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Let’s liave a big Christmas this year! Let’s
get more gifts, spend more money, send more
Christmas cards than ever before. For what
is Christmas but the time to out-spend and
out-send everybody else?
The “Spirit” of Christmas isn’t anything
illusive and spiritual. All it means is giving
bigger presents than the next fellow.
Who ever got the idea that Christmas is a
time for serious thinking and worship? That
sort of thing was fine once, but today it’s
outmoded.
What we need for our modern times is
something to take our .minds off the problems
we face. We want to forget about the Rus
sians, the H-bomb and Korea.
So, we must party, party, party, get drunk
and have fun. Just forget all the rest.
Forget that there are Russians, an H-bomb
and a Korea. Forget that it’s not the gifts,
but the meaning of giving that counts. For
get that church services, as well as parties,
are going on Christmas Eve.
And forget along with it that Christmas is
the birthday of Jesus, the greatest gift of all.
Forget all of it, but let’s have a big Christ
mas this year!
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Have you ever stopped to think just what
Salem would be like if there was no faculty
participation in any activities other than those
of the classroom variety?
Do you know that there are schools, and
plenty of them, where faculty members do
not hold open houses every Sunday night for
the students; where teachers do not play
basketball with the students; and where pro
fessors do not drop by a dorm and discuss
an on-coming test in their class? What would
Salem be like under such conditions?
You know that Salem is not like this, and
you also know that you would not like it if
it were. So maybe you’ve just taken the close
relationship between faculty and students here
at Salem for granted. Probably most of us
have, but let’s stop for just a moment and
be thankful that we are not one of those
“other schools”.
Let’s be thankful that the head of our edu
cation department will read “The Littlest
Angel” to us in chapel; let’s be thankful that
the head of our history department will keep
us up to date on current political affairs;
let’s enjoy the fact that ten faculty members
will give up an evening to come and match
wits with students in a spelling bee; and let’s
show our appreciation to those who will miss
their own supper in order to talk to some
campus organization over our after-dinner
coffee.
Ijet’s remember that the college president
may have more important things to do than
pop into the paper office with helpful hints
and criticism—but still he does it because he
likes to help us; and that deans may be ter
ribly busy when we go into the office and
start an oration on the dust that settles on
our window sill—and yet they listen to us
with the utmost patience because- they want
us to be happy.
Let’s be thankful then for all the millions
of little things that each faculty member does
for us every week—all those little things that
help to make the friendly atmosphere at
Salem like it is.
S. R.
IWtk CatteciMt PrcM AwMtoHiWP
Published every Friday of the College year by the
Student Body of Salem College
Printed by the Sun Printing Company
Editor-in-Chlef Eleanor McGregor
Associate Editors Anne Lowe, Peggy Chears
Managing Editor Jean Calhoun
News Editors Jane Schoolfield, Lorrie Dirom
Feature Editors Eleanor Johnson, Connie Murray
Feature Assistant Cynthia May
Copy Editor Sallv Reiland
Make-up Editor Allison Long
Art Editor Ruthie Derrick
Pictorial Editor Jeanne Harrison
Feature Writers: Laurie Mitchell, Ruthie Derrick, Sally
Reiland, Emma Sue Larkins, Francine Pitts, Margie Ferrell,
Betsy Liles, Betty Tyler, Jane Drown, Betty Lynn Wilson,
Elsie Macon, Jo Bell.
Reporters: Betsy Liles, Diane Knott, Dot Morris, Alison
Britt, Bessie Smith, Jean Edwards, Allison Long, Sara Out-
land, Mary Anne Raines, Edith Flagler, Elsie Macon, Anne
Simpson, Jane Smith, Barbara Allen, Connie Murray, Laura
Mitchell, Myra Dickson, Sue Harrison, Drane Vaughn.
Business Manager Faye Lee
Advertising Manager Joan Shope
Circulation Manager Jean Shope
Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd
From The Staff
ACROSS
1. rU Be For Christmas
4. December 25
13. Clinging vine
14. A proverb
15. Traditional “knov/ledge
16. Senior Home Ec. major
18. King
19. Christmas
20. What children want for Christmas
22. Pronoun
23. Affirmative answer
25. “Somebody is Taking My
Place*’
26. Morning
27. Jolty Old Saint
31. Land of the oil dispute
33. Kind of sock
35. Little Tommy
37. Orange covering
39. Already ;
41. First two letters of Salem reversed
42. The Littlest
44. We get them on Christmas
51. We’re decended from it!
54. • The birth of Christ
55. Christmas!
57. Long and Far Away
59. You hang decorations on them
€1. Dressed up
63. A radioactive element
65. Dancer, Prancer
66. To Be not To Be
67. Christmas dinner
70. Anglo-Saxon (abbr.)
72. Instrument for playing taps
73. Red hot
75. Receptacle for Santa’s goodies
70. Gift for the girls
DOWN
1. Deck the Halls With Boughs of
2. Bogs
3. Day before Christmas
5. W'hat we deck
7. He comes down the chimney
8. Touchdown (abbr.)
9
10.
11.
12.
16.
17.
19.
21.
22.
24.
Mother of Jesus
A woman never tells her
Kinsey knows about it
Santa has white ones
Praise of a person
Old Robert E.
Biblical “you”
Skip
University of Colorado (abbr.)
What happens to the turkey after
it’s cooked
Girl’s name
Writing fluid
A man
Old English (abbr.)
A steady couple’s fight
Rank in army or navy (abbr.)
beaver
Ma’s better half
Christmas drink
Rhode Island (abbr.)
The former and the
Them what has
European country (abbr.)
Faye Lee’s pinned to one
It has wings
Maria!
Men get millions for Christmas
The angels sang it
You sing ’em
Very good
It makes you want to sin
Shewmake teaches it
When you gotta, you gotta
New and cars
Hang your Christmas stocking on
8:30 classes are not much
A chicken laid it
Capone
Why don’t you right
Half of Bing
Fluorine (abbr.)
The answers to the crossword
puzzle can be found in the Salemite
office on the bulletin board.
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor:
Last week-end Salem College
made a great advancement regard
ing its social privileges. Students
attending the dance were given one
o’clock permission. , This is not a
new privilege, but it is one that
the students regard very highly.
Those going to the dance were
also permitted to sign out in their
respective dormitories. We all
thought this was an improvement
over the previous system of every
one’s signing out in Clewell. The
system of signing out in our dormi
tories proved very effective. It
was simpler, quicker, and less con
fusing.
Since this system of signing out
has proven itself so effective, why
couldn’t it be kept this way? It
worked effectively last week-end
when a large number of students
went to the dance.
It is absurd for us to sign out in
Clewell when we have a date. It
has been said that the reason we
have to do this is that someone
has to be on duty when we sign
out. But last week-end no one
was watching us sign out. There
were house presidents who could
see to it that everyone was in on
time.
We are college students, and it
seems as though we should be
treated as such. We are old
enough not to have someone watch
our every move.
The students should be permitted
to sign out in their dormitories.
They would be on their honor, as
always. Why not try this and see
what happens? It is believed that
there would be positive results. It
would also be another credit to
Salem College.
Laura Mitchell
By Jean Calhoun
Santa Claus came last tveek.
He left a note, “Merry, I’ll be so bust
around the 25tli, 1 figured I sliould let yo,
know I won’t be able to bring you anytbinj
this year. All of my final exams are pilinj
up right before Christmas. These Nortl
Polian Profs!”
“Ah,” I said, smacking my academic lips to-
gether. “Exams are a universal plague.” Si
laving a finger aside of my nose and hollerinj
a holler, I set to work.
“Nothing, not even education,” I muttered
with my hand on “The Night Before” and
pledging my oath of St. Nick, “is going ti
take the rosy from Santa’s cheeks or the jell;
from his bowl full of.”
My Little Brain ticked away gleefully loot
ing for a solution. “Easy,” it said to me in
a tired, tired voice, “Just petition.” Then it
hummed sarcastically, “Into each week a pet
tion must fall.”
So I drew myself up and drew up a petition
“To AYhat North Polian Profs It May Concern
Now listen here! It is hereby petitioned!);
the undersigned that Santa be exempted froi
exams because be promised, to come see me ths
25th. I am no longer a child, but I
what I want when I want it.” Then I under
signed.
Obviously, the petition had to go througl
the North Gee, The Board of Icicle Contro
and the Big Ice Berg. Having heard tk
there is often corruption in high places,
decided to throw my weight around.
I wired; My grandmother, a pillow in thi
community, has patronized Santa Claus fo
83 years. If Santa is not exempted froi
exams, she will tell all of her friends!
change and patronize another Santa. Yot
school, North Polian Profs, will suffer in
direclly.” I undersigned..
This did the trick.
However, Santa came again and left anothe
note. “Merry,' got exempted. But now I hav
no over-nights.” Poor Santa! Again I pet
tioned, again I threatened, again I undet
signed. Finally I got Santa free.
He was coming and at his regular time.
December 25th.
I sighed a “wha-hoppened” sigh as I walke
into the room and saw what Santa had don
to me. Maybe he should have stayed an
taken the exams. Or, more maybe, he ha
gotten my letter confused with someone else'
No! There was my list, written in my mof.
subtle manner, and there were my gifts.
On the floor sat a dog.
“Santa,” I had written, “most" definitely,
need a brown furry thing to have for my own
I don’t want the fur to be long and shagg!;
but short, soft, carressable.” Perhaps I shouli
have mentioned that I wmnted it monogram
med, that would have put the doggy idea on'
of Santa’s head.
Next a huge goldfish bowl.
“Santa,” I had written, “Also leave
great big shiny thing, clear, and flawless, i
perfect that everyone’s head will swim wh®
they see it.” Should I have added for Simp*
Santa that I wanted to wear it on my fing®'
Beside these gifts lay a red bicycle.
“I want it red, Santa,” I had implied. Th
part he had gotten correctly. “I want it
be open, so my hair will blow when I
on it. I want it to be modern in line atf
conveniences.” Santa had put all kinds ^
bells and horns on it. Perhaps I should ha#|
said I wanted it to sound like the first pa|;
of the sentence, “A cat’ll act mean if you p#
its tail.” I
Education has its advantages, I theorizc||
Old Santa definitely should have taken l’*|
exams.
Again I petitioned:
Experience teaches us all, I guess.
The North Polian Profs always know
Santa Claus is a jolly ’ole fellow.
But please leave him in school to mello*j
For, honestly, I heard him exclaim as 1
drove out of sight, ,i
“I hope you a Merry Christmas! It
raining tonight!”
Again I undersigned.