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THE SALEMITE
April 18, 1947.
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Various cohmmists, economists, and com- f ftf / VlA^VlAJ^^
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Various columnists, economists, and com
mentators have warned that unless prices stop
rising above the peoples’ purchasing power,
there will be a severe recession. Indi'stry has
not only failed to lower prices (as their spokes
men in Congress promised when O. P. A. was
dismantled), but has continued to raise prices
during this entire year. Since our i>i’oductive
power is higher than it ever has been, the
“crash” must necessarily be worse than that
of ’29. Therefore, it is in the interest of oiu-
national econoniic stal)ility to support labor s
demands for highei- wages without price in
creases for the working people—organized land
ufiorganized. Only in this way can the pui-
chasing power be sustained. ^ • i
One argument in oiiposition is that: high
er wages for labor do not raise the standard
of living of the working i>eople because tlie
people live on what is produced—^^and higher
wages do not increase pioduction.” To sim
plify this in analogy form: If a man is eating
a bowl of stew, he gets no more by eating with
a larger spoon. The answer is: Uith two
men eating out of the same bowl, a larger
spoon in the hands of one would give him
a larger portion than the other. Laboi wants
a larger spoon to feed the 60,000,000 working
people and families. xVnd tfiey contend that
the estimated 60 families who control the
productive wealth of this country could still
remain overfed with a smaller spoon.
A higher standard of living for the work
ing people is not only in their own interest;
buf, by raising the pui'chasing power, works
in the interest of the so-called middle class
and even, in avoiding a “crash,” will bene
fit those from whom they ask a higher standard
of living.
Kosalie (.reeu
*1Ue. OlA Ondzn.....
. changeth with this issue. Ketiring
editors, Boatwright and Stroup deserve
nothing less than top honors for their
journalistic output this year. News stories
have been improved vastly; more interviews
and features liave appeared; and the entire
page make-up of the Salemite has been
revamped.
Stepping into the boots of the 1946-47
editors gives the tyros a Truman-afi:er-
Koosevelt feeling. But we have big plans
for the “new” Salemite. Some of them are
apparent in this issue. There’s one we’re
hitching our wagon to a seven-column paper
for the next year. We’re open to suggestions,
and we hope the Letters to the Editor column
will be filled each week.
7/f Refio^
The following budget is submitted by the
1946-47 Y. \V. C. A. Cabinet
Expenses
Devotional Publications ^ 30.00
Stcnograjihic work ^-55
Freshmen Handbooks 5.3.00
Painting V Room, filing cabinet, name
plates on Clewell doors 97.36
National V. W. C. A. dues - 84.00
Publications 10.00
Coke bills 132..^5
Florist bills 32.36
Hook Store bill 26.17
“Y Store” - 83.10
Conference Costs 86.26
('hristmas Mailhig 6.7.)
(lifts - 18.00
]\Iemorial Industrial Orphanage 2o.OO
•Moravian Alaskan Orphanage 60.00
“Y Room” Sign - - 12.00
American Bible Societ.y donation 5.00
Stamps 17.40
. Si)cakers 10.00
Stationery 19.75
Total $816.18
Income
College Budget .$233.80
Balance forward - 415.33
“Y Store” 150.73
Coke Machine 140.33
Donations for orphans 17.00
(tiff check 10.00
Income 967.19
Expenses - -816.18
Remainder — $151.01
This budget is based on calculations up
to March 1. Numerous expenditures have
been made since then. This should explain
why $1.75 is charged each girl for Salem-Da-
vidson Day. The day will lie very expensive,
and the Y asks your cooperation to make it
a success. Submitted by
Catherine Moore, Trea.surer, Y. W. C. A.
by ilartha Boatwright
Monday . .
Another week and another paper. I’m
going to be ambitious this week and have a
six page issue. Went to the Public Relations
Office, Deans’ Office, President’s office,club
presidents, class presidents, music department,
and Clewell smokehouse for news. . . found
three important items. . . one club met and
served ice cream instead of punch, Mr.
'\Veinland lias gone on a trip but nobody knows
wliere, and Music Hour was i)ostpoiied this
week. On second thought I thhik I will just
liave the usual four pages this week.
Tuesday . .
Wracked my brain trying to think of
whose picture 1 could |iut in the paper this
week, h’inally thouglit of two people 1 could
use. Looked through 500 .pics in the Public
Relations office and couldn't find the right
pictures, therefore used two 1943 ones.. The
girls don’t get very mad when you do that . . .
they just don’t speak to you again! Took
the pictures to the engravei;s with strict
instructions that they be made 1 colnmn wide
and three inches long.
Wednesday . .
Dead line was at six. Only three articles
were in, I must have a meeting of the staff
next week and congratulate them. After
rounding up the other twenty articles the rest
of the editors and I did the copy reading.
We tyi^ed the fifteen articles that were
scratched by hand on notebook paper, tlien
rewrote the other six that we couldn’t read.
We rewrote headlines until our vocabulary
was reduced to nothing but five and six
letter words each punctuated with a verb.
Next we drew the make-u]) pages and planned
the approximate length of each article. We
won’t know until tomorrow that ten of the
articles are too short and we need five more.
Thursday . .
Another day at the Sun and as usual
everything went along nicely. The linotypist
was sick and couldn’t type but half the
material. They promised he would l;e back
sometime this week. I just hope he makes
it before the deadline Friday. Five of the
headlines we wrote were too long and had to
be rewritten. They ended by being “dead
heads”, which isn’t too good according to
]\riss Byrd. There weren’t as many ads as
we had expected, therefore we dashed off three
features after we got up there. The cuts
came and were two columns instead of' one
which meant changing the make-up of the
whole paper. The editorial page was just
plain empty .so we strained to find something
to complain about.
Friday ...
Per usual five important articles came
in this morning witli > ins|tructions ifrom
authorties that thej' must be in this week’s
paper. Some of these days I’m going to
remind those same authorities that there is
a deadline on Wednesday. We rearranged
the make-up again, took out the three features
we had written and put in the five important
articles. Someone wrote a poem for the
editorial page, Waldo drew a cartoon, the
linotypist got well, and the paper went to
press at five minutes past three . . . exactly
five minutes and thirty seconds after the very
deadline. At six-thirty the smokehouse was
filled with eaj^er girls looking for their
name in print, and at eight the waste basket
in each room had two Salemites in it. Another
week and another paper. It’s all over again
until next monday.
Our editor with the syinetrical initials —
to wit, pd- — stared with mounting desperation
at the empty spaces in the editorial page.
“We’ve reached the end of our rope. We’ll
have to ask her.”
Equally sj'nietrical pg stood up. “We ain’t
that desperate!” she said emphatically.
“Who else, then?”
It was the unanswerable question.
“But she’s practically an idio—oh,
well.” Sighing, pg saiik into her chair.
The Ed. brightened. “Maybe nobody’ll
read it!”
And thus this column was born. The name
derives from the fact that our room is haunted.
Small dark malevolent beings sit around under
the furniture, emerging at night to, trouble
our repose. Their subversive influence may
readil.y be seen b.v observing our conduct dur
ing the day. (They really don’t affect my
roommate. Personal Identity and Truth must
be sacrificed, in columns, to the obsequious
“Editorial We.”)
Anywa.v, ^\ aldo once chri.stened these
forces “thangs. ” This comes from onr mid
night dialogue:
“Whuzzat noise?”
“It’s .just one of them thangs.”
All this chit chat is designed to serve a
two-fold purpose. 1) to explain away our
faults and failings, which is cow’ardl.y; and 2)
to use u]) space, which is practical.
hat do ,vou like to read? Do .you prefer
. liiimoi'? Current events? Gleanings from the
world of letters? Light sophistication? Pon
derous thoughts? Household hints? Well, if
you do, may we suggest that .vou step to the.
magazine rack of the library, for this column
Avill hold no charms for you. “Then,” you ask,
‘Svhat is it going to be about?” That, my chil
dren, is precisely the (luestion. Only Time will
tell.
If .vou have said something clever; if your
little brotJier or your friend has said something
clever; if you know or have read something
clever;—don’t,bring if to us. We will laugu
ill .vour face and ignore .you. This column is
going to be ruggedly individual. AVe will bow
to j)ublic tastes as readil.y as the Rock of Gi
braltar sways in the breeze. In short, WATCIi
TIH.S SPACE — the Chesterfield Ad Avill prob
ably be liei-e next .week.
Catherine Gregory.
COW&RflnjLP»TlON6...lT'S fl BRBY//
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editorial Dl'PARTMENT
Editor-in-Chicf Peggy Davis
Associate Editor Peggy Gray
Assistant Editor Nancy Carlton
Assistant Editor Carolyn Ta.ylor
Make-up Editor Margaret Carter
Oojpr Editor Jane Pati.n
Feature Editor Mary Porter Eva.’S
Music Editor Margaret McCal'
Sports Editor Glor’’ Pau
Editorial Staff: Cat Gregory, Nrtncv McColI, 1 irano
Aiken, Betsy Bonoy, Marilyn Booth
Editorial Assistants: Dot Arrington, Mary Br^'
, Zetta Cabrera, A'ln Carothers, Marthp, D ■
Debbie Darr, Louise Dodson, Ann Dungan, Laurel
Green, Frances Guleaiau^ Roberta Huffman,
Susan Johnson, Anna Kamer, Elizabtth Lee,
Joy Martin, Mary Motsinger, Frances Reznick,
Andy Rivers, Bet9.y Schaum, Peggy Sue Taylor,
Ruth Van Hoy, Barbara Ward, Aniie Watkins,
Fran Winslowi
Filists and Typists: Betty Holbrook and Margi6
Crickmer.
Pictorial Editor: Ruby Moye.
BUSINESS department
Business Manager Eliza Smith
Assistant Business Mana|Tcr Jano Morris
Advertising Manager — Betsy Sehaum
Assistant Advertising Manager Mary Hill
Circulation Manager Virginia Connor