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SALEMITE
April 15, 1%;
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Student Apathy Disappear^
Energy, Unity Hold Promise
For years Salemites have been attacked because of our so-
called apathy and lack of initiative. In fact, concerned editor
ials in the Salemite every year have become as traditional as
Hat Burning.
But now we have proved our alleged apathy no longer exists.
While the arrival of spring may have its affect on us, we have
shown that we do have an active concern for Salem because we
sincerely care. A week ago we saw divisions between classes,
divisions within classes overcome and put aside for the sake of
unity. In some eases, perhaps, our actions were hasty; but, for
the most part, common concern prompted us, and we acted as
the student body of Salem.
Last week we united to complain. But what could we not
accomplish if we united to construct? The energy and enthus
iasm we have displayed is unbounded. Suppose we put that
enthusiasm behind the plans for Salem’s future ? Salem’s future
plans are not merely interesting to read about; with our support
they can involve and excite each of us.
“Rosy platitudes” you say? Try looking at our futures with
enthusiasm and energy—^with optimism instead of despondency.
Then try looking beyond our own personal concerns to those
we share for Salem with that same enthusiasm, energy, and
optimism. Could be hopeful, couldn’t it? Now smile.
J. N.
"Spring is in the air, flowers are
blooming, and sap’s rising, ’ Salem
girls are participating in demon
strations—and a Winston-Salem re
porter has just been named by the
student body as "Loser of the
Year.”
Also with the arrival of warm
weather came the wood nymph
Beth Moore and her famous plastic
ball. I hear she was trying to re
cruit Finley Stith to play with her,
but Finley preferred the sun’s rays.
So if anyone w'ants to participate
in a game of ball with Beth, would
she please contact her in Bitting.
She’s supposedly a very interesting
playmate. "Try Ben. Beth. Maybe
he’d be glad to oblige.”
Ann Schotder has been studying
astronomy, judging by the stars in
her eyes. She was maid of honor
at Mike Kirpatrick’s brother’s wed
ding this past weekend in Florida.
Did you pick up any tips, Schouler ?
Peggy Booker hasn’t done too
badly either. On her recent trip to
Davidson, Cam Harkness, a Sigma
Chi, presented her with a beautiful
lavaliere, wdiich she’ll proudly dis
play upon request.
As everyone knows many lucky
juniors came back from spring
vacation sporting some mighty
fancy cars. They all seem to be
really enjoying their new-found
freedom.
Clewell Lounge has gotten a new
face-lifting. However, someone got
carried away on the decorating
scheme, painting all the posts and
painting "figures” on the trash cans
in the laundry light blue. Miss
Taylor is still looking around for
the decorators. I believe she wants
her apartment done over in “Bar
ber Stripe” decor.
Brace yourself girls. Here comes
the tidbit of the week. Martie
Plummer is holding classes on
"How to Win Friends and Influ
ence Your Dates” in Clewell. It
seems she inadvertently swallowed
Moravians Re-Experience Meaning
Of Easter Through Lenten Season
By Rev. Clark A. Thompson
At the very heart of the Mora
vian Church and its faith and wor
ship is an all-encompassing way of
life. Zinzendorf once said that ex
perience leads to comprehension. In
a modern world filled with degrees
of shallowness and superficiality,
the Moravian faith seeks to witness
to the depth of religious conviction
as it takes shape and form in the
everyday demands of life. It
searches out the application of
faith to human experience.
Thus for the Moravians the
events of Holy Week and Easter
are basically a re-experiencing of
the decisive meaning of the suffer
ing, crucifixion, and resurrection of
Jesus the Christ. They are an at
tempt to share in the “contempor
aneity” of the eternal message of
Paivi Koivistoinen Explains
Finnish Easter Customs
By Paivi Koivistoinen
You might wonder how anybody
can possibly call Easter Paasianen
and still enjoy it, but wait until you
hear what the Easter egg is called
in Finland: Paasiaispupujussin-
muna.
For years there has been only
one Easter bunny in our family—
my mother. Every Easter we get
up excited, though a little bit afraid
that there won’t be an Easter egg
under the pillow, but the Easter
bunny has never failed to do her
duty. Once we wished that she
hadn’t, though.
It was a couple of years ago that
my sister Pirjo-Riitta could not
find her egg. I was sitting on my
bed eating mine when I saw her
reaching under her pillow search
ing for hers. We were puzzled;
after all, this had never happened
before 1 The riddle was solved later
on in the same day, however, when
we made our beds. Pirjo-Riitta
suddenly called for me and there
on her sheet was a brown squeezed
heap of something. For a couple
of minutes we just stared at it.
Finally we realized that we had
found the egg which had been
transformed into an unrecognizable
heap of melted chocolate.
During our Easter holiday there
is often snow still on the ground,
but there is plenty of warm sun
and the little creeks ripple every
where. On Easter Sunday the
whole family gofs for a walk to
gather willow twigs with faintly
green buds, for these are the first
signs of spring. Also, in every home
there is a plate of growing green
Easter grass because the grass out
side will not appear until much
later in the spring.
Most of our holidays have their
traditional foods and Easter is no
exception. There are painted eggs,
of course, and Easter would not be
Easter without mammi, a dessert
that you eat for breakfast, lunch
and dinner. Mammi is a very rich
dark brown porridge eaten with
sugar and cream. In the country
it is homemade in big barrels and
then put into little baskets made
out of birch bark. If you are ever
in Finland at Easter, you will prob
ably see people, loaded with stacks
of these square bark baskets and
mammi, getting ready to spend the
holiday with their families.
Hyvaa Paasiaista or Happy Eas
ter.
the Gospel. To this end the ser
vices of the Moravian Lenten sea
son are devoted.
During Holy Week, each evening
is given to a congregational read
ing service of the harmony of the
four Gospel accounts of the last
week of Jesus’ life. Through the
singing of hymns and shared read
ing the central events of the
Christian confession are relived. On
Maundy Thursday the traditional
communion service is held and
Good Friday is marked with an
afternoon crucifixion service. Fri
day evening, a Lovefeast, a service
of Christian fellowship, celebrates
the confidence of the resurrection
faith which transforms the fear
and dispair of the Good Friday
crucifixion. The service is noted
for its beautiful music. A similar
Lovefeast is held on the Great Sab
bath (Saturday) which for the Mo
ravians is a day of reflection and
preparation for Easter.
Every aspect of the Easter Ser
vice is an attempt to underscore
the quiet joy and triumph of the
resurrection experience. Beginning
in the early hours before dawn,
symbolic of the shadows and dark
ness of man’s human existence, the
service procedes to God’s Acre just
at the hour of sunrise. The anti-
phonal playing of Moravian Cho
rals by the ten bands marks the
triumphal spirit of the service.
When the congregation has gath
ered in the flower filled Graveyard,
it joins in the affirmation of the
Easter faith. The liturgical ser
vice is considered the creedal state
ment of Moravian belief. For the
thousands who gather on Easter
morning, the service is not a spec
tacle of faith, or a mere verbal
affirmation of belief. Rather it is
the celebrating in individual and
corporate experience of an event
which has ultimate consequences
for all of human existence.
her date’s contact lens which ...
been placed in a glass. Martie, J
girl with coordination-plus fd
thirsty, filled the glass and dranj
’em up—The thing that puzzles *
though, Martie, is how are you gj.
ing to return it?
House Committee Decide:
To Study Ku Klux Klan
By Laurie Williams
Federal control is extending to the Ku Klux Klan. Edivi
E. Willis, chairman of the House Un-American Activities C»
mittee, has found unanimous approval by the committee for ij
proposed investigation of the Ku Klux Klan.
The news comes on the heels of the murder of Mrs. Vio||
Liuzzo in Selma. Time says that this murder, along with 4
murders of three civil rights workers last summer, was pr*
ably performed by small Klan-afiiliated groups. House b
ings of men working for racial settlements in Birmingham,
various other methods of terrorism do not help the new Kit
image, promoted by Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, wh®
United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is ft
best known of the 12 or so organizations.
Shelton wants a constructive image for the Klan. He eve,
advocates some of the opposing side’s weapons, such as picks
lines and marches. The reason given for any action at alii
among the higher-ups, a more conservative one than the ppt
vious hatred of all non-native born white, Protestant, Angk
Saxons. Now the aim is to fight the Communist infiltrati#
that they believe is carrying the whole civil rights movemei',
and will eventually sway the country. The North Carolii
Grand Dragon, James R. Jones, echoes this idea: “We (
want rabble-rousers.”
Perhaps even after the investigation w’e still won’t know
non-violent Shelton’s Klan really is; it’s obvious that son
groups are still playing Reconstruction. Manuey’s Raiders,
terrorist group involved in the St. Augistine, Florida chaos,
ex example. But the grass-roots Klaners in this state seem
belong to neither category.
A Salemite attended a KKK rally last October. She fom
herself one of the few non-Klan people there. After tryi
three locations (the Klan has trouble finding meeting groimii!
the rally was discovered in a clearing about eight miles out
town. She came in on the middle of an address by Robert SI
ton. Since this was before the Presidential election, most of
and others’ speeches were denouncements of Johnson,
preacher—“I would hardly call him a minister,” she sail
prayed fervently for blessings upon the Klan and for wki
supremacy while a loudspeaker rolled out “Rock of Ages,” n
other white Protestant Anglo-Saxon hymn favorites. M
climax, they lit a 25 foot cross. “Everybody gathered aroii
because it was a cold night,” she reported. Even Shelton
vited them to warm their hands.
Unlike Shelton, whose dignified, quiet, and rational maM
suits his Imperial Wizardry, the mass of people at the wl
were illiterate. Another Salemite noted the same lack of ei
cation and backwoodsiness in the rally she went to this weekei
The speeches were so repetitive that she was bored.
Judging from this, the N. C. Klans are relatively non-violt
A few bombs in New Bern and eruptions in Orange County
among the few incidents.
But because violence has occurred in other places, Wills
promoting the investigation. Whether chastised directly ‘
cause of the committee’s discoveries or not, perhaps a few n
bers of the KKK will discover that the year is 1965, not w
and that a narrow band of thought tends to suffocate.
Advancement School Nee(
Help Of Student Tutors
The North Carolina Advancement
School wants and needs more tu
tors for the remainder of this
school year. An increase in this
school’s enrollment plus a decrease
in the number of tutors has left
around a hundred and fifty white,
Negro and Indian boys who want
tutors but do not have them.
These eighth grade boys have
average or above average intelli
gence. Yet for some reason, they
are underachieving in their school
work which gives to them a sense
of defeat and may later cause them
to drop out of school.
Even if you have not had any
teaching experience, you can do a
great deal in helping the boys with
such basic skills as reading, vocabu
lary, spelling, use of the i
and use of the card catalo
even this help is not as
as the help you give them
contribution of your f
This alone greatly helps
their confidence and inc
they realize that someone
interested in them as hum;
Tutoring takes place I
through Thursday nights
until 7 ;45, and you may tii
one or two of these nil
week.
If you are at all inte
helping these boys, pleas
Lana Lee, Liza White, ^
Coy, Jane Hall or any of
girls who are tutoring nc
call Lowell Dodge at 723-