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Page Two T H E S A L E M I T E We ^ake. ^ime , to thank each other. We J^a4Jie> . . . Letfes’s To Tiie Editor . . . to thank our roommates for eight friendly weeks of school. . . . to thank that professor for the en couragement he.gave when we were feeling so inadequate. ... to thank the chapel committee for the belter f)rograms we’ve had this-year. ... to thank Lillie Belle, Marie, Pat, Bright, and the remainder of Miss Essie’s crew for keejiing Salem looking its best. ... to thank the Student Government for allowing us to express^ our views without fear of retribution. ... to thank the ‘Y’ for making possibly those few minutes each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. . . . to thank Mr. Yarbrough for those many and continual repairs. ... to thank the music faculty for broaden ing our education through the concerts they present. ... to thank the Junior class for presenting the I’elaxing and delightful Junior Pollies. ... to thank Dr. Gramley for his constant encouragement and aid. ... to thank the Deans for regulating and balancing social and academic activities. ... to thank the Senior class for the ex cellent leadership during Orientation. . . . to thank the freshmen for their en thusiastic response. ... to thank all those girls who have writ ten so willingly for the Salemite. ... to thank the sophomores for making Pat Week the most organized and sensible yet. ... to thank Mrs. Cummings and her staff for filling our tummies while we attempt to fill our minds. To the Editor; We wish to commend you on the editorial that appeared in the Salemite, Friday, November 12. It is also our opinion that Salem s social regulations are not broken because of a lack of honor in our students, but because the rules themselves are at fault. Many of us sophomores feel that the prevailing practice of social activities depending upon academic success is unfair. This implies tb us a lack of confidence by the ad ministration in the students’ initia tive to maintain a satisfactory scholastic standard. In other words, are we, as college students, dependent upon a threat of social restriction to motivate us to pass our courses ? Is the knowledge that she will receive mdre overnights the only incentive for a Salem student to achieve good grades? We believe that an individual sense of achieve ment, parental approval and a de sire for knowledge should be the accepted foundations for academic progress. If, in college, we are never given the opportunity to decide by our selves how often we can afford to take overnights, will we be capable of making intelligent decisions in later life? Perhaps the failure of the honor system is due, in part, to this rule concerning overnights, which we believe does not acknowledge either our personal initiative or our ability to make mature de cisions. Carol Campbell Nina Skinner Suejette Davidson Sherry Rich Anne Crenshaw Dear Linda, Maria, and Gull-Marie, V .r, (.— —, spend your first Thanksgivii I would like to tell A Letter To Salem ... to thank the .IRS for arranging to have the Christmas Dance in the dining hall. ... to thank Mrs. King at the laundry for Avashing away the dingy heels and toes of our socks. ... to thank those of you who have upheld the ‘.spirit of Salem’. (Ed. note: This letter was re ceived by Dr. Hixon from Mari anne Lederer. Marianne was one of the foreign students last year and she lives in Sceaux, Seine, France.) Dear Dr. Hixson, I should have written long ago. But I have been very busy, first getting used to home again, then packing for vacation trips, and finally until now preparing and taking all sorts of exams, of which I still have to take the oral parts. But delaying this letter has made me more aware of all the things I acquired in my experience of last year. I thank you and all the people who enabled me, by offering me the scholarship, to make that trip to America and through the United States which all of us young people dream of, and to broaden my knowledge of countries and people, which can only be gained by stay ing among those people and living as they live. I am grateful to the college which made it possible for me to study there and every family that invited me and treated me as a daughter. I can see every day now how much more self-assured I have grown, how much more easily I can talk to people, how much more gener ally happy I am now than before I went to America. And it is a fact that one never knows how sweet a home is, as long as one hasn’t left it for a while! I know from Helen Fung that she is very happy in Colorado, making an experience in that large coed university, which will usefully complete her knowledge of the United States. I am still in contact with some of the Salem girls and I hear that the foreign students this year are having faculty sponsors. I think it is an excellent idea because we did sometimes feel, especially in the beginning of the year, the need to have someone special to go to, when we had difficulties or just when we felt a little lonely. I am very sorry that I wasn’t in Paris when Miss Byrd and her tour were here this summer: but my parents and I will always welcome home any Salemite that should happen to come this way. Very sincerely yours, Marianne Lederer We have completed eight weeks of school. We have had our beginning, and it has been a good beginning in manj^ respects. There have been many rough and trying spots, but we have attempted to go forward. And that is good. We could have forgotten others and re membered ourselves, we could have forgotten to be tolerant, we could have forgotten all tliat Salem represents. But tve have tried to remember. Tliese eight Aveeks have not been in vain. Here And There Salemite n^a Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Subscription Price—$3.50 a year OFFICES Lower floor Main Hall Downtown Office 304-306 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company Editor-in-Chief getty Lynn Wilson Associate Editor .. Donald Caldwell News Editor Smitherman Assistant News Editor Nancy Cockfield Feature Editor ^ Boyd Assistant Feature Editor _.. : Louise Barron Copy Editor Mary Benton Royster Moke-up Editor Nancy Gilchrist Pictorol Editor Currin Music Editors Ella Ann Lee, Martha Thornburg Editorial staff: Betsy Liles Bobbi Kuss. , Sally Reiland, Freda Siler, Francine Pitts, Maggi Blakenev, Marv Anne Raines, Judy Williams, Beth Paul, Phyllis Stinnett, Beverly Brown, Judy Graham, Sarah Vance, Kay Williams, Celia Smith, Pat Ward, Ellen Summerell, Sherry Rich, Ann Mixon Kay Cunningham, Rachel Ray, Annette Price, Patsy Hill Ann Coley, Ann Knight, Sue Jette Davidson, Marianne Boyd, Sandy Whitlock, Mary Mac Rogers, Sissy Allen, Emily Heard, Sudie Mae Spain, Eleanor Smith, Pal Greenj Emma McCotter, Anne E, Edwards. Business Manager Marguerite Blanton Advertising Managers Diantha Carter, Emily McClure Circulation Manager Ann Crenshaw Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd Business staff: Diane Drake, Marilyn Stacy, Paulette Nel son, Sally McKenzie. Nancy Warren, Emily Cathcart, Carol Cooke. Bunny Gregg, Melinda Wabberson, Marian Myers, Mary Brown, Dottie Allen. By Freda Siler UN: After Russia refused to participate in the U. S. plan for a kind of atomic bank that would own, store, and dole out atomic riches. President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” plan was pre sented before the UN’s Political committee. The International Atomic Energy Agency would be loosely tied to the UN, but not under it (thus getting by the Russian veto). By this plan the U. S. would help in struct foreign scientists in the use of atomic power for peace, as in the treatment of cancer, and also give them fissionable material with which to start a reactor. The, U. S. will not build atomic plants for other nations, but help them with instructions and re search facilities. It is hoped that in this way the countries can work together, instead of separately, and thus sooner make atomic power a boon instead of a menace. FORMOSA. For the first time since the “vest-pocket war” began off China’s coast, the Reds last week used airplanes against Chiang Kai-shek’s island bastions. Nine Russian-built, twin-engined bomb ers appeared over the Nationalist held Tachens (200 miles north of Formosa and IS miles from the coast) and dropped more than 40 bombs, killing five persons. During the September fighting around Quemay the Reds used artillery only. It was thought that they did not wish to tangle with the U. S. Seventh Fleet, but they are apparently prepared to do so’ now. INDO-CHINA: The Communists are quickly whipping into shape northern Indo-China, but the free Before you in our country, i Avouta mie to ten you a| little about my Thanksgivings. Since I’m notl too good at describing I have included fivei snap shots taken last year on my Thanks-i giving Day. The'one on top is the picture of my little! brother Johnny chasing our Thanksgivingp Day dinner—the turkey. If you look in font| of the turkey .about tAvo feet you may see thei root that Johnny tripped over and the puddlel fell in about a second after I took this! he southern section is filled with dis sension. The honest, but ineffec tive, Premier Ngo Dink Dum is feuding with his army commanders, who are practically taking over the government. Last week President Eisenhower sent the former U. S. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as special ambas sador. It will be his job to get this mess straightened out in order to save the now free section of Indo-China from Communism. BURMA: After nearly ten years, the Foreign Ministers of Japan and Burma concluded final peace terms after World War II. As reparation for the wartime occupation, Japan promised to send Burma twenty million dollars a year worth of machinery and goods for the next ten years, along with technicians, and to invest another five million annually in such joint enterprises as poAver projects and factories. Thus out of the peace Japan stands to get a friendly foothold in the Burma market. WEST GERMANY: Last week as wave upon wave of applause came from an audience assembled in Hamburg, and from places as far away as Italy and England, Eu rope s most beloved actor retired from the stage. This actor was a clown known as the Great Crock, the son >of a Swiss watchmaker. He ran away from home at the age of fourteen to join the circus. After sixty years of clowning all over Europe, he gave his fare-well performance before an audience of three thousand. One of his friends asked, “But who will ever be able to make us laugh like that again?” picture. My little sister is sitting over there on thel steps crying bectiiise she huJ fnithfuliy fedp that turkey every day. She declared that shel Avouidn’t eat a bite of him,—and she didn’t,| Speaking of eating, after seeing that-hugel turkey, I guess you are Avondering Avho Avoiild be able to eat all of him. Well, my next pic ture AAdll help explain a little. No, it isn’t the student body of a small school, or a dis- trict meeting of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) or the C of C (Children of the Confederacy), but it is a picture of my family and relatives. (My roommate -will readiiy name everyone for you, for after three years of going home Avith me, she has met them all.) The front roAV are my cousins, or maybe I should say the first tAvo roAvs. Next, come all the aunts and uncles I could round up. The others Avere fixing dinner and talking politics. Dinner finally Avas prepared, although fre quent interruptions from the children, asking hoAv long it Avonld be until dinner Avas ready, didn’t speed matters up any. This next picture is of Grandfather carving the turkey, or rather I should say, chopping up the turkey. Grandmother just can’t seem to persuade him that she can do a better job than he can. If yon look over in the tAvo corners, you can see three card tables set up for the child ren. They put up their usual fuss about hav ing to eat there, but as usual, they Avere told if they AA'anted to eat at all, they had better hush and sit doAvn. They did. I didn’t include the picture of the remains of the dinner, because I Avas afraid people AAmuld start sending ns baskets of food before Thanksgiving Day ... it looked like Ave hadn’t eaten in Aveeks. I took this next picture right after dinner as everyone got up and headed someAvhere in a hurry. The woman over to the right Avith the striped apron is Mother. She is going upstairs to take a nap. . Those three teen-age girls to the left of the picture Avere trying to sneak out the back door before they had to do the dishes. But they Avere caught and spent the most of the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the kitchen. The men folks ha\'e their backs turned to tfioy^ are headed into the den for their yearly discussion of the ‘state of the union’. The tall man with the bald head is my Uncle Jack. Last year, he and Uncle Norman prac tically came to blows because of Ike’s spend ing his leisure time golfing . . . (Uncle Jack is the only Republican in the family). But they were ^ quieted doAvn by my oldest uncle Uncle Bill (you can’t see him)—Avho is a deacon in our church. My last picture is of our church. As you can see it is a country church, but we built a new auditorium this year, b went to the Thanksgiving service ere hat night and gave our sentence prayers. H was^a wonderful feeling to hear Aunt abel thank God for the health and Avell- family during the past year, TIPS ^ I’emember that they have more sick- anyone else. It made us more thankful for our own health. tfipv pictures I have, but I hope ffivfn„ 7® idea of m^ Thanks giving last year, and I hope that/your first many that I have sriPtit have spent here. Mery sincerely ., Mary Benton Royster
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