The Belles of Saint Mary’s
The Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
Published every two weeks by the stu
dent body of Saint Mary’s School.
STAFF
Becky Barnhill
Julia Booker
Cornelia Clark
Mary W. Douthat
Helen Ford
Page Gannaway
Erwin Gant
Sue Harwood
Marian Jacob
Mary
Helen Kendrick
Martha Kight
Virginia Manning
Kathreen Massie
Hortense Miller
Mary Elizabeth Nash
Martha Newell
Ann Seeley
Margaret Swindell
Taylor
1939 Member 1940
Plssocioted GoUebiote Press
N. C. Collegiate Press Association
PUEPOSEFUL
THINKING
“HOW TO WIH FEIEHDS
AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE”
Molding ourselves into “the finest
type of young womanhood,” we feel
it our duty to encourage all means
of rounding our personalities. Con
sequently, personality questionnaires
interest us. The latest one we have
found is from the Seniors’ Psychol
ogy Class, under the heading of “Are
You an Extrovert or an Introvert?”
To put it in still other words, do you
live within yourself or outside your
self? Grade yourself by checking
each trait that characterizes you and
marking with a cross each that is
directly opposite to you. The fol
lowing are questions more character
istic of an introvert than an extro
vert. They are not all to be thought
of as undesirable, and the good per
sonality is neither one or the other,
but a little of both.
1. I limit my acquaintances to a
select few.
2. I feel hurt readily.
3. I worry over possible misfortune.
4. I indulge in self-pity when things
go wrong.
I prefer to work alone rather
than with people.
6. I resist discipline and orders.
7. I avoid all occasions of talking
before crowds.
8. I often introspect, that is, turn
my attention toward myself.
9. I prefer participation in compet
itive intellectual amusements to
athletic games.
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Editor Joyce Powell
Managing Editor . Nancy McKinley
Exchange Editor . Chkistine Hatfield
Faculty Adviser . . . C. A. P. Moobe
I day-dream frequently.
I prefer to solve my own prob
lems rather than ask for help.
I am governed by reasons more
than by impulses and emotions.
I find it difficult to start a con
versation with a stranger.
14. I like work which requires pains
taking and delicate manipula
tion.
15. I admire beauty of expression in
literature.
16. I prefer to read about a thing
rather than experience it.
17. I keep a diary.
18. I talk about myself only to close
personal friends and relatives.
Editorials tinged with an under
lying current of “stuffed-shirt” criti
cism have been notoriously unsuc
cessful in arousing in the student
body of Saint Mary’s even a mild
degree of interest.
The Belles has learned to shroud
its underlying opinions in all envel
oping folds of supposedly humorous
and sarcastic comments. More than
once probably we have failed to ex
press our thoughts openly and sim-
piy-
We hope that the students of Saint
Mary’s will realize the growing need
for a deeper sincerity of expression,
a far-reaching sincerity which may
in turn encompass the very motives
of our living.
The Belles is keenly desirous of
being worthy of its task.
Suddenly in the very midst of our
sheltered, somniferous existence we
found ourselves enduring in silence a
maturely considered condemnation
of the power of the Allied air forces.
For politeness sake, we bobbed our
head in unquestionable assent, but
like elephants we never forgot. Later
we angrily ruffied our feathers and
began a search for accurate informa
tion as to the highly publicized
strength of the German air force and
the equally publicized inferiority of
Britain’s.
Champion of our supposedly lost
cause was Allan A. Michie, one time
foreign news editor of Time. In the
February issue of Harper’s Mr.
Michie published his own “first-hand
observations of Britain’s air power
since the outbreak of the war.” As
far as possible, Mr. Michie checked
his own estimates with those of neu
tral observers and aviation experts,
and according to Mr. Michie him
self, “When this was impossible, a
healthy amount of skepticism was
applied.”
With not a little self-disparage
ment we admit that we read Mr.
Miehie’s article with a growing irre
pressible desire to say, “We told you
so.” Fortunately in reality we never
did tell you, but now we have de
cided to summarize and in many
cases quote material found in “Brit
ain’s Strength in the Air” by Allan
A. Michie.
Strangely enough Britain has been
considered unprepared at the on
slaught of every major war in her
history. “When the Chamberlain
government admitted during the
Munich Crises of 1938 that Britain
was unprepared for war, it did not
mean that she lay helpless before a
Nazi attack; Britain was, in fact,
quite well prepared, but not well
enough for her satisfaction.”
Most Americans are wont to ig
nore two outstanding British na
tional characteristics: “The first is
the habit of the blackest possible face
on all the events which affect the
future of Britain; the second is the
habit of understatement. Both serve
to make the Britisher feel better
when his nation muddles through in
the end.” But will British “mud
dling” be successful in the air at
tacks of World War II?
Many enthusiasts base the com
parative superiority of the German
air force on its available number of
first-line offense planes, in actual fig
ures a total of 9,300 for the Ger
mans, and 8,400 first-line planes for
the Allies.
The main difficulty in the con
tinued manufacture of German
planes lies in the procuring of first-
class materials. Still another factor
is the determined Nazi pessimism
which calculates “war-losses up to
one hundred per cent a month dur
ing intensive aerial warfare. There
fore, even if they could get first-class
material, they go on the theory that
it is useless to put it into planes soon
to be destroyed. Britain, on the
other hand, puts her machines to
gether with the skill and care used
on Swiss watch movements.”
Since the outbreak of the war the
weakness of Hitler’s “quantity not
quality” theory has become appar
ent in more than one instance. The
highly publicized Heinkel bomber
has no under protection and is con
sidered an easy mark for Britain’s
fast, highly armored Spit-fires and
Hurricanes. The equally famed
Messerschmitt, claimed the best
fighter in Europe, is not as manage
able as France’s Curtis 75-A’s.
But let us return to the British.
“An air force is made up largely of
the men in it”; its strength or weak
ness is based not on the number of
its planes but on the efficiency of its
machines and pilots. British ma
chines have now reached a state of
high mechanical perfection. The
pilots themselves are the chain’s
weakest link. With the opening of
Canada as a training ground the
quality of Britain’s young air men is
steadily increasing and the supply
more and more nearly inexhaustible.
Therefore we say, “The British lion
not only has wings, they are the
strongest wings in Europe today.”
The Business Students of Saint
Mary’s are participating in a project
which has as its object the combin
ing of actual office experience with
their classroom work. This is ac
complished by giving the students an
opportunity to work for one week in
business offices following actual office
routine, which includes shorthand
dictation, typing, and mimeograph
ing. Some of the girls found their
interest not in strict clerical work
but were interested in such varied
fields as interior decoration, the
florist business, and photography.
Participating in this project are:
Jean Betts, Carolyn Stenhouse, Eliz
abeth Saunders, Betty Smith, Ee-
becca Atkins, Virginia Williams,
Nancy Vest, Sybil Lytle, Eleanor
Holshouser, Virginia Kaulbach, Ma
rilyn Eeaves, Louise Sineath, Kath
reen Massie, Margaret Glidewell,
Jean Shelton, Gene Davis, Tick Jef-
fress, Edwina Taylor, Katherine
Turner, Elizabeth Warren, Phyllis
Holloway, Elizabeth Belvin.
The seniors have already selected
their Class Day dress, which has
been ordered from Taylor’s. White,
with buttons down the sides, the
dress has a full skirt. The neck is
plain, and tiny white buttons fasten
the dress down the front to the waist.
There are two belts, one white, one
striped. The order is expected I
arrive some time in May.
fin,
edj
The senior class held an electid
of the eight most outstanding senioi
here at Saint Mary’s. Each memb
of the student body nominated eigl
girls, and the twelve girls receiviff
the highest number of votes wef
then voted upon. The winners t
this election will be announced aJ
presented in the Stage Coach.
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The Mu team won the year’s
Play Day held on the campus
Saint Mary’s, sponsored by the I®!
ter Club on tbe afternoon of April *
Every girl in school, exclusive of
Letter Club members, partieipat*^
in some field sport, thus adding ^
the unusual, but thrilling comp®j[
tion between the Sigma’s and Mi*’
The head recorders for Play P,|'
were Annie Hyman Bunn and Ec>'!'
Schenck for the Sigma’s and J^l'*
Booker and Barbara Eainey for
Mu’s. The Mu’s won the te»J^'
games, swimming activities, a clj
quet game, paddle and deck tea'’!’,
games,- and tether ball. The SigB>®’
won in volley ball, one game of 1®"
nis and croquet, and in badminl^**
Members of the Letter Club
sided over the afternoon sports a’'
judged the various games. The
active Drive was right on the job
sell drinks for the occasion.
Play Day was a very obvious
eally into the afternoon sports
all observers the students in th j
blue and white uniforms presente®,
picturesque sight as they played ^
nearly every spot of the campus. .||
All students of the school
please notice the swimming ho®?
posted on the gym bulletin boa’t
Miss Harvey requests these be m®"
up as soon as possible.
lina Dramatic Festival held
Chapel Hill. Saint Mary’s entfN
the preliminaries Tuesday, Apr®
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competing with Biltmore Junior
lege, who came out in first
and also won over Mars Hill in
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Mrs. Cruikshank left Sunda!
night for Atlanta where she will a'
tend meetings of the Southern Ass*
ciation of Colleges and Secondat
Schools. These meetings will h'
all week.
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Dr. T. Z. Koo spoke to the studeJ
body on Tuesday morning in tb
chapel concerning the conditions **
Chinese students and their strugg'
for education during war conditioB'
On Thursday morning an offerM
was taken for the students. Tt^
offering amounted to $31.50.
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On Tuesday and WednesdaJ
April the sixteenth and seventeenth
Mr. Kloman will attend the convex
tion of the Diocese of South Car''
lina which will meet in Charleston
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cess as the teams entered enthusia®!,.
Saint Mary’s Dramatic Club
duced a Moliere comedy. The
ery of Scapin, in competition
five other North Carolina Jw®'
College in the annual North
Mr. Tom Bost, Sr., made a mO’
enjoyable talk to the student ho^'
last Friday on being up-to-date.
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