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Page Two THE S A L E MIT E Scifilte and Sblofie^ . . . The picture of the old bearded man in white handing a scythe to the cherub in diapers was seen often around the first of the year. The Salemite is feeling a little old and bearded now; having published some eleven papers this school year entitles us to a degree of age. There is still some of the cherub in us, though; ^ve haven’t gotten to the stage where we don’t need a change and much reprimanding. Perhaps it is a little late to talk about a new year, or to 'comment on the old one, but the Salemite is having its celebration today. We didn’t get to sing Auld Lang Syne or kiss anything last night, but we managed to get another nine thousand words into print. We drank a coke while Mr. Cashion had his fourth cup of coffee; saying hello to the new year with champagne was not written into the Salemite budget. Nineteen fifty-four saw several changes in this publication. The staff was juggled con siderably, and if you are observant you will find a few changes even this week. For the first time in several years, the Salemite’s Christmas issue Avas only six pages. Finances wouldn’t allow the eight pages that usually appears the last issue before the Christmas holidays. Around campus, there were more changes than there Avere mispelled words in the Salem ite, and that is admitting quite a feAv. The biggest faux pas the Salemite pulled appeared in the November 19 issue. From an extremely reliable source, aa'c heard that Alicia Alonso was to appear Avith the ballet that Avas coming to the city on the CiA'ic Music Series. Endeavoring to publicize the event, the ballerina’s picture Avas placed brazenly on the front jAage. This Avas A'cry neighborly of this neAvspaper, but Miss Alonso Avas not traveling Avith the Ballet Theatre that came to Winston-Salem. The incident that created the most excite ment and brought the saddest neAvs to Salem AA-as the announcement of Dr. Todd’s resig nation. Idke the administration, Ave are sorry that he is leaving; but Ave are flattered that llai'vard called one of our professors. And in a fcAV yeai's. Avheii his fame has spread to even greater circles, Ave shall be able to say, “1 knoAv him Avhen . . .” Eor nineteen fifty-five there is much in store. Prophecy is not onr intention, but Ave dare to pi'cdict a fcAv happenings in and around Salem. We will undoubtedly crane our ‘necks to see the addition to the English department, secretl\- hoping that he is handsome and doesn’t belicA-e in term papers. Exams are just six days aAvay. Though Ave have all sAvorn to begin studying early, ninety percent of us Avill probably begin on Beading Day. There Avill be some surprises Avhen the votes are counted this .spring at election time, the Salemite will gi\’e the elections due notice, and there Avill probably be mispelled Avords in the Avrite-ups. Maj Day tryouts aaTU be held in February, and Avith four months of practice, the pageant should be the most perfected in many years. And with its unusual setting, hoAv could it miss being the best pageant Salem has ever produced? Tf the Juniors are alloAved. to go to Chapel Hill Avith the ‘Follies’, Ave predict that they will create a ‘Salemsation’ at the Playmakers. We could be drastically Avrong about these predictions; Avho can say Avhat the neAV year Avill hold? Who dares foretell the future of nineteen hundred fifty-five? (Ed. note: This cartoon is a reprint of one run several years ago in the Salemite.) u whispering Pines If By Maggi Blakeney Quite often we are reminded of the contributions of the Moravians in the field of music, but seldom do we think of their literary ac complishments. Recently attention has been turned on this field as a Moravian media. This is due per haps to a collection of poetry by John Henry Bonner known as Whispering Pines. Whispering Pines was first published by Bren-; tano Brothers in 1883. This volume established Bonner as one of the leading southern poets, but these books are now collectors items. It is through tl-e efforts of John F. Blair, former teacher at Salem, that this complete neiv edition of Whispering Pines has made its ap pearance. It is a gratifying lit'tle book, complete in containing all thq poems of the first volume and in presenting a poet ready to try any type of verse. Bonner ranges in topic from memories of his childhood, and times of drought, to moonlight, cam|)-meetings, and visions. His aitempt to tirge one to make most of this day is very closely kin to the poem of Herrick, “Gather ye Hose Buds While ye May.” Bon- n.'r uses leaves and grasses .rather than rose buds, but the effect is the same. “Gather leaves and grasses I-ove, today. For the autumn passes Soon aAA'ay . . Fie walks among the whispering pines, floats down the Yadkin in an old canoe, spends Christmas in the country, and in the true ro mantic spirit calls on a tnoon beam to soothe his soul. Bonner Avrites with the enthuiasm of a child in his poetry about the Negro, the naivete of youth in love, the reminiscence of middle age and the questioning of age at death. Yes, he attempted all types, but one cannot call him a Shakespeare, Milton or even a Wordsworth. Mr. Eller in his introduction best states Bonner’s position as he Avntes, “Not a first poet of the Avorld, Bonner was nevertheless the first poet of his own assigned part of the Avofkl; and some of his poems rank high when placed against those of greater vA'riters.” It is Avorth noting that this is the first and very pleasing attempt of the Blair Publishing Company, and it may be of interest to some that Mrs. Warren Spencer de- signed the attractive green cover. Mr. Ernest Eller deserves great credit, for his introduction is in Itself a short history of Salem as Avell as an insight to one of Salem’s most sensitive men. Here and There By Freda Siler France. The French National As sembly has finally ratified West German rearmament within NATO. The vote, with a narroAv margin of 27, was a victory for the West and a defeat for Russia. It Avas also a defeat for France, for in accepting the Paris accords, France surrendered its last legal veto over Allied policy towards Germany. If the National Assembly had ratified boldly France might have retained the influence over policies which the U. S. and Great Britain instinctively accord to those whom they most respect. By waiting and arguing the French have lost that influence thereby making the Western Big Three into the Western Big Two. Indonesia. In the resort town of Bogor last week the Prime Minis: ter of the Colombo powers—India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, and Indo nesia met to plan history’s first political conference of the nations of Africa and Asia. First the Prime Ministers agreed on the time and place of the meet ing—Indonesia in April. Then they took up the kind of discussion to be held. They unanimously con demned atomic and hydrogen ex periments; they endorsed Indo nesia’s attempt to grab Dutch New Guinea; they endorsed the inde pendent movement of Tunisia’s and Morocco’s nationalists; and they pointedly emphasized that the con ference Avill concentrate on “prob lems affecting national sovereignty, and racialism and colonialism”-—all subjects loaded with feelings of animosity toward the West. i \ The last subject that the Prime ^ Ministers discussed was in a way I the most important and certainly , the most ticklish. It was the rnat- ' ter of invitations—who should be asked and who should be left out? The final list contained thirty countries. Some of the decisions were: North and South Viet Nam, Japan, and Red China were in vited, North and South Korea, For mosa, Israel, and South Africa Avere not. , Italy. It seems that for a good while many Red mayors in Italy have been receiving kick-back on taxes—part of which they keep and part of which is donated tb the Italian Communist party. But It looks like the Commies hey-day is over. The government has begun a drive against this cor ruption in Tuscany (80% of towns Red-governed). Last week 56 mayors and administrators had been jailed. Now it seems that Premier Mario Scelba’s admini stration _ is getting somewhere. Red China. News has come from here saymg that the new road from Red China to Lhasa, Tibet, has been completed. This provides the first main road contact with the outside world for Tibet and Tibet’s undeveloped mineral resources for Red China. Sikang-Tibet highway runs > miles across 14 mountain ranges and 100 rivers. The Chinese preferred to stress, however, the human cost of the road—about 50,- 000 out of 500,000 road workers dead from injuries, exhaustion, and freezing. By Mary Benton Royster From one egg to tAvo dill pickles A Salem College girl does many tiling AA'hile at college—she learns, she reads, sli discusses, she has fun, and she eats. In fact her eating is one of her main interests an: actiA'ities. This actwity starts every morning Avith large breakfast—one egg, tAvo biscuits Avi butter and jelly, coffee, and juice. This hoi her for a Avhile—until eleven o’clock anywajf,, Then she begins to feel that she should ge something to stop that groAvling stomach o| i hers. A candy bar gobbled doAvn betweei classes “does the trick”. Lunch comes just in time. The candy b hadn’t stopped the groAvling after all; she have to get tAvo the next time. Her lunch of tAvo stuffed peppers, a servi of peas and asparagus, tAvo peanut-butt crackers, a cup of ted, a glass of milk, an tAvo pieces of caramel cake satisfies her. Shi even wonders whether she would ever wan to eat again. There is no doubt in her mind as to thi ansAver of this Avhen she smells the odor o:-, freshly made dough-nuts as she goes to th post office at three o’clock. She buys tw( doughnuts and stops in the basement for t coke on the Avay back up to her room. No she can last until supper. Or so she thought. At five-thirty she is “starved to death” and can’t possibly wai until six. She gets tAvo cookies from the girl .across the hall, though warned that they Avi spoil her supper. But they don’t. For supper she has tAv pork chops, a serA'ing of rice and squash (. small one), a roll, coffee, and one and a-half pieces of cherry pie. Noav she is quite un comfortable and resolves to cut doAvn on her eating from now on. Later watching T.V. and completely ab sorbed in a mystery program, she does cut doAvn some by getting only a coke—not the usual coke and crackers. Her resoB'e forgotten at ten-thirty when someone mentions a party, she runs and is the first one there. After all, a piece of cake, a handful of peanuts, and tAvo dill pickles can really finish the day nicely. At midnight her eating is over for the day, but her interest is still aroused. As she turns over sleepily she wonders Avhether she can possibly last until morning. Salemite Published every Fridy of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Subscription Price-$3.50 a year OFFICES Lower floor Main Hall Downtown Offic^304-306 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company Edifor-in-Chlef Associate Editor News Editor Assistant News Editor Feature Editor Betty Lynn Wilson Donald Caldwell - Jo Smitherman Nancy Cockfield Bebe Boyd ..Louisa Barton Mary Benton Roystei Nancy Gilchris Jean Currir Assistant Feature Editor Copy Editor Make-up Editor Pictoral Editor ^‘1'*°'’® ~ .Ella Ann Lee, Martha Thornbur F^lda Si1 ® Betsy Liles, Bobbi Kuss, Sally Reilam ® J’ wr?.?.'””® Maggi Blakeney, Mary Anr Brow Williams, Beth Paul, Phyllis Stinnett, Beverl Sm^U, p-^i'wr Vance, Kay Williams, Cell Smith Pat Ward, Ellen Summerell, Sherry Rich, Ann Mixoi Kay Cunningham, Rachel Ray, Annette Price, Patsy Hil Ann Coley Ann Knight, Sue Jette Davidson, Marianr Boyd, Sandy Whitlock, Mary Mac Rogers, Sissy Allei Emily Heard, Sudie Mae Spain, Eleanor Smith, Pat Greei Emma McCotter, Anne E. Edwards. Business Manager Marguerite Blank Advertising Managers Circulation Manager Business staff: Diane Crake, Sally McKenzie, Nancy Wa ..Dlantha Carter, Emily McClun _Ann Crenshav ren, Emily Cathcait, Bunny Gregg.‘'MHindk Wabbersor Marian Myers, Peggy Ingram, Kay Hannon, Anne Hale. Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byn
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