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THE SALEMITE
Friday, Nov. 6, 1942
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Editor-In-Chief Ceil Nuchols
Associate Editor Bobbie Whittier
Make-up Editor Mary Best
EDITOEIAL AND FEATtJEE STAFF
Music Editor Margaret Leinbach
Sports Editor - Sara Bowen
Mildred Avera Mary Louise Ehodes
Katherine Manning Katherine Traynham
Lucille Newman Frances Yelverton
It might be war, or it might be the onslaught of six weeks or it
might even be the tragedy of State beating Carolina . . . but whatever
in the name of all that’s good and holy it is, it has some more ruined
our morale! As we sit here raking about for things having been
1 heard, we vehemently desire to bo off somewhere on a two-by-four
tropic isle . . . alone! So when this colyum stinks too bad, you will
have the comfort of having been warned in advance.
Despite being at zero ebb right now, we can remember having
thought that the dance S'aturday was much fun. Since there weren’t
hordes of men present, we had a chance to do great amounts of floor-
cutting with the faculties . . . and really had an honest-to-goodness
superior time. The music, furthermore, was a tremendous improvement
over some of the orchestras we’ve dragged in,in times past . . . oven
if something of dance atmosphere was sacrificed. All in all, we say,
“Thanks, Stee Gee, for a grand evening.”
Mary Lib Allen
Margaret Bullock
Eosalind Clark
Joy Flanagan
Barbara Humbert
Frances Jones
Sarah Merritt
Ethel Halpun
APPRENTICES
Sebia Midyette
Peggy Nimocks
Julia Staith
Nancy Stone
Helen Thomas
Kathryn Wolff
Lois Wooten
Jackie Dash
Doris C. Schaum
BUSINESS DEPAETMENT
Business Manager Mary Margaret Struven
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beth Griffin, Margaret Kempton, Harriet Sutton, Ruth
O’Neal, Yvonne Phelps, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Edith
Shapiro.
OPEN FORUM
Dear Editor:
Have you ever planned rather carefully on
something; worked it out to the last detail;
and found that your schedule clashed with
another, not more important perhaps, but more
immediate? Have you then complained be
cause you were too polite to stick up for what
you believed was your right? We, the Pier-
ettes, have been having one series after an
other of just such encounters. We feel that
when we are working hard every day to pro
duce a play, we have some claims on the Old
Chapel. AVe feel that we have the right to
ask people not to schedule meetings there in
either afternons or nights that are not abso
lutely necessary; we feel that we have the
right to ask advance notice of any such IM
PORTANT meetings. It is a hard enough job
to get the whole cast together for rehearsals,
which are becoming more important every day,
but to call a practice . . . and to be rudely in
formed that such-and-such a class or such-and-
such a choral meeting is scheduled for that
same time at that same place is a little too
much for us to accept affably. We have as
sumed precedence over other organizations, for
the Old Chape) is the only place that we can
practice the play. We would like to ask the
various choral organizations to try, if poggi.
ble, to use Memorial Hall which has been set
aside for them; we would like to ask the va
rious classes and clubs to try, if possible, to
use the larger class rooms for their meetings;
and we would like to ask any and all people
wlio schedule meetings in the Old Chapel to
please tell us far enough in advance so that
we may make other plans, for Hans Brinker
rehearsals. We ask only common courtesy;
surely we can get it.
Sincerely,
—An Agonized Pierrette.
Then we can remember having felt so disgustingly smug on Friday
because we had evaded a Bible test. We had sat there in the room with
all the lights off and all the doors closed and all the mouths bound,
until exactly the alloted number of minutes had labored by. As soon
as the clock had struck, we had eased up and snuck out a window . . .
it was magnificent. And on Monday, we hadn’t quite got over how
foxy we were . . . and on Monday, we received a double dose of the
quiz scheduled for Friday. There just ain’t no justice at all!
Tuesday we were thrust into an unusually pensive humor by Dr.
Mauzy’s “WJiat’s Your Nanje?” He is one of the few people we’d go
almost anywhere to listen to . . . one of the few people who can get
away with asking us what meaning we have put into our name. With
chapel programs like Tuesday’s, we suspect that a out system would be
superfluous. / ‘
IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!
What really gives us this complex we’re nursing all over] the campus
is them folks getting married every other day. Fitzie was married
yesterday, Ruth Beard will add another name, in two weeks . . . and, so
help us Zeus, we caught Lib Read buried underneath a cook book the
other night. That does it!
Finally, we feel it our duty to go on record as having said that
making people appear on the hockey field in the afternoon is wondrous
to behold . . . but how in the blaze does the phys. ed. department rec
oncile its action with them words in the catalog which say: TWO hours
work per week and two credits per semester? We don’t like it, Boys.
And now, the dinner gong having blown ten minutes ago, we quit
and leave with you this tender caution: DoiFt let anyone try to tell
you that life ain’t great ... it ain’t!
QoUt
En Amerique nous disons quo nous battons pour la liberte. Mais
il me semble que la plupart de nous dit'; cela sans y penser. Quand nous
parlons ensemble, nous discutons les choses exterieures que nous ne
voulons pas pcrdre: la liberte de discours, de pensee, d’adoration et
beaucoup de choses qui manquent aux Allemands specialment.
Nous disons que nous haissons nos ennemis. Mais combien d’entre
nous ont pris la peine de nous demander si nos soldats les hai'ssent aussi?
Je crois que nous trouverons la response trfes surprenante. Je crois
qu’ils la regardent—cette guerre, je veux dire—seulement comme une
tache d^sagreable qu’il faut finir aussitot quo possible.
Peut-etre nous pourrions combattre mieux et plus effectivement si
nous nous rendions compte qu’il ne faut pas hair les ennemis. Nous
devons, au contraire, hair les choses pour lesquelles ils resistent: I’a^vidite,
la haine, et autres. Si nous faisions cela, nous gagnerions la guerre plus
facilement et plus tot, et nous gagnerions surtout la paix aprfes la
guerre.
—Elizabeth Bernhardt.
Last year our Constitution was changed
—much for the better.. Instead of just any
body representing all the students, the Student
Government representatives were divided into
two groups. One of these groups was Judic
ial—the other, Legislative. The purpose of
the division was to afford a larger student
representation in Student Government.
The Legislative body is concerned with
laws and rules—the making and changing of
them. Twice a year it meets to discuss and
plan better regulations for the student body.
Tuesday, November 10, the first meeting is
scheduled.
At this meeting an attempt will be made
to thresh out such problems as smoking at
dances. Freshman dinner date privileges, the
fairness of light-cut violation penalties, and
smoking in the living room of Bitting.
These are only a few of the problems
which could be tackled. You Freshmen have
a million pet peeves about the way this insti
tution is run, all Sophomore classes are fa
mous for suggesting changes, and the Juniors
and Seniors have supposedly reached a point
where they are able to see what should be
done. This, Salemites, is your chance to see
that things happen!!
Obviously, the students on the legislative
committee are not able to hear everyone’s plan
by just ordinary contact. It’s up to you to
let them know what you want done. It’s a
very simple task to scribble down your com
plaints and suggestions on a piece of paper,
and hand them in to the Salemite or Sara
Henry. You don’t even have to sign your
name.
The point is, the set-up can’t be improved
unless the committee knows exactly what is
wrong. If you would' like to be able to smoke
at the dances in the Gym—say so! If you
Freshmen rebel at the idea of having to stick-
around the campus instead of going out to
dinner with your date—say so! If you’re
mad as fun for having to go on restriction be
cause your room-mate left the light on after
lights-out—-say so! But don’t sit back pas
sively and say, “Well, I guess somebody else
will mention that! ’ ’ This is your time to bawl
about everything.
Come Tuesday, let’s'see a pile of letters
in the Salemite office and in Sara Henry’s
hands. Let your wants be known—but loud!
—N. S.
A PLEA FOR UNDERCLASSMEN
WHERE DOES YOUR CLASS STAND?
10^
We are speaking in behalf of the Fresh
men and Sophomore classes when we ask just
where the members of these classes and their
dates may go to have dinner. It’s a bad situa
tion when underclassmen and dates are forced
to go to Gooch’s or Welfare’s for a sandwich
and milkshake instead of the Toddle House
or hotel for a real meal. Yes, we used to com
plain dreadfully about the slow service and
high prices of the Winkler, but now we see
that it was like an oasis on the desert com
pared to the conditions of our neighborhood
drug stores.
We have investigated this matter and
found that permissions to go out to dinner
vary. One week the Freshmen are allowed to
go to thei Piccadilly. The next week they can
go nowhere. No definite rule or regulation is
being abided by in this connection. Is it not
possible to make some immediate arrangement
for the funderclassmen which , offers cleanli
ness,. decency, and good food? It would be
the solution to an immediate problem and an
embarrassing situation.
•' —K. T.