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By Jo Smitherman
A spontaneous, conversational
lecture delivered in a quiet South
ern accent was presented in Mem
orial Hall Tuesday night by Lt.
General Robert L. Eichelberger,
World War II commander of the
Eighth Army in Japan.
The General’s pointed talk was
softened by his constant reference
to his wife, Emmy, a Salem alumna.
She is “his commander-in-chief”
quipped Lelia Graham Marsh in
her introductory speech, relating
Eichelberger’s marriage to the for
mer Emma Gurder four years after
he graduated from West Point.
The general complained gently
about his “fantastic day” here in
Winston-Salem; he rose at five
o’clock, and, without breakfast,
made the kick-off speech for the
United Fund Drive.
Eichelberger’s spontaneous rem
iniscences included several of to
day’s vital issues.
“I wish I had brought some
material from the Committee of a
Million—a million citizens who op
pose the admission of Red China
to the United Nations.” He ac
cused the Chinese Reds of violat
ing “every principle set up in the
preamble of the UN charter.”
He dispelled any hope attached
to the Geneva conference. “The
situation is not good — the smiles
from the Kremlin are not sincere.”
But, he added, “I am sure no
body at Geneva could watch Mr.
Eisenhower, a man of great in
tegrity, without seeing that he
didn’t want war.” But he main
tained that for the preservation of
principles, fighting is justified.
About the current stir in the UN
Assembly the General said he had
a “certain amount of sympathy for
the French.” He indicated lack of
confidence in the backbone of the
French people as a nation, how
ever, and cited emphatically the
necessity that America be able to
depend on France In case of in
ternational conflict.
General Eichelberger’s military
duty has carried him to many stra
tegic parts of the world. When he
returned to the United States he
wrote his digest and compiled arti
cles for Newsweek and the Satur
day Evening Post. He has pub
lished one book. The Jungle Road
to Tokyo, and has begun another.
In an interview he was extremely
personal in his continued references
to his wife. During his separation
from her, for four years during
the war, he says he wrote to her
every day and named numerous
ships and planes for her.
“I know that one of the things
that made her so wonderful was
Salem College,” he said, again and
again. “I think Salem is wonder
ful !”
Goldovsky
Opens Series
The Civic Music Association will
open their season Oct. 19, present
ing Boris Goldovsky’s Don Pas-
quale at Reynolds Auditorium.
The second concert, Nov. 8, will
feature Iva Kitchell, recognized as
one of America’s No. 1 dance
satirists.
Roberta Peters, the Metropolitan
Opera coloratura soprano, will sing
here Jan. 12.
An Italian ensemble, “I Musici,”
will play Feb. 14. This is the first
United States tour of the Italian
musicians, who were described by
Arturo Toscanini as “a perfect
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Bennet Cerf To Initiate Lecture Series
Miss Mead, Senator Fulbright To Follow
Bennett Cerf
The Salem College Lecture Com
mittee, headed by Miss Jess Byrd,
has announced its program for the
195S-S6 season. The l„.ecture Series
will include the popular humorist
and publisher, Bennett Cerf, on
Dec. 6; Senator J. William Ful
bright, statesman, on Jan. 16; and
Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist,
on Feb. 23.
Bennett Cerf is well-known as a
humorist and panelist on TV’s
“What’s My Line ?” His official
occupation is president of the Ran
dom House Publishing Company.
His part-time jobs include writing
a syndicated weekly newspaper, a
weekly magazine column, books of
his own, and editing numerous
anthologies.
In his leisure time he sees many
plays and movies as a professional
critic. His latest contribution to
American literature include An En
cyclopedia of Modern American
Humor, Try and Stop Me, Shake
Well Before Using, and Good For
a Laugh.
Senator Fulbright is a statesman
recognized as an expert on foreign
affairs. Soon after entering Con
gress in 1942, he won recognition
with his 55-word “Fulbright Reso
lution” calling for an international
organization to maintain the peace
which was the forerunner to the
establishment of the United Na
tions.
Elected to the Senate in 1945, he
immediately sponsored the surplus
Test Results
Vary Greatly
By Louise Barron
Handbook tests! What good are
they anyway? Do they serve as a
reminder of the rules ?—a reminder
of the things that make the Salem
Student Self-Government Associa
tion tick ? Do Salemites need a
reminder at the beginning of each
year ? Possibly.
Do the handbook tests serve a
constructive purpose ? The results
help the Student Council—both to
see how things they have done in
the past have been received and to
see what their job is in the future.
,This year’s results, were interesting
to me—maybe they will be of in
terest to you.
! First, the grades were high. No
' one failed, thus no one must take
a retest. The question most missed
concerned smoking in the Day Stu
dent Center. Very few members
of the student body seemed to re
member the council’s action on this
last year—particularly that part
which gives the Student Council
the authority to grant permission
for smoking on such occasions as
Gingham Tavern.
A number of the student body
also needs to review privileges and
responsibilities. Everyone con-
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Margaret Mead
property act which utilized funds
received for surplus property
abroad for the establishment of ex
change scholarship foundations.
Fulbright has been active in legis
lation dealing with education, labor
relations, scientific research, and
with programs to attract capable
public servants. He is a proponent
of the plan for establishment of a
United States of Europe and is a
member of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee.
Dr. Mead is internationally
known as a student of primitive
and contemporary cultures. As As
sociate Curator of Ethnology at the
American Museum of Natural His
tory and as Adjunct Professor of
Anthropologgy at Columbia Uni
versity, she holds a unique position
as a specialist in education afid
culture, mental hygiene, family life,
cross-national relations and na
tional character. She has spent
many years living among the vari
ous South Seas peoples, in /the
course of which she has learned
seven primitive languages.
Because of the universal scope
of her work she has served as
visiting lecturer at leading univer
sities in the United States, Austra
lia, New Zealand, France, Austria,
Senator William Fulbright
and Great Britain. She is the
author of such widely read books
as Coming of Age in Samoa, Keep
Your Powder Dry, Male and Fe
male, and Soviet Attitudes Toward
Authority.
Dr. Mead is also being sponsored
an extra day on campus through
the cooperation of the Rondthaler
Lectureship Committee.
The Lecture Committee, which
has been this week in the midst of
a ticket-selling campaign, is con
tinuing the plan of presenting three
nationally known speakers rather
than four or five less popular ones.
The Committee consists of Jess
Byrd, chairman; Miss Edith Kirk
land, Mrs. Kate Pyron, Miss Eliza
beth Collett, Dr. Warren Spencer,
Mr. Edwin Shewmake, Dr. H.
Michael Lewis, Rev. Edwin Saw
yer, Mrs. Henry Blackwell, Mrs.
Claude Strickland, Mrs. Eunice
Ayers, Emily McClure, Salemite
editor, Emma McCotter, senior re
presentative, Jo Smitherman, jun
ior representative, Betty Rene
Webster, sophomore representa
tive; Anne Tesch, day student re
presentative, Marian Myers, repre-
sentative-at-!arge; and Pat Hous
ton and Martha Duvall, freshmen
representatives.
Number 3
Campbell To
Star In Fall
Production
By Martha Jarvis
Salem’s own Tallulah Bankhead,
Carol Campbell, will lead the Pier
rettes in their presentation of The
Skin of Our Teeth on November 30
and December 1. In the play, Carol
plays the part of Sabina, the maid,
who enjoys living when life is
merry, and wishes she were dead
when things go wrong.
Riley Mathews plays Mr. Antro-
bus, the inventor of the wheel, and
a staunch supporter of the struggle
for the survival of the race.
His wife, Eva or Maggie Antro-
bus, is played by Martha Jarvis.
Mrs. Antrobus is the steadfact
woman who has been preserving
the home for centuries,
j The Antrobus’ two children are
; Gladys, Patsy McAuIey, and Henry,
Carl Clark. They’re both very nor
mal children, except for the fact
: that Gladys wears red stockings
; and Henry has a passion for hitting
I older brothers on the head with
stones.
Adding a bit of mystic intrigue
to the play is Judy Graham, play
ing the fortune teller. In her erie
voice, she p'redicts the future and
the death of those who pass her
way.
These are only the main char
acters, several minor roles will be
decided later.
There are, also, plenty of posi
tions for students who wish to help
with the backstage work, which is
a very important part in the pro-
; duction of any play. Those inter
ested in lending a hand with the
props, sets, and other necessaries
should contact the girls listed on
the bulletin board in the dining
hall.
New Classics Dept. Head Is Cosmopolite,
Harbors Secret Desire To Become Author
By Chris Clark
From the smallest county in the
state of North Carolina comes, per
haps, one of the smallest members
of the faculty. Her name is Dr,
Lucy Austin.
Besides being small in stature,
she is as neat as a bandbox and
has already made quite a hit with
the students.
Dr. Austin was born in Taylors
ville, N. C., and attended a neigh
boring high school in Oak Hill,
N. C. After graduation she went
to Elon College and received her
A. B. degree. She thpn went to
the University of North Carolina,
where she received her masters de
gree and doctorate.
Dr. Austin also studied at The
American Academy in Rome, and
at Yale. She still was not satisfied
with all that “lamin’,” so she en
rolled in The University of South
ern California where she studied,
of all things, Sanskrit.
Her first job. was at Newberry
College in Newberry, South Caro
line. From there she went to
Louisana State University in Baton
Rouge, Louisana.
She has lived in many different
states. She told me during our
chat, “although I have lived for
more years out of the state than
in North Carolina, I have never
ceased to regard this state as
‘home,’ in spite of the fact that I
have lived long enough in four
other states to become a legal resi
dent of South Carolina, Louisana,
Texas, and California, the last of
which is my legal residence.”
She has taken an active part in
The American Association of Uni
versity Professors and until re
cently, had been a member of The
Classical Association of The Mid-
West and South. Dr. Austin has
Lucy Austin
written articles for it and plans to
rejoin this organization.
Her varied travels have taken her
to Africa, Algiers, Cuba, Europe
and all over the United States and
Northwest Canada, and finally, to
Salem.
She says of Salem; “Oh, I do
think Salem is wonderful! I find
it very attractive. There is an in
timacy about the campus that one
does not find on a university cam
pus.”
She has a secret ambition to be
come a writer of popular material.
In fact, she confided to me that
the other night, when a cup of
coffee she had drunk was keeping
her awake, she wrote a poem at
the inspirational hour of 2 a.m.
Beautiful hands! So graceful and
dainty.
Hands of such delicate line and so
rare.
Hands with such firmness, pointing
to duty.
So strong, yet so slender, and mar
velously fair.
How can you serve, so quiet, yet
so useful?
Flow can you be always lovely and
bright ?
Your movements are easy and calm,
also truthful.
If I could but see you in the dark
ness of night!
Hands of set purpose, not swerving
or erring.
Handmaidens of time; and firm as
a rock.
So precise are your movements, no
unseemly blurring. '
Oh! beautiful hands on the face of
the clock!
About the students, she says,
“You know, I have not seen a gen
uinely ugly girl on campus. They
dress well and look neat. These
things are important,” Thank you
i for the compliment. Dr. Austin and
-thank you for. coming to Salem.