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VOL. XXI.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.
Number 16.
RONDTHALER
BROADCASTS
OVER WA!R
Outstanding in the events that
took place in the city Tuesday was
the broadctst over WATR of inter
views with representative South
Americans. In the absence, of Dr.
John Downs of the language de
partment of the college, Dr.
Howard Rondthaler conducted the
broadcast with the ease and dignity
of one who had not only been hav
ing interviews all his life, but who
has also been constantly active in
radio work.
The three persons interviewed
Were Mr. Eoberto Ancizar of
Colombia; Mr. Lindburger from
San Palo, Brazil; and Miss Janet
Lauder, from Chile. Both the ques
tions asked and the answers given
Were interesting, instructive and
intelligentally planned. Of special
interest were questions on chief
products, population of countries,
climate and the like. Of more per
sonal interest were questions as
these :
Question: What do you think of
American girls?
Mr. Ancizar: This is not a dif
ficult question. Of course, I have
not a great experience, but I find
the American girls simply charm,
ing and lovely.
Question: What are the most
striking contracts between the
Xorth -American and Chilean ways
of living?
Miss Lauder; The children and
women are very conscidens of dress
and keep up with European and
American fashions. It is difficult
to find ready made clothes, as they
are too expen.sive . . . we do not
have many night clubs or good
oi-chestras . . . dances start about
11:30.
Question: What American authors
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TUESDAY’S PROGRAM
One hundred and ten strong, the
South American “summer school”
students at the University of North
Carolina descended upon Winston-
Salem Tuesday, February 11, and
immediately became the topic of
the day.
Arriving at 10 a.m., they wore
met at the city limits by an of
ficial committee and a motorcycle
escort and were taken to the Hanes
Hosiery Mill for an inspection tour.
Later three of the group and Dr.
Rondthaler, though station WAIK
gave a short-wave broadcast to
South America.
The highlight of the visit, as far
as Salem was concerned, was the
luncheon in the "Old Chapel.” Dr.
Bondthaler acted as master of cere
monies, and Mayor J. R. Fain wel
comed the guests, making them
honorary citizens of the city. The
music for the occasion consisted of
selections by the Salem choral en
semble, Harold Mickey and his
string ensemble, and a quintet from
the Winston-Sialem Teachers’ Col
lege. Dr. Sturgiss E. Leavitt and
Dr. J. C. Lyons, both of the Uni
versity, and Mrs. Mickey made
short good-will speeches. Mrs.
Mickey, who is a native of Argen
tina, led in singing native South
American songs. The program was
broadcast over station WSJS.
In the afternoon a tour of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
was followed by a visit to the
Wachovia Historic Museum with
Salem seniors and advanced Span
ish students acting as hostesses. At
4:30 Mrs. R. J. Reynolds held an
open house for the visitors and
members of the Salem May Court.
-\fterward the South Americans re
turned to Chapel Hill, leaving with
Salem a spirit of personal Pan-
Americanism and leaving the stu
dents in quite a flutter over the
visit.
DOES MR. STOWE SEE....
... .THE FUTURE AS THIS?
(By Chubhv Hayes)
After many preliminaries I was
seated very properly but hummily
across the breakfast table from Mr.
Lelaud Stowe in his room at the
Robert K. Lee. It was 9:30, the
morning after his lecture, and the
typical hotel room was as neat as
the proverbial pin. Mr. Stowe’s
Val-a-Pak was packed but not
folded lying stretched out on the
bed. We were seated at a table
near the window and the bright
sunlight fell directly on his head.
His hair which had seemed very
white at night and in all his pic
tures was definitely iron grey this
morning. He looked very natty in
a green suit and wine tie.
“Now, young lady, tell me just
what sort of an interview you’d
like to get out of me,” he said.
So I told him something about
our Valentine issue of the Salemit®
and how we’d like to get his views
on American women in relation to
the probable war, etc., etc. As I
talked he ' consumed a glass of
orange juice and started to work
on his grapefruit. Each time I men
tioned a new point he would cock
his head in a rather bird-like man
ner, and look directly and intently
at me. Before he began to speak,
ho wiped his lips on a towel which
h had previously secured from the
bathroom—lacking a napkin.
“Well,—(long' pause) I think
one of the biggest things an Ameri
can woman-^a patriot—can do, is
to expect the most in service of
country from the men she knows
and nothing less. We’ve got to
have the right attitude towards
conscription and you girls can do
a lot towards developing that atti-
rtude. If we’re going to have any
country at all we must be willing
to devote a year to it, and a man
does want to be a hero to his girl
friend.”
He finished his grapefruit and
started on a poached egg and cof
fee. Meanwhile I questioned him
concerning what girls our age were
doing in other countries and what
he thought we ought to be doing
now.
“Well,—(long pause)—First of
all, I think every girl should know
something about First Aid and even
Nursing with a Captial “N,” if
possible. Then she should know
something about automobiles, am
bulances and airplanes. There was
a long, long pause and then Mr.
Stowe jumped in his seat and said:
“For instance, in Athens I knew
two young women who drove am.,
bulances six or seven hours a day,
sometimes in the blackout, that’s a
real job, and they were just little
slips of things, too.”
“In fact the women of Greece
were doing a glorious job every
where—especially with the wound
ed. They met every train; gave out
hot food and coffee, helped with
extra bad eases, wrote letters, etc.
That’s really a woman’s work, and
they are doing it beautifully.”
“If we got into war — we
wouldn’t run short of man power,
W'e wouldn't necessarily need
women in industry. Therefore
women in nursing, in social assist
ance should organize now, because
they’ll have a definite place in the
schme of things. ’ ’
By this time he had finished the
egg and two pieces of toast. Since
I know he was leaving at 10:30
0 ’clock for Greensboro and Duke,
the end of breakfast seemed a fit
ting point at'which to conclude the
interview. First, however, we ex
changed various personal amenitia,
in the course of which, I inquired
about the unusual pin he was
wearing, which I had noticed on
his dinner jacket the night before.
He informed me that it was a re
plica of a shoe worn by the Greek
Guard, and that all the Greeks were
wearing them,
“I brought gobs (sic) of them
home,” he said, “but my sister-
in-law and my wife’s other relative
have distributed them all over the
place. ’ ’
He laughed heartily, and I rose
to leave. On our way down to the
lobby we discussed North Carolina
and Conneticut, and he cracked
several jokes. When I reached the
street, however, the thought came
to me that dispite his chipper man
ner, his twinkling eyes, and his al
most-ever-present smile, Mr. Leland
Stowe was fundamentally a very
serious man, and a very convincing
one. No matter what his views
were, there was a charm about
him when he began to talk about
the Greeks and the glory of their
ROBERT JENSEN
We stop in the midst of our
gayety feeling sad, for we have
lost a beloved friend.
Although we did not know
him well, we kneW his smile,
his song, and all the things ho
stood for. He sang for us, and
we took him to our hearts.
His death marked the passing
of a fine and noble character
—a man whom we all loved and
a njan whose spirit and whose
presence we shall sorely miss.
fight, which cannot be denied. In
any case he’d be a good man to
have on any side for which he
thought the cause worthy.
A LADY HAS
FACE VIEWED
X man has examined “the face
af the Earth,” It was an English
man, a member of a race with abso
lutely no imagination, according to
Mr, Leland Stowe, one who had
to mount “the wings of scientific
truth” to take one of the longest
trips ever taken back to the time
before the earth over had a face.
Thus, Dr. Francis rinscombe,
teacher of history, philosophy and
Bible at Salem, on Wednesday
morning, February 12, at chapel,
took his audience into the “chariot
of scientific investigation.”
First ho gave his interpretation
of the birth of the earth two
thousand million years ago, a fiery
mass torn from the sun. He travel
ed through the years in which this
mass cooled down and in which a
crust was formed upon its face. It
was still “without form and' void,
full of chaos and desolation,”
Gradually the waters separated
from the land, and life appeared—
first vegetable and then animal
forms.
After picturing the dinasaurs and
reptiles who for so long ruled, he
saw next man’s advent to the earth
and the beginning of civilization.
He pointed out the progress which
has been made by man within the
last five thousand years. Looking
out into his audience. Dr, Ans-
combe said:
“I see a generation of young
women who live in the golden age.”
These young women, he continued,
arc recipients of the struggles of
the past ages and of the great
truths of such philosophers and
scientists as Abraham, Jesus,
Charlemagne, Bacon, Newton, Pas
teur, Darwin, and Einstein, ‘
From the present, he examined
the face of the future— a face free
from the revenge and violence of
the past, free from war and fear.
He saw the steady gain in the world.
For, he continued, if it has sur
vived Sargon, Sennacherib, and
Napoleon, it will survive Hitler,
He saw the promise of the future
through the progress of the past.
He saw a force sweeping away the
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HELEN JEPSON
SINGS MONDAY
The Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association is proud to announce
the coming appearance of Miss
Helen Jepson, who will sing in the
city Monday night.
Critics have been generous in
their praise of her. “A glorious
voice, a vital intelligence, a win
ning charm , . , that is the rare
trilogy of gifts represented in the
radiant person of lo\-ely Helen
Jepson,” A career of hard work,
added to her natural talents, has
brought success to this Metropoli
tan opera soprano. Her voice gave
promise oven in high school days
in Akron, Ohio, but upon gradua
tion she was not immediately able
to pursue serious study. She work
ed as a clerk in a department store
and sang a a member of a church
choir,One summer she sang for a
director of the Curtis Institute of
Music, who advised her to try for
a scholarship there, which she did
—winning three in a row! An
engagement with the Philadelphia
Civic Opera was followed by her
first prima donna role of Nedda in
“Pagliacci, ” then followed by a
trying period of opportunity hunt
ing, One day discerning ears select
ed her for a solo part on a leading
radio program . . . she so dis
tinguished herself that she was
quicklj’' signed and made its
“star,” Not long after, the great
impresario Gatti-lasazza heard one
of her broadcasts, became impress
ed with her beautiful voice, sum-
moned her to his office, and
awarded her a Metropolitan Opera
contract. Her rise has been ox-,'
trerael,y rapid since. She is married
to George Possell, who for thirteen
years was flutist with the New
York Symphony Orchestra, A lodge
in the footside of the Catskill
Mountains servos as Miss Jepson’s
retreat when absent from her
rigorous career.
Miss Jepson has a spontaneous
flair for the stage. She carries
“the beauty, the warmth and the
quality of human sympathy whicii
distinguish her, charming the eye
even before she conquers the ear
with her fresh and lovely voice.
Hers is a gift of radiance . . .
hers the power to move every
listener to homage to this glowing
young goddess of song. ’ ’
Buses wifi leave the college at
7:30 and tickets may be obtained
from the dean’s office.
iful !ion“ bs,ml shrdi the can
GIRLS’ FUTURE
PREDICTED
Miss Ruby May Jordan of the
Katharine Gibbs Secretarial Sfihool,
spoke to the students in chapel Fri
day morning on the subject, “We
College Women in Business.”
Speaking of the increasing diffi
culty of women to got a job, she
said, that the college graduate had
the best opportunity, among her
fellow job seekers, of securing a
position.
Miss Jordan spoke only of the
secretarial positions to be offered
in the business world, and stressed
the fact that training is needed
in this field, as in every other one
She said that this training, how
ever, was comparatively simple to
secure, and would offer the best
advantages in the long run, for it
enabled the secretary to secure a
position in almost any field that
she might be interested in. She
cautioned those, however, who plan
to enter the secretarial field, to
select a feminine field, unless their
training should especially fit them
for competition in a field largely
open only to men.