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THE SALE MITE
Friday, February 17, 1939.
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February is the birthday month of three great men:
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and that beloved old
saint — Valentine. These men have written their names across
the pages of history and are remembered by every generation.
Just wfhat have they done to merit such recognition? Why
should their names be honored when others have been for
gotten ?
Washington and Lincoln had one thing in common —
they were both great leaders of their people. But in what
respect was Saint Valentine similar to this famous couple?
If the history of each of these men is examined carefully,
one will find that they were not above their people, but rather
the servants of countless thousands. Their greatness lay in
their humility; their public recognition, in their willingness
to serve the public.
The lives and success of these three men have their par
allel in modern times. The leaders of the world today ax’e in
reality the servants of the world. The words of the greatest
public Servant of all can be aptly applied to daily living:
“For he that is least among you, the same shall be great.”
—R. T.
DO YOU
REMEMBER?
One night several weeks ago a girl was given a call
down for making too much noise during quiet hour. A few
minutes after she had received the first one, the proctor was
compelled by the disturbance to administer the second call
down. Now our friend (and we’ll call her that, because she
is our friend), did not mind the first call down, but the sec
ond, to her way of thinking, was absolutely unjust — and she
didn’t mind telling everyone in the hall about it. Fussing
and fuming over the injustice done, she even broke down in
teai-s, begging the proctor to “take back one of ’em.”
Did this Salemite remember the pledge she had signed
when she first came to Salem College? She pledged herself
to loyal support of the Constitution, By-Laws, and “Regu
lations,” of the Student Self-Government Association and to
honesty in academic work. Surely she had forgotten. Upon
giving this pledge she became honorably responsible to her
own conscience, and assumed the right, privilege and duty of
approaching any other student in a spirit of helpfulness against
the violation of any of these regulations.
When justice is meted out, it is usually done out of con
sideration for others, not to settle up old scores, or to get even
with some one else. According to our pledge, no honorable, law-
abiding Salemite will resent the thoughtfulness of a proctor,
trying to keep peace on a hall, for the sake of those who study.
—M. B.
Air KAN DC/H
VIEWS
Other people’s lives look strange to me.
I often wonder what they’re all about.
The only view of any life that’s clear,
I think, is from the inside looking out.
SELF-RELlAlfCE
I’ve had to stay alone for days.
However I am not complaining —
I never realized before
That I could be so entertaining.
* * • •
SECRETS
When people tell me secrets
I’m often moved to ask
Since they themselves can’t keep them
Why give to me that task.
By Rebecca McCann.
i OPEN FORUM
More Opinions On Smoking
Here are a few more opinions on
the suggestion of two weeks ago that
the Green Room be kept open all the
time. Felicia Martin thinks that
something should be done about
keeping the Smoke House open at
night especially. She says that if
the Green Room were open at all
hours it would never be so crowded
and smoky as it is now, because
when it was open during exams it
was never too full of people or
smoke. Tillie Hines says, “The time
will eventually come when it will be
necessary to allow more toleration in
smoking at Salem, by the general
desire of the students; so why not
begin now campaigning for more
freedom?” Ann Johnson thinks
that if the smoking rooms were kept
open longer, smokers wouldn’t smoke
one cigarette right after another and
get their lungs so full of smoke.
Frances Walker, a freshman smoker,
thinks that people would be willing
to “freeze to death” with the win
dows open to ventilate the Green
Room if it were kept open at all
hours. An error was made last week
in quoting Lee Rice’s opinion. To
avoid a misunderstanding she has
asked that her opinion be retracted.
Ruth Burton compares the rules at
Salem with the rules at Hollins Col
lege. “There,” she says, “the girls
smoke only in a special room all the
time, except when they have dates
and then the boys and girls are both
allowed to smoke in the living-
rooms.” She thinks that boys should
not have to go outside to smoke
here either.
That last idea does not particular-
Ip concern the question at hand of
keeping our Green Room open all the
time, nor does this suggestion; but
because both relate to smoking at
Salem they are included here. This
is a suggestion for a change in the
location of the Green RoonL Can it
be moved to the Little Gym? That
building is farther from other build
ing and so would not be so public
as the present location; yet it is
close enough to be easily accessible
to the dormitories. It is an unused
eye-sore now, and could be remodeled
very cheaply to solve this smoking
problem. It could be heated by lit
tle pot-belly stoves, walled with some
sort of asbestos composition with a
fireproof floor. It could be made
ksqsbses
Miss Carol Straus graduate of
Duke University, will speak at
Vespers Sunday night. Miss Straus
was active this past summer at the
conference at Blue Ridge and this
winter she is taking post-graduate
work here at Salem. She is young
and interesting and we feel certain
that everyone will enjoy hearing her.
Music News
RADIO PROGRAMS
Saturday:
WEAP, 1:40 —
“Tristan und Isolde, with
Flagstad and Melchior.
WJZ, 10:00 —
Toscanini in an all-Sibelius pro
gram.
Symphony No. 2.
En Saga
The Swan of Tuonela
Firlandia.
CLUB NEWS
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS
Le Cercle Francais met Tuesday,
February 14 to welcome Katherine
King, Ruth Bralower, Betsy O’Brian,
Nancy Suiter, Dorothy Mullins,
Evelyn McGee, and Katherine Har
rell into the club. Each one of the
new members was required to tell a
clever story in French and these
tales constituted the program.
HISTORY CLUB
Dr. Francis Anscombe spoke at
the History Club meeting, Thursday
afternoon, on the Popes of Aving-
non, and the Great Schism when
there were two or three popes at the
same time. He told a number of in
teresting stories and to illustrate his
talk, passed around post cards with
pictures of the Palace at Avingnon
and of various chapels.
into a rather rustic recreation
room that the smokers themselves
could furnish with a radio, checker
boards, etc. The ping-pong tables
could be moved there from the base
ment of Clewell, and the same tables
and chairs that are now in the Green
Room could be used in the other
building. Moreover, that building
is surely better ventilated, with its
high ceiling, more windows, and
four sides that can be opened to
keep the air moving out. Would the
smokers be willing to pay for the
renovation of Little Gym for a new
Green Room?
(Editor’s note: The little gym is
not an “unused eye-sore” as it is
called in the above column. It is
being very profitably used as a work
shop by Mr. Burrage and Roy.)
Sunday:
WABC, 3:00 —
Philharmonic-Symphony Orcfiestra
with Mischa Elman as violin
soloist.
Overture to “Euryanthe”
Weber
Symphon No. 6 (Pastoral)
Beethoven
Violin Concerto in B minor
Saint-Saens
Francesea da Rimini
Tschaikowsky
MUSIC HOUR
The School of Musie cordially in
vites the public to an evening re
cital, Monday, February 20, 1939,
8:30 o’clock, in Memorial Hall. The
program will be as follows:
Romance in F ma.jor Beethoven
Christine Dunn
Lungi dal caro bene Secchi
Rngiadose Odorose Scarlatti
Harriette Taylor
Theme with Variations (from
Sonata, Op. 26) Beethoven
Catherine Brandon
Widmung Schumann
Rosalind Duncan
Wie bist du meine Konigin
Brahms
Richard Hine
Polichinelle Villa-Lobos
Mildred Minter
Zueignung Strauss
Kenneth Bryant
Banjo Picker John Poweil
Glenn Griffin
Aria Jeanne d’Arc Bemberg
Frances Watlington
Piece Heroique Franck
Nancy McNeely
Piano Accompaniments by Miss
Virginia Thompson.
Those participating in Music Hour
on Thursday afternoon were: Agnes
Mae .Tohnson, Mary Charlotte Nelme,
Betty Jane Nalley, Helen Savage,
Catherine Brandon and Mildred
Minter, pianists; Rosalind Duncan,
Louise Norris, Harriette Taylor and
Elroy Alexander, vocalists; and
Christine Dunn, violinist.
BOOK NOTES
NO MATTER
WHO WINS
On the campus during the past few days I have heard
not one person but many talk about the good spirit the two
teams showed in the Senior-Sophomore basketball game Mon
day night. Both teams fought hard; both teams played well.
The players on both, while they were trying to do their very
best for their team, had at the same time a friendly spirit for
that “guard who was always in the way” and for that “for
ward who was too quick to give much opportunity for obstruc
tion.”
And the people on the side-lines liked it. It made them
yell louder and it made them feel good inside when the game
ended. They felt as if they had seen a game played between
girls who had all really learned that co-operation and good
sportsmanship stands as high as putting the ball in the basket.
And we all want it to stay that way — no matter who wins,
or who loses. —K. K.
The epic of America, to a notable
extent flows on the rhythms of its
rivers, great and small, which open
ways into the heart of a continent.
So a treatment of our country’s past
in terms of the men and women who
peopled it and the rivers which
united them is a natural, effective
way of recasting the great American
romance to bring drama for Ameri
cans today.
The rivers of America books are
under the editorship of Constance
Lindsay Skinner. Each volume is
proving to be not only a part of a
literary and historical series which
interprets America in a new and
fascinating light, but an individual
volume, a fine example of what can
be accomplished when an author who
is not a professional historian writes
in his own particular manner of
expression about a subject close to
his own life and experience.
The library has the following out
of this series — all illustrated by
well known American artists:
“Powder River,” by Strutherg
Burt; “Suwannee River,” by Cecile
Notschat; “Kennebec,” by Robert
P. T. Coffin; “Tipper Mississippi,”
by Walter Harighurst.