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THE SALEMITE
Friday, January I 5, 1943
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Kditor-In-Chief Ceil Nuchols
Associate Editor Bobbie Whittier
Make-up Editor Mary Best
EDITORIAL
Music Editor
Sports Editor
Mildred Avera
Frances Jotips
Katherine Manning
Sarah Merritt
Lucille Newman
Peggy Nimocks
AND FEATURE STAFF
Margaret Leinbach
Sara Boiven
!Mary Louise Rhodes
Doris 0. Schaum
Xiiney Stone
Katherine Traynham
Kathryn Wolff
Francos Yelverton
Mary Lib Allen
Margaret Bullock
Rosalind Clark
Jackie Dash
Lois Wooten
Joy Flanagan
APPRENTTOT^R
Barbara Humbert
Senora Lindsey
Sebia Midyette
Julia Staith
Helen Thomas
Ethel Halpern
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager Mary Margaret Struven
Ass’t Business Manajrer Mary Elizabeth Bra^
Advertising Manager Betty Moore
Circulation Sara Bowen, Ellen Stuck}
ADVERTISING STAFF
Margy Moore, Elizabeth Beckwith, Katie Wolff,
Jane Willis, Nancy Vaiighn, Corrinne Faw, Martha
Sherrod, Becky Candler, Doris Nebel, Adele Chase,
Nancy McClung, Sarah Lindley, Allene Seville, Eliza
beth Griffin, Margaret Kerapton, Harriet Sutton, Ruth
O’Neal, Yvonne Phelps, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Edith
Shapiro.
YOU CAN USE IT AS YOU CHOOSE
Heading Day—that valuable day, that
priceless day became more significant to me,
when thhe administration did not sacrifice that
“day of days” in, making up the time lost at
Christmas holidays. I am not a poor student
nor am J a good one—just average—but I
realize from past experience that without
Reading Day, I should be well on down hill
road to failure. So take heed and listen
freshman—not you geniuses, but you average
students.
How do some students spend Reading
Day? First let’s take lovable, free-from-all
worry Sally. Reading Day—why that’s the
day she can catch up on back sleep. She can
eat at the drug, play bridge, and smoke to
her heart’s content. No exams the day after
Reading Day, but two exams the next day. Oh
well, why worry~she can cram at the last
minute.
Now let’s consider how Hazel—the good
all-round, conscientious student—spends Read
ing Day. Her day begins bright and early in
the morning with a good breakfast. No loaf
ing for Hazel, except for brief relaxation or
exercise periods when her mind refuses to
click. A quick turn in the ;risp, cold air makes
her feel like a new woman, and she is ready
to tackle any subject. Past experience has
taught Hazel to haunt her pet seat in the li
brary, and to shun the smoke-house and gossip
parties. Also Hazel knows the importance of
making out a schedule, which allows time and
thought for those hard subjects she will have
next week. Plenty of sleep and no light cuts
follows the close of Reading Day, for Hazel.
Is Hazel’s way too ideal for you? Well
try Sally’s plan—if you dare! But above all,
don’t get excited and jipset. Examinations
aren’t a matter of life and death . . . they’re
a matter of simple, intelligent organization of
a semester’s learning. So take it easy, Girls
. . i and the best of luck to you all.
—P.J.
Well, we’re back. We didn’t say how . . . we just made a simple
statement. And it’s a grand feelingl First of all our glories were
those sev'oral tests which anxious professors hadn’t quite been able
to squeeze in before we departed for the holidays. Then there were
those gentle reminders of the volumes of books we’re supposed to have
read during the semester. And the final blow struck with the realization
of innumerable term papers to be written twixt now and then. And all
this right here under the very teeth of examinations! It is truly a
marvelous season. We are now posting a list for all those who desire
t» set sail with us into oblivion for the duration . . . starting right this
minute!
In endeavor to forget the gruelling days ahead, we have launched a
new regime ... 10 hours sleeping per night, 4 hours eating (cither in
the dining room or in the drug or in somebody else’s box from home),
2 hours wholesome exercise over a bridge table, 2 hours getting organ
ized to tackle the aforementioned term papers, 2 hours napping it oft,
and them other 4 hours . . . well, can we help it if we ain’t got no
cuts? See, Mr. Ourlee ... we can too count!
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Other projects we’ve taken up with a consuming passion are folk
dancing and a probing research into the movie industry. The latter
naturally necessitates our inspection of every single film released from
Hollywood—and, oh boy, what a bunch of stinkers! Contrary to other
Salem critics, we personally vehemently resented them forty-four pen
nies wasted on ‘■‘Somewhere I’ll Find You.” We could have gone to
some nice courting ground (Wo didn’t mention L. W. B.’s bottom,
please), and got the same show for nothing. “The Moon and Sixpence,”
however, was almost enough to overcome the dark brown taste left in
our mouth by “S. I. F- —only, them technicolor murals. Ye Gods!
As to project No. 1, we can’t resist letting the semester die without
putting ourselves on record as having said^ “Don’t it beat all?”
In mentioning folk-dancing, we also feel called upon to question
the necessity for phys. ed. exams on the last dern day—there is one
purely unhappy crew of folk groaning about the campus.
There’s no question about it at all, we did honestly enjoy Tues
day’s chapel . . . even the announcements were fun. But we couldn’t
help sitting there wondering why we hadn’t been so enchantd with
Herrick whilst struggling through English Lit. Such, we philosophize,
is the .way of life. Maybe ten years from now we might even appre
ciate a dose of Boyle’s Law. Hmmmmm . . . does that put an awful
tax on your imagination, too?
Frankly this typewriter ain’t clicking so good what with a month’s
vacation . . . and. frankly we ain’t clicking so good either what with all
them educational necessities looming precariously over our head. We
therefore beg to be excused and to wish you aU the best of cramming.
Ugh! . . .it’s mighty sickout.
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THIS ABOVE ALL
At exam time we are "reminded that dur
ing examinations, as always, the honor sys
tem prevails. The question is raised and the
point made of what the honor system means
to the school as a whole and to each individual
student. We are told that the whole group
can be no stronger than the weakest member
and that a working honor system must have
the support of every student . . . We wonder
just what this means. It means that we stud
ents liave pledged to be responsible for our
honesty and fair play; it means that we must
each have faith that the other will uphold
this pledge. It means simply that each girl
♦is supposed to have the integrity to know the
value of honor, and that her integrity is re
spected by everyone else.
We would perhaps expect to hear along
with the traditional statement of policy that
the honor system is more important this year
than ever before. But honor is no more im
portant this year than it ever was, a system of
respect is no more important than it ever was
. . . because the honor system is a fundamental.
basis that has always been of ultimate im
portance. What is more important this year
is time and unity. We haven’t time to bother
with the links that break; nor can we be
without unity. As our college struggles for
survival, both unity and time are important;
and we must, be able to assume that the honor
systenrt at the foundations does not topple.
It remains then that the honor system is
the responsibility of each individual, who
must see for herself that it works. Remember
the words of Plato as you go to your exams,
“The first and best victory is to,conquer self“
and the honor system will prevail.
~M. B.
IN RETROSPECT
During this semester, the SALEMITE has
advocated a number of tilings . . . some of them ■
wei'e lealized and others were not. We pled
foi- uneensored productions by the Pierrettes
. . . and we never I'eceived an answer any more
graphic than that plays must remain within
the limits of “good taste and literary value.”
We threw ourselves behind the physical edu
cation department in au eifort to stimulate in
terest in athletics . . . and we think we’ve
done a creditable jol). AVe patriotically cried
out for salvaged scrap . . . and we were so
so completely misunderstood that we dropped
the entire issue. A\ e asked for a new system,
of cheeking chapel attendance . . . and we have
heard not a single word from anyone. We
^^®^§cd to smoke at dances . . . and we may now
do so. We went all out for the bond drive . . .
and Salem certainly responded with a fair
share. We pled against the miserable organi
zation of WHO’S WHO . . . and we hope to
see either a more democratic treatment or a
complete avoidance'of the “honor” next year.
We sought to have dates without all the red
tape of getting permission . . . and we were
voted down by the student legislature. We
rallied ourselves in behalf of the underclassmen
who couldn’t have dinner dates . . . and they
new enjoy the same privileges that Seniors
have. We begged for a student government
that IS a student governmelit . . . and we
haven t given up yet. We are constantly try
ing to increase your interest in books ... in
reading French and Spanish . . . and in keep
ing a clean Smoke House.
Such is our record for the first semester
of the 1942-43 year. We’ve been elated with
our successes . . . and discouraged with our
failures. But, all in all, we hope that we’ve
done what you students wanted us to do; for,
after all, the SALEMITE is supposed to be the
voice of student thought. If, therefore, you
are either satisfied or' dissatisfied, it is your
duty to let us know . . . and we pledge our
selves to do our best to ijaeet your approval
in 1943.
—Ceil Nuchols, Editor.