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THE SALEMITE
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Friday, October 3, 1941.
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor-In-Chief Carrie Donnell
Associate Editor Barbara Whittier
EDITORIAL STAFF
Nenus Editor Doris Shore
Sports Editor Louise Bralower
Music Editor Alice Purcell
Faculty Adviser Miss Jess Byrd
Sara Henry Mary L. GHideweU Mjary Liou Moore
Leila JohnstonElizabeth Johnston Betty Vanderbilt
Julia Smith Barbara Lasley Mary Worth Walker
Frances Neal Margaret Mjoran, Elizabeth Weldon
I>aphne Reich Marie Van Hoy Mary Louise Rhodes
FEATURE STAFF
Feature Editor Eugenia Baynes
Mildred Avera Elsie Newman Betsy Spaeh
Dorothy Dixon Ceil Nuchols
Anita Kenyon Margaret Ray
Nancy Rogers
Katharine Traynham
Reece Thomas
MEDITATION
SUNDAY’S BEST
LISTENING
Je suis assise prfes d’une fenetre,
et devant moi je vois toute la gran-
derr d’un beau jour d’octobre. Un
vent leger souffle, et les feuilles, en
core vertes, soupirent. Elies pensentf,
peutetre, a la mort qui les attend.
Le ciel clair^ et bleu donne sa bene
diction au monde. Par un tel jour
il est facile do reconstruire .beaucoup
des scenes dont les podtes ont ecrit.
Ce sont les images de la nature qui
souvent font les tableaux des podtes.
Is'ous autres, nous ne voyons pas tou-
jours toute la beauts qui est autour
de nous, mais ces gens qui 6crivent
de belle poesie I’ont vue et goflt^e.
II est bien de se rappeler qu’il y a
toujours de la beaute si I’on sait la
trouver.
Harriet Sink.
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NEWS
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager Nancy Chesson
Assistant Business Manager Dorothy Sisk
Advertising Manager Mary Margaret Struven
Exchange and Circulation Manager Dot McLean
ADVERTISING STAFF
riora Avera Mary Lou Brown Margaret Kempton
Becky Candler Nancy McClung Sara Banum
Doris Nebel Sarah Lindley Jennie Dye Bunch
Betty Moore Allene Seville Lib Read
Adele Chase Elizaboth Griffin Harriet Sutton
Mary E. Bray Dorothy Stadler
GET TO GIVE AND
VICE VERSA
Each student at Salem contri
butes to the Y. W. C. A. fifty cents
a yefar, which is included in. her col
lege budget fund. This week the
Salemite is publishing the Y bud
get for 1941-42, so that each girl
may see just whefre her money goes:
An excellent way to determine the true na
ture of an individual is his or her ability to live
in social groups with his fellowman. Through
fellowship that which is vital in student life
and after school life is shared in a way that is
beneficial to any progressive community life.
The stimulations found in working and
conversing with others of like interest invari
ably produces ideas that just one person might
have spent a life time in conceiving.
We all should wish to get all that there is
to be obtained from these things that make
up our lives.
Join the group v^hich interests you most,
then give and get all there is to be had.
HAVE YOU HAD
YOUR PHYSICAL?
ILive you had your physical yet? — or
perhaps I should ask — your daily dozen
which consists of a springy jaunt on one leg
from Miss Maynard’s office to the mantle-piece
in the infirm^iry and back again to Miss M.’s
office. The take off is performed after you
have inhaled enough deep breaths to convinct
the doctor that you’re pretty good at relaying
Then the door to the office is thrown open and
you’re off-hopping madly, you gather up speed
as you go along — when once more you are
back in the office you feel that a blue ribbon
or a floral design of some description to hang
horseshoe fashion around the neck is small
reward for your efforts (now you know how
War Admiral felt). My, you haven’t done
that since hop scotch days.
Well, it’s good exercise so if you haven’t
had your daily dozen hop right down to the
infirmary!
—L. H.
National Y. W. C. A.
World Student Christian
Fellowship
Social
World Fellowship
Stationary
Community Service
Conferences
Speakers
MiscellancJous
$10.00
10.00
80.00
75.00
10.00
30.00
80.00
10.00
45.00
Rally;
others,
Total $350.00
To explain each pigeon hole for
a Salemite Y dues, the ten dollars
to the National Y. W. C. A. is our
yearly fee? to belong; and the ten
dollars for World Student Christian
Fellowship goes to needy students,
such as Chinese students in the war-
stricken areas. The eighty dollars
for social activities" takes care of
teas and parties. A little boy in
Alaska is being clothed by the
money spent for World Fellowship.
Tern dollars for stationary takes
care of the letters written to new
students by the Y cabinet each year
and also of any other correspon-
dc^nce done by the Y. For com
munity service, the Y is now donat
ing two quarts of milk daily for
three months to a needy family.
The money for conferences helps
pay ?xpen9es of several Y delegates
to Blue Ridge each June.
Special Programs
P. M.
1:15 World Series Baseball Game
MBS
11:00 Fight for Freedom
Wendell Wilkie, and
MBS
News and Conunent
P. M.
12:45 Upton Close, NBC
3:15 H. V. KaltCnborn, NBC
5: 45 William L. Shirer, CBS
8:45 Gabriel Heatter, MBS
8:55 Elmer Davis, CBS
9:00 Walter Winchell, NBC
Variety
P. M.
12:15 I’m an American, NBC
2:00 Wake UP America, NBC
2:30 University of Chicago Round
table', NBC
4:15 Tony Wons’ Radio Scrapbook,
NBC
4:30 Behind the Mike, Quiz Kids,
NBC
5:30 How to w|n $5,000, NBC
5:30 Musical Stuntmakers, NBC
6:30 The Grcfat Gildersleeve, NBC
fi:30 Gen.e Autry’s Melody Ranch;
Dear Mom, CBS
6:45 Comments by Mrs. F. D. Roose-
• velt, NBC
7:00 Jack Benny; Mary Livingston,
NBC
8:00 Bergan and McCarthy; Abbot
& Costello, NBC
8:00 American Forum of the Air,
MBS
9:00 Manhattan Merry-go-Round,
NBC
9:30 American Album of Familiar
Music, NBC
10:00 Hour of Charm, NBC
10:00 Take It or Leave It, CBS
Drama
P. M.
6:00 Silv?r Theatre, Mickey
Rooney, guest, CBS
7:30 Screen Guild Theatre, CBS
7:30 Captain Flagg and Sergeant
Quirt, NBC
8:00 Helen Hayes Theatre, CB^
8:30 One? Man’s Family, 1^0
8:30 Crime Doctor, CBS
8:30 Inner Sanctum Mystery, NBC
10:30 Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, NBC
10:30 Columbia Workshop Presents
25 by Cronin.
Fine Music
P. M.
12:30 Radio City Music Hall, NBC
3:00 Columbia Broadcasting Sym
phony, Howard Barlow, conduct
ing, CBS
4:00 Albert Spalding, Andre Kos-
telatz Orchestra; Juan Arizu
guest, CBS
5:00 Family Hour, Gladys Swarth-
out. Deems Taylor, Russ Graham
and A1 Gurdman’s orchestra, CBS
9:00 Ford Sunday Evening Hour;
Dorothy Manoue and Sir Thomas
Beecham, guests, CBS
DO YOU KNOW
WHAT YOU READ?
- Week
The first iknd best victorj is to conquer self; to
be oonquered .by self is of all the iaost shame
ful and Tile.
—PUto,
The question of the week is:
Should Student Council meetings
be open to the student body?” Af
ter questioning many students as
to their opinions, we found that no
one could give an answer as de
finitely Pro or Con. Most of the
opinions took the middle? course.
Mildred Avera, a council member,
said that open meetings “would do
away with the feeling among the
students that the Student Council
is pulling something over their
eyes. The members of the student
body can make their complaints
publicly.’' But individual girls
couldn’t be treated this way.
Louise Bralower, aiiother council
member, says that certain meetings
should be open to the students—
meetings where problems concern
ing the whole school are discussed.
But these meetings should be sup-
plimentary to the regular council
meetings. “The council could get
suggestions straight from the stu
dent body, rather than from a sug
gestion box.”
Lucy Farmer feels that there
should be a “general awareness of
the workings of the counciL” She
suggests having general meetings
open to the student body so that
students w#uld knoTr what's going
on.
"The ednncil is a represeiititiTe
bod^* aid not a Mer^t or^Miu-
tion. ” declared Mary Lucy Baynes,
a freshmen. If the students want
an open meeting of a certain sub
ject, let them ask for it. She says
that these meetings should pertain
to subjects that affect more than
one person.
Eleanor Hutchins says “There’s
no need of having a student coun
cil if the whole student body is go
ing to approve everything.” But
the students should know what’s
going on and they should be given
a chance to disapprove. Then if
the council does something the
students can’t complain about it.
Katherine Cress thinks that since
we elect council representatives, we
ought to leave matters to them.
But there should be student body
meetings to explain certain steps
which the council has taken.
Barbara Whittier reminds us that
“the student council members have
been elected ■ to represent us, and
we have confidence in their judge
ment.” Certain decisions which
they make should be explained, but
this should not include details about
individual cases.
Reece Thomas, president of the
student body, seems to have sum
med up this question by saying that
there should be “open meetings to
discuss problems pertaining to the
student bod|’''. -‘Bnt indiTidnal
cases should be takm up bjr th*
conneil represeitati^M. •
Give us “quotes” and a famous name for
authority, and we’ll believe anything we hear.
If any of George Washington’s gems of wis
dom have survived, they must necessarily be
so; for wasn’t George the Father of our Coun
try? And as patriotic Americans, should we
not cheer for George’s sayings? Greek art has
been crowned with the “halo of antiquity,”
so we flock to the art museums to gape at the
Venus de Milo. Few of us bother to find out
why we like it, if we do. It’s ancient, it’s
Greek; therefore we will admire.
Our text books are sprinkled liberally
with famous sayings, which we swallow whole
like so much pfe-digested spinach. One of
these profound remarks may be found on page
three of last week’s “Salemite.” “Poetry is
the record of the best and happiest moments
of the happiest and best minds.”—Shelley.
I can recommend this quotation as a space
filler. It will take up; seventeen words, counting
the name of the author. But I can’t see any
other reason for printing it, except the obvious
fact that Shelley said it. We all love Shelley,
but isn’t it possible that he said a few things
not worth repeating? Can it be that this defi
nition of poetry which we have heard all our
school lives is nothing but a play on words?
Perish the thought! But just to be stubborn,
let’s look at it a little more closely.
Poetry may be the record of any kind of
a moment; a tragic, suffering moment as well
as a happy one. I don’t think Emily Dickinson
was very happy when she wrote: “After Great
Pain a Formal Feeling Comes.” Nor was T. S,
Eliot full of the. joy of living while composing
“The Waste Land.” According to convention
al ethics, much of Swinburne’s poetry does not
record his “best” moments.
The same argument would hold true for the
“happiest” minds. Most great poetry was not
written by the happy ones. I can think of
nothing more tiresome than book after book of
happy poetry. Creation is the result of strug
gle and conflict, as well as the passive emotion
of so-called happiness.
Nor must poetry always be produced by
the best minds. There is good and bad poetry,
as there is good and bad music, good and bad
art. Fortunately, the bad is often weeded out
by time; (which is what we hope happens to
Edgar Guest); but the fact remains that Shel
ley’s definition just won’t hold water.
Why not do something about this naive,
un-critical attitude ? Must we be always spoon
fed with the excess verbiage of some haloed
name? But of course I know as well as you
do, that twenty years from today we will still
be told what Shelley said about poetry. And
we will accept it as gospel truth, having long
since forgotten this little outburst in the
“Salemite.”
—A. K.
DOING OUR PART
From all reports the chapel programs this
year are to be most interesting. The chapel
committee has planned and worked out these
programs, and the speakers are giving their
time and effort for our interest. •
To make these programs even better, there
are certain small things we can do. For ‘in
stance, we can get in our lines alphabetically
and quickly at the appointed place; cease all
talking after the organ prelude begins; refrain
from excessive rattling of papers; stand until
our row is completely filled; rise at the correct
times; and make our announcements quickly
and clearly.
The programs will be more enjojrsble; to
speakers and Uaite.]Mrs ijf w« do onr part.