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Page Two. THE SALEMITE Friday, February 20, 1942. Published Weekly By The Student Body of Salem College Member ^^Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association SUBSCKn TION PRICE - $2. A YEAR - 10c A COPY Member PissociaiGd Cblle6iaie Press Distributor of GDlle6iate Di6est RKPflBSKNTKO POM NATIONAL ADVERTISINO BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. Nrw York, N.Y. CHICAGO • BOSTON ■ LOS ANGELCS • SAN FkAfTCISCO EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Edilor-ln~Chief Carrie Donnell Associate Editor Barbara Whittier EDITORIAL STAFF Nenvs Editor Doris Shore Sp'orts Editor Louise Bralower Music Editor Alice Purcell Faculty Adviser Miss Jess Byrd Sara Henry, Leila Johnston. Julia Smith, Frances Neal, Daphne Reich, Katie WolfF, Mary L. GUdewell, Elizabeth Johnston, Barbara Lasley, Margaret Moran, Marie Van Hoy, Helen Fokaury, Margaret Leinbach, Mary Lou Moore, Betty v'a’^derbilt, Marv Worth Walker, Elizabeth Weldon, Mary Louise Rho^ies, Lucie Hodges, Frances Yelverton. THE NEW EDITORIAL POLICY FEATURE STAFF Feature Editor Eugenia Baynes Mildred Avera, Dorothy Dixon, Anita Kenyon, Nancy Rogers, Nona Lee Cole, Elsie Newman, Ceil Nuchols, Mar earet Ray, Dorothy Stadler, Elizabeth Griffin, Betsy Spach, Kathryn Traynham. Reece Thomas, Marion Goldberg, Mary Best, Katherine Manning. F>USINESS 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, Betty Moore, Adele Chase, Mary E. Bray, Nancy McClung, Sarah Lindley, Allene Seville, Elizabeth Griffin, Margaret Kempton, Sara Barnum, Jennie Dye Bunch, Lib Read, Harriet Sutton, Ruth O’Neal, Yvonne Phelps, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Edith Shapiro. HERE’S TO MACARTHUR, FREEDOM, AND THE MAGAZINE - - - Last week with the final and fatal news that all dreams of a literary magazine for Sal em were truly dreams, those of us who had dreamed and planned and figured and drawn plans and talked until we were blue in the face shed a few painful, though silent tears and prayed that oui' dream was not truly dead but merely dormant. We could not publish a magazine this year. If we drop the subject there, our efforts !ii publication would probably have been wast ed anyhow . . . but if we decide now not to |)e licked either at home or abroad by this war, we can lay plans' now and make arrangements now to HAVE A LITERARY MAGAZINE. AVe who conceived and labored over the idea of the magazine think it one worthy of sacri fice ... we have not given up, we are merely gathering our strength in good militai’y fash ion to strike at the right moment. Th^ idea of a magazine is now an embryo . . . let’s nuture it with thoughts this year, and make it an actuality with all-out work next year. —M. B. THINK IT OVER, SALEMITES Salem is a school of implicit trust in one’s fellow man; there are no keys; there is an enviable honor system. It would seem though that we shall soon be forced to reverse things — to ol)tain keys and do away with our honor system. This is a dire state of affairs especial ly at the present time. We have l)een urged by the President of th& United States to finish school so that we may be the leaders of tomor row. Wliat sort of leaders shall we l)e? If we can’t maintain a sense of honor and in- teg?'ity in school, what hope have we of doing so in life? And what right have we to lead others? Salem girls are essentially fine, and each of us is p^oud to be one, but if the present state of affairs eontini;es, we shall doubt our right to be proud and become ashamed. There is no acceptable excuse in the woi'ld for cheat ing or for stealing. Those innocent of any wrong must not be made to give up an honor system and mistrust everybody. Those guilty of doing wrong have no right to drag down the name and reputa tion of Salem College. Think it over. Something must be done. —M. L. G. There has been some criticism of the new policy of the Salemite as announced in the last issue of the paper. After the recent light cut “victory” in which we, as the voice of the student body, felt we had a part, we were encouraged to con centrate on a new campaign, the betterment of the recreation room in the basement of Alice Clewell. The critics of our policy say that in reality the recreation room is nothing but the smok ing room, and as such does not concern the entire student body. Indeed, this room is known on the campus as the “smokehouse” and the students who us^ it are called the “smokehouse crowd.” Our censors say that since the smokehouse is used by only approximately one-third of the student body the reform should come from within that minority group. The point is that the recreation room was originally in tended for the pleasure of everyone; but under present con ditions those who do not smoke cannot enjoy it. The atmo sphere is so smokey that that one not immune through constant proximity to cigarette smoke can not see through the denseness to hit a ping pong, ball or play cards. And then it is always nice to be able to see the persons with whom one is conversing, whether that person be a date or an acquaintance here at school. In other girls’ schools the students'use the smoking room both as a place of study and play. There are dreams of installing a ventilating machine, a water cooler, a “juke box,” and of improving the general ap pearance with murals and more comfortable furniture. These dreams will never be realized unless the “smokehouse crowd” and their friends sliow that they really want such improve ments and are capablei of enjoying them. As long as ashes are flicked on the floor, and cigarettes are ground out on the walls or floor or whatever happens to be convenient, and destruc tion of furniture through careless burns continues, the adminis tration will not heed our cry for improvement of the smoke house. Won’t you do your part in keeping the smokehouse looking its best as it is? —B. W. Jle C(U*t Bien que tout le monde disc que la France est morte, la France vit . . . et vivra toujours! La Prance nous a legue une littfirature niagniflque, des peinturcs fameuses, des decouvertes scientifiques, et une belle langue; mais surtout olle nous a transrais un esprit de liberte qui va, tot ou tard, triompher. Quand la France nous a donne la Statue de Liberty, nous avons pense, peut-etre, que c’fitait tres belle. Avons-nous dejil oublie que le nom de cette) belle statue, “La Liberte Illuminant le Monde” reprSsente 1 ’Ideal eternel de ces Fran^ais qui ont ete obliges, plus d’une fois, de so flfip.hir sous un joug tyrannique impose par une force physique su- perieureSavons-nous, par hasard, quo la jcune fille qui tient le flam beau reprfisente Marianne, symbole de la nation frau^aise? Depuis le temps de la Revolution, et meme avant, I’csprit de lib erte a prSvalu en France. Ce pays a une histoire longue et compliquee, mais La France a toujours survecu i tous les distateurs, S, toutea les in vasions, etj ^ tous les efforts de l’6craser. Peut-etre serait-il ippropos de se rappeler la devise de la Cite do Paris, (cette partie de la ville de Paris situoe sur une ile au milieu de la Seine). Puisqu’il cette ile a la fornu' d’un bateau, on a adopt! la' devise “Fluetuat nec mergitur.” Cette devise ticnt bon aujourd’hui parcequ’elle est fond6o dans une croyance im'branlable en la nation fran^aise. II y a deux ans les journaux ont annonce que la France etait tonibec. Peut-etre etre/ etait-elle tombee, mais elle vit toujours, et elle se relevera plus grande et plus belle que jamais! NEW CLUB NEEDS MEMBER’S SUPPORT The International Relations Club, a fairly recent organization at Sa lem, is thriving on the faithfulness of a few members. The club meets oaeh week, and its members are try ing to hold discussions on current topics at each meeting. A big meet ing will be held at a later date. At this time there will be a lengthy discussion on what has been said in the former shorter meetings. The club is divided into three groups: the political group of which Leila Johnson is chairman; the social group of which Polly Herman is chairman, the economic group of which Elvira Krwin is chairman. A club of this sort is a worth while thing if it is sujyported well. However, at Salem, people sign up to do things, and somehow or other they don’t do them. If the club is to live at Salem it will have to have more support. The club isn’t going to work if people don’t go to the meetings. When I see a rattlesnaix head in a hole, I just shies by, and I says to thait snaik: tjhat hole belongs to yu. —Josh Billings THEATREJALfNDAR Carolina Mon., Tues., Wed. — ^‘Roxie Hart.” Thurs., Fri., Sat. r— “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” DEFENSE BONDS FOR SALE state Mon., Tues. — “Forty Thousand Horsemen Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. — ‘ ‘ Cowbov Serenade. ” Forsyth Mion., Tues. — “Bride came 0. 0. D.” Wednesday — “ChaIvey’s Aunt.” Thursday — “International Squadron” Fri., Rat. —' “Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” Colonial Mon., Tues. — “Eagle and the Hawk.” Wednesday — “This Way Please.” Thursday — “In the Navy.” Friday —' “Billy, the Kid, in Santa Fe.” S'aturday — ‘ ‘ Man from Montana.” What do you, a woman, have at stake? What can you do about it? This is the ques tion that is arising in the minds of the wom en of today, and the women in the college and universities are the ones who are going to answer it. Let us take a simple story of a mother with two children. As she reads the evening paper she wonders what the world will be like when her youngsters grow up. Stories from the Fascist countries, of toddlers in uniform learning how to carry a gun; of school boys and girls taught rare hatred from their textbooks;. of sons and daughters spying on mothers and fathers and telling their teach ers when their parents criticized the Govern ment — these and other reports had made this mother say so often, “Thank God this is Amer ica and our children are safe from that.” She couldn’t be sure any longer, because the Nazi hatred was spreading to the youth of other countries — the conquered countries of Europe. The real attack was launched where it would be most effective, in the schools. The on-slaught was effective. It is our job to launch a counter-attack through our schools and colleges. And this mother is typ ical of American women. She reads the daily papers and interprets the news in terms of what it means to her family and country. She sees in the news a threat to democracy. To her democracy means free speech, free press, and the right to vote. It means books, teachers, and schools free from censorship. It means racial tolerance and religious freedom. It means a childhood spent free from the shadow of a gun. It means family life free from spying and tat- ling. It means that the Government is the servant of the people, that the people are not the slaves of the state. The men have done their part for their country by entering the army and working overtime in factories. But what can a woman do? Then came the President’s appeal to aid the nation by buying Defense savings stamps and bonds. American women do 85 percent of the retail buying of the country. So many times a decision to save rather than to spend rests with them. Thus it was especially to them the President spoke, when he said that with jobs more plentiful and wages higher, a slight saving here and the omission of a few luxuries, there, would make it possible to swell the coffers of the Federal Treasurer for de fense. Buying defense bonds is buying a share in the future. A better future for America’s children. Women will save and endure any kind of hai'dship to make it possible for them to have healthy lives and free lives. Besides the goals of democracy that have already been mentioned, there are two others that Pi'esident Roosevelt ha.s added: freedom from want, and freedom from feai-. The first means world economic organization that will secure for all peoples healthy lives. The second aims at world-wide reduction of armaments, so that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of .physical aggression against any neighbor. For fill of these things, the women will support national defense. W^omen cannot wear a uni form and wield a gun, but they can buy a bond and get their friends to buy them. This is a part made for them to play. Through college campaigns and a con scientious effort to buy your stamp every week the program will be successful. —Clipped From “Campus Comments.” For Victory,., Buy UNITED STATES DEFENSE BONDS ★STAMPS
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