BOOK WEEK
November 10-16
“Good Books —
— Good Friends”
EDUCATION WEEK
November 10-16
“Education For the
Common Defense”
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VOL. XXI.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1940.
Number 8.
‘‘HAY FEVER” TO BE
PRESENTED NOV. 21-22
Since October 8th the members
of the Pierrettes have been re-
hersing nightly Noel Coward’s 3-
act play Hay l'ev«r for presenta
tion on November 21 and 22, Thurs
day and Friday nights, in the Old
Chapel. The admission for students
is 25 cents and for town guests 50
cents. The president of the dra
matic organization requests that
students and faculty attend the
performance the first night in order
that the town people may come the
second night.
Hay Fever is a very sophisticat
ed comedy with not a serious mo
ment and therefore the most diffi
cult of his plays to inact, accord
ing to Noel Coward. It is about an
exceedingly Bohemian family -—the
mother is a retired actress, the
father a novel writer, and the son
an artist. Everyone in the family
has invited someone to spend the
week-end at their country home in
England without telling the other
members of the family. The compli
cations arising from their oversight
furnish the humor of the play. Cast
in the play are: Liz Trotman as
Judith Bliss, the mother; Claude
Billings as David Bliss, the father;
^Lee Rice as Sorel Bliss, the daugh
ter; Raymond Burk as Simon Bliss,
the son; Oscar Lee Tyree as Sandy
Terrell, the mother’s guest; A.
H. Eller as Richard Greath-
am, Sorel’s guest; Margaret Ray
as Myra Arundel, Simon’s guest;
Frances Yelverton as .Jackie Cory-
ton, David’s guest; and AVyatt Wil
kinson as (,'lara, the maid.
Production manager is Gladys
Blackwood, ilireetor is Jlrs. Bruce
Williams, Stage Manager is Dot
MacLean, and Business Manager is
Bobbie Whittier. Posters and other
advertising matter .will soon be
placed in conspicuous places around
town by the members of the var
ious committees. The Pierettes give
a three-act play everv year in the
fall.
SECOND DANCE
OF SEMESTER
SATURDAY NIGHT
Salem’s second dance of the year
will be tomorrow night, November
9, from eight o’clock until twelve
in the gym. The student govern
ment is giving it in honor of our
new students. Shirley Smith and his
orchestra will play for the occa
sion and besides one no-break
dance for student council members
only, there will be four no-breaks
for everyone present.
Margaret Patterson and her es
cort, Bob Miller, will greet the
guests. Others in the receiving line
will be Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler,
Mr. and Mrs. Brant Snavely, and
Miss Grace Lawrence.
Committee heads are as follows:
Kathryn Cole, invitations; Babbie
Carr, decorations; Patty McNeely,
orchestra.
READING PLUS
This week is Book Week and
“American Education Week,” an
nual institutions which have been
celebrated for several years and
have acquired a strong hold on the
interest and affection of the Amer
ican people.
Education and Books: they are
inseparable Siamese twins. You
can’t have the one in any serious
way without the other.
Of course we don’t for a minute
claim that the only kind of edu
cation worth while is obtained from
books. Many times in the past
schools have been weighed down
with too much reliance on the print
ed word, too much effffort to turn
out people who have an intellectual
understanding of what they have
read in dusty treatises but who hav
en’t the least idea of how to get a
job and keep it, how to make them
selves attractive, charming, and in
teresting. In school or out, the ac
tual experience of doing the things
we shall have to do all our lives, and
of rubbing against as many differ
ent kinds of people as possible, are
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Students Voice
Political Opinions
SAIRMY POU ELECTED TO
LEAD FRESHMAN CLASS
STUDENTS GO TO
CAROLINA CONFERENCE
SALEM COLLEGE
ON THE AIR
Monday afternoon from 3:45 to
4:45 o’clock at Radio Station WSJS,
Salem’s Children’s Literature class
will present their skill and knowl
edge of Book Week through Lilly
Sutton Ferrell and Virginia Mc-
Neny. Selected by her voice, well
adapted for radio, Miss Ferrell will
read a delightful story, April’s
Kittens by Clare Newberry, and
Miss McNeny will present a short
talk on Book Week, prepared for a
child’s interest level.
This program, planned to advance
children’s interest in books, has
been arranged by an efficient com
mittee, headed by Mary Worth
Walker. Assisting Miss Walker are
Martha Louise Merritt, Sue Forrest,
Emily McCoy, an(^ Virginia Mc
Neny.
For our own campus a similar,
but more extensive, program has
been planned for Book Week, No
vember 10-16, by the same com
mittee. It is hoped that every
Salemite will enter into the spirit
of Book Week and derive much
pleasure from carrying out this
year’s motto—“Good Books, Good
Friends. ”
LITTLE THEATRE
PRESENTS PLAY
TONIGHT
Tonight, November eighth, at
eighte-fifteen o’clock the Winston-
Salem Little Theatre group is pre
senting the “Pursuit of Happiness”
at the Reynold’s Auditorium. Mrs.
E. D. Pardington is directing the
play. Admission for students is
thirty-five cents.
Once again your political reporter
has been sneaking around poking
her nose into people’s most sacrel
thoughts — It’s none of her busi
ness!—It’s none of ydur business!
—It’s none of your business!—It’s
none of anybody’s business except
the thinking individual’s own! —
But it’s mighty good fun!
There was' just loads of real in
terest about the election — the
speakers, the noise, the voting re
turns—And, consequently, there are
now just loads of poor exhausted
radio tubes. As a grand finish to
the whole works. Miss Nosey has
pranced around springing the ques
tion on the unsuspecting, and here
lie her findings. Her first victim
was a professor whose response to
the 3rd term question she • didn’t
have to ask to find out. She sighed
gloomily, “You think it’s just
jolly.”
Tom Holder—simply a smug nod.
Sarah Turlington, gleefully: “Me
and the rest of the working men
think it’s grand!"
A capitalist, resigned; “We can’t
do much except to grin and bear
it for another four years—by then.
I’ll be too well established in the
poor house to care about a fourth
term.”
Jane Harris, thoughtfully: “Well,
I figure it this way — During the
war we’ll have prosperity; then by
the end of Roosevelt’s reign the
Republicans will get in; then we’ll
have the natural after-war depres
sion, and the Republicans will get
the blame.” (Ed.’s note—this is
only natural—her father is working
for the gov’t!)
Lyell Glenn, between her teeth:
“I absolutely refuse to discuss it.’
Mary Best, shrugging: “It does
n’t do much good to say anything
now, does it?”
Frankie TysoH; “Those of us who
don’t think it’s the best move will
just have to join the good-losers
club and bear with them in this
period of trial.” (Ed.’s note: For
which she REALLY thinks, jaunt
down to the Smolk House).
Thom Clark: “Willkie talked
himself out of the presidency—he’d
have stood a good chance if he’d
kept his mouth shut.”—(well!)
Ann Ewing: “I’m sorry mainly
because my room-mate is a holding-
the-torch type — which means I’ll
still have to wake up every morn
ing with Willkie’s picture “peace,
preparedness and prosperity”—ing
down on me.
Frances Yelverton: “I think it’s
fine because he’s awful cute.”
Ceil Nuchols: “It’ll probably
mean my ' removal from Salem to
W. P. A.”
Miss X (Ed.’s note — I wish I
knew who spoke these words!)
“You know I don’t even care about
flunking that old quiz—this time
next year we’ll all be raising kids
for the regime anyhow!”
Floss Harris, lost in profound
thought: “Well at this point Roose
velt’s leading by a little over 3
million votes.”
And so it goes, my friends—four
years from now we may not even
know the difference.
LITTLE RED MAN
TO APPEAR AGAIN
On Friday, November 15, the tra
ditional Candle Tea will be held at
the Brethren’s House, sponsored by
the Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Home Moravian Church. A silver
offering will be taken; the proceeds
will be used for the work of the
auxiliary.
Visitors will be invited to see
Miss Ella Butner make beeswax
candles in the first basement of the
house. In the sub-basement, mem
bers of the auxiliary will tell the
story of the “Little Red Man.”
Coffee and sugar cake will be
served by circle members who will
wear traditional Moravian costume.
STUDENTS TAKE
HONOR PLEDGE
The annual installation of the
new students into the Student Self-
Government Association of Salem
College was held Tuesday night,
November 5, in the Old Chapel.
Members of the Student Govern
ment Council marched in, carrying
candles and were seated at the
front of the room. The President
of the Student Government, Mar
garet Patterson, then explained to
the new girls what the Student
Government stands for and what
the Honor System is. She read the
pledge that each girl was asked to
take which stated the promise that
she would uphold the rules of Salem
and, to the best of her ability, in
fluence others to do so. Then each
girl came to the front of the room
and agreed to the charge by sign
ing the pledge.
Sunday, six girls from Salem
went to Chapel Hill to attend a
conference of the North Carolina
Student Christian Movement. The
delegates at this conference were
sent by the Y. W. C. A.’s and the
Y. M. C. A.’s of all the colleges
in North Carolina. It was a co-edu-
cational and inter-racial conference.
The theme of the meetings was “A
Christian in the Warring World.”
Registration for the conference
began at 9:45 at Graham Memorial
Building. The morning session be
gan at 10:30 with a worship service
led by Bennett College, a colored
college in Greensboro. The morning
address on the theme was by Dr.
A. D. Beittel, Guilford College.
After this there was a discussion
on the address, then a recess for
lunch. Dr. Alphonso Heningburg,
from the North Carolina College
for Negroes, gave the afternoon
lecture, which was followed by an
other open forum. The conference
closed about 4:00 o’clock.
In a student election held Thurs
day, Virginia ‘ ‘ Sammy” Pou was
chosen as President of the Freshman
Class. ‘ ‘ Sammy ” is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Pou of Ral
eigh, N. C.
“Sammy” is a graduate of Need-
ham-Broughton High School of Bal-
eigh. She has been actively inter
ested in sports, being particularly
well known for her success in boat
ing and in horseback riding. She
was prominent this summer in the
boat-racing contests at Mbrehead
City. Her interests are many here
at Salem, where she is making prog-
ss in both curricular and extra
curricular activities.
Other nominees for president of
the class were Margie Craig, Normie
Thomlin, Avis Lehey, Kathryn
Manning.
Other officers elpcted Thursday
were:
Peggy Jane White, Winston-Sal
em, vice-president; Virginia Poster,
Statesville, secretary; Frances Har
rison, Winston-Salem, treasurer.
BOOK WEEK PUTS
EMPHASIS ON
PERSONAL LIBRARY
(From The Library by Chauncey B.
Tinker, Sterling Professor of Eng
lish Literature, Yale University, in
The Symposium On Going To Col-
legs.)
“. . . I must not conclude these
remarks without some word regard
ing the value of a student’s private
library. Nothing can ever take the
place of that. Not the British Mu
seum nor the Library of Congress
can take the place of the books
which the student has bought and
read for their own beloved sake.
They are like the twenty books clad
in black or red, which were prized
by Chauncey’s clerk above all the
pleasures of the world. To live in
the daily presence of a few great
books is itself an education. There
is something in their very physical
presence which invites us to turn
and to return to them, till at last
old acquaintance begets in us a
likeness to our ancient associates,
the worthies of the world.
“No personal library can ever
discharge the function of a groat
college library, as no college library
can ever be to a man what his own
humble collection of well-worn
books may be; but love of one be
gets a love of the other, and as
there is distinction in a great col
lege library, so there may be dis
tinction in a private assemblage of
books, however small.
“There is an’ old and perhaps
foolish query about the books
which one would wish to take with
him if he were to sojourn upon a
desert island. But like some other
foolish questions, the problem which
it sets us is worth pondering. Upon
the voyage of life there are few
books of which we may hope to
make lifelong compknions; and, as
in the other relations of life, it be
hooves us, if we hope to avoid
calamity on our voyage, to choose
our mates with discretion.”
Bail Room Coquetries
By TOM CAUBLE
(Reprint from the Davidsonian)
Perhaps the most common stag-
bait is the tried and true phrase;
Come back — I’ve got something
to tell you.” When the young gal
lant rushes back to receive this im
portant communication, he is never
quite able to get out of the young
lady just what she meant, but he
receives further meaningful and
sly glances, and thus taps scores of
her partners on the shoulder
throughout the evening.
Again the coquette is quick to
establish a bond in common with
the innocent collegian and is sure
thereby to know at least a dozen
people that he knows. She can thus
employ stock remarks in conversing
about them and make the average
undergrad feel that he has indeed
won friends and influenced people.
Again many a lively evening is
insured by flattering' the dancing
of the powerless college man. His
reaction to this is immediate, and
he promptly vows to impress his
mastery of the dance on her
throughout the course of the eve
ning.
The young ladies new to the
wiles of ballroom coquety have used
to great advantage the most funda
mental of all stag-stoppers—name
ly, the wink. The success of this
artifice is practically assured and,
as it is relatively simple to exe
cute, it is indeed one of the most
popular ways and means.
A few of the more farsighted in
the sisterhood are well-informed
enough to blow up visiting Pan-
Hellenic men with a eye to future
cotillions a»d figures. This c
bait is generally reserved to the
more veteran of the trotters, how
ever.
There are certain mechanical de
vices which are in general usage
also. The pat on the back is said
to be generally effective, while tlie
hand-squeeze is very pertinent to
any situation also.
Every competent trotter has seen
the collegian somewhere before.
That is, she creates for him the
illusion that he has been around,
and as this is much satisfying to
the vanity, it is a very effective
means.
The young ladies work on the
principle also that everyone is a
senior. Freshmen have been known
to break time and again on trotters
employing this simple artifice.
Again the trotter’s creed recog
nizes every faternity as the best.
There is nothing quite so able to
raise the collegian to hights as to
realize that his is the best fraterni
ty.