it that
the gates will swing inward and will
stay open when Salem starts walking
iu.
Every year Davidson College has
a special day that it invited the
student body from various girls
schools in the state to be their guests.
1 think we should all feel awfulh-
proud that we’re the lucky ones this
week-end.
W’e will, by the way, get back in
time for the dance here in the gym
Saturday night. So if you happen
to meet “the one’’ down there - -
cause there will be ,•! boy for evcr\-
girl -- bring him on liack to fhe
da n ce.
So Davidson her' we couu'. iind
soon we’ll say “Davidson, we are
here! ’’ ,\nd if our cheers, and y(dls.
and thanks, and ajipreciution will
help iiny, you should come out of
that game with flying colors.
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STATE COLLEGIATE
PRESS CONVENTION
HELD AT DUKE
Salem Sends Delegates To
Three-Day Meeting
Helen Mc.\rthur, Kdit'or-in-Cliief
of the Salemite; Alice Horsfield,
A.ssi.stant Editor; and Edith McLean,
Business Manager, left Winston-
Salem Thursday noon to attend the
twenty-third meeting of the JS'orth
Carolina, (’ollegiate Press Associa
tion. Representatives from about
thirty-five colleges are assembling at
Duke on Thursday, J-’riday and Sat
urday.
Included in the .Activities for the
conclave will be a series of meetings
at which problems of various types
of campus publication will be dis
cussed, a ban(iuet, and dance Friday
evening, and addresses by three men
of importance in X. C. publications
work. .