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THE SALEMITE
Friday, April 17, 1942.
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CtPITOL TO CAMPUS
Celles-ci sent des poemes ecrites par des elfive d’un lycee
New York. Pouvons-nous le faire?
Peur de la nuit
Pour(iuoi est-ee que j ’ai peur de la nuit
Quaiid les ombres tombent lourdes et noires,
Et du del, le soleil; fuit
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By Jay Richter
Washington Correspondent
JOBS
The Civil Service commission faces a tre
mendous task. Recent passage of the Rams-
peck amendment brings 85, per cent of federal
jobs — an all-time high — under commission
scrutiny. Workers in non-war agencies must
be funneled into at-war agencies. Countless
new workers must be found and dovetailed
into the government army.
This means thousands of potential jobs
for college people, whose specialized training
is eagerly sought. Often the government is
stepping in, through civil service, to give col
lege people on-the-job training — "majors”
in lines where they are needed most.
Although about 87 per cent of govern
ment jobs are “in the field,” as Washington
ians blithely dismiss the United States, some
are located here in the capital. Don’t take too
seriously what you read and hear of crowded
and costly living conditions here. A salary
of $2,000 here is equal, roughly, to one of
$1,800 in a city of comparable size. Living
quarters are crowded to be sure, but turnover
of tennants is high. Which means you’ll al
ways find a place if you watch closely and
jump quickly.
If you were one of the some 16,000 college
people who filed with civil service last month
for a “junior professional assistant” job, it
may interest you to know the exams won’t be
given until this spring. April’s the best guess.
It’s open season “indefinitely” on seniors
and graduates in chemistry, physics, and eng
ineering. So hot is the pursuit that' civil serv
ice has abandoned competitive examinations in
these fields — probably for the duration. Sim
ply show on your application blanks that you
have had requisite training. In the case of
successful candidates who are seniors, “pro
visional appointments” will be made. Which
means jobs, come spring and graduation.
You’ll be classed as a “junior professional
assistant” with starting pay $2,000 a year, al
though many agencies will try to get you for
less . . . unless you say on your blank that
you won’t take less.
Others of Uncle Sam’s favorite nephews
and nieces ore economists. Currently
favored are those with at least two years of
graduate work or experience. Successful ap
plication through civil service may bring a job
paying from $2,600 to $5,600.
Quand je reste inquiet et ne peux pas croiret
Je vois les tenebres et cntends le silence,
Pas de mouvement, de lumiSre de bruit.
Je sUis perdu dans dans' le monde immense ....
Pourquoi est-ce que j’ai peur de la nuitf
Le Printemps
Void le printemps.
C’est le beau temps
Ou tous s’eveillent
De leur long sommeil.
Les oiseaux dans le pre,
Chantent leur lai
Toute la journee.
CHINESE STUDENT
VISITS CAMPUS
Miss Lilly T ’ang who received
her bachelor’s degree in English
literature after one year’s work at
Mount Holyoke, spoke in thapel
Thursday morning. Miss T’ang is
now studying for her doctor’s de
gree at the University of North
Carolina. She is majoring in dra
matics and her third play will be
presented ou the twenty-eighth of
April.
In beautiful English, Miss T’ang
told of the effects of the war upon
China. She said that the Chinese
hated war, but since this struggle
was forced upon them, they are
making the best of it. There are
three factors upon which the Chi
nese are depending for the the de
feat of the Japanese invasion;
space, number of soldiers, and time.
The vast territory of China pre
vents the success of Japanese blows.
Miss T ’ang likened China to a pil
low upon which one may push, but
which rises in another spot and the
whole remains unchanged. There
are now 2,000,000 Chinese troops
fighting, 2,000,000 reserves, and 1,-
000,000 in training. In time, the
Chinese hope to wear out the Japa
nese troops which are inferior in
number. They are using the Scorch
ed Earth Policy, by which the Japs
are allowed to advance into China
but are then cut off from supplies
and left to starve in territory when
everything has been burned.
Mi.ss T’ang pointed out the fact
that this war is having advantag
eous economic effects upon China.
Previously, Chinese currency was
different in each province and could
not be transferred. Now the cur
rency is unified. The war has caused
an inland movement of the factor
ies. It has also broken down pro
vincial barriers and there is now a
common feeling of social equality
between sections.
Although war has abolished class
rooms and textbooks m China, it has
actually giv’en impetus to education
al forces. The Chinese are now
more determined than ever before
to preserve learning, which is the
backbone of their nation.
MODERN PROSE CLASS
MAKES CONTRIBUTION
Miss Byrd’s class in Modern
Prose, balked by the war in their
attempt to establish a literary maga
zine, has turned its interest into a
new channel — the library. This
informal ‘ ‘ Friends of The Salem
College Library” group has added
a number of books by Robert Sher
wood to the collection of contem
porary literature.
The generous contribution of
from a class which uses the library
service. Barbara Whittier acted as
treasurer for the group. Members
of the class are:
Mary Best, Mary Boylan, Car-
lotta Carter, Carrie Donnell, Eliza
beth Griffin, Sara Henry, Leila
Johnston, Ceil Nuchols, Mary Lib
Rand, Margaret Bay, Elizabeth
Read, Nancy Rogers, Mary L. Rous
seau, Dorothy Sisk, Vivian Smith,
Recce Thomas, Elizabeth Weldon,
Barbara Whittier, Frances Yelver
ton, Peggy Somers.
AGNES M. JOHNSON PRESENTS
RECITAL
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E. M. Stokes assisted Agnes Mae.
The “rich and pleasing quality”
was especially evident in "My S’or-
row.” Miss Laura Emily Pitts ac
companied Lindy.
Ldlle Red fllan
Ijoi;
THIS [S A DITCH
DIGGER
THIS IS THE RED MAN
WATCHING A DITCH DIGGER
This irresponsible creature is a Ditchdigger. It walks on
the grass and wears holes into the ground which eventually
become ditches into which its unsuspecting friends fall. It does
n’t know what a walk is for.
Were you a Ditchdigger this month?
YES?
NO?
I
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOC
“IT SEEMS TOO PONDEROUS
FOR AN APRIL DAY ”
It’s spring — with all that word implies.
It’s almost time for Junior-Senior; then May
Day and Commencement. The war is remote
and slightly* unreal for all but the most ardent
patriots. I hardly dare to venture forth upon
such a subject as: “What Will Be the Effect
ofl the War'on Women’s Colleges.” It seems
too ponderous for an April day. But April,
after all, is fragile and transitory. War is
more than a passing nightmare; it is a grim,
terrible reality.
The government looks to the colleges as
the stabilizing element in a time of social
change; as an anchor to which we may cling;
as a haven to be sought after the war. Mili
tary men are asking girl's college not even to
change their schedules; not to adopt a summer
plan; in other words to remain exactly the
same in order that the educational pattern may
be preserved.
This, in my opinion, is the wrong ap
proach. The present quickly becomes the past.
The colleges cannot expect to remain alive if
they chain themselves to a present soon ob
solete. There was a man who said to his
friend. “Times aren’t what they used to be,
are they?”
“No, and they never were,” was the re
ply. The “good old days” are gone forever.
Lell them go without vain regrets.
Colleges should not be the anchor drag
ging back, but a beacon for the future. Col
leges should be a, hot bed of new ideas; there
should be a constant intellectual fermentation.
From where should future leaders come if not
from the colleges? And how can these lead
ers be prepared to meet future problems if
they have been nothing more than a “stabil
izing influence?”
We are fighting this war for the things
the colleges stand for: freedom of thought,
freedom of growth, freedom of expression,
freedom in leadership. The aims of education
and the aims of a democracy are one and the
same. Let's not sit back and let politicians
ruin a second peace. Now is the time to pre
pare statesmen and stateswomen for the fut-
ture. We all must play a part; no matter
how small. When peace comes, may the nation
look forward to us; not back! With all due
respect for the military spokesmen, women’s
colleges are not the fashion patterns for a
present to which we shall never return; but a
fashion forecast for the future.
—A. K.
IT WAS A STORY OF
THE FUTURE ....
Perhaps if you listened to Miss T’ang in
chapel Thursday you learned something that
we panicky Jap-defeated occidentals should
know. Perhaps you learned something of the
oriental quality too often dismissed by our
rather weak synonym “patience.” Miss T’ang
had a message for those who chose to listen . . .
a lesson in faith. Perhaps now.you remember
her talk was not merely a rather fascinating
story ofl students in a war torn country: rath
er it was a story of a nation that does not lie
down and say “We are starving, we are un
armed, we are beaten,” but of a nation that
unarmed, unprepared, yet undefeated says
with an eye to the future “What we will learn
from this war is| unity. ’ ’ Hers was a story of
a great people who harbor no illusions about
their own personal importance as compared to
the importance of the life of their race, their
culture, and their ideas. Hers was not a story
of blackened country or ruined buildings, but
it was a story of the future of China ... a
a story of the unborn millions who will have
freedom and peace to carry on the traditions
of the centuries.
Perhaps in the light of 'our great worry
over tire shortages, curtailed traveling priv
ileges, and other sundry defense demands.
Oriental prattle about unity for China is a bit
out of order. But perhaps they’re just as
glad not to have the worry. —M. B.