&oe/uf,
. . . has a policy. Our newspaper is no ex-
eeittion. Thouy^h tiii.s i)olicy is tacitly under
stood by the staff, it is good for us and tor
our readers to give exjiression to it.
The Salemite has a jiolicy in that it aims
to reiire.sent student oi>inion. A letter troni
anv [lerson ex])ressiiig personal opinion on an
issue will be imblished in the Salemite. A1
students are (uieoiirageii to express their views
m the editorial eoluiiins. There would be no
paiier if the student body did not write for
it, as well as reail it. • ii * u
The Salemite does have a policy in that i
attempts to .over all the news of interest to
students. W.' try to give iiiiiiartial and equal
recognition to all eainpus groups. If at any
time anv organization feels that this aim is
not carried out, we hope it will be called to
our attention. i i
The Salemite has a policy in that it whole-
endorses all efforts, whether those
istration, or of the students, to ■ jects, or of still objects in a sub-
\Ve arc be- lued light, and would not take ob
jects closer than six feet, then a
box camera of the Brownie type
would meet your demands. Such
a camera is inexpensive and re-
(juires a minimum of adjustment.
Snap the shutter and the picture
is taken. If on the other hand
you require a better camera, a fold
ing camera with a rapid rectilinear
lens might fulfill your needs. This
would have a double combination
lens separated by a diaphragm.
Distortion is corrected by such a
lens but the largest opening is
about stop 8.
If you wish to project lantern
slides on a screen you would need
a camera using a 35 millimeter film
or slightly larger. Pictures made
by such a canjera are too small for
contact printing and should be en-
hcfudedly
of tlie admin
further the progress of Salem
liind an.v movem.uit which will better Salem
either materially or sitiritually.
'file Salemite has a ])oliey in that it strives
to better the relationship betw.um the stu
dents and the administi'ation and faculty. In
anv eoidroversy we try to jiresent both sides
of the (pnestion before stating our own opinion.
From this desire to jiriiit what you think
and believe--from this attempt to encourage
the iirogress of Salem^the Salemite policy is
automatically formulated: to represent Salem
and to work foi' Salem.
The Editors
^^04fl Wdldlo- • • •
our fori'ign student in France, comes a
letter to -Miss Eyrd. To those who are new
at Salem, Waldo is Margaret Reynal, a 1948
alumna. Sh.‘ has b.'.ui av\'arded an assistant-
shir), and is now studying and teaching in a
Fren.di school. Following are excerpts from
her letter to Miss Hyrd.
“After an uneventful crossing (punctuated
bv one su‘g.* of s.‘a sickness) we landed at
liavre .lune 20th, s])ent three days making
the necessary official calls, and then I came
down here to visit som.“ family friends. 1
go on to Agen Friday, and school begins Mon-
day.
“Could you but see me now—it’s still quite
impossible for me to take all this in. The
city is completely beyond description—all in
\'an (logh colors—tiny winding streets, a mar-
ki‘t place like a Brueghel painting—the sky
a lovely cobalt blue—the Mediterranean visible
in the distance (iiieidentally. Sat. p.m. we
went boating there)—and of course the 13th
century school of medicine where Rabelais
studied—the 17th and 18th century houses—
All in all, soil of nice.
“I'm en.joying this stay with the Andrie
family. Th.w si)cak only French, and although
it’s a bit painful at times, 1 seem to be catch
ing on fairly readily. It’s much easier to
undei-stand what’s said than to speak, though.
“Hope all’s well at Salem. Give my best
to all there.”
Zf)t Salemite
by Roy J. Campbell
If you want to buy a camera
there are certain facts to be kept
in mind. You should also consider
your pocketbook! The most irti-
portant thing to be considered is
the use to be made of the camera.
Do you wish to have a fair sized
picture that needs no enlarging?
Do you want to take pictures of
still or slowly moving objects six
feet or more from the camera? Do
lou desire to take pictures on dark
cloudy days? Would you like to
take a good picture of the May
Queen and her court in the shade
in the late afternoon? Do you
plan to project 2x2 slides, colored
or otherwise, on a screen ? All of
these things, and others too, must
be considered.
In case you would be satisfied
with a camera which would not
take sharp pictures of moving ob-
larged. Possibly you would like to
take some flash light pictures. If
so, be sure to measure the distance
from the flash bulb to the object
and have the time of
synchronized with the opening
the shutter.
The larger the lens the larger
the opening and the greater t ie
amount of light which strikes t e
film. However, such a lens must
be more highly corrected to give
sharp pictures. lens of this type
is called an anastigmat. The ac*
mission of more light shortens the
time of exposure and makes pos
sible snapshots of rapidly moving
objects. It also enables one to take
good pictures on dull days. Lenses
of this kind are expensive, and the
price increases rapidly with the
size of the camera.
The f numbers play an important
part in the use of a camera. The
amount of light is controlled by
varying the opening in the dia
phragm. The diameter of the open
ing is expressed as a fraction of
the focal length. An f/8 lens means
that the diameter of the opening
is an eighth of the focal length.
Since the amount of light entering
a camera in a given time is pro
portional to the square of the dia
meter of the opening and inversely
proportional to the square of the
focal length it is important to use
the proper f opening or number.
The smaller the f number the
greater the amount of light ad
mitted. If you desife a really good
camera get one with an f/3.a or at
least f/4.5. Such a camera will be
more expensive but if you are in
terested in photography it is what
you need. Be sure that the camera
(Concinued on page fo’ur)
by Kitty Burrus
In these days of Iladacol and Dr. Ander
son’s Preparation it’s practically impossible
even to find out campus gossip without ask
ing
to rather
**$ee My Lawyer”
by Ruby Nell Hauser
The definitely uncut and, at times,
slightly unrefined story of three
show window young lawyers des
perately in need of a client, any
client, was presented by the Wins
ton-Salem Little Theater at Rey
nolds Auditorium Tuesday night.
Maibaum and Clork might have
strung out interest in their badly-
constructed “See My Lawyer”, if
a client had not appeared until the
second act. Perhaps it was a
lucky break for the audience that
jack White made his entrance as
Carlin, the lunatic, so early in the
play; his easy capers over the
stage did keep one awake.
A play should have a definite
purpose. “See My Lawyer” must
have had one. From the muddle
of dialogue, the sudden explosive
emotions of the players and the
lack of rapport .among them, I was
never able to discern a purpose.
The actors themselves never
seemed to forget that they were
upon a stage. Carol Lavietes gave
a stagey performance of a young
secretary to the three lawyers, who,
with the exception of Ernest Trox-
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Circulation Manager Clara Justice habilitation of post-war Korea.
by Fay Stickney
Sophomores : Did you ever think
of Lionel M. Kauffman’s familiar
(luotation during Freshman Rat
Week ? “Children are a great com
fort in your old age—and they help
you reach it faster, too.’’
A final approval of the United
Nations military action throughout
all of Korea was voted upon Satur
day, October 7 by the General As
sembly at Lake Success. Sir Sene
gal D. Race, Chief of the Indian
Mission, stated that the United Na
tions’ crossing the thirty-eighth
parallel might stiffen the Northern
ers’ resistance and might even
spread tlie war. He declared the
L'nited Nations should make sure
to win the hearts of the people—^
on the North and South—not leav
ing any feeling of bitterness, and
they should claim the motto: “In
victory, magnanimity.”
Concluding the Assembly debate
of exactly one week, it was finally
voted 47 to 5 in favor of an omni
bus resolution allowing General
MacArthur’s troops to cross the
Thirty-eighth Parallel and chart a
peace for the unification and re-
blunt questions or resorting
;radv means of investigation. I nseM to be
,ble'to walk down the hall and see Dee try-
irnr to get her asprin bottle open, Lou holding
her nose while drinking down a glass of soda
water or Carolvn sticking band-aids on her
heels-’and it was perfectly obvious that Dee
had had a fight with Edwin, that there were
pretzels and potato chips in Lon’s room, or
that Carol.vn had just spent her weeks’ allow
ance on a-new pair of loafei s.
But this vear the only possible way to gather
np these choice bits is to stoop to such un-
Imdv like practices as putting your ear to the
wall' or looking through keyholes; because
now no matter what upsetting event has oc
curred, the only reaction anybody ever makes
is to gulp down two tablespoons of Hadacol.
Now vdien I walk down the halls looking for
interestina- news, all I see is Dee taking tlad-
acol. Lou'takina Hadacol, and Carolyn taking
Hadacol. For all I know the only thing that’s
happened to any of them is that all three have
just come back from hockey class.
A few days ago I decided to start an all-out
crusade against this Amazing Discovery and
began on my room-mate by giving her lectures
on'’^the merits of aspirins and lemon juice. I
really though for awhile T had her reformed,
hut i gave up hope when I came in from my
date Saturday night and found she had come
in earlv and was hiding in the closet garg
ling with Hadacol.
You just can’t argue with faith like that.
Frankly, though, I’ve been a firm believer in
Nature’s Own Pure Medicines ever since the
time I discovered the indisputably superior
merits of tomato juice. (Which was exactly
15 years before Hadacol was even run off the
still). It was also the days before term
of the play was Liz Trotman s papers and historv pops, so at the particular
very brief appearance in the first thinking of I was sitting quite COzilv
on the living room rug cutting out paper dolls.
I had just gotten up to show Mother Patsy
Ann’s latest outfit, when I happened to glance
over on the coffee table and see a pamphlet
she had brought from the home health course
she was taking. It was exactly the same dull
size as all the other pamphlets I’d seen, but
the picture on the cover was different from
the usual dull pictures.
On the upper half there was a little girl—-
she was about my age—who wms dashing gaily
down the sidewalk on a scooter. You could
tell by^ the round chubbiness of her legs and
the way her eyes were sparkling that here
was a child who had never been sick a day m
her life.
But on the bottom half of the page, in con
trast to this picture, was the Other One. Here
was a little girl of the same age as the one
above, but with that starved ematiated look
that only comes from never having had enough
to eat. Her hair was straight and jagged-
looking on the ends, and her legs wmre hard
and thin like that part of a chicken’s legs that
hangs below its feathers. Her dress was^ a
dirty-looking red affair which had no waist
line and hiked up in front. Mother had al-
the Trees, Yerby’s Floodtide and ways been particular about my dresses not
hiking up in front, so I knew at once some
thing terrible must be wrong. When I quest
ioned. Mother about this little girl whose dress
was so uneven, she explained to me that she
had pellagra, a disease which came from not
eating the Right Poods. The first symptom
. were little white blisters on your fingers and
again proved themselves to be toes, and then you got very sick and mayhe
overwhelmingly equipped and died.
polished in all departments. The “Qh, 1 see,” I said, and Sat down Oil the
SikCf r If™ P>q- yh my paper doUa. Bu
Straight days, each of which re- that 1 didn t have very much tun.
gistered a victory for New York. hopt thinking about those little white blistcD
Only four times in their seven- Wondering if they hurt very bad. I
teen world series appearances since membered the long bath I had. had yesterday
and how when I had gotten out the skin^ on
my fingers had been wrinkled and dried'
Could it be that—? But no, that couldn’t hb
and I pushed the thought out of my mind
Then I remembered how many times I
obstinately refused to eat the Right Food, am
ended, “Now I’m going to bed and that made the Awful Thought come back,
(Continued on page three) (Continued on page four)
ler, also proved exceedingly theatri
cal. Never once did the cast
achieve the essence of dramatic
success of making the play be
lievable. To the audience it re
mained a farce of cluttered lines
and actions until the end.
One of the brightest moments
act.
The marked difference between
this and other Little Theater pro
ductions was that “See My Law
yer” could be heard over the en
tire auditorium. Whether this was
due to the narrowness of the set
or to better projection on the part
of the actors, 1 can’t say, but it is
an asset which future casts should
keep.
The set was interestingly done
and showed a lot of work on the
part of the crew. The greatest
jar of the evening was the secre
tary’s casually walking through an
imaginary wall.
The make-np was well done, es
pecially that for Kato, the Japan
ese chauffeur, and the costumes
(Continued on page four)
Leading in the best sellers
fiction book list taken from the
New York Times Book Review
Section is the four-week-straight-
top-rated novel The Cardinal by
Robinson, followed by Hemming-
way’s Across the River and Into
The Spanish Garden by Cronin.
This analysis is based upon reports
taken from top book-sellers in
thirty-six cities.
For the thirtieth time in the his
tory of the world series, the Ameri
can League scored over the National
League. In victory, the Yankees
1929 have the Yank been defeated,
twice by the Giants, once by the
Cardinals, and once by the Red-
birds.
The Phillies manager, Eddie Saw
yer, calmly remarked in his office
not long after the world series had