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THE SALEMITE
January 12, IQ^i
Faculty
Tg Display
Hobbies
By Clinky Clinks»..iles
[lave you ever wondered vviial
(lie meiiihers of the faculty and
administration do in their spare
lime? Or did you think t(iat all
of it was consumed in tliinking up
difficult tests, impossible term
paper topics and projects ?
If this has been your impression,
you have Iteen very much mislead.
A great many of them have talent
along other lines. For proof of
this fact we ask only that you at
tend the FACULTY HOBBY DIS-
FLAY. It will be held on Wed- !
uesday, January 17, at 8:30 in the|
Art Gallery of the Library. Dr. j
Lewis is going to speak, after
which coffee and cake will be ser-j
ved. Then you may wander around
and see for yourself jtist what oc- j
cupies our factilty in their spare
time.
To give you just a hint of what
will be there. Miss Kirkland is en
tering some of her hooked rugs;!
Mr. Curlee, some examples of his
wood work, Mrs. Jacobowsky and |
Mr. Lerch, paintings; Dr. Wcind-j
hold, hamtnered copper work as'
well as paintings; Miss Simpson,
an example of her sewing. Be
sides these there will be many
other entries that you will want to
News Briefs
Dr. Gramley will be the princi
pal speaker January 18 at the an
nual meeting, of the North Caro
lina Press Association in Chapel
Hill.
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The basement of Sisters Dormi
tory is to be redecorated and
opened for the use of the girls in
the dormitory, it was announced
this week by the administration.
The date for the opening of the
basement to the students is not
yet known.
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With the installation of the se
cond new stoker this week, the
new heating plant for the college
is practictilly completed, announces
the administration. The first new
stoker was installed during the
Christmas holidays.
If if ^
Mr. Peterson and Mrs. Sttirr al-|
tended the .Annual Convention of
the National Association of Tetich-
ers of Singing held at Washington,
D. C., December 26 through 30 in
conjunction with the annual meet
ing of the Music Teachers Nat
ional .Association. Of particular
interest to Mr. Peterson and Mrs.
Starr w'ere the voice forums and
clinics held daily at the Wardman
Park Hotel.
Mrs. Starr was a guest in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Corrin
Strong during the Convention.
see, including those of Dr. Todd’s
and Dr, Singer’s children and the
Gramley boys.
Todd Hails
(Continued from page five)
what is said by the self-possessed
is more easily understood but less
readily believed than what out
pours from the unhinged mind of
the unpossessed. So Faulkner, in
his search for truth, deliberately
(and too frequently for most
readers) turns away from the
Snopses and listens attentively to
the Benjys, the Jim Bonds, and the
Darls of life. We listen, too, first
in wonder, then in horror at what
is gradually disclosed in a chaotic
jumble of words and phrases. The
difficulty of the style, then, is es
sential to the revelation.
Faulkner Speaks for South
Another reason for the present
lack of interest in Faulkner, at
least in a certain region, can be
liscoucern in klellstroem’s remark
that this author is “the great epic
riter of the .American South.”
Fa.ulkner chronicles the tragedie
humaine of the area most familiar
to him, the area around his own
home town, Oxford, Mississippi,
called the town of Jefferson in his
novels. Here, by the accident of
Dr. Gramley will represent Salem
and Dr. Vardell will represent the
National Association of Schools of
Music at the inauguration of Mar
shall Scott Woodson as the third
President of Flora MacDonald
College at Red Springs January 13.
Flora MacDonald College was
founded by Dr. Vardell’s father,
Charles G. Vardell, Sr., who was
Iso the college’s first President
his residence, and by the further
accident of the great war between
the states, are the people he wants
to describe, now to be identified, in
the terms appropriate for this area,
as (1) the present-day carpetbag
gers, (2) the antedated plantation-
owners still clinging to the tradi
tions of the civil war period, and
(3) the people of the hinterland
unfortunately (or, for the author,
fortunately) untouched by civili
zation until it seeks them out and
leaves them more oppressed and
insecure than before. What ap
plies specifically to the South, how
ever, applies generally, in the term
inology first presented, to all orders
of men in the country and, in
deed, in all countries. Faulkner
speaks for the South, but his mes
sage should be heard by all.. If
we are to survive, he reiterates,
we must get rid of the Snopses.
Until we do they will continue to
drive our sons (again in Faulk
ner’s terms) to Jackson— the in
sane asylum, our daughters to
Memphis—a bottomless sink of in
iquity, and the rest of us around
The Toddle House
878 West Fourth St.
Phone 2-3737
fushon shop
the statue of the ConfederatT^I
ier, a relic standing in the squjjl
of Jefferson, and thence to tli|
cemetery. *
To point the moral, Faulknd
adopts the words of Macbeth 1
the title for one of his greatej
works. “Life is a tale told by
idiot, full of Sound and Fury, «; I
nifying nothing.” For some' til
unheeding, life is just that, to'ld J
an idiot, and here written bv nkl
tor others, the more percepti\|
the irony is stark and awesonl
Life, as only the idiot can see {1
is a terrifying account of maul
inhumanity to man.
That is why Faulkner, tin
humanitarian, the severe critic bj
staunch defender of the South h
tends to use the Nobel prize-monel
to build schools for his peopJ
Knowledge can and must prev/
against t3'ranny.
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