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THE SALEMITE
Friday, November 28, 1941.
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STUDENTS
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor-In-Chief Carrie DoM.e”
Associate Editor Barbara Whittier
EDITORIAL STAFF
News Editor
sports Editor Louise Bralower
Music Editor -
Faculty Adviser r’ *
Sara Henry, Leila Johnston. Julia Sm^ith. Frances Neal
Daphne Reich, Katie Wolff, Mary L. Clidewell, Elizabeth
lohnslon, Barbara Lasley, Margaret Moran Marie Van Ho^
Helen Fokaury, Margaret Leinbach, Mary Lou Moore, Betty
v/anderbilt, Mary Worth Walker, Elizabeth Weldon, Mary
Louise Rhodes, Lucie Hodges.
FEATURE STAFF
Feature Editor Eugenia Baynes
Mildred Avera, Dorotlyr Dixon, Anita Kenyon, Nancy
Rogers, Nona Lee Cole, Elsie Newman Ceil Nuchols Mar
Raret Ray. Dorothy Stadler. Elizabeth GnfTin^ Kf rv
Kathryn Traynham, Reece Thomas, Marion Goldberg, Mary
Best.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager Nancy Chesson
Assistant Business Manager Dorothy Sisk
Advertising Manager Mary Margaret Struven
Exchange and Circulation Manager Dot McLean
ADVERTISING STAFF
Flora Avera. Becky Candler, Doris Nebel, Be«V
Adele Chase, Mary E. Bray, Nancy McClung, Sarah Lindley,
Allene Seville, Elizabeth Griffin, M^ga ret Kempt^. bara
Bamum. Jennie Dye Bunch. Lib Re^ad, Harriet Sutton, Ruth
O'Neal, Yvonne Phelps, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Edith Shapiro.
The Editorial Policy -of the “Sale-
niite is;
1. Better “light-cut’
all the dormitories.
conditions in
ter.
Improvement of the Student Cen-
—The Editors.
DO YOU WANT A
SALEM TEA ROOM?
In the open forum of the “Salemite”
few weeks ago a suggestion was made that
Salem have a tea room of its own. Salemites
upon reading the article realized that this
thought had been playing around in their head
for quite some time, and now it had been
voiced by one of their number in the open
forum. Approval of this excellent suggestion
was expressed from all sides but it seems
to have been a veiy passive approval. Nobody
has taken the responsibility of finding what
can be done toward bettering our present way
of entertaining guests. Even with our meal
ticket allowance of two guests per month there
are times when we woiild like to take our
friends to a smaller and more personal place.
We still have Winkler’s and the drug store
where we can entertain our visitors — or per
haps we could treat them to a can of tomato
juice and a package of cheeze crackers from
the Y. store. But if we want the advantages
of a tea room our actions will have to speak
as loudly as our words.
—M. L. M.
AS YE WOULD —
In the past few issues of the Salemite there
have been many interesting editorials and open
forums, most of them offering constructive
criticism of Salem. And such criticisms are
good, if the students are willing to take criti
cism, too.
Have you, as students, been contributing
as much to the classes as you expect the teach
er to add? Have you been guilty of getting to
the gym late, and then fussing about being late
to your next class? Have you really done the
parallel reading you reported on your cards?
Try to give a little more than you expect to
receive, and you will be surprised when you
find life to be fun!
The. needs of students who are
prisoner.s of war, or who are in
training for war, is under the con
trol of the Kod Cro.sa and the World
Student Service Fund as agreed on
in 1929 at an international conven
tion to regulate the treatment of
prisoners of W'ar.
The needs for prisoners of war
are growing, and are likely to con
tinue to grow, in three ways. Great
Britain ami Germany continue to
take nioro prisoners. More of the
luc'n already in camps hear of the
World Student Service Fund, and
make request of the Geneva office,
particularly for books. Negotia
tions are in progress for the exte?n-
sion of the services to prisoners of
war in Italy and in Kussia, and to
Russian prisoners in Germany.
The most desperate not'd of all,
however, is for relief to the stu
dents in liefugee and Interne
Camps. It is more difficult every
day to maintain health, intellectual
interest, morale—or even life itself
in the crowded and isolated camp.s.
The World Student Serv-ice Fund
and musical instruments, and organ
izes classes and lectures.
Chinese Universities Undismayed, by
War
Of the 45,000 students in China,
20,000 are in need of relief. Since
with limited funds only a small
proportion of the applicants can re
ceive help (20-.50%), great care is
taken to select the best qualified
students who are in greatest need.
Students in need of aid register
with a given local Student Belief
Committee. Each applicant is re
quired to file a photograph and
full information about his or her
circumstances, including previous
and present academic record, to
gether with a brief essay reporting
his or her experiences through the
war, and reasons for continuing to
study. Eeferences are also required.
The World Student Service Fund
has helped some ten thousand stu
dents during the four years of the
Sino-Japanese War, probably one
in eight of all the students enrolled
in that period.
In spite of the aid giv.en in the
past, the need for help is increasing
each year. The costs of living are
soaring; and certain categories of
relief, such as medical aid and
work projects, have grown in im
portance in the past year. There
is also a steady and significant
rise in the number of students en
rolled in universities; in three years
of war, enrollment has grown from
.^S.OOO to 45,000, a remarkable fact
in a country at war. The need for
help from the United States is there
fore greater than ever before.
American Aid Needed
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
has endorsed the World Student
Fund in the following words;
“Through the long years of war
our Government has steadfastly ad
hered to a policy of cultivating and
fostering student leadership
throughout the country. With
Gov'ernment aid, Chinese colleges
universities, and other institutions
of higher learning have continued
to operate in spite of the tremend
ous hardships and dangers of in
discriminate aerial bombardment
This is well known to you. The
importance of this policy for the
future of China is apparent. Our
students must be prepared to as
sume leaderhip in all spheres of our
national life. Viewed in this light
aid that has been extended to our
we appreciate all the more the
students.”
Only the support of American stu
dent enables the work of relief to
Chinese students to go on.
Avez-vous vu les jeunes filles qui
vienncnt en classe sans avoir pr6par6
leurs devoirs? Ou les 6tndiantes qui
se prom&nent sur le campus, les
yeux a demi fermfis, et qui 6rp6tent
sans cesse “Que j’ai sommeil!” Peut
etre ne savez-vous pas pourquoi les
lumiferes brillent toujours dans la
Vieille Chapelle. II n’y’a qu’une
reponse: on est en repetition pour le
premier spectacle de I’annee.
Ce soir nous pouvous assister &, la
representation de ‘ ‘ Stage Door'
donnee par les Pierrettes. La piSce,
eerite par Edna Ferber et George S.
Kaufman, sera presentee le 27 et le
28 novembre, huit heures du soir
dans la Vieille Chapelle. “Stage
Door” est une pifece qui est, en meme
temps, tragique et comique. L’action
se passe dans une pension de jeunes
actrices, musiciennes, et danseuses,
comnie on en voit souvent a New
Y'ork. Chacune pense etre la meil
leure de sa profession; chacune pense
qu’avec un peu de chance, elle sera
une Cornell ou une Hayes. Elies font
des reves, elles ont des ambitions,
elles travaillent toutes pour la meme
chose ... la renommee. A la fin, les
unes abandonnent leurs esi>erances,
les autres arriv^ent a leur but. La
ie des jeunes arabitieuses est char-
mantex, parfois drole, et souvent
pathetique.
Donnez un temoignage de votre
interet en venant voir vos amies
dans cette presentation. Je suis
sfire que vous vous y amuserez bien.
—Edith Shapiro.
ARE YOU SUPPORTING THE
STUDENT SERVICE FUND?
If love is like an onion, and you
take it with delight ,
And after its gone you wonder.
Whatever made you bite—
Then why don’t we make a change
And not make it quite so strong
For in this day and time of flitting
We don’t want it to last so long.
Elizabeth Griffin
CHAPEL PEOGBAM
Tues., Dec. 2—Stndent Activities
Tliurs., Dec. 4—Mr. Higgins
The Student Body of Salem College,
through their defense committee, has decided
to support the Red Cross and the World Stu
dent Service I\ind through direct contributions
and through the sacrifice of one type of food
for one meal each week.
The Red Cross was selected because it is
a permanent organization extending help to all
peoples, and because the students will also be
helping the British indirectly.
The World Student Service Fund is the
only agency supported entirely bj^ students and
extending help exclusively to students in other
parts of the world. The purpose of the World
Student Service Fund Ls to help salvage the
student leadership of this generation in the
Far East and Europe and to train it for na
tional and international reconstruction during
and after the war. The sponsors of the move
ment are outstanding persons — the Presidents
of such colleges and universities as Vassar,
AVellesley, Smith, Vanderbilt, and Princeton,
w'ho feel that the support of the Fund is the
best way to lay foundations for post-war in
ternational co-operation.
The defense committee of Salem feels that
both causes are worthy of the whole-hearted
supporU off the students.
LIBRARY REVIEWS
GREEN’S BOOK
Thousands of students in Europe are in
\var-prisoner camps. They want books, maga
zines, study aids. Give these to them through
a contribution to the W. S. S, P.
The Highland Call
1941 publication
This is another play of American
history — a call to the highlands
ahead. The dreams and fears that
shaped the lives of the Scotch in
the Cape Fear Valley are the
Ireams and fears of America today.
In six scenes the moving and dra
matic story of Flora McDonald is
told with pageantry, song and
dance.
In 1774 Flora McDonald, friend
and protector of Bonnie Prince
,'harlie, came with her family to the
new world seeking what she had
never know in Scotland — “Peace
is there, peace, and love for one
another”. But her happiness was
shortlived; her new land and its
people were torn by revolution and
the Republic was born. The vision
was there, even if Flora couldn't
recognize it. Dan Murchison, the
bond servant saw it, and this is
his story too. And it is the story
of many others, of all the Scots,
simple and great, who settled the
Capo Fear.
NaJtive son
, (Best Plays of 1940-41)
This is a drama in three acts—
mildly sensational and definitely
arresting as a modern problem
drama. It deals with a racial pro
blem of such vital concern to the
social body that it is well received
by the readers and the ones that
have seen the play.
Some of his other plays:
“In Abraham’s Bosom” — A
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Best Plays
of 1926-27)
“The House of Connelly” — Best
Plays 19.31-32.
Johnny Johnson” — Best Plays
1936-37.
The Lost Colony
Published 1937
The moving story of Sir Walter
Raleigh’s colong oo Roanoke Is
land. Paul Green has taken the
known facts and traditions of the
romantic mystery and by the crea
tion of characters and the evocation
of atmosphere breathes life into a
shadowy legend. Though poetry,
song, and dance pantomime he has
wrought a fabric of enduring beau
ty-
The Laughing Pioneer
Published 1932
Judge Long and his daughter
(Continued on Page Four)
Students around the world depend on the
United States. W. S. S. F. is the only organiza
tion devoted to student relief.
WHAT ABOUT THE
DAY STUDENTS?
Not so very long ago a prominent person
on the campus . . . and no student either . . .
was heard talking to one of the Winston girls
who began boarding out here this year. She
said, “How do you like being a boarder? It’s
much nicer than being a Day Student, isn’t it?
You know, we have so much to do looking out
of the girls who live here on the campus, we
hardly ever have time to think about the Day
Students.” And she told the truth. Nobody
seems to have time to think about the Day Stu
dents. All of us boarders are too busy looking
out for ourselves.
We have all heard a lot of talk about the
Student Center, but of course we shrugged it
off as we do a lot of things and thought “that
doesn’t concern, us. That’s the Day Student’s
business.” But it does concern us. The Student
Center is a disgrace to the campus. It is big
anl ugly and uncomfortable. The doors will
not stay closed, even in this cold weather and
the poor girls are freezing to death. Some of
the ones who do not smoke are being driven to
the Smoke House to keep warm. Others have
decided that they had just as soon freeze as
stifle.
Suggestions for improving the Student
Center have been a topic of discussion for
some time. Most of the girls would like to see
tlie barn divided into two rooms ... a study
room and a room strictly for conversation, with
a booth for the telephone stuck in somewhere.
They are not asking for much, merely a com
fortable and attractive place to call their own
while they are on campus and we, the board
ers, think that it is only fair that they should
have it.
r —P. Y.
Help to provide leadership for world re
construction. Give to the World Student Serv
ice Fund.
Student Need over there is a Student Con
cern over here — W. S. S. P.