The Belles of Saint Mary’s
The Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
Published every two weeks by the student body of
Saint Mary’s School
Editor Joyce Powell
Manaying Editor Nancy McKinley
Exchange Editor Christine Hatfield
Faculty Adviser C. A. P. Moore
STAFF
Cornelia Clark Sue Harwood
Becky Barnhill Mary Taylor
Helen Kendrick Virginia Manning
Mary W. Douthat Hortenbe Miller
Erwin Gant Kathreen Massie
Julia Booker Martha Kight
Page Gannaway Ann Seeley
Helen Ford Martha Newell
Mary Elizabeth Nash Marian Jacob
Margaret Swindell
1939 Member 1940
Associated Golle6iate Press
N. C. Collegiate Press Association
WILLIAM H. JONES
For 21 years William H. Jones was inti
mately as well as professionally associated with
Saint Mary’s School. To its growth he gave
his talents freely and to its progression he gave
his efforts without calculation. Whatever his
hand took part in was the richer for his enthusi
asm and for his skill.
He was not merely an organist and a teacher.
He had a rare ability to give much of himself
and his deep knowledge to his music. What
he found, he made his own, enriched, and gave
hack with the enviable stamp of his intelligence.
If he was classical in his sympathies, he was
broad in repertoire and understanding, and
artistically colorful in his work. His teaching
was patient, his knowledge encyclopaedic, his
touch encouraging and understanding.
As a person he was genial, kind, and tolerant.
The whole student body loved and admired him.
They benefited by his learning, and borrowed
freely of his library and of his mind.^ They
liked his puckish wit, his bright joviality, and
through his informality found his generous
friendship. They will long remember the deep
contentment of his vesper music, nor soon forget
his personal grace.
As the senior faculty member but one he was
wise, stalwart, and warm. He liked youth as
well as the maturer years, and counted all ages
among his friends. His vision and his learning,
his critical eye and his firm hand fell alike
on all.
Thoughtfulness added considerably to his
statue. His summer trips abroad narrated
themselves briefly through postcards from vari
ous places. Often friends found their interests
remembered through books or papers or presents
which he left them in their absence.
His touch was sure, and enduring.
INTELLIGENCE
PLUS
Individual opinions, though often seemingly
insignificant, deserve analyses. Statistics may
appear lifeless and impersonal but basically
they offer a clear and accurate account of not
only personal reaction but also persons reacting.
One hundred and forty-five girls who are at
Saint Mary’s for the first time this year were
asked to list their five favorite magazines. On
the resulting lists Life, an illustrated magazine,
appeared 105 times; Good Housekeeping, 76;
Vogue, 71; Readers Digest, 64; Mademoiselle,
50; Ladies’ Home Journal, 41. Of the more
“serious” magazines listed Time appeared 20
times. Harper’s, 8; Etude, 6; Atlantic, 4; Illus
trated London News, only once.
Logical conclusions: Saint Mary’s girls, rep
resentative young American women, are inter
ested primarily in homemaking style, and
beauty; are too busy to do any “thoughtful”
reading.
-AND ALL THAT’
We read a book! We read a newspaper!
We read Time! Now we are commentators like
Kaultenborn and Lowell Thomas. We know
because others ask us, and now we’ll tell—and
all that!
All the world is being influenced by propa
ganda—except us, of course. We only read a
newspaper, but even there we recognized propa
ganda and thought about it.
Propaganda blackmails reason. When han
dled with the sly efficiency of a Goehbels (Hit
ler’s press agent . . . stupid), it undermines the
moral, the faith, and the hope of a people. The
melodramatic presentation of world events
leaves the apprehensive individual puzzled and
without evidence to confirm or allay his fears.
Government controlled newspapers as in Fascist
states are no longer newspapers, but “merely
the organs of vile propaganda.” By perjury
they condemn ideas, peoples, and creeds. Propa
ganda is quicker and more subtle than a drug.
Like a drug it leaves a people weak and stunned,
unable to discern truth in a maze of conflicting
reports.
The “fine art of propaganda” is a weapon of
both belligerent and neutral states. Belligerents
use it to solicit sympathy, denying all atrocities
and playing up heroic deeds. Neutrals use it
to proclaim their neutrality to a suspicious
world, to protest violations of their neutrality,
and to fight the undermining propaganda of
belligerents.
The New York Times, in an editorial on
September 1, 1939, writes that “What is truly
vicious is not propaganda but a monopoly of
it.” When propaganda threatens the political,
economic, and social status of a nation, it is
that nation’s strongest enemy.
“We are surrounded by clouds of propaganda.
It is up to us to precipitate from these clouds
the true and the false, the near true and the
near false, identifying and giving to each classi
fication its correct label.”
Strongest of all propaganda’s uses is as an
“instrument of aggression.” In the past few
years we have seen Adolf Hitler march peace
fully into the Saar, Austria, the Sudetenland
and Czechoslovakia, not the relentless fire of
crack machine-gunners, but the subtle, effective
words of the propagandist had rendered each
country weak, unable even to attempt the de
fense of its native soil. In the history of the
world propaganda has never before attained
such power.
STAR GAZERS GET TO WORK
Star-gazers are advised to polish up all
weather eyes and prepare to witness a celestial
spectacle that will put even an eclipse in the
shadow. In the western sky is to be seen a
phenomenal line-up of the five brightest planets
such as will not occur again during this century
and probably the next.
The best time for observation is immediately
after supper; the best place is the spot in front
of the library building between Mr. Kloman’s
house and the covered way. The gazer, facing
Smedes, will see just off the balustrade the five
planets almost evenly spaced, “hanging one
above the other in the twilight glow like a neck
lace of colorful jewels.” Mercury, the planet
nearest the sun of about one-sixth the size of
the Earth, will be lowest. Next will be the
great Jupiter, 1,300 times as large as our Earth,
followed by Venus, Saturn the ringed planet,
and Mars. Of these, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars
are most familiar to us. The planets are dis
tinguished by their steady gleam in contrast to
the twinkle of the stars. In spite of its enor
mous size, Jupiter appears hut little brighter
than the smaller Venus, due to its great distance
from the sun. Mars is red and Saturn is a
bright yellow. Mercury, because of its prox
imity to the sun, is usually difficult to see. ,
This phenomenon, beginning about the twenty!
third of this month, will last through the firs!
week in March. It is interesting to note that]
were we in a position of relativity such as mighfj
be taken by Einstein, Earth also would be visit
ble as a sixth gleaming gem.
The phenomenon was reported in the Nev.
York Times of February 4 by William H
Barton, Jr., of the Hayden Planatarium.
GONE WITH THE WIND ROUSES
REBELS’ WRATH TO THAT GOOD
OLD FIGHTING SPIRIT
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“Tell you what happened,” says Julia Booker.
“When he left, he had her clothes packed in the
suitcase with his, and he waited for her outside.
She ran after him, and then they both went to
Tara, where she was real sweet to him because
she loved him, and he was happy. They had
sixteen children,” adding with a reminiscent
gleam in her eyes, “all exactly like Rhett
Butler.”
Lucretia thinks somewhat the same, for “h*
just walked around the block and came right iJ
the back door.” As for Darling Ehett Butler--'
well, maybe you’d better not print it . . . !”
Mary D. White has a different viewpoint
“Scarlett went to Tara and sort of wasted awaj;
she was so heartbroken. Ehett heard she w^
ill and came running ’cause he really loved he*
an awful lot, and they kissed and made up and
were happy.” ■
We wish we could be as optimistic. Lik
Mary Guy, “We certainly would like to thinl
so.” Then hoping Miss Lalor will change heJ
mind and go to it, we award “Gone With th«
Wind” first place in, well, just anything.
CAMPUS NOTES
The Junior class is thinking about the datf
for its annual Junior-Senior Dance. The tivO
dates considered are April 6 or April 13. Tb^
president of the Junior Class, Adelaide CurtiSi
will appoint the committees Monday to mak*
definite and further plans for the importaU*
occasion.
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The books ordered by the English classes haV*
arrived and are kept in Mr. Moore’s classrooB'i
where Louise Coleman has charge of theii*'
They are circulating fast.
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This week has been set aside as posture we®^
at Saint Mary’s. Each girl has been given -
red or blue tag (denoting Sigma’s and Mu’s)
on which she was checked for incorrect postur^'
Posters for posture week have been drawn W
Art students and prizes will be given for tb®
best posters as well as to the girls having tb*
best posture.
To date, 100 students have registered to
turn next year and 27 new students have ap'
plied for admission.
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The first basketball game on Wednesda/’
February 14, was as rip-roaring as any Sab>*
Mary’s has ever played. Not only did thoS®
girls who were displaying their ability on tb®
court enjoy an exciting hour, but the many wb*’
participated with their cheers for each team ^
the ball slid easily through the net, were wildl/
enthusiastic.
Mu’s: Christian, Vann, Pope, Hochendc^'
Hatfield, Withers, and Claiborne.
Sigma’s: Kaulbaeh, Feuchtenberger, Keb'
drick, Gordon, Carter, Youngblood, and Wal®®'
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