May Day Goes On
Rain or Shine
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Volume XXVIIl
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Saturday, May 1, 1948
Number 23
Ma Goose Brings May Day
Scorpions Revealed
The Order of the Scorpion todays-
announced its membership for the
year 1947-48.
In keeping with its policy of se
crecy, the Scorpions traditionally
reveal senior members at the end of
the year’s activities. They are Jean
Griffin, Tane McEIroy, Margaret
Raynal, Mary Bryant, Peggy Davis,
Pej?gy Broaddus, Helen Spruill, Jane
Morris, Katharine Ballew, Margaret
Carter and Sal Mills.
In a statement accompanying the
announcement, the Order of the
Seorpion expressed its gratitude to
the student body, faculty and
administration for the cooperation
pledged and fulfilled during the
past school year. The statement
further said, “Life on any campus
■ can only be as active and successful
as its student body will make it.
The encouragement and interest of
the girls at Salem is the guiding
light in our campus life.”
The purpose of the group is to
establish the true spirit and ideals
of the school founded upon the
Christian ideal and principle for
young women of a democracy.
There is no attempt made to “po-
licfe” or to enforce rules. Rather
the Order seeks to create a desire
to live a full college life as is so
intended by all who have any con
nection with the college.”
Describing its work, the group
states that its activities are carried
on in a “quiet unobtrusive manner,
in hope that student needs will be
met!” Tlie projects of the group are
vital ones, though often small or
intangible, the ultimate goal being
an active and growing Salem life
supported by an enthusiastic student
body.
Salem Views
Art Exhibit
The work of the Guild of Char
lotte Artists is being shown in the
Art Gallery of the Library from
April 12 through May 1.
The exhibition includes work done
in several mediums: oil, plaster,
fingerpaint, water color, churred tree
bark, pastel, pencil and enamel on
metal. Animal studies, landscapes,
still life, portraits, and self portraits
are the subjects of the paintings.
Trays and dishes done by Mildred
Taylor represent the work done with
enamel on metal—My Son, John, is
a plasterhead sculptured by Sarah
Everett Tly.
Members of the Guild of Char
lotte Artists which are represented
in the exhibition are: Paul Bartlett,
whose mediums are oil and water-
color; Dayrell Korthener, oil, pastel
and watercolor; Katherine Korthen-
j er, oil, watercolor and tempera; Jane
Grey, oil and watercolor; Alice Tut-
tlesteadman, oil, pastel, watercolor
and sculpture; Sarah Everett Toy,
plaster, terracotta and bronze; Mil
dred Taylor, enamels on metal, cop
per and silver; Jane Klutz Lassiter,
pencil charcoal, crayons and conte;
Joseph Shields Hutchinson, stone,
wood, plaster, oil painting, water
color and etching; Muriel Ethel Mor
rison, oil, watercolor, pastel and pen
and ink; Kenneth Whitsett, water
color, tempera, and black and white;
Britton Grantham, oil and pastel;
Katherine Jane Tidgeby, watercolor,
oil, pen and ink.
Musicians Give Recital
BUSY AS BEES—Betsy Boney, chairman of the May Day activities and
Lib Price, music committee chairman, are shown above making last minute
preparations for the Big Occasion today. Tor further details, see insert
pages of the Salemite.
(Photo courtesy of Twin City Sentinel.)
Qillespie Gives Authentic
History Of Mother Geuse
Betty Jean Holleman
The Salem College Scliool of Music
will present Peggy Sue Taylor, so
prano, and Betty Jean Holleman,
pianist, in a graduating recital Tues
day evening at 8:30 p. m. in Memor
ial Hall.
Betty Jean, who is from Winston-
Salem, has been active both on cam
pus and in town. She has been in
the Pierrettes and the Modern Dance
Club. For four years she has been
a member of the Choral Ensemble,
in which she has been featured as
soloist. For several years B. J. was
organist at the Eeynolda Presbyter-
ian^ Church. Last fall she gave a
recital at Glade Valley. She has
also done some radio work. She is
a pupil of Dr. Charles G. Vardell.
Peggy Sue, who is from Newton,
N. C., As at present a pupil of Mrs.
Nell Starr. She has participated in
Peggy Sue Taylor
such clubs as the Freshman Drama
tics Club, the Stirrup Club, and the
German Club. Peggy Sue has been
very active in the Pierrettes, of
which she was president her junior
year. She has been on the Salemite
staff for four years. In the Choral
Ensemble she has held the offices of
Publicity Manager and President.
She was also on the Dean’s List
this year. In town Peggy Sue has
done outstanding work in the field
of operetta. This year she sang the
leading role in “The Red Mill”, and
she will take the alternate part of
the heroine in “The Chocolate Sold
ier , which will be presented in the
Piedmont Festival.
Ushers for the recital are Frances
^filler Sowers, Barbara Ward, Fran
ces Winslow, Katherine Wagoner
Koontz, Peggy Blum, Virginia Sum
mers, Christine Gray and Betty Lou
Ball.
British Evacuate Haifa;
Jews Prepare For War
by Ruth Lenkoski
The Jewish jroal is to make Jentsalem an iudepeiideut Jewish
state. They will go to war if necessary to gain what they are
after. Last week they entered Haifa, Palestine’s important sea
port and terminus for oil from Iraq, and succeeded in rainin|r
control of that city by fighting against the Arabs. The bitter
struggle drove many Arabs out of the city and scattered them
over the surroimding country.
Meanwhile the British arc already*
evacuating Haifa and other Palestin
ian cities in preparation of the end
of their Holy Land Mandate which
comes to an end on May 15. Altho
ugh the mandate does not end until
then, the Arabs and Jews may go
against it before then by going to
war with each other.
Now the Jews are prepared for a
war against the Arabs to win their
goal. The armies of four Arab nat
ions surrounding Palestine are ready
to fight. The preparations for war
on both sides have drawn attention
for their employment of stratagy;
for those people there is an unusually
great deal of carefully laying out of
plans for the potential struggle.
The Jewish insistence for an in
dependent state and the Arab resis-
tenceito it has concerned the world
and bewildered the U. N. At Lake
Success France has proposed that
the U. N. send into Palestine a
police force possible comprised of a
hundred New York cops, a hundred
London bobbies, etc. Any such act
ion will not be taken unless the
fighting ceases or almost ceases in
the Holy Land. The Arabs are
agreeable to some such police force
to keep order. Meanwhile there may
be war by the end of the week, pro
mising to keep Palestine in the head
lines.
Although labor threats have tem
porarily been quieted in the mine
fields, other threats have arisen now
from the railroad brotherhoods. In
Chicago three brotherhoods are about
to break off negotiations with the
railroads now that their thirty days
“cooling off” period under the Nat
ional Railway Act has come to an
end. They now have the legal right
to strike. Such conditions are set
ting the stage for a national strike
which would really cripple the coun
try. The three brotherhoods want
a thirty per cent wage increase with
a three dollar daily boost. Their
demand has been refused and they
are now expected to strike. Presi-
denj; Truman has sent out a fact
finding committee. What developes
here remains to be seen.
Folger Reigns
As S}ueen
We woke np to music.
This morning Salemites were
awakened by the Choral Ensemble
serenading the May Queen under
her window with the traditional
May Day Carol.
Dr. Rondthaler presided over
Chapel Service, held in the court
behind Main Hall, whicfi followed
an early breakfast. The marshalls
distributed pansies to those who at
tended this service. The Choral En
semble also sang for the early morn
ing Chapel Service.
The May Day dance, sponsored
by the IRS, will begin at 8:30 p. m.
in the gymnasium. ?Ioward Gale
and his orchestra will .supply the
music. The figure will consist of
the May Queen, the Maid of Honpr,
the Court, and their escorts.
These girls and their escorts are:
Barbani Folger, May Queen, with
Ben Cooper; Jean Grifien, Maid of
Honor, with John Hackney; Dor
othy Arrington with Dick Eichards;
Miriam Bailey with Pat Taylor;
lane Bowman with Jack Canady;
Betty Ann Epps with Tete Pearson;
Beverly Hancock with Robert Bus
sell ; Laura Harvey with George
Goodwin; Katherine Ives with Dave
Gambrell; Mary Helen James with
Sid Jennett; Ruth Mabrey with Joe
Maurice; Dot Massey with Flake
Chipley; Mary Patience McFall
with Bill Spencer; Mary Jane Mc
Gee with Bud Foreman; Ruby Moye
with Charles Stokes; and Sally yru-
love with Van Covington.
The IRS wishes to thank Man
uel’s Funeral Home for dance prop
erties.
by Tootsie Oillespie
Several million days ago, a hypo-
thyroidal female named Ma Geuse
lived condescendingly in an over
grown I. Miller oxford which had
seems that Jiunt became extremely
local-oolor-charaeter named Jiunt. It
seems that Jiunt became extremly
self-ionscious about his over-grown
feet when the townspeople began
having soirees inside his shoes and
quilting parties and spelling bees
under the tongue. So he resolved to
denounce all shoes from then on and
took to trampling trees with his bare
feet for a wood pulp company.
But to get back to Ma Geuse. She
was a normal female without any of
the lowly desires of the world. She
liked to paint grouses’ tails, sing
Hindu hymns in an off key, play
the zither, peep through keyholes
(his father’s name was Tom), un
ravel dress hems, and listen to H. V.
Kaltenb#rn over the radio. She was
pretty much thwarted in this last
hobby because she discovered too
late that the radio hadn’t been in
vented yet. But she didn’t let this
squelch her—instead she took to
reading stories about bird nests, the
compound leaf, cleft palates and
other things in nature but this soon
palled and she turned her interests
to her very favorite hobby—children;
During the course of her life, Ma
Geuse had managed to become the
proud mother of twenty-six bounc
ing babies (for which she had been
given the Purple Heart, the Medal
of Honor, the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Little Mother Award, a
member of the Order of the Dia
pers, and a fr^e trip to inner Aust
ralia to deliver a series of lectures
on “Infanticide Made Easy”). Ma
Geuse’s life was made a little more
bearable for her because her twenty-
six children were a constant source
of never-ending amusement and her
days were filled with the Little
Things that count so much. Take,
for instance, her youngest child, Ad-
made the story books and its a good
thing or else our younger generation
would probably be a generation of
thugs, tree-worshipers and characters
that would like to unravel typewrit
er ribbons. Little Adenoids used to
stop up ant-hills, spuash beetles be
tween his toes, tear up terraiums,
chop off puppy-dog tails and sell
them to traveling midgets for genu
ine Stone Martins, chase little girls
and shake up ginger ale bottles, jerk
the top off and fall down on the
ground screaming, “He GOT sie, Ma,
he GOT me 1 ! I” Yes, he was a
sweet child and almost his mother’s
favorite.
Then there was Hydrophobus who
played the Jews’ harp, and Binso
who sang “Tristan und Isolde” i*
the bath tub, and Chlorophyll wk«
spoke in perfect subjunctive, amd
little Inquisitus who kept wanting
to know where he came from; there
was Diem et Nox (who were Siamese
twins that were hired by the adver
tising staff of Alcoholics Anony
mous), and embittered Ignatz, whose
idea of being affectionate toward
his mother was refraining from
bending her fingernails back, and of
course there was Millenium who in
herited a million dollars from an
uncle who got quiek-rich from sell
ing pogo-sticks.
What all this has to do with May
Day is so simple to see that I shall
not take up time telling it. At any
rate, Ma Geuse became the first Miss
Hush and the winner was given all
her twenty-six off-spring as fir^t
prize. At the present Ma Geuse is
writing a book on child psychology
soon to be published by Doubleday
Doran, entitled “Twenty-Six Geuses,
How They Grew”. It’s all hearsay,
but we think Book-of-the-Montb
Club is featuring it this falL