WEATHER:
Saturday fair and
continued mild
PREDICTION;
Carolina over Wake Forest
State over Clemson
Volume XXVIII.
SALEM COLLiEGE, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 10, 1947.
Number 4
Eleanor Steber, leading goprano*-
of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, will open the 1947-48 Civic
Music series with her concert Fri
day night, October 17, at Reynold’s
Auditorium.
Now in her eighth season with the
U. s. Taxes
Support
Communism
by Janie Morris
Bread, it seems, is rapidly sup
planting diplomacy or armed aggres
sion in the settling of political is
sues. Last week sixteen nations
gave their reply to Sec. Marshall’s
plan for European rehabilitation,
pledging to do their utmost toward
increased production of food stuffs,
combatting inflation, and establish
ing a firm European monetary basis
—on the condition that we furnish
them with a large amount or money
and a large amount of food through
next spring.
France pleads that her Commun
ist party is growing stronger by the
minute and Italy’s western-oriented
government says the people must be
fed so that they can walk to the
polls in the Spring to elect a new
National Assembly. (The Commun
ists will probably bring the ballots
around to the voters). England
has been forced to establish a vir
tual economic dictator, in the form
of Sir Stafford Cripps, in charge of
all raw meterials, labor, markets
for production and foreign spending.
CUTS IN SIGHT
All this seems a little overdone
and Americans are getting a little
tired of seeing their hard-earned
and easily-gotten-by-the-government
taxes going into loans to Eu
rope which have hardly the vaguest
chance of being repaid. They are
paying , more and getting less.
However, regardless of the counts
against us already, more are forth- _
coming. Within the coming weeks j Steber’s lat-
your ne\vs|)aper and your radio will have been as Violetta
be reeking with propaganda to cut
down on buying expensive cuts of
meat, (to dissuade farmers from
feeding high-priced wheat to cattle
and hogs), that doesn’t concern us: Metropolitan,
anyway, to cut down on eggs, butter | young American artist has
and cheese, to avoid waste, to dis-1 „f the well-known
courage second helpings, etc. The I co,„iuctors of the day, including
American college 'boy will bo drink-1 Koussevitsky, Leopold Sto-
ing less beer and more Cokes, (the Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eu-
liquor-distilling industry has pledged I ggjjg Ormandy, Desire Defauw and
to stop using wheat in making, alco-1 Goossens. In the summer of
hoi and reduce the use of other ^ honored fvith an in
grains 50%). Meatless Tuesday and yitatiou to sing at the world-famous
Eggless Thursday are supposedly al- Qiy„(ie),ourne Festival in England,
ready in effect. ' i gt the Edinborough Festival.
I am dubious, along with'several p^gt summer she sang tlie title
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Home Ec Teacher Says
Men Make Better Cooks
Sparkliing blue eyfs, a genial
smile, a cheery laugh and a wealth
of silvery-grey hair—that’s Miss
Anna J. Closser, new head of the
Home Economics Department.
Miss Closser comes to Salem from
Pennsylvania. “I’m one of those
Pennsylvania Dutch who comes down
South, and I love it.’’ This com
ment speaks well for Salem; it is
the first Southern school in which
Miss Closser has taught. She, her
self, graduated from Pennsylvania
State College and received her Mas
ter of Science degree in Nutrition
at Columbia University.
In addition to running the prac
tice house, teaching, and doing re
search, Miss Closser has other in
terests: people, flowers, food, and
“.just life”.
She is also working on a special
project—collecting poetry, music and
^rt that pertain to* cooking. She
Pointed out that nursery rhymes
Such as “Four and twenty black
birds baked in a pie,*’ and the
®Pera “Hansel and Gretel” were
Steber Comes To Winston
As First In Music Series
in “La Traviata”, Eva in “Die
Meistersinger ” and The Countess
in “Marriage of Figaro.” Alto-
I gether she has ten major roles to
Miss Anna Closser
inspired by cooking.
There’s more to cooking than serv
ing a meal,” Mi^s Closser reminds
would-be cuisine artists, “it’s an
art and a science.” Not afraid of
having 300 plug Salemites frown.
Miss Closser disclosed, “Men make
the best cooks! ”
Cerf Shuns
Book Clubs
Bennett Cerf, nationally famous
for his “baby” the ^lodern Lib
rary, told listeners in Memorial Hall
last night of trends in modern
reading and publishing.
!Mr. Cerf will long be reAiembered
for calling book-clubs a terrible in
fluence in the literary field and say
ing ‘ ‘ anyone who needs judges to
I>ick books for him is not much of
a reader”.
Types of novels popular during
and after this war, which were dis
cussed by ]\fr. Cerf included war
diarys, and psychological novels
(such as Snake Pit and Lost Week-
End). Mr. Cerf believes that these
types have died down and that the
new trend, which he greatly favors,
will be stories of decent, clean, real
people with true to life adven
tures . . . “ a clean breeze in Lit
erary Land”.
Personal incidents of his own ex
periences as a publishel’, editor and
lecturer added interest and humor
to his talk. These stories included
everything from begging Kathleen
Winsor to unlock her bedroom door,
to sending a poor old lady, with a
wild gleam in her eye and a blank
manuscript under her arm, to a com
peting publisher.
The Broadway columnists of to
day arc “an indelible stain on. Am
erican Literature” says Mr. Cerf.
They use unconfirmed gossip, and
have utter disregard for grammar
and journalistic style.
Mr. Cerf thinks that humor has
been the same for centuries. Jokes
are taken from Greek comedies and
dramas, from Elizabethan comedies
and frank as well as amusing. He
years ago. There is simply a sub
stitution of* names, a modern set
ting, and a new twist on the ending.
Hollywood was also blamed by
Mr. Cerf for holding back the pro
gression of literature and humor.
Laughter is obtained by wise-crack
ing and insulting instead of by por
traying natural people acting in
normal ways.
Mr. Cerf held the attention of
his large audience by being natural
satile personality.
Aiken and Pruitt Make
Top Scores On Tests
Staff Hears
Miss Griffin
Frances Griffin of the Winston-
Salem Sentinel spoke to the Salemite
staff on the composition of news
stories and leads last Thursday night.
Her talk marked the first in a
series of “Shop-Talks” designed
especially for the Salemite staff.
Any students interested in writing
are invited to hear Miss Griffin
speak next Tuesday, October 14, at
6:45 in the Salemite office.
Salem Receives
Library Fund
Dr. Howard Rondthaler announced
Wednesday that a “generous and
affectionate” gift of money was
bequeathed to Salem College to be
added to its fund for library endow
ment by Dr. Pearl V. Willoughby,
former head of the English Depart
ment, who died unexpectedly several
weeks ago. Miss Anna Perryman,
executrix of the will, estimates the
amount as between fifteen and
twenty thousand dollars.
Dr. Willoughby left her books to
the Salem College Faculty teaching
in the English Department, and her
persona;l effects to Dr. ^Minnie Smith.
Salemites Join
UNO Sorority
Climaxing eight days of rushing,
coeds Jane Pointer of Raleigh, Lou
ise Dodson of Miami, Fla., and Rob
erta Huffman of Morganton, former
members of tlie class of ’49 at Salem,
acc^tted bids to tlie Pi Beta Phi
sorority at the University of North
Carolina this week.
iji Results of the Sophomore Com
prehensive Examination given last
spring to the class of 1949 have been
announced by Dr. Minnie Smith,
academic dean.
Peirano Aiken had the highest
score on the General Culture Test,
and Sam Pruitt had the top score on
the Contemporary Affairs division.
The examination was divided into
two parts. General Culture and Con
temporary Affairs. The average
for Salem College fell below the
national average.
OENEEAL AVERAGE
The national average for women
on the General Culture Hest was
167, and the average for women stu
dents at Salem was 161.2. Scores of
Salem women students ranged from
65 to 276; 57% were below the nat
ional average. The national average
■for men students on this test was
191, and Salem men students had an
average of 182.1. Scores of Salem
students ranged from 140 to 221;
20% were below the national aver
age.
The national average for women
on the -Contemporary Affairs Divi
sion was 38, and the average for
women students at Salem was 33.9.
Scores of Salem women students
were 50% below the national aver
age. The national average for men
students on this division was 54, and
the average for men students at
Salem was 52.1. Scores of Salem
men students ranged from 35 to 87;
50% fell below the national average.
AIKEN SCORES ,
Highest scores, listed in order, on
the General Culture Test were made
by Peirano Aiken, Joyce Brisson,
Mary Porter Evans, Catherine
^ro(ve, Carolyn Taylor, Emily Davis,
Betty Holbrook, Sam Pruitt, and
Mary Gaither Whitner.
Highest scores, listed in order, on
the Contemporary Affairs Division
were made by Sam Pruitt, Mary
Gaither AVhituer, Henry Highsmith,
Pierano Aiken, Betty Holbrook, and
Mary Porter Evans.
NewMusic TeacherAppreciates
Music, Sports and Architecture
Miss June Sampson
Take heed, Salem girls. Stow
away your lop-sided loafers, and
speak when you ’re spoken to. Miss
June Sampson thinks Southern girls
are gracious, well-mannered, and
most attractive! And she’s quali
fied to know.
Born in a Northern Pennsylvania
town (she 'will spell it for you, but
even then you probably won’t know
exactly where Sayre #s) she was
graduated from Brown University
in Providence, R. I., and last year
taught at Smith College, North
Hampton, Mass. So she’s familiar
with Northern campuses vrhich are
so extensive that students tear to
class on bicycles and wear blue
jeans and long-tailed shirts.
The energetic liveliness in her
walk and the healthy glow of
her clear complexion suggest that
:\ris8 Sampson is a physical educa
tion instructor. The truth is that
she is Salem’s,now teacher of music
appreciation, the history of music,
and elementary school music meth
ods. But the first impression isn’t
all wrong—she loves tennis, skiing
and'ice skating.
■With no hope of enjoying those
winter sports here, she still insists
she likes this climate. In fact she
likes AVinston-Salem. Moravian arc
hitecture—especially “thg hooded
doorway”—appeals to her artistic
sense. In spite of the restomtion
of old buildings Salem impresses
her as having kept to the ' same
sturdy standards of its historical
background.
She’s already anticipating visit
ing a tobacco auction and the Sun
rise Services at Easter. Add to that
an interest in stamp and coin col-
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