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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Friday, November 4, 1938. I’ublished Weekly By The Student Body of Salem College SUBSCIUPTJON PRICE Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association $2.00 a Year 10c a Copy EDITORIAL STAFF Hditor-In-Chief ... Associate Editor Helen McArthur ... Alice Horafield EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mary Thomas News Editor - - Sara Harrison Junior Editor Emma Brown Grantham Sports Editor Musie Editor - - Staff Assistants:— B«tty Sanford Sue Forrest Margaret Holbrook Mildred Minter Katherine Snead Hannah Teiehman Marian Johnson Melba Mackie Reece Thomas Leila Johnston Mary Adams Edith Horsfield Madeleine Haye.s Sara Burrell Lee Rice Katherine King Eunice Patton Geraldine Baynes FEATURE DEPARTMENT Feature Editor Staff Assistants:— Eleanor Sue Cox , Betsy Hill Nancy Suiter Mary Lee Salley Lena Winston Morris Kate Pratt Muriel Brietz Tillie Hines Frankie Tyson Jackie Ray Mary Charlotte Nelme Mary Davenport Peggy Rogers Forest Mosby Lyell Glenn AT CANDCM 1 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Edith McLean Businees Manager Assistant BuBiness Manager vir^inia Breakell Advertising Manager - ar-ipe Gillesoie Exchange and Circulation Manager Gillespie ADVERTISING STAFF Carol Cherry Margaret Patterson Louisa Sloan Pat Barrow Jane Kirk Avalon Early Jane Davis Khv Patty McNeely Betsy Hob^ Ruth Yancey Dorothy Sisk Virginia Taylor exchange and CIRCULATION STAFF Alice Kinlaw Ruth Schnedl Lucille Stubbs Dorothy McLean 1938 Mcwber 19M Pbsodofed Gble6KA0 F^ss DiMtibtttor of Gole6iateDi6est RKPRBSKNTCO FOR HATiONAL ADVERTISINO BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420'Madison AvE. New York, N.Y. CHICA60 * BOSTOH * L0« ANOCLES * SAB FUAHCllCO DEFINTTION OF A TRASH CAN, g&T.ii!lvr SQUARE AND SALEM GIRLS A trash can i.s a can into which such things as paper cups, paper napkins, and doughnut wrappers are to be placed. Salem Square is a place which should be kept free of such rubbish. Salem students are girls who don’t seem to know the difference between a trash can and Salem Square. This last statement is uncomplimentary, but true. The next time you go out, look around and see for yourself. Wouldn’t it be just as easy to finish your drink in the drugstore and leave your cup there? Or wouldn’t it be equally easy to bring them on over to a trash can? After all, these cans are not placed outside for decoration. Let’s clean up and keep a neat appearance — one of which we can be proud not only to show visitors but also to see our selves. -jS. B. EXTRA- CURRICTJLAR “A man who never does any more than he gets paid for, never gets paid for any more than he does.” This homely proverb m,{iy well be applied to the attitude of the average col lege student. Extra-curricular activities are considered by many stu dents to be only for a chosen few. Others think that they haven’t the time to participate. Lack of initiative prevents many from adding their talents to this valuable phase of college life. Perhaps, during the past few weeks, you are one of the many who have said to themselves — “I’d like to try out for dramatics this year, but I’m not as talented as my room mate and I couldn’t get a part anyhow.” — “Hockey practice? Oh I’m rushed to death now without having to run around that field practicing.” “In high school I took part in Y. work, but I don’t know all of the girls in it and they might think I’m trying to horn in.” Self-effacement gets one no where for while it may be true that you are no Katherine Cornell, you could certainly help make up the fair heroine or shunt scenery around. These tasks are vital parts of successful dramatic work. You may think yourself a very busy young lady, but a fair wager would be that you could sandwish in an hour’s hock ey practice a day without completely disrupting your schedule, and you might make the team. COQUETTE Of course I nevei' really flirt. It isn’t ladylike I know. The way I drop my handkerchief Is simply providential, though! —Rebecca McCann. * * * « CORRESPONDENCE The guilt of not answering letters Weghs down on my conscience at night. I suffer and groan in the silence , But nothing can force me to write. —R«becca McCann. The Y. girls are a friendly group, ever anxious to take in new active members and delighted to have everyone. These are only a few of the extra-curricular activities of- fei-ed at Salem. The others are equally interesting and delight ful. Wby don’t you try to take an active part in at least one this year, Salemite, and see if it isn’t a profitable venture? —M. M. Our speaker at vespers Sunday night needs no introduction — Mrs. Gordon Spaugh. I’ve sure we’ll all be glad to see her with us again. The old chapel, at 6:30 On Wednesday, at 5 o’clock, the Freshmen “Y” commission had a joint meeting with the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet in the living room of Clow ell Building. The Freshmen met and talked wit hthe cabinet members in whose committee they were inter ested, and refreshments were served afterward. Those girls who are members of the Fieshman Commiss ion are: Florence Harrison, Jo Ann Brill, Flora Avera, Frances Lyon, Carrie Donnell, Margaret Moran, Lucille Springer, Allene Harrison, Editli Horsfield, Eleanor Hutchison, Marie Fitzgerald, Ruth Brickhouse, Pat Mitchell, Mary Jane Copenhaver, Betty Barbour, Betty Hardin, Mil dred Newsom, Minnie Louise West moreland, Marguerite Bettinger, Em ily Abbot, Marion Norris, Mickey Craig, Mary Adams, Harvison Smith, Clara Louise Nissen, Marie Van Hoy, Martha Jones, Leila Johnston, Reece Thomas, Wyatt AVilkinson, Martha Bowman, Dorothy Sisk, Frances Walker, Adelaide Hargrave, Ruth Yancey, Elizabeth Yancey, Eliza beth Weldon, Margery McMullen, Nancv Chesson. OUR WORLD CAME TO AN END ON SUNDAY NIGHT RADIO PROGRAMS There was an extra amount of low talking on the first floor hall of Clewell; then more voices were >ad- ded in the discussion and the sound grew a little; other girls joined in, and words began to be distinguish able as excitement ro.se. And I could stand it no longer — I left iny studying and went to see what was going on. By that time at least a dozen girls had gathered around the telephone table. Most of them were in pa jamas, but several were so upset that they dashed right through the living room, where several boys were sit ting, to find Miss Lawrence. Some body called me into a nearby room where a radio program was turned on to its full strength. A news bul letin from New York was being given, and I listened silently ivith the five others in the room. One of the faces beside that radio was pale and drawn, another twisted with worry and fear, the third traced with wonder and doubt; the other two were just listening — rapt and little frightened; I didn’t know what to think. That radio news bulletin was de scribing, in a remarkably realistic manner, an imaginary attack on the earth by Mars with little men in metal cylinders and poisonous black New York was being demolished with gas. Princeton had been destroyed; ease; and Chicago, Boston, and Buf falo were to be the next cities for attack. Salem went wild! There were screams, tears, hysterics, prayers! didn’t know anything to do about it — not even any shoulders here to cry on! But more than one Sale- mite found something to cry on any way; for our world had come to its end. Wasn’t our reliable news broad cast saying so?; and of course, we believed it. Pat Mitchell and Lucille Paton' were especially upset; it was some time before they looked and acted all right afterwards, and both of them were awfully worried about not being able “to die with their fam ilies.” Ida Lambeth Jennings and more than a few others got out mon ey to call home, and Ann Whaling and several others really did phone their families. (Ann’s daddy, by the way, was listening to Charlie Mc Carthy instead of to the “New Jersey catastrophe.”) Dorothy Isley was particularly anxious about her brother — he’s at Princeton, and the story had told that 1500 people were killed at that school. Mary Wilson Wall’s daddy was in Chicago at the The New York Philharmonic Sym phony, directed by John Bartirolli will present the following program Sunday afternoon, November 6, from 3 until 4:45 over WABC with Robert Virovai violin soloist. “Academic Festival,” Overture Brahms Violin Concerta in D Brahms Symphony No. 2, in D Sibelius On Sunday evening at 9 o’clock over WABC Kirsten Flagstad will be guest soloist on the Ford Hour Pro gram. IMPORTANT BOOK LOANED TO UBRARY Mrs. Mary Fries Patterson Fisher, of Asheville, North Carolina, has loaned to the library for exhibit “Flora’s Dictionary.” This is botany book, profusely illustrated w'ith colored flower prints, written by Elizabeth Washington (Gamble), Wirt in 1837. Charles Dexter Cleveland in a com pendium of American literature says of it: “As far as my knowledge goes, it was the fir.st of the kind published in our country and I think it has never been excelled by any of its numerous competitors. ’ ’ WASH DAY By Mary Lee Salley BIRTHDAYS NOVEMBER 5 TO 11 November 7 Jessie Van Hook November 8 Marian Johnson November 9 Katherine Snead November 10 Eunice Patton Betsy Reece Mary Wilson Wall that direction. Even Miss Lawrence couldn’t quiet our wild fears .because she knew no more about the broadcast than we did. So pandemonium disrupted all logical thought and behavior at Sal em for more than an hour last Sun day night. Very little studying was done hfire any time after 8 o’clock that evening — noise and excitement were too great for any one to settle down until after 11:30. When Salemites realized how gull ible they had been, they consoled themselves on Monday by reading newspaper accounts of how foolishly people in other places had acted dur ing the splendidly dramatized radio farce. But we still feel a little sheepish in silly embarassment -when Do you know what happens to your laundry after you toss it down the basement steps Sunday night t Well I . didn’t know either so I made a tour of the Laundry guided by Mrs. King who told me many interesting things that you will appreciate knowing First of all, after the laundry bags are collected, the clothes are divided alphabetically into six lots and are washed according to these lots. The flat work is all washed separately from the wearing apparel. You’ve probably wondered how so many sheets and pillowcases are washed so quickly and efficiently. They are washed through five waters in big revolving drums that make a grand slushy sound as they turn. They are then run through an electric roller which presses the water out, and after drying, are ironed by an elec tric ‘ironer. Your wearing apparel is washed in a washing machine with especially nice undies and other fragile articles being washed by hand with Lui. Nothing is rubbed on a board unless it has lipstick, fingernail polish or simple stains on it. After all these things are dry they are ironed by old fashioned irons which are heated against a cute little round stove that really gets red hot. All colored materials are tested for color fast ness before they are washed and very high grade soap flakes and powders are used in all their wash, ing. Here I’ll interrupt to give you a little information I gleaned on wash ing woolens which, in our case would apply to sweaters: Be sure to have a little Lux in each water in wh’ch you wash your sweaters even the last water. This softens the water and thus also softens your sweaters. Al so, be very careful to have each water just warm enough to melt your soap flakes — this will help hold the colors. Now that we Jiav;e gotten the clothes ironed, let’s proceed to pack ing them. Each girl’s name is writ ten on a cardboard at the end of a stick, and these sticks are placed up right in alphabetical order. In this fashion youi* clothes are fixed into a neat pile which is then tied up and labeled. From here — you know the story. The lai^ndry staff is composed of sixteen workers headed by our friend Mrs. King, who has been at Salem for six years, this year will be her seventh. She says: “we feel like Salem is the girls’ home for nine months and we want to make them as comfortable as possible.” Thank yon, Mrs. King and the laundry time, and she was uneasy about his we remember that “end of the workers, for this co-operative and safety as, the little men headed in 1 world.” thoughtful spirit.
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