Volume XXVI.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 8, 1946.
Number
President Announces
Election Schedule
The election schedule of Students ^
officers has been announced by Miss
Witherington, president of
Student Government. The schedule
is as follows:
Group I—
Student Government President,
Tuesday Assembly, March 19, 1946
2 vice-presidents
Secretary
Treasurer
Group H—
Sights and Insights editor,
Wednesday, March 20, 1946
Group III—
May Day Chairman, Thursday
Assembly, March 21, 1946
Athletic Association President
Group IV—
Salemite editor, Monday, March
25, 1946
Group V—
I. E. S. President, %esday
Assembly, March 26, 1946
Y. W. C. A. President
Class Presidents—Wednesday, March
27, 1946
Chief Marshall—Thursday Assembly,
March 28, 1946
House Presidents—^Following week
Class officers—Following week.
Reporter
Sees 0loomy
World View
International affairs have
Week taken the most, pessimistic
turn since the conclusion of the
war. The world’s distrust of Bussia
has come to a head with Churchill’s
request for an armed British
alliance. Russia’s policy of expan
sion and proaelytization has been
leading up to this climax for months.
Within the past week Great Britain
has made a formal statement ask
ing why the Red troops are still
in Iran; Russia answered with
sweeping demands for an Iranian
alliance, recognition of the govern
ment in Azerbaijan, etc., and Iran
has answered with a protest.
On the other side of Asia, the
Chinese report that Russian tro,ops
are still entering Manchuria and
looting as they go- The United
States, however, has clamped down
on this war booty maneuver. In
the Pacific it has been reported, also
that Russian planes have twice
fired on American navy planes.
In this hemisphere the story of
a Moscow-directed spy ring in
Canada has just been released. This
spy ring is reported to have had
detailed information on the move-
nient of American troops and other
vital military secrets before the
end of the war with Germany.
Churchill in hifi speech at West
minster College Reminded his audi
ence of the grave cause for alarm
for Manchuria, Turkey, and Iran.
He reminded us also that Warsaw,
Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest,
Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia are
all virtually controlled by Russia
the present time. Churchill con
demned this expansion policy.
In Truman’s address on the same
day he called for full support of the
United Nations charter as a basis
for an effective world organization
and world-wide code of law.
What the future holds in regard
to this situation is only a matter
of conjecture, but within the next
few days something of world-shak
ing importance is mx)st likely to
occur.
On the home front too, the out
look ig dismal. The all-time all
timer of strikes, the 108 day old
CIO Auto Workers strike at General
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Plans Form
For Betas
A tea for delegates to the Beta
Club Convention is to be given at
Salem College Saturday afternoon,
March 9. Invitations have been is
sued to the state Beta Clubs and
approximately five hundred guests
are expected.
As the convention delegates, com
ing from the Robert E. Lee Hotel,
arrive on the Salem campus, they
will be greeted in Main Hall by
Dr. Rondthaler, Mrs. Rondthaler,
Mr. David Weinland, Miss Ivy
Hixson, and Miss Edith A. Kirkland.
Tours of the campus will take the
visitors to the dormitories and var
ious spots of interest. Salem stu
dents, former Beta members and
others, will conduct the tours.
Tea will be served for the Beta
delegates in the club dining room
from four thirty until five thirty.
I. R. S. council members will serve
as hostesses for the tea.
Members of the Home Econo
mics Club will be hostesses at the
practice house to receive the visitors
on the tours. Reprints of the last
SalesDLite will be given to the
delegates while they are visiting
Salem.
The National Beta Club Conven
tion is meeting March the eighth
and ninth at the Robert E. Lee
Hotel in Winston-Salem. Jane Love-
laec, Salem senior and formerly
stato secretary of the Beta Club,
will greet the convention on behalf
of the alumni at the Beta Club din
ner at the hotel Friday night.
DeanC.G.Vardell
Goes To Detroit
Dr. Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Dean
of School of Music, Salem College,
represented the school at the -ilst
annual meeting of the National As
sociation of Schools of Music held
recently at the Hotel Statler, De
troit, Michigan.
The Association is the only na
tional accrediting body for educa
tional institutions in the field of
music in the United States. Its
membership consists of more than
l.'JO of the foremost colleges, uni
versities, and conservatories of
music throughout the nation, in
cluding a select list of preparatory
schools and junior colleges. The
organization has been influential in
improving musical standards during
the past two decades, institutional
membership being granted only
after a thorough , examination of
each school by members of the Com
mission on Curricula. ^
The programs of the Association
differ from those of other conven
tions in that there are very few set
papers, but there is careful consi
deration and spirited dicussion by
the whole body of delegates on many
matters of vital importance to the
music schools and music depart
ments of the country. Prominent in
the discussions were practical prob
lems confronting the schools in this
post-war era, including educational
and vocational guidance for the
returning veteran, secondary music
scho,ol curricula, teachers _ colleges
and state certification requirements,
teaching loads, graduate study, and
the college library.
JAMES M. HEPBRON
Mrs. Marsh
Advocates Art
Mrs. Chester Marsh, arts and craft
director for Winston-Salem, spoke in
assembly, Thursday, March 7, on the
aims and methods of arts and
crafts workshops in the United
States. '
Citing examples from her own
experiences, Mrs. Marsh told of the
need for mental recreation and work
with the hands instead of strenous
physical recreation.
She explained that the aim of
these workshops is based on the
fun derived from the crafts, not the
perfection of the finished product.
She thinks everyone should have
some sort of hobby because of the
satisfaction derived from creating
something “all your own.”
Mrs. Marsh observed that beauti
ful creations were made because of
demand for them. The R’cnaissance
is an example of this. Since we are
living in a machine age, she says
we have more time to work with
our hands and should demand
utilities for ftrts and crafts in all
cities.
Mrs. Marsh told of the workshop
started in Winston-Salem only re
cently. The workshop is equipped
for metal-working, painting, sculp
turing, book-binding. This month
the water colors of Mrs. Alex Hanes
are on exhibit. An exhibit of the
work of Mr. Kenneth Evett, of the
Salem College art department, has
been planned for the future.
Girls Present
Music Hour
Music Hour Thursday presented
college students in the following
program:
“Ave Maria” (Schubert), Mary
Wells Bunting; “In Summer” (Steb-
bins), Nancy Lutz; “Polish Folk
Song” (Bellini), Peggy Sue Taylor;
Scherzino” (Moszkowski), Betty
Jean Holleman; “Allemande, Gav-
.otte and Musette” (d’Albert) Jean-
nene Durham; “Chere Nuit” (Bach-
elet), Rebecca Clapp; “Eili, Eile”
(Schindler),-Helen Slye; “Sonata in
E major,” Op. 14, No. 1 (Beethoven)
Genevra Beaver; “Cecilia” (Str
auss), Josephine Holler; “The Hills
of Gruzia” (Mednikoff), Catherine
Bunn; “Sonata in E minor,” Op. 7
(Grieg) Sara Haltiwanger.
Hepburn Will Speak
On Crime Detection
Sociology Department
To Hear Dr. Hepbron
The sociology department will
give a tea in honor of Dr. James
M. Hepbron, Monday, March 13,
from four until six o’clock in the
living room of Bitting building. Dr.
Hepbron is the next lecturer on the
Salem College lecture series, March
13. He is the managing director of
the Baltimore Criminal Justice com
mission.
Hostesses of the tea will be Miss
Adams, Betsy Casteen, Mary Farmer
Brantley, Avis Weaver, Meredith
Boazc, and Effie Ruth Maxwell.
All students in the sociology de
partment are invited, whether
they are majors in that department
or not. Special guests at the tea will
be Miss Mabel Pitzer, a former
Salem graduate and now probation
officer in Winston-Salem, Miss Ruth
Gilpin, a former sociology teacher
here at Salem, and Mr. and Mrs.
Weinlick.
IRC Discusses
Russia Germany
“The Current Relations of the
United States to Germany and
Russia” was the topic of the first
student forum of the International
Relations Club, held Wednesday
night in Bitting Building.
Vidette Bass reported on condi
tions in Germany today and Mar
jorie Conrad on Russia’s attitude
toward the atom bomb secret. In the
discussions following these talks,
Mr. William Miller, who has been
in the Army of Occupation in Ger
many, answered questions and pic
tured people and living conditions in
a small town in post-war Germany.
Ann Dysart, vice-prcsident of the
club, presided over the meeting. She
announced that, in order to have
subsequent forums on topics of
general interest to students, a box
has been put in Main Hall in which
suggestions for subjects may be
dropped.
Students Urged
To Enter Contest
The deadline for the writing con
test which the Salemite is sponsor
ing is drawing close. The contest is
divided into three sections: 1)
poetry, 2) essay, 3) short stories or
sketches. There will be two prizes
of $10.00 and one of $5.00.
All students are eligible to com
pete in this contest, which ends at
6 o’clock, April 8, 1946. The com
positions must be entirely original
and written this school year. They
will be judged ,on composition, in
cluding rhetoric and grammar, orig
inality, and neatness. There is no
limit to the entries which can bo
made by one student.
Dr. Confer Talks
To French Club
Dr. Vincent Confer spoke to the
French Club Thursday at 6:45 p. m.
in Bitting Basement. Connie Scog-
gin, president of the club, intro
duced him.
Dr. Confer’s subject was Marshal
Lyautey, the organizer of the
French Protectorate of Morocco. He
wrote his doctoral thesis on Mar
shal Lyautey.
Forty-two new members were in
vited to the French Club last week.
They were chosen from French stu
dents on scholastic basis—C or
above.
^ Warning against “a rising tide of
crime” will be sounded here by Dr.
James M. Hepbron, Chairman of the
Maryland State Commission on
Juvenile Delinquency, in a lecture
on Science Turns Detective
Monday, March 11 at 8:00, in
Memorial Hall under the auspices
of Salom College Lecture Committee.
Dr. Hepbron, who has long been
active in his own state and in the
nation in the study of crime pre
vention methods, will survey in his
talk here the present situation,
which he believes is alarming, and
will suggest measures which may
be taken by municipal .and stato
authorities to curb these trends.
His studies of police methods,
penal systems and prison admini
stration have taken Dr. Hepbron to
seventeen foreign lands, including
England, Ireland, and, before the
outbreak of the war, to France,
Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Hol
land, and Italy among others.
Ho has given particular attention
to police methods used by Scotland
Yard and has spent much time in
British courts. England, ho points
out, has already been aroused to
the growth there of juvenile delin
quency and has taken many con
structive measures which we might
in this country study with profit.
Before taking up his present du
ties with the Maryland State Gov
ernment, Dr. Hepbron was instruc
tor in criminology at the Johns
Hopkins University and has lectured
regularly over a period of years at
the Maryland Police School, tho
Baltimore Police School and the
Metropolitan Police School in Wash
ington.
During World War I, he served
in the Intelligence Service of the
War and Navy Department.'^. Lator
he represented this country at an
International White Slavery Con
ference in London.
Besides his work with tho Mary
land State Commission on Juvenile
Delinquency, Dr. Hepbron is al^o
serving at tho present time as Di
rector of the War and Community
l''und of Baltimore and is a member
of the general staff directing Balti
more’s Civilian Defense Corps.
Classes To Romp
Tomorrow Night
The annual Stunt Night will be
held Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 p.
m. in the Old Chapel. Admission
will be thirty-five cents, the pro
ceeds to go to the World Students’
Sorvice Fund. Betsy Meiklejohn is
in charge of Stunt Night plans.
Each class will present a skit
about thirty minutes long with not
more than twenty girls taking par\
The prizo of $5.00 will go to tho
class whose skit in the most original,
whose properties are the most real
istic, and who gives the best presen
tation. Miss Adams, Mrs. Delaney,
and Mr. Weinland will be judges.
Dean Ivy Hixson
To Visit Atlanta
Miss Iv^ Hixson wiil leave
Wednesday, March 13, for Atlanta,
Georgia, where she will attend the
Southern Regional Conference of
Guidance Association and the Na
tional Association of Deans.
Miss Hixson hopes to fly to this
conference which is the first to be
held in several years. Headquarters
will be at the Baltimore Hotol in
Atlanta. Personnel forms of the col
leges and handbooks of Student
Government will be on display.
While in Atlanta Miss Hixson
will visit Agnes Scott College,
Wa.shington Seminary, Napsonian
Academy, and several high schools.
She plans to return on March 17.
2nd vice-presidents