6o-mmunicxUl(^*iA> . . .
There is a definite need on Salem campus
for a faster and surer way of communicating
to students.
When, for instance, an organization presi
dent finds it necessary to have a call-meeting
immediately, she is faced with the problem of
informing .her members. If the emergency
arises on Tuesday or Thursday mornings, the
president may announce in chapel.
Announcements in chapel are not completely
satisfactory. The announcements are missed
by those taking cuts. In chapel, also, a great
deal of time is taken for announcements that
do not concern the greater part of the stu
dent body. But, the president must communi
cate with her members.
Suppose, however, the meeting must be
called on Mttnday, Wednesday or Friday.
There is no assembly.
In that case the president must pound the-
gong in the dining room and shout her an
nouncement, often not heard at the back
tables.
This is done, but is not satisfactory. The
meal is interrupted; everyone must listen when
only a few may be involved; students may
miss that particular meal and thus miss their
meeting.
The president may post the announcement
on a bulletin board. The bulletin boards on
campus are scattered, hoAvever, and there
could be only a hope that it will be read by
those concerned.
TheSalemite is available for announcements
also, but this is not convenient for emergency
meetings.
Thus there is a problem. We live on a small
campus with at least these four ways of com
munication and yet none of them is completely
efficient.
There should be one sure, convenient way
of informing students of the various activities.
This could be another bulletin board, large
enough for use by all organizations and cent
rally located in a prominent place.
The dining room could be the right place
for such a bulletin borad. Students would
pass it going to and from meals and this would
eliminate the gong-pounding announcements.
Such a step would call for the cooperation of
every student at Salem. It would be neces
sary for each student to glance at the board
every day for announcements pertaining to
her.
This bulletin board will fill the needs not
taken care of by the other ways of communi
cation. The information would be in writing,
be clearer and more complete; the information
would remain long enough for those who
missed a meal; more advanced notice would
be given; meetings would not conflict; stu
dents not included in announcements would
not be inconvenienced.
A committee has been appointed to investi
gate the possibilities of such a bulletin board.
The committee is composed of Miss Margaret
Barrier, Miss Lelia Graham Marsh, Alice Mc-
Neely, president of Student Government, Bar
bara Allen, Betty Jean Cash and Pat Ward.
The student body will be given a chance to
express its individual views in chapel next
Tuesday in the Student Government meeting.
Think about it and say what you think.
pdJtor’s note: Next week the Salemite will be edited
by ba ly Reiland, candidate for nomination of
editorship. The succeeding issues will be edited by
Connie Murray, Betsy Liles and Betty Lynn Wilson.)
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February 5.
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By Bobbi Kuss
Three times in this twentieth cen
tury, the hopes and fears of the
world have been and are being
centered on a capital city on our
spinning globe . . . BERLIN.
Through two global wars the world
has centered its sights . . . audio,
optic, and bomb ... on this city
in Germany and now the world is
looking that way again , . . This
time, with hopes and dreams of
preventing a possible third disaster
stemming instead from two eastern
capitals . . . Moscow or Peking.
The occasion, not exactly as
simple as our Boston Tea Party, a
full dress historic peace conference
with the world’s “Big Four” . . .
John Foster Dulles of the U. S„
-Anthony Eden of Great Britain,
Bidault of France, and V. M. Molo
tov of Russia meeting for the first
time in five years. As to who will
do the honor of popring, who will
take the most sugar or who will do
without lemon or cream ... no one
knows.
The West wants peace treaties
for Austria and Germany, unifica
tion of Germany, a European army,
plans for some future settlement
in Korea, and peace . . . The East
Enchanted Reading
By Betsy Liles
Reading Deems Taylor’s Some
Enchanted Evenings is like talking
show business over a cup of coffee
at Sardi’s on an opening night.
In his book, the author catches
the e.xcitement of the Broadway
musicals as he tells the story of
the careers of Rodgers and Ham-
merstein. He sets a gay informal
tone in his introduction, saying
It is nearly impossible to write
a satisfactory biography of two
living persons simply because
the chances of being- behind the
times are infinitely greater.
Suppose Hammerstein should
be run over by a taxicab just
as this book comes out of the
bindery, or should shoot Rod
gers ?
Since neither catastrophe has oc-
cured and since Deems Taylor is a
celebrated musical commentator,
his book is, a delightful success.*
It consists of brief reviews of the
Rodgers - Hart, Rodgers - Hammer-
stein plays. The text floats in
italics as it lists famous hits such
as “Who”, “Sunny”, “Oh, What a
Beautiful Mornin’”, and “June is
Bustin’ Out All Over.”
The book, divided into four parts,
deals with Rodgers, Hammerstein,
their merging and the technicalities
of their work, and is spiced with
anecodotes concerning the lives and
works of these men.
OF COURSE YOU’LL UKC —
^^OORBBLE' i
(Editor’s Note: This cartoon is a reprint of one used in the Salemite
several years ago.)
Globe Trotters
wants to block a European army,
keep Germany disarmed, get a U.
N. seat for Communist China to
put them in a position to grab up
the rest of Asia, and more access
to Western markets to keep Malen
kov’s promises to the Russian peo
ple and build up strength at home.
Also on the tea table agenda are
disarmament and talk of an atom
pool as suggested in Eisenhower’s
speech to the U. N. following the
Bermuda Conference.
Much speculation as to who will
walk off with the most silver ser
vice is going on. One thing we
know is what we’re up against . . .
A wily, shrewd diplomat, V. M.
Molotov, whose twenty-four years
of diplomatic double crosses of men
like Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt,
and Truman, with vast gains for his
Russian bosses, are well known.
We also knorv more about the
east’s new peace front with its
slack in the cold war. We’ve seen
through its soft-soaping techniques
with offers of deals to France on
the Indochinese War ... its at
tempts to prevent a European army
by arousing French fears of the
rearmament of her age-old adver-
(Continued On Page Four)
One interesting story that Taylor
narrates is the description of Rod
gers’ enrolling at Columbia Univer
sity. When someone once asked
him why he chose Columbia rather
than any other college, Rodgers
said simply, “The varsity show.”
(The varsity show is the musical
presented by the Columbia students
in the Hotel Astor ballroom.)
He continued, “I intended to
write the show. What better in
centive could you have for going
to college?” Rodgers did write the
show, and entitled it “Fly Away
with Me.”
When Llammerstein was asked
why he chose Columbia, he an
swered in the very same words of
Rodgers’, “Why, the varsity show.
What better reason for going to
Columbia?”
I also liked the author’s story of
how^^ the song “My Heart Stood
Still” was created. The setting was
a taxi, in which Rodgers and Hart
were rounding the Place de la Con
corde in Paris. Another taxi,
“driven by the customary Parisian
homicidal maniac”, swept past them
at breakneck speed, barely missing
them.
One of the young ladies with
Rodgers and Plart breathed, “My
heart stood still.” That, decided
Mr. Hart, would be a wonderful
title for a song, and two weeks
later Mr. Rodgers* approached his
(Continued On Pnge Six)
By Margaret Blakeney
Susie Beth was blasted to an up-right posh
tion by her alarm radio. Strains of “The
Stars and Stripes Forever” floated across the
room to her roommate who turned over as
she tucked the pink percale corners into her
ears. Susie Beth always got up to music.
She considers it an intrisic part of her col
lege education, but her roommate (suffering
soul that she is) hates music at that time of
day.
“Good morning little birds”, the cool crisp
voice of the announcer chirped. “Its time for
your early morning rendezvous with the Bee
Boppers.”
Susie Beth bounded out of bed, pulled her
brother’s green and white striped pajamas, into
place, and began to shag with an imaginary
partner to the slowed tempo of “Oh Sweet
Mama Tree Top Tall”. As the tempo grew
faster Susie Beth began to sigh and groan
with the music until at last she collapsed on
her bed.
“Now don’t you feel better?” the anuouncer
chirped.
“No! Cut that blasted thing off,” yelled her
roommate. “If yon must have music why can’t
you like something like “Swan Lake” or “La
Mer?”
Susie Beth obliged her roommate by turning
off the radio and putting her London record
ing of “Ebb Tide” on the phonograph.
Susie Beth can be found in almost anj^ col
lege. In fact, are YOU the Susie Beth type?
Are yon the type of girl who has an alarm
radip or turns on the latest hit tunes early in
the morning?
The Susie Beth music lover can be found
any time during the summer dressed in tightly
fitting short shorts at Midie’s by the beach.
She shags from early evening until twelve or
one in the morning, then invites the whole
gang home to dance on the screened porch-
forgetting there are parents or reighbors. She
borrows her boy-friend’s latest fortj^-five re
cording of “Hot Toddy”, then swears that she
just has to have it for her ver-ry own.
Perhaps you are the “Ebb Tide” type of
music lover, better known as the modified
Susie Beth. You adore Ava Gardner’s “Can’t
Help Loving That Man of Mine”, and drink
six cups of coffee a day listening to “Stranger
In Paradise” at Merry’s Grill.
You go to senior recitals just to hear “Sum
mertime” and negro spirituals send electric
shocks through your big toe.
When you take a shoiver you sing “Some
where Over the Kainbow” in a high nasal tone
to the disgust of the dorm. Your friends soon
lefer to you as a “frustrated Lili Ponds.”
Then there is the Susie Beth roommate tpye,
however she is hard to find on the college cam
pus. ^ She values her album of “Peter and the
olf by the Boston Symphony far above any
fraternity, pin in the whole of Chapel Hill.
Bethoven, Brahms, and Wagner are stand
ard words in her vocabulary; however, she be-
delight at the singing of
I he Song of Earth”. She attends all faculty
lecita s, seldom a student’s, and never fails to
purchase a Civic Music ticket.
er constant companion is The Music Lovers
mndbook, and due to the study of it she con
siders herself an authority of the tone and
mood of most of the classics. She sits very
directly in front of the T. V. set
onvT better view Kise Stevens’ vocal
s. You don’t have to be a music major
appreciate the art of music she sings.
Snskf were to have another look at
wp ^ I’oommate, this time lade at nighfi
room roommate float around tho
at beautiful “Melba Waltz”. Culture
Pbillip Sora over Jo^
miY m 4. Wbat it was IS a case of the
mix matched music lovers.