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THE SALEMITE
November
1955
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This is your newspaper—yours to read, to
pass around, to stuff in the wastebasket, to
comment on, to write for, and to disagree
with. No other body of printed material con
cerns you and your environment so directly.
However, while we try to record your actions,
embody your ideas, and crusade for your
causes, the relatively small group of us who
do the actual writing, assembling, and print
ing cannot hope to cover completely the inner
workings of over three hundred minds.
A subject of wide interest may arise and
become hot controversy in the basement of a
dorm, in a classroom, or over at Tom’s. One
student thinks a certain thing should be done,
and another student has her own solution.
Nothing is ever done about it, because it goes
no further than the basement, the classroom,
or Tom’s. Both students may have good ideas,
but a good idea is no better than its promotion.
We make a statement which seems com
pletely unjustified to a number of you. Mut-
terings of protest are audible, though barely,
and we wait for someone to take the stand
and reply. No one ever does. The perhaps
unjustified statement remains the outwardly
accepted statement.
There’s been a hockey game, and we got the
report just before the deadline, and it is re
corded that Mary made the winning goal
when Sarah was actually the one. Peelings
are hurt and cracks are made, and we have
committed an error. But no one tells us about
it. And Sarah has to try to get her children
to believe that she won the game, although they are self-supporting and do not
By Jo Smitherman
Somebody was complaining about
a ■ crowded schedule. A church
group meeting coincided with her
plans to prepare for a chemistry
six-weeks’.
“Guess I’ll have to give up
chemistry for the church!’’
Another girl said, “That’s what
Princess Margaret Rose did.”
Still another quipped, “But Prin
cess Margaret gave up biology, not
chemistry.”
It was funny at the time.
♦ * *
Nobody came down to watch the
Salem-Guilford hockey game last
Friday. But that’s all right. What
the Salem team needed most were
benches for reserves and suits of
armor. Frantic stick-swinging and
wild fifty-yard drives bewildered
even the most adaptable athlete
Salem has.
And imagine cool, easy-going
Nellie Ann Barrow facing the on
rush of six or eight club-wielding
women. Anyway, two members of
our forward line managed to wedge
the ball through the entire Guilford
team (planted en masse in front of
the goal cage). And we won, 2-1
The voice of the Supreme Court
of the United States has sounded
again. And now segregation in
public facilities is illegal. Some
body said Reynolds Golf Course
and swimming pool and skating
rink are already immune because
to appreciate the writer’s reference
to Jane Russell as a “font-tier
belle” and Clark Gable’s perennial
look as an “anxious little smirk.’
And if you failed to notice “that
the winds which howl about his
(Gable’s) hairdo do not shake the
trees in the processed background,”
don’t be indignant.
And if you are among the masses
who wept with joy during “Love
Is A Mary-Splendored Thing”, con
sider the Time comment that
“everytime they (Mark and Suyi'n)
look deep in each other’s eyes, the
theme song swells to a crecendo.”
This is not a compliment to the
music director.
Lots of girls liked Jennifer Jones’
philosophy. Time says “she mur
murs cryptic remarks about life
and love; he (Holden) responds
with equally neat epigrams. It’s
all pretty Confudan.” I think it
is all right if college girls’ taste
relishes an occasional “morass of
sentimental fudge.”
Time’s self-delegated obligation,
it seems, is to lurk at Hollywood’s
Salem &04fA.^ yVa. ^
By Marcia Stanley
This took place B. W. P. M. (Before Wake
Forest Moved)
We swore that the dining room added some-
thing to the food. Despite this fact, by Friday
night we looked at the moon, the lights on the
layers of hills behind Strong Dorm, felt the
doors and knife the manifold forms shivery cold, and wished that we didn’t have
of trash that come out disguised as to wait until Saturday to share the night with
' ' ' ’ Speaking of Qur special someones.
she has no correction to paste under the write
up in her scrapbook.
Last week, for the first time this year, we
received, letters to the editor. One was a
thank-you note from the Juniors addressed
to the whole student body. The efforts of
such a well-mannered class to express their
appreciation, will surely not go unnoticed.
But, their appreciation, though still existent,
might have, had they not taken the trouble to
write the letter.
The other letter was concerning the addi
tion of a course in logic to Salem’s curriculum.
This may not be a new idea; students very
possibly may have felt the lack of such a
course all along. But no one knew about it
other than those particular students. So,
things went on as they were, although the
need was still felt. Now that the subject has
been broached, a poll is being taken. The
suggestion, out in the open at last, has a fair
chance.
If you have an idea, promote it. If you
disagree, protest. If we make a mistake, cor
rect us. How? By writing a letter to the
Salemite.
This is, after all, your newspaper.
E. M. M.
use public tax money. Eventually
the Supreme Court will come up
with a Constitutional interpretation
that cannot be evaded. Even then
there will still be people who up
hold the creed of James Russell
Lowell’s Pious Editor.
I du believe in Freedom’s cause,
Ez fur away ez Payris is;
I love to see her stick her claws
In them infarnal Pharysees;
It’s wal enough agin a king
To dror resolves an’ triggers,—
But libbaty’s a kind o’ thing
Thet don’t agree with niggers.
deluxes of all kinds
knives, none could be sharper than
those that pass back and forth be
tween the eyes of Emily McClure
and Dr. Spenser when he slashes
Time book reviews. Em inflicts
him with her silent treatment.
•if. if.
The repetitive civic quartet in
chapel was fine, but I heard some
comparable harmonizing on the
back row during the opening hymn.
Dr. Gramley, Mr. Wendt, and Mr.
Britt. If you ever come into chapel
late, sneak into the row near them.
And, please, when you leave chapel
take your dirty Kleenex out to the
containers in the lobby. The mar
shals are not immune to germs and
Brenda Goerdel’s mother likes to
see Brenda’s name in print and
finally the Kingsport gal has done
something newsworthy. She racked
Time gives “The Tall Men” the
full treatment. If you saw the flick
last week and liked it, put on your
tolerance and read the review. Try She had plenty of competition,
Beyond the Square
up low score in last week’s archery above my ears at that point,
tournament. It wasn’t easy, either
We vi^ere not quite ready to settle down to
concentrating on the Middle Ages or The Ex
pedition of Humphrey Clinker, so we nearly
ahvays yielded to temptation and strolled over
to the drugstore.
If we saw any males in the drugstore, no
matter what shape or form, we looked at each
other with excitement, before we realized that
we didn’t look very glamorous—in fact, quite
the contrary. We would have on the winter
coats set aside for “wearing around school."
Mine was a vile purple with grotesque dole-
man sleeves and the square-shouldered look
that was so popular in junior high school.
We washed our hair once a week but this
would inevitably be the seventh day of the
week, and. my hair had a habit of turning up
I hated for my
ears to show so I would pat and push my hair
frantically until we had gotten to the door of
the drugstore.
Illje Salemite
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business Manager Ann Williams
Advertising Manager Marian Myers
Editorial Staff: Mary Mac Rogers, Sissy Allen, Marianne Boyd,
Emma McCotter, Sudie Mae Spain, Sarah Vance, Ann Coley,
Nancy Warren, Dottie Ervin, Barbara Durham, Anne Miles,
Marcia Stanley, Pat Flynt, Jeane Smitherman, Ann Summerell,
Pat Houston, Mary Anne Hagwood.
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
Geneva: President Eisenhower
had called this second meeting of
Geneva “the acid test” of whether
the spirit of Geneva marks a gen
uine change on the part of the
Russians. However, the Russians
had all but declared in advance that
they had no intention of settling
anything at the second Geneva
meeting, because they had gotten
what they wanted at the first Sum
mit meeting.
In effect, they had gotten “peace”
merely by declaring it. They felt
no need or compulsion to bargain
further. The Western diplomats
have stated that there would be no
security pact, or even a discussion
of it, without a settlement of the
re-unification of Germany. The
Russian diplomats felt differently
—because they said German Unifi
cation was “subordinate” and there
was no hurry about it anyway.
So, only time will tell what will
be the result of this present meet
ing at the Summit. Which side
will yield—the East or the West?
Middle East: The arrival of
Communist goods in Egypt has
caused a great disturbance here.
Last week Israel’s Premier, Moshe
Sharett, rushed to Paris and then
to Geneva to get help from the
Western fore.tgn ministers. He
told them that his people were so
wrought up over the Egyptian deal
that they were seriously thinking
of launching a preventive war.
He pleaded with W^estern minis
ters to guarantee his country’s
borders and to sell it arms at least
equal to those its enemies were un
packing. Secretary Dulles said
flatly that the West could never
join in a Middle East arms race.
and he warned -Israel that she
would surely be over-powered by
Oh, well, we’d get no notice from those
boys — just hope it was nobody important,
the Arabs, if they should go to And it wouldn’t be, as usual just high school
boys that had dropped in to see Danny, the
soda jerk.
However, the Western countries
of the U. S., Britain, and France
promise to use force, if necessary,
to thwart all-out hostility by either
Israel or the Arabs against one
another. The predictions are that
war will not become a reality in
this area.
Great Britain: Well, the excite
ment has calmed down since Prin
cess Margaret has announced that Oil Friday night because everyone was
she will not marry Peter Town- arranging blind dates, and deciding where to
go. To College Grill or to College Grill. There
was one good thing about the Grill, we de
cided; if anyone was there that we didn’t
After listening to “Only You” and “I’H
Never Stop Loving You” on the jukebox, we
would walk directly back to the dorm.
But we never seemed to get any studying
send. In the country itself, the
uncertainty had reached such a
pitch that it could not long con
tinue.
What had begun as a simple and
sentimental story in love had be
come a crisis that deeply involved
institutions close to the heart of went to all hoy schools which were as
every Briton: The Crown and the had
Established Church. Was the
know, we d soon bump into him. Some of the
as our all girl school, so it was sort of a
special occasion for them too, and it really
got rowdy sometimes.
Princess just being a martyr or
was she not in love with Town
send as the whole world had been
led to believe?
France: The Assembly has not Miss Byrd would never forgive me for say-
w'e'"ks"Sc2“'“e(°LvA'e“'>“'«>« 'vould Call it trite and
bating over Faure’s policy in the ™^?^t from the Salem handbook, but we did
have some indefinable spirit at Salem.
Moroccan crisis. However, they
finally brought the issue to a vote
and as a result, Faure’s govern
ment squeaked through by twelve
votes. 271 to 2S9. Grudging or not,
Maybe it was because we all hated the
-0—0 o. ..CL nights at Salem with nothing to do but study-
it was a decision the Assembly were tired of hearing about ivy-covered
"..litit,,S', “■« Salcte Lady,
dress debate on the election issue -n 4. '
Itself, all parties knocked them- were all suffering together, and A
^pToUlor^’^h^fcief o?tns"uUing ""“^^imes exciting and somehow pure.
the beautiful, sovereign people.
But this was B. W. F. M.