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Page Two THE SALEMITE October 21 % "74e Glau o/1956 .,. i^ropiid The lather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying: • . . wrote Robert Ilerriek in 1648; and in Ibof). the Seniors are inclined to agree with him after Dr. Hixson’s talk on vocations Tue.s- day. That day we’ve longed for is looming omniously close, and we find ourselves a little r(‘iu(-tant to be gently pushed out of Salem’s brick nest. IIow did we ever get here? Wliy, it seems only a very little while ago tl:at wo were safely freshmen and had an eternal four years ahead of us. But those four years turned out to be temporal instead of eternal, and here we are. We are confused and plagued with inde cision. Most of that confusion and indecision IS concerned with marriage—that is, marrying or not marrying, and why, and what if. Some ol us want a career, first and foremost, and marriage someday, but not now. athers want. and arc satisfied with marriage only. Then there are those of us who are torn between the two. Kor those and for the others, eventually, a combination of the two would seem to offer the best solution. That is not to say that the career girl should marry any “available” just for the sake of acquiring the happy combina tion, nor that the dedicated homemaker should start foraging for a job the minute she has spoken her vows. But—there will come a day wlu'n our Marjorie Morningstar will find the one and yet will not want to lose her in dependence. And the home economics expert may someday feel tied down with her “little home with picket fence”, and seek another \^■ay to express her creative instincts (which I take for granted were awakened at Salem). In other words, marriage to the intelligent girl should not seem a dull and far-distant last resort, nor shtmld it bring forth swmet .images of what amounts to a protective shell into which are drawn you, your husband, and your' children. Marriage is a sacred institu tion, and it can and should be a meaningful and rewarding experience. -And most important of all, those of us who do marry, career or no, face certain obliga tions. In Mr. Adlai Stevenson’s commence ment address this year at Smith College, he pointed out a purpose for the modern woman, in the “humble I'ole of housewife.” Mr. Stevemson told the girls that their duty was “to restore valid, meaningful purpose to life in your home; to beware of instinctive group reactipn to the forces which play upon ' ,\-ou and yours, to watch for and arrest the constant gravitational pulls to which we are all exposed—your workaday husband especi ally—in our specialized, fragmented society, that tend to widen the breach between reason and emotion, between means and ends.” lie goes on to express the hope that “you’ll not be content to wring your hands, feed your family and just echo all the group, the tribal ritual refrains. 1 hope you’ll keep ' everlast ingly at the job of seeing life steady and see ing it \vhole. And you can help others— husbands, cbildren, friends—to do so, too. You Tua.\-, indeed you must, help to integrate a world that has been falling into bloody By Jo Smitherman Last week’s Time ran a cover picture and a lead on Ed Sullivan. The article, besides revealing the personal life of the emcee of em cees, disclosed in detail the net work managers’ tricks for keeping a family glued to a particular chan nel for the entire evening. And these tricks work. An hour and a half of Jose Ferrer in a live production of “Cyrano de Ber gerac” was followed ' by Robert Montgomery’s presentation of “To morrow is Forever” (an hour long). Then we switched channels and found Steve Cochran doing a Brandoish job of acting in a sur prisingly artistic Studio One play. The cause of this lost (but not really lost) evening, Jose Ferrer, was starring on a monthly Pro ducer's Showcase that in the next couple of months will feature both the Sadler-Wells Ballet Company (with Margot Fonteyn as the “Sleeping Beauty”) and a full- length production of “Peter Pan” (with Mary Martin, of course). ♦ * !(: j There are a few cosmopolites on ! campus who refuse to watch TV on the grounds that since vVe don’t have culture “in person” in 'Win- stbn-Salem we won’t have it at all. For these I point to the concert in Memorial Coliseum next Monday night. Bill Flaley and the Comets (of “Rock Around the Clock” fame), plus The Clovers, and Faye Adams will give a three-hour bop and blues program. The coliseum will hold all of us but the show doesn’t start till eight o’clock. Some of the fresh men cats have been contemplating a request for late permission. * * * Judy Graham says that when Riley Matthews finally gets his MG started and pants into prac tice he insists on rehearsing the love scene with Carol Campbell. More bits of interesting infor- t mations about the men-on-campus are being collected for a Salemite article. The staff engaged in a bridge tournament to see wdio got the assignment. The article un fortunately does not include the thirty or forty Air Force men who distract us on Wednesday nights. (They don’t intentionally stand at the w'indows of the office; in fact, they don’t even know we’re there). * * * The football crowd at Davidson last week-end w'ere aware of the Salem girls. A solid cheering sec tion (with everything but special cheerleaders) claimed the right to cheer Bill Gramley (Davidson end) as one of their own. And the Davidson Homecoming- week-end proved that Salem- Davidson Day was not in vain. A number of freshmen w'ere dating boys they dated at, or met at, the previous affair. Whether Marcia Stanley’s rolled-up hair in the din ing room on Tuesday was an out growth of the week-end or not 1 couldn’t find out. She couldn’t talk for smiling. By Sarah Eason On my left, on my right, and behind were attractive houses. In front of the Campus Club. The sheet of papet^hi""** hand informed me that it was also a co-opera tive, and the woman at Colorado Tmiversity had told me that it was the only house % had any vacancies. I had come two thousanii miles to attend summer school at one of th most beautiful campuses in the United States This house—this old house with the peeling exterior and the grimy interior was to be my home for seven weeks. I Avas in the state of rugged Rocky Mountains, Colorado Blue Spruce, cascading streams, and the Campus Club. The second time 1 saw the Campus Club a minor reformation had taken place within Curtains had been hung in my room. The dishes in the black kitchen had been Avashed and the dish toAAmls hung up. The neAvspapers had been taken off the living room floor, In the dining room 1 met several girls clrint ing coffee. Carolyn Avas the only one Avho lived in the house. She Avas the girl who posted the dutA- charts. It didn’t take long to get acquainted with those charts. On days when I wanted to sleep late I had to get up to put soup on the black stove for lunch. AVhen I Avanted to pnpaek and iron my wrinkled clothes, I had to stop to scrub the permanently streaked bathroom floor. After tAvo days of fruitlessly trying to go! my clothes in Avearable condition, get mv duties performed, and get adjusted to the alti tude, 1 AAmlked into my room and found a new piece of furniture—a room-mate. Dora Avas a school teacher from California. 1 told her what I had gleaned from my t-Avo da.A s residence. The house contained eleven girls, three cats- Sam, Damnit, and pregnant Sara; a golden retriever, a young house mother; and a boy in the basement. 'lust as Dora soon changed from a new ad dition in my room to a room-mate, the people in the house changed into real people Avitli leal personalities. Edie and Jean were a fun loA'ing and fun producing duo. Cindy Avas a mountain climbing addict. Thelma was a dreamer. M a r t h a was a married woman. Dark-complexioned and black-haired Sonni could pass as anything from an Indian to a JcAv. Carolyn could make the most depressed person in the house laugh. Pilch could do anything from making images of heathern gods to being a good house mother. Jhe peojile in the house became human, but tae duty chart didn’t—it found that I oouldn’t cook, that 1 hated to AA^ash dishes, and that I u as indolent. Each day that duty chart as signed me to a harder meal to prepare, more people to wash dishes for, or a more time- consuming’cleaning job. One day 1 had to cook a turkey. Bj^ the time it was served 1 had named him Oscar, had every girl in the house helping me lavish motherly attention on him as he simmered m the black oven; and had broAvned him to peL fection. My days became a pleasant entanglement of ^ neAv kittens, SAvimming, friends, games, mail, and cooking and cleaning. There was no end to the work that went into the Cam pus Club and no end to the fun that cam® out of it. Suddenly, however, August the twenty-sixth came and I had taken my last exam, washed my last dish, and prepared my last meal- had bought my plane ticket and packed bags. I had said good-by to every person and to every animal who had lived that se-ven ■week® in that old house with the peeling paint, knew I would miss the Campus Club. , The last hockey practice will be held Monday afternoon and the games will start on Tuesday. Tittle David Parrish from down the street has consented to play goalie for the class that gets ten of the eleven necessary players. Now the problem is getting an opposing team. Other live culture in this vicinity includes Carl Flolty (see the front page news article on the Rond- tlialer Fectureship) and, for those who went to Davidson on F'riday, Basil Rathbone reading poetry. The last thing to leave out is the campus production of The Skin of Our Teeth. Whatever Dr. Hixson told the seniors in their class meeting on Tuesday, she got them on their vocational toes. Ann Campbell said she couldn’t sit still when they dis cussed buying and selling. Some body else panicked in the drug store because she was graduating this spring without that cure-all teach er’s certificate. Here And There puH-es. 'H at’s a Aveighty request, and a- Avorld-cir- fuiiiscribiug obligation. But—if and Avhen we -mai-r-y, after graduation or ten years later, I Think it’s Avorth trving to fulfill. E. M. M. t!T!)e Salemite Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Subscription Price—$3.50 a year OFFICES Lov/er floor Main Hall Downtown Office—-304-3G6 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company Editor-in-Ghief . -- Emily McClure Associate Editor Mary Benton Royster Assistant Editor ...Bebe Boyd Managing Editor Jo Smitherman News Editor Ann Knight Assistant News Editor — - Ann Crenshaw Feature Editor — Judy Graham Assistant Feature Editor - ....Martha Ann Kennedy Copy Editor Mariam Quarles Heads Editor Toni Gill Make-Up-Editor Sue Jette Davidson Pictoral Editor Peggy Horton Music Editors Ella Ann lee, Beth Paul Circulation Manager Ann Darden Webb Faculty Advisor — . ..Miss Jess Byrd Business Staff; Bunny Gregg, Katherine Oglesby, Becky Doll McCord, Betty Byrum, Jane Shiflet, Peggy Ingram, Mary Curtis Wrike, Kay Hannan, Sue Davis, Jean Jacobs, Margaret Hogan, Jane Little, Margaret Fletcher. By Emma McCotter France: Here the conflict in the government has really been acute— almost to the point of downfall. For the most part this has been over the issue of What type of policy to establish in trying to clear up the conflict in North Africa and Morocco. While the assembly was fighting over the idea of overthrowing Edgar Faure, the violence increased in both Morocco and Algeria. Mutiny is an ugly word, and in the Chamber, Deputies were sobered. Faure made a last, stern appeal: stop bickering, and make up your mind on what France should do in North Africa. Lest France be left alone and friendless in the AA'orld, he pleaded, “We must have a clear policy — not powerless sulking.” However, after much debate in the .Assembly, Morocco has been pro mised reforms leading to greater self-rule and, ultimately, to a trans formation from colonial subser vience to . “independence within in terdependence” with France. Germany: Last week the first of the 9,626 Avar prisoners whose re lease was promised at the Russo- German Moscow conference reached a drab reception center in Friedland. Among them Avere two who claimed to have 'seen the Hit ler finale with their own eyes. They stated that they had actually seen Hitler kill himself. If these reports are true, this was at least the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to de clare Adolf Hitler legally dead and put a period to the long tale about the German dictator’s death. The question is -. are these men really telling the actual truth of the event as it happened ten years ago ? England: When the Conserva tives had their annual party con ference last week, their hopes were not as high as they had been last May Avhen they Avere victorious at the polls. Reports from the leaders were anxiously aAvaited by the party, because they are quite wor ried about the inflation in England. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rich ard A. Butler told about his pro gram and said it was one to “ex pand success and curb excess.” From Prime Minister Eden came even bigger deflationary news: a cut of 12p2 per cent in Britain’s defense forces, a reduction in the armed forces from 800,000 to 700,- 000. The Prime Minister also stated: “We are confident we can discharge our treaty obligations and main.tain our position as a world power despite this reduction in number.” Indonesia: As far as the incom plete elections show, the Nation alist Party will be at the helm of the government This will make Ah Sastroamdjojo the new Prime Minister. However, the Commun ists were in fourth place and will, therefore, have a good chance of playing a role in the Nationalist Premier’s Cabinet and his policies. This indicates that the Communists have still got a long way to go before they have complete control of the Far East, as far as Indo nesia is concerned. Russia: Here the First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Mo lotov, who got into the Communist movement in 1906 at the age of 16 admitted that at the ripe, Red age of 64 he had committed a “theo-. retically mistaken and politically harmful’ blunder by understating the e.xtent of Socialist success in Soviet Russia. All the uproar came when the Foreign Minister made the follow ing staternent; “Side by side Avith the Soviet Union, where the foundation of a Socialist society has already been built, there are people’s democratic countries which have so far taken only the first, though very important, steps to- Avards Socialism.” His mistake lay in the use of the work foundation, because it implies that a Socialist society has not yet been fully established in the Soviet Union. Will such a blunder on the Prune Minister’s part lead him to retire from leadership in the Com munist party? \
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