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Parre Two. THE SALEMITE December 6, 1946. All the “smoke-house savants” who sit knockiu" ashes on the floor, and delivering opinions on ciirrent events, have now an op portunity for action on theii' loudest proi>lem. The coal strike has drastically reduced tlie supply of power in North Carolina. In order to conserve needed electricity we have l)een asked to use our lights as little as possible. These impassioned words are not meant to start a mass movement of mooidight reading, nor is a knowledge of Braille I'equired. Simply turn off all the lights you aren’t using, when in the room, and turn them all off wlien you leave. Even those who are exhausted from their scholastic labors can summon the stranght to push the little button. This simple gesture may save precious power for o'lr nation in its time of need. You too can serve! C. G. Qlap/fx QUaii "Y” News Suggestions . . . are still wanted for toi)ics for the talks in Spiritual Emphasis Week in January. Dr. T. B. (Scottie) Cowan wants to talk on prol)lems you have confronted and thoughts that have perplexed you. If some of the discussions at your Watch have not completely satisfied you drop the T;lieme in the suggestion box in the dining hall today or tomorrow. # # * You won’t forget . . . Your little or]jhan! Kemember the only Christmas he will have will be what you provide. Special information on wrapping your gifts is posted on each dorm bulletin board. If you did not get a special name, ,iust indicate on the outside of your presents what the articles are and for what age child. Don’t let these little children down just because you forgot. Get your gifts this weekend! # « « Book Store Day . . . came to a grand cli max late Wednesday afternoon. The money, fifty percent of all sales made on Wednesday, goes to the World Student Service Fund, Emma Mitchell headed this .iob, PCCTcy ON POETRY The bards of yore I’ve pondered o’er For many a weary hour; And I would bust Them all to dust If I but had the power. REGRETS Why don’t I listen to music? Why don’t 1 go read a bookV Why air. 1 lying so dully In bed in my own private nook ? Why don’t I go out for hockey? Why don’t I join a group Of people who get things accomplished? Oh, wily am I always a stupe? by Cat Gregory By Marilyn Booth Oh, yes, it is almost Christmas again. Get away from that calendar . . . there is a fixed number of days before th'S holidays come, and you can’t change it by looking or wishing ... no matter what. But wouldn’t it bo abnormal not to use that fact as a yard stick to mea.sure all our hopes and all our activities by? I don’t know when to start Christmas shopjiing ))ccauie of the term papers, reports, and all the other things due before then. Besides, I don’t know where to start, becausc T can’t get my gift list straight. Are you ever in the hole about buying a person some thing when you don’t know whether or not she intends to get you something this year? Christmas! But are we talking about it . . . really it, I mean, without all the things that it entails? What is the significance to ■‘twentieth centurians”? If a follower of some religion other than ours . . . perhaps a Shintoist or a Maori tribesman from the jungles of Australia . . . should come to our civilization, our community, even our campus, what would he see or hear to convince him that ho had been wrong all the time? How would we persuade him that the thing for his soul would be to come over to our side? People were wondering about the right religion a long time ago . . . they invented parables about the question. . . “Once upon a time when the Sultan Saladin ruled in the Kast, there lived in the city of Jerusalem a rich Jew called “Xathan the Wise.” Saladin, -whose reign was so forceful that Jews and Christians were powerless against his might, once had Nathan called to him and said, ‘Tell me, if you’re so wise, which religion is the true one, that of the Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians?’ “Kathan saw through Saladin’s purpose, realizing the danger M'hich threatened him as a Jew' against the proud Mohammedan's. ‘Sir,’ he replied, ‘before I answer your question, allow' me to tell you a story.’ The sultan was satisfied with that, and Xathan began: “ ‘There once lived a man who owned a wonderful ring. This ring had the power to make its owner belov'ed by God and men, provided that he believed in the Jiower of his ring. The ring remained in the family for many hundreds of years. When a father had more than one child, the son who was the dearest to him inherited the ring. But in time there w'as a father who had three sons and loved all three equally well. Not knowing what to do, he finally went to an artificer and asked him to make two other rings after the model of that one. The artist dirt his work so w'ell that the father himself couldn’t tell the rings apart. “ ‘Becoming old, the father called his sons to him separately and gave each one of the rings. When he died, a quarrel arose among them. Each argued that the other rings were false and his genuine because he w'as his father’s dearest son. At last they went to court and requested the judge to decide. He asked, “Which of you three is most beloved by God and men?” The brothers were silent. “No one. Where is the power of the genuine ring to make its owner thus loved? Then neither owns the genuine.” Never theless, the judge gave the sons some good advice instead. “Whether true or false,” he said, ‘‘these rings are a sure sign of your father’s love. Go home, believe in the power of your ring, and be good men. Some day there will come a wiser judge than I, and perhaps he will be able to decide which ring is the true one.” “ ‘The three rings are the three great religions^’ con tinued Nathan. ‘Which of these is the true one, you ask me? .■ Each is the sign of the love of Our Father. Each is the genuine as lojig as man believes ii'i it and acts accordingly.’ ” What are our rings and the beliefs contained in them? . . . Why is it that we, who are sui»p!isi'dly mature Christians, aren’t :'s imiiressed with the parts we are taking in keeping faith alive as are small childhen with the parts they take in Christmas plays? Have you ever watched their faces and those of the mothers who see in the children whom they have co.stumed for the night real angels and perfect Marys? Can we capture that sense of feel ing and believing . . . possess it ■ and radiate it, even when we relish that roast turkey and holiday stuffing, dance to tl-*’ music of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” crowd down Broadway, or untie that most important package? If we can, we will be able to im press a Moor or Buddhist that this season and its meaning are the real. Vi" . It’s that time of year again! Rush, rush, rush, and cold weather and Christmas carols . , . the iloravian star was up in chapel and we sang our special “Morning Star” . . . and have 3'ou done any shopping yet? Oh, horrors! Christmas is always a hey-day for the musi cians. Seems like people listen to and appreci ate a good tune then, more than at any other time of year guess it’s that “Good will to men” feqling or somethin’ . . . (You know . . . “Maybe I can endure hearing- this dame squeal. After all, this is Christmas!”)' . . . More truth than poetry. Did j^a see the big spread our ex-Salemites got in the JOriiNAL-SENTINEL bout a week ago? Methinks the Alma Mater should open a branch campus in the vicinity of N. Y. C. With the big representation we have in that fair city, should prove a worthy venture . . . eh? Seemed perfectly natural to see pictures of Janie Frazier, Lib Johnston, Bunny, Snookie, Ride (especially Ride), that Withers girl, and all. Golly, didn’t i-ealize how much we miss you kids! Getting back to Christmas shopping—there is a w'ealth of new records on the market, most of them operatic (if you like opera?): five non-breakable disks featuring the voices of Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Louisa Tet razzini, Marcel Journet, and Mario Ancona —choice items, and precious, too ($3.50 per!). A Treasury of Grand Opera, by Victor, is a companion to the book of the same name, edited by Henry Simon. Seven operas — DON GIOVANNI, LOHENGRIN, LA TRAVIATA, FAI.'ST, AIDA, CARMEN, and PAGLIACCI are rei)resented in the albiun, J)y such pei‘- formers are Albanese, S'w'arthout, Milanov, Peerce. Melton, etc. The hook has the stor-ies, music, and pictures from the operas. This week’s opera to l)e broadcast Satur day afternoon (in competition with numer ous footl)all games) is BORIS GODUNOFF, by Moussorgsky, with the glamour boy of opera (he can sing too) Enzio Pinza in the title role. See for yourself when he sings here next spring! Boston Symphony next Tuesday night at 9:30—program features Tschaikowsky’s Fifth —Don’t forget to listen! SUuiif On MaUi MaU In reply to the student request that the library be opened on Sunday night because stu dents find it hard to study with so much noise on tiic halls, Connie Scoggin, president of the Student Government, says it is impossible because of the shortage of help. However, the two back rooms on second floor Main Hall have been reserved until 10:30 p. m. on Sunday night in order to give the students a place to study. There \vill be no supervision, but quiet is requested as in the library. The last per son to leave is asked to turn out the lights. J. M. The Salemite was edited this week by .imiiors, Margaret Kaynal and Cat Gregory. ©alemite Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Published every Friday of the College year bj' the Student body of Salem College Downtown Office—30nl-300 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company ' OFFICES Alice C’lewell Building-Basement ^ Sub‘;cription Price—$2.00 a year—10c a copy EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Lditor-in-Chief Martha Boatwright Associate Editor Virtie Stroup Assistant Editor Rebecca Clap Assistant Editor , Peggy Davis Make-up Editor Martha Lou Heitman Copy Editor Peggy Gray Feature Editor -1 Nancy' Carlton Sports Editor Jean Sullivan Cartoonist Margaret Eaynal Typist Margaret Williams BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Business Manager Betsy Meiklejohn Assistant Business Manager Betsy Long Advertising Manager Jane Morris Assistant Advertising' Manager Helen Spruill Circulation - Ruth Scott
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