2>eaA ^dUoA:
Who’s going to win? This will be the $64
question for the next weeks, for campus elec
tions will be held in chapel starting next Tues
day’. The answer depends on yoii and your
vote!
You will want to get the girl elected who
will be able to do the most for the organization
which she will head. If you make a wise,
thoughtful investment when you east your
ballol in the next two weeks, you will receive
valuable dividends in the functioning of Salem
organizations for a year to come. So think
seriously before you vote. But be sure to vote !
It’s important that each Salemite participate
in every election. Each of us should exercise
our right and share in the responsibility of
selecting campus leaders.
N. P. W.
NatltL
. . .
. . . but praise to the Alumnae House and
all those responsible for it.
Praise, we think, can never come too late.
We would apologize for not recognizing this
achievem.ent sooner, but we have just now come
to, realize what this House really means to
Salem and to us.
It represents a great deal of hard, hard
vmrk on the part of many. It is certainly one
of the most attractive places we’ve ever seen
and we congratulate the Alumnae Association
on its taste. The completed building has cer
tainly added a great deal of prestige to the
campus. Especial praise goes to Miss Lelia
Graham Marsh who has been behind this work
for a number of years. To her, goes a large
part of the credit for seeing that the House
has been completed.
This Alumnae House will mean a great
deal to- all of us here now. It will be up to us,
too, to see that the House is finished completely.
In short—we like the Alumnae House—
we’re proud of being a part of it—our hats are
off to all those who had any part in making
it what it is todav.
T/ie Ides Of March Has
A Shady Roman History
CdUtoA. . . .
. . . for this issue of the Salemite was Dale
Smith, member of the junior class and a poten
tial candidate for the post of editor-in-chief of
the 1949-50 Salemite. Staff members are urged
to keep in mind the calibre of the junior-edited
papers when they cast their vote for editor in
the next few weeks.
The Salemite wishes to express its sym
pathy' to Mr. Suavely in the recent death of
his mother.
Salemite
Published every Friday of the College year by the
Student body of Salem College
Downtown Office—304-306 South Main Street
Printed by the Sun Printing Company
OFFICES
Lower floor Main Hall
by Tootsie Gillespie
Backin the times w'hen Eoman Sew
age was in a simply a-vv'ful mess, there
was a delinquent tax payer named
.Caesar who liked to dabble in poli
tics. In ease the college graduates
in the history department would
like that extra bit of knowledge,
it is said from a reliable' source
(from the diary of an over-sexed
Baal worshiper named Afflictius
Oppenheim who changed the water
in Cattulus’s atrium) that this Cae
sar was the first organizer of the
Boy Scouts, Alcholics Anonymous
and the Mozart Society. He was
quite thwarted in the last when he
found out that Mozart hadn’t been
born yet and had to pay back all
the club dues he had collected by
selling under-cooked peanuts at the
persecution parleys. But that kid
warn’t no fool (cf. Julius Caesar,
Man and Mouse or My Contributions
As I See- Them by Caesar, called
old Disjointed Jules by his close
friends). Eealizing the possibilities
in the under-cooked peanut market,
Jules got it from a friend, a lion
tamer named Leo, that hemlock
stock was in for a crash and so
Jules bought up 4000 hemlock or
chards, gave ’em dirty looks, and
they turned bitter. Just before the
persecution parley, old Disjointed
(feeling chummy now?) dipped each
and every peanut (five cents a bag,
get ’em ’fore the bulls miss ’em!)
in hemlock, thus kicking off the en
tire Eoman population. This is a
minor oocurance which Gibbons,
Wells, Toynbee, Singer and some of
the other A. B. boys seem to have
missed.
what she is (and you know what
she is), a meeting of the only two
humans left in the Eoman world
was inevitable. Garrulous had cast
aside the toga and her reserve, and
was brushing up on some of her fan
numbers one day (last year’s fans
that were skimpy in spots and
wouldn’t be worth a dime today)
Of All Things
by Carolyn Taylor
It’s natural to type people. You do it li
the time. But if you’ve ever worked on a news
paper, you get a different slant on this typinJ
bu.siness. ' ®
After four years on the Salemite, I’ve de
veloped a very bad habit. I substitute head
lines for psychology. Here’s the way it hap'
pened.
Fp at the Sun Printing Company—and
you who don’t know anything about that place
take off an hour sometime and investigate it-^
there’s a rack of headline type that reaches
from the ceiling to the floor. A great deal of
it lias gone out of use today, but time was
when the Salemite used fifty-seven different
kinds of type. Today we use about six.
The type in which a headline is set often
reveals the characteristics of the story, be it
featurd, news-story, or editorial. And just as
the headline can reveal a story, so can a type
of headline remind you of a person. That’s
what happened to me.
One kind of headline used often by us is
light italic. This type goes well with features.
It’'s clever to the point of being witty. There’s
a lift about light ital., a sort of warning that
something is going to happen and you’re not
sure just what. It has a dancing quality about
it. Folderol always gets light ital.-^there’s
your broad satire, your raucous humor. You
can' be sure (unless the .staff loses its touch)
that when you
Light ital. is
see light ital., vou’ll laugh.
Joan Hassler
when Jules happened along. Un
fortunately for Garrulous, Jules was
near-sighted and thinking she was
an egret, approached to throw salt
on her tail, take her home and make Then there’s san serif. It doesn’t have
quill pens for signing important that dancing quality we associate with light
documents out of her feathers. Jules if^-h Dependability and seriousness mark san
is down on the record as observing serif. Ihiassuming, it yet leads off our big
stories—it always takes a lead in the Salemite.
You expect and get importance when you see
san serif. It’s always what it seems,- it doesn’t
shy away into unexpectedness. San serif is
that that was the only egret he’d
ever seen with a Toni, red toenails
and a mole on its left fornicus, just
above the clavicle. Upon second
glance, old Disjointed realized that
it was Garrulous Europa, the only
fan dancer who could execute a pas
de deux while chanting a Hindu
prayer in church Latin with fans,
a feat not to be sneezed at.
Bev Johnson
Delicacy marks Handtooled. It has fine
lines and fine form. Thoughtfulness is out-
^ , standing. It’s the knowingness of newspaper
j , ^ Shades of meaning and shade of thou-
Caesar came to be head of this ght-a two-fold quality, as you see in the dark
nev stock would be nothing short lines and light lines. You’ll remember what
0 murderously tedious. Suffice it you read under handtooled. It has that fine
to say that through careful plan- lasting quality. It’s the Danilova of news-
lung, Jules got himself elected First paper type. It’s
citizen in the Eoman Society for
Subscription Price—$2.75 a year
Slobbering Seniles, head proprietor
at a nectar nook in a questionable
part of town and street inspector,
with annual raises. Upon election,
old Disjointed, becoming a member
'of ^ a _ secret leftist organization
(“Join Catullus and Life Won’t Be
Dullus’’) began undermining the
government because a certain Eo
man
North Carolina CoBcpalc Proa ^nriflnilrr
EDITOEAL DEPARTMENT
Editor-in-Chief Carolyn Taylor
Associate Editor Laurel Green
Associate Editor Mary Porter Evans
Assistant Editor Peirano Aiken
Assistant Editor Dale Smith
Make-up Editors; Helen Brown, Betty Biles
Copy Editors: Joan Carter Bead, Clara Belle Le Grande
Music Editor Margaret McCall
iiditorial Staff:
Ruth Lenkoski.
lone Bradsher, Tootsie Gillespie,
Ed. Assistants: Dot Arriiigton, Carolyn Lovelace,
Helen Creamer, Lila Fretwell, Mary Lib Weaver,
Lola Dawson, Winkle Harris, Sybil Haskins, Ro
bert Gray, Polly Harrop, Prances Reznick, Nancy
Duckworth, Catherine Moore, Sis Pooser, Clinky
Clinkscales, Pay Stickney, Marcia Stohl, Ruth
Finnerty, Betsy Farmer.
Typists: Janet Zimmer, .knn Sprinkle and Ann
McConnell
Pictorial Editors: Martha Hershberger and Jane
Kugler.
Faculty Advisor: Miss Jess Byrd.
Business Manager Joyce Privette
Assistant Business Manager Betsy Sehanm
Advertising Manager
Asst. Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
_— Betty McBrayer
Mary Paith Carson
Janie Fowlkes
Left with a considerable amount
of time on his hands and no tax
collectors to dodge (a popular sport
which has persisted up to the pre
sent), Jules grew into slovenly ways.
He took to mumbling inarticulate
speeches and bowing from the waist,
humming dirty songs, biting his toe
nails and waxing his ears. These
things could have led to nasty
habits had he not stumbled upon an
oracle one day while he was divid
ing all Gaul into three parts. It
seems (Toynbee, take a note—you’re
a little weak on some of these
points) that the oracle -was owned
and operated by a wizened, slew
footed fan dancer named Garrulous
Europa (“Bull” for short) who
despised peanuts. As the fate of the
Gods would have it (and who else
would have it? Not me!), Garrulous
refused to buy these fatal peanuts
on that fatal day and since the
entire Roman population was wiped
out, she was forced to give up fan
dancing and took to the oracle bus
iness. What she hoped to gain from
this is so obvious that I shall not
take up time telling it. Well, man
being what he is and woman being
Complexity is Broac(way. There’s nothing
staid or certain about this. Cleverness and
wit always lurk behind, tlie bold face of Broad
way. It’s hard to classify—it has an elusive
quality—you think you have it and then you
don’t. "We are never quite sure when to use
sen-jtnr oo-; -- . I^uoadway. Seriousness and understanding
wasn’t svmmet ' 1 ^ cowlick seep through the clever exterior. It’s a many-
IDIC. IHILILMIE
beautiful. Jules, in
temper, set a drone of blood-thirsty
mosquitoes loose in the city, drew
mustaches on all the female statues
and wrote dirty words in the sta
tute books.
One day, Jules was headed for tlie
senate to pass a law on infanticide
because an irate infant with an
Oedipus complex named Ex Homi-
iium De Rerum Naturum had be
come insulted when Caesar remon
strated his mater for emptying three-
months-old garbage in the public
square. De Rerum, as he was af
Kaufman is our editorial type. We use
it when we’re serious. It’s our chance to iW'
prove Salem. AYe try to help with Kaufman
sometimes funny, sometimes serious. Kaufi
.man has a definite purpose, it’s workable, it
accomplishes something worthwhile. It’s
Formal and businesslike with a sudde
fectionatPiv PnimT’ It’s a combination of sa
to Caesar’s favorite 'toa-V^? Are serif and light ital. and has elements of senouj
truese marquisette with otter^nVt^r .ludiciously mixed with cleverness. ^
Bui I ,u,gL, --itor.'-. it’s adaptable. «
headed for the office when he en- f lavorite type with US, just like the perso.
countered Garrulous who said to him ^’‘^a^iads me of. Chelt bold is
“ English dia- -
Mr. Snavely
lect, saying, “Beware the Ides of
March” (in German, “Gesund-
heit”). Through a faulty tym
panum, Jules thought she said “Be
at the Titan Arch” (their usual
trystmg place). Since he’d been
isT'pound^'^ELnB™’'''"^- Hut trv working
(Continueffn"" for four years and see if it isn’t uat
- d on page s..) Ural to type people.
I ni not sure what tlie p.sychoIogists woul
say to all this. Perhaps the Salemite has war
ped my personality. But try working wit