November 6
Page Two
C)nt • • •
Book Review
to notice . . . that Indian Summer has worn
out its welcome.
that the squirting bricks are having a
slack season.
that next Friday is the 13th.
that Vespers need our support.
that Dr. Gramley is still wearing brown
suits.
that the brick paths don’t always follow
the routes we travel.
. that the piles of colored leaves look in
viting.
that a universally convenient time can
never be found for six-week’s tests.
that the Choral Ensemble is practicing
long and hard for the big trip.
that the potted plants are being carried
inside.
that Christmas cards are on sale.
. that smoked cigarettes never have and
never will blend attractively with grass or
brick walks.
. . that the new May Queen, her maid of
honor and court are truly lovely.
. . . that screams still come from Clewell as
the clock strikes 10 p.m.
. . . that a flag now flies on the flag pole.
. . that there are only a few more months
of truce in Korea unless negotiations are suc
cessful.
. . . that five ex-Salemites are being married
this week-end.
. . . that Salemites are interested in being
well informed.
... that our “philosophical professors” have
gained town newspaper fame.
. . . that the usual Monday night recital
was missed this week.
. that filtered cigarette smoke is “the
By Betsy Liles
The Loneliest Chicken, written
by Mitzi Byrd (Mrs. Edwin Shew-
make) and illustrated by Peggy
Martin (Mrs. Harry Martin), Salem
faculty wives, is the story of
Clinkle. This Clinkle is a natty
chicken,—w-hite, plump, and crown
ed with red . fringe. But she is
not ordinary, like most of the
chickens I have known. My past
experience with fowls has been
that they were Epicureans. They
crowed lustily Sir Robert Her
rick’s “Gather ye rosebuds while
ye may,” realizing any moment they
will be sent to a cold grave in the
deep freeze.
Some chickens have been more
spectacular than* others. I r^nem-
ber a practical one named Little
Red Hen who carried silver scis
sors under her tail feathers and
snipped her way out of a fox s bag,
and a flighty one called Henny
Benny who was so touched in the
head that she thought a piece of
sky had dropped on it. And of
course, there is immortal Chantic
leer, regal and pompous, yet cursed
by bad dreams and a nagging wife.
To this immortal class I believe
our chicken Clinkle is fated, for
Clinkle is a weeping bird who de
clares on page one of her bio
graphy, “1 am the loneliest chicken
in all the wide world,” in more
tragic tones than Hamlet could
have ever uttered, “To be or not
to be.”
Clinkle droops about her barn
yard in despondency. She is a
gregarious chicken wdio w'anted
ever so much to talk to SOME
ONE.” .Although she belongs to
a boy named Robin, he is the silent
hero tvpe. Clinkle, who is a com
plete extrovert, is frustrated and
weeps lai-ge tears because she has
no one with whom to converse.
However, our hero Robin steps
forward in knightly fashion and in
troduces Clinkle to Wallo-Olla, a
fat amiable pig. Our chicken is so
‘excited that she invites Wallo to
her coop. He budges no further
; than the front door. He gets stuck.
: Coming to the conclusion that
^ Wallo is fonder of mud and corn
than the art of conversation, Chn-
kle again becomes despondent.
I Robin then introduces Clinkle to
Skits, a kitten who likes to bounce
after grasshoppers, and Pug, a dog
who shocks Clinkle by crunching
bones. Clinkle finds nothing in
common with her friends. She be
comes the first chicken imsanth-
rope.
But then, like an act of heaven,
Robin is lost in the black .woods
and Clinkle, Skits and Pug band
together .and set off in the night
to find him. Their search through
the woods is more travail than
Chloe went through searching for
her lover in the smoke and fire.
Finally H.fter crossing a m ii d d y
swamp riding on Wallo’s back, the
animals find their master sleeping
under a tree in the true pastoral
tradition.
In the morning Clinkle awakes
to a new philosophy that every one,
despite their individual differences,
is of some w'orth. In fact, “she
is very, very happy.” She should
be. Not only has she been added
to the gallery of immortal chick
ens, but she has been w^ritten up
in a delightful biography and had
her portrait painted in the gaiest
colors. Some chickens have all the
luck. Macmillan Company, $1.00
rn,.
By Marianne Lederer
Two months ago I was looking out of my
windows into the garden in full bloom,
children played and laughed. My father was
cutting some bright yellow dahlias. Now
am sitting on the stone steps of Main
In front of me, long American ears, Chevrold
and Buick, are parked, red, blue, and g
A huge tree, of a species unknown to
casts its cold shadow on me. Some
trees still keep their hectic foliage while otati
trees strew all around brownish dead leara.
On the other side of Main Square, Araericai
cars (1 cannot call them otherwise 1
they look so different front, our small spatt
saving European cars), are smoothly flowij
by, one behind the other. Between the
I see the Brothers House, white boards
green shutters so typically Southern (oral
least I think so.)
Girls pass by, going to the Post Office, aai
I dimly see the changing of the green lijH
into a red one. That post office, unlike
other, always crammed with waiting gt
with all boxes except mine full of letten
cards, newspapers, fills me with despair,
wish the mail Avouldn’t arrive so often in tk
day so that I could have some peace of mini
sometimes!
Nearby the drug store flashes at me its td
neon advertisement. The drug store too b
part of the magic of America. I feel st
strange when I sit on the high stool and lea
on the bar and order with a detached exp»
sion an ice cream soda. How they woill
laugh, at home, seeing me here!
And I
thing’
. . . that the freshmen are very interested
in all campus activities.
Globe Trotters
. , . that Student Government is becoming
more and more effective.
We J^eed • .
Why is the academic aspect of dancing not
stressed more at Salem? Could we not use
more extensive instruction in modern dance
and choreography? “Antigone”, which was
presented by the Pierrettes last year, afforded
an opportunity for students to plan and stage
dancing. This was well done and showed that
real talent for this type of entertainment
axists among Salemites. It should be exploited.
This talent should be instructed and" made an
important part of a liberal arts education at
Salem.
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By Bobbi Kuss
This globe is spinning fast these
clays with debates in the U. N.
over new revelations of Red atro
cities in North Korea and over
earlier Red charges of germ war
fare on the part of the U. S.
Along this line—Dr. Charles W.
Mayo, famous Rochester, Minn,
surgeon and U, S. delegate to the
U. N., proved himself the right man
in the “free” world. , He answered
the question of why intelligent,
loyal American fliers, trained to
face death, succumbed to enemy
pressure and wrote anti-U. S. pro
paganda.
Mayo’s scientific study and an
alysis of the Red techniques of ex
tracting confessions of germ war
fare from U, S. fliers has indicated
—“the germ warfare propaganda
campaign was the chief means of
implementing the propaganda as
pects of a broad. Communist plan
concerning the Korean war. This,
just another aspect of the ruthless
exploitation of all war prisoners
and other captives to advance the
aims of world Communism . . . The
confessions were extracted by mas
ters in the “extracting” field who
used the technique of another Rus
sian scientist of the 30’s—Pavlov
to offer in sharp terms a purely
animal stimulus (food or death) to
our fliers. However, testimony of
courageous resistance to the Reds
has taught us that the spirit of
man can run deeper that the re
flexes of Pavlov!” (There is an
excellent article on Mayo’s work
in U. S. News and ’World Reports
—Nov. 6).
The shocking record of Com
munist atrocities in North Korea
nearly 30,000—including 6,000. Am
ericans—died because of ill treat
ment or execution.
In the present Korea—a deadlock
in the ' “explaining” tents. The
'Communist explainers unwilling to
give the Chinese P.W.’s another
chance to humiliate them. Explan
ations due to end Dec. 24—By Jan.
24,. all prisoners not wanting to “go
back” to be turned loose . . . Arthur
H. Dean, new to diplomacy, with
the tough assignment of setting up
a Korean peace conference.
The U. N. taking up the Pales
tine Question for the first time
since ’51 . . . Arab-lsraeli sparks
still flying in that area.
Tlie possibility of a new trouble
area . . . the Caribbean and its
Communist threat to U. S. security
is developing.
A new mayor in Germany—the
right wing- Christian and Free
Democrat Schreiber succeeding the
late Ernst Reuter . . . The Nobel
Prize for medicine and physiology
to Fritz Lipmann and Hans Krebs
of Germany for their work in bio
chemistry . . . And more “general”
news—The Nobel Peace prize to
General George C. Marshall . . .
New president of the Citadel in
South Carolina — General Mark
Clark.
A slight decrease in President
Eisenhower’s popularity according
to the latest Gallup poll—65% ap
prove of the President’s work, 20%
disapprove, 15% no comment. The
disapproving 20% were mainly far
mers crying for Secretary of Agri
culture Bensen’s resignation. De
spite drought-relief projects and aid
to livestock price decreases; the
proposed freer market is not meet
ing with approval.
Nearly $75 billion to be spent per
year for U. S. defenses . . . U. S.
rushes to keep ahead of Britain
and Russia in the race for supre
macy in atomic power for industry
. . , The U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission has plans for the biggest
atomic power plant ever attempted
—t’will be either at Oak Ridge,
Tenn.; the new AEC plant in S.
Ohio; or the new one near Padu
cah, Ky. . . . t’will generate enough
electricity for a city . of 120,000
people.
And still trotting our part of
the globe . . . King Paul and Queen
Frederika of Greece making a big,
hit at every reception, party,. and
city they ^race I
thej* do laugh when they receive my
full of ice creams, of tobacco fields, of «i
brick buildings with round doors and "'if
painted windows, and of the book store
wonderful place where you can spend
and still find something the use of which yii
cannot guess.
Two months ago, I was in a house
grownups and children; I cooked, f
looked after babies, went shopping,
live in an old wooden building. I see
the wall boards of my room the light of tli
bathroom, hear high pitched voices and
of girls walking along the corridor in
slips. I daily witness how easily Ameritu
college girls get excited. If I hear yells#
shouts in the living room, I know now
no accident has occured but that Claire
come back pinned from her week-end. ^
having heard so much about fraternity 1
I see them at last. I learn that pinned
are much more interesting than others #
their birthdays extremely important oceasi®
on which they are Ishowered with g®i
pecially underwear, blue if possible.
I thought that a class week had sh ^
I'll
but it really has only three here: on
days you pack and get ready, on Fridays
go away for Saturday and Sunday, and t
hack with swollen eyes for the Monday^
class. I am startled when the gW®
stand up as the teacher comes into the f
j-oom, and I admire how well they 1’®®''
another’s company by day and by
do not yet understand why they dress *
carefully to look like models when 1^
out with a date, and yet make a trip
drug store with their hair rolled np'
I do not ujiderstand either "why
Coca-Cola, hut I do understand why ^
doughnuts. ' .
Now sitting on the stone steps of
I look in front of me and wonder. 1^
for another trip to the post office and j
that my father will tell me in his
children still play in the garden and
frost has killed the yellow dahlias.