• Dater Denounces Rules
• Wonderer Suspects Evil
• Pierrettes Produce Play
WSSF Receives Support
Eater Praises Food
• Salem Faces the War
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VOL. XXIII.
DEHYDRATED
NEWS REVIEW
AFEICAN FRONT—
On Sunday, October 10, from 9:00
o’clock to 3:00 a. m.. United States
troops landed along the whole coast
line of Vichy Morocco and Algeria,
just at the time Bommel’s troops
were fleeing from the British in
Egypt. If the Allies can hold their
gains in North Africa, the Axis
will probably be, attacked from Sic
ily to Murmansk. Hitler will then
have 10,000 miles of front to pro
tect. This second front was opened
in hopes of weakening Hitler’s
forces and causing him to spread
them thinner. Part of the North
African invaders sailed directly
^rom the United States and part
used Britain as a way station.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942.
PIERREHES PLAY TUESDAY
Number 7.
PACIFrC FRONT—
For the first time in this war Gen
eral MacArthur took the offensive
by air, land and sea. In the air
the problem of how to get troops
from Australia to New Guinea was
solved by General Kenny who flew
thousands of soldiers to New
Guinea. On land U. S. troops are
carrying the offensive in the vicin
ity of Buna. MacArthur mustered
enough ships to carry out a flanking
attack on the north coast.
RUSSIAN FRONT-
Stalingrad became a secondary
objective last week in Russia. The
primary objectives now are the
ports and oilfields of the Caucasus
and the entrance to the Caucasus
passes leading to the middle east.
EUROPEAN FRONT-
Last week British bombers blast
ed the iK)rt of Genoa with two-ton
bombs. The raid was the sixth on
Northern Italy. American flyers
kept up their steady attacks on
Nazi arsenals in Occupied France.
AMERICAN FRONT-
No longer is there a Republican
minority in Congiess. Last week
voting bro"ught the Republicans
within an inch of controlling the
House.
Now York’s new governor-elect is
Thomas E. Dewey. Dewey will be
the first Republican governor in
two decades. He ran against At
torney General John J. Bennett, Jr.
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BEADING FK03VL LEFT TO RIGHT; JEAN HODGES, OABLOTTA CARTER, AND FRANCES YELVEETON
MUSIC HOURS
ARE RESUMED
At last that accustomed institu
tion of music hour has come into
view again, and next Thursday,
November 19, will witness the first
afternoon student recital of the
year. The program will begin at
four o’clock in Memorial Hall, and
will consist mostly of senior music
majors. Those gracing the stage
and performing will include Eliza
beth Johnston, Marion Gary, Lindy
Stokes, Lacy Lewis, Annie Hyman
Bunn, Jane Garrow and Margaret
Loinbach.
Music hour has becomc one of
our thermometers in judging the
musical talent here at Salem. The
recital promises to be a most inter
esting and enjoyable one, so come
over to Memorial Hall next Thurs
day and judge for yourself.
WSSF DRIVE TO BEGIN
MILDRED LEE TO PLAY
LEAD IN PRODUCTION
The World Student Service Fund,
an international, non-sectarian, non
political organization, that provides
direct relief to students and profes
sors who arc victims of war, is the
authorized channel for aid to stud
ent war prisoners. Approaching the
situation from an international
standpoint, the members of WSSF
believe that they have a special
responsibility for their fellow stud
ents. Thus it is through relief, plus
education and reconstruction, that
they plan' to build the future.;
'In order to partially meet the
needs of the war prisoners, it is nec
essary to raise approximately $300,-
000, the goal for American students
and faculty. Although that sura
triples last year’s request, conserv
ative estimates value an adequate
sum at $2,000,000.
And an amazing number of col
leges in the United States are giv
ing the 'WSSIJ dive a terrific boost.
Mount Holyoke, Smith, Yale, Union
Theological [Seminary, University
of Illinois, Randolph-Macon Wom
an’s College, Yale Divinity School,
and Stephens College are undertak
ing to pool their resources, to raise
$100,000. Then students at Rad-
cliffe, and other colleges located in
the Boston area, as frequently as
possible, set forth to harvest the
apple croi>. For their efforts, farm
ers pay them well, and the students
turn the money to the WS.SF. Other
colleges arc following the excellent
examples set by these universities
and schools.
The WSSF is swamped with ap
peals for this $300,000. Daily ship
ments leave the United States for
all parts of the world. In China,
75 per cent of students are on re
lief, and their living costs are 30
times greater now than in 1937.
Food, their greatest need, must be
followed up with winter clothing,
medical care, self-help for students,
and travel aid for the pupils to
move constantly with migrating uni
versities. All of these essentials
See—WSSF-r-Page 3.
“Skates, skates, who’s got my
skates?”
‘ ‘ How should I know, I want my
knitting.”
“But it’s about time to go on,
and I don’t know my first line! Oh
horrors, where’s my book?”
“How do I look? . . . Why, I do
not, I look nice!”
All the while Mrs. Williams tears
her hair and quietly wishes she had
never hit Salem campus.
Hans Brinker is in its last week
of polishing. Thursday night the
first dress rehearsal was held. Con
fidentially, it was right fineMildred
Lee has finally learned to walk in
ice skates and Normie Tomlin has
at last learned her lines; so Hans
Brinker is surely on the road to
success.
Hans Brinker is the first play to
be given in the series of plays that
the Children’s Theatre Board of
Winston-Salem is sponsoring. It
will bo given at' 2:30, November 16,
at Gray High; November 19 at
Uanes High; November 20, Reynolds
High; and here at Salem November
17 in the Old Chapel at 8:30.
Hidden treasure, a mysterious
gold watch, a skating race, and a
father who has lost his memory are
only a few ingredients in Hans
Brinker. Although this play is be
ing produced for the school chil
dren of Winston-Salem, it will be
one of the best dramatized plays
that the Pierrettes have ever given.
The costumes and the color alone
See—PIERRETTES PLAY— P. 4.
FIRST CONGRESS
SETS TO WORK
Launching something completely
new in Salem Self-Government, the
Legislative body had its first meet
ing Monday afternoon. The only
business of this preliminary meeting
was to elect a secretary, and to
plan for the first real meeting,
which will be held at 6:45 Monday,
November (23 in the basement of
Bitting.
Betty Vanderbilt was quickly
chosen as secretary, after which
Mary Margaret Struven, vice-presi
dent of Stee Gee, made a short talk
on the aims and purposes of the
Legislative body. Struvic reminded
the representatives that their r'3-
sponsibility was no light thing; that
they were not to take this opi>or-
tunity for law-making as a field
day for promiscuously passing mean
ingless rules. The whole purpose in
formulating this new division of
government 'vas to insure genuine
STUDENT Self-Government; unless
students are seriously and actively
interested in their government, the
whole purpose is invalidated. She
See—FIRST CONGRESS—P. 4.
SALEM FACES
THE WAR
((The following statement was
dictated by President Rondthaler,
now in the City Hospital, upon tho
subject “Salem College and the
War.”)
In a recent meeting of the Salem
College Faculty the subject of war
and the educational institutions of
America was briefly summarized in
a statement by Salem’s delegate,
Mr. David Weinland, who has just
returned from attendance upon tho
meeting in Philadelphia of the As
sociation of American Colleges and
has also attended last week’s meet
ing of the North Carolina College
Conference.
It is entirely apparent that edu
cational institutions both for men
and women must not only be ob
servantly aware of present day
world wide war conditions but that
these emergency times demand ac
tive cooperation on the part of the
educational forces of the communi
ty, whatever this co operation may
involve. If America’s colleges are
to be in line with present-day de
mands, it may mean important mod
ification in certain curriculum,' and
it certainly calls for a re-study of
college practices in the light of to
day’s war opportunities and needs.
This sutiject is vital both to the
colleges for men and the colleges
for women in the light of the new
]>art and place which women must
play in the great adventure of to
day. “Salem” shall not be found
lacking in constructive procedures
merely because she has threaded a
continuous path through the prob
lems of war and peace during the
past 170 years since her organiza
tion. Today is not yesterday but is
rapidly becoming tomorrow, and
this undoubtedly means that the
j)rocedures which generations of
aeadomie experience have sanctioned
shall not be considered as “sot”
and immobile merely because these
procedures have endured through
long generations.
The principles of the' past are de
fined through long experience, but
the methods in a hastening world
deserve scrutiny in the spirit of
readiness to re-adapt long-time
principles in new modes of proced
ure.
To this end the faculty of Salem
College clearly is determined that
their institution shall not bo found
stubbornly resisting new types of
student work just as rapidly ns
those modes, having been investi
gated, are believed to be a necessary
See — SALEM FACES — Page 4
WHAT, WHEN,
WHERE
WEINLAND TO MAKE
LOVE FEAST ADDRESS
The Reverend David E. Weinland,
assistant to Dr. Rondthaler, will d3-
liver the anniversary address for
the love feast at Home Moravian
Church on Sunday afternoon, No
vember 15, at three o’clock. Tho
feast, followed by holy communion
at four o’clock, will celebrate the
171st anniversaryl of the Salem con
gregation and will also commemo
rate the Moravian synod of London
in 1741 at which Jesus Christ was
named as the chief elder of the
Unitas Fratrum.
TRADITION
CARRIES ON
On Wednesday, November 11,
Betty Vanderbilt, president of the
Senior Class, presented the tradi
tional ivy and tree to Salem—a tra
dition which Seniors have carricd
on for a number of generations. In
the absence of President Rondthal-
er, Mr. Weinland accepted the Sen
iors’ gift.
The site selected for the ivy
planting was the North Doorway of
Hattie Strong Residence and to
this site, the semi-frozen, be-owl-
suited Seniors led a procession of
Salem students and faculty. Miss
Vanderbilt offered the ivy, and Mr,
W/einland accepted with a nice
speech about the poetic conception
of ivy as a hiding place for old
and crumbling walls. Our ivy, he
said, was not to cover evil but to
decorate beauty. After the offer-
See—TRADITION—Page 4.
Wliat: Two Japanese Students
Wlhen: Sunday, 6:45 p. m.
Where: Basement of Bitting.
WHiat: Y Choir Practice
When: Sunday, 7:15 p. m.
Where: Old Chapel ,
What: Jr.-Sr. game
When: Monday, 4:30 p. m.
Where: Hockey field
What: Alumnae Meeting
When; Monday, 8:00 p. m.
Where: Old Chapel
What; Miss Turlington
Wjhen: Tuesday, chapel hour
Where: Memorial Hall
What: Salemite Meeting
When: Tuesday, 5:15.
Whore: Basement of Bitting
What: “Hans Brinker”
W'hen: Tuesday, 8:30 p.
Where: Old Chapel
m.
What: Music Hour
'Wllien: Thursday, 4:00 p. m.
Where: Memorial Hall
What: Candle Tea
When: Friday, 3-9:00 p. m.
Where: Brothers’ House