Orolia
A total of $J21.59 was collected on
campus for the Bed Cross War Fund
Drive.
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VOL. XXV.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday March 2, 1945.*
Number 17.
Witherington Leads Stee Gee
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Above are the winners of the Picture Contest which was sponsored
by the SALEMITE. Top left is Pell Lea, “Salem Pin-Up Boy;” top right is
Phil Taylor,-“Cutest;” lower left is Jinuny Lee Rhyne, “Man I’d like
to Marry;” and lower right is Buddy Sexton, “Best Looking.”
Irwin Edman
Directs Forum
The Second Annual Arts Forum
was held last week at the Women’s
College of the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
The Writing Forum Saturday
morning was a panel discussion with
Irwin Edman, the philosopher and
writer, as guest speaker, Harry
Eussell of Chapel Hill, and three of
the English faculty of W. C. Certain
stories, essays and poems submitted
by students of W. C. were criticized
and evaluated.
Experiment versus tradition in
writing was the main topic under
discussion, with Mr. Edman favor
ing experiment (though not to the
extreme of James Joyce), and noting
the fact that all geniuses are hailed
as mad in their times, because what
they write is experimental. He spoke
with sparkling wit of the differ
ence between a “writer” and a
“typewriter,” of a writer’s talent
being perceptible by the cadence
or rhythm of a paragraph. He ex
pressed the belief that no “good”
writing is done for an audience, or
for money, and, again, that “noth
ing is good that is not experimen
tal.”
Miss Jess Byrd took two Salem
students interested in composition,
Sarah Hege and Marguerite Mullin,
and others attending were Dr.
Willoughby, Miss Hixson and Miss
Marsh.
Piri'Ups Draw
Money for Bond
Winners in the Picture Contest
sponsored by the Salemite are Pell
Lea, “Salem Pin-Up Boy,” spon
sored by Bernice Bunn; Phil Taylor,
“cutest,” sponsored by Julia Gar
rett; Jimmy Lee Bhyne, “Man I’d
like to Marry” sponsored, by Betty
Harris; and Buddy Sexton, “Best-
Looking,” sponsored by Sally Bos
well.
Proceeds from the contest, which
was held in the club dining room
on Monday and Tuesday, for ex
ceeded expectations and the Salem
ite staff is able to present to the
Athletic Association a fifty dollar
war bond to add to the fund for an
indoor swimming pool. The .goal of
the contest was a twenty-flve dollar
bond.
“Boaty” Boatwright, Coit Eed-
fearn, and Janie Miilhollem, in
charge of the cotnest, expressed
their appreciation of the playful
spirit in which Salem girls visited
the “Sweetheart Gallery” and par
ticipated in the voting.
Choral Group
Sponsors Drive
A total of $38.93 was collected by
the Choral Ensemble in ,a Ta^
Day drive on campus Wednesday
for the Federation of Music Clubs’
“Music for Hospital Ships” drive.
The War Activities Committee con
tributed $5.00, and $33.93 was col
lected from the students.
Students Pass
Amendments
Two amendments to the con
stitution were j>assed by a vote of
the Student Body on Thursday,
March 1. They are (1) that the off
campus vice-president be made vice-
chairman of the chapel committee
and (2) that both vice-presidents be
elected immediately after the Presi
dent is elected.
Molly Boseman presented the first
petition which was that the off-
campus vice-president be made vice-
chairman of the chapel committee.
She explained how a day student
would be of advantage to the chapel
committee in that she would have
contact with- people in town.
Senora Lindsay presented the
pros and cons of };he petition that
both vice-presidents be elected im
mediately after the President of
student government is elected. She
stated that the on campus vice-presi
dent is the editor of the hand book
and the girl chosen would have more
time to work on it if elected early.
Also, she stated that the vice-presi
dents must cheek u]> to the qualifi
cations of the President. On the
opposing side there is the fact that
other offices are equally as import
ant, and the hand book cannot be
published until all officers have been
elected.
After ballots and instructions had
been given about the ballot boxes,
Xell Denning, who presided, ex
plained another important item
which was about the election of
the President of Student Govern-
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According to the results of today’s election, the stu
dent body has voted Peggy Witherington president of Stu
dent Government for ’45-’46. Doris Little of Robersville, N.
C. was the other candidate for the position.
The new Stee Gee president, a member of the I’ising
Senior Class, is from Jlount Olive. Peggy is a math major
and hopes after her graduation next year to get some sort
of government job. The tall brunette with friendly blue eyes
has been an outstanding Salemite since her freshman year.
She began her career on this campus as president of the
freshman class. During her Sophomore year, “Peg” was re
presentative of her class to the Judicial board, basketball
manager, and a member of the "Sights and Insights” business
^staff.
This year Peggy holds the
position of Student Govern
ment seci'etary. She is a Junior
^lai'shal and again basketball
manager. She is secretary of
the Spanish Club and a mem
ber of the May Day Com
mittee.
In college athletics, Peggy
has made a record. She has
been on the basketball varsity
every year. This year she made
the hockey sub-varsity.
More than the usual interest
was shown in this first of the
elections for next year. Quali-
cations of good leadership were
concietrously studied by the
votei's. Eighty-four percent of
the student body voted. I^ast
year 54 percent voted-
This year 82 per cent of the
Seniors voted, 94 per cent of
the Juniors, 91 per cent of the
Sophomores and 72 per cent
of Freshman.
Major Talks
On Aircraft
With vigor and enthusiasm, en
hanced by an infectious smile. Major
Bill Stuart of the Winston-Salem
Office of Flying Safety talked to
Salem girls in assembly Tuesday.
His topic was “Military Aircraft,”
a subject which Major Stuart proved
by his lecture is close to his heart.
Major Stnart described army
planes by giving an account of his
experiences with them. With “active
illusjtrf>|tionti’’ from the platform,
Major Stuart took Salem girls with
him'on his first trip skyward when
the attitude of his instructor was
a little condes cending. Then follow
ed a flight to Cairo with experienceii
Pan-American Airlines pilots, a
“minute’s stop” in Cairo which re
sulted in a two-year stay, and a
transfer to the China-Burma theater.
At this point. Major Stuart was en
thusiastic in telling the story of
his friend Johnny Allison, one of the
“liveliest little gnome-like pilots”
he had ever seen.
Ace Reporter Mueller
Captivates Audience
Entertained At Tea
by Maria Hicks
“Pour me a cup of tea, and lets
get started. Ask me some questions,”
exclaimed Mr. Merrill “Red” Muel
ler as he raced into the basement of
Bitting where the Modern European
History classes entertained at a
tea in his honor.
So the questions started flying,
and Mr. Mueller answered as many
as he could but of course there were
a few military secrets that he could
hot reveal. One of these was as to
which part of Germany the United
States would govern after the war
—as outlined in the Presidest’s
speech March 1.
Mr. Mueller in his numerous ad
ventures has been very impressed
by the work the United States Red
Cross girls are doing. He said, “They
are worshipped”. There are only
about 500 girls in England and
France. Mr. Mueller stated that
this was probably due to the hard
ships the girls have to endure and
also to the age limit which is twenty-
five. In regard to the later Mueller
remarked, “You can always lie
about your age.” These Red Cross
girls organize clubs and drive
trucks. Some of these girls who go
on these trucks are very talented
and often go within four or five
miles of the German lines to enter
tain the Allied soldiers.
In regard to the post-war world,
Mr. Mueller expressed the belief
that he thought an army of occupa
tion would be maintained in Ger
many from three to five years after
peace. This army of occupation will
probably be composed of the young
boys who are training now. “The
gestapo will hang! 11”, shouted Mr.
Mueller. He believes also that the
Allies will control the press in Ger-
(Cont. on page threej
S “I’m warning you girls—I’m go
ing to talk pretty fast and throw
plenty of facts at you,” began Mer
rill “Red” Mueller, well-known
Newsweek Reporter, in his lecture
last night, March 1, in Memorial
Hall. Mr. Mueller’s talk, which prov
ed to be one of the most interesting
ones in the lecture series, was heard
by a full house. He held the audi
ence’s rapt attention while he out
lined the planning of the invasion,
the carrying out of those plans, and
finally, the progress of the Allies to
the present day.
In preparing for the re-entering of
Europe there were two plans which
had to be carried out as preliminar
ies to the big attack. Step one was
the elimination of Germany’s air
power, which was capably done by
American pilots in cooperation with
the RAF. Step two was success
ful feint toward robot bomb stations
and Germany troop installations in
Northern France to divert as many
enemy divisions as possible from
Normandy. Calais, a seaport town,
was picked as the target for this
feint.
On June 6, 1944, American para
troopers led the Invasion of Europe
by the Allied forces. An interesting
fact given by Mr. Muller was that
a division of dummy “paratroopers”
was dropped into Le Havre to lure
two German Panzer divisions there
to be bombed out of existence.
Continuing, Mr. Mueller gave
vivid descriptions of the most im
portant battle that followed the In
vasion. He told of walking with
General Eisenhower over French
fields littered with German dead; of
the mass German retreat to the
Siegfried lines; of the Allies rac
ing to keep up with the retreating
Germans; then, the Battle of Mons,
in Belgium, which left the Allies
free access through the Siegfried
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Famous Violinist
To Perform
Joseph Szigeti will appear as the
fifth artist in the current Civic
Music Association series Thursday
night. Szigeti, who ranked among
the three greatest living violinists
of the world (Kreisler, Szigeti, and
Heifetz), will be presented in Rey
nolds Auditorium March 8, at 8:30.
He was born in Budapest and
made his American debut in America
in 1925 with the Philadelphia Orches
tra under the direction of Leopold
Stokowski. He has achieved world
fame on two round-the-world tours,
11 Soviet Union tours, and two de
cades of coast-to-coast American
tours. Though virtually “at home
with the classics,” Ezigeti has prov
ed his versatility by playing a duet
with Jack Benny in the Warner
Brothers picture, “Hollywood Can
teen” and by recording music es
pecially written for Benny Good
man and himself.
The next concert in the series will
be the Cleveland Symphony Orch
estra on March 24.
WHAT—WHEN—WHERE
AVhat; Senior dinner
When: Saturday night, 7:30
Where: President’s House
What: Debate by State College
boys
When : Tonight, 6:45
Where: Bitting
What: Jr.-Sr. basketball game
When: Tonight, 8:00
Where: Gymn
What: Lablings meeting____
When: Tuesday night