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We Bee . . . We s(M- a man walk onto the stage in Mem orial Hall and thrust his hands into the l)0(dets of his loose twin'd jacket. H^ dirges students to take advantage of the Civic Music Series. . . We see the saini' man standing in a uarK- ened room talking to a large group of stu dents about the value of the creative arts in life today, lli' is holding a print of F.eaii- ehamii’s “Nude Desei'iiding a Staircase”. He is using “Ezra Found” to support his thesis that the arts are worth an exhaustive effort to seize their message. Then he begins to talk id' music, and the group is listening in tently aii(l wanting' to learn from him. We sec the same man joking with his piano students or improvising in a chapel program. We also see the expressions of regret and sadness when this man handed in his resigna tion as dean of Salem School of IMiisic. We see this man walking onto the stage in Memorial Hall. The spotlights are glaring, lie sits at the jiiano and plays. As we listen the music dies av'ay and all we can say is, “Thank you, Dr. \Tirdell.” • • • We walked into the smoker and threw our wearv bodies on the sofa. As we were catch ing our breath, we overheard the conversation at"the bridge table. One girl trumped her partner’s aee and threw down her cards in disgust, “How can I keep my mind on bridge when 1 have so much else to do. You’d think they couldn’t get along without me the way they always ask me to make a poster, go to some meeting or some rehearsal!” Another girl took up the refrain to the strains of, “You! How about me? T haven’t been to the show all this week because I had to go to see all those girls on my committee.” We nudged each other and decided it was time for us to have our say. We liaT read all the articles on school spirit and had nod ded a])proval, but we both felt that it went farther than that. Have you ever thought why you were asked to help in some project around campus? Maybe the job was small and unrewarding, but you were a s k e d because someone had enough faith in your ability to know that you would do a good job, perhaps not as chair man, but without good followers there would be no leaders. Sure you have a lot to do—a term paper and all—we all do. F>ut if everyone would take the time it takes to play a couple hands of bridge to do ber part, the whole job wouldn’t fall on one i)erson. It should be flattering and not annoying for a chairman to remember that you have a special talent for sewing a seam or singing a song. Sally Senter and Kitty Faucette AmenJlment. . . “Labor is life,” says Thomas Carlyle in his essay. Labor, and he adds, “For there is a per ennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work.” 1 believe “there is a perennial noble ness, and even saeredness” in leisure also. Sitting under the w e e p i n g willow tree watching the pansies in their private garden, meditating in the serenity of the May Dell or wandering along the streets of Old Salem have a i>lace as well as laboring on term papers or collecting properties for stunt night. I feel that it is in leisure such as this that one finds time to ponder over her problems, her finished work and her future plans. It takes time to solve complex problems cor rectly, and if one loses herself in the rush of daily living, she will eonse([uently neglect her l>roblems. W’^e read articles in reputable newspapers and magazines which tell us that the human body is capable of enduring only a certain amount, and that today it is being torn down and destroyed faster than it is being rebuilt. I think that this is a result of neglecting to give the body its necessary rest. Hence, one should plan her time. After completing her tasks, she should relax long enough for her body to recuperate. In addition to leisure being used for relax ing and recuperating, it can also be used for creating. Poets, musicians, and artists are often inspired to create their best works by a suggestive sound or sight that they receive in one of their idle moments. Leisure and labor—the components which form our daily timetables. It is not labor alone which is life, but it is a combination of leisure and labor. Leisure, finally, is the essential element which soothes our weariness when our labor is finished. Lu Long Ogburn \ C-l-EUJELL ISiT)oof^- U P- World News By Kitty Burrus Moscow Leads U. S. Communist Party Benjamin Gitlow, top U. S. Com munist leader from 1919 to 1929, has testified that the American Communist Party acts directly on instructions from Moscow. He said he knew of “no instance of .American Reds disobeying a dir ection from Moscow.” Further, he testified that Soviet Russia has put up $35,000 to help launch the “Daily Worker” in our country. Gitlow, former Communist leader who was ousted from the party in 1929 because of an argument with Sttdin, is the government’s first witness to determine whether or not the Communist Party in the Lh S. must register with the Justice Department as an organization con trolled from abroad. Amendment Proposed Senator Hendrickson has pro posed a Constitutional amendment that would allow future presidents to be voted out of the White House by the people. The proposed amendment pro vides for a nation-wide vote on re calling a president any time two- thirds of the state legislatures petition such a vote. If the vote were in favor of ousting the pre sident, his office would be filled by the vice-president until the next election. However, there could be no recall during the first year of a president’s term. This proposal seems to have been churned up because of the Truman-Mac Arthur controversy. Reds Begin Offensive As the Chinese Reds begin their big spring offensive, the Allied forces are being pushed backward. For the fifth time in less than a year the two armies are fighting across the 38th parallel. A. P. correspondent Robert Eun- son reports that the Allied army is not threatened with annihila tion as it had been in the Chinese offensives of November and Jan uary. He says the Allies were well prepared to meet the Communist assults which had been expected for weeks. Education Grants Announced The Office of Education has an nounced grants of $46,500,000 for for 100 school construction projects in “Federally-affected” school dis tricts and on Federal property. Twenty-five of these grants will go to private schoolhouses for children who actually live on fed eral reservations. Seventy-five have been set aside for building more schoolrooms in districts where at tendance has been tremendously swollen by the setting up of fed eral projects near-by. Rain By Lola Dawson The smokeroom of the college dormitory was quiet for Saturday afternoon. The rain beat against the windows, and the panes rat tled intermittently. Every now and then someone would rush in and brush the rain off her. kerchief. Otherwise the smoke l^ouse was still. I picked up Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is The Night” and began to read: “Rosemary’s face was hard and pit ful” . . . “Sue.” I looked up. “Sue, I’d like for you to meet Mrs. Dee Moseley. Dee, this is Sue Teasdale.” I saw Jo Ann standing with a girl whose mater nity dress was stretched across her stomach. “Hi jah, Sue”. “Hello Dee. When did you ar rive?” “Oh about five or ten minutes ago.” “Are you spending the week-end here at the college?” “Yes. Joe, my husband, had to go to Raleigh for his army phy sical, so I thought I would drop by my alma mater. You kids just don’t know what you’re missing by not being married.” “Maybe not. I like it here—I’ve only been here one semester.” “That’s what Jo Ann tells me. I guess Hallsboro College is pass able as far as colleges go—but mar riage gives you such a sense of security.” “I’m glad.” “Jo Ann and I are going over to the couch and chat about old times. Come and join us when you finish reading.” “O.K.” ... So that’s Mrs. Dee Moseley. Jo Ann described her perfectly, even to the clump of hair falling in her face—mighty piercing eyes. She looks as if she knows my slip'strap is broken and pinned on with a gold safet}- pin— Wonder what they’re saying. “Dee, are you glad you quit school and got married?” Gosh, yes, Jo Ann. H. C. never gave me anything and Joe is a u onderful party boy. I’m a messy housekeeper, and he loves to put his feet on the furniture. Of course ^our marriage was a little sudden.” She straightened up un easily and smoothed her skirt “We’ve been happy for the past two months. Now he’s going to Colorado with the army. I’m happy and I love the security of married life. Remember how we used to talk about God, eternity and all that stuff? Well that does not worry me anymore. I believe in myself now.” “H a V e you forgotten all the Keats and Shelley I used to read aloud to you? Remember ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those un heard are sweeter?” “Melodies, memories, pooh. That was all kid stuff, Jo Ann. You’ll find that once you leave school, your last ideal is stripped.” “What about your baby. Dee? Are you going to teach him there is no God?” “My baby won’t believe in God. There will never be a sign in our family life to indicate there is one.” Dee lit her cigarette. Jo Ann (Continued on page five) By Helen Ridgway and Peggie Johnson In order to clarify nothing, it is necessary primarily to define this universal term. Kott ing is the state of not being anything. Equally important in this dissertation is the distine. tion between nothing and something. Some, thing is the state tvhich will eventually if referred to as nothing. To show the distinction, the following prac. tical applications are offered. What is the typical response to a quite ok viously misplaced compliment? The peren. nial rejoinder is habitually, “Oh, it was notk ing, really.” Or, as many a facetious character w 0 u 1 d reply, “A real nothing !” ' What is meant? Are we, as simple puppets of Motliet Nature, to believe that life is really nothing! Quite assuredlv, life is virtuallv a bi» portly something. Also, on a parallel with the preceding para- graph, reflect for a moment on the musings of an idler. What does one muse about vhilt idling? Quite obviously answered, “Nothing," The cause for this astute answer is apparent For, after all, the idler is occupying himsell conspicuously with nothing. Referring again to practical application observe a child with his grimj' little hands k; the jam pot. Unexpectedly, mother arrivtsj and asks the child, ‘AVhat are you doing dar-' ling?” And what is the response from mother’s little angel? “Oh, nothing.” From the hush of twilight the child can still h; heard, pleading his ease. However, he k: been tried and persecuted, and gained nothing| perhaps, but injury to well-established pridci Another outstanding example would be thl reaction of the sophisticate on her return fron| a very important and expensive weekenii The obvious question which erupts from k| many inquisitive little friends is, “Well, hod was it?” The answer from our socialite h| “Oh, it was nothing.” While at the veri| moment of her reply, her escort may be sofi washing a stack of dishes to get enoujl| money to go to an evening movie. And, al| the time, the feminine side of the situatioij refers to the weekend as “nothing.” On the opposite pole from our sophosticah is the pseudo-intellectual. Surrounded by al her books of knowlesdge, she has spent th afternoon delving into Einstein’s theory ( relativity. Suddenly the “stupid one” plunge into her hermitage. “Wha? cha been doin'! The sarcastic reply from our psyche is, nothing.” If the reader has completed this discouS, he might be termed as loyal. For the ansifi! trom the author or, in this case, auttoSj V Quid be, ‘“Oh, it was really nothing.” fflCl sea for J gar Ho the top 1 but Me the too 1 WOl nes Jur led Jur of the E for SCO ,.“M Soj for den hur the T ^alemite Published every Friday of the College year by tb I Student body of Salem College Downtown Office 304-306 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company OFFICES Lower floor Main Hall Subscription Price $2.75 a year Editor-in-Chief Une Associate Editor Lola Assistant Editor Eleanor MacGrst Make-up Editor ... PeeffV Copy Editor R-Jhie Del®’ Sports Editor cr'Ft ' "V Jane Fearing, Helen Mars^ret Betty Parks, Lorrie 0“ Margaret Thomas. Elsie Meeee t-iV... n....... eed Wats. Thomas, Elsie Macon, Kitty Burrus and BridveV^i Assistants: Florence Spaugh, Edith Tesch, k Jean Calho Johns™, Lu Long Ogb; Daverv^eef vT.. May Emma Sue Larkins, I may, tmma Sue LarKina, a, Flaaler In Schoolfield, Florence Cole, £ TvnisK; Phyllis Forrest and Joann Belle. Betty McCrary, Lou Br^ Business Manager Wa'*, Advertising Manager . Ann H*. curni Manager''v::;:;;;::;;z; "Z jean Exchange Editor r-e Pictorial Editor .. WArinn Faculty Advisor .ZJZ “ Miss Jess
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